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马克·卡尼曾为哈佛大学深红曲棍球队镇守最后防线。
作为替补门将——而且往往是替补的替补——卡尼每个赛季的大部分时间都坐在板凳席上。但队友马克·本宁回忆起80年代中期的一场关键季后赛，当时卡尼替补登场替换受伤的队友，挡住了对方球队的所有射门。
“我从未见过他在压力下崩溃过，”如今是风投高管、仍与卡尼保持友谊的本宁说道。
大约40年后，现已出任加拿大总理的卡尼重回赛场，这次面对的是世界上最强大的对手：背靠30万亿美元美国经济的唐纳德·特朗普总统。
周六，卡尼否决了与美国的贸易协议，此前特朗普政府在最后时刻提出多项要求，其中包括限制加拿大与其他国家签署协议的自由。在越过红线后，卡尼誓言对进入加拿大的美国商品征收等额关税，部分税率高达50%。
这是一项大胆举措，呼应了卡尼1月在达沃斯论坛上的演讲，当时他呼吁世界“中等强国”联合起来对抗特朗普及其关税政策。“如果我们不坐在谈判桌上，就会成为盘中餐，”他在谈及像加拿大这样被基于规则的全球秩序“破裂”所抛弃的国家时说道。
加拿大人压倒性地支持他退出谈判的决定。再次在国民眼中，卡尼应对住了这一时刻。
卡尼的职业生涯就是在灾难中锻造而成。他曾先后担任加拿大和英国的央行行长，带领经济体度过2008年金融危机及其余波。
尽管如此，他从政策专家转变为总理的过程，很大程度上要归功于这位第47任总统。特朗普的关税政策和不断嘲讽加拿大主权的言论制造了一场政治危机，选民们相信卡尼能够妥善应对。
但成就卡尼政治实力的这场斗争，也可能成为他的败因。与加拿大最亲密、最强大的贸易伙伴长期对峙，会让卡尼陷入两难境地。如果他坚持立场，就可能对加拿大经济造成严重损害；如果做出让步，又会失去愤怒民众的支持。
如今在危机时刻广受赞誉的卡尼，最终可能落得两头不讨好的下场。
“冷静”却“严苛”
在卡尼退出贸易谈判前的几天里，特朗普的商务部长霍华德·卢尼克一直在发短信和打电话。这条直接沟通渠道并非新鲜事，卢尼克的部门也对相关议题拥有管辖权。但据两位知情人士透露，他在最后时刻介入美加贸易团队谈判，造成了干扰。
一位知情人士表示，私下里卢尼克对卡尼比公开形象更友善，也不那么夸张。尽管如此，卢尼克强烈反对正在磋商的协议中大幅降低美国对加拿大钢铁、铝和汽车进口关税的条款。
卡尼在周六的演讲中称，这是多项让步之一，这些让步“不符合经济规律、不公平，损害了加拿大的净收益，并让人质疑任何协议的可靠性”。
自那以后，特朗普官员连日来斥责卡尼。卢尼克周四驳斥了加拿大方面关于谈判破裂的说法，声称卡尼“制造”争端以提升其国内政治地位。白宫贸易顾问彼得·纳瓦罗周三称，卡尼去年以特朗普为核心议题赢得选举是“加拿大有史以来最糟糕的事情”，并在CSPAN节目中补充道，“每当卡尼抨击特朗普，加拿大民众都会用政治支持作为回报”。
周四，特朗普签署行政命令，将美国联邦机构使用的安大略湖改名为“美国湖”，并在未明确提及卡尼的情况下表示，“加拿大官员对待我们非常糟糕，他们是卑劣的民族”。他补充称，加拿大是“贸易上最难打交道的国家”，声称“他们觉得自己理应享有特权”。纳瓦罗周三警告称，与美国“玩政治把戏”“不会给加拿大带来好下场”。
但卡尼曾应对过更严重的紧急情况。从哈佛大学毕业后，他在牛津大学获得经济学博士学位，随后在高盛工作了十多年，在全球金融危机爆发前夕进入政府部门。
“马克总能预见问题的走向，理解二阶和三阶后果，”曾在乔治·W·布什政府时期担任美国财政部官员、经常与卡尼共事的蒂姆·亚当斯说道，“他做事准备充分、纪律严明，在压力下也能从容应对。”
2008年金融危机爆发时，卡尼正担任加拿大央行行长。时任加拿大执政党保守党成员、后出任工业部长的詹姆斯·摩尔回忆起当年秋天卡尼出席的一次紧急内阁会议。当时局势一片混乱：加拿大刚举行完联邦选举，全球经济开始崩溃。摩尔将卡尼当天的简报形容为“大师级授课”——“直白、冷静、令人安心，且内容扎实”。
如今卡尼领导加拿大自由党，但摩尔表示，他和其他前保守党政府成员“对他评价极高，认为他在当前艰难时期担任加拿大总理表现出色”。
几年后，英格兰银行挖走了卡尼，任命他为该机构330年历史上首位外籍行长。他帮助英国度过脱欧动荡，在2016年公投后迅速出面安抚市场和民众，称已有应对计划。他曾公开警告脱欧的经济风险，遭到脱欧派人士批评，称其过度介入政治。
