Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

The federal Liberals now have their Parliamentary majority, completing the job with byelections but having had to set the stage with opposition MPs crossing the floor. How it happened becomes secondary to what they now do with it.

The composition of the House of Commons will always be fluid, just as righteous howls over floor crossing will always be with us.

Marilyn Gladu, MP for Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong, recently revised her opinion on the matter when crossing to join the Liberals. Yes, it’s a frustration for those in her riding who voted Conservative. Gladu’s socially conservative views have also prompted cynicism among some Liberals regarding Carney’s core values.

You can call it a majority by the letter of the law — but it’s actually an act of institutional arson.

Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney, parachuted in to save Justin Trudeau’s sinking ship, just pulled off the ultimate boardroom maneuver. After Monday’s by-election victories in Toronto’s University-Rosedale, Scarborough Southwest, and Montreal’s Terrebonne, the Liberals have manufactured a majority government out of thin air.

The three byelection wins by the Liberals on Monday night give the Carney government an unassailable majority. With 174 seats, they can pass any bill they like without having rely on the Speaker of the House of Commons to cast a deciding vote to break a tie.

Let’s put aside for a moment the fact that the Liberal majority was undemocratically obtained.

The Canadian economy is losing businesses faster than it can create new ones, and it is time for federal and provincial governments to act to reverse this trend, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

A new report by the organization, calls it an “entrepreneurial drought,” which it defines as a year or more in which “business entry rates are strictly lower than business exit rates.”

It says the drought has been ongoing since 2024, making it the worst period for entrepreneurs outside of the pandemic.

Occasionally, events transpire that seem scripted to illustrate the political weirdness of Canada’s present moment. Recently, there were two. The first occurred when the prime minister himself appeared at the recent Juno Awards to present Joni Mitchell with a Lifetime Achievement Award, praising her as a Canadian icon.

Now, Mitchell ranks among the first tier of musicians of the popular era, and she richly merits whatever accolades come her way, but what stood out here was that she is 82, older even than the Baby Boomers; Mark Carney at 61 is a spring chicken by comparison. Meanwhile, she took the opportunity to return Carney’s praise, while lamenting the political conditions in the United States…where she continues to reside.

On the surface, the results of last night’s Canadian by-elections would be significant enough. The Liberals, under Prime Minister Mark Carney, achieved majority status by winning two safe downtown Toronto seats, also eking out a win against the Bloc Québécois in suburban Montreal. But the truth is that Carney won his majority even before Monday, after an extraordinary string of floor-crossings in which five opposition MPs defected to the Liberals, with more rumored on the way. It has decisively put an end to the precarious minority status which emerged from last year’s general election.

In trying to address his inability to strike a trade deal with the US, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s alternative to gain access to the European Union (EU) market is something I wanted to argue poses a threat to Canada’s sovereignty. That’s how I feel, particularly about Canada joining the EU as a member state.

But, while I found that Carney’s solution to perceived overreliance on the US does indeed contain a serious threat to Canada, it’s not from the EU.

OTTAWA — Nearly one year after the spring election that led to the election of his minority government, Prime Minister Mark Carney now has his majority.

Now what?

Monday evening’s byelection results — with the Liberals retaining two Toronto-area seats — coupled with the stunning floor-crossing of Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu to Carney’s ranks last week, pushed the Liberals solidly into majority government territory. Another byelection on Monday, in Quebec’s Terrebonne riding, could add to the Liberal margin if the party can fend of a fierce challenge from the Bloc Québécois.

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‘It’s time to get serious,’ Carney says after byelection sweep delivers him a majority government

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will use his newly won majority to push through legislation that the opposition parties have stymied in recent years, saying his immediate focus will be quickly passing affordability measures and a bill designed to turbocharge home construction.

The Liberal candidates in two Toronto ridings trounced their opponents in Monday’s byelections, improving on the party’s already strong showing in both seats at the last general election. The party also won a closely fought contest in Terrebonne, a Montreal-area riding that has long been a Bloc Québécois stronghold.

Carney framed those victories, particularly the one in Quebec, as a strong endorsement of the government’s agenda.

A day after sweeping three byelections in Ontario and Quebec that gave him a majority in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that he is temporarily removing the federal excise tax on gas and diesel.

The move means that the cost of gas will drop by ten cents on a litre of gasoline and four cents per litre of diesel starting Monday and lasting until Labour Day.

The fuel tax holiday, which Carney said would also see the four cent per litre excise tax removed on aviation fuel, is expected to cost an estimated $2.4 billion.

In his address to last weekend’s Liberal convention, Prime Minister Mark Carney once again emphasized the need for Canada to rethink its dependence on the U.S.

“A good number of our historic strengths, which came from our close ties with the U.S., have become our weaknesses,” Carney said in French to the Montreal crowd.