It seems that President Donald Trump’s boorish panache has his limits across our northern border; on Monday, Liberal Party candidate (and incumbent prime minster) Mark Carney won the Canadian election on Monday night 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 as governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, leading the latter’s response to Brexit and COVID.

Carney was also chairman of the Basel, Switzerland-based Financial Stability Board from 2011 to 2018 and appointed to the United Nations special envoy for climate action and finance in 2021, before being made chair of the Liberal Party’s economic growth taskforce 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?

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre and his wife, Anaida Poilievre, on Monday

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