Mark Carney, Front-Runner to replace Justin Trudeau as the new leader of Canada’s Liberal Party, once compared US President Donald Trump to “Woldemort”, who was a villain in Harry Potter films and books.
Speaking on an incident amidst making a statement of making Canada the 51st American state, Carney said, “When you think about what we can be in these ridiculous, derogatory comments of the President, what can we be, I see it as a voldemort of comments.”
“As I will not repeat it, but you know what I am talking about,” he said last month.
Trump repeatedly called Canada a “51st American state” and taunted Trudeau, who said that he was stepping on his performance amid growing dissatisfaction on his performance, referring to him as the Governor of an American state.
Who is Mark Carney
Mark Carney, who has never held an elected position, is a two -time central banker. Born in Fort Smith in Northwest Territories in 1965, he attended Harvard.
He spent 13 years in Goldman Sachs before serving as the deputy governor of Canada’s Bank of Canada in 2003. He left for a top finance ministry job in November 2004 and returned to become the Governor of the Central Bank in 2008. He praised for leading the central bank through the financial crisis of 2008–2009.
He was then hunted by the Bank of England in 2013, making him the first non-British governor in the three-century history of the Central Bank and was a major man of two G7 central banks. During his tenure, he also faced the political chaos of Brexit.
After leaving the Bank of England in 2020, the 59 -year -old served as the United Nations Envoy on Finance and Climate Change.
Carney, who has the highest number of party endorsements and the most money has been raised among four Liberal candidates, would be the first to become a Canadian Prime Minister without being an MLA and had no cabinet experience.
He currently has a commanding lead on former Finance Minister Christia Freeland, whose resignation led to a crisis last December, resigning Trudeau.
The result is due to the declaration of Sunday.
(With agency input)