加拿大杂志《麦克林》10月援引一位不愿透露姓名的政府工作人员的话报道称，卡尼对部分同事脾气急躁。据该刊报道，卡尼政府内部的紧张气氛比其自由党前任贾斯汀·特鲁多时期更甚，特鲁多当时管理团队的方式就像“一位鼓励学生的老师”。
特鲁多是加拿大前总理之子，熟悉政治中的明枪暗箭。但据该杂志报道，卡尼更习惯作为顶级金融人士所获得的尊重，习惯在复杂危机中充当稳压器。
“我认为他要求很高，对自己的标准也很明确，”曾担任特鲁多高级顾问、与卡尼一同在自由派智库“加拿大2020” advisory board任职的苏普里亚·德维维迪说道，“因为他自己工作非常努力，所以也会对身边的人抱有同样的期望——这本身没错，但在政界而非金融界，长时间工作有时需要更温和的方式。”
加拿大报纸《环球邮报》早在卡尼从政前的报道中就曾指出他有傲慢倾向。去年卡尼就任总理几天后的一场新闻发布会上，他暴躁的一面就公之于众。
加拿大广播公司记者罗斯玛丽·巴顿对卡尼说，“很难相信”他多年在私营部门工作的经历不会与他的财务状况产生利益冲突。卡尼显得有些不耐烦。
“扪心自问吧，罗斯玛丽，”他说道，还补充道，“我在国家危机时刻辞去了私营部门的职务。我遵守了所有规定。”
卡尼一直有显得脱离群众的风险。他的央行职业生涯前后都在私人投资领域度过：先是在高盛，后来在布鲁克菲尔德——一家加拿大资产管理公司，直到2025年初他参选自由党领袖前，他一直在该公司工作。
尽管他出身于教师家庭，出生在西北地区的一个小镇，在阿尔伯塔省埃德蒙顿长大，如今与妻子结婚30多年，育有四个女儿，但这位“金融人士”要成为“普通人”始终并非易事。
民调机构尼科尔斯研究公司的首席数据科学家尼基·纳瓦曾追踪2025年大选活动。他告诉CNN，当公众关注焦点集中在生活成本时，皮埃尔·波利耶夫领导的保守党支持率会上升。但一旦特朗普做出混乱、离谱或直接针对加拿大的敌对举动——比如称加拿大是“第51个州”——支持卡尼现任自由党的民意就会回升。
“2025年大选时，加拿大刚结束贾斯汀·特鲁多自由党政府十年执政，到任期结束时，民众已经准备好进行彻底变革，”纳瓦罗说道，“但焦点很快发生了变化。突然之间，问题不再是‘你喜欢谁或你喜欢哪个政党’，而是变成了‘谁能最好地处理与唐纳德·特朗普的关系’这一票决问题。”
不过，尽管加拿大人对特朗普政府感到愤怒，但他们仍希望与美国保持合作的贸易关系，纳瓦罗表示。他说，卡尼真正的政治考验将在稍后到来，届时针锋相对的关税政策带来的经济后果，比如可能出现的裁员和企业破产，将逐渐显现。
“这有点像经典的战争。你知道，战争打响时，士兵出征，每个人都在欢呼，直到第一名士兵阵亡归来，”纳瓦罗说道。
卡尼也可能重蹈其他领导人的覆辙：在冲突中被捧为英雄，却在战斗结束、共同敌人消失、两极分化的国内议题重新成为公众议程焦点后，声望下跌；对加拿大而言，这些议题包括高房价、移民和医疗政策之争。
但就目前而言，卡尼在加拿大民意调查中占据压倒性领先优势，甚至赢得了边境另一侧的一些支持。
来自密歇根州的民主党众议员黛比·丁格尔表示，她认为卡尼完全有权反抗这位总统。“我们彼此息息相关。这关乎经济安全，也关乎国家安全。他们是我们的家人。特朗普总统对加拿大所做的一切实在不妥。我支持卡尼站出来，”她周三告诉CNN。
“特朗普总统的所作所为毫无民众支持可言，”来自缅因州的民主党众议员切莉·平格里说道。平格里表示，卡尼正在做“正确的事，保持强硬立场”。
周四，卡尼罕见地站出来捍卫五大湖之一的名称。他在社交媒体上指出，安大略湖的名称比加拿大和美国两国都要古老，并写道：“我们知道美国正在改变。他们的贸易关系、外交政策、国家纪念物、水文名称。加拿大人也知道，称呼现实就是要称其为安大略湖——过去、现在和未来都应如此。”
在多伦多，75岁的退休人员戴安娜·巴特利特告诉CNN，她通常倾向于支持比自由党更左翼的政党，并且对卡尼关注商业的倾向感到担忧，称他似乎“有点忘记”了包括医疗保健在内的关键社会议题。
尽管如此，她在上次大选中还是投了自由党的票——特朗普的威胁是她投票的关键因素之一——并表示她“完全支持”他对总统采取强硬立场的决定。
“我真希望他能早一点退出谈判。我已经厌倦了被特朗普及其跟班耍得团团转，”她周三在杂货店购物时说道，“我是一名老年人，我会拿起武器保卫这个国家。”
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Mark Carney built his career managing crisis. Trump may be his biggest yet
