Watch Mark Carney’s speech to Canada for the tone as much as the content. For fifteen minutes, Carney walks Canadians through what his government is doing and what it will cost them.
He announces $7.5 billion in new help for the workers and industries taking the worst of it — autos, forestry, steel, aluminum — on top of the roughly $25 billion already spent.
He says outright that the pivot away from the American economy will hurt, and he doesn’t pretend otherwise.
Americans haven’t heard an address like this from their own president in a very long time.
