The politics behind Carney’s rush to build

The prime minister’s response to Canada-U.S. tensions is a legitimate act of economic self-defence. But the crisis footing is doing double duty: it lets the Liberals obscure the fact that they are making policy choices with winners and losers.

In Prime Minister Mark Carney’s rush to build big and build fast, capital gets certainty, cheaper money, and a straight line to investment summits. Labour gets a pledge to ‘strengthen collective bargaining,’ but they’re not buying it, writes Bhagwant Sandhu.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BHAGWANT SANDHU

September 24, 2026

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Mark Carney has two speeches these days. Both share the same theme: urgency. One tells us we have to move fast against American tariffs. The other is about infrastructure: ports, pipelines, and data centres. We must build. Build big. Build now, before...

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