OTTAWA — Steven Guilbeault may no longer be federal environment minister, but Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she still sees him as a threat to the province’s oil and gas industry.
Smith said on her weekly radio show this weekend that Guilbeault, now heritage minister, has an “overt motive” to establish new federally protected parks in the path of pipelines and other energy infrastructure.
‘Sir John A. Macdonald, the greatest PM of all’ was the title of a January 9, 2015, Toronto Star opinion piece commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Canada’s first prime minister. The editorial’s author was the late Richard Gwyn, the Toronto Star’s leading political columnist for years.
Given the present-day vilification of Macdonald, it is well worth considering Gwyn’s celebration of Canada’s founder because it comes from a left-of-centre journalist who wrote a highly acclaimed, best-selling two-volume biography of Canada’s founder.
Saying that the era of the United States’ dominance on the world stage is over, Prime Minister Mark Carney committed his government on Monday to meeting the NATO benchmark target of two per cent of the country’s gross domestic product by the end of the current fiscal year in March.
The prime minister outlined his vision of Canada moving more closely toward European allies in a speech in Toronto this morning.
“We stood shoulder to shoulder with the Americans throughout the Cold War and in the decades that followed, as the United States played a dominant role on the world stage. Today, that dominance is a thing of the past,” Carney told an audience of foreign policy thinkers, national security officials and defence industry business leaders.
As if Europe will be a sufficient counter to Russia and China.
More and more it appears Carney has been appointed overseer of Canada’s demise. I just can’t figure out if he’s working for China or the USA.
A poll done by the Canadian Taxpayer Federation (CTF) on June 4th, shows 45% of Canadians say they’d like to see a cut in federal spending.
Only 20% of those who participated said they wish to see an increase in spending, and 19% say they’d prefer the spending to stay at the same levels that they are now.
These numbers come with a margin of error ±2.5%.
According to recent Canadian history, partisan branding has little to do with the actual policies implemented by governments, and it can cause real electoral problems when citizens make assumptions based on party brand.
Consider the recent examples of the provincial NDP in British Columbia, the federal Liberal Party, and Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives. All three governments have rapidly increased spending, consistently borrowed money, and either raised taxes or failed to meaningfully lower them.
Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been invited to attend the upcoming Group of Seven (G7) summit in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies, two government sources told CBC News.
Bin Salman, known as MBS, is a powerful figure in the Middle East and his oil-rich country is seen as a key player in hopes of brokering peace as the deadly war in Gaza drags on.
Sources with knowledge of the invite spoke to CBC News on the condition they not be named. The Saudi embassy has not confirmed whether bin Salman will make the trip to Alberta next week.
When a politician is caught spreading misinformation, an apology and retraction is expected, though not always granted. We don’t expect retractions and apologies from politicians when they tell the truth, though, yet that is what happened with federal Justice Minister and Attorney General Sean Fraser.
Fraser’s apology for stating a verifiable fact isn’t just novel—it sets a dangerous precedent and further entrenches misconceptions about the authority of indigenous people in Canada.
Carney to announce Canada will meet 2% NATO spending target by March
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to announce that his government plans to meet the NATO benchmark target of two per cent of the country’s gross domestic product by the end of the current fiscal year in March, Radio-Canada has confirmed.
The prime minister will outline a pathway to the often-hyped two per cent goal in a speech in Toronto this morning, said the confidential source who was not authorized to speak publicly.
NATO to propose upping members’ defence spending to 5% in line with Trump demand
NATO’s Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Thursday said he will propose that members increase their overall military spending target to 5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the pact’s next summit. “There’s broad support,” Rutte said.
More … Canada faces ‘massive challenge’ as NATO eyes new 5% spending target: expert
If Canada decides to buy submarines from Germany, it would mean tightening ties with a “club of countries” in Europe as it looks to meet NATO defence spending goals and face an uncertain world, Germany’s ambassador says.
