Mark Carney is celebrated abroad – while consolidating power at home | Shiri Pasternak
Source: The Guardian ·
The Canadian prime minister’s reckoning with Trumpism in Davos clashes with his attacks on environmental, Indigenous and labour rightsThe Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald Trump.But at home, Mark Carney is mirroring the US president by radically centralizing power within his office and…
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The Canadian prime minister is a hero around the world for his Davos speech that reckoned with a reconfiguration of power in the shadow of Donald Trump. But at home, Mark Carney is mirroring the US president by radically centralizing power within his office and cabinet and taking a hatchet to dozens of laws protecting environmental, Indigenous and labour rights, all in order to enact his economic agenda. His global sale of Canadian land and resources comes just weeks after another major Canadian export – wildfire smoke – decimated First Nations communities in northern Ontario, leading to mass evacuations and warning the world of the impact of a fossil fuel economy. The Building Canada Strong Act, Bill C-39, is a 250-page piece of omnibus legislation introduced on 21 September by the transport minister and House leader, Steven MacKinnon. The new bill expands his previous legislation that created an expansive fast-tracking designation for “projects of national interest” to “regions of…