Opposition parties slam Trudeau cabinet’s future appointments to government agencies

Prime Minister Mark Carney should review a series of future appointments made by his predecessor’s government and shouldn’t automatically accept them, Green Party Co-Leader Elizabeth May said Friday.

In an interview with CBC News, May said appointments have to be filled but it was “a huge mistake” to make so many of those appointments in the final days of Justin Trudeau’s government.

“Any last-minute appointments of people who, I’m pretty sure, are likely to be Liberals, raises the worst possible political optics and it reinforces the idea that Trudeau was aiding and abetting his cronies throughout.”

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Why doesn’t Mark Carney have a gender-balanced cabinet? Because it’s 2025

New prime minister Mark Carney didn’t go out of his way to be a champion for women with his cabinet choices unveiled at Rideau Hall on Friday — and that could be a deliberate effort to walk back what critics called the “woke” feminist brand of Justin Trudeau.

It might also be a reflection of how Carney has been leaning on a team heavily weighted with male advisers, as many have observed since his leadership campaign launched.


The Star is already running damage control for Carney.

A similar Conservative cabinet would be described as a new Dark Age descending upon our blighted land.

It’s fortunate for Poilievre the Liberal media continues to overplay its hand with biased reporting.

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Terry Newman: Mark Carney’s cabinet-shrinking ruse

Friday morning in Ottawa, long-Liberal-wooed Mark Carney was finally sworn in as prime minister. Before the ceremony began, his X account posted: “Today, we’re building a government that meets the moment. Canadians expect action — and that’s what this team will deliver. A smaller, experienced cabinet that moves faster, secures our economy, and protects Canada’s future.”

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Some countries aren’t retaliating against Trump’s tariffs. Should Canada ‘turn the other cheek’?

Faced with tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump, some countries have, so far, responded by turning the other cheek, and not retaliating with their own duties.

Canada, however, continues to hit back in the trade war with its neighbour to the south. But it also raises the question of whether Canada absorbing the blows from U.S. tariffs, while painful, might be preferable to the overall economic damage from a full-scale trade conflict.

It’s an issue, perhaps unsurprisingly, on which economists have varying views. Some say Canada has no choice but to retaliate, even if imposing tariffs on U.S. goods will increase prices for Canadians. But others suggest those moves may have little impact on the U.S.


The people who flooded Canada with cheap foreign labour to undercut worker wages are the same people who shipped your job overseas at the first opportunity under free trade agreements.

Now these same folks, who only ever have your best interests at heart, want you to believe that all tariffs anytime not just Trump’s are Satan’s handiwork.

This is why I regard our current annexation hysteria with its accompanying ready-to-assemble Ikea flat pack patriotism loyalty oath kits with a jaundiced eye.

We need a Trump.

Why Tariffs Are Good

The claim that tariffs are inherently misguided and inevitably harmful does not stand up to scrutiny, especially when it comes to U.S. trade with China

and …

Trump Is Right About Our Trading Partners Imposing Excessive Tariffs

h/t patthedog

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Budget watchdog bites back after Liberals resume feud over climate-plan impacts

OTTAWA — The office of Canada’s independent Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) took the unusual step of putting out a factual update on Thursday, after critics, including Liberal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, questioned the findings of a PBO analysis linking the proposed federal emissions cap to deep job losses.

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Canada’s new PM on Trump’s 51st state talk: ‘It’s crazy’

New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney shut down President Trump’s talk of Canada potentially becoming the U.S.’s 51st state, characterizing it as “crazy” and vowing the North American neighbor will remain independent.

Carney, a former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor who was sworn in as Canada’s leader on Friday, succeeding his predecessor Justin Trudeau, said Canada and the U.S. are “fundamentally different” nations and that Ottawa “expects respect from America and Trump.”

“We will never in any way, shape or form be a part of the U.S. America is not Canada,” Carney said.

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Who is this Mark Carney guy, anyway?

It’s heartening that Canadians across the spectrum have summoned from themselves a stout pride in their country and a like-minded fury about the mania for trade-relations vandalism and sabotage that has gripped the degenerate belligerent in the White House. Necessarily throwing ourselves into a federal election in the middle of the crippling trade war Donald Trump has decided to wage against us is just whatever the opposite of serendipity is.

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Carneycon Live Swearing: Mark Carney and new cabinet to be sworn in today

Liberal Leader Mark Carney will officially become Canada’s next prime minister within a few hours, taking the reins as the country barrels toward a general election and continues to fend off verbal and economic attacks from U.S. President Donald Trump.

The former central banker will become Canada’s 24th prime minister after Governor General Mary Simon swears him in at Rideau Hall in Ottawa.


Carney Cabinet: Freeland in Transport, Joly Stays and Guilbeault Loses Environment

In an effort to differentiate himself from Justin Trudeau, Canada’s next prime minister, Mark Carney, will exclude the current Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Jean-Yves Duclos, from his Cabinet, remove the Environment Minister from Steven Guilbeault but keep Mélanie Joly at Foreign Affairs and give Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland, Radio-Canada has learned.


There is no way Carney can differentiate he and his motley crew from Justin’s. They are the same nation destroying cranks.

Freeland’s transport post seems like insult to injury, a keep your enemies closer move by Carney.

Carneycon shares the same WEF Climate Carpetbagger views as Guilbeault so his move makes little difference.

Joly? Carney must have owed Junior a favour. A big one.

Mendocino? A sop to the Jewish community but Carney wants the Islamist vote.

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Justin Trudeau’s ‘feminist‘ hellscape

Aroused by men dressed in women’s clothing Justin Trudeau abandons decorum while prancing about at a Gay Pride event.

He failed to protect women from abuse

In Downtown Eastside, also known as Canada’s Skid Row, people are dying on the street. One woman, slumped across soiled blankets, is being injected into a vein in her neck by a man with blackened, filthy hands. Her eyes bulge wide, then close.

Another, younger woman, is being dragged along by a man who is clearly a pimp. She sways as he shouts that she is “Only $20!” No one responds apart from a dealer who asks if he wants “Apache” (fentanyl).

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Ross McKitrick: Carney to lead Canada after trying for years to defund it

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is very concerned about financial conflicts of interest that new Liberal leader (and our next prime minister) Mark Carney may be hiding. But I’m far more concerned about the one out in the open: Carney is now supposed to act for the good of the country after lobbying to defund and drive out of existence Canada’s oil and gas companies, steel companies, car companies and any other sector dependent on fossil fuels. He’s done this through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which he founded in 2021.


There is no humanity in his carcass.

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Carney seems to be following another Liberal’s roadmap — and it’s a cynical one

If prime minister-designate Mark Carney is looking for a roadmap to victory in the upcoming election, he could do worse than follow in the footsteps of Jean Chrétien.

The rules are simple: ignore everything you’ve ever said previously and beat up on the sitting Republican U.S. president at every opportunity.

Amid all the revisionist history that the former prime minister rolled out during his address to last weekend’s Liberal leadership convention, I was struck by the pride Chrétien took in his fiscal management in the late 1990s, having inherited an alleged “mess” from the Progressive Conservatives following the 1993 election.

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