The new prime minister was entitled to a six-month honeymoon to prove that he would be different. Well, Mark Carney has now had six months on the job. What does he have to show for it?

No doubt many Canadians still view him as a man of substance, a welcome reprieve from the man of shallow spectacle who preceded him. But that is a very low bar. As every schoolteacher and employer knows, evaluating performance is important. You can’t improve what you don’t track. The Buffalo Project has launched an advertising campaign and a website, reportoncarney.ca , to answer the bottom-line question: are Canadians’ social and economic circumstances seeing actual improvement?

Let’s start with the big numbers. Unemployment sits at 7.1 per cent with 66,000 jobs lost in August and 41,000 jobs lost i

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