The Liberal Party of Canada overwhelmingly voted for Mark Carney to serve as its new leader to replace outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Here are five things to know about Trudeau’s successor.

Earlier this week, the Liberal Party of Canada revealed their new leader (and, by extension, the new prime minister-designate of Canada) in one Mark Carney, whose landslide victory with 85.9% of the first ballot votes is made especially significant by the fact that he will be first prime minister in history never to have held elected office

Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada’s next prime minister after a Liberal Party leadership vote in a landslide. Carney is 59. He was born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, on March 16,