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May 13 marked one hundred days since Prime Minister Mark Carney won the election and formed a new cabinet.
Re “Carney’s cabinet is 100 days into its term. Here’s how it’s changed Canada” (Aug. 22): There is the old adage of making vast promises with half-vast ideas. Canada is a hodgepodge of contrasts that make leadership a perilous profession.
We have equalization payments while provinces put up barriers to interprovincial trade. We talk net zero, electric vehicle mandates and electrifying everything – and expanding artificial intelligence – without committing to an expeditious and huge expense to grow power generation and distribution.
We talk Team Canada but elections and key decisions are often controlled by two provinces. We run up huge deficits where interest payments e