When Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Beijing last month to announce a new “Strategic Partnership,” he spoke of stability and pragmatism. But for those of us watching the fine print, one document stands out as a glaring threat to Canadian sovereignty: the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on cooperation between the RCMP and China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS).
Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government
BLACKED OUT: Ottawa censors files on $12.1 million spent searching for alleged Kamloops residential school graves
The federal Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations has redacted nearly all details from internal reports describing how a B.C. First Nation spent millions in taxpayer funding intended to locate alleged graves of children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School.
Blacklock’s Reporter says documents released under the Access to Information Act show the department labelled the reports “confidential,” concealing details about work undertaken by the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation after Ottawa provided $12.1 million to support searches tied to claims that 215 children were buried on the site.
Why is Canada elbows-up to Trump, but arms-out for Xi and Modi?
There was a disquieting air of jubilation from Prime Minister Mark Carney and his cabinet back in January when the government announced it had secured a new “strategic partnership” with Beijing.
Not that it wasn’t good news that Canada and China had broken their decade-long stalemate, that relief was coming to Canada’s canola farmers, and that plans were set in motion to diversify our energy, agri-food and wood product exports. But the celebratory tone and pageantry that came with the new partnership seemed incongruent with the reality of the situation, which was that renewing ties with China was a necessary evil for Canada.
Rising grocery costs forcing Canadians to cut meals and rely on credit, survey says
More Canadians are relying on credit to put food on the table — and sacrificing nutrition in the process — according to a new survey that shows how the strain of Canada’s affordability crisis is increasingly surfacing in grocery aisles.
A new survey from insolvency and debt relief firm Spergel finds that a majority of the 269 Canadians questioned said they had skipped meals or reduced portion sizes in the past six months due to financial pressure. Fifty three per cent of the respondents, who were between the ages of 30 and 60, reported using credit, buy-now-pay-later services, lines of credit or payday loans to purchase groceries in the last six months.
Why “Legalize and Tax” Is the Wrong Solution to Our Drug Problem
The economic reasoning is powerful, but it breaks down against reality.
I hate to disagree with my colleague, the great Roland Fryer—and doubly so when it comes to economics. Fryer’s work is consistently both stimulating and insightful, and his contributions to public policy substantially outstrip my own. I nevertheless feel obliged to comment on his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, in which he uses sound economic reasoning to reach a conclusion I reject: that we should legalize and tax addictive drugs.
Carney government introduces latest tweak to cheap foreign labour scam
Canada launches new program to grant 33,000 foreign workers permanent residence, immigration minister reveals
… “We have launched it already,” Diab said during an interview with the Star this week, where she also touched on questions about her competence. “I am not in a position to tell you specifically how many so far, but we will in the month of April be able to provide more clarity and more detail on them.”
Government data showed that 2,125,035 temporary residents had their permits expire in 2025 and another 1,938,805 are expected to run out of status in 2026. The questions of where they have gone and will end up have prompted concerns over a potential surge of undocumented population.
Trump’s war in Iran shows Carney has lots to learn about the new world order — one thing most of all
More than two decades ago, the United States invited Canada to join in a new Middle Eastern misadventure. The invitation was premised on a big lie about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction.
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien declined to participate. It’s not that he foresaw the disaster to come — but he had a team of good advisers, as well as credible intelligence showing Saddam posed no imminent threat and had had no role in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Perhaps more important, Chrétien also didn’t trust his American counterpart, President George W. Bush.
That’s a lot of bluster for a guy whose army is more concerned with sex change operations than being combat ready.
Carney’s contradictions: from Davos to New Delhi
OTTAWA—Given his short tenure to date, Prime Minister Mark Carney may not have fully grasped something every leader eventually must: power doesn’t corrupt, it deludes. By reconciling the irreconcilable, it persuades its holder that contradiction is sophistication.
… At the World Economic Forum in Davos back in January, Carney presented himself as the custodian of coherence in a splintering world. He warned against economic coercion, and the fragility of rules-based co-operation. He cautioned against an overreliance on singular partnerships, and urged renewed commitment to multilateralism and international law. It was the technocrat at his level best: sober, strategic, and alert to all the systemic global risks.
Don’t trust Ottawa on Musqueam agreement
Last weekend it became known that the Federal Government had signed an aboriginal rights agreement with the Musqueam First Nation, which acknowledged rights and title “within” a large area encompassing most of Metro Vancouver. This bilateral agreement between the Carney government and the Musqueam sets out their shared intention to “negotiate” Aboriginal title for the Musqueam within their vast claimed territory using the principles of UNDRIP as their lodestar.
Cancelled Canadian trips to Cuba might just be a good thing
Canadians have long enjoyed vacations on Cuba’s pristine beaches and at its all-inclusive resorts. And why not? The country has warm weather that’s not far away, at an affordable cost. That’s why Canada is consistently the top source country for tourism to Cuba.
Feds are ‘silencing’ an agent of Parliament by leaving post vacant, says ex-budget watchdog
Canada’s former budget watchdog Yves Giroux says the government’s failure to appoint a new parliamentary budget officer after both his and his interim successor’s terms expired is a “conscious decision” to silence the office and prevent it from holding the government accountable.
Michael Higgins: Mark Carney’s unprincipled stand(s) on Iran
And with one slick soundbite — we take the world as it is not as we wish it to be — Prime Minister Mark Carney gets to straddle whatever political or foreign fence he is confronted with.
Difficult choices and questions can all be deferred or deflected with this simple mantra.
Canada has nothing to gain from supporting the war in Iran – but much to lose
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s decision to back American strikes against Iran has provoked much controversy. Even though he and several of his ministers partially walked back some of this initial enthusiastic support, the debate still raises difficult questions about what Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand refers to as principled pragmatism. Is Canada moving away from its allegedly traditional support for international law? How can Canada’s rhetorical support for the war in Iran, even if watered down, be reconciled with the principles Mr. Carney enounced in his speech in Davos in January? And how can these principles be reconciled with Mr. Carney declining to close the door on Canada’s eventual participation in the war?
Andrew Griffith: The stakeholders who cheered on the Liberals’ devastating immigration expansion
In October 2024, then-prime minister Justin Trudeau announced an about-face on mass immigration, admitting: “We didn’t get the balance quite right.”
Trudeau’s mea culpa ranks among the starkest understatements in recent political memory: record-breaking immigration levels contributed to a severe housing shortage, strained public services to the breaking point, suppressed wage growth and, in the process, shattered Canada’s once-stable pro-immigration consensus.
Never believe academics, the corporate class or politicians when it comes to immigration.
John Ivison: Carney’s global deals are paper-thin until we see real results
The Greek myth of Pygmalion is based on a sculptor who fell so deeply in love with the beautiful sculpture he created that it came to life.
The so-called Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which higher expectations lead to improved performance.
It is an intriguing prospect, but wishful thinking is probably not the best basis for a system of government.
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