Matthias Lüttenberg, Germany’s ambassador to Canada, sat down with The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson in an interview airing on Sunday and emphasized the value of working more closely together.
“It’s up to the Canadian government to decide which direction they want to go,” said Lüttenberg.
Susan Delacourt: Thanks to Doug Ford, I have had a song stuck in my head for days this week. “Love is in the Air,” a one-hit wonder from the 1970s, turned into the soundtrack of the first ministers’ meeting after the Ontario premier walked in singing it.
No question, there seems to be a lot of love in the air around Mark Carney right now. The premiers gushed about him after their meeting. He got his throne speech through the minority Commons. He’s having cosy phone chats with Donald Trump. This is a honeymoon. How long can it last?
So long as he keeps refilling the trough he’ll be fine.
Joachim Streit has never stepped foot in Canada. But that hasn’t stopped the German politician from launching a tenacious, one-man campaign that he readily describes as “aspirational”: to have the North American country join the EU.
“We have to strengthen the European Union,” said Streit, who last year was elected as a member of the European parliament. “And I think Canada – as its prime minister says – is the most European country outside of Europe.”
Streit had long imagined Canada as a sort of paradise, home to dense forests that course with wide, rushing rivers. But after Donald Trump returned to power, launching much of the world into a trade war and turning his back on America’s traditional allies, Streit began to cast the northern country in a new light.
Oh yea, let’s hitch our wagon to Communism’s zombie offspring.
The City of Hamilton, a champion of selective inclusivity, has a problem with a Christian Heritage Party (CHP) billboard advertisement it claimed could make a transgendered person at a bus stop feel “threatened.”
WARNING: The political ad in question will grievously offend the biologically confused.
Sir Keir Starmer will travel to Canada next week to discuss security and economic co-operation after President Trump’s threats to its independence, The Times has learned.
He will meet Mark Carney, the prime minister, on June 14, against a backdrop of growing tensions between Ottawa and Washington.
Carney attempted to repair relations on a visit to the White House last month, but was rebuffed last week when Trump doubled tariffs on steel imports to 50 per cent, sparking Canadian warnings of “catastrophic” job losses, factory closures and disruption to supply chains. The UK is the only country that has avoided the 50 per cent tariff after Trump and Starmer struck a deal.
I bet this strikes fear into Washington.
Fifteen years ago, Maclean’s magazine ignited a firestorm with a cover story that branded Quebec as “the most corrupt province in Canada.” The cover featured Bonhomme Carnaval clutching a briefcase overflowing with cash.
Many Quebecers and politicians dismissed the article as an unfair attack on the province’s reputation. Yet we now have fresh evidence suggesting that Maclean’s might have been onto something all along.
It is not conceivable that Canadians are happy with the increasingly hostile treatment of Jews in this country and the reputation that Canada is acquiring as a woke, trendy, antisemitic country. I’ve written here before of the antics of the University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) and its drooling hostility to Israel. The latest development on that very depressing subject was the association’s vote on May 8 demanding that the university pension plan divest of any securities issued by almost any company that trades with Israel. It is utterly scandalous that Israel should be singled out in this way, especially given the unrelievedly horrifying history of modern antisemitism. It is distressing to think the leadership of a faculty association in one of the principal universities of this country could go to the lengths that it has to adopt such a repulsive measure against such a much-wronged people.
I doubt we will be able to turn back the clock.
We are witnessing a culture change in Canada brought about by a ruinous mass immigration policy imposed upon us by the evil men and women of Canada’s elite.
Their greed made them evil and convinced them we were just numbers to be played with as they desired.
Canada is now a balkanized low trust society serving as proof of the lie that diversity would make us stronger.
Our replacements among the Bangladeshi’s, Chinese, Hindus, and Africans etc. care little about Jews and even less about White People.
You don’t have to wonder where the 2 million strong Islamist settlers resident amongst the shards of what was once Canada stand.
Annexation by the US and mass deportation of Islamists and other incompatible cultures may be all we can hope for.
