Dear Prime Minister Carney:

Your reputation for quiet competence, reasoned judgment and steady decisiveness, already tested in your previous major career achievements, has resonated both here and beyond our shores since your election as our prime minister. No doubt your overwhelming victory as leader of the Liberal party played its part, as did your winning a national election in a result that had seemed quite improbable mere months beforehand.

Your presence as prime minister attracts respect and confidence, and once again Canada is viewed and listened to with deserved seriousness by your peers on the world stage. The voice of Canada as a middle power may not be prominent or especially powerful, yet it resonates far and wide as a voice of stability, fairness and peace.

Your mandate begins in a world beset by the instability and insecurity caused by conflict and war, where destruction and the loss of innocent lives have become the new normal.........

© Montreal Gazette