Mark Carney steps into an unprecedented moment [Video]

Into this unprecedented moment, enter Mark Carney. 

In the more gossipy corners of Ottawa, this has been a long time coming. At least as far back as the summer of 2012, an eager group of Liberals tried and failed to woo him. That same year, according to Carney, Stephen Harper asked him if he wanted to be finance minister. Justin Trudeau seemingly made multiple attempts to bring Carney in.

“Certain people want things to happen … the political world, it seems to me, is a world for optimists,” Carney told the Globe and Mail in 2012. “I’m in a world that’s a world for realists.”

Carney now has two feet planted firmly in the political world, but he and everyone else is faced with a reality that would have been scarcely imaginable in 2012 — an American president who poses a real and multi-faceted threat to Canada.

“I’m not the usual suspect when it comes to politics but this is no time for politics as …