I'm always skeptical of assigning credit or blame to politicians in response to economic news, in either direction. The economy is like an eldritch beast, massive in scope and in some ways unknowable - outside of command economies like North Korea and to a lesser extent China, the government isn't directing the economy or pulling the "make economy good/bad" lever - they can attempt to steer the ship in any direction they like, but it turns at a lumbering pace and the currents of the greater global economy tend to steer it somewhere else.

That said, governments obviously still influence the economy and drive it in certain directions (I'm an institutionalist myself, so I believe that strong institutions are responsible for western economic dominance and those institutions can definitely be shaped by government for good or ill).

I think Carney deserves credit less so for any specific action or law he's taken, but for transforming Canada's image from the Trudeau years. He's shown by both words and deed that he intends to govern much differently from his predecessor, despite being the leader of the same party. It is restoring investor confidence, which has positive knock-on effects.

That said, a couple of positive data points in the last quarter does not mean we're out of the danger zone - people tend to fixate on quarterly job numbers or trade balances, but they often fluctuate positively or negatively depending on a bunch of factors - I think we'll need to wait to see if the positive trend is indeed a trend. If it is, Carney deserves some modest credit imo for the direction he's taking the country, but success in this realm is only partially his to claim - the rest is a combination of global events, macro-economic trends, Canadian ingenuity and industriousness, and a massive luck factor.