One year ago this week, Mark Carney was sworn in as Canada’s prime minister. It happened at a moment when my polling indicated that the mood of the country was well into a major shift. The past few years had been marked by what many now call a period of permacrisis. Pandemic recovery, climate emergencies, rising living costs, geopolitical instability and technological disruption all arrived at once. At Abacus Data we have described the public mood that emerged from this as a precarity mindset.
