Mark Carney Has a Plan to Build Canada Strong
"We are facing the most significant crisis of our lifetimes because of President Trump’s unjustified trade actions and his threats to our sovereignty." — Mark Carney, March 23, 2025, discussing the impact of U.S. policies.
As President Trump threatens Canadian jobs and businesses – disrupting global markets and fundamentally reshaping the international trading system – we need a leader with a proven track record of dealing with crises.
Mark Carney is that leader.
As Governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial crisis, he guided Canada through one of the most turbulent economic periods in modern history. Because of this record, he was recruited to lead the Bank of England, stewarding the United Kingdom’s economy through Brexit and the economic and political crises that followed. His term was even extended.
Mr. Carney is a world-renowned economic leader – not a career politician. In addition to an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a PhD in Economics from Oxford, he has real world experience in finance and crisis management.
Mark Carney and the Liberal team have a plan that will fight, protect, and build in the face of these threats to our economy and sovereignty.
A Mark Carney-led Liberal government will:
• Fight Crime, Protect Canadians, and Build Safer Communities
o Toughen the Criminal Code and make bail laws stricter for violent and organized crime, home invasions, car theft, and human trafficking – including and especially for repeat offenders.
o Crack down on illegal drugs and guns coming from the US.
o More funding to prosecute violent criminal gangs.
o Recruit 1,000 more RCMP officersto tackle drug and human trafficking and the organized criminal gangs that steal cars.
o Train 1,000 new CBSA officersto crack down on drugs, illegal guns, and stop gangs from stealing cars and smuggling them out of the country.
o Increase funding to the Canada Community Security Program and make it a criminal offence to obstruct access to any schools, places of worship, and community centres.
o Banned 1,500+ assault-style firearms across Canada and will reinvigorate the implementation of an efficient gun-buyback program for these firearms, in which RCMP decide which guns to include.
o Automatically revoke gun licenses for individuals convicted of violent offences.
o Toughen oversight of firearms licensing and strengthen the enforcement of yellow and red flag requirements.
o Add new border scanners, drones and K-9 teams, to better target suspicious shipments at our land borders, ports, and railyards.
o Increase capacity to prosecute more drug production, trafficking, and importation offences.
• Build the Strongest Economy in the G7
o Incentivize greater private sector investments and securing the Canadian advantage in strategic industries.
o $2 Billion to fund a new Made-in-Canada auto sector and protect auto workers.
o Diversify our trade away from the United States, build new international trade partnerships with reliable partners, create new jobs and build one Canadian economy.
o Make Canada the world’s leading innovation and energy superpower.
o Accelerate investment in data infrastructure, workforce training, and AI commercialization.
o Secure Canada’s tech future through strategic federal-private partnerships, an AI deployment tax credit, and the expansion of thriving AI ecosystems.
• Make Life More Affordable
o Cancelled the “carbon tax,” saving Canadians on average 18 cents/litre on the price of gas.
o Deliver a middle-class tax cut, saving a two-income household up to $825 a year.
o Building homes and doubling the pace of construction over the next decade to almost 500,000 new homes a year.
o Eliminate the GST for first-time homebuyers on homes $1 million and less; saving Canadians up to $50,000.
o Expand dental coverage to Canadians aged 18-64, saving eligible Canadians around $800 in dental care costs.
o Cancellation of the proposed hike to the capital gains inclusion rate.
o Protect retirement savings by reducing the minimum amount that must be withdrawn from a RRIF by 25% for one year.
o Increase the GIS payment by 5% for one year, providing up to $652 more to lowincome seniors, tax-free.
• Fight Against America’s Unjustified Trade War
o Fight to protect jobs, small businesses, and consumers.
o Impose counter-tariffs that have maximum impact to the US and minimum impact here at home. Every dollar raised from these tariffs will support Canadian workers and businesses affected by the trade war.
o Eliminate federal barriers to interprovincial trade to create one Canadian economy, not thirteen.
o Invest in nation-building infrastructure on a scale and at speeds not seen in generations – making it easier for Canadians to buy Canadian.
o Secure our sovereignty by protecting our workers, and by rebuilding, rearming, and reinvesting in the Canadian Armed Forces.
• Protect and Build a Stronger Public Health Care System
o Add thousands of new doctors to Canada’s health care system.
o Increase medical school spaces, expand residency positions, and build new medical schools.
o Recruit qualified doctors and streamline credential recognition for internationally trained doctors and nurses.
o Invest $4 billion to construct and renovate community health care infrastructure by building hospitals, clinics, long-term care homes and more.
o Scale up digital tools to reduce administrative burden on doctors.
o Improve mental health care and support to address the overdose crisis.
Pierre Poilievre has no plan to stand up to President Trump – just the same tired ideas he’s been peddling for years: more cuts, more division, and more chaos.
In a crisis, a plan beats no plan. Mark Carney has a plan.
A Mark Carney-led government will build Canada strong.
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