“He takes every chance he can to be Flavor Flav to Mark Carney’s Chuck D,” Conservative MP Jamil Jivani told the Playbook Canada podcast.
It was a broadside against Ontario Premier Doug Ford that captured the tensions within both the Conservative Party and NDP following this week’s tight budget vote.
Those tensions come as Mark Carney takes yet another foreign trip to enlist “reliable partners” amidst the global trade war. He wants to lessen Canada’s dependence on the United States. Meanwhile, across the border, Donald Trump is facing political setbacks. POLITICO’s Mickey Djuric and guest co-host Jack Blanchard, from Playbook Washington, D.C., break down how Carney’s personal rapport with Trump may be a big advantage when tariffs are back on the table, and why a bipartisan revolt in Congress could be evidence that Trump’s power is slipping.
Back home, the show breaks down Carney’s razor-thin budget win, the NDP’s visible caucus splits, Conservative unrest around would-be floor-crosser Matt Jeneroux and what the vote revealed about all parties’ desire for an election.