OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney enlisted his former Goldman Sachs colleague, Tim Hodgson, to fight an “economic war” with the United States.
Hodgson, a 64-year-old rookie politician but a seasoned C-suiter, is staring down a hefty to-do list as Canada’s new minister of energy and natural resources.
Carney and Hodgson have pledged to transform Canada into an “energy superpower” that depends less on American customers. That means balancing the demands of an oil-patch hungry for new customers and growing renewable energy sectors.
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As he got his feet wet in the political arena, Hodgson found inspiration in the most Canadian of ways: a stressful hockey game.
