Mark Carney, Canada’s cosmopolitan man of steel, has given liberals a new playbook

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Canadian prime minister Mark Carney achieved a stunning political upset, running on an anti-Trump platform and promising to revive the economy. Now, he needs to deliver. Photograph: Cole Burston/The New York Times We all knew Donald Trump can win elections, we just didn’t know he’d be winning them outside the USA. Last Monday, Trump won the Canadian election for Mark Carney. There is no other way of interpreting the resurrection of the Liberal Party and the reincarnation of the uber-technocrat, Jesuit-educated Carney. In January, Carney was an out-of-work, itinerant central banker for hire, intellectually and temperamentally very much out of...