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◆ THE IDEOLOGY ATLAS
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Mark Carney

Historical and international

Photo: Bryan Berlin, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Position estimated from: Canadian premiership 2025-present: technocratic centrist, defense spending increases, response to U.S. tariffs.

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Political compass placement

Map dimensionScore (0–100)PositionReading
Economic
Collective / planned ↔ Market
55near the center
Social
Progressive ↔ Traditional
23toward progressive
Authority
Libertarian ↔ Authoritarian
30toward libertarian
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
35near the center
Foreign policy
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
66toward intervention
All nine underlying dimensions
DimensionScoreReading
Economic ownership
Collective ownership ↔ Private ownership
62near the center
Civil liberties
Civil liberty ↔ State restrictions
46near the center
National identity
Cosmopolitan ↔ Nationalist
35near the center
Social and cultural values
Progressive ↔ Traditionalist
25toward progressive
Political governance
Democratic ↔ Autocratic
15toward democratic
Equality and hierarchy
Egalitarian ↔ Hierarchical
47near the center
Economic management
Free market ↔ State planning
57near the center
Military intervention
Non-intervention ↔ Intervention
66toward intervention
Religion and government
Secular state ↔ Religious authority
19toward secular state

These positions are estimates on the Atlas’s nine-dimension scale, produced by running the available evidence through the same questions and scoring used for test-takers. They are interpretations for comparison, not objective measurements. How scores are made.

Key positions

StatementPositionBasis
Opposition parties should be free to compete in elections.Strongly agreesestimated
Religious doctrine should take precedence over civil law when they conflict.Strongly disagreesestimated
Military aid to countries resisting invasion is worth the cost.Strongly agreesfrom their record
Healthcare should be provided to everyone by the government and paid for through taxes.Strongly agreesfrom their record
Preserving a historic national majority is a legitimate immigration objective.Strongly disagreesestimated
People should be free to criticize the government without fear of legal punishment.Strongly agreesestimated
Central economic planning is preferable to decentralized market decisions.Strongly disagreesestimated
Same-sex couples should have the same right to marry as opposite-sex couples.Strongly agreesestimated
Society works best when established social hierarchies are respected.Strongly disagreesestimated
Differences in social status help maintain an orderly society.Strongly disagreesestimated

Closest ideologies

Third Way93% similar positionModern Liberalism92% similar positionDemocratic Technocracy92% similar positionRadical Centrism90% similar positionModerate Liberalism90% similar position

Similar and contrasting figures

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Sources

Profile last reviewed October 11, 2026.