Mark Carney arrived on Canada’s political scene last year as an Ivy League and Oxford educated economist and a former central banker for two countries.
He had an impressive resume and ambitions to be prime minister but had never run for public office until replacing Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader.
There was concern his lack of political experience would be a liability, but under his leadership, the Liberals won a minority government one year ago on Tuesday.
Over the course of 12 months, that has solidified into a narrow majority following the defection of five opposition members of parliament to his party.
Carney tore up the rulebook, jumping from political neophyte to leading a G7 nation, and he is enjoying a lengthy honeymoon both in Canada and around the world as a globetrotting prime minister.
Last week, Time Magazine named Carney one of the most influential people of the year.
In the write up, penned by European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde, she called him a “rock-star”, and credited him with being “the first to conceptualise the breaking point” of the old geopolitical order now fractured under the second Donald Trump presidency.
“I trust he will now reinvent cooperation among the willing for the common good of all,” Lagarde wrote.
