Third-period politics: history’s lesson for Carney and Canada-U.S. relations

History would suggest Canada is not entirely in uncharted waters.

Let’s hope that Prime Minister Mark Carney proves to have been an A-student of history as well as economics, and that he remains clear-eyed in what we’re up against, writes John Delacourt, Senior Vice President at Counsel Public Affairs.The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY JOHN DELACOURT

September 15, 2025

So much about the last few months in U.S.-Canada relations has been positioned as unprecedented, as if we’ve somehow lost our innocence about America. Prime Minister Mark Carney has to rip up all the old playbooks, apparently, and chart a new course for the Canadian econom...

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