A season of contradictions, focus, and discipline

Mark Carney enters the fall flanked by storms: tariff shocks, fiscal pressures, and sharpened opposition.
The October federal budget will be the policy focal point of the season, and programs that no longer deliver will be pared back, writes Yaroslav Baran, co-founder of Pendulum.

When Parliament returns this fall, the Carney government faces a paradox: the need for fiscal restraint alongside the imperative to invest. September’s cabinet retreat made the stakes clear—the fall agenda will not be about choosing between austerity and spending, but by...

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