If Mark Carney loves Europe so much, he should quit his day job and go live there.

No doubt the Europeans would love to have him. After all, he’s a political rock star across the Atlantic, thanks to his barely concealed attacks upon the United States and its president, Donald Trump.

He’s back in Europe again this week — his ninth visit as PM — for the G7 meetings, though the U.S.-bashing will be toned down with Trump in attendance. But it plays well to those European leaders, who’ve had to endure Trump’s bull-in-the-china-shop approach to everything from tariffs to the future of NATO.

It also plays well here at home. Canadians are still boycotting their southern neighbours after the rhetoric about making Canada some strange 51st state.

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Such anger is justified, given the long-standing close relationship between our countries. But Carney has milked that sense of betrayal to the max, using it to resurrect the Liberals’ fortunes. The “elbows up” mantra helped the Grits retain power, later........

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