A little peek into the Carney

They were the kind of words a parent might say to convince a child scrunching his nose at his birthday present that it’s really what he wanted: “I thought you’d actually like that.” In this case, the Prime Minister of Canada was speaking to the President of the United States. Mark Carney was trying to convince Donald Trump that a deal allowing up to 49,000 Chinese electric vehicles into Canada each year is not an agreement to open the doors wide to Beijing, because it contains a “hard cap” on the number. Mr. Carney said he thought the U.S. President…