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John Ivison: Europe lets Carney lead on poking the Trump bear

President Donald Trump’s late-night musing about Venezuela potentially becoming the 51st state was likely well received in the Prime Minister’s Office.

It suggests that Mark Carney’s speech in Davos — widely viewed as standing up to the bully president — has persuaded Trump to move on and find an easier target than Canada or Greenland.

That may be temporary, of course, given the president’s mercurial nature.

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