The prime minister is too intelligent not to realize that a lot of people in this country strongly disagree with his decision to support U.S. air strikes on Iran, which is why he has been distancing himself from both U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Mark Carney’s first unforced error as prime minister was giving his blessing to the U.S. military attack on Iran, writes Michael Harris. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade