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Tasha Kheiriddin: Mark Carney, the European prime minister

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If it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium. If you’re old enough to remember this 1969 film, where a busload of hapless tourists barrel across Europe on an 18-day tour of nine cities, you probably voted Liberal in the last election, like most of Canada’s Baby Boomers. And you’re probably happy with the way things are going so far. But you may not have expected Prime Minister Mark Carney to rack up quite so much time across the pond.

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In the first six months of his mandate, Carney made five trips to Europe covering 11 countries, and has travelled to the U.K., France, Switzerland and other nations in 2026. Last weekend he addressed a meeting of the European Political Community in Yerevan, Armenia — a first for a non-European leader. Carney also been asked to address the European Parliament later this year. In fairness, Justin Trudeau did so twice — but in Carney’s case, the invite carries a........

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