Mark Carney’s first budget deviates from the past Liberal playbook

OTTAWA — Who is Kristalina Ivanova Georgieva-Kinova? And how did she apparently convince the debt-ridden Canadian government to spend billions of dollars?   Georgieva-Kinova, or simply Georgieva as she is known professionally, is a Bulgarian economist who has been the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the last six years.   But unlike most 72-year-old, eastern European technocrats, Georgieva seems in recent months to have had a profound influence on Canadian fiscal policy.     At almost every public stop in recent weeks, including Thursday’s post-...