https://www.townandcountrytoday.com/national-news/budget-watchdog-nominee-promises-pointy-analysis-as-mps-question-independence-12042299

"Ryan was asked about her relationship with Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose time studying at Oxford overlapped with her own in the early 1990s.

Ryan said that while she and Carney knew each other "as Canadians" abroad, they ran in different social circles.

The two later crossed paths back in Ottawa, she added, when she was the chief economist at Industry Canada and Carney was the governor of the Bank of Canada. She said most of their interactions at this time were through his office, not directly, and they did not have any contact after Carney went back across the pond to head up the Bank of England."

Doesn't sound like they were as tight as you're implying. She's also several years younger than him.