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Carney’s cuts won’t be able to hide behind Trump forever

In another time, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s talk of steep government spending cuts would be the talk of the town. But these aren’t other times.

We now live in the age of Trump, and the U.S. President’s ongoing trade war with the world is a story that is able to erase much of most other countries’ domestic news agenda. And so it is with Canada and its need to reduce spending after years of Trudeau-era bloat.

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