Luckily for Carney, a few pieces of received Ottawa wisdom are actually true, and one of those, I think, is that the vast majority of voters don’t give a monkey’s rear end about foreign policy on election day. (Considering what a soggy, ineffectual, onanistic and often contradictory mess Canadian foreign policy usually is, I think this evinces good common sense by Canadian voters. Give them a foreign policy worth voting for, or even against — give them anything halfway consistent and that might actually make a difference in the world one way or the other — and things might be different.)