Hiring a new manager to fix a broken business model and mollify your biggest, angriest customer carries a grace period – that time when the new hire can make promises, assemble a team, send the right signals to stakeholders and take decisions that might otherwise spark animated resistance.
Mr. Carney has made the most of his grace period. Recent polls suggest 52.7 per cent of Canadians prefer him as prime minister versus 22.9 per cent for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre – a margin of 29 percentage points.
