“Canadian Politics”

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre wins 87.4% in leadership review

CALGARY— Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre secured his party’s endorsement Friday, receiving a resounding 87.4 per cent support from delegates in a referendum on his continued leadership.

The commanding result came as more than 2,500 delegates descended on Calgary for the party’s three-day convention, with the vote on Poilievre’s leadership serving as the main event.

The disappointment among the MSM must be profound. Their wish dream failed to come true.

And … he gave a good speech last night coming across as far more human than the perpetually brittle Carney.

Poilievre tells party delegates to have hope in speech that confronts Alberta, Quebec separatism

CALGARY — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre urged party delegates to have hope in a speech delivered before they voted on his leadership Friday, which also sought to confront rising separatism in Alberta and Quebec by blaming it on the Liberals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Conservative Party

MACLEOD: Hypocrisy of Canadian sovereignty — why Alberta gets called traitors for what Quebec does freely

Welcome to January 2026, where the Canadian national pastime has shifted from hockey to the casual branding of fellow citizens as traitors. As federal leaders clutch their pearls in Ottawa this week, BC Premier David Eby has helpfully updated our national dictionary: apparently, when Albertans have a coffee with US State Department officials to discuss their economic future, it isn’t “diplomacy” — it’s a high crime against the Crown.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", "Western Alienation Separation", Canada, Quebec

Half of Canadians say it would be unethical for Carney to get majority with floor crossers: poll

OTTAWA — Half of Canadians believe it would be unethical for Mark Carney’s Liberal government to achieve a majority by attracting opposition MP floor crossers, according to a new poll.

And, two months after two Conservative MPs crossed the floor to the governing Liberals, new data from a Postmedia-Leger poll suggest that voters’ feelings about party defectors are a political Rorschach test.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Pierre Poilievre is believed to have most Conservatives’ support. Holding his party together could be another matter

OTTAWA — You don’t need to look much further than Pierre Poilievre’s social media to see the sort of dilemma the Conservative leader is facing.

Earlier this month, he praised U.S. President Donald Trump for his extraordinary capture of Venezuela’s authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro. Two weeks later, he condemned the same president’s threats to acquire sovereign Greenland and backed Canada’s obligations as a member of the NATO alliance.

It’s not that it’s out of bounds for a political leader to see value in one move and denounce another. It’s that each response rankled different factions within the Conservative tent.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Conservative Party

Carney and Poilievre find themselves on two very different hot seats as Parliament gears up to return

OTTAWA — Canada’s two main political party leaders won’t boast about the connection, but they have at least one important thing in common these days: As a new session of Parliament opens Monday, they’re both sitting on hot seats.

Facing upcoming periods that may well determine their political fates, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are both approaching hurdles they need to get over in the coming weeks and months to ensure their grips on power.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

‘We’re in real trouble’: Carney faces historic crisis amid trade war, U.S. annexation threat, and two potential separatist referendums, say politicos

With the ongoing trade war with the United States, frequent annexation rhetoric from U.S. President Donald Trump, and the potential for two separatist referendums at home, Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing some of the most serious challenges confronted by any prime minister. Still, his performance is receiving mixed reviews from some political players who say Carney’s handling of the situation is a “technocratic” one, driven by officials in the Prime Minister’s Office and the Privy Council Office, when he should be opening up to the country.

“We’re facing a truly existential crisis,” said John English, a historian, author, and former Liberal MP in an interview with The Hill Times. “We have to recognize that we’re in real trouble.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Doug Ford calls on Carney to ‘step up’ to help Ontario’s auto sector after Chinese EV deal

As Prime Minister Mark Carney moves to allay concerns about lifting tariffs on Chinese EVs, Premier Doug Ford says Ottawa needs to “step up” to protect Ontario’s auto industry.

Speaking to Rural Ontario Municipal Association conference delegates at the Sheraton Centre on Monday, Ford reiterated his alarm at Carney’s new agreement with China.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "Canadian Politics", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Many Canadians support an early federal election if it leads to political stability, poll suggests

OTTAWA—Another federal election so soon?

Most Canadians are not opposed to the idea, new research shows, but only if an early election was triggered to secure the stability and functioning of the country’s Parliament.

Despite a snap election less than a year ago that led Mark Carney’s Liberals to a minority victory, new polling from Abacus Data shows that 41 per cent of Canadians would support a general contest being called early if doing so would result in “a majority government that could provide more political stability in Canada.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

Doug Speaks!

Ontario premier slams Canada’s ‘lopsided’ new EV deal with China

Ontario Premier Doug Ford isn’t mincing words about Canada’s new electric vehicle deal with China, saying Friday that Chinese manufacturers are gaining a foothold in the country’s auto market at the expense of workers in this country.

