After next week’s election, candidates will lead Canada to a completely different path toward a national political height.

Liberal leader Mark Carney never held an elected position.

The former central bank took over as prime minister a few weeks ago, landing politically and winning a game to replace Justin Trudeau as the liberal leader.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was first elected to parliament in 2004 at the age of 25. Over the past two decades, he has advanced to the political class in Ottawa, improved his debate skills and provided partisan blows.

But whoever is in charge of the next administration will be responsible for building a broken relationship with Canada’s largest trading partner, and once the closest ally to the United States, while dealing with President Donald Trump, who discussed making the U.S. northern neighbors a state of the United States.

Crisis experience

Carney was born in Fort Smith, a community near the Arctic in Northwest Canada.

He grew up in the western city of Edmonton and played competitive hockey as a young man.

He studied at Harvard University in the United States and Oxford University in England, and the initial part of his career led him to make a fortune at Goldman Sachs investment bankers, working in New York, London, Tokyo and Toronto.

Carney then joined the Canadian civil servant and was eventually appointed governor of the Bank of Canada in 2008.

In 2013, then-Prince of Britain David Cameron appointed him to lead the Bank of England, making him the first non-British man to hold the position.

After completing his tenure in London, he joined Brookfield, a major Canadian company, and served as a UN consultant, facilitating financial initiatives.

There have been long rumors that Carney is focusing on Canadian politics. Carney pounced when Trudeau announced his plans to resign on January 6.

The 60-year-old believes his experience with Bank of Canada during the 2008-2009 financial crisis and the Bank of England through the turbulence surrounding the 2016 Brexit vote, has enabled him to handle Canada’s turbulence in U.S. relations.

Carney described Trump’s threat as “the worst crisis of our lives” and said the U.S. president “want to break us so he can have us.”

But father of four and accomplished marathon runners have also tried to calm down and told voters that he could reposition Canada on the global stage and reduce dependence on the United States, saying “we can’t trust anymore.”

Lori Turnbull, a professor at Dalhousie University, noted that Carney “has no dynamic communication style” but met “a reassuring person who knows what he is talking about.”

“I don’t like Trump”

Poilievre has established himself as Trudeau’s ruthless and effective critic, who was deeply unpopular at the end of his decade of administration.

The Conservative leader also compared with Trump in part because of his attacks on the media and his previous commitment to becoming Canada’s “anti-awakening prime minister.”

But Poilievre was forced to target polls, showing Canadians want a leader who can face Trump.

“I have no Trump at all,” Poilievre stuck with Quebec’s talk show this month, emphasizing his “moderate starting point.”

During Thursday’s election debate, Poilievre used his closing remarks to remind voters that he was born as a single mother before being adopted by his teacher.

He said his parents “raised him to believe anyone who works hard can do anything. The promise today will break down.”

Poilievre believes he can resist Trump too, while insisting that the liberal economy under Trudeau’s leadership is poorly managed, leaving Canada vulnerable to American hostility.

He also aims to soften his tone, but for University of Alberta professor Frederic Boily, it may be too late to change in style.

“To be prime minister, he must project hope and a positive vision, and it will be difficult for him to achieve this transition,” he told him. AFP.

Born in the western city of Calgary, Poilievre, the region’s oil industry, including new pipeline construction, offers promotion policies.

He has also established support nationwide as a criticism of pandemic lockdown policies, some of which believe to be overly over.

His Ottawa area was re-elected eight times and served in the cabinet of former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

His wife, Anaida Poilievre, immigrated from Venezuela to Canada. They have two children.