There’s no advantage for the Liberals to wait. Carney is currently enjoying an anti-Trump bounce. And as Carney’s record of fibs and flubs during the leadership campaign has shown, the longer he waits, the more likely he will implode

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Mark Carney will be selected as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada on Sunday. Oh, I know, there are three other candidates in the race, including former Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland. But Carney should win resoundingly.

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Ever since the former Bank of Canada governor declared his candidacy back in January, the Liberal hierarchy and much of the central Canadian media establishment have treated the race more like a coronation.

Almost no other candidate has been mentioned in the news during that time, except to point out they aren’t Mark Carney (swoon).

That means sometime in the coming week, when Justin Trudeau finally relinquishes power, Carney will become Canada’s unelected prime minister. Unelected not just as prime minister, but unelected, ever, to any public office. He will become........

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