The Liberal Canadian party announced that the novel Canadian Prime Minister is Mark Carney, a former central banker and Bitcoin critic with plans to fight the recently introduced US tariffs.
Carney won on March 9 in a landslide vote Choose Deputy Justin Trudeau, who held position for over seven years.
Carney was the governor of the Canada Bank in the years 2008–2013 before crossing the Atlantic Ocean to act as the governor of the Bank of England for the next seven years. He he said Local media on March 1, which began the process of giving up the citizens of Great Britain and Ireland.
Source: Liberal Canada Party
He objected to Bitcoin (BTC) from at least March 2, 2018, when he he said A constant Bitcoin cork causes “serious deficiencies”.
“If” those who do not remember the past were condemned to repeat it, “playing a virtual global gold standard would be a crime of monetary amnesia.”
“The constant supply of Bitcoin fed global speculative mania, which encouraged to spread new cryptocurrencies,” Carney said during a speech on the future of money, at the same time full of the governor’s function in the best bank of England.
Carney also said that Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies turned out to be “weak short -term valuable stores.”
“If you would take a student loan 1000 pounds in Bitcoin in December last year to cover the cost of living for sterling for next year, you would now have about 500 pounds. If you did the same in September last year, you would be overtaken by 2000 pounds. It’s quite a lottery. “
In the same article, Carney supported the digital currencies of the Central Bank, stating that they can expand banking access to more people and companies, while suggesting that central banks “in the fight against terrorism and economic crime.”
However, Carney was also a member of the board of Payements Processor Stripe from February 2021 to January 2025. At that time, Stripe implemented The scope of cryptocurrency payment solutions in 2022–2024.
Carney’s negative views on Bitcoin and Crypto seem to be even stronger than Trudeau, which once described the pro-cleet platform of the opposition leader Pierre Pollievere as “reckless”.
“Telling people that they can give up inflation by investing in cryptocurrencies is not responsible leadership,” said Trudeau in September 2022.
Carney plans to fight Trump for tariffs
In his speech of March 9, Carney called US President Donald Trump for “attacking Canadian families” and attempts to weaken Canada’s economy through tariffs.
“Donald Trump put unjustified tariffs on what we build, sell and how to earn a living,” said Carney.
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The Canadian government “rightly took revenge” with tariffs, which, as Carney said, will remain in place until “Americans shows us respect.”
Mark Carney speaks in his speech of March 9. Source: Cable Public Affairs Channel
He added that Canada “will never be part of America in any way, shape or form” – another comment in response to Trump’s aspiration to make Canada 51. The state of the USA.
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