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Canada ‘will never be part of the US’, says new PM Mark Carney amid trade war

Mark Carney speaks during a press conference after being sworn in as prime minister at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Canada, 14 March 2025.
Mark Carney speaks during a press conference after being sworn in as prime minister at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, Canada, 14 March 2025. Photograph: Spencer Colby/EPA

Mark Carney has said Canada will never be part of the US, after being sworn in as the country’s 24th prime minister in a sudden rise to power.

“We will never, in any shape or form, be part of the US,” the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England told a crowd outside Rideau Hall in Ottawa, rejecting Donald Trump’s annexation threats. “We are very fundamentally a different country.”

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