Mark Carney’s Failing Grade

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recently presented his first budget. It follows nearly a decade of ruinous economic policy under Justin Trudeau, which resulted in Canada suffering by far the worst real GDP per capita change of any country in the G7 from 2015 to 2025 and a collapse in business investment so that in the second quarter of this year, machinery and equipment investment per worker in Canada was less than one-third of what it was in the United States.

Given the failures of the Trudeau decade, Carney signaled ahead of his budget that he was prepared to do some things differently. Unfortunately, not all of his changes were positive.

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The Canadians in Hamas: The operative, leader and financier

Usama Ali is an alleged Hamas operative, leader and financier.

He is also Canadian.

And so are others in the Palestinian terrorist group that killed 1,200 and took more than 200 hostages on Oct. 7, 2023, Global News has learned.

About 450 people with assorted roles in Hamas have ties to Canada, according to a source familiar with the intelligence on the matter.

h/t XC

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You know your EV Strategy is an abject failure when you lose the Commies …

$50-bn in Subsidies has Failed to Secure EV Jobs, Investment or Future

n October 16, 2023, it was all smiles for the cameras in Loyalist Township where politicians and corporate executives gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony to build a new $2.761-billion Electric Vehicle battery parts plant. Loyalist Township, located next door to the Kingston, Ontario, is named after the Loyalists who, 250 years ago, sided with the British King against the American Revolution and crossed the St. Lawrence River to settle in Upper Canada.

The smiling politicians in Loyalist Township included Ontario Premier Doug Ford and his economic minister, Vic Fedeli, as well as Kingston’s Liberal Member of Parliament, Mark Gerretsen, and Trudeau’s federal industry minister, François-Philippe Champagne. Even the Belgian Ambassador was there. The politicians were boasting of 600 construction jobs, 700 permanent positions, and 700 student co-op placements.


Longish read but lots of good data …”communists make excellent critics but poor theorists”

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Terry Newman: Carney should mend relations with the U.S. before cozying up to China

At the end of October, Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the APEC summit in South Korea. The Prime Minister’s Office said the two leaders agreed that their meeting “marked a turning point” in the relationship between Canada and China, with both pledging to “resolve outstanding trade issues and irritants” and co-operate on a wide range of issues, from “clean and conventional energy, to agriculture, manufacturing, climate change and international finance.”

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Canada’s highly skilled immigrants are leaving the fastest: report

At a time when Canada is defending itself in a trade war with the U.S., a new report casts doubt on whether the nation’s immigration policy is able to retain the global talent required to bolster the economy on the home front.

Highly educated and skilled immigrants are the most likely to leave Canada within five years of landing, according to a new report commissioned by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC).

In a report released Tuesday titled “The Leaky Bucket 2025,” the ICC found that one-in-five immigrants leave Canada within 25 years of being accepted as permanent residents. The trend, referred to as “onward migration,” peaks at the five-year mark.


Every last one of these of “panic” articles is a call for more cheap foreign labour nothing more.

All of the skilled immigrants brought here to date can’t have helped much given Canada’s obvious declining fortunes.

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China’s New World Order: Michael Kovrig on how Beijing is trying to undermine the West

Kovrig is a senior advisor at the International Crisis Group and a former Canadian diplomat, but he is best known to Canadians as one of the “two Michaels” who were detained by Chinese authorities in 2018, in response to the arrest of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou at the Vancouver airport on a U.S. extradition request.

“I was detained by state security officers when I was coming back from dinner and they abducted me and held me hostage for 1,019 days,” said Kovrig. “I spent about nearly six months in solitary confinement, being relentlessly interrogated, and then another two years in a detention centre, confined to a single cell.

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The idea of a mixed fleet of Canadian fighter jets should not take flight

Canada is apparently considering acquiring a mixed fleet of fighter jets. But this decision is being considered without any real strategic thinking.

Economic considerations seem to be taking precedence over military imperatives, even though several experts and military leaders strongly recommend a single fleet of F-35s, which is considered more consistent with continental defence needs.

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Liberals survive crucial confidence vote on budget in win for Carney

The House of Commons narrowly voted to approve the federal budget Monday, ensuring Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government survives into the new year.

The confidence vote was a crucial test for Carney’s ability to hold onto power, as all opposition parties had expressed at least some displeasure with the spending plan.

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Carney government wins crucial confidence vote on budget

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s minority government budget passed a third and crucial confidence vote on Monday evening thanks to the support of the Green Party and multiple abstentions, averting the possibility of a federal election at the end of this year.

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Federal refugee employment program faces ‘extremely long, ballooning wait times’

Instead of waiting months, a federal program is now taking years to process the applications of refugees who are living overseas and have a job waiting for them in Canada.

As a result, some Canadian businesses are unable to fill positions, while skilled refugees are also in limbo and risk exploitation, arrest or detention.

In 2018, the federal government launched the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP) for employers facing skill shortages to recruit internationally from within refugee populations. If approved, the individual is given permanent residency and can immigrate to Canada with their spouse and children.


No Canadian citizens to train? BS.  This is just another cheap foreign labour scam.

“Canadian Business’ should not be involved in setting immigration policy.

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TAYLOR: Why does Ottawa want to put ca$h out of business?

St-Viateur Bagels is Montreal’s oldest bagel shop. Local foodies, celebrities and international tourists all flock to its famous shop in the city’s Mile End neighbourhood for its holey creations. “This is an artisanal product — hand-made and baked in a wood-fired oven,” said co-owner Vince Morena proudly. But once inside, there’s only one way for those hungry customers to get their hands on a firm, chewy wood-fired bagel. As Morena explained, “it is cash only.”

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Mark Carney lost the battle over Brexit. Now he’s losing to Trump

The ‘high priest of Project Fear’ is struggling to shield Canada’s industrial heartlands from US tariffs

Mass lay-offs at Canada’s rail freight-carriage maker National Steel Car are expected to hit a little bit before Christmas.

After Donald Trump imposed tariffs on steel imports to the US in the spring, the manufacturing plant in Hamilton, Ontario, has had no new orders.

“The building I’m in is working on number 290 of a 300-car order. We’ll be done by the first week of December and then we will be laid off,” says Jonas Barry, 51, who has worked at the factory for the last eight years. “Probably most of the plant will be laid off.

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‘Fury from Alberta and Saskatchewan’: Western patience wearing thin over lack of Alberta pipeline plan

Prime Minister Mark Carney rolled out a second wave of “nation-building projects” on Thursday and an oil pipeline from Alberta was not on the list.

Patience is wearing thin in western Canada, even as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is “still working” with the Carney government to advance a bitumen pipeline to tidewater.

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