Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing calls to immediately shrink the federal bureaucracy after Tuesday’s report released by the Parliamentary Budget Officer shows costs continue to increase at an alarming rate.
The PBO’s Personnel Expenditure Analysis says the federal bureaucracy cost taxpayers $71.4 billion in 2024-25. In 2015-16, that number stood at $39.6 billion, a rise of 80% in 10 years.
The opposition parties were all trumped, as it were, in last year’s election. They may well face the same fate again this year as talk of an election call in Canada grows. If an election does occur, Donald Trump’s continued raft of threats, insults and incoherent rants is a gift to the Liberals. His behaviour underlines the threat he represents — and the need for a strong and effective Canadian prime minister to challenge him. Barring unforeseeable events, Mark Carney owns that card.
Canada’s defence industry got a $6.6 billion boost Tuesday, as Prime Minister Mark Carney formally unveiled Ottawa’s new Defence Industrial Strategy. The plan promises to create 125,000 new jobs over 10 years and award 70 per cent of defence contracts to Canadian companies, through a “Build-Partner-Buy” framework that prioritizes domestic industry. It is part of the government’s plan to increase Canadian military spending to five per cent of GDP by 2035, in line with NATO targets.
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing mounting calls to speak out against the United States for widening its restrictions on fuel reaching Cuba, or to send aid to the country.
For more than a year, Global Affairs Canada has warned travellers of “shortages of basic necessities, including food, medicine and fuel” across most of Cuba. In January, the island lost its main source of fuel when the U.S. took control of Venezuela’s oil reserves.
Who’s making these calls? Justin and his brother?
Paying the health-care premiums of refugee claimants will cost Canadians a record $1 billion this year, with some of the beneficiaries continuing to receive free health care despite their claims having already been rejected.
That’s according to a new analysis by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and it’s just one of several ballooning costs wrought by the unprecedented number of foreign nationals currently living in Canada by virtue of a claim of refugee status.
In November 2025, Canada’s supply management system deliberately destroyed millions of litres of perfectly good milk in Ontario, even as grocery prices remained high and food banks reported record demand.
That destruction was not an accident or a processing failure. It was the predictable outcome of policy.
Canadian immigration officials are investigating hundreds of foreign citizens identified by B.C.’s anti-extortion unit, according to new figures released to Global News.
The Canada Border Services Agency said it had launched probes into 296 people who were “brought to our attention by B.C Extortion Task Force partner agencies as persons of interest.”
The latest statistics, which are as of Feb. 4, represent a sharp increase from just a month ago, when the task force said that just over 100 CBSA investigations were underway.
The RCMP Communications team emailed CSSA last week to “clarify” the RCMP’s role in the Liberal government’s Firearms Confiscation Compensation Scheme.
That clarification confirmed everything we said about them in our commentary, “Ottawa Flips the Switch on Gun Confiscations, Hands Control to the RCMP.”
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Weeks after Ottawa announced that it would allow a limited number of Chinese-made vehicles into the Canadian market, some have warned that the move puts data privacy at risk. But that might not be a significant turn-off for consumers who are in the market for a new car.
While roaming the Canadian International AutoShow on Friday, Dianne Dougall and Pat Shephard — who were scouting for a new EV to replace their Tesla — said that a Chinese-made EVs would “absolutely” interest them.
Privacy wouldn’t pose any more of a concern than any other connected vehicle, they said.
Given Carney’s policies will likely devastate domestic ICE vehicle manufacturing do you think it’s possible some Canadians may vandalize ChiCom EV’s?
Gee I hope not for the sake of our Quisling 5th Columnists.
Replacing a ban on gas cars with strict new emissions standards sounds more sensible but will kill the auto industry just as effectively
Prime Minister Mark Carney, recognizing the need to act decisively to support our auto sector, has scrapped Canada’s electric vehicle (EV) mandate. Or has he? Unfortunately, close inspection shows that he merely rephrased the policy but the effect remains the same. Following the pattern of indecision and obfuscation set by his “Memorandum of Understanding” with Alberta, in which Carney sounded like he was greenlighting a new pipeline without actually doing so, the new auto policy repeals the mandate in name only.
I am really hoping that Trump does a Maduro on our WEF snake.
Meanwhile down south … The New York Times is sad!
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
The E.P.A.’s killing of the “endangerment finding” caps a year of deregulation that is likely to make cars thirstier for gas and less competitive globally, experts say.
The Canadian government, faced with increasing hostility from the Trump administration, plans to divert billions of dollars in military spending it long gave to U.S. defense companies and direct it instead to domestic manufacturers.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s wholesale expansion of Canadian military spending was prompted by pressure from President Trump, but with relations between the longstanding allies deteriorating, American companies will no longer reap the benefit.
Liberals in this country are going out of their way to undermine a man who only wanted to help the country in trade talks with Trump.
First, they said Conservative MP Jamil Jivani wasn’t qualified to go to Washington. Then he was, according to Liberals, a Nazi sympathizer for going to Washington. And then he was too ugly to help.
Canada’s new defence industrial strategy sets out a series of important, extraordinarily high benchmarks for the country to achieve over the next decade, including buying and maintaining most of the military’s equipment domestically.
The long-awaited plan, which was developed more as a response to NATO’s call for industrial clarity among allies than to annexation threats by the Trump administration, sets a goal of awarding 70 per cent of federal defence contracts to Canadian firms within a decade.
The deadly mass shooting at a school in British Columbia came as Canadian authorities face significant obstacles in rolling out a nationwide firearms buyback that is mired in practical and logistical complications.
Canada already has far stronger gun laws than the United States, and mass shootings are extremely rare. The government brought forward major reforms and bans on assault-style weapons after the country suffered its worst-ever shooting attack in 2020, when a man impersonating a police officer killed 22 people in northern Nova Scotia.
Pandemic governance and the cost to Canadian freedom.
On Feb. 2, 2026, Blacklock’s Reporter confirmed that Canada’s Liberal government has now “sealed internal reports on vaccine and drug injuries for 15 years” and revealed that the hastily buried documents shockingly “run to several million pages.”
Unfortunately, the Liberal government’s recent effort to further conceal the unspeakable damage wrought by the COVID vaccines in Canada is merely the latest sordid example of the fascist left-wing politics and open human rights violations that have plagued Canadian society since the onset of the COVID pandemic.
