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Joe Oliver: A year in, it’s time for Carney to start delivering
Canadians seem mainly content with 12 months of promising but the honeymoon will continue only if accomplishments start accumulating
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Today marks one year since Mark Carney’s election. The prime minister is riding high, with a coveted majority and strong polling numbers, owing to a combination of exceptional luck, an impressive resumé, reassuring promises, energetic foreign outreach and backroom deals. Daunting economic and strategic weaknesses have, paradoxically, worked in his favour. Canadians are clearly willing to give him time to deal with a difficult American president and severe, if mainly self-inflicted, economic and strategic problems — even if, according to the Business Council of Canada, his first year was defined “more by direction than by deliverables.”
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