After months of speculation about his future, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney launched his campaign to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader on Thursday with a promise to build the fastest-growing economy in the G7 if he's elected.

The former central banker for the UK and Canada pitched himself as a someone who can help a country navigate economic challenges.

Mark J. Carney ’87 — a member of Harvard’s Board of Overseers, the University’s second-highest governing body — launched his campaign to become Canada’s next prime minister at a rally in Edmonton, Alberta Thursday afternoon.

The experienced hand who can fix the economy. The tough negotiator who can take on a Donald Trump White House. The millennial long-hauler who can rebuild the party.

Chrystia Freeland has called for economic retaliation if President-elect Trump follows through with his threat to impose tariffs.

OTTAWA—Mark Carney, the former Canadian and U.K. central banker, formally declared his interest in succeeding Justin Trudeau as leader of Canada’s Liberal Party and the country’s prime minister, promising an economic agenda focused on lifting it from a period of stagnant growth.

Fresh out of the gate from launching her Liberal leadership bid, Karina Gould suggested her two main opponents' backgrounds would do little to gain the favour of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump."I'm not sure that journalists and central bankers are the kind of people that Donald Trump listens to,

The departures from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance began with Goldman Sachs' announcement on Dec. 6 and come ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House next week. Trump has been critical of efforts by governments to prescribe climate-change policies.

Chrystia Freeland launched her Liberal leadership bid with an 80-second video, saying "Donald Trump doesn't like me" and that Canada must meet Trump's threats "dollar-for-dollar."

Liberal race loses more big names — Stephanie Taylor and Antoine Trépanier, Jan. 14; and ‘I am an outsider’: Carney rips Poilievre, makes Liberal leadership case on The Daily Show — Stuart Thomson, Jan.

Carney didn’t even choose to make this soft-pitch for leadership in Canada. No. Carney chose to have the tough questions put to him by American comedian Jon Stewart, who was woefully unprepared to negate most of Carney’s claims, including his “outsider” status. So I will.