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Prime Minister Mark Carney, pictured in silhouette, walking up the stairs in the West Block on Parliament Hill on April 3, 2025.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

January 26, 2026

CHELSEA, QUE.—These are troubling times for the ideologically pure. And confusing times for a divided right.

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