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%.
Canadians elected Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government based on its pledge to act with urgency and fix things — the country’s economy, its security and its standing on the world stage.
But with the unveiling of a bill to supercharge the economy and early efforts to improve the country’s adversarial relations with India and China, there’s growing concern that Carney’s plans to boost Canada could involve unsavoury trade offs.
Ask Indigenous leaders who were left out of “nation-building” meetings or were given just a week to comment on legislation that will fast track infrastructure projects reasonably expected to pass through their treaty-protected territories.
Amazing that some people believe Carney will act in anyone’s best interests other than his own.
Canada may have severed its feudal ties less violently, but like America, it experienced far less sustained aristocratic domination than either of its two mother countries, France and Great Britain. But now, particularly with the rise of the ultimate establishmentarian, Mark Carney, as prime minister, Canada’s feudal future seems increasingly assured.
Canada’s economy was dealt another blow last month, and it wasn’t due to tariffs. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data shows the unemployment rate climbed aggressively in May, hitting a new multi-year high. Despite the narrative of tariff-induced job losses, the country managed to add a few thousand jobs. Rising unemployment continues to be driven by an aggressive immigration strategy, which added four workers for every job last month.
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.
While it is only a few weeks into the Carney era, it’s clear that the new prime minister sees himself as a transformative leader. He came in during a “moment of crisis” and has signalled he wants to move boldly and aggressively to fix many of the problems facing the country. But there are plenty of reasons to think that Carney is going to be unable to deliver this change.
It’s the same Trudeau crew.
Debate and differences of opinion are permitted once again in the Liberal Party – the children are no longer in charge.
Canada is no longer run by a cockwomble.
Mark Carney isn’t interested in being prime minister of Canada. Sure, he may like the title and the presumed prestige that comes with it, as well as meetings with Donald Trump, but when it comes down to the authority the federal government possesses, he’d rather defer to the provinces. He doesn’t want to be the leader of the sovereign nation of Canada, he wants to be a project manager for B.C., Quebec and Ontario.
He will prove worse than Trudeau on energy.
What does Mark Carney really think about Canada’s once and future relationship with the United States? More importantly, does it matter?
During the election, Carney drew applause from Official Canada when he declared: “the old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military security cooperation is over.” It went down so well, he repeated the line in his election night victory speech.
Too soon. Way too soon. Inviting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come to Canada now amounts to a signal that foreign powers can interfere in Canada with impunity.
Less than two years ago, the Prime Minister of Canada – then Justin Trudeau – accused the Indian government of involvement in the murder of a Canadian. Last October, the RCMP alleged that agents of India had been involved in coercion, violent crime, and murder in Canada.
His Buds at Brookfield are chompin at the bit.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to make the Canadian economy the strongest in the G7 is the equivalent of attempting to turn around the Titanic before it hits the iceberg.
An indication of the enormity of this task is to look at the performance of the G7 countries in real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, which measures economic output per person, adjusted for inflation, and is a widely accepted metric of a nation’s prosperity and standard of living.
Canada is undergoing one of the most far-reaching demographic experiments in the Western world. In 2023 we admitted 1.25 million newcomers — a historic high — pushing our population past 40 million. Immigration now accounts for 98 percent of national population growth, driven by deliberate Liberal policy under former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Despite growing public concern, the much-touted “cutbacks” Trudeau announced just before his departure in January set a target of 395,000 new permanent residents for 2025 — plus an astounding 673,000 temporary foreign workers, seasonal workers and international students. Pledges to “stabilize” population growth have done almost nothing, widening the gap between policy and public sentiment.
MPs in the House of Commons have unanimously passed a Bloc Québécois bill that would block any future trade agreements from altering Canada’s dairy, egg and poultry quotas, reigniting debate over the limits of supply management protections in international negotiations.
Bill C-202 prohibits the federal government from making trade commitments that would affect supply-managed sectors.
That is one powerful cartel.
Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has defended his decision to invite India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, to the upcoming G7 summit in Alberta, despite the conclusion of Canada’s federal police’s that the murder of a prominent Sikh activist in British Columbia was orchestrated by the “highest levels” of the Indian government.
Carney declined to answer reporters’ questions over whether he believed Modi had a role in the assassination of Hardeep Singh Nijjar – a killing on Canadian soil that shattered relations between the two countries.
“There is a legal process that is literally under way and quite advanced in Canada, and it’s never appropriate to make comments with respect to those legal processes,” he said on Friday. Four Indian nationals living in Canada have been charged with Nijjar’s murder.
China, India, Palestine there is no slimy entity Carney won’t chat up if it means a profit.
