This Week's Round-Up: April 20, 2026

• Can Trump really pull America out of NATO?

• Trump looms over Alberta’s referendum

• Poilievre’s winning over the youth

• No one else can build like this in Vancouver

• The pension gap between men and women

What I Learned at the Liberal Convention as Carney Clinches His Majority

The party’s principles now depend on what the moment requires

BY COLIN HORGAN

“This is not the time for politics as usual, for petty differences and for political point scoring,” Carney intoned when he finally took the stage. “The founding insight of our country is that unity does not require uniformity,” Carney said. This founding insight “is neither a myth nor a miracle” but rather the result of a series of decisions made across generations, he said. “Pragmatic decisions” (of course) “that have become a moral conviction.” Liberals stand in that tradition, Carney said. Laurier’s federation building. Pearson’s social programs. Then Trudeau. The Canada Child Benefit. Indigenous reconciliation. And “a true compact with future generations.” The crowd cheered. Many around me got to their feet.

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