2026-08-28T10:00:29.123Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/28/politics/mark-carney-trump-challenges
Mark Carney once provided the last line of defense for the Harvard Crimson hockey team.
As the back-up goalie — and often the back-up to the back-up — Carney spent most of each season on the bench. But teammate Mark Benning recalls one critical playoff game sometime in the mid-80s when Carney, sent onto the ice to replace an injured player, stopped all shots from the opposing team.
“I never saw any time where he cracked under pressure,” said Benning, a venture capital executive still friends with Carney.
Some 40 years later, now as Canada’s prime minister, Carney finds himself back in the rink, this time against the world’s most formidable opposition: President Donald Trump, flanked by the $30 trillion US economy.
On Saturday, Carney rejected a trade deal with the United States after Trump officials made 11th-hour demands that, among other outcomes, would’ve limited Canada’s freedom to cut deals with other nations. Red lines crossed, Carney vowed dollar-for-dollar tariffs on American goods entering Canada, some as high as 50%.
It was a bold move, one that echoed a speech Carney gave at Davos in January, in which he called on the world’s “middle powers” to band together against Trump and his tariffs. “If we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu,” he said of countries like his, cut adrift by a “rupture” in the rules-based global order.
Canadians overwhelmingly approved of his decision to walk away. Once again, now in the eyes of his country, Carney had met the moment.
Carney has forged his career through catastrophe. Once the top central banker for Canada and then Britain, he has shepherded economies through the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath.
