Louise Arbour a partisan pick and wrong choice for Canada’s Governor General

Louise Arbour a partisan pick and wrong choice for Canada’s Governor General

For a position that is supposed to be non-partisan and represent all Canadians, Louise Arbour was exactly the wrong pick to become Canada’s next Governor General. That’s not on Madame Arbour, who I hope serves with grace and dignity while in the job. Botching the pick is completely on Prime Minister Mark Carney.

When Arbour’s name was first floated in the media, I doubted the reports, thinking there was no way that Carney and his team would be so foolish as to make such a political, partisan pick.

Not many approve …

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Defence spending plan will send federal budget deficit soaring, watchdog warns

Defence spending plan will send federal budget deficit soaring, watchdog warns

OTTAWA — Achieving Canada’s long-term goal for defence spending would add $63 billion to the federal budget deficit by 2035 — almost double this year’s projected shortfall, Parliament’s budget watchdog says, suggesting the military rearmament drive will add pressure to the government’s currently “sustainable” fiscal blueprint.

The estimate was included in a series of reports published Monday by Parliamentary Budget Officer Annette Ryan that highlight a lack of detail on major initiatives following the Liberal government’s spring economic update last week. While the PBO concluded that current and growing debt levels are sustainable in the long term, the government hasn’t yet included all of the promised cash for defence in its spending projections, according to one of Monday’s reports.

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After a decade in power useless layabouts in Ottawa to start tracking which if any temporary foreign residents have left Canada after permits run out

After a decade in power useless layabouts in Ottawa to start tracking which if any temporary foreign residents have left Canada after permits run out

Ottawa is for the first time to track which foreign students and other temporary foreign residents have left the country after their permits to remain in Canada expire, Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab told a committee of MPs on Monday.

Economists have been warning for years that Canada has been dramatically undercounting the number of temporary residents living here by presuming that international students and others leave the country after their permits and visas run out.

There’s a pattern here. Carney puts extremely stupid people in charge of important portfolios knowing they will outright lie if needed. They simply lack the dignity to admit they’re in over their heads.

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Carney Pulls Canada Closer to Europe as Both Struggle With Trump

Carney Pulls Canada Closer to Europe as Both Struggle With Trump

Canada and the European Union are turning commiseration and anxiety over their turbulent relationships with the United States under President Trump into a deepening bond.

On Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada joined a summit of European leaders in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, putting his country at the heart of some of Europe’s biggest priorities. He was the first non-European head of government to be invited to the gathering, known as the European Political Community summit.

Mr. Carney’s relentless pursuit of new, expanded alliances to lessen Canada’s dependence on the United States coming as Mr. Trump threatens to unravel decades of economic integration, has effectively led Canada to be welcomed as something of an honorary European Union member.

Article from the tweet above … This is swell! Canada and the EU can kick Mississippi’s but together! Well Sorta.

What Happens When Europeans Find Out How Poor They Are?

Do Europeans understand how poor they are? And what will happen when they find out? Those are the Continent’s big political-economy questions for the next few years—perhaps decades.

The widening gap between American and European prosperity is among the most important facts of the global economy. The clearest manifestation is the chasm in per capita gross domestic product: $94,400 in the U.S., according to the International Monetary Fund, compared with $65,300 in Germany, $61,000 in the U.K. and $52,000 in France.

While America’s prosperity advantage isn’t new, today’s scale is. From a fairly narrow edge throughout the 1980s, the gap widened a bit in the 1990s. Since 2007, however, European per capita incomes have more or less stagnated while the U.S. has enjoyed another growth spurt.

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Ottawa breaks ground on long-delayed Afghanistan memorial after bitter design fight

Ottawa breaks ground on long-delayed Afghanistan memorial after bitter design fight

The federal government officially broke ground Monday in Ottawa on a national memorial to the sacrifice of Canadians during more than a dozen years of war in Afghanistan.

The monument, which has a controversial design history, will be located on LeBreton Flats in the national capital, near the Canadian War Museum.

It is intended to recognize the contributions of those who served in Afghanistan and those who supported them.

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The contest is nearly over to provide Canada’s next submarines

The contest is nearly over to provide Canada’s next submarines

OTTAWA — Often below the surface, at times breaching into view, a high-stakes contest for a military mega-contract to build and sell modern submarines to the Canadian navy is coming into port.

With a flurry of deals that promise to beef up Canadian industry and advance Prime Minister Mark Carney’s economic goals, the two defence giants vying for the lucrative bid — one from South Korea, the other part of a German-Norwegian partnership — prepared their final pitches last week, after the new federal Defence Investment Agency gave them more time to sweeten their proposals.

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Chinese consulate met Vancouver official in bid to stop event critical of communist rule

Chinese consulate met Vancouver official in bid to stop event critical of communist rule

Chinese consular officials met with a Vancouver city hall employee last month and urged her to cancel an arts event that highlighted communist party repression, sources told Global News.

At the meeting, representatives of China’s consulate told a staff member of the city’s civic theatres branch that they wanted a series of performances by the Shen Yun dance group to be stopped, the sources said.

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Europe will not submit to an ‘insular and brutal world’, says Carney

Europe will not submit to an ‘insular and brutal world’, says Carney

Europe will not submit to a more “brutal world”, and can instead be the base from which a new international order can be rebuilt, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, has said.

Carney was speaking as the first non-European leader to attend a meeting of the European Political Community, which opened on Monday amid high tensions in the strait of Hormuz and renewed doubts about the US commitment to Nato.

