The federal government’s plan to achieve affordable housing levels through additional building is “completely unrealistic” and comes with a price tag of over $1 trillion, according to a new report.
The Fraser Institute report “Canada Needs to Save Much More to Finance an Ambitious Investment Agenda” looks at what Canada needs to do to improve housing affordability and attract more business investment.
Liberals are magicians. Through sleights of hand and by proroguing Parliament, the Liberals could yet win another election with a new leader.
Not so fast, shout defenders of democracy. David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos — both living in Nova Scotia, both lawyers — have asked the Federal Court to weigh in on whether Trudeau’s proroguing of Parliament was legal. Calgary-based Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, a non-profit founded by John Carpay, offered up a legal team from Charter Advocates Canada. And on Feb. 13 and 14, Chief Justice Paul Crampton heard arguments for and against prorogation, and committed to rendering a swift decision before the issue becomes moot.
“I don’t get it.” This phrase comes to mind as I listen to senior Liberal politicians proposing to reverse a decade’s worth of Justin Trudeau’s policies that they willingly pushed while in power. Now they’re signing on to new oil pipelines, internal trade reforms and reversal of carbon and capital gains taxes. When you peel off the onion’s skin, however, you realize it’s still a stinky onion.
Wait, the Trudeau Liberals are suddenly concerned about foreign interference?
That’s what they want you to think after they kicked Ruby Dhalla out of their leadership race, but it’s not believable.
As the Liberal Party broke the news, first leaking it to CBC before telling the public or the candidate, they made sure to include concerns about Dhalla and foreign interference.
The recent Four Nations Face-Off in hockey was, by any standard, an unbelievable success for the game of hockey.
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The exposure it produced for our great game is a credit to all those individuals involved in its creation and implementation. Hats off to all the players who were so committed to their respective homelands and the game of hockey in general.
These were not mere exhibition games – these were games with great meaning. Congratulations one and all.
The people making a show of their patriotism for the most part are the same ones who shit all over Canada for the last ten years by supporting Trudeau and his useful idiot Singh.
No loyalty oaths here, no pseudo-patriots welcome.
On Thursday morning, the federal heritage minister, Pascale St-Onge, gave forth the outlines of her plan to reform the CBC and adapt it to the future. You might think such an exercise would involve asking questions about the CBC’s prior performance, or whether a state broadcaster is really necessary in the 21st century, or exactly what parts of it are essential.
Increasing Canada’s national carbon tax (aka the consumer fuel charge) as scheduled on April 1 by almost 19% to $95 per tonne of industrial greenhouse gas emissions from the current $80 per tonne, when we may be in a full-scale tariff war with the U.S. by then, is economic insanity.
OTTAWA – Liberal leadership candidates have contrasting plans for Canada’s federal public service — with presumed front-runner Mark Carney taking the most aggressive stance so far.
Carney recently vowed to cap the size of the public service and rein in government spending.
While he hasn’t said where this cap would be set or how much he would reduce spending, Carney told a press conference on Wednesday he would review program budgets and use new technology like artificial intelligence to improve efficiency.
The public service runs in the millions.
They are well financed and organized. No Liberal is going to risk their vote.
A retired Canadian C-level executive, wishing to remain anonymous, has estimated Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s wealth from his years with Brookfield Asset Management — which has ownership of coal infrastructure.
Carney has branded himself a political outsider despite also being former governor of the Bank of Canada and governor of the Bank of England. He worked extensively as an advisor to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and has questioned aspects of capitalism.
Canada’s sharp policy turns have dramatically impacted the quality of life. Statistics Canada (Stat Can) data reveals that most people are highly satisfied with life and that share was rising in Q4 2024… but only for seniors 65 and older. The general sentiment in the country continued to erode, especially amongst the critical demographics of Core Aged workers and recent immigrants. A brief period of predatory policies appears to be setting up long-term dest abilization for the country’s economic future.
As people line up to try to cancel the Great One, the hockey legend has Grapes in his corner.
It’s kind of fitting the man voted in a CBC poll as the 7th greatest Canadian has the back of the person from that same poll who was voted the 10th greatest Canuck.
I blame the Liberal Party and their media.
The Liberal leadership debates next week will feature something that has been notably absent from the contest so far: Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland taking direct swings at each other.
The two leading contenders to replace Justin Trudeau and become Canada’s next prime minister have, until now, avoided going toe to toe, or talking much about each other at all. But on Monday and Tuesday, in both official languages, they will be forced into very visible opposition on the same debate stage, highlighting a curiosity of this race: The two are – or were – friends with each other.
Being a good candidate for Liberal Party leader means bad news for Canada.
Carbon offsets are unreliable, fraud-ridden financial tokens that often fail to make any environmental impact at all. And if Mark Carney gets his way, they’re going to be Canada’s next big industry.
In his carbon reduction pitch to Liberal voters, Carney pledged himself to “developing and integrating a new consumer carbon credit market” that works with the existing industrial carbon tax, and promised it would bring about price certainty, market efficiency and fiscal neutrality.
OTTAWA — Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s new pitch for separate federal operating and capital budgets has some Albertans feeling a tinge of déjà vu, and not the warm and fuzzy sort.
Trevor Tombe, an economist at the University of Calgary, says he immediately noticed the similarities between Carney’s proposal and short-lived accounting rules introduced by then Alberta Progressive Conservative premier Alison Redford more than a decade ago.
The Conservatives have brought Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney’s business investments into the spotlight , particularly as pertains to a company called ‘Stripe’.
Carney joined the board of directors at Stripe, a global tech company worth $65 billion that “builds economic infrastructure for the internet,” on February 21, 2021, according to the company’s website. Stripe facilitates the internet operations of tech giants like Amazon, Zoom, Slack and Wayfair.
