Mark Carney may have an impressive resume and career, but he is the wrong man at the wrong time for Canada.
Carney is currently running to become leader of the Liberal Party and, by extension, the prime minister of Canada – in part by saying his global experience makes him the man to face down U.S. President Donald Trump.
Canadian authorities are planning to open a processing centre for asylum seekers near the United States border in Quebec in case there is a sharp rise in the number of would-be refugees entering Canada.
Earlier this week, the federal government published a notice seeking office space it could lease to accommodate reception and meal distribution areas as well as a waiting room for up to 200 people at a time.
In an e-mail, the Canada Border Services Agency says the planned processing centre is part of its contingency plans “in the event of an influx of asylum seekers.”
Immigration Minister offers provinces incentive to accept more asylum seekers
Immigration Minister Marc Miller is offering an incentive to provinces and territories to accept asylum seekers, saying he may allow them to select more economic migrants if they agree to help shoulder the burden.
As part of a wider drive to decrease the number of immigrants Canada accepts, this week Ottawa informed most provinces and territories that they must cut in half the number of people they bring in under provincial nominee programs this year. Each province receives an allotment from Ottawa for the number of nominees they can accept, although not all of them fill it.
#WATCH: Marc Miller says Canadians should be proud we’re housing 500k Afghan, Syrian and Ukrainian refugees because we have a heart.
Is Marc Miller delusional? Nearly 50% of the population supports mass deportations.
How can someone be so out of touch? pic.twitter.com/TbsP4ScWC6
— govt.exe is corrupt (@govt_corrupt) January 24, 2025
The slimeballs just won’t quit.
Canadians are opening their home heating bills with a sense of dread this month, thanks to the carbon tax.
Every politician haunting the warm halls of power should read the painful experiences of Canadians who are fighting to afford the basics.
Those politicians should ask themselves why any Canadian should be forced to pay the carbon tax for one more minute on an essential like home heating.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/7Yhp9Mx9wq
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) January 22, 2025
❄️ CARBON TAX PUNISHMENT
We asked you to send your home heating bills showing the carbon tax cost
We got 1000+
Some folks can’t afford any home heating, while others fight to keep the pipes from freezing
Carbon Tax is routinely costing more than the natural gas you used
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— Kris Sims (@kris_sims) January 24, 2025
Hill Times commentary compares Conservative election to rise of Nazis
A Hill Times commentary has drawn sharp criticism after likening the potential election of a Conservative Parliament in 2025 to the rise of Nazi authoritarianism in 1930s Germany.
… “The next federal election will test the limits of our parliamentary democracy,” wrote contributor Erica Ifill in the commentary titled “Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome.”
I know enough about Erica Ifill to state she is among the usual leftist lunatics employed by Canada’s subsidized media, as untalented as they come.
Hill Times can do better.
Facing U.S. President Donald Trump’s ongoing criticism about military spending, Defence Minister Bill Blair says it’s “absolutely achievable” for Canada to meet NATO’s military investment benchmark of two per cent of gross domestic product within two years.
That accelerated timeline to hit the target by 2027 is about five years earlier than what prime minister Justin Trudeau announced in July.
“My goal is to do it as quickly as possible and I’m increasingly confident we’ll be able to,” Blair said in response to questions from CBC News.
When Chrystia Freeland proposed raising taxes on capital gains last April, she pitched the change — and related promises to invest in dental care, school food programs and housing — in starkly moral terms.
“Before they complain too bitterly, I would like Canada’s one per cent — Canada’s 0.1 per cent — to consider this: What kind of Canada do you want to live in?” she asked in what would turn out to be her last budget speech. “Do you want to live in a country where those at the very top live lives of luxury — but must do so in gated communities, behind ever higher fences, using private health care and airplanes, because the public sphere is so degraded and the wrath of the vast majority of their less privileged compatriots burns so hot?”
Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney might appear flexible on the carbon tax, but don’t get your hopes up.
The former Bank of Canada governor is a climate activist of the most devoted and determined sort. He has done more thinking and writing about climate change than the rest of the Trudeau caucus combined.
In 2021, Carney published a boat-anchor book called Values.
Canadians are now treated almost daily to analyses of how the Trudeau government has damaged Canada with its crazy inflationary spending, with its missed opportunities for wealth with the oil and gas industries, with its hollowing out of Defence, leaving our NATO allies high and dry, its net-zero poppycock, its silly and demeaning dress-up world tours, and its numerous scandals of international proportions.
Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland called Friday for four Liberal leadership debates and said the other leadership candidates should commit to running in the next election under the party banner—no matter who wins.
In an open letter to the other candidates, Freeland said that the four debates, two in each official language, should be held as soon as possible.
Federal ministers appear to remain optimistic about Ottawa’s defence spending in the wake of President Donald Trump’s proposal to raise NATO targets from 2% to 5%.
Trump speaking via video conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday said the United States has for too long been carrying the weight for its ally nations.
In what may well be the last independent and objective assessment of Trudeau government spending before it becomes a part of history, parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux has eviscerated the Liberals’ fall economic statement delivered last month.
Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault says he’s been “forced to recognize” the carbon tax has become “very unpopular.”
“Of course, I would like for the consumer component of pricing to continue moving forward, but the reality is that it’s not supported by the NDP. Even some environmental organizations are telling me, ‘listen minister, it’s too unpopular and we have other tools,‘” Guilbeault told Vassy Kapelos in an interview on CTV’s Power Play Wednesday.
When asked by Kapelos why he’s turning away from a policy he’s defended for years, Guilbeault added his government’s climate plan doesn’t rest on one single measure.
OTTAWA — Liberal leadership contenders have put down the first $50,000 of their entry fees, and continue lining up caucus endorsements and organizers as they push through a rushed timeline in their bids to become party leader.
Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and former government House leader Karina Gould have all paid their $50,000 deposits, but the pressure to raise cash doesn’t stop there, with another $50,000 due Monday and the balance of their $350,000 entry fees due in a matter of weeks.
She knew. Chrystia Freeland knew.
That’s what she told Canadians last year about increasing capital-gains taxes. It meant tax fairness for every generation, she said.
“And we know that right now, Canada needs to make investments,” Ms. Freeland, then the finance minister, told a CTV News interviewer in June.
