Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney made sure to play up his local roots at his official campaign launch in Edmonton on Thursday, but Albertan pundits and political strategists are still on the fence about whether he can connect with the province’s voters after decades away.

As campaign launches go, Mark Carney’s entry into the lists could have been more professional.

It did not look well on somebody who aspires as putative prime minister to represent all Canadians, that the people working on his behalf excluded journalists whose wages aren’t paid by the government. And whose bright idea was it to rip off a debt collection agency’s logo for the campaign theme? Like Canadians aren’t already so indebted that they don’t answer numbers they don’t recognize? We call that having a tin ear.

TORONTO (Reuters) -Four of Canada’s biggest lenders said on Friday they were withdrawing from a global banking sector climate coalition, joining six major U.S. banks.

The departures from the Net-Zero Banking Alliance began with Goldman Sachs’ announcement on Dec. 6 and come ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House next week. Trump has been critical of efforts by governments to prescribe climate-change policies.

The four Canadian banks are TD Bank, Bank of Montreal, National Bank of Canada and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).

The Net-Zero Banking Alliance, a UN-sponsored initiative set up by former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, was launched in 2021 to encourage financial institutions to limit the effects of climate change and push toward achieving net-zero emissions.

The CEO of MetCredit, a national collection agency, is asking the campaign of Liberal leader hopeful Mark Carney to stop using a logo that looks uncannily similar to his company’s.

After the 2011 debacle under Ignatieff, the Liberals abandoned rebuilding a party in disarray for the easy path: Trudeau’s shallow appeal.

The Liberal Party of Canada’s decision to rebuild itself after its historic defeat in the 2011 election by relying on Justin Trudeau was a serious miscalculation. Rather than undertaking the hard work of political renewal – addressing voter apathy, reconnecting with its grassroots, and modernizing its infrastructure – the party chose a shortcut. Banking on Trudeau’s charisma, family name, and media appeal, the Liberals prioritized short-term electoral gains over rebuilding a party in disarray.

While this approach delivered a temporary victory, it left the party vulnerable, with growing questions about its long-term viability as a political force.

While he claims to be a Liberal ‘outsider,’ Mark Carney has been a backer of Justin Trudeau’s policies

Mark Carney has been on the Canadian political leadership radar for more than a decade, bleeping away well before Justin Trudeau’s Liberals were elected in 2015. He continued to feed his political ambitions over the years, including his time as a central banker hectoring corporations for hoarding “dead money.” Then he moved on to his guiding ideological theme, which is that if humans are allowed to pursue their own interests in a free-market economy, they will destroy life on Earth.

Justin Trudeau is only the second elected prime minister in Canadian history, after Jean Chrétien, to be ignominiously pushed out as prime minister by his own party, and this departure is more embarrassing because it follows a bungled attempt to lay all the responsibility for a failed economic policy on the finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, turf her out and replace her with a complete newcomer to elective office.