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Exclusive-Carney likely to visit India in early March as Canada trade pivot intensifies, envoy says
By Promit Mukherjee OTTAWA, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney will likely visit India the first week of March and sign deals on uranium, energy, minerals and artificial intelligence,
David Coletto, the boss of Abacus Data, a polling firm, reckons Mr Carney probably amassed domestic political capital with his Davos speech, a rallying cry to stand up to Mr Trump, which plays well with most Canadians.
Carney had warned of a "rupture" in the world order in a headline-making speech.
Carney evoked the landmark 1978 essay “The Power of the Powerless“ by former Czech freedom fighter Václav Havel, who eventually led the Velvet Revolution that led to free elections in his country in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall toppled the Soviet Union. Havel later received a hero’s welcome in Canada in 1999.
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday announced a series of measures aimed at lowering food and grocery costs for low-income families grappling with rising living expenses, including the expansion of a tax credit on food products.
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At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the prime minister was praised for his blunt talk about the president’s irrevocable “rupture” in the world order.