Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

John Robson: We Have Far Less Time Than We Think to Balance the Budget

Kaboom. It’s loud, scary, and urgent. But it’s not the sound of new Canadian munitions going off as we ramp up to $150 billion a year in defence spending because they said so. It’s the federal budget detonating. And if anyone’s minded to call the bomb squad instead of waiting to be blown to insolvency come, now would be a good time. A really good time.

In C2C Journal, Gwyn Morgan snidely recalled a former prime minister’s assurance that there’d be modest initial deficits of under $10 billion for three years then a balanced budget by 2020, which led to nine consecutive often-massive deficits that essentially doubled the national debt. And alas, that part was the good news.
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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Immigration grew six times faster over past decade: Study

OTTAWA — Canada’s immigration levels grew six times faster over the past decade than it did from the turn of the century, says a new Fraser Institute study.

The numbers, which include temporary foreign workers and international students, are contained in a new report entitled Canada’s Changing Immigration Patterns, 2000–2024.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Tasha Kheiriddin: A Carney pipeline means an angry Liberal base

For months, Prime Minister Mark Carney has spoken about making Canada an energy superpower. He said it on the campaign trail, mentioned it again in an interview with CTV news in May, and dropped it again last weekend at the Calgary Stampede. While he usually inserts the qualifier of “both clean and conventional energy,” in an interview Saturday he stated that it’s “highly, highly likely” that at least one oil pipeline will make the government’s list of national strategic infrastructure projects.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

The madness of Canada’s electric-car mandates

EVs are almost comically unsuited to a vast, cold country like Canada.

Justin Trudeau’s legacy is alive and well in Mark Carney’s iteration of Canada’s Liberal Party. While the former PM’s deeply unpopular carbon tax may have been scrapped, his spirit of phony solutions to the ‘climate-change crisis’ prevails.

Across the border, US president Donald Trump has nixed any attempts at electric-vehicle (EV) mandates, saying, ‘electric cars are fine, but not everyone should be forced to own one’. By contrast, the Canadian Liberal Party has maintained its plan to ensure 20 per cent of new passenger vehicles sold in 2026 are either battery-powered or plug-in hybrid models. It intends to increase that number to 60 per cent by 2030, and to 100 per cent by 2035.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Alberta, Ontario premiers want ‘several’ oil pipelines built under Carney government

OTTAWA — The premiers of Alberta and Ontario both said at a meeting Monday that they are cautiously optimistic that Prime Minister Mark Carney will successfully get a new oil pipeline built in Canada. But Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said the planning should not be limited to just one.

Meeting with her Ontario counterpart in Calgary, Smith said Alberta crude oil should have access to a “growing share” of pipelines. “I’m of the view there’s probably room for more than one pipeline, probably several.”

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Canadians will see wages pick up as immigration slows, Conference Board argues

OTTAWA – The Conference Board of Canada expects wage hikes will pick up speed in the coming years as the pace of population growth slows down.

The think tank said in a new economic forecast Monday that Canada’s labour market has been “resilient” this year despite tariff pressures from the United States.

The national unemployment rate ticked up to seven per cent in May, though the Conference Board noted overall employment is still 0.3 per cent higher than it was at the end of last year.

Except immigration numbers have not really decreased.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Mark Carney, Canada’s ‘finance daddy,’ is having problems delivering

Hiring a new manager to fix a broken business model and mollify your biggest, angriest customer carries a grace period – that time when the new hire can make promises, assemble a team, send the right signals to stakeholders and take decisions that might otherwise spark animated resistance.

Mr. Carney has made the most of his grace period. Recent polls suggest 52.7 per cent of Canadians prefer him as prime minister versus 22.9 per cent for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre – a margin of 29 percentage points.

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Fanatics that don’t want you to drive anything lobby Carney to keep Stalinesque EV Mandate

Environment group warns against repealing federal EV mandate

An environmental think tank is warning the federal government against repealing its electric vehicle mandate, instead suggesting that politicians should be helping to put more EVs on the road.

In a statement published Friday, Clean Energy Canada gave three recommendations to the federal government to help deliver affordable EVs to Canadians for less than $40,000.
The group, based out of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, said Ottawa should retool its EV mandate by revisiting its near-term targets to help the auto sector “weather this temporary storm” of slumping EV sales.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why Mark Carney’s biggest brand asset is the Justin Trudeau contrast

In marketing, a brand’s positioning is defined by the choices consumers have. Politics operates the same way: a leader’s identity is shaped by how they differ from their rivals and the options they represent.

Right now, Prime Minister Mark Carney finds himself in a unique position. With Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre out of Parliament since losing his seat in the last federal election, Carney’s main rival has been largely absent from the spotlight, regrouping and preparing for a return in a safe Conservative riding. This has left Carney without a direct, visible opponent in the House of Commons or in the media, giving him a clear runway and allowing his brand to flourish unopposed.

I don’t see much difference.

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Kelly McParland: EV mandate another fanciful Trudeau plan Carney forced to reckon with

It’s not always the unexpected that gets governments in trouble — often enough it’s their own bad judgement, poor timing or general clumsiness that gets in the way. But the unanticipated does happen a lot.

Parties and politicians put time and effort into concocting a set of policies aimed at winning votes by proposing remedies to problems identified as occupying top rungs of current voter concern. If they’re lucky they get elected, presumably intending to put those policies into effect at the earliest opportunity. Then the world shifts and pulls the rug from under them.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

‘Early days’ to grade Carney’s climate policies, say advocates who point to ‘welcome’ campaign pledges

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s tight-lipped approach to climate change is causing some environmental groups to question his leadership, while others say it’s too early to judge the new PM whom they say has room to live up to election pledges addressing Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Since entering the Prime Minister’s Office, Carney (Nepean, Ont.) has rarely spoken about the climate. Instead, the former banker has continued to focus on economic development, sticking to what secured his ticket to office as voters flocked behind the new Liberal leader’s message of securing Canada’s future and diversifying trade relationships in response to American tariff threats. But Carney’s silence on the subject isn’t alarming to all environmental advocates—some say Carney’s record on climate prior to taking public office, coupled with “welcome” campaign commitments, suggest strong policies could be advanced when the House returns this fall.

Fellow Eco-Nutz seem happy enough with Carney so far. Not a good sign for the real world.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Peter Menzies: Justin Trudeau’s legislative legacy is still haunting the Liberals

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s born-again Liberals may have thought they’d erased Justin Trudeau from their history, but, in what is likely a preview of more to come, his ghost still haunts and humiliates them.

The chains the Liberals forged during Trudeau’s life at the nation’s helm were rattled on Friday when U.S. President Donald Trump called a halt to trade negotiations, saying he had “just been informed” about his northern neighbour imposing an “egregious” digital services tax (DST).

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Alberta and Carney: conflict and collision — Can Alberta survive Carney’s net-zero agenda?

It should be evident to Albertans that the province is on a collision course with the federal Liberal government, driven by a fundamental disagreement: will Alberta and Western Canada be allowed to fully develop its hydrocarbon endowment, or will that economic value be lost in pursuit of the climate policy known as “net zero”?

This collision is inevitable and imminent. Net zero is difficult to reconcile with growing, or even sustaining, existing hydrocarbon production in Canada.

Sometimes you get the impression the Liberals want Alberta gone.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny", Alberta, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government