As Carney visits Trump to discuss trade-security deal, diplomatic and business leaders warn of potential consequences

Carney and advisor head to Washington

Prime Minister Mark Carney will kick off talks with Donald Trump Tuesday in a bid for a comprehensive deal on trade and security, but top business and diplomatic voices are warning that linking the two issues in a single pact will only make it easier for the U.S. President to punish Canada with tariffs if he’s unhappy with its military or border spending.

Mr. Carney flew to Washington Monday ahead of a working lunch Tuesday with Mr. Trump at the White House – what could be the most important meeting between a U.S. president and Canadian prime minister in decades.

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Immigrants denied Carney his majority

The immigrant vote, long considered a reliable vote store for the Liberal Party, is quickly emerging as an important factor in having denied Prime Minister Mark Carney his expected majority.

Not only did immigrants break for the Tories in any number of pre-election polls, but immigrant-heavy ridings were the most likely to see their share of the Conservative vote increase as compared to 2021.

An analysis published Thursday by The Economist found that among the 31 Toronto-area ridings whose population was at least 40 per cent immigrants, almost all of them experienced a shift to the Conservatives as compared to the 2021 federal election.

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WHISSELL — Hey CBC, pull up your pants, you’re flashing your bias

It’s far too early to be singing the praises of Mark Carney, but that isn’t stopping the CBC from becoming his loudest cheerleader. While the public sector is being decimated, the public broadcaster continues to receive government support.

You can see it in their eyes and hear it in their uneasy laughter.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Alberta is right to challenge Ottawa’s clean-electricity overstep

If more provinces stood up for themselves when the feds started encroaching, we’d be a lot better off as a country. That in mind, it was good to see Alberta announce on Thursday that it would be challenging the federal Clean Electricity Regulations, which became law in December.

The new rules aim to net-zeroify the entire Canadian grid by 2050, banning carbon emissions by new units with at least 25 MW of electrical generation capacity over a preset “technology-neutral annual emissions limit” by 2035; the ban will also cover existing units by 2050 at the latest. It’s expected to cost the country $40 billion from now until 2050 — and it’s justified because magic math in Ottawa pegs the benefits to society in that time will be worth $55 billion.

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Will Mark Carney and the Liberal’s learn from their near-death experience?

A near-death experience often leaves survivors permanently changed. They emerge more grateful, more focused, and, crucially, more humble. The brush with mortality strips away illusions of control. Survivors stop taking life for granted. They shift their priorities. They understand that survival is not a reward. It’s a reprieve.

Politics isn’t so different. Just a few months ago, the Liberal Party of Canada was facing its own near-death experience. Polls showed them collapsing. Even insiders were bracing for the worst — a party reduced to third place, possibly without official opposition status.


NO. If anything they’ll double down.

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The Liberals need a few floor-crossers to form a majority. That might not be so easy

With the federal Liberals just a few seats shy of a majority government, there’s been some speculation over whether Prime Minister Mark Carney might be zeroing in on members of Parliament from other parties to cross the floor and join his party’s fold.

But coaxing over those few MPs needed for a majority would still be a significant challenge, some observers say.

“Oh, that’s hard,” said former B.C. NDP MP Nathan Cullen. “That’s a whole heap of moral flexibility that you’re going to be seeking.”

I doubt it will be difficult.

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The Liberals may have lost seats in Ontario — and their majority — because of crime and Trudeau fatigue

OTTAWA — In the first weeks of the campaign, Liberal incumbent Helena Jaczek said decided voters she met at the doors were intent on voting for Mark Carney because they thought he was the best person to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump.

“As time went on and Mr. Trump was less vocal, and perhaps as (Conservative Leader Pierre) Poilievre softened his image somewhat during debates, I think then a lot of the people who hadn’t given the election much thought decided they really had to concentrate,” she said in a recent interview with National Post.

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Sinister globalist agenda that engineered Carney’s Canadian victory

WE HAVE just had an extremely depressing Canadian election. The Liberal Party secured a fourth consecutive term of government, despite falling short of an overall majority, and Mark Carney is confirmed as Canadian Prime Minister.

