Mark Carney has emerged as the new Prime Minister of Canada, having won at the polls on Sunday with nearly 86% of the vote.
ENigeria News reports that Carney, replaces longtime Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced his resignation in January after a decade in office and a sharp decline in approval ratings. Below are six key things to know about the new Canda Prime Minister 2025.
6 Key Things About Mark Carney Canda’s New Prime Minister 2025
1) Mark Carney is a central banker-turned-centrist politician. Carney began his career in the private sector, spending over a decade in the London, Tokyo, New York, and Toronto offices of Goldman Sachs. He returned to Canada and entered public service. He was appointed deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, which oversees the country’s monetary policy, in 2003, and the following year he became a senior associate deputy minister of finance.
2) He’s a graduate of Harvard and Oxford. Carney attended Harvard University, where he played goaltender on the ice hockey team. He intended to study English literature and math but developed a keen interest in economics while attending lectures by Canadian-American economist John Kenneth Galbraith.
3) Carney, a father of four is married to Diana Fox Carney, a British economist with a focus on developing countries. The two — met at Oxford — have four daughters: Cleo, Tess, Amelia and Sasha.
4) He has triple citizenship — at least for now. Carney was born in Canada — in Fort Smith, a town in the Northwest Territories — but also holds British and Irish citizenship.
5) Carney had been vocal in his disagreement with Trump throughout his campaign. Last month, he compared the American president to the villain from the Harry Potter franchise while speaking to supporters in Winnipeg, saying he didn’t want to dignify Trump’s talk of annexation.
6) He is the new leader of Canada’s governing Liberal Party.
