Much as he’d like to concentrate on his plans to transform Canada, Mark Carney still finds it necessary to explain to people that he’s not Justin Trudeau.

Weekending in Johannesburg on one of his regular missions to drum up business, he found himself being queried about his government’s dedication to gender equity. That was a big concern of the previous Liberal regime, but one that’s had a lower billing with the Carney camp. At a Sunday press conference he was asked whether Canada’s search for trade and investment still prioritizes progress on equal rights for women and gender minorities. Violence against women is so prevalent in South Africa it recently declared femicide a national disaster.

“We have that aspect to our foreign policy, but I wouldn’t describe our foreign policy as femini

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