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OTTAWA — Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney made sure to play up his local roots at his official campaign launch in Edmonton on Thursday, but Albertan pundits and political strategists are still on the fence about whether he can connect with the province’s voters after decades away.

As campaign launches go, Mark Carney’s entry into the lists could have been more professional.

It did not look well on somebody who aspires as putative prime minister to represent all Canadians, that the people working on his behalf excluded journalists whose wages aren’t paid by the government. And whose bright idea was it to rip off a debt collection agency’s logo for the campaign theme? Like Canadians aren’t already so indebted that they don’t answer numbers they don’t recognize? We call that having a tin ear.

TORONTO (Reuters) -Four of Canada’s biggest lenders said on Friday they were withdrawing from a global banking sector climate coalition, joining six major U.S. banks.

The departures from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance began with Goldman Sachs’ announcement on Dec. 6 and come ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House next week. Trump has been critical of efforts by governments to prescribe climate-change policies.

The four Canadian banks are TD Bank, Bank of Montreal, National Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-sponsored initiative set up by former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, was launched in 2021 to encourage financial institutions to limit the effects of climate change and push toward achieving net-zero emissions.