Tell me if I’ve got this wrong. The Liberal Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, has announced he is stepping aside after ten years of vibes-based mismanagement, and has put Parliament in mothballs because it had reached a complete impasse: no one is, at the moment, able to formally legislate for the Dominion.

Trudeau’s party has had to put its leadership race on fast-forward, erecting high financial barriers to participation to prevent a coup by arrivistes and opportunists. As a result, the front-runners in the contest to choose a nine days’ prime minister are… two closely connected northern Albertans with rhyming résumés and enormous globalist credentials, Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney.