Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Get ready for buyer’s remorse on carbon taxes if Mark Carney and the Liberals win the April 28 election.

The reason is the uncritical media reporting of Carney’s so-called plan to kill the consumer carbon tax and replace it with a better system.

What he’s actually doing is a classic “bait and switch” manoeuvre — promising Canadians a less costly, more efficient carbon tax regime during the election, the unspoken part being that he will replace it with a more costly, less transparent system after April 28.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s willingness to shield an MP who openly mused about targeting political rivals is more than a scandal. It erodes Canadians’ trust.

When a government leader tolerates this sort of behaviour it sends a message that accountability and safety are negotiable. It will certainly harden the opinions of rightfully cynical Canadians, just 28 per cent of which have confidence in the federal parliament.

Mark Carney is stealing Conservative campaign promises, which isn’t by itself a bad thing because theirs are better than his.

Lower taxes, less government spending and fewer bureaucrats, more affordable housing, quicker approval of major projects, better national defence, pipelines east and west; all of those are commendable. (The only Conservative policy missing is lower crime and tougher bail.)

Mark Carney was asked some tough questions on Tuesday and he had no good answers for any of them. That goes against his sales pitch to voters that he’s the guy you need in a crisis, in a pinch.

The thing is the crisis can change and it often does with governments.

While governments come to power with big plans, they often end up lurching from crisis to crisis, not of their own making. They need to be nimble, they need to be able to respond to changing circumstances quickly and Carney doesn’t appear to be able to do that.

REPORTER: “Why does China like you? Why is the PRC praising you?”

CARNEY:

“Uh… I have absolutely no idea. And I, um… yeah.
I have absolutely no idea. And I think it, well… I’ll leave it at that.”

That’s not the answer of someone with nothing to hide.
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— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) April 9, 2025

For most Canadians, the COVID pandemic, with its divisive lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures and business failures was a nightmare best forgotten and hopefully never repeated in our lifetime.

For Mark Carney it was a dry run for the sacrifices to be made on behalf of his climate crusade.

In Mark Carney’s first month as Liberal leader and prime minister, a picture has emerged of who he is: a technocratic version of Justin Trudeau, without the charisma, great hair or ability to communicate comfortably in French, but with many of his banished predecessor’s other personality characteristics and policy propensities.

Like Trudeau, Carney is a left-leaning, climate-obsessed globalist — a Laurentian elitist who sees big government as the solution to most problems, whether real, imagined or self-imposed. He appears ambitious and narcissistic, is often casual with the truth, is compromised by conflicts of interest and seems beholden to the “basic Chinese dictatorship.” He is advised by Trudeau’s coterie of political operatives , led by Gerald Butts, and presides over a reshuffled Trudeau cabinet. The fourth Liberal term he seeks would, with one or two exceptions, pursue the same dysfunctional policies that inflicted a lost decade on our long-suffering yet credulous electorate. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me four times? Seriously?

His entire take on justice can be reduced to rare emotional engagements. Poilievre, on the other hand, is offering solutions

Last week, an Edmonton man was given a four-year prison term (with only six months left) for beating another man to death in a jealous rage. The Liberal-appointed judge gave him such a lowball sentence because the offender was Indigenous, had a rough personal history, and because “a restrained view of sentencing in this case serves the goal of rehabilitation in Canadian society.”