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Leyland Cecco in Toronto

There’s only one thing in Mark Carney’s in-tray: Trump

a man in a suit speaks in front of a Canadian flag to a room full of people
Mark Carney speaks in Ottawa, Canada, on 9 March. Photograph: Canadian Press/REX/Shutterstock

When Mark Carney becomes Canada’s prime minister later this week, a list of simmering crises across the country will demand his attention: housing is unaffordable, healthcare is breaking, living costs keep rising and the climate crisis is ransacking livelihoods.

But most – if not all – of those concerns will be pushed aside, supplanted by a far greater threat to the country: the US president, Donald Trump.

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