MONTREAL — Liberal leader Mark Carney says pipelines are “not necessarily” the large projects his government would prioritize to deal with the “crisis” of the trade war with the United States.
On Sunday, both Carney and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre were interviewed on Tout le monde en parle, a very popular televised Quebec talk show on Radio-Canada.
By elevating Mark Carney during a prorogued Parliament, the Liberal Party once again reveals its uneasy relationship with democratic transparency. This was not a moment of open debate or public contest but rather a stage-managed affair, choreographed behind closed doors while the people’s forum remained still and silent.
One is reminded of a previous Liberal pageant: the quiet return of Michael Ignatieff, summoned — by his own admission — by ‘the men in black’ to rescue the nation. Like Carney, he was neither elected nor tested in the crucible of open contest; instead, he was installed and anointed in the shadows. One emerged under the cover of prorogation, while the other did so through the discreet rituals of Liberal backroom diplomacy.
We pull back the curtain and what is in full view is by no means like the grand prize a lucky contestant can win on a game show.
It is a game. It is a show. But there is no prize.
It is just outright ugly.
As the Liberals maintained about a 10-point lead against the Conservatives in an Angus Reid Institute survey last week, the Grits were also closing what the pollster called the “commitment gap” between them and the Tories.
The results of the online poll, involving 2,184 Canadians and released on April 7, found that 46 per cent of respondents planned to vote Liberal compared to 36 per cent who would cast their ballots for the Conservatives—positioning the governing party for a fourth consecutive term in office, and with a majority in the House of Commons seats based on the Liberals’ performance in seat-rich provinces.
Polling … good thread
I’ve been contemplating over the past few days, and it’s time to tell you: these riding polls from Cardinal Research are far from legit. In fact, they’re the most egregious “polls” I’ve ever seen in my life….. (1/10) https://t.co/IAEt3UMiFB pic.twitter.com/jfBzuqVxqO
— Charestiste (@RealAlbanianPat) April 13, 2025
New Mainstreet poll
CON: 44.3% (+1.1%)
LIB: 42.3% (-1.3%)
NDP: 5.7% (-0.5%)
BQ: 3.8% (+0.3%)
GRN: 1.7% (+0.3%)
PPC: 1.4% (-0.3%)
⚪OTH: 0.9% (+0.5%)First Conservative lead in a Mainstreet poll since Feburary
(+/- change with yesterday's Mainstreet poll) pic.twitter.com/pDqlkdQSO7
— Charestiste (@RealAlbanianPat) April 14, 2025
The 2025 federal election already has one big winner. Congratulations, CBC!
Barring a reversal of fortune, Liberal Leader Mark Carney saved the bacon of Canada’s natural broadcasting corporation when he announced that, should he remain prime minister after April 28, his government would not only keep the Crown corporation alive, it would raise its allowance until it reaches levels similar to those in Britain, Germany and France.
The federal Liberal government is belatedly trying to fix a housing affordability crisis it created though immigration policies which caused population growth to far exceed Canada’s capacity to build new homes to accommodate it, according to a new Fraser Institute study.
“Despite unprecedented levels of immigration-driven population growth following the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada has failed to ramp up homebuilding sufficiently to meet housing demand,” said Steven Globerman, co-author of the study, “The Crisis in Housing Affordability: Population Growth and Housing Starts 1972-2024.”
Demand for the services of local food banks has never been higher, and Carolyn McLeod-McCarthy of the Guelph Food Bank says she’s worried about the impact U.S. tariffs will have on the local economy and workers.
“We’re quite nervous about what that’s going to mean for being able to provide food to people in need,” McLeod-McCarthy told CBC News.
She said the southern Ontario food bank is seeing more people needing help than ever before.
Earlier this month, former Reform Party leader Preston Manning sparked controversy with a Globe and Mail op-ed warning that electing a Liberal government headed by Mark Carney would pose a serious threat to Canada’s national unity.
“Voters, particularly in central and Atlantic Canada, need to recognize that a vote for the Carney Liberals is a vote for Western secession—a vote for the breakup of Canada as we know it,” he wrote. “The next prime minister of Canada, if it remains Mark Carney, would then be identified in the history books, tragically and needlessly, as the last prime minister of a united Canada.”
