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As they celebrate their national day, Canadians feel a renewed sense of national pride — a reversal of a stubborn trend that dates back at least 40 years. All it took was an unpredictable and aggressive next-door neighbor whose sovereignty threats and trade war left a lasting mark.
On the world stage, Canada's prime minister is a statesman. In Ottawa, he is a ward boss. MONTREAL, QUEBEC — Mark Carney arrived at the Liberal Party convention in April ready to play the hits that had carried him through a triumphant year in office. “Hope isn’t a plan, and nostalgia isn’t a strategy,” he said in his keynote address...
It’s not just about the trade war. Nearly half of America’s neighbors to the north now think the U.S. is a bigger threat to world peace than Russia. It’s the world’s most awkward breakup. More than a year after U.S. President Donald Trump casually joked about absorbing Canada and repeatedly threatened debilitating tariffs on its goods, many Canadians are convinced...
President DONALD TRUMP is flirting with Canada’s worst-case scenario — setting the wheels in motion for the U.S. to pull out of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
BEHIND THE SCENES — They scrambled to get there on time, after the last-minute invite to DONALD TRUMP’s Gaza peace summit in Egypt over the weekend. But the president kept them waiting.
Prime Minister MARK CARNEY is headed to Germany next week. Our colleagues in Berlin learned today in a government briefing that Chancellor FRIEDRICH MERZ will welcome Carney on Tuesday morning. The pair will talk about a variety of bilateral foreign and economic issues, including tariffs and the war in Ukraine.
Conservatives will have a new campaign manager whenever the country next goes to the polls. JENNI BYRNE told the “The Beyond a Ballot” podcast that she won’t reprise her role — and will focus instead on her consulting business. Byrne, a top adviser to Conservative Leader PIERRE POILIEVRE since he sought the job, told podcast host RACHAEL SEGAL that she...
It’s no secret that MARK CARNEY is more dialed into C-suites than his predecessor in the Prime Minister’s Office — and far keener to sit down with energy companies that sense momentum at the highest levels of government. As Carney moves to act boldly on ready-made “nation-building” projects, corporate honchos want in — and are scoring face time.
AT THE MERCY OF — Parliament hasn’t even started yet, but some Liberal MPs are already seeking powers that could boot MARK CARNEY from office — should he ever lose their confidence. Ahead of Sunday’s national caucus meeting, MPs are quietly debating whether to adopt the Reform Act — a move that would give them the ability to remove Carney...
If MARK CARNEY wants to downplay his first visit to the White House, he has plenty of people around DONALD TRUMP willing to ratchet down what it means to the president. “Just another world leader coming to visit. One of many,” one White House official told our Washington colleagues. “No bells and whistles for the new guy,” said another.
A new POLITICO/Focaldata poll finds Trump looms over Monday’s election, boosting Mark Carney and the Liberals as Canadians turn against the United States.
Steve Verheul used to get under the American trade negotiator’s skin. As Donald Trump’s point person on trade in the president’s first term, Robert Lighthizer was dead set on overhauling the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) — a deeply unpopular trade deal in the manufacturing-driven Rust Belt where he grew up.
DOUG FORD didn’t quite give a cross-party endorsement to CHRYSTIA FREELAND for prime minister during a Wednesday interview in Toronto with POLITICO’s head of news, ALEX BURNS. But the Ontario premier could scarcely have been more glowing about Freeland — and less expressive about her primary opponents to lead the Liberal Party.
Canada is hinting that it will accelerate plans to boost its defense spending to hit a long-elusive NATO target. But it’s looking like that’s too little, too late to avoid the wrath of the incoming Trump administration and its push to get NATO allies to spend more. Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair said Friday that Canada will make good on...
Conservative MP JAMIL JIVANI spotted in D.C. catching up over lunch Wednesday with law school pal and Vice President-elect JD VANCE in the Senate dining room
‘NOT DAMN GOOD ENOUGH’ — KIRSTY DUNCAN says there is no time to wait. Not for tenure or equal pay. Not for an end to discrimination, harassment or worse. “I’ve made it my mission in life to fight for young women who want to do science,” says the Etobicoke North MP, who was first elected in 2008 and has served...
Justin Trudeau nearly lost a loyal Liberal lawmaker amid rising internal tensions in Canada’s Parliament over the Israel-Hamas war. Anthony Housefather, an outspoken Jewish MP from Montreal, toyed with leaving his party to join the Conservatives after most of Trudeau’s Liberals voted in favor of a non-binding motion in the House of Commons that took direct aim at Israel. It’s...
Chrystia Freeland is in her element in Davos. That was obvious when Canada’s deputy prime minister and finance minister — one woman, two jobs — jetted to the Alpine village in January to rally support for Ukraine from global influencers she’s known for 30 years. On a panel meant to bolster Western solidarity with Ukraine, Freeland traded remarks with the...
You might think dead rodents in the walls of the Canadian prime minister’s official residence would be cause for alarm, but you’d be wrong. After all, the pests are only the latest indignity to befall the 155-year-old mansion at 24 Sussex Drive. The government has deemed the 34-room stone building an uninhabitable fire trap with leaky plumbing and asbestos in...