2026: Another year on the edge for Carney and Canada

For all the Liberals’ high points since they dodged what was shaping up as certain electoral defeat, the year ahead looms as an even more difficult minefield.
Mark Carney
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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