Poll also finds top issues include the rising cost of living and housing, health care, the economy and climate change.

OTTAWA — The idea of becoming prime minister of Canada in a matter of weeks despite having never won an election does not seem to worry former central banker Mark Carney, who says he has started at the top many times in his career.

After months of speculation about his future, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney launched his campaign to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader on Thursday with a promise to build the fastest-growing economy in the G7 if he's elected.

THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney officially kicked off his bid to replace Justin Trudeau on Thursday by launching barbs at Pierre Poilievre and ...

According to data from Abacus Data, 33% of Canadians have a positive perception of Mark Carney, compared to 29% for Chrystia Freeland. This gap also widens among current supporters of the Canadian Liberal Party (PLC),

Mark Carney, the first non-Brit to run the Bank of England since it was founded in 1694 and the former head of Canada’s central bank, says he is entering the race to be Canada’s next prime minister fo

Mark J. Carney ’87 — a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, the University’s second-highest governing body — launched his campaign to become Canada’s next prime minister at a rally in Edmonton, Alberta Thursday afternoon.

While Mark Carney’s outsider status inspires the Liberal faithful, his performance on the campaign trail is more likely to highlight the drawbacks of political inexperience.

Mark Carney, the former governor of Canada's central bank, on Thursday launched his bid to succeed Justin Trudeau as Liberal Party leader and prime minister, immediately becoming a frontrunner in

10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney officially kicked off his bid to replace Justin Trudeau on Thursday by launching barbs at Pierre Poilievre and describing the Conservative leader as a dangerous ...

“Canada has never been more dark and divided,” he wrote at the time, with Poilievre’s Conservatives in a 22-point lead. On Wednesday, his website referred to a “major and straight-line decline” in the Conservative advantage in the last month.

Frank Baylis, easily the wealthiest candidate in the race (his eponymous Baylis Medical Company was sold for more than $2 billion in 2021), has received the endorsement of Celina Caesar-Chavannes, a former Liberal MP who has become of the most vocal ex-Liberals to denounce Trudeau, even doing so in a longform interview with Jordan Peterson.