What you (probably) didn’t know about Mark Carney

Author Elisha Dacey
Mark Carney speaks to Liberal Party members Sunday. (Facebook/Supplied)

Good morning and happy Monday! I hope your weekend was chill, like these dolphins, who apparently chew on puffer fish to zone out.

Yeah, dolphin friends, with the current state of the world, I don’t blame you.

But, if you’re just waking up or have been in hiding for the past six weeks, let me be the first to tell you that Mark Carney won the Liberal Leadership race, by a landslide big enough to build a wall on the 49th parallel.

There will be thousands of stories and op-eds over the next few days, focusing on What This MeansTM for Canada, the potential for our relationship with the U.S. and the world.

(Indeed, I actually got a breaking news notification from the New York Times last night, which made me chuckle. The NYT rarely pays much attention to Canadian politics, never mind the outcome of a leadership race. Two months ago, this would have been a brief in the Canada section of their website.)

Of course, we will be covering the likely-to-be-called-ASAP federal election and the potential for change in the social good sector.

Carney won on the strength of his past leadership and experience, ushering the UK through Brexit and Canada through the 2008 recession with economic policies that prevented total disaster.

But did you know that he is a leading expert on climate finance?

He served as the United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. And he sees the economic potential in preventing climate change.

In an interview in 2021 posted on the UN website, he said “Candidly, I assumed that climate was being taken care of, that ‘they’ were taking care of it. And then at some point I realized I was part of ‘they,’ and it wasn’t being taken care of.”

This is not an endorsement. It remains to be seen if Carney is a) even elected Prime Minister and b) he will follow through on his ideals and goals. So many politicians don’t.

If he isn’t or he doesn’t, I suppose we can chew on some puffer fish.

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  • Elisha Dacey is a seasoned journalist with more than two decades of experience in the field. She has worked in various newsrooms across Canada, ranging from small-town papers to major outlets like CBC Manitoba and Global News. Dacey began her journalism career in Manitoba and has held roles such as managing editor, senior producer and digital online journalist. Notably, she launched Metro Winnipeg, the city’s only free daily newspaper, which quickly became the second most-read paper in Winnipeg.

    Elisha Dacey is the Managing Editor for Future of Good.

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