MONTREAL — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s agenda at the party’s 2026 convention was simple: a little byelection politicking, a little schmoozing, a little hockey cheering, sprinkled with a lot of speechifying.
For about 4,500 federal Liberals who gathered, their agenda also seemed simple. They mainly came to hail Carney, the leader whose arrival a year ago threw the Liberal Party of Canada a political lifeline.
The Liberal party has Patrick Pichette a former Senior VP of Google on stage who lives in Europe by the way, say that if Canadians want to leave Canada to work in the US they need to pay an exit tax of half a million dollars. The guy did the very thing to get a Microsoft job… pic.twitter.com/5miejn9So2
— Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 (@ryangerritsen) April 11, 2026
