A looming G7 summit and NATO meeting, dealing with soured relations with both China and India, expanding British trade ties, foreign aid and instability in the Middle East are all on the PM's agenda.

Mark Carney's ascent as Canada's new prime minister offers a chance for a reset in the US-Canada relationship.

W hatever his flaws as a politician turn out to be, Mark Carney does at least possess self-awareness. “You’re supposed to campaign in poetry and govern in prose,” he said in his final campaign speech on April 27th, on the eve of the election. “As the assembled media will tell you, I campaigned in prose. So I’m going to govern in econometrics.”