Canada’s new immigration curbs have slowed increases in population, but government projections of near-zero growth over the next two years are likely “off the mark,” said an economist with Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.
“The housing crisis of the last decade was in many ways a planning issue as under-counting of population growth has resulted in a suboptimal increase in housing supply,” he said in the report. “We fear that we are in a process of repeating past mistakes.”
Jacob Forman was a grey, throbbing muscle of anger and resentment.
That rage manifested itself on Dec. 17, 2017, when his wife, Clara, confronted him about his boozing at their Kelowna home.
He was having none of it and proceeded to bash her in the head three times with a sledgehammer.
The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation has formally severed its relationship with the Trudeau family, concluding a chapter marked by controversy over foreign donations.
Blacklock’s Reporter says while a 15-month federal audit found no wrongdoing in the handling of a $140,000 gift linked to Beijing interests, the foundation announced it has completely restructured its leadership and governance to preserve its independence.
Trudeau Foundation @fdnPETF passes 15-month federal audit but cuts all ties with Trudeau family.
Alexandre Trudeau, brother of former PM, removed as exec director after endorsing 6-figure donation from friends of Chinese Communist Party.https://t.co/tVCQB6546L#cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/MTDklG4SDc— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) April 14, 2025
If the Liberals’ basic campaign strategy was to transfer Justin Trudeau’s politics into a new, less objectionable host — less objectionable to some, anyway — then they can only be said to be knocking it out of the park.
Nothing has noticeably changed back at HQ with respect to their communications strategy: Trump, abortion, gun control, all the greatest hits are on shuffle. Carney spouts nonsense somewhat differently than Justin Trudeau did, but the nonsense comes just and thick and fast: About whom he’s met in the past , about the name of the Montreal school where 14 women were slaughtered in December 1989 , about his involvement with Brookfield when it relocated its headquarters to the United States .
Like any democracy, Canada has had national elections on any number of issues. Parties have differed over unemployment, interest rates, deficits, taxes, national unity, bilingualism, health care, crime, scandal, and leadership. Leaders have made their case and voters have made their choice, sometimes narrowly, sometimes decisively.
Rarely, though, has an election campaign turned on foreign affairs. It reflects our modest stature in the world. The election of 1911 was about tariffs and the navy, the elections of 1917 and 1940 about war and conscription. In 1963, it was nuclear missiles. In 1988, it was free trade with the United States.
Vassy Kapelos "But if I think if a conservative had answered that way, they would have been labeled, you know, an affront to democracy."
Kory Teneycke "I think Carney's got a few big tells, and that was one of them. Whenever his personal ethics or credibility are put in the… pic.twitter.com/GTsx11Mc4S
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) April 14, 2025
Fear of Donald Trump and loathing of his tariffs have obscured other vital issues in this federal election campaign. And none is more vital than restoring confidence in Canada’s broken immigration system.
“Broken” is the right – if politically loaded – word. Even the Liberals agree that their open-door policies toward temporary workers and foreign students badly damaged the immigration system.
The issue is whether the Liberals have correctly diagnosed what went wrong and can be trusted to fix it, or whether the Conservatives could better do the job.
Immigration, all 3 mainstream parties pander. All 3 are scared to death to do what’s right.
Carney even hired “100 Million 3rd World Migrants Mark Wiseman” to destroy Canada and Poilievre didn’t have much at all to say about it.
Corporate Canada and our political class are evil.
This is not how to unify a nation.
OTTAWA — Canadian intelligence reported in 2021 that Beijing planned to interfere in Canada’s next federal election with disinformation suggesting the Conservatives “will follow the path of … Donald Trump”—a narrative now echoed in a clandestine dirty tricks operation exposed inside Prime Minister Mark Carney’s campaign.
The warning comes from a classified CSIS bulletin dated December 20, 2021 and marked Secret, distributed to Canadian departments including Global Affairs Canada, the Privy Council Office, the Communications Security Establishment, and Five Eyes intelligence partners. The report was based on information from Chinese consular officials in Canada.
