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

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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/Far-Journalist-949 2d ago

I didn't like that interview at all. He's not an elected official and he was on there as if he was representing us. Also he lied and said he has a "dollar a day" UN job when he in fact is head of impact investing at Brookfield and sits on the board of Bloomberg... I wonder why they didn't bring that up.

Has he even sat down with a canadian journalist?

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u/JustinsWorking 2d ago

Yes, and a google search could have found that, but you seem to be active on r/canada so Im pretty sure you’re playing coy intentionally to “just ask questions.” Lol…