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Two seats shy of a majority, is Mark Carney trying to poach NDP MPPs to join the Liberals?
May 14, 2025
You're two seats shy of one but should Canadians expect you to govern like you have a majority? ... Are you trying to poach NDP MPPs to join the Liberals?
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good afternoon Prime Minister rachel
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Aello CTV News uh you're two seats shy
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of one but should Canadians expect you
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to govern like you have a majority i
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what what uh Thank you for the question
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you know I we and ran a very clear
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campaign on our priorities uh standing
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up to the US getting the best possible
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relationship uh security and economic
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relationship but then at the core
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building uh the strongest economy in the
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G7 economy that works for everyone uh I
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enumerated uh just now some of those uh
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what that translates into specific
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priorities you'll hear more of those
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translations in the speech from the
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throne but you will be able to guess
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what they are uh having followed uh the
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campaign and what Canadians voted for uh
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I'll I'll remind uh not you you'll know
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this but uh those watching we receive
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more votes than anyone else uh in in uh
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in any election um we um are in a
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position where we have cabinet members
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from all the provinces um I'm very proud
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of that uh and uh and a cabinet member
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from a full cabinet member from uh the
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territories so we're governing for all
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Canadians all regions um with a strong
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and clear mandate uh that came out of
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the election and that's how we will
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govern thank you uh and so what does
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tangible progress look like for you when
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it comes to addressing cost of living
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concerns in this country uh and will
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there be a barometer such as public
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mandate letters for Canadians to hold
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you accountable to well I think the way
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can Canadians will hold account by their
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experience at the grocery store uh at uh
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when they're paying their electricity
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bill uh when they're uh when they or
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their children are looking for a place
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to live um so it will be their
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experiences how they will hold they will
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form those judgments and then of course
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accountability comes at the uh at the
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ballot box uh mandate letters cabinets
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uh cabinet discussions uh legislation uh
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regulation these are just steps to
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accomplish those ultimate goals and it's
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what the experience is of uh of
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Canadians Canadian families that's how
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uh that's how they will judge cost of
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living i will say one other thing but
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there are two elements to cost of living
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one is the actual cost of things and the
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other is are people's salaries growing
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is their take-home pay increasing can
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they find jobs uh readily and those last
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as we have to focus on those aspects as
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well we can act most quickly most
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immediately with the middle class tax
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cut which is as as I said in my remarks
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we will act by Canada Day parliament has
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to approve it we'll have to find two
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extra votes uh in order to get that um
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but uh we clearly campaigned on that and
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uh uh and we'll put that forth but more
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broadly what we need to do is build this
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economy create great jobs for Canadians
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at the same time costs are held under
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control but it's really about jobs and
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growth in incomes that will help all
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Canadians get ahead next question push
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and kiss
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sarah Richie with the Canadian Press
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given what you just said about trying to
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find two extra votes in parliament what
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efforts are you and your team making to
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sort of more permanently find those two
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extra votes from other caucuses yeah I
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you know I um maybe I didn't say this
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quite as explicitly but I I I will now
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which is that we have we campaigned hard
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we campaigned clearly we had more than
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100 events we answered media questions
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at all our events uh and um and and gave
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a very clear platform um so we have a
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strong mandate we're going to focus on
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the issues that are at the core of that
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mandate uh of course we'll work with uh
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parliamentarians uh and we'll work with
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the provinces uh to move things forward
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uh but but we've been elected to do a
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job uh we intend to do it quickly uh and
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forcefully uh in other words we're we're
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we're we have to address this crisis
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with the Americans and we have to
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address uh the very real challenges in
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our economy and and we will we will we
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will do that role Miss H next question
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good afternoon Prime Minister jillian
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Piper with Global News interim NDP
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leader Don Davies told Global News that
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your government was reaching out and
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calling NDP individuals about uh trying
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to poach them to join your party uh are
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you trying to poach NDPMPPS to join the
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Liberals look we um as as I said a
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moment ago um we have a clear mandate
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we'll we'll work towards that clear
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mandate uh we're always interested in
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working with parliamentarians from any
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uh any of any of the opposition parties
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uh to uh to support that support that
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mandate um obviously that those
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discussions will intensify as parliament
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returns in uh uh in the course of the
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next well it's less than two weeks um so
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clear mandate focus on those speech from
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the throne will be quite clear in terms
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of our priorities we'll work with
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parliament thank you
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