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Speaker 1: Very big day for Canada as the governing party elected

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Speaker 1: a new leader of Mark Canney, after the resignation, of

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Speaker 1: course of Trudeau. Cannie, you know his name from the

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Speaker 1: Central Bank, both in Canada and in England or Britain,

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Speaker 1: and usually Trudeau staying on as Prime Minister while Cannie

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Speaker 1: warms into the role and an election has to be

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Speaker 1: held before October. Dven Male Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fipes

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Speaker 1: with us Robert Morning, Good morning. I like him from

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Speaker 1: his day's banking. Is he any good as a politician?

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Speaker 1: Do we know?

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Speaker 2: Well, we don't know that actually, because he's what we

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Speaker 2: have seen of him is that he's kind of a

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Speaker 2: wooden speaker, not surprisingly for somebody who's been a central banker.

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Speaker 2: And he doesn't really take questions very well, tough questions

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Speaker 2: from reporters. He's used to more softball questions from financial reporters.

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Speaker 2: And because he was the favorite to win this race,

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Speaker 2: he's been he's been kind of avoiding a lot of

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Speaker 2: tough media questions. But he wanted an absolutely resounding victory

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Speaker 2: on Sunday night, eighty six percent vote from the party faithful,

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Speaker 2: which is unheard of in recent times to see somebody

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Speaker 2: win in the leadership like that, and that's largely because

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Speaker 2: Canadians are scared stiff of what Donald Trump is up

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Speaker 2: to with his trade war.

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Speaker 1: Let me come back to that in just a couple

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Speaker 1: of moments. The fact that he's warming into the job.

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Speaker 1: The fact is anybody saying will look might if you

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Speaker 1: want the job to get into being the prime minister,

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Speaker 1: stride a wire or else? What are you doing? Does

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Speaker 1: anyone signing that or is it sort of this is

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Speaker 1: a good deal.

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Speaker 2: Well, he will be prime minister in the next coming days.

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Speaker 2: There's a transition to power which he said will be

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Speaker 2: seamless and it will be quick. So we expect the

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Speaker 2: cabinet will be sworn in, you know, Wednesday maybe at

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Speaker 2: the earliest, or Friday at the latest. So that's not

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Speaker 2: really the issue.

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Speaker 1: Here, Okay, is more of the Is he more of

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Speaker 1: the same? Is he true tout two point out or

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Speaker 1: see something completely different for the Liberals?

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Speaker 2: No, he's completely differ First of all, mister Kearney has

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Speaker 2: been the Bank of Canada governor for both Canada and

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Speaker 2: the UK. He's enormously experienced. He knows a lot of

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Speaker 2: people in the business community, in the international community at

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Speaker 2: the United Nations. Mister Trudeau came in as a charismenic

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Speaker 2: son of a former prime minister, but he was only

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Speaker 2: a high school drama teacher. Mister Carney has Oxford University,

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Speaker 2: Harvard educated. This guy has a lot of really serious accomplishments,

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Speaker 2: so you know nobody and that and his accomplishments in

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Speaker 2: handling the global financial crisis in two thousand and eight

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Speaker 2: and Britain's briax Brexit was one of the reasons why

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Speaker 2: you're seeing a real surge in the polls from away

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Speaker 2: from the Conservative Party, which had been leading for a

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Speaker 2: long time, for over a year and a half, double

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Speaker 2: digit numbers to mister Karney. In fact, when you ask

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Speaker 2: Canadians who is the most capable of person to deal

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Speaker 2: with President Trump in his trade war, it's it's at

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Speaker 2: as you mean, ten to fifteen point spread between mister

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Speaker 2: Karney and Peter Polyev, who's the Conservative leader.

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Speaker 1: Everybody says it's a bioptober. You've got to hold the bout.

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Speaker 1: But they're going to go early. Is that fair or not?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, they By next week we'll be into an

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Speaker 2: election campaign for either April of twenty eighth or May fifth.

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Speaker 2: They're going to go right now for two reasons. One,

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Speaker 2: the momentum is in his way, and you know when

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Speaker 2: the mentum momentum is going your way, you have to

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Speaker 2: you take advantage of it. But also, the Conservatives are

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Speaker 2: cash rich and they've been running attack ads in the

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Speaker 2: last week or so on every medium they can find

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Speaker 2: to try to tear apart mister Kearney's reputation. But when

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Speaker 2: an election is dropped, every all the political parties are

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Speaker 2: on an equal footing because of spending spending limits. So

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Speaker 2: that's the second reason why they really want to get

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Speaker 2: into an election right away. Stop the Tory attack ads

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Speaker 2: against them.

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Speaker 1: What a fascinating time. Robert will stand in touch. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Robert Fife, who's the Globe in Male, Ottawa

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