Recently, a fierce battle over the H-1B Visa Program erupted on X. In one corner, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, a big believer in the program, where tech companies pay less for non-American talent. Indians (dot, not feather) have been primary participants. In the other corner, the MAGA Base, who believe in America First, and to hell with immigration, legal or otherwise. For them, H-1B was just another cog in the Population Replacement wheel.
A coalition of Conservatives have called for an investigation into whether Mark Carney is benefitting financially from his position in the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau government.
Aside from his role as special advisor on the Liberal Party’s task force on economic growth, Carney serves as chair of Brookfield Asset Management, a multinational investment firm.
OTTAWA — Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland has been calling Liberal MPs in the wake of her bombshell resignation that preceded the latest and biggest wave of pressure so far on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to step down.
Several MPs, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Star that Freeland has reached out and spoken to them in recent days.
While the MPs said Freeland did not bring up the Liberal leadership, one of them felt the calls were connected to a potential leadership run, while another said they were “impressed” by the outreach.
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is said to be reflecting on his future over the holidays after the resignation of his top cabinet minister, Chrystia Freeland, in mid-December. The bombshell move prompted a fresh wave of calls for Trudeau to step down as Liberal leader from inside and outside the caucus.
With MPs set to return to the House of Commons on Jan. 27, the Liberal grip on power appears tenuous. The NDP, which has been a steady ally of the minority government since the 2021 election, is no longer planning to support the Liberals.
Marco Mendicino, a prominent Toronto member of Parliament and former minister of public safety and immigration, won’t run in the next federal election, CTV News has learned.
In a lengthy written statement, Mendicino, who has represented the riding of Eglinton-Lawrence since 2015, said it’s “the right time, for me and my family” to step away, and that he will serve out the rest of the session as an MP.
The rats have read the room.
Canada is set to take over the presidency of the G7 in 2025, leading a forum of seven of the world’s most advanced economies at a time of political instability at home and around the world.
Here’s a look at what hosting the G7 means, and what’s at stake.
I hope the Pallies make a good show of themselves as a sort of belated send-off for the departed Trudeau.
The holidays are often a time of reflection. And even as everyone is still shaking off their cheese-induced torpor, the internal calls for Justin Trudeau to resign as Liberal Leader are accumulating.
It emerged this week that a majority of the Liberal Quebec caucus wants Mr. Trudeau to step down, though no one involved seems willing to sign their name to their convictions. This follows a meeting of the Ontario caucus just before Christmas, at which more than 50 MPs agreed that the Prime Minister needed to resign, though they, too, wanted to remain anonymous.
The New Year promises to be a painful one for Canadian Liberals. As Isaiah Berlin, the renowned political analyst put it, sometimes in politics there are only two choices — the unpleasant and the unacceptable. Arguably, this is the most unpleasant nightmare the Liberal party has faced in a century.
Yes, Paul Martin’s hapless government bequeathed two incompetent leaders and third place in the political basement. Yes, Pierre Trudeau rescued the party from a likely electoral debacle only by a last minute agreement to come out of retirement.
What is Trudeau waiting for?
The prime minister is like the guy in the movie who finally finds himself surrounded.
The guy thought he could get away. He thought he was smarter than everybody else.
He thought he would face no consequences. He was bigger than all that.
Amid recurring calls from elected MPs and the Canadian electorate for the prime minister to step aside, Justin Trudeau is not telegraphing any future moves.
“We will see what he does,” Lori Turnbull, a professor in the faculty of management at Dalhousie University in Halifax, said of Trudeau, the man who has been prime minister since 2015.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if he prorogues around the time of the U.S. inauguration (Jan. 20) and uses the instability of the Trump presidency as a reason why, look, we all have to hunker down and we all have to be Team Canada and we don’t have time for that BS that we have to find a new leader,” Turnbull said.
Comedian Mark Critch landed a year-end interview with Justin Trudeau, touching on the prime minister’s political struggles, divorce and Donald Trump.
This is better than the stale Critch interview gimmick.
Trudeau finds himself, yet again, as an easy target of international ridicule.
As @DouglasKMurray so eloquently puts it:
"Other than going back to drama teaching, and I really pity his students even on that, I don't know what Trudeau's good for.
He's a narcissistic little… pic.twitter.com/Lh02QSgQXU
— Bret (@Bret_Sears) December 5, 2024
We are now, as Justin Trudeau said in a recently released Liberal Party video, in an election year. The only question remaining is whether the election will be triggered in January, in the spring sometime or if this beleaguered government will survive until October.
The year 2025 will be a good one for Canadians.
Our dysfunctional Liberal government signed off for their Christmas vacation with their house in shambles: a disappearing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who may or may not resign when he returns to Parliament in the new year; a defiant former deputy prime minister and finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, whose resignation delivered a near-fatal blow to Trudeau’s leadership; a liberal caucus on the verge of revolt; and Trudeau’s self-serving New Democratic lapdog, Jagmeet Singh, finally within finger’s reach of the coveted pension that has held Canada hostage to his avarice for far too long.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have cancelled his end-of-year interviews as he reflects on his future, but thankfully Canadians have had Mark Carney to lecture them on Liberal values.
In an op-ed for the Globe and Mail, Carney, the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, sounded like a man who is running for the Liberal leadership.
Justin’s handpicked man.
“Stephen Harper has used prorogation to avoid difficult political circumstances,” the Liberals’ 2015 platform complained. “We will not.”
Well, that was then. Mr. Harper, it is true, had used the power to prorogue Parliament in the way the Liberals described: to escape certain defeat on a confidence vote, in December, 2008, and to cut short a parliamentary committee’s inquiries into the Afghan prisoners affair, in 2010.
