Listening to Prime Minister Mark Carney lay out his new plan to start building Canada on Friday, one thing became clear – Pierre Poilievre won the argument even if Carney won the election.
Anyone who has listened to Poilievre over the last several years would instantly recognize many of the proposals that Carney has put forward.
Canada’s government news organization is set to get fatter and more powerful.
In the middle of the election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to pay the CBC more money, waving around about $150 million in fresh taxpayer cash.
CBC covered that big scoop with a headline calling the CBC “underfunded.”
If government were reliably a force for good — always benevolent, never abusive — we would not need constitutional protections for freedoms of speech, movement, religion, assembly, or association. We wouldn’t need to worry about the abuse of state power. We could ignore Lord Acton’s famous warning that “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
But, we should learn from history.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first major piece of legislation certainly offers the appearance of change. Whether it will actually deliver, well, that’s less certain.
From afar, Bill C-2 seems to be a return to order. At 140 pages, it covers a lot of ground, proposing amendments to federal drug and immigration laws, as well as those covering the mail, the ocean and the chemicals that go into street drugs. Systemic and wide-ranging change seems to be the intent.
The Liberals will keep the immigration flood gates open.
OTTAWA – The Assembly of First Nations will hold an emergency meeting to discuss the implications of proposed federal legislation that would speed up approvals for major projects.
National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says she met yesterday with Prime Minister Mark Carney about the bill his government plans to table today, adding that she remains “deeply concerned” about the potential impact on consultations with First Nations.
The meeting with Carney followed a series of comments by federal ministers about the legislation and Ottawa’s duty to consult with Indigenous Peoples that Woodhouse Nepinak called “disheartening.”
Will the Chiefs be bought off or invited to partake in a spot at the Slush Fund trough?
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said his government will “do everything” to pass its “One Canadian Economy” legislation before the start of the summer break. If it fails, he said MPs might have to sit over the summer to get it adopted.
On Friday, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy Minister Dominic LeBlanc introduced “An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act” which is set to remove federal barriers to internal trade and labour mobility and accelerate the realization of “nation-building projects.”
Fast track Slush Funds is more like it.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer has released his latest report—the 2025–26 Main Estimates. Now, don’t let the dry title fool you. This is the most important document in the country right now. It tells you exactly where your tax dollars are going, how much the federal government plans to spend, and just how deep the financial hole has become. And if you care about Canada’s future, this should alarm you.
Canada’s unemployment rate could hit 7.5 per cent as more newcomers are admitted to the country than expected after the government made massive cuts last year to its immigrant targets, says a new report.
“Visa approvals for temporary residents have picked up, which suggests that, rather than contracting as the government previously outlined, the population will continue to grow this year,” Harry Chambers, an assistant economist at Capital Economics Ltd., said in a note. “This will keep upward pressure on labour force growth and we now expect the unemployment rate to peak at 7.5 per cent, rather than seven per cent.”
The global economy is headed for a downturn, and Canada is one of the nations that will be hardest hit as the repercussions of Washington’s tariffs persist, warns the world’s economic watchdog.
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has updated its forecast for the second time this year, predicting global gross domestic product will decrease from 3.3 percent in 2024 to 2.9 percent this year and in 2026, assuming that the tariff rates imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump are upheld despite legal disputes.
Contemplating Prime Minister Mark Carney at his meeting with provincial premiers on Monday, I find myself recalling Harry Houdini.
The great escape artist would have himself handcuffed and locked in a box, only to emerge behind you through the front door, five minutes later.
My goodness! How did he do that?
Pete Townshend’s lyrics — “Meet the new boss / Same as the old boss” — perfectly capture Canada’s new prime minister.
Mark Carney was sold to Canadians as a fresh start after the Trudeau years. He now claims he’ll make Canada a “clean and conventional energy superpower.”
The 45th Canadian Parliament officially began on May 26. There are already some early signs that it may not last very long.
Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberals suffered an embarrassing defeat in a June 2 vote in the House of Commons. Conservative interim leader Andrew Scheer’s sub-amendment to the throne speech, which called for a “firm commitment” to present a spring economic statement or budget “that incorporates measures aimed at unleashing Canada’s economic potential,” passed by a vote of 166-164.
I hope so.
The federal government has tabled a new bill that would allow Canadians born abroad to pass citizenship by descent to children born overseas via a test to prove family ties to the country.
Bill C-3 is meant to satisfy a court order that has ruled the current two-generation cut-off provisions of the Citizenship Act is unconstitutional because it limits the automatic passage of citizenship to the first generation of Canadians who were born outside Canada.
“Citizenship is more than a legal status — it’s a profound connection to the values, history and spirit of Canada,” Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab said in statement on Thursday.
A border security bill tabled this week by the federal government would grant CSIS, the police and other law enforcement agencies the right to demand information about internet subscribers – including their locations – without a warrant from a judge.
The proposed changes, part of a sprawling piece of legislation unveiled on Tuesday, were criticized by civil liberties advocates and legal experts, who argued that the measures would run counter to previous court rulings and would almost certainly face new challenges.
Membership has its privileges, as the old American Express advertisement promised. But it also has steep costs.
Canada faced a potential multibillion reminder of this as defence ministers gathered Thursday at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
They had come to set the stage for annual leaders’ summit in The Hague later this month where talk of defence spending will dominate the agenda.
