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Let there be no doubt, Mark Carney’s government is focused on catalyzing. You should be forgiven if you’ve never heard this wonky insider term before. According to Cambridge, to catalyze is to “to make something start happening or start being successful.”Catalysis could barely be found in budgets under Justin Trudeau, but a variant of the word appears 35 times in Carney’s first and only budget to-date, with hundreds of additional recent mentions on the Government of Canada website.

Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association of Canada, said the Trump administration miscalculated the response from Canadians and Prime Minister Mark Carney has broad support from voters to stand strong and refuse to offer concessions.

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The most intense disagreement came over a question that has particular resonance for a party that has spent the past eight years trying to recover from its collapse in 2018: does its next leader need to be sitting in the legislature?

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Amid an uptick in unofficial updates on the latest round of tariff negotiations, two senior Team Carney ministers will be making the rounds in their home province of Quebec, where, it’s worth noting, unconfirmed reports that Ottawa could make changes to the supply management system for dairy products have already been met with near-universal opposition.

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Sources familiar with the discussions said Ottawa is clearly anxious about the prospect of a strike or lockout and what even a temporary closure of the ports would mean for the Carney government's ambitious trade diversification agenda.

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