This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel.

An election in North America critical to the next months and years, Canada.

There is a new candidate, first-time political actor, Mark Carney,

and to help us understand why Mark Carney has now been elected by the Liberal Party

to be the Prime Minister to call an election that will happen in springtime, I welcome my colleague,

Conrad Black, writing at the National Post. Conrad, a very good evening to you. We learned that

Mr. Carney, the new prime minister, congratulations,

will meet Rideau Hall at Rideau Hall tomorrow morning and announce his cabinet. And that will be

the government until there is an election certain in the springtime. We need to understand Mark Carney because he's not a political actor

heretofore. He's a central banker, very unusual background, not only a central banker for Canada,

but a central banker for the Bank of England. What do we need to know about him? Good evening to you,

Conrad. Yeah, good evening to you, John.

He, as you say, he was the governor of the Bank of Canada and then of the Bank of England.

He has a good academic background, and he was a controversial governor of the Bank of England.

And to some extent in Canada, there were some disputes between him and the then government here of Stephen Harper and his finance minister. But in general, it was a good era, and he gets some of the credit for that, or he certainly claims some anyway.

But in England, he intervened in a way that a great many people, ultimately the majority,

thought to be inappropriate in the Brexit vote, the vote to leave the European Union, which he opposed.

And as you know, in advanced countries like the United States, Great Britain and Canada,

the head of the central bank is expected to stay as much as he can out of partisan issues,

out of controversial political issues and confine himself to the money supply interest rates and

things directly in his jurisdiction.

And he did not do that.

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