A Conservative candidate critical of Hong Kong laws is the target of a “transnational repression operation,” Canada’s election interference task force said on Monday.
The campaign to discredit Joe Tay, who is running for the Tories in the Toronto riding of Don Valley North, is taking place on Chinese-language social media platforms as well as Facebook and TikTok.
Releasing a detailed, costed platform is quite rightly seen as a basic obligation of a political campaign. You don’t necessarily need one to win , but if everyone has one other than you people certainly have a right to ask why you don’t . Every party claims to have a plan; surely they should at least be able to put it down on paper and have some basic idea of how much it will cost.
All that said, the Liberals may well be worse off for releasing their platform over the weekend. Seeing Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s vision on paper, all in one place, is somehow more jarring than hearing it piecemeal. Even straight-up headlines like “Liberal platform promises $130 billion in new measures over four years, adding $225 billion to federal debt” (per the CBC), will likely not have landed well with Canadians looking to move on definitively from a decade of Trudeaunomics.
Mark Carney was just days away from announcing his bid to lead Canada’s Liberal Party in January when his face popped up on a viral right-wing Facebook page.
Two photographs showed Mr. Carney, who became prime minister last month, at a garden party beside Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted sex trafficker and former confidante of the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. There was no evidence that Mr. Carney and Ms. Maxwell were close friends, and his team dismissed the pictures as a fleeting social interaction from more than a decade ago.
This piece reads like it was dictated by the LPC.
NEPEAN, ONT. – Diana Fox Carney introduced her husband beneath blue skies at a large outdoor rally in his chosen Ottawa-area riding of Nepean on Sunday.
“Mark is unflappable because he puts in the prep work that is necessary,” she said.
Liberals had best hope so because, as the election campaign enters its final week, the assault from the Conservatives on the tens of billions of dollars of new spending in the party’s platform has already started.
Mark Carney pledged to ramp up military spending by £17 billion to protect against “America’s threats to our very sovereignty” if he wins Canada’s general election.
Mr Carney, Canada’s prime minister, said Ottowa must “prepare” in light of Donald Trump’s repeated threats to annex the country and absorb it as the US’ 51st state.
“In this crisis we have to prepare for America’s threats to our very sovereignty. They want our land, our resources, they want our water, they want our country,” Mr Carney said as he released the Liberal Party manifesto.
There’s a hard truth that Canadians need to wake up to, especially homeowners: The government is broke.
The numbers don’t lie. Federal debt has more than doubled since 2015, climbing past $1.2 trillion. Interest payments on that debt are now larger than what Ottawa spends on health care transfers to the provinces. They’ve run out of room to borrow without consequences. They’ve run out of excuses, and now, they’re running out of people to tax — except you.
If you own a home, particularly if it’s paid off, congratulations. You’re about to become the government’s next target.
Interesting that the people most likely to vote for Carney are home owners hoping to protect their equity by continuing the housing shortage caused by Liberal party mass immigration policy.
And now they find that their hard won gains may be stolen by their savior Carney.
As they say: Be careful what you wish for.
These immigrants say Canada failed to plan for a population explosion. Now it’s their top election issue
Joana Valamootoo felt Canada was a welcoming place when she immigrated here from Mauritius in 2012, but that sense has faded in recent years as immigration numbers have gone up and up.
“I came here in 2012 on a francophone initiative program, an immigration program, and I was welcome, but I was also provided what I needed to succeed here,” she said.
She believes that’s no longer the case for newcomers to the country.
Bad news immigrants, there has been no intake slowdown.
Carney and his predator pal Wiseman plan on swamping Canada with even more incompatible cultures.
But we know most of you will vote Liberal anyway, you wouldn’t be here otherwise.
As we survey the political landscape today, it is hard to escape the conclusion that a plague of mental catalepsy has swept the globe. One recalls the old multi-attributed adage: whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Clearly, being rendered stupid would be just as effective.
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) April 19, 2025
h/t Patti Jo
Mark Carney’s spending plans, released in his Liberal campaign platform, make Justin Trudeau look like a tightfisted miser.
The plans Carney released Saturday, would see the federal government dramatically increase spending and add a further $130 billion in deficit spending over four years.
Carney will bankrupt Canada then sell off the assets for a song to his cronies.
With only a little over a week to go before the federal election, and with the debates out of the way, the wheels of the Liberal campaign for a fourth-straight term are finally starting to wobble on their axles. The providential political fantasy land in which the Liberals launched the campaign — the complete fraud that Canada’s continued existence was being threatened by the United States — has receded. U.S. President Donald Trump and his senior colleagues are now processing a queue of 130 countries filing into Washington offering concessions to contribute towards the elimination of the completely unnecessary United States trade deficit of around $1 trillion. Another resounding Trump victory is in the making and Canada is not an inordinately large part of it, although there will be challenging negotiations.
Correlates well with this chart.
Under the Liberals, Government got rich while individuals got poorer. pic.twitter.com/9xFp6dQKgq
— Robert Finlay (@ActusLegal) April 19, 2025
h/t Mauser
Liberal Leader Mark Carney says China poses one of the biggest foreign interference threats to Canada.
Carney made the remarks at a campaign stop in Niagara Falls on April 18.
The Liberal leader had been asked by a reporter to expand on his comments at the English-language leaders debate on April 17, where Carney said China is the “biggest security threat” facing Canada.
WHITBY, ONT. — On this week’s Ivison video , regular guest Eugene Lang referred to “the trifecta — or what Van Morrison would call The Great Deception.”
Lang, an experienced Liberal operative, was talking about the tendency of governments to promise to simultaneously reduce taxes, increase spending and balance budgets.
“This kind of thing has never been achieved by any federal government,” he said. “It’s probably not advisable in any context, especially not the current context, where the prospects are that the Canadian economy is probably going to go into a recession, where the tax revenues will go down and automatic stabilizer expenditures on things like employment insurance are destined to go up.”
Yet, that’s exactly what the Liberal policy platform promises to do.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems to be a happy camper these days. After donning his Captain Canada cape to fight Donald Trump on tariffs, in February he won a third straight majority victory. And now he and his campaign manager have been lecturing federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on how to run his election campaign, arguing he should focus more on Trump, less on the economy.
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Dougie doesn’t disappoint we knew he was a Liberal all along.
More … As productivity plunges, Ontario and Alabama now have the same per capita GDP
Canada’s economic productivity has trailed the U.S. for decades. This isn’t news and has numerous possible causes. What is particularly troubling for all Canadians, though, is that the gap is getting wider.
Two RCMP members who openly called for the resignation of nine cabinet ministers in a letter say they are motivated by patriotism, not politics.
Sgt. Peter Merrifield and retired Detective Paul McNamara blew the whistle on what they describe as a catastrophic breakdown in Canada’s national security infrastructure and shared their reflections on the YouTube podcast Northern Perspective.
Over the 40 years he spent in elected politics, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has seen it all.
Yet, the 91-year-old career politician admits the current federal election is unique among the many he’s observed in his lifetime.
While he’s been part of campaigns fought over important, country-defining issues – like free trade in 1988 – this one has a more existential quality about it, he says. That, of course, is the doing of U.S. President Donald Trump.
