Carney’s Budget Passes by 2 Votes, Averting Canada Election
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is departing for a nearly week-long trip to the United Arab Emirates and South Africa on Tuesday evening and is aiming to return with deeper diplomatic ties, as well as new trade and investment agreements.
Prime Minister Mark Carney fast-tracked mines and other natural resource projects to the dismay of some Indigenous groups and many environmentalists.
Carney’s visit to the U.A.E. comes after that country’s deputy prime minister and foreign affairs minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, came with a delegation to Canada in June. The Dubai Chamber of Commerce also opened a special office in Toronto that month.
Former NHLer Theo Fleury has condemned Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's inaugural federal budget. On Monday, the House of Commons narrowly approved the 2025 budget by a vote of 170-168, enabling Carney's minority Liberal government to avoid an immediate election.
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Carney heads to Abu Dhabi as alarm grows over possible UAE role in Sudan’s civil war
Carney's visit to the UAE, the first by a sitting Canadian prime minister since 1983, is not set to include a press conference, and the Emirati hosts have barred media from the bilateral meetings that most countries make open to visiting foreign press during high-level visits.
Canada’s budget watchdog is skeptical Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government will fulfill one of its key fiscal pledges.
The prime minister is looking to the country’s abundant fossil fuel resources to reduce reliance on US markets
“We, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Wab Kinew, are working together to build a stronger, more competitive, and prosperous economy. At the core of this is new nation-building infrastructure: ports, mines, trade corridors, and other major projects that will unlock our full potential.