Mark Carney to host first post-election press conference Friday morning

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will speak to reporters Friday morning, his first press conference since he led Liberals to a fourth consecutive term in government on Monday evening. Carney is scheduled to host his first press conference at 11 a.m. in Ottawa. He is expected to face questions about an upcoming in-person meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump and his plan to begin negotiations for a new security and economic deal with the Americans. Carney’s Liberals were elected to a fourth consecutive term and a third straight minority government on Monday night. The win sealed a historic upset over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives who held a significant polling lead over the Justin Trudeau-led Liberals as recently as January. Friday morning, Bloomberg reported that Carney is scheduled to meet Trump at the White House on Tuesday in the first in-person meeting between the two leaders. More to come. National Post cnardi@postmedia.com Get more deep-dive National Post political coverage and analysis in your inbox with the Political Hack newsletter, where Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson and political analyst Tasha Kheiriddin get at what’s really going on behind the scenes on Parliament Hill every Wednesday and Friday, exclusively for subscribers. Sign up here. Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark nationalpost.com and sign up for our politics newsletter, First Reading, here.