Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada’s next prime minister on March 14th.
In a statement on the evening of March 12th, officers of General Mary Simon said they would preside over the oath ceremony at Rideau Hall at 11am on March 14th.
Carney won the Governance Liberal Party Leadership Race on March 9th with a significant margin. The victory was won by 85.9%, with a roughly 152,000 votes, with former vice-prime minister and finance minister Chrystier Freeland winning 8.0% of the votes, former minister Karina Gould having 3.2% and former liberal MP Frank Bayliss at 3.0%.
Former central banker, Carney has already met with Trudeau and ministers as part of the transition.
Carney will become a rare prime minister who is not currently a member of Parliament and will become the first Canadian prime minister who has never served in an elected role before.
The former governor of the Bank of Canada intends to get a seat in the House and has yet to declare whether he will seek it in the by-election or call the election immediately.
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Congress was prologged by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on January 6th, and announced he was planning to resign, launching a leadership race to replace him.
Congress is scheduled to return on March 24th.
The opposition parties have shown they intend to vote for no confidence in the government. However, recently, the NDP said it would not vote to overthrow the government until the House votes to hand over aid packages for Canadians affected by US tariffs.
The election must be held by October this year.
Carney’s pledge will end Trudeau’s prime minister in more than nine years.
Trudeau said he would resign after Freeland announced his resignation from the cabinet in an open letter.
The incident led to more public calls with the liberal Caucus for Trudeau’s expulsion, along with a decline in support of the Liberal Party in polls, which he agreed earlier this year.
Starting his career in the private sector, Carney worked as a civil servant before becoming governor of the Bank of Canada from 2007 to 2013, and became the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020.
He later joined the private sector again and served on the boards of many organizations. He also served as the UN envoy on climate action and finances. He said he resigned from all roles before becoming a candidate for the liberal leadership race in January.
