Last week, the Prime Minister filled another three vacant seats in the Senate by appointing Baltej Dhillon (British Columbia), Martine Hébert (Quebec), and Todd Lewis (Saskatchewan) as “independent” Senators.
But, let’s be real.
As we’ve told you before, Justin Trudeau claims to be “modernizing” the Senate, by appointing “independent” Senators.
Listening to Mark Carney, former governor of the Bank of England and frontrunner to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal party leader, can be a dizzying experience. His mind brims with slogans — often sugary, often illogical — which he fires off like a tennis ball machine.
If Mark Carney is the next prime minister who has to deal with Donald Trump, the U.S. president may need to change up his game on the insults he’s been tossing in Canada’s direction.
Calling Carney “governor” won’t exactly have the same sting, given that the man increasingly seen as the front-running Liberal leadership contender has actually been a governor of two national banks — Canada and the Bank of England.
Workers who lose their jobs due to climate-related disasters like wildfires will now have access to enhanced unemployment benefits under a new federal pilot program.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the three-year initiative, announced by the Employment Insurance Commission, is set to cost $4.3 million and aims to provide relief to those impacted by extreme weather events.
It would be hard to come up with a dumber tariff plan than President Donald Trump, but Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is giving it his best shot.
Carney released his carbon tax plan recently and it contained a tariff, a carbon tariff.
Carney said he would “change” the carbon tax. But he would replace it with a hidden industrial carbon tax. And, on top of it all, he would impose carbon tariffs on imports. In former central banker speak, this tariff is called a “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism.”
Like a bad April Fools’ Day joke, every year on April 1, politicians in Ottawa pad their pockets the very same day they take more money from taxpayers with carbon and alcohol tax hikes.
This year may be no different.
On April 1, backbench MPs will collect a $7,900 pay raise, according to Canadian Taxpayers Federation estimates. That will push their annual salary to $211,000.
For any money that consumers saved during the federal government’s two-month GST holiday, the economic measure “did not move the needle” as a boost to B.C. business, retailers say.
The tax holiday, unveiled by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last November as an inflation-fighting measure to deliver “real relief at the cash register,” estimated to put $1.6 billion in consumers’ pockets, comes to an end Feb. 15.
To their credit, reporters are asking Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney tough questions about how much his replacement carbon tax will cost.
So far, he doesn’t seem interested in giving a clear answer.
During an announcement in Halifax, Carney said he will erase the “consumer” carbon tax and make big businesses pay it without passing on the costs to everyday people.
If one of the requirements for Liberal leadership contenders is that they exhibit an anti-Israeli bias, then Mark Carney and Frank Baylis have delivered.
In a tweet last week, Carney said U.S. President Donald Trump’s “proposed forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza is deeply disturbing. It would violate the rights of Palestinians and international law, and it would set back efforts to promote peace and security for all in the region.” Carney said he supports a two-state solution, and that Palestinian families should receive help rebuilding their homes and their lives.
President Trump's proposed forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza is deeply disturbing. It would violate the rights of Palestinians and international law, and it would set back efforts to promote peace and security for all in the region.
I support the hard work of…
— Mark Carney (@MarkJCarney) February 5, 2025
In politics, as in psychology, it’s called projection.
When little is known about a politician, voters tend to project onto him or her those qualities and policies they themselves want most to see.
That’s the phenomenon Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney is benefiting from. He is helping revive Liberal party fortunes because relatively little is known about what he stands for, so voters just assume he’ll be everything the detested Justin Trudeau was not.
Carney is on board with mass immigration
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LAPRESSE REPORTING THAT REFUGEE CLAIMS IN CANADA HAVE SMASHED ALL RECORDS AT 172,255
this is out of control!
We only have so many hotels and uber-eats drivers to serve them! pic.twitter.com/XlPXnlRhfH
— Tablesalt (@Tablesalt13) February 15, 2025
h/t Mauser
Now that the leading contenders in the Liberal leadership race – Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland – have promised, vaguely, to cancel Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax, what do they plan to do about the $200-billion-plus, taxpayer-funded sinkhole the Liberals have created since 2015, ostensibly to fight climate change?
Canada is in the midst of a national awakening, with a renewed sense of patriotism sweeping across the country in the face of Donald Trump’s tariff threats. The “Buy Canadian” movement which took off as the tariffs were supposed to be introduced on 1 February — now due to come into effect in March — has started having a tangible impact on retail markets. More and more shoppers are forgoing American made goods for their Canadian counterparts. The biggest beneficiary of this newfound love for crown and country seems to be the country’s previously struggling Liberal Party, which is experiencing a level of support not seen since 2023.
All Liberals are the same. A newish old face won’t change that.
Here’s a simple formula to help Canadian Heritage managers get on track when doling out millions of taxpayer dollars in grants for Canada Day celebrations.
No Canadian flag, no O Canada, no exhibit of national pride and unity — no grant money. Period. Don’t bother applying.
Let everybody wailing about colonialism which is rooted in Marxism, or pushing racist diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), disrespect and trash Canada on their own dime.
Brookfield Asset Management Ltd.’s decision to shift its head office to New York from Toronto is featured in a new attack ad against Mark Carney, who’s running to become Canadian prime minister.
Carney is one of the leading candidates to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal Party leader and assume Canada’s highest political office. He had been Brookfield’s chair and head of transition investing until January, when he resigned to launch his campaign.
In a video released Friday, the Conservative Party took aim at Carney’s views on the economy and at Brookfield’s relocation. “Trudeau and Carney sold out Canada with job-killing taxes that push jobs south,” the narrator of the video says. “Carney even moved his company’s headquarters to New York.”
OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives are amping up criticism of Mark Carney, the Liberal leadership contender they appear to assume will replace Justin Trudeau as their chief opponent in the next federal election.
The criticism comes as the party stages a “Canada First” rally in Ottawa on Saturday, aimed at pitching Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre as the best answer to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff threats.
