For the past year and a half Canadians’ attitude toward Mark Carney might best be described as one of deference.
Where he leads, they more or less said, we will go. We aren’t sure how to handle Donald Trump but we have confidence that Carney will make the right calls. Poll after poll confirmed it: in Mark we trust.
But as Canada faces its latest showdown with Trump, with the prospect of 50-percent tariffs being imposed next week, I sense something important has changed. The public mood is shifting — and it’s shifting in ways that will make it even more difficult to get a deal.
