Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland remains firm in her commitment to boost military spending by 63% within two years, despite skepticism from former cabinet colleagues.
“Watch me,” Freeland declared after her plan was criticized as unrealistic.
A caution from the philosopher George Santayana to members of the Liberal Party of Canada: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Step back, therefore, to the night of Feb. 28, 1984. Prime minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, father of Justin Trudeau, goes on a long, solitary walk through an Ottawa snowstorm and decides that the time has come for him to resign.
By Sunday, 400,000 adherents of the Justin Party (formerly the Liberal Party of Canada) are expected to have voted to select the next prime minister of Canada.
No matter that 300,000 of these were just recently signed up as people seriously interested in politics only since the incumbent, Justin Trudeau, forced from office by a populace fed up with his expensive, ineffective, and corrupt government, announced his intention to resign.
— DMB (@dmbman0077) March 2, 2025
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to meet King Charles on Monday to discuss “matters of importance to Canada and to Canadians.” The meeting comes as questions swirl over why King Charles, Canada’s head of state, has not publicly commented on Donald Trump’s threats to annex Canada.
Trudeau, who’s in London meeting with European leaders as they try to shore up support for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, mentioned the meeting during a Sunday press conference.
“I look forward to sitting down with His Majesty tomorrow,” Trudeau said.
They both love Muslims so there’s that.
The future Chrystia Freeland has long feared is here. Now she thinks she’s the best person to confront it
OTTAWA—Even as she attempts to become Liberal leader and prime minister, Chrystia Freeland is still surprised she chose to run for office at all.
“Sometimes when I look back on that decision, I’m astonished that I made that decision,” she said in a recent interview with the Star.
“At a human level, it was really hard. The kids really didn’t want to do it. And actually, they still reproach me because we bribed them with an offer to get a pet, which we never actually did.”
It seems doubtful Freeland will win the leadership. Pity as we all looked forward to Kim Campbell 2.0.
Can you guess how much Prime Minister Justin Trudeau bills Canadians every year for groceries at his home at Rideau Cottage in Ottawa? And you don’t have to include what it costs when he’s having an official dinner for the Sultan of Brunei or the Prime Minister of Norway. State dinners are covered by taxpayers by custom.
Chrystia Freeland joined the growing ranks of high-profile Canadian politicians taking to U.S. airwaves to spread their message to Canadian and American viewers since the election of U.S. President Donald Trump.
On Friday night, Freeland took swings at Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau while making her pitch to be Canada’s next prime minister on the HBO show “Real Time With Bill Maher.”
Buried because of the news about the Trump, Vance, Zelenskyy confrontation at the White House on Friday was the release of new economic data by Statistics Canada showing our standard of living has further deteriorated over the past two years.
StatsCan reported that Canada’s real GDP per capita, which measures economic output per person, adjusted for inflation, a widely accepted metric for measuring a nation’s prosperity, fell by 1.4% in 2024, following a decline of 1.3% in 2023.
This is what happens when your PM is an idiot unable to distinguish between a photo-op and governing.
Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney has said he should have been more “precise” in his answer about whether he played a role in the decision to move Brookfield headquarters from Canada to New York.
Carney came under scrutiny by the Conservative Party following his claim that the decision to move Brookfield headquarters was made after he had no role with the company.
Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney says he’s written to the British and Irish governments to begin the process of renouncing his citizenship in both countries, leaving him solely with Canadian citizenship if the process is completed.
At a leadership event in Oakville, Ont., on Friday night, Carney told reporters his belief is that as prime minister, he should hold only one citizenship.
Canada’s housing affordability crisis may persist until 2055 due to lengthy planning and approval processes, according to a new report from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
Blacklock’s Reporter says the federal insurer’s research found that obtaining municipal permits and completing planning takes twice as long as the actual construction of apartment buildings and townhouse developments.
Claims of lies by the former Bank of England governor threaten to derail his surging campaign
As Mark Carney stepped out to address the throng of waiting cameras, the Bank of England’s then-governor made every effort to appear calm and collected.
The day was June 24 2016 and millions of people were waking up to the news that Britain had just voted to quit the European Union. Financial markets were having a panic attack. And it was Carney’s job to soothe their nerves.
“Some market and economic volatility can be expected as this process unfolds,” the Canadian said in his television address. “But we are well prepared for this. The Bank of England will not hesitate to take additional measures as required.”
Canada appeared last week to be undergoing a paroxysm over U.S. President Donald Trump. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau incited public fears three weeks ago by declaring before a microphone he knew to be open that Trump was serious about taking over Canada. A knowledgeable and worldly friend who always has perceptive opinions on world affairs wrote me last weekend expressing his concern that Trump was making a spheres of influence agreement with Russia that would permit President Vladimir Putin to absorb Ukraine while the U.S. took over Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal Zone. None of this is happening. When he was first elected president eight years ago, many otherwise or apparently serious people made outrageous allegations, such as the national intelligence director, James Clapper, who declared that Trump was a Russian intelligence asset who had been elected by Russian manipulation of the 2016 election. All of this was demonstrated to be utter fiction. And we have now, after Trump has surmounted corrupt political impeachments and prosecutions and assassination attempts, and won an uncontestedly fair election (and complete acquittal) from the majority of his countrymen, graduated to the point where his legitimacy as president is accepted, but fantastic schemes of collusion with America’s rivals and aggression against its allies are being imputed to him by people who know better.
OTTAWA — “I hope there are some Canadians here,” said Liberal leadership hopeful Chrystia Freeland as she joined comedian Bill Maher for a one-on-one interview Friday on the set of HBO’s Real Time in Los Angeles.
Freeland, a semi-regular panelist on the irreverent political talk show, was in “full campaign mode” as she made her pitch to Maher that she was the right person to defend Canada against the whims of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Chrystia Freeland warns that liberals lose elections when they focus on virtue signaling and identity politics:
Bill Maher: "Justin Trudeau, who's on his way out. Used to be very popular, he still has his fans: 3.
Why did you turn on him? What would you do differently? If you… pic.twitter.com/2nHrhEKVNo— Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) March 1, 2025
If the definition of integrity is the courage to face reality, then the Liberals have a big integrity gap.
For a decade, Canada – and much of the Western world – has operated in a comfortable cocoon of insanity. Those days are over, displaced by a stark, harsh reality.
