He is a card-carrying member of the global technocratic elite, and he has led not one but two central banks—Britain’s and Canada’s. And he’s a regular at Davos.

Canada’s next prime minister uses leadership victory speech to warn Canadians that the U.S. president wants to “destroy our way of life.”

The world’s most trusted Canadian has a much bigger role now. Mark Carney, who was bestowed with the accolade by Reader’s Digest magazine in 2011, will replace Justin Trudeau as the country’s next prime minister.