If there is such a thing as the luck of the Irish, then Mark Carney, until recently an Irish passport holder, seems to have it in spades.
Canada’s ruling Liberal Party, which the former governor of the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada now leads, was riding to almost certain defeat in next week’s Canadian general election, sitting some 20 points down in the polls.
Then along came Donald Trump with his imbecilic threat to annex Canada alongside Greenland and Panama, and the Liberals’ fortunes turned on a sixpence.