“We don’t think that we’re destined to submit to a more transactional, insular and brutal world, and gatherings such as these point to a better way forward,” he said.

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Commons tracks Canadians’ Facebook posts about MPs in internal security files

Commons tracks Canadians’ Facebook posts about MPs in internal security files

House of Commons officials are keeping detailed internal records on what Canadians say about their elected representatives online, including comments posted to social media, according to testimony at a parliamentary committee.

Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms Paul Mellon told MPs the Commons maintains what he described as a “very robust records management system” that catalogues incidents involving members of Parliament, including online remarks that may be critical or offensive.

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Europeans back Canada joining EU, poll finds. But membership faces long odds

Europeans back Canada joining EU, poll finds. But membership faces long odds

A new survey suggests that public opinion in the five largest member states leans in favour of admitting Canada to the European Union.

The research, conducted by international market research and data analytics firm YouGov, surveyed more than 1,000 adults in each of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain. Respondents were asked: “To what extent, if at all, would you support or oppose Canada joining the European Union?”

A corrupt union of declining powers. A perfect match for Carney’s vision.

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Can Canada avoid the mistakes of past submarine deals?

Can Canada avoid the mistakes of past submarine deals?

Submarines are sleek and stealthy watercraft, designed to glide silently and undetected beneath the surface while an often oblivious world goes about its business hundreds of metres above.

When it comes to buying submarines, there’s a similar hidden undercurrent. The vessels often cost billions of dollars. In the competitive world of lobbying, government relations and “success payments,” submarine manufacturers have often come under fire for less than ethical practices to secure those lucrative government contracts.

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Mark Carney compares his sovereign wealth fund to Norway’s. Canadians are smart enough to see it’s far worse

Mark Carney compares his sovereign wealth fund to Norway’s. Canadians are smart enough to see it’s far worse

Back in August 2015, while still trailing the NDP in some polls, Justin Trudeau pulled off an impressive political feint. Having committed himself to a balanced budget just a few weeks earlier, Trudeau abruptly reversed course and started channelling the language of Keynesian economics instead. His rhetoric was appealing and, in the Liberal pledge to invest tens of billions in (mostly unspecified) “social infrastructure,” what many Canadians heard was the promise that the state would once again be used for progressive ends.

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Auto giants warn China EV quota will gut Canadian industry and jobs

Auto giants warn China EV quota will gut Canadian industry and jobs

Canada’s auto sector is raising alarm bells over Ottawa’s decision to open the door to Chinese electric vehicles, warning the move could undercut domestic manufacturing and cost jobs.

Blacklock’s Reporter says executives from General Motors Canada told MPs that new federal concessions allowing thousands of low-tariff Chinese electric vehicles into the country risk weakening Canada’s industrial base and “hollowing out” its skilled workforce.


We were likely to lost auto manufacturing anyway, this will accelerate it.

They certainly didn’t waste any time …

Chinese EVs were spotted in Toronto, here’s what you need to know ahead of their Canadian release

h/t Mauser (Incognito)

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Captain Euroguy announces additional $270M of Canadian tax payer cash for Ukraine …. and Ashraf Ghani offers Zelensky tips for loading pallets of cash into helicopters

Captain Euroguy announces additional $270M of Canadian tax payer cash for Ukraine  …. and Ashraf Ghani offers Zelensky tips for loading pallets of cash into helicopters

PM Carney announces $270M in military aid for Ukraine

Canada is sending more military aid to Ukraine as it continues to defend itself against Russia.

Prime Minister Mark Carney made the announcement at the European Political Community summit in Yerevan, Armenia, on Monday.

Carney says Canada will contribute about $270 million toward critical military capabilities, drawn from NATO’s prioritized list of needs for Ukraine.

The funding adds to more than $25 billion Canada has already committed to supporting Ukraine since Russia launched its full‑scale invasion in 2022.


Hey Grok! How many fighting aged men & women have fled the Ukraine or are otherwise dodging the military draft since the start of hostilities with Russia? What is the current size of the Ukraine armed forces compared to those who have avoided the draft?

“Approximately 540,000 conscription-age (military-age) Ukrainian men have fled the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, while roughly 2 million more (mostly men) are currently evading or wanted for draft-related violations inside Ukraine.”

Read the whole thing. Ukraine is the new Forever War scam.


We fund a war in Ukraine that many of its own citizens refuse to fight. A war where draft evaders (2.5 Million) outnumber official armed forces numbers (900,000).

Zelensky will have a shelf life similar to Afghanistan’s Ashraf Ghani the minute the money stops until then the grift will buy him time.

Is there a collective security benefit to wearing Putin’s army down? Probably, but that means Ukraine is defending Euro states with their own dubious commitment to self defense.

Do Ukrainians appreciate being cannon fodder for that purpose? Probably not.

1 in 10 Canadian citizens live in poverty. Carney has no business swanning about Europe doling out cash to burnish his bona fides as Captain Euroguy.

Carney knows a good grift when he sees one.

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Morgan: When It Comes to Airport Privatization, the Benefits Outweigh the Risks

Morgan: When It Comes to Airport Privatization, the Benefits Outweigh the Risks

The Liberal government is running perilously low on money.

The spring economic update celebrated a deficit lower than had been projected but still contained a fiscal shortfall that can only be called massive. This likely inspired the government to pitch the notion of privatizing Canada’s airports for the second time in a year. Funds from the sale of airport infrastructure could be used to reduce government debt or to add to the planned sovereign wealth fund. Nearly 20 percent of the world’s airports are privately owned, and it comes with risks and benefits.

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