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The Carney doctrine and the Canadian Senate

  • It’s an open question as to whether the prime minister will treat the Senate as a strategic asset or leave the institution under-utilized in
Opinion | BY GREG MACDOUGALL, RICHARD NOLAN | February 9, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, has decisions to make about the Senate. De-politicized by design a decade ago, it never regained a shared parliamentary purpose with the House of Commons, and is now an institution some describe as adrift, write Richard Nolan and Greg MacDougall. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

The Carney doctrine and the Canadian Senate

Opinion | BY GREG MACDOUGALL, RICHARD NOLAN | February 9, 2026
  • It’s an open question as to whether the prime minister will treat the Senate as a strategic asset or leave the institution under-utilized in

The Carney doctrine and the Canadian Senate

Opinion | BY GREG MACDOUGALL, RICHARD NOLAN | February 9, 2026
  • It’s an open question as to whether the prime minister will treat the Senate as a strategic asset or leave the institution under-utilized in
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, has decisions to make about the Senate. De-politicized by design a decade ago, it never regained a shared parliamentary purpose with the House of Commons, and is now an institution some describe as adrift, write Richard Nolan and Greg MacDougall. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
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