Still, his transformation from policy wonk to prime minister in last year’s election owes much to the 47th president. Trump’s tariffs and repeated taunts undermining Canadian sovereignty created a political crisis voters trusted Carney to best manage.
But the same fight behind Carney’s political strength may become his undoing. A protracted conflict with Canada’s closest and most powerful trading partner would put Carney in a bind. If he holds firm, he risks deep harm to the Canadian economy. If he makes concessions, he risks losing the support of an infuriated public.
Carney, today celebrated in a moment of crisis, could end up pleasing no one.
‘Calm’ but ‘demanding’
In the days before Carney walked away from the trade talks, Howard Lunick, Trump’s commerce secretary, had been texting and calling. The direct line of communication was nothing new and Lutnick’s agency had jurisdiction over the issues at hand. Even so, his last-minute entrance into talks between American and Canadian trade teams was disruptive, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Lutnick is more friendly and less bombastic with Carney in private than his public persona might suggest,one person said. Still, Lutnick strongly opposed provisions in the developing agreement that would have substantially lowered US tariffs on Canadian steel, aluminum and auto imports.
It was one backtrack of several that Carney said in a Saturday speech were “uneconomic, unfair, and undermined the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal.”
Trump officials have rebuked Carney in the days since. Lutnick on Thursday rejected Canadian accounts of how talks had blown up, claiming Carney had “manufactured” a dispute to boost his domestic political standing. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Wednesday called the prime minister’s Trump-focused election victory last year the “worst thing that ever happened to Canada,” adding on CSPAN that “somehow, every time Carney dumps on Trump, the Canadian people reward him with political support.”
On Thursday, Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America for US federal entities and saying, without mentioning Carney specifically, “The Canadian officials have treated us very badly. They’re nasty people.” He added that Canada is the “worst to deal with on trade,” claiming “they feel entitled.” Navarro warned Wednesday that “playing politics” with the US is “not going to end well for Canada.”
But Carney has handled greater emergencies. After Harvard, an economics Ph.D. at Oxford and more than a decade spent at Goldman Sachs, he moved into government in the run-up to the global financial crisis.
“Mark has always had the ability to see where an issue is going, understand the second- and third-order consequences,” said Tim Adams, a former US Treasury official during the George W. Bush administration, who often found himself in the same room as Carney. “He tends to be very prepared, very disciplined, and very comfortable operating under pressure.”
When the meltdown arrived in 2008, Carney was leading the Bank of Canada. James Moore, part of the country’s ruling Conservative government at the time and later its minister of industry, recalls an emergency cabinet meeting attended by Carney in the fall of that year. It was a time of pure havoc: Canada had just held a federal election and the global economy was beginning to buckle. Moore described Carney’s briefing that day as a “masterclass” — “blunt, calm, reassuring, and substantive.”
Carney now leads Canada’s Liberal Party, but Moore said he and other former members of that Conservative government “hold him in incredibly high regard and think that he’s doing a phenomenal job as Canada’s prime minister in these difficult times.”
The Bank of England poached Carney a few years later, appointing him the first foreign governor in the institution’s 330-year history. He helped steer Britain through the tumult of Brexit, appearing quickly after the 2016 vote to assure markets and citizens that he had a plan. He had warned openly of the economic risks, drawing criticism from pro-Brexit campaigners that he was veering too far into politics.
A report by Canadian magazine Maclean’s in October, citing an unnamed government staffer, painted Carney as short-tempered with some of his colleagues. The mood in Carney’s administration is tenser than that under his Liberal predecessor Justin Trudeau, who ran the place like “an encouraging teacher,” according to the publication.
Trudeau, the son of a Canadian prime minister, was familiar with the slings and arrows of politics. Carney, however, was more likely used to the deference that came from his position as the top finance guy, the steady hand in a complicated crisis, the magazine suggested.
