Shortly after 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Mark Carney walked onto a stage at the old Ottawa civic centre — the same hockey arena where John Turner was elected Liberal leader in 1984, the last time the Liberals tried to replace a member of the Trudeau family — and promised to be guided by the “strong Canadian values” of humility, ambition and unity.
“It is a time to be bold, to meet this crisis with the overwhelming positive force of a united Canada,” he said.
With that, Carney capped what could be the most remarkable four-month period in the history of Canadian politics — an incredible sequence of events that began, shockingly, on the morning of Dec. 16.
When the country awoke that day, Justin Trudeau was still prime minister, Joe Biden was still the U.S. president, Donald Trump’s comments about Canada becoming the 51st state were still just a joke, and Pierre …