Carney is failing to make the grade – The Hill Times

September 24, 2025

OTTAWA—It’s time for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first performance review.

Throughout the summer, Carney has moved at a steady clip to reorient Canada towards an economy that’s less reliant on the United States. Given President Donald Trump’s mercurial, capricious, and, at times, TACO behaviour (shorthand for Trump Always Chickens Out, derived from Wall Street bros, meaning he always flip-flops on his threats of economic retaliation), the promise of “elbows up” is still in the air. Carney is betting that his recent policies, as well as a tax cut, will be a panacea to all social ills, impending economic decline, and rising price levels. Hot tip: it will not, at least not adequately.

Carney has shown that his leadership of the Liberals was the main attribute he had over Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. However, it has made Canada an international lighthouse, antithetical to American economic aggression.

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