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Poilievre says he would repeal federal carbon pricing for industrial emissions
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says a government led by him would repeal both the federal consumer carbon tax and standards for pricing greenhouse gas emissions from large industrial emitters.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney tries to turn the page
In the limited space of his first day as prime minister — and with an election campaign maybe just more than a week away — Mark Carney could at least try to signal change.
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Mark Carney steps into an unprecedented moment
Carney is the 14th leader of the Liberal Party and he will soon become the 24th prime minister of Canada. The question now is how long he will occupy that office — whether he is the man for this moment or a man who will only momentarily be prime minister.
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Trump wants to go back to 1913. Canadians and Americans will suffer the consequences
Canadians have taken Donald Trump’s threats of trade action — now realized — very personally. Understandably and justifiably so. But the American president’s treatment of Ukraine — not to mention his administration’s larger withholding of foreign aid — demonstrates that Canada is far from alone.
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Carney and Poilievre both want to stop wasteful spending. But what would they cut?
The real debate, if there is to be one, is about what Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre would spend money on — and what they wouldn’t.
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Mark Carney has answered some questions — but many more remain
It would be a true surprise now if Carney somehow did not become the 14th leader in the history of the Liberal Party of Canada on March 9. But even if Carney is on the verge of winning the first political contest he ever entered, he is still an inexperienced and largely untested politician.
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With Trump looming, Pierre Poilievre tries to wrap himself in the flag
Donald Trump now seems to loom over everything — almost as overwhelmingly as the giant Canadian flag that loomed behind Pierre Poilievre at his “Canada First” rally last weekend.
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Foreign interference report is just the start of a conversation about Canadian democracy
Between her relatively anticlimactic conclusion there are no “traitors” in Parliament and the incredible tumult that Donald Trump has since provoked, it would not be surprising if the foreign-interference commission’s work soon fades from memory. That would obviously be a mistake.
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Trump is forcing Canadian leaders to grapple with what they can't control — and what they can
The last few weeks may have at least buried any remaining notion that Canadian leaders can exert much control over the current president of the United States. But Canadians can control what kind of country they want to build beside this new version of the United States.
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The trade war is off — but for how long?
The trade war is off. At least for now. But that is of limited solace. And even if the next deadline somehow comes and goes without the resumption of hostilities, it's not clear when Canadians will again be able to reasonably view the United States as a reliable friend or predictable ally.