Mark Carney isn’t interested in being prime minister of Canada. Sure, he may like the title, the presumed prestige that comes with it, as well as meetings with Donald Trump, but when it comes down to the authority the federal government possesses, he’d rather defer to the provinces. He doesn’t want to be the leader of the sovereign nation of Canada, he wants to be a project manager for B.C., Quebec and Ontario.

At a news conference Friday to discuss his One Canadian Economy legislation, Carney claimed it would streamline the approval of projects deemed in the “national interest,” and said it was a “bill that meets this hinge moment” with “urgency” and “determination.” The prime minister spoke of how “it’s become much too difficult to build in this country” and that the “federal governme

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