After one year, Mark Carney’s grades are mixed

After winning a strong minority, Carney stepped into his new gig with no shortage of challenges: trade woes with the U.S., an economy lagging behind its chief rival, investment and productivity challenges, rising prices on housing, groceries and at the gas pumps, inadequate export infrastructure, separatist threats in Quebec and Alberta, an aging population increasingly frustrated by its health-care systems, and a fiscal picture that meant trying to solve problems by scratching cheques that would just push problems further down the road.