In his first news conference since Monday’s election, Prime Minister Mark Carney did not shy away from some of the rhetoric and ambition that carried him through the campaign.
Canada would be embarking, he said, “on the biggest transformation of our economy since the end of the Second World War.” This country’s “old relationship” with the United States was “over.” The government would address the failures of the housing market by “unleashing the power of public-private co-operation at a scale not seen in generations.”
“Now is the time for ambition, to be bold, to meet this crisis with the overwhelming, positive force of a united Canada,” Carney concluded.
But Carney will soon have to contend with a minority Parliament — and one of the biggest questions now is how the new prime minister and the new House of Commons deal with each other.
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