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Joe Oliver: Carney getting performative is raising public skepticism

The prime minister seems unwilling to back up soothing talk on pipelines and antisemitism with real action that would make a difference

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Prime Minister Mark Carney has confronted two critical but unrelated challenges with performative techniques that have been greeted with understandable skepticism by the two target audiences. In both cases — the need to build infrastructure to transport oil to tidewater and on to overseas markets and the failure to counter the worst antisemitism since the Second World War — Carney has described the problem but failed to identify the underlying cause or take meaningful corrective action.

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In both cases, domestic and external realities have forced Carney’s hand. Canadians are reeling from economic difficulties, including United State tariffs, even as European and Asian countries plead for access to our vast oil and gas resources. Canada’s reputation for fairness and safety is being sullied internationally because of hundreds of brutal acts of hostility and violence targeting the Jewish community, its institutions and its businesses.

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