Canada’s Recent Election Was a Repudiation of Trumpism. Here’s Everything You Need to Know About the Winner, Mark Carney

It seems that President Donald Trump’s boorish panache has its limits across our northern border; on Monday night Liberal Party candidate (and incumbent prime minster) Mark Carney won the Canadian election after taking aim at Trumpian rhetoric.

“America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country,” Carney said in a victory speech in Ottawa. “But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, ever happen.”

Below, find everything you need to know about Carney and the current Canadian political landscape:

Who is Mark Carney?

An economist by trade, Mark Carney studied economics at Harvard and Oxford and worked at Goldman Sachs and the Bank of Canada before being named senior associate deputy minister for Canada’s finance department in 2004. He then served as governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, leading the latter’s response to Brexit and COVID.

Carney was also chairman of Switzerland’s Financial Stability Board from 2011 to 2018 and was appointed the United Nations special envoy for climate action and finance in 2021 before being made chair of the Liberal Party’s economic-growth task force in September 2024.

Following Justin Trudeau’s resignation earlier this year, Carney was elected prime minister of Canada by a landslide in March, becoming the first Canadian PM to have never previously held elected office.

Carney is married to British economist and climate-policy expert Diana Fox Carney, with whom he has four children.

Who was Carney’s opponent?