Carney, 59, took 86% of votes cast to beat former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in a contest in which just under 152,000 party members voted. Trudeau announced in January that he would step down after more than nine years in power as his approval rating plummeted. Carney will take over at a tumultuous time in Canada, which is in the midst of a trade war with longtime ally the United Statesunder President Donald Trump. \”There’s someone who’s trying to weaken our economy,\” Carney said of Trump, spurring loud boos at the party gathering. \”We will have to do things that we haven’t imagined before, at speeds we didn’t think possible,\” he said. \”Make no mistake, this is a nation-defining moment. Democracy is not a given. Freedom is not given. Even Canada is not an given,\” Trudeau said in his acceptance speech to the party’s members of parliament on Sunday. ‘There is a rallying-around-the-flag moment that we would never have predicted a year ago,’ a politics professor said.