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John Ivison: Carney may lead the Trump ‘resistance,’ but Canadian casualties are mounting

Real life does not follow the binary framework of the movies, where a Bond-like hero vanquishes a grandiose, arrogant, greedy villain

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There was a cinematic quality to the Wall Street Journal’s profile of Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, entitled “The Canadian Who Steered Europe Away from the U.S.”

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It’s almost as if the authors had an eye on the movie version. President Donald Trump watching the TV on Air Force One, seeing Carney deliver his speech in Davos, earning rapturous applause for calling on western nations to stand up to great powers, “or be on the menu.”

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The account of western leaders gathering for a clandestine meeting in a Belgian castle to discuss reducing their dependency on America, after dropping their cellphones into a signals-blocking case, had Hollywood blockbuster biopic written all over it.

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