Carney goes to the United Kingdom looking for investment and partners – while pressure rises to show the results

Prime Minister Mark Carney went to the United Kingdom Thursday to attract investments and strengthen ties that, according to him, are essential for securing the future of Canada.

Back in Ottawa, the Conservative Party maintains that Carney flees problems at home and has nothing to show for that.

“He travels a lot and unfortunately without results,” said Conservative deputy Pierre Paul-Hus in French.

“We say he wants to hide from the House of Commons … When the Prime Minister is not there to answer, this gives the message that he is unable to answer – or is not interested in parliamentary work.”

The trip marks the second official visit of Carney to London, where he will attend the Global Progress Action Summit – a gathering of leaders of the left and the Central Center on Economic Growth.

Over the next two days, Carney is expected to meet the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Australia, Iceland, Spain and Denmark, as well as energy companies and investment bodies.

“We are building our forces at home, diversifying our partnerships abroad and creating a network of solid global links,” Carney said in a statement on Wednesday.

“These missions will allow our workers new opportunities and will find collective solutions to the most urgent challenges in the world.”

The Prime Minister is under pressure to show the results, said former conservative minister Peter Mackay.

“There should really be something that Canadians can consider beneficial for them, in particular with a recession that is looming and the crisis of affordable affordability becoming more and more permanent in the life of most Canadians,” said Mackay.

Since it became Prime Minister last March, Carney has gone to Paris, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, the Vatican City, Belgium, the Netherlands, Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Germany and Mexico-with other trips expected this fall.

Although it is not unusual for a Prime Minister to travel frequently at the start of his mandate, Mackay said he had to balance this with domestic needs and the perception of leaving too often.

While running for the liberal management and during the federal electoral campaign, Carney underlined his international experience as proof that he was the best leader to manage the disturbances caused by American president Donald Trump.

The conservative chief Pierre Hairy has repeatedly criticized Carney so as not to win a trade agreement with the United States (Carney maintains that Canada already has the best country in all countries).

Poilievre also targeted the Prime Minister’s international trips, saying that he came back from Mexico City earlier this month.

Carney returned from the United Nations on Wednesday and faced hairy calls during the question period to dismiss the Minister of Public Security Gary Anandasangaree, who had questioned the government’s buy -back program for “assault” firearms in a registered conversation.

Mackay said that the decision to leave the country to be interpreted so early on as Carney having confidence in anandasangaree – or that he prefers to rub shoulders with left -wing governments in Europe.

“This is an impression that can end up with the Canadians who work every day,” said Mackay.

Value of trips abroad

Roland Paris, director of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Ottawa, said that it was difficult for any new Prime Minister to sail in international trips, especially during the busy fall season.

“It is a frustration for political staff, who focuses more on the domestic side of what the Prime Minister does,” said Paris, who was an adviser to former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

“But the summits are actually really important and a really effective way for the Prime Minister to meet many of his international counterparts in the same place at the same time.”

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After a meeting with Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang, Prime Minister Mark Carney said there was a range of opportunities to expand Canada and China’s trade relations, including clean and conventional energy and agriculture, and that he had an “ open discussion ” with the Prime Minister on steel prices.

Paris has said that the front time is important because Carney is trying to deliver an ambitious program and develop a new type of Canadian economy.

“There is a risk by promising so much, it will not be able to deliver all these things,” said Paris. “But I’m going to take this on someone who does not take up the challenge of the day.”

Paris said the next federal budget will be an opportunity for Canadians to see Si Carney “will keep many of these promises.”

Partners with similar views

With trade, Carney also focuses on wars in Ukraine and the Middle East.

Paris said Carney can take advantage of this opportunity to develop his speech to the Council for Foreign Relations in New York, where the Prime Minister explained how average power, like Canada, can manage a more permanent world by relying more on itself and other partners sharing the same ideas.

The Global Progress Action Summit is also a chance for Carney to reconnect with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

A source of the higher government, which spoke to CBC News from the state trip they are not appointed, said that Carney will follow up with Starmer on the coalition of the desire to support Ukraine and how they can work together to make a Palestinian state a reality.

The same source also said that Carney will try to progress in trade with the United Kingdom, but no major announcement is expected at the moment.

This lack of major announcements was a regular complaint of the Conservatives.

“What is a strategic partnership?” Paul-Hus said agreements signed by Carney with international partners during the summer. “Right now, everything is very abstract.”

The source said that the Prime Minister’s visit is to lay the basics of future transactions that will benefit Canadians.