OTTAWA — Two-thirds of Canadians think Liberal leader Mark Carney should proactively reveal his business interests before election day, according to a new poll.
A new Postmedia-Leger poll suggests 67 per cent of Canadians feel Carney should “voluntarily reveal his business interests” before voters go to the ballot box April 28.
Riding high in the polls, Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s campaign seems set to hit serious turbulence — turbulence that could send cutlery flying in what has so far been a smooth flight. When
Carney’s experienced crew prepared him for his first electoral voyage, “Quebec issues” appeared to rank low on the priority list, with his ability to handle Donald Trump the campaign’s main selling point. The brilliant and affable central banker turned businessman was being positioned as the leader who could stand firm against Trump’s bluster.
What’s good for the Canadian goose doesn’t hold for the American eagle. At least, not for former Brookfield chairman Mark Carney.
That’s because the Liberal candidate for prime minister, a vocal opponent of major new pipelines in Canada, is now facing scrutiny as Brookfield Asset Management — the investment giant he once chaired — closes in on a USD$9 billion deal to acquire Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel transport system in the United States.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
Trailing by the numbers, Pierre Poilievre is not changing his tune.
This column has gone straight to the man. Some have written him off. You would think it would be too early in the game to write an obituary.
Canada should be an economic powerhouse. With the second-largest land mass in the world, a small but educated population, and an abundance of natural resources, there’s no excuse for widespread hardship in this country.
However, here we are.
Food banks can’t keep up. Housing costs are out of reach. The middle class is being hollowed out. Small businesses are barely surviving, and young Canadians are giving up on ever owning a home or getting ahead.
‘Though Carney is smooth and superficially sophisticated, he’s cut from the same fanatical net-zero cloth as Trudeau.’
Donald Trump’s continuing rhetoric about making Canada the 51st State is certainly annoying, but one can’t deny that his apparent underlying message — that Canada is performing far below its potential and needs to get serious or its very existence may be threatened — carries a serious point.
Last week, the Liberal line of defence of Mark Carney’s high-finance Brookfield background came out through the media: Pierre Poilievre is just as bad.
It’s a light years-long stretch, the logic being this: Carney, former chair of Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) and vice-chair of Brookfield Corporation (BN), stands to benefit from Brookfield’s success — but so does Poilievre, because he keeps some of his investments in an exchange-traded fund named Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF (VCE), which is invested in many Canadian companies, a small fraction of which includes BN and BAM.
The president of Canada’s largest federal union says it’s not endorsing any party yet in this election but is keeping a close eye on how the parties plan to protect public services.
Sharon DeSousa, national president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, said PSAC will be ranking the party leaders based on their platforms and stated support for the public service and will share those rankings online in the coming weeks.
What a farce, we all know the LPC will promise them all of your money and beyond.
The difference between journalism and stenography isn’t the ability to report on the news: it’s the drive to discover what’s behind the easily seen and heard.
Stories that reveal where decisions are made – where power and influence are vested – are the ones that give context to the events of the day. They are the reports that lead to an informed public and present readers with the value propositions required for them to subscribe. And to trust.
h/t Mauser
Liberal MP Paul Chiang’s announcement that he would step down as a candidate just before midnight Monday shows a massive failure of leadership by Mark Carney.
It took four days for Chiang to be removed as the Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville and it came after Carney had spent all morning defending him.
WATCH: A few years ago, Sir Lord Mark Carney told Parliament that “it will be important that China is center stage to shape this new, global, sustainable financial system.”
I’m not making this up guys.
This man is a CHINESE-SHILL.pic.twitter.com/kkPc1Lhrt0
— mistersunshinebaby (@mrsunshinebaby) March 31, 2025
Poilievre says the Canada-U.S. relationship can be salvaged, while Liberal Leader Mark Carney says it’s basically “over” and time to seek allies elsewhere.
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the Canada-U.S. relationship can be salvaged, while Liberal Leader Mark Carney says it’s basically “over” and time to seek allies elsewhere.
That’s the key difference in the approach of the two major party leaders toward how they propose to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump and his short- and long-term threats to Canada’s economy and independence.
Carney says if Trump can be persuaded to reach a new comprehensive economic and security agreement with Canada, he is willing to negotiate with the U.S., but his sights are already on Europe.
“The old relationship we had with the United States—based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation—is over.”
Carney's electoral success depends on a worsening crisis with Trump.
Inflammatory statements help Carney but hurt Canada. pic.twitter.com/ViGxlzmTIE
— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) March 28, 2025
Sometimes in medicine the cure is worse than the disease.
Carney's prescription is to end our US trading relationship and realign with Europe.
That means loss of 80% of our current trade, EU regulatory compliance, carbon taxes, and huge shipping costs.https://t.co/PmRIhC49X1
— David Jacobs (@DrJacobsRad) March 28, 2025
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre mounted a defence of his campaign messaging Monday, saying he has no qualms about focusing on issues like the housing crisis, cost of living concerns and relatively weak economic growth, even as some of his critics say he should go all in on Canada-U.S. relations.
In the first week of this federal campaign, Poilievre has so far largely stuck to the playbook that catapulted him and his party to the lead in the polls for much of the last two years.
Liberal incumbent Paul Chiang will not be running in the ongoing federal election after suggesting earlier this year that people should try to claim a Chinese bounty on a Conservative candidate.
In a statement posted to X late Monday night, Chiang called the federal election “uniquely important,” saying he does “not want there to be distractions in this critical moment.”
h/t Mauser
On Monday morning, Liberal Leader Mark Carney said he had “confidence” in his candidate who, in January, called for his Conservative opponent to be turned over to the Chinese consulate in order to receive a bounty.
Mr. Carney said that Paul Chiang – who at once issued a veiled threat, encouraged foreign interference and trivialized the horrors Beijing has inflicted on dissidents – was a “person of integrity,” noting that he served for decades as a police officer and MP for the riding of Markham-Unionville for the last several years. Mr. Carney said that Mr. Chiang “made a terrible lapse in judgment,” as if he had gotten testy with a waiter at a restaurant, and not that he had suggested his political opponent be kidnapped by a violent and repressive foreign regime.
If you’re a Canadian who’s been following this election closely and have started to feel like you might be going insane, don’t worry. You’re not alone. This might be one of the most contradictory and bewildering elections we’ve ever seen in this country.
There’s no reason to be ashamed if you do feel this way, honestly I’d be more concerned for if you didn’t. It’s a completely normal reaction that any sane person should feel witnessing the collapse of the Canadian electorate’s ability to critically think.
