Mark Carney started last week with a good move on Canada-U.S. relations. He ended the week undoing it all. Just like he did last summer, Carney is poisoning Ottawa’s relations with Washington over his foolish and unthinking statements on the Middle East.

If you haven’t heard, Carney told a British journalist that he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested at the behest of the International Criminal Court if the Israeli leader landed in Canada. It was in response to a question from Mishal Husain of Bloomberg during a podcast interview last week.

“Justin Trudeau said that Canada would honour the International Criminal Court arrest warrants i.e. Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested if he came to Canada,” Husain said.

“Does that stand under your leadership?”

“Yes,” C

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