He is a card-carrying member of the global technocratic elite, and he has led not one but two central banks—Britain’s and Canada’s. And he’s a regular at Davos.

Canada's next prime minister said the U.S. is “a country we can no longer trust” and that higher tariffs would continue “until the Americans show us respect.”

Mark Carney has never held elected office, but for years has been touted as a future leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and if the polling goes as expected, he is the favorite to win his party's leadership race on Sunday.