Canada

Though involvement has diminished in recent decades, Canada has traditionally portrayed itself and operated as a peacekeeping nation since the Second World War.

Whether due to the Canadian Forces’ efforts in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, or even going back to Lester B. Pearson’s instrumental and Nobel Peace Prize-winning role in de-escalating the 1956 Suez Crisis, the peacekeeper role became a core component of Canadians’ self-image.

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It was a cold day in March, when newly minted Liberal leader Mark Carney suggested he jumped into politics because the moment — Trump’s re-election and his threats to Canada’s economy — called for his skills. “I put my hand up because of the crisis,” he said, in Windsor.

It was an interesting revision of facts. The former governor of the Bank of Canada planned to run prior to Trump’s re-election and key planks of his approach to deal with the current tariff crisis — for example, spending less in order to invest more — were general prescriptions outlined in his 2021 book “Value(s).”

The Conservatives, at the time, warned that Carney seemed unafraid to exaggerate, or worse, to mislead Canadians when it served his purposes.

He’s as bad in some respects as Junior.