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if you in the UK you might remember Mark
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Carney from his time as governor of the
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bank of England now the former Goldman
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Sachs Banker is about to become Canada's
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new prime minister and it's the first
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time that he's held any elected
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political office here is everything you
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need to know about the story in under 60
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seconds carne takes over at a crucial
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moment in Cadian politics and he's
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positioned to become a sort of
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anti-trump figure in his first speech as
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a new Liberal Party leader last night he
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told the crow that the US is a country
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which we can no longer trust and the
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Americans want our resources our land
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our water our country the US president
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imposed 25% levies on Canada and Mexico
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back in February and Canada has since
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responded with retaliatory tariffs on
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Goods coming in from the US early
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polling shows that Canadians narrowly
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favor Carney over the conservative
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opposition leader Pierre poer and the
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same polling has shown that Canadians
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trust carne to take on Trump and few can
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doubt his economic knowhow but Carnie is
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still a political newbie he'll formally
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become Canada's PM this week
