Canadian PM expected to call for election on Sunday
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Canadian PM expected to call for election on Sunday

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CNN — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to ask the country’s governor general to dissolve parliament and call for federal elections on Sunday, according to two government sources. The country’s parliamentary system allows for the governor general, on the advice of the prime minister, to schedule elections within a fixed time period. In his first remarks after being elected leader of Canada’s Liberal Party in a landslide on March 9, Carney referenced the tensions with the US, saying his government would “create new trading relationships with reliable trading partners.” Carney, a former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, has previously not held an elected position but will now navigate the Liberals through the federal elections. Carney has also rejected Trump’s repeated suggestion for Canada to become the 51st US state – stating that “America is not Canada.”

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