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FULL COMMENT PODCAST: Mark Carney’s brittle image is cracking

Brian Lilley discusses with Tasha Kheiriddin and Stuart Thomson whether Carney can avoid fumbling his front-runner status

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Questions about his support from China and his corporate tax dodging have had Liberal Leader Mark Carney stumbling and snapping at reporters, even suspending his campaign to seek refuge in the image-friendly prime minister’s office. But the bigger question is whether he can avoid fumbling his front-runner status in the last two weeks of the campaign, as Brian Lilley discusses in our weekly election panel with Tasha Kheiriddin and Stuart Thomson from Postmedia’s Political Hack newsletter. They also consider whether Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s campaign will finally get the boost it needs with the coming leaders’ debates after weeks of struggling against U.S. President Donald Trump’s intrusions and irksome conservative infighting. (Recorded April 11, 2025.)

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