Mark Carney is committing enormous sums of public money with little explanation, in ways that neither Justin Trudeau nor most other prime ministers before him could have gotten away with.
It can be easy to look past, because of the financial gravitas that Carney carries.
Easy, too, because his spending spree this summer has mostly involved priorities — fossil-fuel infrastructure, defence — that don’t tend to invite noisy criticism from fiscally conservative chattering classes in the same way as social investments. And it’s broadly been in line with a national appetite for spending to bolster economic sovereignty and national unity, and to decrease reliance on the United States.
Carney is a very talented grifter.
