The 2025 Avie Bennett Public Lecture in Canada History

The Shifting Canadian Political Landscape

Speaker: Chantal Hébert

Six months in the tenure of Mark Carney as prime minister, a look at the state of play on and off Parliament Hill and on the U.S./Canada front. Mark Carney came to the job of prime minister with an ambitious agenda but also zero parliamentary experience. How has he adapted and is the delivery living up to his campaign promise to reinvent the Canadian economy? And what does his track record so far suggest about the longevity of his minority government?