Deficits, deficits and more deficits.
That’s Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s plan when it comes to budgeting, as he hopes to lead the nation for the next four years.
Many Canadians are alarmed at the sheer scale at which the Liberals have piled up debt over the past decade. Since the Trudeau Liberals came to power in 2015, the federal debt has more than doubled.
Facing a possible collapse of the NDP, Jagmeet Singh insists he has no regrets.
The NDP leader stood by his decision not to plunge the country into an early election last fall while support for Justin Trudeau’s Liberals plummeted, telling the Star’s editorial board he “couldn’t stomach” the idea of causing Pierre Poilievre’s seizure of power, and that he made the choice to put Canada’s interests ahead of those of the New Democratic Party.
I hope he loses his seat.
The response to my recent column on the Liberal government’s quiet interest in taxing your home equity was predictable — but revealing.
Instead of engaging with the facts, many online commentators resorted to the usual routine: Hashtags, name-calling, shouting “fake news” into the void, and hurling emojis like they’re making a serious argument.
Let that sink in.
Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney’s strategy depends on being different from former prime minister Justin Trudeau.
When it comes to budget plans, Carney is not only different from Trudeau, he’s much worse.
Carney plans to add $225 billion to the federal debt over the next four years, according to his recently released platform.
The biggest, though by no means the smartest or the most coherent, complaint against Conservatives is that they aren’t Liberals. This complaint comes, bizarrely, as often from other conservatives, as it does from the left. Or perhaps it isn’t so bizarre, as Conservatives who want their side to become more like the other side will always be given time by Canada’s monochromatic media, which seems to agree that the only good Conservative is a Liberal.
TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford is warning that Donald Trump’s recent remarks in the Oval Office are a reminder that the U.S. president really does have designs on Canada.
“It’s not just words. He wants to do it,” Ford told an audience of policy leaders in Toronto on Thursday afternoon. “He wants to destroy our auto sector. He wants to destroy our manufacturing sector. He wants to try to take over Canada.”
In New York, Frank Sinatra says, they want to be a part of it. Chicago, he claims, has all that jazz. But it turns out Toronto is where people are going.
Toronto was the fastest-growing metropolitan area in Canada and the U.S. for the second consecutive year and saw an estimated population increase of nearly 269,000 people from July 2023 to July 2024, according to data from Statistics Canada and the U.S. Census Bureau.
… In 2021, 47 per cent of Toronto residents were born in Canada. According to the Census, there were 1,286,140 immigrants in Toronto, or 46.6 percent of the population. In Canada overall, immigrants made up 23.0 per cent of the population.
OTTAWA — Liberal Leader Mark Carney is admitting that U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his threat to annex Canada to the United States during their call on March 28 despite claiming publicly at the time that Trump “respected Canada’s sovereignty.”
Carney has already lied about the fact..
– That he’s against carbon taxes
– That he saved the Canadian and British economies
– That he “just got here” and hasn’t been the backbone of the Liberal economic platform for years...Now even CTV is questioning his honesty ♂️. pic.twitter.com/8CRSXPUqJb
— An Oil Exec (@CanadianOilExec) April 24, 2025
Brookfield ex-employee wrote the Poilievre hit-piece for the Globe and Mail.
This is unbelievably unethical. https://t.co/DDCQIMv8Yp pic.twitter.com/54Lvq2VTCu
— Dean Skoreyko (@bcbluecon) April 25, 2025
H/T Mauser
Long before he entered politics, Mark Carney was a full-throated supporter of social engineering via progressive policy. His platform, released Monday, has confirmed that his government will be no different in that regard than that of Justin Trudeau.
Carney’s plan shallowly pushes diversity both in form and in substance. Form-wise, his platform alleges itself to have been “reviewed through an equity lens using a GBA+ analysis,” meaning that for each commitment has been mulled over extensively by the privilege police.
The costed Conservative election platform released this week largely eschews the hyperpolarizing language that had defined Pierre Poilievre until recently. The word “broken” shows up seven times in the 30-page document, but nowhere does the Tory platform apply that descriptor to Canada as a whole, as Mr. Poilievre had been endlessly doing until the federal election campaign began. Rather, the platform refers to “broken” Liberal promises and our “broken” immigration and health care systems. Hard to take issue with that.
I am prioritizing parties’ and politicians’ stances on Gaza when I vote in the federal election on April 28 — but please, don’t call me a single-issue voter.
As a Palestinian Canadian, Gaza feels like the best test I can use to gauge a politician’s actual commitment to human rights. The core principle behind human rights is that they are universal (apply to everyone) and inalienable (cannot be taken away). Over the past 18 months, I have watched Israel violate just about every human right that I learned about in school, while so many Canadian politicians stayed silent. If a politician isn’t willing to fight for the human rights of Palestinians, how can we trust they’ll defend Canadian rights? You might think our existing laws safeguard your rights against those who would take them away, but I’m sure many Americans thought the same thing about due process, too. Things can change fast.
HALIFAX — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if his party is elected, it will scrap Canada’s electric vehicle sales mandates.
Canada has mandated that 20 per cent of all new vehicles sold must be electric by 2026 and 100 per cent by 2035.
Electric vehicles made up just shy of 12 per cent of the Canadian sales in 2023, but government rebate programs meant to encourage people to buy EVs came to an end in January.
Winner!
Voters didn’t demand much substance when they handed Justin Trudeau that 184-seat majority in 2015.
Despite a decade of steady decline during three terms of his leadership that brought Canada to the brink of ruin, history could repeat itself in the April 28 federal election. If polls are believable, newbie politician Mark Carney who returned to ‘save’ Canada after years abroad is positioned to head a Liberal majority government.
Every election, the message from exasperated pundits and pedants is the same: Canadians don’t actually vote directly for their prime minister.
But on a rural intersection south of Ottawa, residents could be mistaken for thinking otherwise.
Hammered into the freshly thawed mud and gravel are campaign signs for the Liberal leader, Mark Carney, and Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, at the only place in the country where the dividing line between parties is as literal as two signs facing off on opposite sides of the road.
But what will your neighbors do?
These early voting numbers suggest voter turnout is likely exceed 70% this year, up 10.7% from 2021.
Since 1946, 5 of 6 elections with a 5%+ increase in voter turnout led to a change in governing party. https://t.co/o2agtVD67H pic.twitter.com/X2rbI0AVVX
— golden pup (@Golden_Pup) April 23, 2025
h/t Mauser
The Conservatives had enjoyed a lead over Liberals in the region largely because of rising housing and food costs. But President Trump’s tariffs have shifted the equation.
A year of rapidly slumping poll results for the Liberal Party that has governed Canada for nearly a decade was bad enough. But then there came the almost unthinkable: a defeat in a special election in downtown Toronto, the party’s longtime electoral fortress.
The defeat last year, many analysts believe, triggered the chain of events that led to Justin Trudeau’s resignation as prime minister and the federal election that will be held on Monday.
Voters in Toronto had been vital to keeping Mr. Trudeau and the Liberals in power through three elections. So the loss of a Toronto district — held by a prominent Liberal for 28 years — to the Conservatives was a stunning blow and an omen of worse to come in a general election.
Not so fast Katie Telford’s typist…
This explains Liberals hitting panic button today https://t.co/Fl4bhKPSdR
— Kathryn Marshall (@Lawsome_) April 24, 2025
This will lose more Carney support than is gained.
Woman speaks up during public interviews at TMU in Toronto pic.twitter.com/ob3MHj9GBp
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) April 24, 2025
