Carney is all about Europe: he knows it, he likes it, he trusts it

If, or, as we ramp up from two per cent of GDP to 3.5 per cent over the next decade or so, we should all keep successive governments focused on not just buying the kit we need, but continuing to leverage these dollars for both domestic and geopolitical gains.

What strikes me about this competition and is in my bailiwick are two political decisions that were necessarily central to picking a winner: one domestic, the other geopolitical, writes Jamie Carroll. Photograph courtesy of TKMS

Opinion

BY JAMIE CARROLL

July 13, 2026

OTTAWA—Well, thank gawd that’s over.

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