Jesse Kline: Freeland, Carney desperate to campaign against Trump tariffs

For Canadian pundits and Liberal leadership hopefuls, Monday’s presidential inauguration in the United States was a letdown. Not only did U.S. President Donald Trump not keep his promise to slap Canadian goods with a 25 per cent tariff on Day 1, he didn’t even mention us in his inaugural address.

Columnists were left scratching their heads over how they were going to criticize the new president, while Liberals faced the daunting prospect of having to campaign against Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, rather than their preferred opponent: Donald Trump.

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Canada’s population could reach 80M in 50 years, despite immigration cut: report

Canada’s population will grow over the years regardless of the federal government’s recent decision to slash immigration rates, a new report shows.

Statistics Canada released new projection figures Tuesday that factor in Ottawa’s October announcement that it would be reducing the number of permanent residents admitted to the country by 21 per cent in 2025.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at the time the goal was to pause population growth over the next two years to ease pressures the economy has been facing, such as in housing and infrastructure.

Poilievre will be Justin on immigration. We need a moratorium and an end to 3rd world immigration.

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Trudeau’s Liberal Party’s existential crisis a national risk

Many sources confirm that Canada has serious security problems that hostile powers exploit extensively. The Canada-is-back naïveté animating the decaying Trudeau regime led to open borders and infiltration of foreign operatives inside key Canadian institutions, from the Winnipeg Lab to the Parliament of Canada.

Allies question Canada’s eagerness to engage in an open diplomatic conflict with India, the world’s largest democracy and fastest-growing economy while overlooking China’s significantly more damaging actions despite being a formidable adversary to Western democracies today.

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Brad Tennant: Jagmeet Singh says he’s done supporting the Liberals. There’s no reason we should believe him

Since the 2021 election, there’s been no safer bet in Canadian politics than wagering that Jagmeet Singh would ultimately back the Liberal Party. With Justin Trudeau stepping down as leader, we shouldn’t take for granted that this dynamic is necessarily going to change. Singh has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to compromise his stated principles in exchange for concessions—or even the appearance of influence. Now the stage is set for a new Liberal leader to test this pattern.

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Kelly McParland: Mark Carney’s unlikely shot at wooing disillusioned voters

It’s not impossible that Mark Carney could be just the guy to repair Canada’s economy and guide the country through what threatens to be several years of turbulence.

He certainly has the resume. Every article about the former banker, bureaucrat, investment executive and corporate honcho takes note of his skills, experience, education and success in handling difficult and complex problems across a range of situations, both economic and political, over a period of 20 years in top levels of business and government.

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After all that, it will be the Liberals themselves who will actually ‘axe the tax’

Federal environment minister Steven Guilbeault posted a video over the weekend in which he was skating on the Rideau Canal.

“One of the reasons we are fighting climate change,” he says, “is to protect iconic places” like the Ottawa landmark.

It’s a perfectly reasonable point: the skate season on the canal has been shrinking in recent years amid warming Ottawa winters. Two years ago it didn’t open for skating at all.


Only at the Star and CBC will you find blind enthusiasm for Trudeau’s climate scam policy.

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Freeland attempts to put some distance between herself and an unpopular PM Trudeau

OTTAWA – Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland is seeking to distance herself from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as she competes for his job.
In an interview today with CP24 Freeland says she found herself disagreeing with Trudeau more often in recent months and ultimately decided the government was on the wrong path.
Freeland quit cabinet in December after Trudeau told her he planned to replace her as finance minister with former central banker Mark Carney once she delivered the fall economic statement in the House of Commons.

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Former Liberal MP urges govt. to follow Trump and torch EV mandates

The head of one of Canada’s largest energy advocacy groups is urging the federal government to follow US president Donald Trump’s lead and scrap EV mandates in this country.

Minutes after Trump announced the end of EV mandates south of the border, former Liberal MP and current president of Canadians for Affordable Energy (CAE), Dan McTeague, urged Liberal leadership candidates, including Mark Carney, to take decisive action by repealing the federal government’s mandate for all new vehicles sold in Canada to be electric by 2035.

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Freeland fostered the incivility she faced at her rally

As she announced her bid for the Liberal leadership, Chrystia Freeland found herself a victim of the incivility she helped bring about in this country.

Protestors yelled from the gallery and rushed the stage. A masked protestor was removed after getting within inches of Freeland. That is not acceptable.

She is the least likeable of an entire string of unlikeable candidates.

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John Ivison: Trump grants Liberals a pardon

For all the bravado about retaliation, Canadians were like prisoners on death row on Monday morning, waiting for the door handle to turn to find out if they’d been granted a reprieve or were about to have their final breakfast.

The Wall Street Journal story that Donald Trump won’t impose broad tariffs on Day One of his presidency , instead ordering a review of trade and currency imbalances, was like a stay of execution.

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Trudeau’s Canada: Kingston, Ont., declares emergency as roughly 1 in 3 households struggle with food insecurity

For Kingston, Ont., city councillor Greg Ridge, the pain of food insecurity is personal.

When Ridge was eight years old, his dad was hurt on the job and had to go on disability. Ridge said he recalls wondering why his grandparents were suddenly dropping off groceries and his parents were talking in hushed tones about money.

“I remember once in the kitchen my mom was crying, and I went over and I gave her a hug and I said, ‘Mom, it’s going to be OK,'” the King’s Town councillor said, fighting tears of his own.

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Canadian government urged to scrap 2035 gas engine ban as Trump scraps US plan

OTTAWA — More calls are coming for the Trudeau Liberals to scrap their imperiled policy to mandate 100% EV car sales by 2035.

On Monday, Canadians for Affordable Energy joined the call made last week by Canada’s auto industry, noting the government’s decision earlier this month to cancel the Incentives for Zero-Emission Vehicles (iZEV) program, which offered federal subsides to those who purchased an all-electric vehicle.

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