Hello, everybody. As some of you may know and some of you don't, Canada suddenly has a new

Prime Minister. His name is Mark J. Carney, and he's the replacement for Justin Trudeau running the

Liberal Party in Canada. That means that we Canadians need to know who Mark Carney is and to the degree

that Canada has a role to play internationally that everybody needs to know. So if you want to know

who Canada's new prime minister is and you want to know who Mark J. Carney is and whether or not

you should support him or vote for him if you're Canadian or what you should

think of him if you're part of the international audience, then this is the podcast for you.

Carney is a mystery to Canadians in large part, not least because he's been a political figure for a very short

period of time. And the election that's being called as a snap election, so Canadians aren't

going to have, and the rest of the world aren't going to have a lot of time to get to know him

before the determination of his status as Prime Minister is going to be finalized.

Now, I want to make a case for Carney first as powerfully as I can

so that we give the devil it's due, so to speak,

and I think the right way to do that is with a review of his resume.

It's quite clear to me that Canadians are entranced with Carney, whose Liberal Party has risen dramatically in the polls in the last month.

They're entranced with him for two reasons.

And one is because Trump has been careening around like a bull in the China shop with regards to his comments about Canada, placing tariffs on Canada, describing us as not worthy

of having our own country and fated, if we're lucky to become the 51st state. This has produced

a groundswell of pro-Canadian sentiment. In consequence, even among the liberals who haven't

been noted for their patriotism over the last 10 years,

this is a common occurrence in Canada historically. It's very frequently the case that in Canada

we learn to pull together because of a threat, real or suppose, emanating from the American

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