Justin Trudeau may be gone, but the economic consequences of his fiscal approach, chronic deficits, rising debt costs and stagnating growth, are still weighing heavily on Canada.
Before becoming prime minister, Justin Trudeau famously said, “The budget will balance itself.” He argued that if expenditures stayed the same, economic growth would drive higher tax revenues and eventually outpace spending. Voila–balance!
In the recent election campaign, the Liberals presented their shiny new leader, Mark Carney, as a trustworthy captain who would keep the ship of state on course. For weeks, all we heard about was Carney’s fancy education and his high-profile stints as governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England.
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The day after the House of Commons resumed sitting early this month, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre questioned Prime Minister Mark Carney on how large the federal deficit would be this year when the final figure is unveiled in November’s budget.
Here lies Canada’s carbon price, which exited our earthly realm on March 31, 2025.
Mark Carney, mere hours after becoming Prime Minister, signed the death certificate in front of TV cameras he had summoned to witness the act. In that final moment, the carbon price was surrounded by many ministers who had spent years defending it in increasingly half-hearted tones. At its deathbed, they were silent.
The policy is survived by the thriving political career of the flexible and pragmatic Mr. Carney, and by that of a wistful and slightly too effective Pierre Poilievre. It was predeceased by Justin Trudeau’s political career.
It won’t be dead until a stake is driven through its heart.
Carney’s “rupture” isn’t America’s doing — it’s the collapse of his own globalist illusion.
At the beginning of September, the Prime Minister, speaking in Mississauga, stated that the changes initiated by the Trump administration were not a “transition” but a “rupture.” He expanded on this, emphasizing the rupture’s adversity and calling it “a new age of economic nationalism and mercantilism.” He continued to use this message to rally Canadians under the flag of patriotism. This is “elbows up” without the elbows.
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Alberta MP calls out president of Conestoga College on Parliament Hill
An Alberta Member of Parliament called out Conestoga College president John Tibbits during a committee meeting on Parliament Hill this week.
It happened Tuesday at a Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration meeting, where Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner serves as vice-chair. The committee examines laws, programs and policies related to citizenship and immigration.
Earlier this month, the committee agreed to study Canada’s immigration system, with a specific focus on the international student program and study permits. The goal is to identify systemic issues and explore long-term solutions.
It’s a scary time. The air is full of angry words. Hate crimes are on the rise. Now, many would say, is the time to bring in tougher laws against hate speech.
The government certainly thinks so. New federal legislation would criminalize the display of certain hate symbols and make it easier to lay charges for spreading hate propaganda.
OTTAWA — The RCMP has closed its investigation into two alleged Montreal-area secret Chinese police stations in Quebec without laying charges.
In a statement, RCMP Quebec division spokesperson Cpl. Erique Gasse confirmed that the police force had closed the two-year-long investigation “recently.” The information was first reported by the Journal de Montréal.
After years of being misled by false claims from Canada’s Liberal government that its targets to reduce industrial greenhouse gas emissions to address climate change were achievable, we can no longer trust it.
Two days before Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent visit to Berlin, Canada put on a little show at the German Foreign Ministry.
This country, the Group of Seven president this year, was one of three that did so at the Auswärtiges Amt’s open house. Walking up the red carpet and through the marbled halls, one could see little Maple Leaf flags sticking out of backpacks and waved by children. Bully, the polar bear mascot for the Eisbären Berlin hockey team, also made an appearance.
But there were few other offerings. Canada gave out a singular maple syrup candy for completing a bingo quiz with questions such as “What is the name of the Prime Minister of Canada?” (One could keep the faux-wooden pen, though.)
Prime Minister Mark Carney joined British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the leaders of several other centre-left governments at a conference in London on Friday where much of the discussion revolved around how to tackle the rise of the far-right and deal with U.S. President Donald Trump.
The day-long Global Progress Action Summit focused on a range of issues including immigration, how to regulate artificial intelligence and election strategies for progressive parties. The summit has been organized by a collection of left-leaning groups, including the Center for American Progress, which has ties to past Democratic administrations, and Labour Together, a British think tank that is largely associated with the Labour Party.
A B.C. newspaper chain that received federal subsidies has been slapped with a $10,000 fine for violating migrant labour rules, the labour department confirmed.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Discourse Community Publishing Ltd., which runs weeklies and news sites including The Discourse, Sun Peaks Independent News, IndigiNews, The Wren Kamloops and The Revelstoke Mountaineer, was fined September 12 under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
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Canadian Conservative Party MP Leslyn Lewis blasted a new Liberal “hate crime” bill, calling it a “dangerous” piece of legislation that she says will open the door for authorities to possibly prosecute Canadians’ speech deemed “hateful.”
In an X post on Tuesday, Lewis slammed the Liberal government’s Bill C-9, or the Combating Hate Act, in a scathing post.
Lewis observed that the bill, as written, “expands state power to prosecute speech under unclear rules and with fewer checks on government abuse.”
Mark Carney has urged Sir Keir Starmer to slash taxes on Britain’s middle class to stop them lurching to extreme politics such as communism.
The Canadian prime minister told his British counterpart that easing the burden on Middle England and reducing the cost of living was critical to winning back public support for Left-leaning political parties.
Mr Carney, a former governor of the Bank of England, warned that the UK was suffering a prolonged economic malaise similar to challenges which prompted the emergence of communism in the 1800s.
He seems perfectly happy to ignore his own advice in Canada.
It was obvious to anyone familiar with the data that the government’s ban on assault-style weapons was never going to make Canada safer. The poor implementation of the policy now means that it will likely end up making Canada more dangerous.
The government’s justification for the ban was weak from the beginning. When former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau first announced the prohibition by Order-in-Council in the aftermath of the Nova Scotia massacre, significant problems were already clear. The government could not define what they wanted to ban. Instead, they created a laundry list of infamous guns with equivalent firearms left out.
