On Mark Carney’s final day of a gruelling race to be elected PM of vast and sparsely populated Canada I was with him.
It was his last push, not just to win, but also to get the majority he said he needed to stand up to the chaotic territorial and trade ambitions of his “neighbour to the south”.
For someone who had got to see Carney as a cerebral technocrat, a crisis-managing central bank governor a decade ago, the transformation into public orator was quite something.
I recall endless interviews trying to get the then governor to say something newsworthy, or something that would make a good headline.
