For all the noise that has accompanied Mark Carney’s first seven months as prime minister, one fact is now impossible to deny: the prime minister is rebuilding the federal Liberal Party into a modern, centrist, pro-growth political coalition — one that Canada has not seen in a generation.

Donald Trump’s protectionism and the changing global trading order have no doubt accelerated Carney’s reforms. Still, one gets the sense that Carney is determined to reorient Canada’s Natural Governing Party come hell or high water.

The transformation has been swift, substantive and unapologetically focused on economic renewal amid a precarious time for the country. And it’s beginning to resonate with Canadians who have grown tired of ideological rigidity on both ends of the political spectrum.

Carney’s recalibration of the Liberal Party from a left-leaning vehicle committed to expanding the welfare state under Justin Trudeau to one at the “radical centre” of Canadian politics is not an incremental shift.

It’s a wholesale reorientation of federal priorities toward growth, competitiveness and national ambition. From scrapping the divisive consumer carbon tax to reversing the capital gains inclusion-rate changes; from implementing........

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