Canada’s new prime minister: Who is Mark Carney?

This was also due to Trudeau himself, who, according to his critics, has too much focus on its liberal goals in recent years – such as the Cannabis legalization – instead of taking care of the real everyday problems of the Canadians, especially the economic. His immigration policy, in the course of which millions of immigrants came into the country, also considered many to be too progressive, and he himself ended up. Parliamentary elections have to be held by October, they wanted to contest fewer and fewer liberals with Trudeau at their top.

His successor officially took over on Friday. From a politically speaking, the new prime minister is Mark Carney, A newcomer. He has never run for an office. For this he can look back on a decades of successful career in finance.

Financial expert

He worked, among other things, at the global investment banking company Goldman Sachs – in London, Tokyo, New York, Toronto. In 2008 he became governor of the Canadian National Bank And from 2013 he led the Bank of Englandas the first non-brit.

The liberals now hope that Carney, whom they had long wanted to see in their ranks, can master the great economic challenges in the country with his financial skill.

Above all: Donald Trumps 25 percent tariffs on Canadian imports. The US President has also seriously proposed several times that Canada should join the United States. These aggressions of Washington – probably in combination with Carney’s hard appearance towards Trump – seem to turn the leaf again for the liberals, at least when it comes to their polls. Carney has a good chance of being able to stay in office. Prempts of new elections can be expected.

The Harvard and Oxford graduate Carney is kept that he was too far away from the Canadians’ reality of life. And his French, in Canada second official language, is not good enough for the job.