“The federal government is inviting a flood of cheap made-in-China electric vehicles without any real guarantee of equal or immediate investments in Canada’s economy, auto sector or supply chain,” Ford said in a statement issued shortly after news of the deal broke.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "Canadian Politics", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Doug Ford blasts Mark Carney’s EV deal with China

Premier Doug Ford is panning Prime Minister Mark Carney’s slashing of Canada’s 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles.

“Make no mistake: China now has a foothold in the Canadian market and will use it to their full advantage at the expense of Canadian workers,” Ford warned Friday after Carney reached a deal with Beijing in exchange for China cutting retaliatory levies on Canadian canola and seafood.

“The federal government is inviting a flood of cheap made-in-China electric vehicles without any real guarantee of equal or immediate investments in Canada’s economy, auto sector or supply chain,” the premier said in a statement.

The loss of Canada’s automotive industry is inevitable assuming Trump holds true to course and reshores manufacturing.

And EV’s are not the future but that won’t stop Carney and his plans to turn bad policy into profit for the China class.

This may be a tacit admission by Ford that the Great EV Gamble came up snake eyes.

“To fix this mess, Prime Minister Carney and the federal government need to urgently step up and support Ontario’s auto sector,” he added.

“That means making the sector more competitive by ending the electric vehicle mandate, harmonizing regulations with key trading partners and scrapping federal fees that do nothing but add thousands to the cost of making vehicles and chase away investments,” stressed Ford”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "Canadian Politics", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Ontarians toasting Doug Ford’s Crown Royal ban, poll suggests

Ontarians support Premier Doug Ford’s removal of Crown Royal whisky from LCBO shelves to protest the company’s closure of its bottling plant here, a new Abacus Data poll suggests.

Ford has vowed to stop selling the popular Manitoba-made rye at Ontario liquor stores after U.K.-based Diageo shutters its Amherstburg factory near Windsor next month, which will cost about 200 jobs.

“Crown Royal should have thought twice before closing their plant here,” the premier told reporters at Queen’s Park on Tuesday, expressing concerns Diageo is moving jobs stateside.

It’s distilled in Manitoba.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canadian Politics"

Doug Ford says he’s ‘100% dead against’ lifting Canadian tariffs on Chinese EVs

As Prime Minister Mark Carney heads to China for talks aimed at boosting trade, Premier Doug Ford is imploring him to keep Canadian tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.

The Star reported Monday that Carney’s officials are in “active discussions” with Beijing about lowering or dropping the 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs that Canada imposed in 2024.

That’s because the prime minister — who has brought Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe with him on the trade mission — hopes that, in exchange, China will remove its punitive counter-tariffs on Canadian canola and seafood.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canadian Politics", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Carney government in talks with China about EV tariffs

OTTAWA — Canadian negotiators are in “active discussions” with China about lowering or dropping tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles in exchange for easing punitive Chinese counter-tariffs on Canadian canola and seafood, but government officials declined to say how it might affect Canada’s trade tensions with a U.S. administration that is hawkish on blocking China’s EVs from North America.

On the eve of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Beijing, the talks are considered so politically sensitive as the U.S. and Canada navigate the upcoming negotiation to renew the North American free trade pact that Canadian officials would say very little about the tariff dispute that is jamming Ottawa between China and the U.S. and opened a double trade war for this country.

It appears Ford was not asked for comment.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canada's China Class", "Canadian Politics", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, USA

DOBBIE: Who runs things in Canada, anyway?

Some days are just like that: gut wrenching stories that beg to be told but are buried by perpetrators or brushed off by media then land on my desk with pleas for help.

Sometimes it’s about bureaucratic bungling, delay, refusal to comply with political orders, even lying to deputy ministers and ultimately to the minister so that the politician has no clue as to what is really going on. Occasionally, the tale smells bad as in the case of a federal agency which was recently in the news over a high-profile incident that revealed their arrogance. The agency has also been systematically withdrawing lucrative products from the marketplace to the apparent benefit of insiders.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canadian Politics"

Canada must stand up to Donald Trump — or there will be no one to stand up for Canada

It is not just the attack on Venezuela, breaches of the United Nations’ Charter, or the use of illegal force that still somehow left a dictatorship in place.

It is not just the threats to annex Greenland or to make Canada the 51st state — both of which would violate the territorial integrity of sovereign states protected under international law.

It’s not just the admiration that U.S. President Donald Trump has for Russia’s Vladimir Putin or Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, both in the process of illegally annexing territory.

The Elbow People are afraid! I doubt Canada will receive support beyond “words”.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - USA Tariff Wars", "Canadian Politics"