OTTAWA — Most Canadians say Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has fallen short on its campaign promises, even as his overall satisfaction and approval ratings edge upward, a new Postmedia-Leger poll finds.
“There’s a lot of things to like about Mr. Carney’s experience and credentials that people gravitated to during the election and hold true now,” said Leger executive vice-president Andrew Enns, in an interview.
Look at these simpletons, doddering around waving their budget report cards. They assert that Prime Minister Mark Carney did not deliver on his promise of transformational change, of generational investment. They huff that Mr. Carney has crafted a fairly typical Liberal big-spending budget, with the exception of actual investment in Canada’s military (though the budget is light on details) and plans to reduce the size of the public service by 40,000 jobs by 2028-29.
On Nov. 4, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government tabled its first budget since taking office in the spring. Despite the new face at the helm, Carney’s budget unfortunately relies on the same failed economic strategy the Justin Trudeau government pursued for a decade.
For starters, Carney’s economic plan calls for more government involvement in the economy. Ottawa will become a home developer, pick winners and losers from a bevy of major national energy project proposals, implement a new “climate” strategy and substantially increase federal spending and borrowing.
As part of the federal budget’s promise to bring immigration “under control,” it is offering a one-time mass amnesty to some of the hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers who have entered Canada in recent years, including by illegally crossing the U.S. border.
Starting in 2026, the budget announces that Canada will pursue a “one-time” $120.4 million program to fast-track “eligible protected persons” into permanent residency.
The federal government is taking aim at Farm Credit Canada (FCC), saying the Crown-owned lender’s portfolio is dominated by “older white men” and needs to better reflect the country’s diversity.
In a budget notice, the Department of Finance said cabinet will amend the Farm Credit Canada Act to require regular legislative reviews ensuring the bank’s loans align with the “changing needs” of the agriculture sector.
OTTAWA — When the Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission opened an investigation into Buddhist landholdings between 2016 and 2018, few could have imagined that, nearly a decade later, its quietly shelved probe would raise serious questions about whether the regulator itself had become entangled in the very network of interests it was meant to police.
Federal budget 2025: Foreigners living in Canada will get permanent residence priority, Immigration Minister says
Immigration Minister Lena Diab says her department will prioritize foreigners living in Canada for permanent residency over people applying to settle here from abroad, as she published more details of the number of immigrants who will be allowed to settle here over the next three years.
Tuesday’s budget set out plans to freeze the number of permanent residents at 380,000 a year for three years.
But figures published by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada on Wednesday showed that an additional 148,000 permanent residents will be added to the official targets over the next two years through one-off initiatives.
Meanwhile the Globe continues to platform Century Initiative Mass Immigration Gaslighting. Carney’s pal and advisor Wiseman likely has his hands all over this duplicity.
Ottawa’s new immigration plan risks lowering Canada’s quality of life
Lisa Lalande is chief executive of the Century Initiative.
It doesn’t take much to decode how the Liberals want Canadians to understand their new immigration strategy, unveiled in Tuesday’s budget.
The message is clear: quality over quantity. As Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne put it in his prebudget news conference, “On one hand [we’re] saying, ‘Yes, we’re getting back to sustainable levels.’ On the other hand, we’re really focusing on attracting the best and brightest.”
Mark Carney’s first budget is every bit as unsustainable as the budgets of Justin Trudeau. That’s if we hold Carney to the same measuring stick that he used to criticize Trudeau’s budgets.
The current Liberal PM is fond of saying that the former Liberal prime minister increased program spending far too much, and now he’s doing just that.
Tuesday’s budget wasn’t like those of the high Trudeau years, encrusted with identity politics at every turn. But the spirit of the old regime lives on under Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has opted for a deficit of $78.3 billion along with the continuation of social justice programs and diversity mandates.
This year, one-time “investments” are numerous. The federal anti-racism secretariat — the entity that spurred a government-wide clampdown on forced diversity and hiring quotas in Ottawa in 2021, in response to the Black Lives Matter movement — is getting $2 million in 2025-26, and nothing else after that. The Canadian Heritage program for DEI in sport is getting $8 million in 2025-26, and, again, nothing afterwards.
Mark Carney may have to do another prime-time TV address.
Two weeks ago, the prime minister warned the nation of sacrifices to come in the big budget his government unveiled on Tuesday. But which Canadians will be feeling those sacrifices — beyond the public servants whose jobs will be cut — remains a story still untold.
So too is the question of whether this budget can survive a confidence vote in the House of Commons.
The federal government says it is “taking back control” of Canada’s immigration system with sweeping cuts to foreign student and migrant labour permits, following warnings from Prime Minister Mark Carney that the system had become unsustainable.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Immigration Minister Lena Diab is expected to table a new Immigration Levels Plan that reduces the number of temporary permits by 43% over the next two years, according to the federal budget Canada Strong.
As if they’re suddenly serious about asserting control, all BS all the time. (Incognito)
Canadian taxpayers are forking over $195 a night to provide room and board for those who show up at our border and make claims for asylum, reported Blacklock’s Reporter.
And that is actually $29 less a night than what it cost in 2024, says figures detailed in an Inquiry Of Ministry tabled in the Commons.
The Carney government’s first budget is being sold as “generational.” As the economic plan’s central metaphor, it might be spot on. But for young people, the takeaway may not be what the government hopes for.
The budget document and Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s speech make obsessive use of the words generation and generational. It’s a textbook case of branding-by-repetition — a nation-building budget designed as a piece of nation-branding. You can’t go more than a few paragraphs without running into another invocation of generational ambition:
“The level of uncertainty is higher than what we have seen and felt for generations.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney came to power on a platform of change, promising to prioritize economic growth over the divisive politics of the Trudeau era. Budget 2025 was considered the first real test of his premiership, and while it contains some good measures, it continues to follow the modern Liberal playbook of throwing ungodly sums of money at our problems and attempting to centrally plan the economy.
The federal Liberals pushed two themes in advance of Tuesday’s budget introduced by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne. First was that this would be an “austerity budget.” Second, it would include a “generational investment.”
It’s certainly not an austerity budget.
