Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

It’s a hard line to straddle. Are the Liberal MPs who announced they were heading for the exits when the polls were down but now want to contest their seats political opportunists? Or are they answering a call to duty?

On Tuesday, Sean Fraser, the Nova Scotia MP and former minister of housing and immigration, announced he’d changed his mind and would stand for re-election. “I will be the Liberal candidate in Central Nova during this federal election,” he posted on Facebook. “Yesterday, Prime Minister Mark Carney called and asked me to join the team that will be responding to this unprecedented economic threat from the United States. I said yes.”

Mark Carney says that he’s all in and elbows up for Canada, but it seems the firm Carney used to oversee liked foreign countries better. Not only did Brookfield Asset Management move its headquarters from Toronto to New York when Carney was its chairman, he set up $25 billion worth of Brookfield funds in a Caribbean tax haven.

If you’ve been following the federal election to date, try and figure this one out:

Liberal Leader Mark Carney has been slagging off Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre for refusing to seek the official security clearance that would give him access to top secret briefings by the Canadian spy agency, CSIS.

As Prime Minister Mark Carney presumably works to improve his French over the next month, he might soon discover the meaning of the proverb “en avril ne te découvre pas d’un fil.” Literally: in April, don’t remove even a thread (of clothing); figuratively: be cautious of premature optimism.

Carney is accustomed to managing risk, yet in Quebec, he’s perilously close to turning his greatest asset — goodwill — into his Achilles heel.

As the Liberal government approaches its tenth year in power, it is worth assessing its impact on Canada’s agri-food sector. While often perceived as disconnected from rural priorities and farm realities, the data offers a more nuanced picture.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney just opened another front in the Canada-US trade war: Western Canada.

Before the Liberals swapped out Justin Trudeau for Mark Carney, the former prime minister made clear that he was willing to consider an export tax against Alberta oil and Saskatchewan potash and uranium. Perhaps even British Columbian LNG. But Trudeau was a dead man walking, and what he said mattered little with one colourful sock out the door.

Carney apologizes to Montreal massacre survivor running for Liberals after getting name and school wrong

Liberal Leader Mark Carney named the wrong university as the site of the 1989 Montreal massacre on Tuesday — and flubbed the last name of the survivor who is running with his party.

At a campaign stop in Musquodoboit Harbour in the Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova, Carney made a nod to Liberal candidate Nathalie Provost but made two critical mistakes in the process.

“You want les défenseurs de la justice sociale, like Nathalie Pronovost à Montréal,” Carney said, calling Provost a defender of social justice.

He then repeated Provost’s name, making the same mistake and adding another.