Mark Carney: Canadas new PM charted unusual path to power [Video]

He was born near the Arctic, led the central banks of two major economies and has become Canada’s prime minister despite never having served in parliament.

Mark Carney’s path to the top job in Canadian politics has been unusual but, as he said when he launched his campaign to succeed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, so are the circumstances.

“Our times are anything but ordinary,” Carney told supporters in the Western city of Edmonton in January.

Carney has called the threats posed by US President Donald Trump “the most serious crisis of our lifetime.”

The United States wants “our resources, our water, our land, our country,” he said after being elected Sunday to replace Trudeau as leader of the governing Liberal Party.

Carney says his experience leading the Bank of Canada through the 2008-2009 financial crisis and heading the Bank of England through the turbulence that followed the 2016 Brexit vote …