The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition that Mark Carney made his bid to become Canada's next prime minister official Thursday, launching his candidacy for Liberal leader with the pitch that he will differentiate himself from Justin Trudeau by focusing on the economy. A four-bylined item led by Marieke Walsh says the 59-year-old former central banker has spent the past two decades in the top echelons of the political and business world. On Thursday, he introduced himself to a crowd of supporters in Edmonton as "Mark," who was born in Fort Smith, NWT, but raised in the Alberta capital. He made the jump into politics more than a decade after the Liberals first tried to recruit him and in the wake of several failed attempts by the Prime Minister to have Mr. Carney join the Trudeau government, rather than replace it. He said Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is not the answer for the country's economic woes: "It's not the time for lifelong politicians such as Pierre Poilievre -- politicians with bad ideas, naive and dangerous ideas." He also said he opposed "far left" ideas to "redistribute what we don't have." He has resigned his roles as chairman of Brookfield Asset Management and other board positions.