October 2, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently granted the New York Times an hour-long interview about where he is taking Canada.
Canadian journalists, who would have loved that kind of access to the prime minister, were irked. What ever happened to Canadians telling Canadian stories?
But to heck with cultural irony. There’s an American audience to be educated about Canada.
An interesting item that emerged from the Times coverage was Carney’s candour about Canada’s warming relationship with the European Union. According to the reporting, Carney is well aware of the EU’s economic anemia and does not see a future in which the EU is more important to Canada than the US economy.
But Carney touts the value in trade diversification and stronger geopolitical bonds with Europe. What might interest readers is his illustration of the point with a cultural policy issue…
