Every good political campaign needs a slogan. Mark Carney may have handed one to the team that will be fighting for Alberta to resist the separatist option this October: “Canada: don’t mess it up.”

In a wide-ranging news conference on Thursday, Carney was focused on looking back over his achievements of the past year, but the questions from journalists, naturally, were all about what’s ahead.

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