In the middle of the commercial dispute with the United States, Canada It will have a new prime minister. This is the former central man Mark Carny, who won the race inside the Liberal Party To happen to Justin Trudeau.
Carnya, 59 years old, the 86% of the votes issued and It was imposed on the internal race in front of the former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, in a contest in which they voted just under 152,000 members of the party.
Due to the collapse of its approval index, the current Premier Trudeau announced last January its decision to resign the position after more than nine years in power. His decision forced the Liberal Party to convene a quick election to replace it temporarily.
“Do not be mistaken, this is a decisive moment for the nation. Democracy is not something that can be taken for granted. Freedom is not something that can be taken for granted. Not even Canada is something that can be taken for granted”Trudeau said.
“Now, when the Canadians face, by our neighbor, an existential challenge, an economic crisis, Canadians are demonstrating exactly what we are made of.”
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During his first steps in the private sector, Carnya, economist graduated from the University of Harvard, He served for 13 years in the subsidiaries of London, Tokyo, New York and Toronto of the Goldman Sachs bank.
Then it went on to take positions in the Canadian and English administration: between 2008 and 2013 he served as governor of the Central Bank of Canada and subsequently assumed the same position in the Bank of England Until 2020.
When defending his nomination as Prime Minister, he argued that he was in the best position to revive the party and supervise trade negotiations with US President Donald Trump.
Source: Ambito
