Dhaka, March 12 -- Mark Carney should be able to provide strong leadership to Canada. With his accomplishments, essentially in economics (he has served well as governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England and indeed in every other position he has been in), he ought to be able to restore his country to a perch that Justin Trudeau was unable to hold on to in his final days in office.

But, of course, the degree to which Carney, now the leader of Canada's Liberal Party and by default its prime minister, will be able to exert his leadership depends on whether he can lead his party to victory at the forthcoming general election in a few weeks or months. The Liberals, despite slowly closing the gap in the opinion polls with the Conser...