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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

Mark Carney criticised for using British spellings in Canadian documents

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Mark Carney speaks in Ottawa, Ontario, on 11 December 2025. Photograph: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP

Mark Carney says that amid a fundamental shift to the nature of globalisation, his government will catalyse the growth in both the public and private sector.

But Canadian linguists say that’s a problem.

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