Carney’s high-flying promises come crashing back to earth

When he was elected, Prime Minister Mark Carney promised a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, a blaze of new major infrastructure projects and a return to affordable middle-class home ownership. Today, Canadian and American trade negotiating teams are reportedly barely speaking, the only prioritized projects recently announced were already in the works and the housing plan looks like a monumental boondoggle with hazy deliverables, as Brian Lilley discusses this week with Stuart Thomson and Tasha Kheiriddin, the team behind Postmedia’s Political Hack insider newsletter. As Thomson and Kheiriddin say, Carney enjoyed a good first week in the House with civility from returning Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. But that can’t last, as so many of the high expectations Carney has