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Prime Minister Mark Carney is dealing with a Rubik’s cube of provincial, financial, environmental, political, labour force, and Indigenous issues, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

December 17, 2025

OTTAWA—A little more than a year ago, on Nov. 25, 2024, then-United States president-elect Donald Trump changed everything for Canada.

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