Mark Carney’s agenda, designed to offset the damage of a fraying US-Canada trade relationship, presents an opportunity for UK businesses, writes Michael Martins

When my mother told me on Monday night – just before Canadian polls closed – that she’d voted Conservative for the first time in decades because she was “tired of the Liberals” and the “country wanted change”, I assumed Mark Carney was finished.

Her riding, just north of Toronto, has mirrored the national result in nearly every federal election for the past half century. I went to bed on Canadian election night thinking the media had missed the mood, the polling was off and that a Conservative government would soon be installed in Ottawa for the first time in over a decade. It would have been a dramatic end to what was already a volatile and unusually ideological campaign.

I’m pleased to report she was wrong – though my satisfaction is more about my mother being wrong than about who is Canada’s new Prime Minister. Despite Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s........

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