“I’m most useful in a crisis. I’m not that good at peacetime,” he said during the campaign.
Carney secured a term as prime minister despite having never served in parliament, which is unprecedented in Canadian history.
Even with no government experience, he convinced voters that his background dealing with financial turmoil equipped him to lead Canada through US President Donald Trump’s trade war.
Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney shows his Edmonton Oilers’ T-shirt. Photo: Reuters
A 60-year-old married father of four, Carney was born near the Arctic in Fort Smith, in Canada’s Northwest Territories, but was raised in the western city of Edmonton.
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