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Prime Minister Mark Carney makes an announcement with Ontario Premier Doug Ford at the Darlington Energy Complex in Courtice, Ont., on Thursday.

Prime Minister Mark Carney opened his prebudget speech with a compare-and-contrast for the students in the small audience at the University of Ottawa on Wednesday night. Like the students, Mr. Carney said, he went to school and entered the work force during a time marked by “events of great magnitude.”

In his time, there was the fall of the Berlin Wall, “leading to a long period of liberalization of the movement of goods, capital and people,” he said. “It was an era of optimism, hope, and promise.” Now, he told the young people in the room, the great events are moving in a different direction.

Uh-oh, kids. Sounds like you’re done f

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