Mark Carney, the former central banker-turned-centrist politician, triumphed over Chrystia Freeland in Sunday’s Liberal Party leadership race, paving the way for him to succeed Justin Trudeau as Canada’s next prime minister. He is expected to be sworn in early this week.
Carney, 59, whose resume is filled with decades of experience working at the highest levels of global finance but has never been elected to public office, now faces his first major economic reckoning as prime minister – managing Canada’s trade relationship with the United States.
In the end he won the leadership election by a landslide, with nearly 86% of the vote, with 131,674 votes, with Trudeau’s former finance minister Chrystia Freeland coming in a very distant second with 11,134 votes.
