Why Canada's Prime Minister Is Always Somewhere Else

Shane Hewitt and The Nightshift · Feb 25, 2026 · 9m

Mark Carney is meeting heads of state while Canada debates desk counts, and you might be reading that backwards. The world tour looks like leadership. But when the apparatus at home still operates like the threat level is 2015, flying abroad might genuinely be the easier problem to solve.

The Canadian military doesn't have enough beds and is renting hotel rooms. The civil service doesn't know if it has enough desks for four days a week in the office. Trump, days before his State of the Union, expressed hope the Supreme Court would just skip it. Nobody planned for any of this, and Canada's…