‘How will the fact that his father was a senior administrator in the indigenous education industry affect Mark Carney’s view of the graves controversy?’
Canadian politicians should know by now that the subject of residential schools and unmarked graves is toxic, and cannot be discussed openly and honestly. And BC MLA Dallas Brodie, and BC Conservative leader John Rustad, just learned that the hard way.
Brodie tweeted out the simple fact that no graves have been found at Kamloops.
Canada should be an energy superpower and we should be selling our products around the world. Sadly, we aren’t and that’s one of the reasons our economy is so dependent on the United States and so vulnerable to Donald Trump’s tariff and trade threats.
The carbon tax will still be an issue in the coming election. It’s a topic both Mark Carney and Pierre Poilievre were talking about Monday.
While Conservative Leader Poilievre was promising to scrap the industrial carbon tax, Prime Minister Carney was defending it as a necessity on his trip to Europe.
And we thought Justin Trudeau was a sanctimonious autocrat who found dealing with Parliament too tiresome.
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada can stand up for its own sovereignty in response to annexation talk from the U.S. administration as he wrapped up his first international trip.
Carney met with King Charles and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London on Monday evening after meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris earlier in the day.
Speaking to reporters after his meeting with Starmer, Carney was asked if he was concerned that allies should be more forceful in defending Canada as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to insist the country become the 51st state.
BREAKING: Mark Carney sent daughter to discredited U.K. Tavistock Transgender Clinic https://t.co/oZhHigDx5l
— Candice Malcolm (@CandiceMalcolm) March 17, 2025
Canadian Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said Mark Carney should have been fired when he was governor of the Bank of England, arguing that the new Canadian prime minister’s economic record isn’t as strong as he presents it.
Poilievre, speaking to reporters hours after Carney was sworn in as Canada’s new leader, said Carney had acted as an “unreliable boyfriend” while leading the central bank from 2013 to 2020. That’s a reference to a quote from British lawmaker Pat McFadden, who criticized Carney over a decade ago for not following through after signalling plans to hike interest rates.
Nasty.
Tense exchange between Carney and the Globe's Stephanie Levitz over his blind trust
"We understand that you have now placed your assets in a blind trust. So you don't know what's happening to them going forward, but you knew what they were going into that blind trust. So what… pic.twitter.com/o69DegKpXF
— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) March 17, 2025
h/t Mauser
Canada’s GDP per capita growth from 2014 to 2024 was just 0.5%—the U.S. figure was 20.7%, according to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook report from October 2024.
The figure indicates an average annual growth rate of approximately 0.05% over the decade, reflecting a period of economic stagnation under the Trudeau Liberals on a per-person basis.
A growing number of Canadians are interested in joining the European Union (EU) despite rising patriotism.
A recent Abacus Data poll indicates nearly half of Canadians are in favour of joining the EU.The survey was conducted from February 20-25, with a sample of 1,500 Canadian adults.
Get a WEF of this stinker … I think he spelled 3rd World wrong
PM Carney: “I want to ensure that France and the whole of Europe works enthusiastically with Canada, the most European of non European countries.” pic.twitter.com/GOePF0NEAF
— Juno News (@junonewscom) March 17, 2025
h/t Mauser
During his 1969 visit to the United States, Canada’s then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau held a news conference at which he described his American hosts in a memorable analogy. “Living next to you”, he said, “is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is affected by every twitch and grunt”.
The phrase “sleeping with an elephant” has come to define US-Canadian relations in the minds of many Canadians. But since President Trump launched his second term in the Oval Office, the elephant has been neither friendly nor even-tempered. In fact, its twitches and grunts have recently become more like angry kicks and menacing roars, especially with Trump’s imposition of a 25% tariff on most goods from Canada.
“Mark Carney got it done.” Let those four words wash over you and savour them. Linger on their delicious cynicism. What, you might ask is so momentous the Liberal Party would tweet out these five words as though the Messiah once again walked the earth? Was it his crushing Liberal leadership win? No. Was it his swearing in to official become Canada’s 24th Prime Minister? Try again. No, it was his signing of an order to “cancel” the Carbon Tax, a move of self-absorbed political narcissism the likes of which we may never see again.
Remember when the Liberal Party of Canada loathed bankers? And bankers like Mark Carney thought politicians were “circus clowns”? Liberals don’t. They just elected Canada’s most famous banker, Mr. Carney, as their party’s Leader and now Prime Minister.
Mr. Carney did not just head two central banks. Before that he had proved himself as an investment banker toiling for 13 years at the golden temple of global investment banking, Wall Street’s Goldman Sachs, a bank known for its “extreme profitability and market prowess.” He parleyed that into success at the Bank of Canada and later, at the Bank of England, cutting the most unique path to Prime Minister in Canada’s history.
The Liberal Party of Canada has selected a non-MP to become prime minister, but precedent suggests he won’t last long. Mark Carney represents the worst aspects of both John Turner’s and Michael Ignatieff’s political rises and appears destined for the same electoral futility.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will scrap the carbon levy on industrial emitters as well as the consumer carbon levy.
In video statement released Monday, Mr. Poilievre says if elected to govern in the upcoming election, his government would repeal the entire carbon price law, including the tax on Canadian businesses and industries.
This means there would not be a levy on Canadian steel, aluminum, food production, concrete and other industries, he said.
