Conservatives, NDP should make the most of the summer recess

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s team is off to a good start, and hoping the honeymoon will eventually end is not enough of a plan for the Conservatives.

Conservatives Leader Pierre Poilievre, left, and interim NDP Leader Don Davies. The NDP’s biggest challenge over the coming months is figuring out what their leadership race looks like, and who might contest it, writes Tim Powers.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

June 25, 2025

OTTAWA—The House of Commons has risen for the summer, and it is hard not to argue that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s team is off to a good start. Though the Liberals weren’t successful in winning a majority in April’s election, they do have a public mood that is more ...

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