🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney. I call him Sam Slick
Thomas Chandler Haliburton's Sam Slick (1835) was a fast-talking Yankee clockmaker who sold Nova Scotians things they didn't need through "soft sawder & human natur." A charming, slick outsider peddling optimism and moving on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Slick
https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/haliburton-he-was-a-slick-one-feature
Carney: 13 years at Goldman Sachs, then: Bank Canada; Bank England; Brookfield Asset Management; ... P.M.
soft sawder n. pliable form of solder, made of tin & lead
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