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Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to construction workers as he tours a housing development in Ottawa on Thursday.

Somehow, Mark Carney’s first budget – his grand game plan for the country, written in his economist mother tongue – was maybe the least exciting thing this week in Canadian politics.

That could have been a serious problem for the Prime Minister, given how much was riding on his budget delivering in both economic and political credibility terms.

But the self-satisfied purring of the Liberals right now and the panic alarm – so shrill it can barely be heard by human ears – that’s emanating from Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives makes the good week/bad week verdict obvious.

On Wednesday, the morning after his fiscal blueprint was tabled, Mr. Carney visited

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