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, sloganeering populist.
Carney launched his Liberal leadership campaign at a community centre in Edmonton that was packed with roughly 200 supporters — some wearing SFX buttons representing the local St. Francis Xavier high school Carney attended when he was a teenager.
"I'm back home in Edmonton to declare my candidacy for leader of the Liberal party and prime minister of Canada," Carney said to applause at the Laurier Heights Community League. Carney had a gold-plated career in global finance that eventually saw him setting national interest rates as the head of the Bank of Canada and later the Bank of England.
He said many Canadians are anxious about their precarious economic situations, many young people can't afford to buy homes and Donald Trump will soon be sworn in as U.S. president, posing a new economic threat. The Conservative party — which has long presented Carney as tight with Trudeau and his inner circle and has attacked him for years — was ready for his announcement.
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