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Prime Minister Mark Carney has spent his first year circling the globe in search of trade, but there is a continent-sized opportunity that Canada keeps looking past, writes Dorothy Nyambi.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DOROTHY NYAMBI

July 1, 2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney has spent his first year circling the globe in search of trade. India. Japan. Australia. China. France. Qatar. The message has been: Canada must diversify, reduce its dependence on the United States, and build new partnerships to withstand geopolit...

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