Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

When Chrystia Freeland proposed raising taxes on capital gains last April, she pitched the change — and related promises to invest in dental care, school food programs and housing — in starkly moral terms.

“Before they complain too bitterly, I would like Canada’s one per cent — Canada’s 0.1 per cent — to consider this: What kind of Canada do you want to live in?” she asked in what would turn out to be her last budget speech. “Do you want to live in a country where those at the very top live lives of luxury — but must do so in gated communities, behind ever higher fences, using private health care and airplanes, because the public sphere is so degraded and the wrath of the vast majority of their less privileged compatriots burns so hot?”

Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney might appear flexible on the carbon tax, but don’t get your hopes up.

The former Bank of Canada governor is a climate activist of the most devoted and determined sort. He has done more thinking and writing about climate change than the rest of the Trudeau caucus combined.

In 2021, Carney published a boat-anchor book called Values.

Canadians are now treated almost daily to analyses of how the Trudeau government has damaged Canada with its crazy inflationary spending, with its missed opportunities for wealth with the oil and gas industries, with its hollowing out of Defence, leaving our NATO allies high and dry, its net-zero poppycock, its silly and demeaning dress-up world tours, and its numerous scandals of international proportions.

Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland called Friday for four Liberal leadership debates and said the other leadership candidates should commit to running in the next election under the party banner—no matter who wins.

In an open letter to the other candidates, Freeland said that the four debates, two in each official language, should be held as soon as possible.

In what may well be the last independent and objective assessment of Trudeau government spending before it becomes a part of history, parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux has eviscerated the Liberals’ fall economic statement delivered last month.

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership contenders have put down the first $50,000 of their entry fees, and continue lining up caucus endorsements and organizers as they push through a rushed timeline in their bids to become party leader.

Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and former government House leader Karina Gould have all paid their $50,000 deposits, but the pressure to raise cash doesn’t stop there, with another $50,000 due Monday and the balance of their $350,000 entry fees due in a matter of weeks.

Canadians have a simple question for anyone who wants to be the next prime minister: Will you scrap the carbon tax?

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated he would keep the carbon tax, while Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been clear he would “axe the tax.”

Liberal Party leadership hopefuls Chrystia Freeland and Karina Gould have made their positions known. Now only Mark Carney seems unable to present a clear position on the carbon tax.