Prominent banker Mark Carney enters race to replace Justin Trudeau as prime minister
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The prominent banker also serves as the United Nations special envoy for climate action and finance. Prominent banker Mark Carney is launching a bid to lead Canada’s ruling Liberal Party after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned. Carney, 59, currently serves as the United Nations special envoy for climate action and finance. He is also the chair of Brookfield Asset Management and Bloomberg L.P.’s board of directors.
“I’m here to ask for your support,” Carney said in an announcement from Edmonton, Alberta. “I’m here to earn your trust.’’. Carney joined the Canadian Finance Ministry in 2004 before becoming governor of the Bank of Canada in 2007. He then became governor of the Bank of England in 2013, becoming the first person to head two major central banks. He then left his post in 2020 before taking on his role at the UN.
“My generation of Canadians is lucky,” Carney said Thursday. “We had a good time. A time to prosper. The system that our parents built worked well for us. But those good old times, my friends, are over. Our times are anything but ordinary.”. Trudeau resigned as leader of the Liberal Party on January 6 after facing heavy pressure to step down from fellow Liberal Party members. This pressure came after his deputy prime minister, Chrystia Freeland, abruptly resigned in December. She cited disagreements over the handling of President-elect Donald Trump’s threats to instate 25 percent tariffs on all Canadian goods exported to the US.
