CALGARY — While the Liberal government formally announced the start of its nationwide firearms gun grab program for individuals in Montreal on Saturday, it remains to be seen how enforcement will be initiated in the Prairie provinces.
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
Mark Carney brushes off Doug Ford’s anger and Autoworkers fears over China EV tariff cuts
DOHA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s response to Doug Ford’s criticism of Ottawa’s deal to reduce tariffs on Chinese EVs: he’s out to build the auto industry of the future, not the past.
“Remember, this is a market that is the auto sector, which is evolving very rapidly,” Carney told reporters at a news conference. “We don’t want to be competitive in the market of 2000, 2010. We want to become competitive in the market in the future. That’s what’s going to get great jobs for Ontarians going forward,” said Carney.
The auto industry of the future? Sure Carney.
The only thing this carpetbagger is building is policy to funnel ill-gotten gains to his pals.
Canada weighs sending soldiers to Greenland as show of NATO solidarity with Denmark
Canada has drawn up plans to send a small contingent of soldiers to Greenland for military exercises with other NATO allies in the face of threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to acquire the semi-autonomous island controlled by Denmark, two senior government officials say.
The officials told The Globe and Mail that the Canadian Armed Forces is awaiting final political approval from Prime Minister Mark Carney before the soldiers are flown to Greenland.
‘Looking like a supplicant is undignified’: Michael Kovrig on Carney’s China trip
Former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig — who was detained by China for more than 1,000 days between 2018 and 2021 — says Prime Minister Mark Carney’s tone and messaging during his trip to China were “worrisome.”
In a bid to reset relations with China and counter trade threats from the United States, Carney became the first Canadian prime minister to travel to the Asian country in eight years this week.
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The announcement by Canadian PM @MarkJCarney of a reset in Canada-China ties accompanied by a trade deal of dramatic proportions will likely go down in history as a major political blunder. But don’t listen to me: Premier Doug Ford of Ontario already denounced the deal. 1/9
Anger, however justified, should never be the principal driver of policy. This is true both about our Canadian brethren, and true about our European allies. We are living through a rocky transformation of the international system, but the geopolitical realities remain
Terry Newman: Was Mark Carney really the best choice to negotiate with Trump?
Canadians have not heard much about why negotiations with the United States seem to have gone nowhere. One has to ask: was Mark Carney really the best choice to negotiate with Donald Trump? All signs point to “absolutely not.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney was in Beijing this week, meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other high-ranking Communist party officials. After landing in China on Wednesday, Carney posted a video of himself waving before descending the steps of his plane to enjoy the red-carpet treatment.
We’ve secured a new trade agreement with China — unlocking more than $7 billion in export markets for Canadian workers and businesses.
Watch my full remarks ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/0Nyrilm1DM
— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) January 17, 2026
GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s anti-oil, anti-gas policies still costing us billions
So, as it turns out, oil and natural gas aren’t dead fossil fuels and the previous Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, which kept insisting they were, was dead wrong.
That blunder is costing the Canadian economy up to $25.6 billion a year and who knows how much more if Canadian politicians don’t get their act together.
Carney visiting Qatar to drum up investment despite ‘brutal’ human rights record
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Qatar to drum up investment deals with a country known for both its brutal dictatorship and its growing diplomatic and economic influence.
“Today, the epicentre of diplomatic, economic, financial and commercial power in the Middle East is in the Gulf,” said University of Ottawa professor Thomas Juneau, an expert on the Persian Gulf.
“For Canada to neglect the region, as it did for the past 10 years, is a way to erase ourselves from the equation in the Middle East.”
Canada’s Strategic Ambiguity With China Is Becoming an Alliance Liability
After the Liberal government defined Canada’s relationship with China as a strategic alliance, the prime minister’s visit to Beijing inevitably carried more weight. This was not simply a matter of timing or protocol. It reflected a decision about how Canada wishes to navigate a more contested international landscape. Choices of this kind extend beyond trade or messaging, and when a NATO member edges closer to an authoritarian system, allies recalibrate while competitors probe for advantage.
This is not a circumstance that can be managed through repeated talking points. It demands a harder look informed by experience, available evidence, and the practical obligations Canada has assumed within its alliance relationships.
Canada May Fall Into China’s Strategic Trap as It Seeks New Energy Sources After Losing Venezuela, Analyst Warns
Ottawa may be walking into a trap by seeking a “strategic partnership” with China, which is losing energy suppliers like Venezuela under U.S. control and could pull Canada into its orbit for resources and away from its allies, longtime China analyst Sheng Xue warns.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has said his government is pursuing a “strategic partnership” with Beijing, as he and several of his cabinet ministers have been meeting with Chinese officials throughout his visit in Beijing in an effort to build closer relations between the two countries.
