OTTAWA — Chrystia Freeland, whose dramatic resignation as finance minister in December set the stage for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down, has announced she will run for the Liberal leadership.
Freeland announced her campaign on social media on Friday morning with a single sentence: “I am running to fight for Canada.”
There has been a dramatic decrease of people from Mexico claiming asylum at Canadian airports.
In an update on border security Wednesday, Immigration Minister Marc Miller said the reintroduction of visas for Mexican airline passengers has led to a 97% decrease in refugee claims.
Too late, our city’s are 3rd world dumpster fires.
Outgoing prime minister Justin Trudeau, who cancelled his year-end interviews with Canadian media outlets, sat down recently with CNN’s Jake Tapper for a friendly chat about the future of Canada-US relations.
The context is two-fold.
First, incoming president Donald Trump has escalated his personal razzing of Trudeau — calling him “Governor Trudeau” and musing about Canada as a 51st state. Second, he offered more aggressive speculations about using “economic force” to annex Canada entirely.
The Liberal party has unravelled in two ways: gradually, then remarkably suddenly.
The received wisdom is now obsolete by the time it has been received.
So far, none of the contenders touted to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and prime minister have come forward.
A lot of the commentary about the Liberal government that will succeed Justin Trudeau’s assumes that it will be short-lived. That’s probably the best bet over the coming weeks. With the Bloc Quebecois, Conservatives, and New Democrats committed to voting non-confidence against the government at the first opportunity, it’s seemingly only a matter of time before we’re subjected to an election.
The problem Mark Carney, likely Liberal leader-to-be, will always run into is this: his fate doesn’t depend on a successful Canada.
Carney will be announcing his leadership run Thursday. Odds are good he’s going to win. He’s not as recognizable as his only real competition, potential candidate and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, but he doesn’t share her bruised record of inflating the deficit to multi-billion dollar highs, and last week’s polling shows that more people are open to voting for him than for her.
Mark Carney, the “rock star central banker” who navigated a string of financial crises and became a leading global voice on the economic risks of climate change, has rapidly emerged as a favourite in the race to lead Canada’s Liberal party.
But the steepest challenge for Carney, a fixture at international summits and company boardrooms, may be getting Canadian voters – even those within his own party – to recognize him.
Carney, who served as governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, will announce his candidacy to replace Justin Trudeau, at an event in Edmonton late on Thursday. He is the first serious contender to enter the race, the winner of which will replace the outgoing prime minister as the Liberal party leader and, perhaps briefly, the next prime minister of Canada.
He’s a WEF Climate Grifter.
Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland would drop the consumer carbon tax — one of the Liberal government’s signature environmental policies — if elected leader, said a source close to her campaign.
The source, who was not authorized to speak publicly, told CBC News the former deputy prime minister will “make difficult decisions to meet our emissions targets and make sure big polluters pay for their outsized emissions.”
But the source said Freeland “will not fight Canadians on a policy they have been clear they do not support.”
Update: Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland would scrap consumer carbon tax if elected Liberal leader, sources say
The consumer price on carbon is dead.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre can pat himself on the back — all those rallies, all those ads, all those talking points in the House of Commons — the case against the carbon price was so successfully prosecuted that the two leading Liberal leadership candidates are walking away from it.
The Star has learned that former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, who will announce his leadership bid Thursday in Edmonton, has been telling Liberal MPs in private conversations that he will repeal the consumer price, focus on industrial emitters instead, but also recognize that the Trudeau government’s approach did put more money back into people’s pockets, and so will deliver a middle class tax break as compensation.
Have they promised a corporate tax won’t be passed down to consumers.
Why would anybody want to be leader of this Liberal Party?
Most don’t. One by one those supposedly on the inside track withdraw from the race… Dominic LeBlanc, François-Philippe Champagne, Melanie Joly…
OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland are lining up support from Liberal MPs before officially entering the Liberal leadership race to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
National Post reached out to nearly all 153 Liberal MPs to ask them who they intend to endorse between Carney, Freeland and Liberal House Leader Karina Gould. Former B.C. Premier Christy Clark decided to drop out of the race, citing her inability to speak French.
Asked by The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart about the top contenders who would give the Liberal party its best shot against Pierre Poilievre, Mr. Carney mused about what he jokingly called a wild hypothetical:
“Let’s say the candidate wasn’t part of the government. Let’s say the candidate did have a lot of economic experience. Let’s say the candidate did deal with crises. Let’s say the candidate had a plan to deal with the challenges in the here and now.”
Stewart’s reply—“You sneaky! You’re running as an outsider” — was met with Carney’s ready agreement: “I am an outsider.”
Toronto [Canada], January 14 (ANI): Canadian journalist Tahir Gora believes that outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s diplomatic row with India was a desperate attempt to garner votes, which ultimately backfired.
Trudeau’s popularity had been waning due to his handling of immigration policies and the economy, and his party’s trust in him had begun to erode. He raked up the diplomatic row with India only for his ‘vote bank politics’ which didn’t work, Gora said.
In an online interview with ANI, Tahir Gora said he doesn’t see the India-Canada ties improving anytime soon, irrespective of the results of the next general elections due later this year.
On Monday, Mark Carney unofficially threw his hat into the Liberal leadership race during an interview. No. He didn’t choose to go on CTV’s Power Play, hosted by Vassy Kapleos, who no doubt would’ve grilled him on how he’d handle our dire economic situation, as well as the wisdom of his chosen party proroguing Parliament to avoid a non-confidence vote and a likely election, at a time when Donald Trump’s threats should be debated in the House by all MPs, instead of being handled in the shadows by a wildly unpopular minority government.
The ‘male feminist’ has long been a source of ire for me. When feminism surged in popularity during the mid-Noughties, progressive men glommed on, wearing their ‘This is what a feminist looks like’ t-shirts with pride. They were cheered on by legions of naïve women, starving for breadcrumbs. The truth about contemporary feminism is that the label has become meaningless. A ‘feminist’ is now something anyone can be, regardless of their interest in women’s rights.