This is in some ways an unlikely victory. Justin Trudeau, the previous Liberal Prime Minister, had become a widely mocked and despised figure, so much so that he lost the support of key allies and ended up having to resign.

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Mark Carney could tear Canada apart

New separatist movements threaten to rain on the Liberals’ parade.

In an election that seemed all but guaranteed to land Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in government, Canada instead re-elected Mark Carney’s Liberal Party for another four years. Carney, former governor of the Bank of England, first became Canadian prime minister in March, taking over from the scandal-mired Justin Trudeau. The increasingly unpopular Liberals were set to be overthrown by the populist-leaning Poilievre, until US president Donald Trump’s threats to annex the country. This derailed the national discourse and caused liberal-left voters to rally behind Carney.

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Star hopes Carney will destroy economy with Net Zero Lunacy

Mark Carney championed this cause before he ran for office. What will he do now that he’s in power?

The brutal truth about our planet is hard to hear.

“The challenges currently posed by climate change pale in significance compared to what might come. … Climate change will threaten financial resilience and longer term prosperity. While there’s still time to act, the window is finite and it’s closing.”

This quote was not uttered by David Suzuki or put out by Greenpeace or even included in a report by the International Panel on Climate Change.
They’re words spoken by Prime Minister Mark Carney — 10 years ago when he was governor of the Bank of England.

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How Carney’s election win will change direction of trade war

On Mark Carney’s final day of a gruelling race to be elected PM of vast and sparsely populated Canada I was with him.

It was his last push, not just to win, but also to get the majority he said he needed to stand up to the chaotic territorial and trade ambitions of his “neighbour to the south”.

For someone who had got to see Carney as a cerebral technocrat, a crisis-managing central bank governor a decade ago, the transformation into public orator was quite something.

I recall endless interviews trying to get the then governor to say something newsworthy, or something that would make a good headline.

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The Future Is Dim for US–Canada Relations

How would the media react if Donald Trump had received a quarter of a billion dollars from Russia or China just prior to his presidential bid? It’s easy to guess: screaming headlines, indignant calls for impeachment, prosecution, demands for the electric chair. Every news anchor, political pundit, intelligence expert lining up to denounce the travesty with letters signed by infinite lists of former and acting national security officials, etc. And that’s for starters.

But progressive technocrat Mark Carney flies to Beijing to obtain $300M from the Bank of China four months prior to being appointed prime minister by Canada’s Liberal Party, calls snap elections, which he wins without a majority, and the media only praises him. Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre highlighted Carney’s compromised relations with China on nationally televised debates. He also pointed out how the former Bank of Canada governor and U.N. point man on climate change staunchly supported CCP-linked Liberal MP Paul Chiang, calling for goon squads to persecute opponents.

h/t Mauser

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4 Million Canadians Live Below Poverty Line, Number Continues to Go Up: StatCan

About 4 million Canadians were living below the poverty line in 2023, as the number continued to rise for three consecutive years, according to recent data released by Statistics Canada.

The Canadian Income Survey 2023 published on May 1 measured income among various Canadian households for that year, including single parents and seniors.

It found that about 10.2 percent of Canadians lived below the poverty line in 2023. That rate was 9.9 in 2022, and 10.3 percent in 2019, as first reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.

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SNELL: The train of authoritarianism is barreling down the political tracks — Smith must act

‘Prime Minister Mark Carney will probably resurrect the Online Harms Act.’

The freight train of authoritarianism and censorship under the Carney Liberals is barrelling down the political tracks — and it’s far more serious than Alberta’s discontent within confederation or a possible sovereignty referendum.

It’s highly likely Prime Minister Mark Carney will resurrect the federal Online Harms Act Bill C-63 — a terrifying piece of legislation that will drive Canada toward the U.K.’s dystopia, where thousands have been arrested for “offensive” speech violations, primarily on social media.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Mark Carney’s election win already has economists worried

Economists, commentators and casual observers alike predicted that the election of Prime Minister Mark Carney would do the economy more harm than good — and it seems that they’re already being proven right.

On Tuesday, Fitch Ratings, one of the great deciders of how much interest Canada pays on its debt, flapped a warning flag in our faces for electing Prime Minister Mark Carney the night before.

Carney and co. will rape Canada.

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