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FIRST READING: What Carney has actually done

Most of his achievements exist only on paper. Here's the actual, material things his government has done.

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It would be hard to overstate how much of the Carney government’s actions to this point have occurred exclusively in the bureaucratic realm.

Committees have been convened, commissioners have been hired, plans have been announced, strategies have been published and a flurry of agreements have been signed.

But with the Carney government now marking one year since its ministry was sworn in, very few of these procedural changes have yielded any measurable results.

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As an example, just in the last month Ottawa has announced a National Electricity Strategy, an agreement with Manitoba to get “major projects built faster” and a renewed agreement with Alberta updating the terms of when it might approve a new oil pipeline. The Prime Minister’s Office also boasted that Prime Minister Mark Carney became the first-ever Canadian leader to attend the European Political Community Summit.

But in all four cases, there’s been no material change to Canadian law, policy or the workings of its federal government. Every cited accomplishment exists only on paper.

With that in mind, here is an attempt to sum up the actual, physical accomplishments of the Carney government in the last 12 months. These are the measurable things that are different because of an action taken by Carney or one of his ministers.

He’s repealed quite a few taxes

Repealing taxes is one of the easier........

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