OTTAWA — Federal Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says the question of whether there is a business case for a new bitumen pipeline in Canada will be up to the private sector to decide.
He also suggests the question of whether the country can, in fact, build a new oil pipeline to be an “overfocusing” on a “hypothetical.”
“I think Canada can build many things,” Hodgson told National Post in a wide-ranging interview on Monday.
Carney don’t want no pipeline.
Canada has provided more than $100 million in foreign aid to China since 2015, with the Department of Foreign Affairs saying the funding promoted “sustainable development.”
Blacklock’s Reporter says a briefing note for the Minister of International Development stated the money supported “key foreign policy priorities in China including human rights, gender equality, sustainable development and climate change.”
We are lead by Grifters.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promise to boost defence could deliver massive profit gains for companies but the big question is, where will the money come from?
The Carney government recently announced plans to raise Canada’s military budget to $150 billion by 2035 to meet a new NATO target of five per cent of GDP, the country’s largest increase since the Second World War.
The current budget sits at $62.7 billion after Ottawa added $9 billion this year. Some economists are skeptical about Canada reaching its target.
I wonder. Is the media walking back Carney’s promises for him?
Deadbeats are us!
This past Tuesday I attended a discussion between former prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper sponsored by the C.D. Howe Institute in the annual Aaron Regent dinner, and moderated by its affable and well-informed president, Bill Robson. The issue was national unity. In the contemporary manner, guests were invited to indicate the level of their concern on that subject before the discussion started and after it had ended. The majority remained at least partially concerned at the end of the exchange but less so than at the beginning, so they found the words of these two men who between them were prime minister for nearly 20 years, somewhat encouraging.
After listening to Mark Carney speaking to young people on Wednesday night, I could only imagine their sense of hopelessness upon hearing him. Instead of outlining concrete ways to allow the economy to be rebuilt and to show how young people can participate, he counseled them to make more sacrifices. He treated them like children, explaining how they just have to be patient and wait for their turn while he fixes things. But all they want is a chance to have a productive and satisfying job – now! Not some faraway day in the future. Which, if the budget predictions are correct, they will still be paying for.
Prime Minister Mark Carney needs friends.
Not the diplomatic and commercial kind he’s already pursuing with new trade partnerships around the world.
He needs friends in the House of Commons.
So much of Mark Carney’s short, hectic political career has been about time and timing. Yes, all any of us on this Earth have is time, but I promise we’re headed somewhere other than Obvioustown, so stay with me.
First, there was the unbelievably lucky timing of Mr. Carney’s moment to run for the Liberal leadership. It arrived just as Donald Trump was holding a knife to the throat of Canada’s economy, making a calm, crisis-handling economist look pretty appealing to voters.
TDS Ahead.
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Carney delivered a lengthy speech spelling out his economic and fiscal strategy in advance of his government’s federal budget scheduled for Nov. 4. In front of an audience of university students, the prime minister made his pitch for “swinging for the fences” and “playing to win” through more government involvement in the economy and “generational investments” financed by large deficits.
Six months after Prime Minister Mark Carney called China Canada’s greatest security threat, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is gushing about forging a “strategic partnership” with it.
“There are going to always be challenges in any relationship,” Anand cheerily told The Canadian Press last week. “What we are aiming to do is recalibrate the relationship, so that it is constructive and pragmatic.”
The Libs were never off China.
As Prime Minister Mark Carney aims to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping amid a U.S. trade war, a former diplomat who spent more than a thousand days imprisoned in China is warning Ottawa to remember the threat China poses to Canada.
In December 2016, despite intelligence warnings that lifting visas would “facilitate travel to Canada by Mexicans with criminal records,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ended the visa requirement for Mexican visitors.
They would include “drug smugglers, human smugglers, recruiters, money launderers and foot soldiers,” the Canada Border Services Agency’s Intelligence Section wrote in a report dated April 2016, two months before Trudeau announced the visa exemption.
h/t SC
Mark Carney has floated some strong warnings about “sacrifices” to come in the looming budget and on Thursday, standing beside Doug Ford, the prime minister almost revealed what they would be.
“We’ll have to move more slowly on certain aspects,” Carney said, before checking himself aloud. “Why don’t I not scoop the budget?”
B.C. companies have racked up over a third of all federal penalties for breaching migrant worker protection laws in the last decade, far surpassing every other Canadian jurisdiction, a BIV analysis has found.
Since 2016, B.C. companies have been fined over $6.1 million—more than a third of the nearly $18 million in nationwide penalties issued for non-compliance under the federal Temporary Foreign Worker and International Mobility programs.
As then-Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault faced questions about his travel to China in 2023 amid reports of widespread interference by Beijing in Canada’s internal affairs, he said engagement with China was needed to tackle climate change.
Last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney also had words of praise for China on net-zero initiatives, saying on Sept. 22, “In my experience with China, they are, amongst other things, very sincere and engaged on climate.”
Another day, another calamity for the Liberals’ attempt to turn Canada into a global Electric Vehicles (EV) superpower: General Motors has just announced that they’re ending production of Bright Drop electric delivery vans at their assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario.
According to GM Canada’s President, Kristian Aquilina, “These Bright Drop vans are a specialized electric delivery van for commercial customers and, quite simply, we just have not seen demand for these vehicles climb to the levels that we initially anticipated.”
