New Canadian leader Carney seen as a tough negotiator who doesn’t suffer fools.
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Diana Fox Carney and Mark Carney stand next to each other in a room full of people.
Canadian Prime Minister-designate Mark Carney and his wife Diana Fox Carney arrive for his swearing-in ceremony in Ottawa, Canada, on March 14.
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March 14, 2025, 1:50 PM View Comments
Mark Carney, the new prime minister of Canada, has a long record as a public servant—but that experience has largely come in the technocratic world of central banking. After years of mostly working in the shadows of policymaking, Carney is entering the spotlight of high politics.
Carney’s premiership is one of the topics that came up in my recent conversation with FP economics columnist Adam Tooze on the podcast we co-host, Ones and Tooze—Adam has met Carney several times at conferences.
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Cameron Abadi is a deputy editor at Foreign Policy. X: @CameronAbadi
Adam Tooze is a columnist at Foreign Policy and a history professor and the director of the European Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of Chartbook, a newsletter on economics, geopolitics, and history. X: @adam_tooze