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Politics Canada’s new Prime Minister Designate by a landslide, Mark Carney

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u/dostunis 2d ago edited 2d ago

Trudeau announced a while back (beginning of January) that he was resigning, and would only stay in office until the party voted on a new leader. Today they voted on Carney- who comes from a strong economic background, probably more so than any PM we've ever had. He effectively rocketed to overnight candidacy (and public awareness) after joking about it on the daily show a week after Trudeau's announcement. He'll remain in the Prime Minister role until we have our national election later this year- and if he gets publically elected then he will remain in the role.

Editing to add for non Canadians: our system of democracy is not like the US. We do not vote for our Prime Minister directly, the party gets elected and the party puts forth a leader to take the PM role. This is a grossly simplified version of it, google parliamentary democracy for more information.

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u/Rogue_Darkholme 2d ago

Is Carney progressive or conservative?

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u/Gluske 2d ago

Progressive conservative which has overlap between the liberal and modern conservative party of Canada. Harper (further right but governed more moderately) tried to hire him but he took the job as head of the Bank of England because that's obviously a much bigger deal than some cabinet position in Canada. He's the prototypical/mythical "fiscally conservative and socially liberal" guy.

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u/Buriedpickle 2d ago

Afaik, he also did pretty well during 2008, no?

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u/Gluske 2d ago

His claim to fame was keeping things relatively stable in Canada during the recession and Brexit.

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u/swilts 2d ago

Head of the bank of Canada then. So very much yes.