Two weeks after winning the Liberal Party’s leadership election and succeeding Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney has declared a snap election.
Carney, 60, a former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, is a relative outsider to national politics, having never before been elected to public office. Nevertheless, he still trounced Trudeau’s former finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, by picking up 85.9 percent of their party’s vote in the leadership election.
