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Chris Selley: Carney sows the seeds of his eventual defeat

The PM can survive controversy. He can't survive incoherence — at least, not forever

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It would be foolish to suggest Prime Minister Mark Carney is in anything like trouble as the one-year anniversary of his taking office approaches a few days from now. The latest Postmedia-Leger poll this week pegs the Liberals at 49 per cent support nationwide, the Conservatives at 35 per cent and — crucially for the Conservatives, who rely on vote-splitting off their port side — the NDP at a catastrophic and well-deserved five per cent.

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Carney has suffered some recent bad press on the topic of Canada’s position vis-à-vis the U.S. and Israeli attacks on the Iranian regime: Depending on which newspaper and which correspondent you read, he is either far too supportive of an illegal war; or he has gone soft, insisting his support for the operation came “with regret, because the current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order.”

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