Unelected Canada PM Mark Carney Insists He Is 'Very Different' from Trudeau in Debate

Canada held prime minister debates on Wednesday and Thursday, the first in French and the second in English. The Thursday debate was, by all accounts, a more spirited joust between interim Prime Minister Mark Carney and his rivals from the Conservative, NDP, and Bloc Quebecois parties.

Carney, an investment company executive and former central banker who has never been elected to anything, ascended to leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada and the prime minister’s office when deeply unpopular Prime Minister Justin Trudeau resigned in March.

Trudeau’s departure, and President Donald Trump’s tariffs, revived the Liberal Party’s fortunes after a year of running double-digit polling deficits against Pierre Poilievre and his Conservative Party of Canada. At times, the Liberals sank deep enough in the polls to give Jagmeet Singh and his New Democratic Party (NDP) a legitimate claim as the leading left-wing party in Canada.

Carney went into the Montreal debate on...
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