Opinion: The office, an election and the world are rushing at Mark Carney like no rookie PM before [Video]

Last Saturday, the Liberal Party had an election-campaign plane with no name on the side: A new leader hadn’t been chosen. Today, Mark Carney is Prime Minister. Next weekend, he will probably be running for office for the first time.

There have been unelected prime ministers without a seat in the House of Commons before, but he’s the first who has never been elected. Few new prime ministers launched election campaigns as quickly as he intends. And it will come in the heat of a trade war with a U.S. President who threatens tariffs, or pauses them, between social-media posts about annexing Canada.

The unpredictable future is rushing fast at Canada. And at Mr. Carney.

The smaller, 24-member cabinet Mr. Carney named as he was sworn inat Rideau Hall on Friday was supposed to symbolize more focus, and all action. By the end of the day, he would kill the unpopular consumer carbon …