OTTAWA—Given his short tenure to date, Prime Minister Mark Carney may not have fully grasped something every leader eventually must: power doesn’t corrupt, it deludes. By reconciling the irreconcilable, it persuades its holder that contradiction is sophistication.
… At the World Economic Forum in Davos back in January, Carney presented himself as the custodian of coherence in a splintering world. He warned against economic coercion, and the fragility of rules-based co-operation. He cautioned against an overreliance on singular partnerships, and urged renewed commitment to multilateralism and international law. It was the technocrat at his level best: sober, strategic, and alert to all the systemic global risks.
