Australia is not the only Western nation heading to the polls this week with US President Donald Trump looming large.

When Canadians choose their next government on Monday (Tuesday AEST), they will do so largely based on who they think is the best person to deal with the upheaval, threats and animosity being thrown at them from Washington.

The Trump effect, which dramatically altered the frame of the campaign before it even began, is poised to deliver Mark Carney’s Liberal Party a victory that was almost unthinkable a few months ago, when Justin Trudeau was leading the party to certain defeat.

Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party, during a campaign rally in Mississauga, Ontario on the weekend.Credit: Bloomberg

But Carney, the Harvard- and Oxford-educated central bank governor who has never before been a politician, now seems like a man factory-made for this moment: a level-headed, financially literate banker who can talk Trump’s language and stand up to him where necessary.

“Is Pierre Poilievre the person you want sitting across the table from Donald Trump negotiating for us?” Carney said at a rally at the weekend, referring to his conservative rival. “I’ve managed budgets before, I’ve managed economies before. I have managed crises before. This is a........

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