Carney’s campaign

The prime minister has the right personal qualities and experiences, but more importantly he governs the middle power most vulnerable to subjugation in the short run. Most Canadians realize this country’s peril may be existential.

‘The old order is not coming back,’ Prime Minister Mark Carney told the audience in Davos earlier this year in a speech that earned him a rare standing ovation.Photograph courtesy of the World Economic Forum/Ciaran McCrickard

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

September 21, 2026

LONDON, U.K.—“You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose,” said former New York governor Mario Cuomo 40 years ago. Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney is now in the poetic phase of his campaign to create an alliance—maybe just a loose alliance—of middle powers w...

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