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Conrad Black: Mark Carney notches some wins

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Regular readers know that this column has not been an inexhaustible source of flattering reflections on the Carney government. This makes it a particular pleasure to support a number of the prime minister’s initiatives last week. The tenor of his speech to the Economic Club of New York was a complete change from the antagonism of his confected Churchillian defiance in his election performance last year based on selling our gullible countrymen the canard that President Trump was on a personal vendetta “to break us.”

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Almost anything is fair in politics and the tactic was successful, though it was nonsense. Prime Minister Mark Carney made a reasonable effort to turn the corner in his early visits to the White House, commending his host on being a transformational U.S. president. In fact, as I’ve written here before, and as he explained to me, like most foreigners, Trump does not see much distinction between (English-speaking) Canadians and Americans from northern American states. To him, it seemed logical to suggest a federal union when Justin Trudeau told him that the Canadian economy would “collapse” under higher tariffs, and he reflected on Canada‘s anemic defence effort since the Mulroney era. The assimilation of our conduct to that of Mexico and the suggestion that Canada, a G7 nation of 41 million people, should be a 51st state like Delaware or South Dakota was, as I had the opportunity to tell him, outrageous. (He didn’t disagree.)

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