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Jesse Kline: Deal or no deal, Carney Liberals have failed to build Canada

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Of course, that’s a lesson we should have learned long ago. It’s been over a year since Prime Minister Mark Carney, fresh off an election victory, promised to “do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven’t seen (in) generations,” including building “twice as many homes every year,” developing “new trade and energy corridors” that will turn Canada into “an energy superpower” and freeing inter-provincial trade.

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