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Suddenly, our politics is all about the written and spoken word. Not so long ago, we had a prime minister who did his best to hide for weeks and an opposition leader who refused to take reporters with him on a national campaign. Now, the newish prime minister and his rebooted opponent can’t stop talking. Mark Carney turns the world on its ear with a Davos speech that quotes Václav Havel and Thucydides. Pierre Poilievre, having saved his Conservative leadership bacon, for the nonce, with a forty-nine-minute convention keynote, responds to Carney with a six-page written statement, a speech...