Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corporations

OTTAWA — Federally funded institutions and Crown corporations like the CBC and Via Rail are expected to propose their own cuts under the Liberal government’s sweeping efforts to find $25 billion in annual savings from the federal budget in the next three years, the Star has confirmed.

That means very little appears to be off the table under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan, and it’s not just the civil service facing potential service cuts and job losses as a result of the spending review.


Gee Prime Minister we looked and we looked but no luck!

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Canada’s income gap reaches record high, Statistics Canada finds

Statistics Canada says the income gap between the country’s highest and lowest income households reached a record high in the first quarter of 2025.

The agency says the difference in the share of disposable income between households in the top 40 per cent of the income distribution and the bottom 40 per cent grew to 49 percentage points in the first three months of the year.

Statistics Canada says the measure has increased each year following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.


This is why it was so important to import unskilled labour from incompatible cultures by the millions.

‘Youth-cession’ sees young Canadians struggling most, poll data shows

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Michael A. Sachs: Why I’m moving my family to the United States

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After 30 years as a proud Canadian citizen, a die-hard Canucks fan and someone who has deeply loved this country, I’ve made the hardest decision of my life: I have moved my family of four to the United States.

I want to be clear that this decision wasn’t made lightly and I never imagined leaving our community, our family and our friends. And yet, here we are. The decision comes after years of watching the country I love erode into something unrecognizable.

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John Robson: Carney’s conflict-of-interest falsehoods part of a long history of mistruths

He lied. Right in our faces. A brazen, self-serving, manipulative, obvious lie that was bound to get found out. Have we lost the capacity to care?

No, I’m not talking about U.S. President Donald Trump. I’m speaking of Prime Minister Mark Carney. When accused during the election campaign of a conflict of interest over his extensive holdings, he declared indignantly: “I own nothing but cash and personal real estate.” But he lied.

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Canada’s PM wants to fast-track ‘nation building’ – but can he convince indigenous First Nations?

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Jeronimo Kataquapit, a member of Ontario’s Attawapiskat First Nation, is camped outside The Ring of Fire, a mineral-rich region located in remote northern Ontario. With just a canoe and a tent, the 20-year-old and his family have travelled more than 400 kilometres to protest a provincial law that designated the area a “special economic zone” for mining.

Now, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “nation-building” law – his first major piece of legislation – is poised to put even more of a spotlight on the region. Dubbed the One Canadian Economy Act, the law was passed at a time when the country is involved in a costly trade war with the United States.

A billion or so oughta do it.

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John Ivison: Carney will have to cut the uncuttable — if he has the guts

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Budgets in government tend to creep like mould, not ebb like the tide.

Take the example of Indigenous occupational skills training. The Department of Employment and Social Development spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year funding Indigenous third parties who deliver the training. In 2017, the department was hauled over the coals by the auditor general because it did not collect data on performance indicators to demonstrate whether it was getting Indigenous people into stable employment.


Prepare for the usual sleight of hand that places the “needs” of the usual grifters above taxpayers.

h/t Mauser

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GWYN MORGAN: Mark Carney’s fiscal fantasy will bankrupt Canada

Mark Carney was supposed to be the adult in the room. After nearly a decade of runaway spending under Justin Trudeau, the former central banker was presented to Canadians as a steady hand — someone who could responsibly manage the economy and restore fiscal discipline.

Instead, Carney has taken Trudeau’s recklessness and dialled it up. His government’s recently released spending plan shows an increase of 8.5 per cent this fiscal year to $437.8 billion. Add in “non-budgetary spending” such as EI payouts, plus at least $49 billion just to service the burgeoning national debt and total spending in Carney’s first year in office will hit $554.5 billion.  

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What’s the deal with the Grits and EV cars?

In ten years you won’t be allowed to buy a new, gasoline-powered vehicle in our country. Sorry, but that’s the law.

Except you will be able to buy one. Confused? Can’t blame you. But the fog begins to lift when realizing the federal Liberals are involved in this malarkey. It’s because the Grits have successfully turned today’s legislation into nothing more than tomorrow’s electioneering gimmick.

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HEINRICHS: Cash is freedom — and Ottawa wants to take it away

Alberta-based North Economics reports that in 2022, Canada’s five largest banks recorded $7.73 billion in non-interest retail bank profits. That’s about $250 for every Canadian.

North Economics managing director Alain de Brossart broke it down, stating, “Canadian banks have done a very good job of extracting as many fees out of people as possible.”

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Jamie Sarkonak: Non-citizen johns shouldn’t get sentence discounts for their crimes

 

In December 2023, Akashkumar Khant, 30 (plus or minus some months), made the mistake of arranging to have sex with a 15-year-old at a Mississauga Holiday Inn for $140.

Only, when he got there, that 15-year-old turned out to be a cop. He was arrested at the hotel (with $140 in cash on hand) and subsequently ended up in court — but he won’t receive a criminal record for his actions, in part because of his immigration status.

h/t Patti Jo

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Democracy Watch Blows the Whistle on Carney’s Ethics Sham

So here’s something the media doesn’t want to talk about because it shatters the entire illusion they’ve built around the man they now call Prime Minister: Mark Carney. The technocratic savior, the former banker with all the right globalist credentials, the guy who jets between Davos and Ottawa with a PowerPoint and a carbon tax. And yet, today buried under polite headlines and careful euphemisms a watchdog group in Canada finally said what should’ve been obvious to anyone paying attention.

Mark Carney’s ethics screen and his so-called “blind trust” are scams. Period.


Carney and Trump may not be on the same team but they do seem to working toward the same goal. The end of Canada.

h/t Mauser

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Today In “How Corrupt Is The LPC?” – Before joining cabinet, public safety minister wrote immigration support letters for terror group ‘member’

Before joining cabinet, public safety minister wrote immigration support letters for terror group ‘member’

Before he was appointed to the federal cabinet two years ago, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree wrote letters urging Canadian officials to approve the immigration application of a man they had determined was a member of a terrorist organization.

The letters, dated 2023 and 2016, were written on Anandasangaree’s House of Commons letterhead and sent to the Canada Border Services Agency on behalf of an alleged member of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers who wanted to move to Toronto.

Identity politics attracts the world’s parasites.

h/t Patti Jo

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Even with cuts, Carney’s spending is still off the charts

A series of leaked letters sent out by the Prime Minister’s Office indicate that Prime Minister Mark Carney is seeking to slash government spending by 15 per cent over the next three years. If the targets are met, this could work out to about $25 billion in savings per year.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, for one, said that these would represent the “worst cuts to the public service in modern history,” and would “rival” the aggressive reductions to government spending that Canada undertook in the 1990s.

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