In search of Mark Carney’s constituency office

John Van de Brook went online recently to search for the constituency office address of his local MP, Nepean Liberal Mark Carney. There’s been a recent rat infestation in Barrhaven, and, while he had already reached out to the office of his municipal councillor, Van de Brook thought he might as well cover all the bases. After all, it wasn’t so many months ago that his then-MP, Chandra Arya, helped solve a problem that Van de Brook’s wife was having with her permanent resident card. Who knows, he figured, maybe Carney could help with this?

Alas, Van de Brook couldn’t locate Carney’s office because, well, there isn’t one.

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Mark Carney seems to have given up on his climate change agenda

We don’t often get a look at a potential prime minister’s detailed policy proposals. But in 2021 Mark Carney published a book that laid it all out for us.

”Values: Building a Better World for All,” states in no uncertain, and often very complicated, terms what we must do to build a better world. But one of the key themes of the book is climate change and all the lost life, damage and general mayhem it is already unleashing and will continue to do so at an even more frantic pace, if we don’t do something about it now.

I don’t think anyone but a Star writer could believe that.

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Shorter Globe: Canada’s Corporate Welfare Class Needs More Cheap Foreign Labour

Corporate Canada

Why to drop a bad idea on immigration

The federal government seems to be quietly abandoning a program that would have opened a door to permanent residency for temporary foreign workers employed in low-wage jobs in Canada.

The program, mentioned unceremoniously in a bulletin in the Canada Gazette in April of 2024, appeared to offer a quick path to permanent residency for international students and temporary foreign workers making a living as food and beverage servers, delivery drivers, cleaners and general labourers.


What sort of scumbags would happily sacrifice Canadians for cheap foreign labour?

Corporate Canada that’s who.

I swear they’re gonna make me some sort of new wave communist.

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Carney’s $26B bet on prefab housing could be a gamechanger — but will everyone play along?

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s vow to double Canadian housing construction to 500,000 units a year would seem to be an ambitious enough goal.

But Carney’s housing plan is also an industrial strategy meant to kick-start a nascent factory-built housing industry and rejuvenate Canada’s ailing forest products sector.

With his $26 billion Build Canada Homes (BCH) agency, which goes into operation this fall, Ottawa hopes to increase production of innovative housing types including prefabricated, modular, panelized and mass timber housing.

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LILLEY: Carney’s Liberals hiding immigration data as questions mount

The Carney Liberals have been hiding immigration data from Canadians for months. Now, after being called out on it, the government says it’s all in the name of openness and transparency.

Normally, government numbers on the number of new arrivals, the number of asylum seekers and more are released on the government’s open data portal. As of now, the government hasn’t released any data since May and that information only covers until the end of March.

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Majority of Canadians Back Federal Public Service Cuts, Poll Finds

More than 50 percent of Canadians say the size and cost of the federal public service should be scaled back in the years ahead, a new poll suggests.

A Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) poll conducted by Leger found that 54 percent of respondents would like to see the federal bureaucracy trimmed while 24 percent want it maintained. Only 4 percent said it should be increased and 17 percent said they were uncertain.

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Carney’s can-do government is way behind on foreign registry

In January, Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s public inquiry on foreign interference recommended that politicians check to see whether the people they meet are listed on the foreign-agent registry.

Good idea. But there’s a hitch: There is still no registry.

And there won’t be one before the end of 2025.


A foreign agent registry will interfere with the grift.

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Corporate Welfare Class Hardest Hit: Ottawa yet to launch program announced last year that would grant permanent residency to low-wage workers

More than a year after announcing a new immigration stream that would have granted permanent residency to low-wage workers already in Canada, the federal government has yet to move ahead on formally launching the program – suggesting that Ottawa could be backing away from the plan altogether.

The plan targeting low-wage workers was informally announced in April 2024, through the Canada Gazette. Consultations were set to begin last year on amending immigration laws to admit a “new permanent economic class of workers in TEER 4 and TEER 5 jobs.”


Mass immigration from incompatible cultures is a feature not a bug. Yes they are out to get you.

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Young Canadians suffer as a result of temporary workers programs

It seems like a lifetime ago, but Justin Trudeau was Canada’s prime minister until only a few months ago.

As he gets smaller and smaller in the rearview mirror, we’re coming to terms with some of the public policy disasters that came out of Trudeau’s time as prime minister.

(Go incognito)

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Cory Morgan: Poilievre’s Proposal Is Poised to Test Carney’s Resolve on Energy Projects

As Canada’s industries reel under ever-changing tariff burdens applied by U.S. President Donald Trump on Canadian products, it becomes clear that Canada must diversify its customer base for exports. The United States will always be Canada’s primary trading partner due to its size and proximity, but Canada will remain vulnerable to protectionist actions from presidents if it refuses to expand its capability to develop resources and deliver products to overseas customers.

Carney has kowtowed to the Indigenous rent seekers, likely a deliberate move to advance his economy killing eco-nuttery.

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Cutting 64,000 Public Service Jobs Could Save Ottawa $10 Billion: Think Tank

A Montreal think tank says the federal government could save $10 billion by reducing 64,000 public service jobs.

The Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) made the recommendation in a pre-budget brief released on Aug. 7. It urges the government to follow the approach of former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, saying his government reduced the civil service by 17 percent over five years.


I don’t see Carney alienating the public service unions, they are too significant a vote bloc.

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As Canada’s income gap widens in the 10th Year of Liberal Party governance, some of those who are struggling sort trash to survive

As Canada’s income gap widens, some of those who are struggling sort trash to survive

Grant Kilian likes to move fast between the tall blue recycling bins he sorts through, in Vancouver’s West End alleys.

Time, but more accurately, cans are money here. The faster you can fill a bag, the faster you can get paid at the return depot. A big garbage bag full of beer cans, some of which he says he crushes, at 10 cents a pop, could earn Kilian about $30 in tax-free cash.

As he puts it, it’s just a bit of extra money for food, bills or cigarettes when everything feels tight.


It’s an economic miracle if you consider turning a wealthy nation into a 3rd World Dumpster Fire a miracle.

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Carney government condemns Israel’s plan to take over Gaza City

Canada is joining international partners Saturday in panning Israel’s plan to take control of Gaza City approved this week.

In a joint statement, foreign ministers from several countries including Canada, Australia, France, Germany and the United Kingdom said they reject a decision taken by the Israeli security cabinet on Friday to launch an additional large-scale military operation in Gaza.

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GUNTER: Canada still hasn’t seen Carney’s promised leadership

The chances of Canada convincing Donald Trump’s White House to reverse his tariffs on a wide range of Canadian goods seems remote. There’s a possibility cases working their way through the U.S. courts will — maybe within the next six to 12 months — find Trump has overstepped his authority to impose tariffs and reverse them.

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Support for Liberals, Carney unchanged despite no trade deal with U.S.: poll

A new poll finds support for Prime Minister Mark Carney remains unchanged despite not reaching a trade deal with the United States earlier this month.

The Abacus Data poll conducted in the days following the passage of the self-imposed August 1 deadline for a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump shows support for the Liberals remains strong despite signs that the government isn’t doing enough when it comes to the stagnant economy and affordability issues.

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