Who is Mark Carney, Canada’s new Liberal leader and next prime minister?
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Who is Mark Carney, Canada’s new Liberal leader and next prime minister?

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Economist and ex-central banker takes over from Justin Trudeau in face of Trump tariff uncertainty, looming election. “He’s someone who’s been behind the scenes, an adviser,” said Daniel Beland, a political science professor at McGill University who described Carney as a “technocrat on steroids”. “That’s not the best test for someone who has no political experience and will then have to basically go into the lion’s den,” Beland said, referring to this year’s federal election, where Carney will face fiery opposition leaders such as the Conservatives’ Pierre Poilievre and Yves-Francois Blanchet of the Bloc Quebecois. “But if it’s not your sort of thing, then he represents what some on the left and some on the right see as a kind of global economic elite consensus that is oppressing day-to-day people.” Poilievre and his Conservative Party have tapped into that feeling of public anger and anxiety over rising prices to lambaste the Liberal government over the past few years – and they have continued to use that line of attack against Carney. “ might sound a bit silly in the context of this foreign policy and trade crisis triggered by Trump.” Meanwhile, Carney has accused Poilievre of echoing Trump’s talking points.

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