Canada’s economy is sputtering and it will continue to under Liberal rule. Carney’s administration is as economically reckless as Trudeau’s was and for the same reason. Carney’s net-zero obsession is overwhelming his pragmatism when it comes to policy reforms. He can’t allow himself to support any policy that may clash with his green vision for the world thus he dithers and offers double-speak while industries continue to decline.
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I’m sure you’re all super impressed by the work being done in your communities by the legions of young volunteers working for the Canada Service Corps.
What!? You say you’ve never heard of the Canada Service Corps (CSC)?
I wonder how much of this slush fund has lined Liberal pockets?
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has promised to make Canada the world’s leading “energy superpower,” but so far, the government has failed to reduce regulatory hurdles and uncertainty in energy development. It’s time to reverse the damaging federal policies that have held back Canada’s energy industry for more than a decade.
It was a cold day in March, when newly minted Liberal leader Mark Carney suggested he jumped into politics because the moment — Trump’s re-election and his threats to Canada’s economy — called for his skills. “I put my hand up because of the crisis,” he said, in Windsor.
It was an interesting revision of facts. The former governor of the Bank of Canada planned to run prior to Trump’s re-election and key planks of his approach to deal with the current tariff crisis — for example, spending less in order to invest more — were general prescriptions outlined in his 2021 book “Value(s).”
The Conservatives, at the time, warned that Carney seemed unafraid to exaggerate, or worse, to mislead Canadians when it served his purposes.
He’s as bad in some respects as Junior.
Poilievre argues Carney’s ‘picking up the football in the end zone to spike it’
The federal government announced this week the five major projects it intends to fast-track. Now, Energy Minister Tim Hodgson is pushing back against Conservative critiques that the list is nothing special because some projects were already well in development.
“You’ve got to execute and punch the ball into the end zone,” Hodgson said in an interview on Rosemary Barton Live airing Sunday morning.
To continue his football analogy, Hodgson told host Rosemary Barton he would “describe these five projects as being down in the red zone” — the area of a football field close to the goal line.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has the opportunity to craft a climate policy that makes sense to Canadian taxpayers – versus the political insanity of the Justin Trudeau era – but the question is whether he is ultimately a pragmatist or an ideologue.
Prior to becoming PM, Carney was definitely an ideologue on climate change.
I don’t trust Carney.
TAIPEI — At a banquet in Shenzhen more than two decades ago, Chang An-lo — the Bamboo Union boss known as “Big Brother Chang” or “White Wolf” — raised a glass to one of the Communist Party’s princelings. His guest, Hu Shiying, was the son of Mao Zedong’s propaganda chief. “Big Brother Chang,” Hu reportedly toasted him, an episode highlighted in a new report from the Jamestown Foundation.
Hu would later be described by Australian journalist John Garnaut as an “old associate of Xi Jinping.” That link — through Hu and other princelings Chang claimed to have met — placed the Bamboo Union leader within the orbit of Party elites. Garnaut also reported that the Ministry of State Security (MSS) had used the Bamboo Union to channel lucrative opportunities to Taiwanese politicians. According to Jamestown researcher Martin Purbrick, a former Royal Hong Kong Police intelligence officer, such episodes show how the CCP has systematically co-opted Taiwanese organized crime as part of its united front strategy.
After spending most of last weekend in Calgary and having the privilege of speaking with scores of well-informed Albertans including a number of prominent political figures, I came away with an uneasy feeling that it is not generally recognized in Canada how politically vulnerable this country is and how vivid and well-founded are the public policy grievances of Alberta. Alberta was a conventional farming and ranching economy until the discovery of oil there in 1947. Today, mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction account for a quarter of Alberta’s GDP, and 70 per cent of exports, with ancillary benefits to the construction, manufacturing, transportation and other industries.
When Prime Minister Mark Carney unveiled his government’s first five “nation-building” projects this week, the focus was on scale and ambition. The LNG expansion in Kitimat, a small modular reactor at Darlington, the Contrecoeur container terminal in Montreal, and critical mineral developments in British Columbia and Saskatchewan demonstrate that Ottawa is ready to fast-track major projects that strengthen the country’s competitiveness. Energy, infrastructure, and mining are the building blocks of growth, and Carney is signalling he intends to put them at the centre of his economic strategy.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Canadians deserve a “tearful apology” from former Liberal immigration ministers for wrecking the immigration system and driving up pressure on housing, jobs and social services.
“Sean Fraser and Marc Miller, they should give a tearful apology,” Poilievre told reporters. “That’s the only thing they have left to do on the immigration file.”
Even while Mark Carney has been accused of lowering his elbows in regards to American tariffs, he continues to frame the larger challenge facing this country in stark terms.
“What’s going on is not a transition,” Carney said last week in Mississauga, Ont., while announcing an array of measures for industries impacted by the American administration’s actions. “It’s a rupture. And its effect will be profound.”
He saw the arrival of a “new age of economic nationalism and mercantilism” and described the current moment as an “age of adversity.” He invoked major nation-building infrastructure projects of the past and the national mobilization that took place in Canada during and after the Second World War.
The federal government is spending $500,000 on a project aimed at making Canada’s trucking industry more diverse and inclusive.
The funding, announced Friday during National Trucking Week by Jobs and Families Minister Patty Hajdu, will go to Trucking HR Canada through Ottawa’s Workplace Opportunities: Removing Barriers to Equity (WORBE) program.
Same old Liberal faces peddling the same old bad ideas.
h/t Auntie Polly (Incognito)
The man credited with remaking the smartphone industry with Blackberry in the early 2000s says Ottawa’s decision to give tens of billions of dollars in subsidies to foreign companies like Volkswagen to build battery cell manufacturing plants in Canada was a “catastrophically disastrous move.”
Jim Balsillie, the former chair of Research in Motion and more recently the co-founder of the Council of Canadian Innovators, told National Post’s John Ivison that he thinks Canada’s approach to trade and competitiveness is outdated and ignores the fact that in the knowledge economy, prosperity flows from ownership of intellectual property.
Canadian construction and union leaders say they’re frustrated over the continued use of foreign workers for non-specialized tasks at the massive NextStar electric vehicle battery plant project in Windsor, Ont., that’s receiving billions of dollars in taxpayer support.
They also say they’ve been disappointed in the response they’ve received from all levels of government when they’ve raised concerns.
“I personally have sat with many ministers federally, provincially, right to the top. And it’s not a secret,” says Jason Roe, the business manager for Local 700 of the Ironworkers union. “People know that it’s been going on.”
Former environment minister details abuse she endured in politics in new memoir
OTTAWA – Former environment minister Catherine McKenna says federal security agencies initially refused to offer her protection — and wouldn’t even show her the risk assessment they’d completed — as she faced a rising tide of threats and harassment online and in person.
McKenna was the Liberal MP for Ottawa Centre from 2015 to 2021 and served in cabinet the entire time, first as environment minister and later as the minister of infrastructure.
She has previously discussed the years of abuse she endured in politics — particularly as the minister responsible for the Trudeau government’s climate policy — but describes her experiences in far more detail in her new autobiography, Run Like a Girl, which is being released next week.
