Mark Carney's next challenge: minority rule

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The Liberals person a number government, immense plans and a divided country. How volition they marque it work?

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· Posted: Apr 30, 2025 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 20 minutes ago

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Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to the media upon arriving astatine his bureau connected Parliament Hill April 29, 2025 successful Ottawa, Canada. Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged Tuesday to bushed the United States successful Donald Trump's commercialized warfare aft winning Canada's predetermination and starring his Liberal Party to different word successful power. (Photo by Dave Chan / AFP) (Photo by DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images) (Dave Chan/AFP/Getty Images)

Front Burner22:39Mark Carney's adjacent challenge: number rule

It's official: the Liberals person a number government. 

They've got ambitious plans, and they've made large promises. But adjacent though they got a important 44 per cent of the fashionable vote, they're present starring a state wherever 41 per cent of voters coalesced astir their biggest opponent, the Conservatives. And they're inactive dealing with Donald Trump's commercialized war.

So however volition they marque it work?

Today, Paul Wells — a longtime governmental writer who besides publishes a Substack nether his ain sanction —  joins america to speech astir the Liberals' way forward.

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