ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Prime Minister Mark Carney reacts with wife, Diana Fox Carney, on stage at his campaign headquarters after the Liberal party won the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø election in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. A clip of Fox Carney saying, in French, 'un Canada fort' at that event has been misquoted on TikTok as her saying her husband wants to 'make Canada poor.' THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Prime Minister Mark Carney reacts with wife, Diana Fox Carney, on stage at his campaign headquarters after the Liberal party won the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø election in Ottawa on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. A clip of Fox Carney saying, in French, 'un Canada fort' at that event has been misquoted on TikTok as her saying her husband wants to 'make Canada poor.' THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
TikTok videos with nearly two million combined views claimed to show Diana Fox Carney, wife of Prime Minister Mark Carney, saying her husband wants to "make Canada poor" during a speech on election night. This claim is false. The claimants misheard Fox Carney when she spoke the words "un Canada fort," the French version of the prime minister's campaign slogan "Canada strong."Â
THE CLAIM
"She said this on TV … this is live video not AI," read the captions on two TikTok videos posted the day after the election, which saw the Liberal party hold on to power for a fourth term.Â
The captions refer to remarks made by Diana Fox Carney as she introduced her husband, Prime Minister Mark Carney, during an election night event in Ottawa.Â
The videos claim Fox Carney said the prime minister wants to "make Canada poor."
Both TikToks had and more than plays at the time of publication.Â
RATING: FalseÂ
Fox Carney never said she or her husband want to "make Canada poor."
Instead she said the French phrase "un Canada fort."
"It is my great pleasure to introduce my husband, the prime minister who will make Canada strong. Un Canada fort!" Fox Carney said.
Those who misheard Fox Carney claimed she introduced "the prime minister who will make Canada strong and Canada poor."Â
The phrase "make Canada poor" may sound similar to "un Canada fort."Â
The biggest clue some social media users misheard Fox Carney's words?
Carney's English campaign slogan "We are Canada strong" and its French version "Nous sommes un Canada fort" both appear on the podium beneath Fox Carney.
A shows the full slogans.
Fox Carney has introduced her husband several times using the French slogan and she says it similarly each time.Â
She introduced Carney as "the prime minister who will make Canada strong, un Canada fort," at multiple rallies, including in and earlier this month. Â
SOURCES
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Liberal Leader Mark Carney delivers victory speech. ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Post, on April 29, 2025 (, )
Mark Carney holds rally in Winnipeg – April 1, 2025. cpac, on . April 1, 2025 (, )
Mark Carney holds rally in Richmond, B.C. – April 7, 2025. cpac, on . April 7, 2025 (, )
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