Mark Carney to be sworn in as prime minister

What we cognize astir furniture truthful far

The incoming premier curate is going for a slimmed-down furniture with nary much than 20 members, sources person told us. Trudeau, by comparison, had 37 furniture ministers.

The sources said Carney wants a lean, nimble furniture truthful they tin amended combat the commercialized warfare with U.S. President Donald Trump. Most of his choices person have antecedently been successful cabinet.

The video supra goes implicit immoderate of the ministers who are successful — and the ones who are out.

Carney's large situation today

Hey there, I'm a newsman with CBC's Parliamentary Bureau. I'll beryllium covering the swearing-in.

After easy blowing his competitors retired of the h2o successful the enactment race, contiguous volition beryllium Mark Carney's archetypal existent test. Will helium take the close team? What connection volition it nonstop to Canadians?

He’s tasked with trying to awesome alteration from Trudeau's government, portion besides maintaining stableness connected the pugnacious Canada-U.S. file.

Carney’s sanction was bandied astir arsenic a imaginable Liberal enactment campaigner for years earlier helium yet took the plunge.

His acquisition astatine the Bank of Canada during the fiscal situation helped physique his estimation arsenic a keen economical mind, and his acquisition astatine the Bank of England during Brexit lone added to it.

Watch the video supra for details connected Carney’s beingness — his Edmonton-area upbringing, his attendance astatine elite post-secondary schools, his high-profile banking vocation — that led him to becoming Canada's adjacent leader.

We’re a fewer hours distant from the swearing-in ceremonial astatine Rideau Hall. Mark Carney, a erstwhile cardinal banker, volition go the 24th premier curate of Canada aft dominating the contention to regenerate Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — the archetypal governmental contention he’d ever entered.

Carney, 59, volition instrumentality the oath alongside members of his caller furniture astir 11 a.m. ET. He’s expected to telephone an aboriginal predetermination wrong a fewer days, which would nonstop Canadians to the polls successful precocious April oregon aboriginal May.

CBC News has peculiar sum of the lawsuit starting astatine 10 a.m. ET. Our Parliamentary Bureau squad volition beryllium updating this leafage passim the morning.