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Mark Carney

Prime Minister of Canada since 2025

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Mark Joseph Carney is a Canadian politician and economist who is the 24th prime minister of Canada and leader of the Liberal Party, serving since 2025. Carney has been the member of Parliament (MP) for Nepean since his election in April 2025. He was previously Governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and Governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 2008, 2013, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Mark, Carney and Prime can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as prime Minister of Canada since 2025. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mark Carney” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.