Mulcair: Carney campaign must up its game in Quebec

Riding high in the polls, Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s campaign seems set to hit serious turbulence — turbulence that could send cutlery flying in what has so far been a smooth flight. When

Carney’s experienced crew prepared him for his first electoral voyage, “Quebec issues” appeared to rank low on the priority list, with his ability to handle Donald Trump the campaign’s main selling point. The brilliant and affable central banker turned businessman was being positioned as the leader who could stand firm against Trump’s bluster.

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PIPELINE PARADOX: Brookfield to buy US pipeline giant as Carney refuses to repeal Bill C-69 pipeline ban

What’s good for the Canadian goose doesn’t hold for the American eagle. At least, not for former Brookfield chairman Mark Carney.

That’s because the Liberal candidate for prime minister, a vocal opponent of major new pipelines in Canada, is now facing scrutiny as Brookfield Asset Management — the investment giant he once chaired — closes in on a USD$9 billion deal to acquire Colonial Pipeline, the largest fuel transport system in the United States.

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GWYN MORGAN: Canada is falling behind, and with Carney we’ll fall further and faster

‘Though Carney is smooth and superficially sophisticated, he’s cut from the same fanatical net-zero cloth as Trudeau.’

Donald Trump’s continuing rhetoric about making Canada the 51st State is certainly annoying, but one can’t deny that his apparent underlying message — that Canada is performing far below its potential and needs to get serious or its very existence may be threatened — carries a serious point.

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The Eurasia Group’s fingerprints are everywhere and still no one seems interested in posing the question: who are these guys?

The difference between journalism and stenography isn’t the ability to report on the news: it’s the drive to discover what’s behind the easily seen and heard.

Stories that reveal where decisions are made – where power and influence are vested – are the ones that give context to the events of the day. They are the reports that lead to an informed public and present readers with the value propositions required for them to subscribe. And to trust.

h/t Mauser

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LILLEY: Chiang is gone and so is any claim that Carney is a leader

Liberal MP Paul Chiang’s announcement that he would step down as a candidate just before midnight Monday shows a massive failure of leadership by Mark Carney.

It took four days for Chiang to be removed as the Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville and it came after Carney had spent all morning defending him.

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Liberal Paul Chiang ‘standing aside’ after suggesting Chinese bounty be collected on Conservative candidate

Liberal incumbent Paul Chiang will not be running in the ongoing federal election after suggesting earlier this year that people should try to claim a Chinese bounty on a Conservative candidate.

In a statement posted to X late Monday night, Chiang called the federal election “uniquely important,” saying he does “not want there to be distractions in this critical moment.”

h/t Mauser

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STIRLING: Cows are the new coal!

Western Canadian agricultural producers of canola, peas and oil cake are facing crippling retaliatory tariffs from China, because Canada imposed 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs, in line with the USA, to protect our ‘homegrown’ non-existent EV industry.

Fact: Canola contributes $43 billion to the Canadian economy, slightly less than the subsidies thrown at EV battery plants, the manufacturers of which are bankrupt or teetering. 

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It is astonishing – and reprehensible – that Paul Chiang remains a Liberal candidate

On Monday morning, Liberal Leader Mark Carney said he had “confidence” in his candidate who, in January, called for his Conservative opponent to be turned over to the Chinese consulate in order to receive a bounty.

Mr. Carney said that Paul Chiang – who at once issued a veiled threat, encouraged foreign interference and trivialized the horrors Beijing has inflicted on dissidents – was a “person of integrity,” noting that he served for decades as a police officer and MP for the riding of Markham-Unionville for the last several years. Mr. Carney said that Mr. Chiang “made a terrible lapse in judgment,” as if he had gotten testy with a waiter at a restaurant, and not that he had suggested his political opponent be kidnapped by a violent and repressive foreign regime.

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Michael Taube: Liberals try to limit exposure to Carney’s ‘volcanic temper’

I never thought I’d live to see the day when a Liberal Leader in Canada refused to participate in a French language debate.

Yet, that’s exactly what happened. Mark Carney seemed to agree to join the TVA French-language leaders’ debate on March 24, as he told a reporter, “why not!” – and then backed out several hours later. This led to the debate being cancelled altogether.

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Xi Jinping Orders Carney To Keep Fellow ChiCom Asset Paul Chiang On The Ballot – Any Complainers Will Be Shopped To Red China

Liberal candidate in Markham to stay on with party despite ‘deplorable’ comments about former Conservative rival

OTTAWA — Mark Carney’s Liberals say they won’t turf Markham-Unionville candidate Paul Chiang, despite calls for his ouster after it emerged that he told a diaspora media outlet earlier this year how to claim a bounty Hong Kong had placed on a Conservative rival.

“Paul Chiang recognized that he made a significant lapse in judgment. He apologized and has been clear that he will stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Hong Kong as they fight to safeguard their human rights and freedoms,” a spokesperson from Carney’s campaign told the Star in a statement.


This is so fecked up! The Liberals aren’t even trying to hide their Chicom allegiance.

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Is Mark Carney ‘Canada first’ or net zero first?

It is typical of people like Liberal Leader Mark Carney, who have spent significant time on either side of the increasingly porous border between the public and private sectors, that they have amassed a variety of side-appointments to various public and private entities, corporate boards and governmental and quasi-governmental advisory boards.

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Christopher Dummitt: Liberals trying to lure Canadians back like a terrible ex

The Liberal campaign in 2025 looks a lot like a bullfight — and the Canadian people are the raging bull.

The party really wants you to focus on its new matador, dressed in his shiny central banker suit, waving around his little red scarf. Except the scarf isn’t red, it’s orange. And it’s emblazoned with Donald Trump’s hate-inducing face.

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Calls mount for Carney to ask Xi Jinping for permission to fire Liberal candidate who said Conservative should be turned in to earn Chinese bounty

Calls are mounting for Liberal Leader Mark Carney to fire Toronto-area candidate Paul Chiang, who said people should bring a Conservative politician to the local Chinese consulate to collect a bounty on him for criticizing Beijing’s crackdown on Hong Kong.

NDP candidate Jenny Kwan urged Mr. Carney to drop Mr. Chiang for his comments on Conservative candidate Joe Tay. “He advocated for people to bring him to the Chinese consulate to collect the bounty,” Ms. Kwan told reporters Sunday during a campaign event in Port Moody, B.C. “In what universe is this normal?”

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