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Trudeau makes fresh bid to recruit Mark Carney amid tensions with Freeland

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made another attempt to recruit former central banker Mark Carney at a time when tensions with Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland have risen over increased spending on political strategies, three sources say.

In recent weeks, as the government has struggled to overcome a 20-per-cent gap in the polls with the Conservatives, the sources say the former governor of both the banks of Canada and England was again approached to join the government, an offer which he is still considering.

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