Following his dramatic ascension as Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney will surely be tempted to call an election on a platform of taking the fight to Donald Trump. But if he wins, that’s where his problems will start, says Michael Martins

For such a staid and sober place, Canadian politics has taken a radical turn. Canada’s new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is neither an MP nor a long-term resident, parachuted in over the weekend to succeed the embattled Justin Trudeau. This has been met with cries of shock and horror from the leader of the opposition Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre, who until recently had been predicted to make a clean sweep at this year’s election.

The reason is pretty simple: President Trump’s trade war with Canada has sent the ailing Trudeau and his Liberal party’s polling numbers skyrocketing. Canadian........

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