Election 2025

At a Time of Crisis, Canadians Rush to Vote

When I traveled around Canada during the 2021 election campaign, the prevailing mood among voters I spoke with was one of ennui. Even some of those involved in many of the campaigns weren’t obviously excited about the election.

That’s certainly not the case this year. Advance polls opened on Friday. At the one near my house in Ottawa, there was an hourlong wait during the morning, and poll workers arranged chairs outside the community center hosting the voting to ease the wait. In Montreal that morning, I saw people going into a Chinese community center to cast ballots just after it had opened for voting.

New record set as 2 million vote on first day of advance polls: Elections Canada

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

‘Relentless’: The combative Pierre Poilievre finds himself in the fight of his life

OTTAWA – It’s a Monday evening in an industrial building just south of Edmonton. Pierre Poilievre is on stage, surrounded by a massive crowd of supporters.

He’s been talking for nearly an hour and his speech is hitting some of his biggest applause lines.

“What binds us together is the Canadian promise that anyone from anywhere can achieve anything, that if you work hard, you can have a great life in a beautiful home on a safe street under our proud flag. That is the promise that I hold out as hope to those who are on the brink of giving up,” he says.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Election 2025

John Ivison: Mark Carney’s platform relies on fiscal alchemy and hopeful assumptions

WHITBY, ONT. — On this week’s Ivison video , regular guest Eugene Lang referred to “the trifecta — or what Van Morrison would call The Great Deception.”

Lang, an experienced Liberal operative, was talking about the tendency of governments to promise to simultaneously reduce taxes, increase spending and balance budgets.

“This kind of thing has never been achieved by any federal government,” he said. “It’s probably not advisable in any context, especially not the current context, where the prospects are that the Canadian economy is probably going to go into a recession, where the tax revenues will go down and automatic stabilizer expenditures on things like employment insurance are destined to go up.”

Yet, that’s exactly what the Liberal policy platform promises to do.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Jack Mintz: Ontario is the ‘sick man’ of North America. Its premier should stay out of the federal election

Ontario Premier Doug Ford seems to be a happy camper these days. After donning his Captain Canada cape to fight Donald Trump on tariffs, in February he won a third straight majority victory. And now he and his campaign manager have been lecturing federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on how to run his election campaign, arguing he should focus more on Trump, less on the economy.

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Dougie doesn’t disappoint we knew he was a Liberal all along.

More … As productivity plunges, Ontario and Alabama now have the same per capita GDP

Canada’s economic productivity has trailed the U.S. for decades. This isn’t news and has numerous possible causes. What is particularly troubling for all Canadians, though, is that the gap is getting wider.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025, Ontario - Your Future Is Elsewhere, Ontario's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canada is heading toward an election outcome not witnessed in generations

Canada vs the 5th Columns of the Liberal Party

Over the 40 years he spent in elected politics, former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has seen it all.

Yet, the 91-year-old career politician admits the current federal election is unique among the many he’s observed in his lifetime.

While he’s been part of campaigns fought over important, country-defining issues – like free trade in 1988 – this one has a more existential quality about it, he says. That, of course, is the doing of U.S. President Donald Trump.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Conservative Party, Election 2025

Canada’s Manchurian Candidate

Mark Carney, another globalist-elitist China entangled type.

Just as heading into the November election Americans felt that it would be the most consequential in a lifetime, Canadians feel the same about the present contest in Canada. And it is fascinating that the Liberal Party’s strategy leading up to Canada’s election has been similar to that of the Democrats in the American election, as if they were operating from the same playbook. The most striking feature of this similarity is that both parties started out with unpopular leaders, and so both got rid of them and replaced them with someone different, but without bothering to consult the voters. Whereas the Democrat party parachuted in Kamala Harris to replace a feeble and unpopular Joe Biden without her having garnered a single vote in the primaries, Mark Carney was plopped in as leader of the Liberal party, though he had never ever run in an election. And now, given the idiosyncrasy of Canada’s parliamentary system, Carney is now running as the anointed prime minister.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Trump is demanding universities change policies or face defunding. Would Poilievre do the same?

U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to cancel funding for some universities unless they accede to his demands to change ideological policy, similar to a pledge Pierre Poilievre has made for Canadian post-secondary schools.

But so far, the Conservative leader has been sparse on details of exactly what kind of action he might take.

Trump’s demands, which have sparked condemnation about interference in academic freedom, made headlines this week after the White House said it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion US in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University.

Trump is simply refusing to fund whacko academics propagating whacko ideas.

That’s not a threat to academic integrity it’s common sense.

The whackos remain free to be whackos just not on the public dime but of course Carney’s CBC paints this as a conservative attack on academic freedom.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Conservative Party, Election 2025, USA

LILLEY: Mark Carney sidesteps Canadian media but makes time for U.S. media

Mark Carney is once again proving that he is elbows up and all in for Canada by skipping passed Canadian media in favour of American media.

As he’s done several times since officially entering politics in January, the Liberal Leader has sought affirmation of how awesomely Canadian he is by seeking out the blessing of an American.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Long lines at polling stations as Canadians turn up for advance voting

Canadians reported long lines as polling stations opened for advance voting on Friday.

Advance polls will be open again 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. nationwide Saturday through Monday, with election day set for April 28.

Some voters at polling stations across the country told CBC News early Friday they were waiting upwards of two hours to cast their ballots.

I voted, 5 lines in a high school gym, solid turnout.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Carney platform promises $130B in new spending, deficits until 2029

Mark Carney’s plan for Canada includes $130 billion in new spending which will see the country run deficits until at least the fiscal year 2028-2029.

Entitled “Unite, Secure, Protect, Build”– the platform also commits more than $18 billion of spending on national defence, putting Canada on track to “exceed our NATO target by the year 2030,” according to policy experts who briefed reporters.

Part of those expenditures include new submarines and additional icebreakers for the Royal Canadian Navy, and the purchase of “Canadian-made airborne early warning and control aircraft.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Michael Higgins: Carney has brought Project Fear to Canada

 

Project Fear almost worked for Mark Carney in Britain and now he is trying the same tactic here.

To listen to Carney is to envisage that the United States is about to invade us; steal our oil, gas and water; ravage our resources, land and women and generally wreak havoc.

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It is a message of despair and fear, and it is rooted in nothing but guile and political ambition.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre see very different threats to Canada

Thirty-seven years ago, inside a television studio in Ottawa, John Turner thrust an index finger at Brian Mulroney and warned that with one stroke of a pen Mulroney had reversed 120 years of national development and thrown Canada into the “north-south influence of the United States.”

“When the economic levers go, the political independence is sure to follow,” Turner said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2025

Carney candidate invited head of suspected secret Chinese police station to campaign event

MONTREAL — A Montreal-area Liberal candidate invited to a campaign event this week the head of two organizations suspected by the RCMP of operating a secret Chinese police station.

The invitation by Alexandra Mendès, the Liberal incumbent running for re-election in Brossard—Saint-Lambert, sowed consternation within the Liberal party, which has faced scrutiny over multiple candidates’ comments about or apparent links to the Chinese government.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", "Foreign Interference", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Election 2025

Poilievre promises to end ban on single-use plastic straws, other items

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promised to strike down a key element of the Liberal government’s environmental policy Friday as he and other party leaders got back onto the campaign trail following the national leaders’ debates in Montreal.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party, Election 2025