Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney is fond of claiming he’s an “outsider.”
If Carney wants to be seen as an outsider, he must do more than say he is one. Carney needs to put his money where his mouth is and present a clear plan to fix this government’s broken budget.
International study permit data an ‘earthquake’ for Canadian university finances
A dramatic decline in international study permits issued last year is quickly becoming an existential threat to the finances of Canadian postsecondary schools, say organizations representing the institutions.
“The drop in international students is like an earthquake hitting an education system that’s already structurally weakened by years of underinvestment,” said Gabriel Miller, president and CEO of Universities Canada.
Background, Foreign Student Scam Origin – Canada’s International Student Boom Was A $148M Government Campaign
Canada’s international student boom went from success to liability over just a few years. Policymakers that promoted the growth are now suddenly passing blame, presenting it as an overwhelming surprise. It turns out the growth was the intended outcome of a $148 million plan, including a new brand jointly owned and operated by the Federal, Provincial, and Territorial Governments. Policymakers are now presenting new limits as a response to public outcry, coincidentally in the same year the strategy ended. What timing!
Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney will abandon his party’s consumer carbon tax and replace the policy with an incentive program that rewards Canadians for making green choices.
The former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor made the announcement at an event in Halifax Friday morning.
“The consumer carbon tax isn’t working; it’s become too divisive. That’s why I’ll cancel it and replace it with incentives to reward people for greener choices”, Carney said in a statement released to the media.
“I did not expect to be a slave here.”
Bénédicte Carole Zé came to Canada in 2016 to work on a poultry farm after paying $10,000 in illegal recruitment fees for a job here. But once she arrived, she says she was forced to work 70- to 80-hour weeks for an employer who she alleges sexually abused her, controlled her banking and did not let her leave the house or have a cellphone, while threatening her with deportation if she complained.
The Cameroonian woman’s testimony is just one of many accounts of exploitation and abuse in a new Amnesty International report into the experiences of labourers in the temporary foreign worker program (TFWP).
So Trudeau and his cronies were White slavers all along! Amnesty says so!
For you, Canadian everyman, our nation’s scandals aren’t experienced all that differently: news of deep corruption or incompetence catches wind, people get mad, bureaucratic bodies diffuse blame — and ultimately, no one pays the price. Well, except for you, who has to learn to do better.
People who don’t understand lame-duck Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate policies — apparently including most Liberal politicians and their spin doctors — think it’s going to be easy to dismantle them.
That all they have to do is get rid of the consumer fuel tax that raises the cost of gasoline, natural gas and 20 other forms of fossil-fuel energy every year and all will be well.
With the Liberal leadership election just over a month away on March 9, Canadians are examining the six final contenders and questioning if they will bring change to the Liberal Party or carry on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s radical legacy.
The six contenders for Liberal leader and consequently, the next prime minister, are: Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, Karina Gould, Jaime Battiste, Frank Baylis and Ruby Dhalla.
As the Liberal leadership race gets underway, support for the party has been rekindled, though the Conservatives continue to maintain a strong lead, a new survey says.
Opposition parties have been working on the assumption that the Liberals will be seeking a way to extend the life of their minority government once their new leader is chosen.
That assumption may be dead wrong.
Canada will likely be heading into an election right after the Liberal leadership race. The “natural governing party” won’t be waiting around for the opposition to decide the election date. The countdown towards the next vote will begin the minute our new prime minister gets sworn in.
I can’t see the Liberals giving up their planned Trump Tariff Slush fund without at least some time at the trough.
Liberals open to recalling Parliament if opposition parties want to pass tariff relief, minister says
OTTAWA — People who have voted Liberal in the past strongly prefer leadership contender Mark Carney, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll, but Canadians at large remain unconvinced that any new leader will dump the Liberals’ unpopular carbon tax.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government was “insufficiently transparent” about foreign interference in Canadian politics and sometimes took “too long to act” against attempts to meddle in the country’s past two general elections by foreign powers including China and India, a government commission said on Tuesday.
“Trust in Canada’s democratic institutions has been shaken, and it is imperative to restore it,” the commission said in its final report, which summarized 18 months of hearings, testimony and examination of classified intelligence documents.
… In another case, Mahmoud Mohammad Issa Mohammad v. Canada, a convicted terrorist managed to drag out his deportation battle 26 years. Mohammad – a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) convicted of taking part in a deadly attack on an Israeli plane at Athens airport in the 1960s – lied about his identity, his criminal past, as well as his ties to terrorist organizations. Kenney told reporters at the time “This case is almost a comedy of errors, with delays, with a system that was so bogged down in redundant process and endless appeals that it seemed to some that we would never be able to enforce the integrity of Canada’s immigration system and deport this terrorist killer.” Authorities cited Mohammad for misrepresentation on multiple grounds, yet he still managed to remain in Canada for decades. The threat of misrepresentation is a significant security concern. Thorough screening is crucial to ensure that those admitted do not pose security risks, given their possible affiliation with groups involved in violence or other activities that threaten national safety.
Laughing stock nation.
The problem with politicians is that they will insist on indulging in partisan politicking, the distasteful and grubby manipulation of affairs to advance their own, or party, fortunes.
It leaves a bad taste in the mouth of the electorate who can see it for what it is — an odious form of political nepotism.
Who do I trust? That’s the question Liberals need to ask themselves as they prepare to choose a new leader — because it’s the question voters will be asking in the next federal election. But it’s not about trust in the macro sense: is this person honest? Will they keep their promises? Do they have the smarts and experience for the job? It’s trust in the micro sense: who do I trust to have my back? Who gets me? Who do I trust to look after my wallet, my job, my family and my country?
The official rate of Canadians 65 and older living in poverty is six per cent.
But the number could be more than double that, new research warns.
Fourteen per cent of Canadians in that age demographic are living in “poverty-level conditions,” according to the “Ageing in Canada” survey released today by the National Institute on Ageing and Environics Institute for Survey Research.
The National Institute on Ageing (NIA) surveyed 5,875 Canadians over the age of 50 on their social well-being, health and financial security.
