Carney was elected on a wave of tariff panic. Now he has other problems

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The Liberal Party made an unlikely comeback when Canadians elected Mark Carney in April, a decisive victory propelled by national panic over U.S. tariffs.

Fall has always felt like much more of a time to take stock and start over to me than January. Structure returns to life, new routines settle in and everything green turns more gilded and rustling with each passing day, a constant reminder that time ticks by and things change, whether you like it or not.

All of which is to say: Holy smokes, have we ever been on an emotional journey as a country over the past year.

This time last year, the Justin Trudeau political deathwatch was just starting, and it seemed possible that Kamala Harris’s politics of joy would sweep Donald Trump back into history’s big beautiful diaper pail.