Mark Carney had a blithe response to the departure of a star Liberal. Here’s why he may regret it

Mark Carney had a blithe response to the departure of a star Liberal. Here’s why he may regret it

When reporters asked Mark Carney about Steven Guilbeault’s decision to quit the Liberal caucus and his seat, months after walking out of cabinet over the Alberta MOU, the Prime Minister was gracious. He wished him and his family well. As reported by Radio-Canada, Carney said: “C’est sa décision, c’est normal, c’est la vie” — it’s his decision, it’s normal, that’s life.

Carney came to office with a French that even friendly observers called tentative. But a Prime Minister saying “c’est la vie” about a cabinet minister leaving over principle is a careful and deliberate choice of words. There’s no apology in it, no spin. It says: this is what needed to happen in this moment, and yes, people will leave.


Carney is simply a bit smarter and bit more subtle than screaming meemee Guilbeault.

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Jesse Kline: Carney admits antisemitism ‘crisis,’ but won’t do much about it

Jesse Kline: Carney admits antisemitism ‘crisis,’ but won’t do much about it

TORONTO — Prime Minister Mark Carney is good at saying all the right things, as he did during a speech on combating antisemitism at Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple on Monday afternoon. But talk is cheap. In terms of actual policy prescriptions, Carney might as well have held up a white flag and admitted he has no idea what to do.

In a prerecorded message preceding Carney’s address, the synagogue’s chief rabbi, Yael Splansky, called on Canada to “make good on its promise of peace, order and good government,” noting that, “When hate is tolerated, it grows … when laws are not enforced, permission is granted and lawlessness escalates.


Carney has no shame.

Carney’s logic seems to work this way: My elite pals caused this mess by importing antisemitic cultures, turning our education system into an ideological fever swamp and allowing the Church of Latter Day Brownshirts to turn our streets into a giant Nazi cosplay all the while criminalizing dissent  as “Islamophobic”.

Who better than they to take care of the Jews?

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After the Land Acknowledgement … Carney says Jewish Canadians are being ‘brutally targeted’ and the country is failing them

After the Land Acknowledgement … Carney says Jewish Canadians are being ‘brutally targeted’ and the country is failing them

OTTAWA — Canada’s Jewish community is being “brutally targeted” amid a crisis of antisemitism, Prime Minister Mark Carney said during a speech in which he declared the country “is failing Jewish Canadians.”

Speaking from Holy Blossom Temple synagogue in Toronto Monday afternoon, Carney denounced the “scourge of antisemitism” afflicting Canada’s Jewish community and pledged to do more to stop it.

But he also called on Canadians to stop importing the world’s conflicts and hatreds here, arguing that Jewish Canadians do not bear the responsibility of events unfolding overseas.

Carney is full of shit his party imports and coddles Islamists for their votes. It’s a learning experience for us all!

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Terry Newman: Carney’s quest to ‘Make America Great Again’

“I’m going to draw on an insight from the Finnish president, my friend Alexander Stubb, who observed that people consistently — myself included — do three things: over-rationalize the past, over-dramatize the present and underestimate the future.”

This is what Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told a room full of attendees at the Economic Club of New York on Thursday.

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Former Snowbird pilots call on Ottawa to scale back aerobatic show instead of suspending it

Former Snowbird pilots call on Ottawa to scale back aerobatic show instead of suspending it

Former Snowbird pilots are calling on the government to keep the iconic aerobatic show in the air by scaling back the performance rather than suspending it entirely.

The Royal Canadian Air Force recently announced it’s pausing the Snowbirds demonstration squadron at the end of the 2026 flying season until new planes arrive in the early 2030s.

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Amy Hamm: At least Guilbeault has principles — most Liberals don’t

Amy Hamm: At least Guilbeault has principles — most Liberals don’t

This week, Liberal MP and former environment minister and ex-Greenpeace activist Steven Guilbeault proved he’s capable of protest that doesn’t involve scaling the CN tower or chaining himself to oil sands equipment.