“He’s demanding and is quite clear about what his standards would be, I think,” said Supriya Dwivedi, a former senior adviser to Trudeau who served with Carney on the advisory board for Canada 2020, a liberal think tank. “Because I think he’s such a hard worker himself, he kind of expects that of those around him – and there’s nothing wrong with that – but, of course, when you’re working very long hours and you’re in politics and not finance, you sometimes need a bit of a lighter touch.”
Carney’s tendency to arrogance was documented by Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail in profiles that long preceded his political career. His capacity for snappiness was on public display during a press conference days after he became prime minister last year.
CBC correspondent Rosemary Barton told Carney it is “very difficult to believe” that his many years in the private sector had created no possible conflicts of interest with his finances. He seemed irritated.
“Look inside yourself, Rosemary,” he said, adding,“I have left my roles in the private sector at a time of crisis for our country. I’m complying with all the rules.”
Carney always risked seeming out of touch. His career in central banking was bookended by years spent in private investing, at Goldman and then Brookfield, a Canadian asset management firm where he worked up until his run for the Liberal leadership in early 2025.
Despite a background as the son of two teachers, born in a tiny town in the Northwest Territories and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, and now with a 30-plus-year marriage and four daughters, it would always be difficult for the Finance Guy to become the Everyman.
Pollster Nik Nanos tracked the 2025 election campaign. When the public concerns focused on the cost of living, the Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre would experience a boost, he told CNN. But then Trump would do something chaotic, outrageous or directly antagonistic to Canada — like calling it the “51st state” — and support for Carney’s incumbent Liberal Party would pop.
“In 2025, we came off 10 years of the Justin Trudeau Liberal government, and by the end of their tenure, people were ready for massive change,” said Nanos, chief data scientist of Nanos Research. But the focus quickly evolved. Suddenly, it wasn’t about “who you liked or what party that you liked — it turned into a ballot question on who can best manage the relationship with Donald Trump.”
Still, Canadians, though angry with the Trump administration, want a cooperative trading relationship with the US,according to Nanos.Carney’s real political test will come later, he said, when the economic consequences of tit-for-tat tariffs, like possible layoffs and business bankruptcies, become clear.
“It’s kind of like a classic war. You know, war is declared, everybody’s cheering as the soldiers go out the door, until the first soldier comes home as a casualty,” said Nanos.
And it’s possible Carney shares the same fate as other leaders valorized in conflict only to see their standing fall once the fight is over, the common enemy gone and polarizing domestic issues return to the top of the public agenda; for Canada, those include expensive housing and battles over immigration and health policy.
For now, though, Carney holds a commanding lead in Canadian opinion polls and is even winning some support on the other side of the border.
Debbie Dingell, a Democratic congresswoman from Michigan, has said she believes Carney is well within his rights to resist her president. “We are so integral to each other. It’s economic security, and it’s national security. They are our family. What President Trump is doing to Canada is just not OK. I’m fine that Carney is standing up,” she told CNN on Wednesday.
“There’s nothing popular about what President Trump is doing,” said Chellie Pingree, a Democratic congresswoman from Maine. Carney, Pingree said, was doing the “right thing, staying tough.”
On Thursday, Carney was put in the unusual position of standing up for the name of one of the Great Lakes. He noted on social media that the name of Lake Ontario is older than both Canada and the US, and he wrote, “We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronym. Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.”
In Toronto, retiree Diana Bartlett, 75, told CNN that she usually leans toward parties to the left of the Liberals and that she’s wary of Carney’s focus on business, saying he seems to have “forgotten a little bit” about critical social issues including health care.
Still, she picked Carney’s party in the last election — with the threat of Trump a key factor in her vote — and said she’s“fully supportive” of his decision to take a hard line with the president.
“I wish he had walked away a lot sooner. I’m getting really tired of being jerked (around) by Trump and his minions,” she said while grocery shopping Wednesday. “I’m a senior citizen, and I will take up arms to defend this country.”
CNN’s Phil Mattingly, Manu Raju, Ellis Kim and Jordan Budney contributed to this report.
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