Carney comes from a long career in finance, which people believe will help him manage the growing economic tensions between the U.S. and Canada. Carney is expected to be sworn in sometime this week,

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.”