Mark Carney Is Getting Some Love, State Side
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Trudeau can have Coachella, and a starring role as Katy Perry’s BF on the pop star’s Instagram—his successor, Prime Minister Mark Carney has Time on his side.
This month, the Liberal leader was named one of the magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.
The magazine was unsparing in its praise for the silver-haired leader. Carney was described as the “George Clooney of finance” in a tribute written by Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank. And as if that wasn’t enough, she went on to describe the PM as a “rock star” central bank governor.
Indeed, it’s been a good year for the PM, who turned heads globally during his Davos speech in January, a headline-making provocation in which he declared the end of U.S. hegemony and called for the necessary reimagining of a new order.
A week after Davos, he hung out with Heated Rivalry’s Hudson Williams at a gala in Ottawa.
Now, not only is his party riding high in the polls, his deal-making abilities have won over new recruits from both the Conservative and the NDP parties. Carney’s seemingly non-partisan appeal—and his grasp of the art of aisle-crossing deal-making—saw the Liberals wrangle a majority in the House of Commons last week.
I hate to quibble with Time magazine or Lagarde, but could George Clooney do all that?
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Flannery Dean is a writer based in Hamilton, Ont. She’s written for The Narwhal, the Globe and Mail and The Guardian.
