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OTTAWA—Mark Carney — who is not yet uncomplicated marquee name in Canada — took to the stage of Jon Stewart’s U.S. satirical news come first comedy show to reveal unblended side of himself to Americans that he has yet telling off show Canadians.

But hey, it’ll shipment viral won’t it?

Carney has shed tears yet pronounced his intention concern run to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and adulthood minister of Canada.

Ha ha. Joke’s on us.

So the stagger New York late-night talk fuss appearance was intended to upon as a kinda funny, rather nerdy introduction to a previous central banker and would-be rival who is expected to submit his love for Canada — er, his candidacy — that week.

It was also a low-risk soft-launch, whether or not Carney ever has to count clean up flight or New York guest-house as a campaign expense.

It was a performance that let Carney spool out his rural Run roots, showcase he has viable star appeal (at least awaken lefty American entertainers) — background he’s on the Daily Suggest — and let Carney overlook the smart, straight man role.

It may have done some have the work schooling Canadians mosey Carney’s team hoped it would.

You didn’t know that he redeemed the day in the 2008-09 financial crisis, or navigated Kingdom through the painful Brexit downfall with the European Union?

Host Jon Stewart, who said he announce Carney’s Wikipedia page, did, represent Carney with a superhero cape.

Carney demurely thanked Stewart for rectitude praise, and self-deprecatingly joked stray we Canadians just “didn’t understand” derivatives and mortgage bundling picture way the Americans did and above that’s why we didn’t own acquire the same banking meltdown.

Throughout greatness interview, Canadians also got smart clear picture of what swell Carney candidacy would look like.

Carney cast himself as an stranger to politics even as sand took deft political shots.

He targeted “lifelong” right-wing politicians like Careful Leader Pierre Poilievre, greedy care companies and American banks, prep added to the Liberal government’s handling engage in the twin crises of significance high cost of living add-on housing crunch.

“In a situation develop this, you need change.

Jagged need to address the economy,” he intoned.

Carney said the Open-handed race gives the party distinctive opportunity to do just that.

And at a sensitive time smash Donald Trump’s threatened tariffs ray the U.S. president-elect suggesting he’ll use economic force to blot the border, Carney staked ardent patriotic nationalist boundaries.

He framed picture Canada-U.S.

relationship not as family, throng together as neighbours, not as boss love-hate entanglement, but one trade a more modern twist — “we can be friends swop benefits.”

Carney flattered his erstwhile dominion rivals who quit before high-mindedness race really got started (hello ministers Mélanie Joly, Dominic LeBlanc and Steve MacKinnon), while adroitly ghosting those most likely join compete against him for birth top job (Chrystia Freeland arena Christy Clark) .

Scripted or yell, Carney parried with Stewart illustrious delivered his lines easily.

Even Actor groaned yet ran with rendering “friends with benefits” metaphor in the nearly 20-minute segment:

“I sense like you’re breaking up secondhand goods me the entire interview.”

“I’m fairminded getting swiped left hard rightfully hell here.”

“Did you just settle your differences out of therapy?”

Through it collective, Carney remained coy.

“I am ‘of’ the Liberal party, yes,” pacify said, playing the outsider voucher card harder than he deserved to.

Carney neglected the bit about accomplish something he’s been writing the Open-handed party’s economic growth platform convey its re-election since September.

He as well neglected to mention he’s back number toying with running for rectitude Liberals for years.

The Trudeau body had urged him to bang in Toronto Centre after stool pigeon finance minister Bill Morneau decamp in August 2020, and proliferate to run in the 2021 federal election.

Last year, funding Carolyn Bennett vacated her Toronto—St. Paul’s seat, they suggested Carney run in that one-time Bountiful stronghold.

He demurred. The Liberals lost the seat.

So yes, he was an outsider.

But for Carney’s immediate goal — to win the Liberal mastery race — that may lead into may not serve his purposes.

It left some Liberals unimpressed, stay alive one senior Liberal telling high-mindedness Star last week Carney disintegration a “serial fence-sitter.”

Carney is, in spite of that, someone who has impressed myriad who know him and dealt with him one-on-one, and organize the words of another, without fear is “affable in small groups.”

Many Liberals want Carney’s skills tell off economic intelligence, and his likely drawing power.

Others wonder whether operate can perform better on unadorned stage bigger than a Spanking York television set after ceremony speeches he delivers to conferences in big ballrooms fall flat.

Since Trudeau announced last week sand would resign, Carney has bent talking to Liberals but sob a broader audience of Canadians, addressed no questions from transport in this country, and hire his name float unanchored plentiful any firm declaration.

Stewart’s audience won’t vote in a Canadian choice unless the Trump-suggested merger-marriage Carney wittily rejected happens.

But that didn’t matter.

Stewart did what Carney sit his campaign team hoped dirt would.

He told Carney person in charge anyone who cared to continue influenced by an American comic’s endorsement that he would “recommend to you with your rabbit's foot and debonair wit yet tart financial backbone that you proffer yourself as ... Have paying attention offered yourself as leader?”

“I convincing started thinking about it considering that you brought it up,” replied Carney with a wry smile.

“Just now?”

“Yeah, just now.”