Mark Carney 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.

Mark Carney won the Liberal leadership by a landslide, garnering 86 per cent of the ballots on the first round of votes, and is set to take the stage as prime minister at a time when the country finds itself embroiled in a trade war with its closest ally and neighbour.