Mark Carney will be sworn in as prime minister this morning at Rideau Hall, where he will also reveal his new cabinet. Carney won the Liberal leadership race last weekend with an overwhelming 86 per cent of the votes from Liberal members.

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