Carney deflects from floor crossing MP’s China’s slave state comments … wonders if he’ll have to report gift from Xi

Carney defends Canada’s approach to forced labour amid fallout from floor-crossing MP’s comments

Prime Minister Mark Carney defended Canada’s approach to forced labour as one of his newest MPs continues to face backlash for appearing to cast doubt on the practice in China.

Carney’s response to Michael Ma’s performance at committee last week comes during a sensitive moment in both Canada’s attempts to reset ties with Beijing and the ongoing trade war with the Trump administration — which is investigating whether its northern neighbour and dozens of other countries are failing to take action on forced labour.

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Millions of Americans are now eligible for Canadian citizenship and many are applying ‘just in case’

When Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, New York State resident Ellen Robillard briefly looked into getting Canadian citizenship. Her mother, after all, was born in Nova Scotia.

As a Democrat, Robillard was despondent at the election results, but she abandoned the idea after realizing that her young son wouldn’t be eligible for citizenship under a law that barred Canadians born abroad from passing their citizenship to children if they were also born outside Canada.

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John Weissenberger: Liberals have perfected the practice of announcing things they will never do

Many quaint expressions have passed from common usage in recent years, like “it’s a free country” or “sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.” Similarly, “talk is cheap” is something you don’t hear much, at least not in government circles around Ottawa. That may be because the governing Liberals, like many politicians, don’t seem to know the difference between saying you’re going to do something and actually doing it.

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Nope. Not worried one bit …

A major immigration reform bill is now law in Canada. Some worry it rolls back refugee rights

A major bill reforming immigration powers is now law in Canada, giving Ottawa powers to mass cancel groups of visas and setting time limits on asylum claims in the name of bringing immigration numbers under control.

But the legislation, passed Thursday, has also raised concerns from a coalition of civil society groups, including Amnesty International, immigration lawyers and public sector unions, that says it places too much authority in the government’s hands and is vowing to fight it.

“Bill C-12 attacks the rights of refugees and migrants,” Julia Sande, a lawyer specializing in privacy and migrant rights at Amnesty International Canada, said in an interview with CBC News. “It makes it harder for people to have their claims for refugee protection fairly assessed, so it puts people at risk of being deported to face persecution and torture.”


Just the usual scammers dislike this and frankly it doesn’t go far enough.

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Why is a member of Canada’s Parliament denying slave labor in China?

Any notion that the Canadian government has become too cozy with the People’s Republic of China was certainly bolstered in recent days.

Michael Ma was born in Hong Kong but has lived in Canada since he was 12. He entered Parliament as a Conservative but, in 2025, he crossed the aisle, becoming a member of the Liberal Party. Since then, he’s run into trouble.

Carney is even more corrupt than Junior.

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Canadian Army overhaul looms as DND finalizes mobilization plans

The military’s operations command is currently drawing up an “all arms defence of Canada” plan which will lead to a major reorganization of the army this fall, says the country’s top army commander.

Lt.-Gen. Mike Wright, speaking at a land forces conference at the University of Calgary on Thursday, said the army’s existing four-division structure, which is largely administrative, is being torn down and replaced.

“The army we have is not the army we need,” Wright said.

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GOLDSTEIN: Liberals’ kid gloves treatment of China is nothing new

While Liberal MP Michael Ma has belatedly apologized for questioning the veracity of expert testimony at a Commons committee hearing that China uses forced labour — claiming that was not his intent — cozying up to China has been mainstream Liberal thinking in a line stretching from Justin Trudeau to Mark Carney.

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As prime minister, Mark Carney makes Question Period a low priority

When he’s in the House of Commons during the daily 45-minute Question Period, Mark Carney seems to enjoy himself.

While it’s never shown on TV cameras — House of Commons personnel and not broadcasters control the visuals — those in the galleries will often see Carney smiling and joking with members of the opposition, including Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. Judging by his grins and applause, Carney seems to be happy when someone on his side scores a debating point against an opponent.

But enjoy it as he might, Carney is rarely in Question Period.

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MORGAN: Dirty secret behind Canada’s high food prices — a Soviet-style cartel your politicians are too scared to touch

From RCMP raids on Alberta egg farmers to a billion gallons of dumped milk, Canada’s supply management system is robbing consumers in plain sight.

Imagine living under a system of market control so stringent that federal police will swarm your home and arrest you if you try to sell eggs from your own farm. You don’t have to imagine it in Canada. Southern Alberta chicken farmer Henk Van Essen had multiple RCMP cruisers descend upon his property last year, and he was jailed for the crime of selling eggs without a government-issued quota.

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Conservatives put pressure on Carney to clarify his position on forced labour in China

The Conservatives have written to the Prime Minister to demand that he clarify his position on the forced labour of the mainly Muslim Uyghur minority in China after a Liberal MP was accused of attempting to cast doubt on the existence of the practice.

Michael Chong, the Conservative foreign affairs critic, wrote to Mark Carney Friday asking him if his assessment is “that Uyghur forced labour has and is being used” in China.

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GUNTER: Feds’ attack on notwithstanding clause an attack on Canadian federation

It’s too bad federal government lawyers were at the Supreme Court this week arguing against Quebec’s use of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause in conjunction with that province’s controversial 2019 law, Bill 21. Also known as the secularism law, Bill 21 forbids the wearing of religious symbols at work by any public servant including teachers, nurses, police officers, even clerks.

It’s a Carney power grab.

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Cost of living hitting food banks so hard in Carney’s Canada that visits are limited to once a month

Food banks across the country are being forced to scale back services at a time when Canadians need them the most, due to limited supplies.

In southern Saskatchewan, the Moose Jaw & District Food Bank plans to limit households to just one visit a month instead of the usual two, beginning April 1. They will also reduce the amount of food handed out to each visitor.

“Our resources aren’t keeping up with the demand,” said executive director Jason Moore in an interview with CTV Newsthis week.

h/t Patti Jo

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Federal loan to Nova Scotia wind farm managed by firm owned by Liberal MPs family members being investigated

At hearings in Ottawa on Wednesday, the head of the Canada Infrastructure Bank refused to state the interest rate on the $206-million loan to a wind farm project that’s being managed by a company owned by the family members of three former Liberal MPs and a former Nova Scotia Liberal Party leader.

The examination of the deal by the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities was launched after The Chronicle Herald revealed that Roswall Development Inc., parent company to Renewall Energy, which will be selling the power from the Mersey River wind project, has deep Liberal connections.

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China denies forced labour allegations amid fallout from Michael Ma’s comments

Camp Uyghur

China is again denying claims of forced labour in the country as calls grow for Prime Minister Mark Carney to clarify Canada’s stance on the issue amid fallout from comments made by Liberal MP Michael Ma that appeared to cast doubt on reported human rights abuses.

The Chinese Embassy in Canada pushed back on the allegation that forced labour is used in the production of Chinese electric vehicle components in a social media post Friday night, calling it a “blatant lie” that some are using to undermine the Canada-China EV deal.

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Should Mark Carney be doubling Canada’s defense spending in response to today’s security threats?

Few policy choices shape a country more profoundly than decisions about sovereignty, security and military might.

Those questions are now at the centre of a debate triggered by Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pledge to meet a NATO defence spending target of five per cent of GDP by 2035 and the government’s new defence strategy.


Oh Oh! – US president considers blocking members of military alliance from decision-making unless 5 per cent spending target hit

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