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Mark Carney

Prime Minister of Canada, 2025 to present

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Previously ran the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and became prime minister in 2025 amid a trade dispute with the United States.

Mark Carney sits in the near the center part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: slightly free market and centered on liberty and authority. The clearest positions are strongly institutional on institutions, leaning tech-optimist on technology and leaning secular on religion. The profile is close to the middle on liberty and authority.

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Where Mark Carney sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomySlightly free market
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityCentered on liberty and authority
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureLeaning progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationSlightly nationalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentSlightly nature-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyLeaning tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly institutional
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionLeaning secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismLeaning interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Mark Carney

Keir Starmer UK Prime Minister, 2024 to 202699%Bob Hawke Prime Minister of Australia, 1983 to 199199%Jonas Gahr Støre Prime Minister of Norway, 2021 to present99%Larry Summers American economist and former US Treasury Secretary98%Chuck Schumer US Senate Democratic leader, 2017 to present98%Donald Tusk Prime Minister of Poland, 2007 to 2014 and 2023 to present98%Olaf Scholz Chancellor of Germany, 2021 to 202598%Jens Stoltenberg Prime Minister of Norway and NATO Secretary General98%

People furthest from Mark Carney

Leo Tolstoy Russian novelist and moral thinker, 1828 to 19109%Dorothy Day American journalist and Catholic Worker founder, 1897 to 198011%Mahatma Gandhi Leader of the Indian independence movement16%Murray Rothbard American economist, 1926 to 199517%

Political views closest to Mark Carney

Third Way centrismCombines market economics with moderate social policy and pragmatic problem solving.99%KeynesianismSupports government spending and central bank action to smooth recessions and protect…97%Realism in foreign policySees international politics as a contest of power and interests in which states act to…97%Liberal nationalismHolds that nations have a right to self-government and a shared identity, provided they…97%

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