The Quebec MP announced his forthcoming resignation from the House of Commons, days after the CBC broke the news that 14 Liberal MPs (whom the CBC won’t name — but undoubtedly includes Guilbeault) penned a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, calling him out for allegedly reneging on the party’s environmental commitments. The letter insists that “climate change is the greatest threat of our time,” which certainly sounds as though it was penned by Guilbeault.

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Poilievre calls for emergency debate on recession in letter to Carney

In a Sunday morning letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for an emergency parliamentary debate to address the state of Canada’s economy.

“You promised you would deliver the fastest-growing economy in the G7. You delivered the only recession in the G7,” wrote the Official Opposition leader.

On Friday, a report from Statistics Canada showed the country’s economy contracted slightly for the second quarter in a row — meeting the technical definition of a recession.

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GOLDSTEIN: The laughable claims of Justin Trudeau’s climate warriors

GOLDSTEIN: The laughable claims of Justin Trudeau’s climate warriors

Old myths die hard in Ottawa and one of the hardest to kill is that the government of Justin Trudeau was on track to meet Canada’s climate change targets under his failed $200-billion-plus strategy, before Prime Minister Mark Carney blew them up.

The myth was on display at a social gathering last week of Trudeau’s now-departed environment ministers/climate change warriors – Steven Guilbeault, Catherine McKenna and Jonathan Wilkinson, along with the former PM himself – at the private Rideau Club near Parliament Hill, reported by CBC.

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Conrad Black: Liberals unfairly target religious expression

Conrad Black: Liberals unfairly target religious expression

Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act, which passed the House of Commons this spring has been controversial because of widespread fears that its broad definitions of hate speech and intimidation threatened fundamental democratic rights. Almost everybody opposes incitement to group hatred but almost everybody also supports the widest definition of freedom of human conduct that does not lead to chaos or promote or defend sociopathic behaviour. Opponents of C-9 are particularly concerned at the removal from the Criminal Code’s protection of people acting in good faith in reciting religious texts that could be construed as incitements to hate, even if unintentionally.

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Morgan: Carney’s Caucus Challenge

Morgan: Carney’s Caucus Challenge

While Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tries to maintain a balancing act between sovereigntists in Alberta and federalists, Prime Minister Mark Carney is walking a tightrope between factions within his own party that is no less precarious. The risk in trying to placate disparate views for too long is having a faction break away in discontent. Carney can only maintain equilibrium for so long before he finds himself forced to stand solidly on one side of his party or the other.

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Champagne mocked after comparing EV subsidies to Ford Model T

Champagne mocked after comparing EV subsidies to Ford Model T

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is facing criticism after incorrectly claiming the Ford Model T was not a success, while defending Ottawa’s $52 billion electric vehicle subsidy strategy.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Champagne made the remarks during heated Commons committee questioning over the federal government’s massive spending on electric vehicle projects, many of which have faced delays, layoffs or uncertainty.

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All for one: Norway, Germany sell Canada on shared submarine fleet

Both Norway and Germany invoked an all-for-one, one-for-all approach as they this week sharpened their public and private pitches for Canada to select the Type 212CD as the navy’s next submarine.

Both long-standing NATO allies, the two European powers are now putting more emphasis on what it means for Arctic and North Atlantic security for three nations to operate the same boat.

“We are thinking of the submarine fleet not as a Norwegian fleet and a German fleet and a Canadian fleet, we were thinking of a common fleet,” Marte Gerhardsen, the state secretary to Norway’s minister of defence, told CBC News in an interview this week.

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Mark Carney flexes the Liberal party’s powers of transformation

Steven Guilbeault’s breakup with his Liberal government was a long time coming, but the events that set if off were swift.

In an interview with my colleague Ryan Tumilty, the former environment minister and soon-to-be ex-MP underlined just how much the Liberals have changed in a matter of months.

“I’m not blind to what’s happening around us and in the world, but we ran on a platform that was very strong on climate change just over a year ago. Donald Trump was there a year ago, the tariff war had started a year ago,” he said. “This is not a course correction. We have basically abandoned large chunks of our climate change strategy.”


Carney will say anything for a vote.

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