Canada wants to be 1st in North America to build EV with Chinese knowledge: senior official
Canada wants to look at joint ventures and investments with Chinese companies within the next three years to build a Canadian electric vehicle with Chinese knowledge, according to a senior Canadian official.
The official, who spoke on the condition they not be named, said the goal is for Canada to become the first country in North America to build this type of EV.
It’s a fundamental error, the official said, to think that U.S. President Donald Trump will not allow Chinese electric vehicles into the United States.
Will that include OEM surveillance tech?
I love my friends in Canada, but they will live to regret the day they let the Chinese Communist Party flood the market with their EVs! https://t.co/IW1FBl3DUh
— Secretary Sean Duffy (@SecDuffy) January 17, 2026
Emergencies without accountability — how Canada normalized state overreach
Here we go again. Years after the federal government unleashed extraordinary powers against its own citizens during the 2022 Freedom Convoy, Canadians are once more confronted with an uncomfortable truth: the abuse has been legally acknowledged, yet no one in power will be held to account.
(Incognito)
The Prescient Warning Behind Ottawa’s China Influence File—and Carney’s Beijing Electric Vehicle Gamble
A Canadian immigration control official who warned of influence from Prime Minister Jean Chrétien’s Beijing–Montreal business networks, predicted the types of outcomes unfolding under Carney.
This abridged 2023 Bureau investigation is being reposted in the aftermath of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trade mission to Beijing. It offers a plausible lens on how Ottawa can arrive at policy choices that may ultimately damage the interests of most Canadians—and erode Canada’s standing as a Western middle power.
PM Carney pre-election (2025):
“Our biggest security threat is China”PM Carney post-election (2026):
“Our partnership with China sets us up well for the New World Order” pic.twitter.com/ZLZfAH9hR3— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 16, 2026
🚨NEW
The agency responsible for investigating Chinese Police stations in Canada
is the RCMP..!
…who just signed an MOU with the People's Police of China for enforcement cooperation.
— Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@Tablesalt13) January 17, 2026
It’s clear Carney is now dealing with the world ‘as it is’
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s press conference on Friday after his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping was chock-full of news, a strange surprise given that the PM had been spinning everyone toward low expectations before the trip began.
The two countries had struck a deal in which Canada would dramatically lower its tariff rate on Chinese-made electric vehicles and China would slash its levies on canola seed, along with removing tariffs on certain other agriculture and food products, Mr. Carney announced in Beijing.
A sympathetic piece from Carney’s corporate cronies at the Globe but it’s not entirely without merit.
Sigh … Carney made a security deal with our fentanyl dealer.
HOLY 💩
Mark Carney is opening the FLOODGATES to information-sharing with CHINA.
China the #1 GLOBAL SECURITY THREAT to Canada.
We’re now sharing CRUCIAL SECURITY INFORMATION with them.
This is INSANITY. pic.twitter.com/swnfCRVemZ
— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) January 16, 2026
Xi’s Enforcers Punished Nearly a Million in 2025—and China’s Leader Wants More
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has directed relentless purges to assert a degree of autocratic control unseen in China in decades, with Communist Party enforcers punishing nearly a million people last year. But when it comes to getting things done, he still wants more commitment to his agenda.
Weeks before Beijing is set to launch a new economic blueprint for the next five years, Xi ordered the party’s discipline inspectors to flex their supervisory powers even more forcefully and ensure his policies are executed as intended.
“Corruption is a major obstacle and a stumbling block in the advancement of the party and the nation’s causes,” Xi said this week at a conclave of the party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. This year, he said, party inspectors must help enforce the top leadership’s decisions more resolutely, and ensure Beijing achieves its goals in the new five-year plan.
Pretty sure Carney will be dropping a dime on all of us.
Carney and Xi ink MOU on “Cooperation in Combating Crimes Between the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Ministry of Public Security of the People’s Republic of China.” Wanna bet Ottawa will honor this MOU, unlike the BS one it inked with Alberta?https://t.co/4S2BGrsxHO
— Perilous Times (@_periloustimes_) January 17, 2026
Carney’s EV deal with Beijing is high-wire diplomacy with risks on both sides
One day before Prime Minister Mark Carney arrived in Beijing, U.S. President Donald Trump offered his latest dismissal of the Canadian auto industry. The North American free-trade pact is “irrelevant,” Mr. Trump said while touring a Ford Motor Co. plant in Michigan, and the U.S. should stop buying Canadian cars.
Mr. Carney’s response came on Friday.
It will be great for Carney and the China class and that’s all it was intended to be.
Prime Minister @MarkJCarneyney’s trip to Beijing was widely touted as a chance to stabilize relations. In reality, it was a test of whether Canada can manage pressure without giving ground where it matters. How do you think the PM performed? pic.twitter.com/T2yeZdt5DR
— Michael Kovrig (@MichaelKovrig) January 17, 2026