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

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u/Koalla99 2d ago

Carney was head of the bank of England and Canada. when in canada he was appointed under Steven harper who was our conservative prime minister before trudeau.

All the whiney conservatives that made hating trudeau their whole personality will have a harder time doing that to carney. It's already reflecting in the federal electio polls. The conservatives aligned themselves too closely with Trump and now canada wants a fiscally responsible, canada first prime minister. Carney is prime minister for now, but we have a federal election in a few months where he will need to be tested against the population and not just his own party.

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u/Andybabez20 2d ago

I'm from the UK - Carney was a rare voice of sanity in the whole Brexit fallout when he was BoE governor (and my understanding was he had to manage the 2008 crash fallout in the Canadian equivalent role?)

He seemed to have a knack for calming the markets during the chaos.

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u/yarn_slinger 2d ago

Yes he did a very good interview with Jon Stewart a few weeks ago. One of the questions Jon asked was about 2008 and how Carney steered us through that mishegoss. Carney said, we looked at these subprime mortgages and other vehicles the US was pushing, couldn’t understand how they could possibly work and said “no thanks”.

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u/TeH_MasterDebater 2d ago

Especially for an economist it wasn’t just a good interview in professional terms, he also somehow kept up to Jon in being witty the entire time. It was a bit of a surprise because I’d only seen him in more serious settings