New Delhi, May 21 -- Some months ago, Canada's ruling Liberal Party was 25 percentage points behind the Conservatives, the country's right-wing opposition, in pre-election opinion polls. Then, Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England as well as Canada's central bank, took over the party leadership and responded to US President Donald Trump's verbal barrage, which included musings about taking over Canada, with an aggression of his own. He caricatured the Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre as someone who would "kneel before" Trump.

Canada's ruling Liberal Party not only turned its negative ratings around, but ended up winning 25 more constituencies than the Conservatives did.

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