Mark Carney, the former governor of the Bank of England, launched his campaign to become Canada’s prime minister by touting his financial expertise in a country where voters remain angry over outgoing premier Justin Trudeau’s handing of the economy.
Carney told a crowd in Edmonton, Alberta, on Thursday that he was making his bid during “extraordinary times” — an apparent reference to US president-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on Canadian exports.
Carney, who also ran Canada’s central bank before moving to London in 2013, said he would make the country’s economy the strongest in the G7, acknowledging growth had been too slow, wages were too low and groceries too expensive under Trudeau, a fellow Liberal.