Betting on Boldness: Prime Minister Carney’s Live Address and the Precarity Mindset

A few thoughts on the federal government's framing

Mark Carney’s speech this week delivered at the University of Ottawa to a room full of students but crafted for a national audience was more than a pre-budget preview. It was a stress test of narrative: can a promise to “build, take control, and win” resonate with Canadians living through what we’ve called the precarity mindset — an era defined by insec…