Former central banker Mark Carney won the Liberal leadership with 86% of the votes cast by party members. Trudeau is still prime minister until Carney formally takes over the role. The governor general, the representative of Britain’s King Charles in Canada, will soon invite Carney to form a government. Carney will be the first person to become Canada’s prime minister with no prior experience in electoral politics. The challenge now will be to maintain that momentum and convince Canadians to give a party that has spent nearly a decade in power another go – while fighting a trade war on multiple fronts.. Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, said on Monday it was imposing a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to New York state, Michigan and Minnesota in protest. \”President Trump’s tariffs are a disaster for the U.S. economy,\” said Premier Doug Ford, adding that he would not hesitate to cut off electricity exports if necessary. Ottawa imposed a 25%. tariff on C$30 billion worth of US imports when Trump last month announced his initial tariff plans for Canada and Mexico. He has since suspended the tariffs for a month on goods that fall under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a free trade deal signed in 2018 by Trump, Trudeau and former Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. \”My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect,\” Carney said on Sunday.