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NP View: Mark Carney has delivered little. It's time he answered for that

The prime minister is popular, but hasn't done much to earn that support

Mark Carney has been a “wartime” prime minister for all of his 18 months on the job. He has been astute enough that trade conflict with the United States has bolstered his support in Canada with the prime minister fully wrapped in the flag.

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To question Carney’s actions or motives at such a time is seen as treasonous in some quarters yet it is precisely because of the immense power and support now resting with the prime minister that questions should be asked. Canadians have put their faith in Carney and it is only right and proper to ask whether that faith has been misplaced.

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A new Angus Reid poll shows the prime minister is so popular that should an election be called, the Liberals would win by a landslide. And yet all we have is a tariff war with Donald Trump.

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