OTTAWA – Liberal leadership candidate Chrystia Freeland’s pitch to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to allies is drawing skeptical reactions from those who say her government neglected the sector over the past decade.
The former finance minister’s policy statement on jobs and growth, released on Feb. 5, includes a pledge to “seize the opportunity to make Canada an energy superpower, from powering our grids with hydro to exporting liquefied natural gas to our allies.”
Justin Trudeau’s time as Prime Minister is marked by strategic alliances and policy shifts with a single goal: to keep him in power.
His political maneuverings are finally running out of steam and, with disastrous approval ratings, deepening economic hardship, and a string of scandals, even the party he brought back from the dead is preparing for life after Trudeau.
A transgendered advisor to the federal Minister of Women claims biological males have no advantage in athletics despite dominating a women’s 5 km race,
Nathanielle Morin advises Liberal MP Marci Ien, Minister of Women, Gender Equality and Youth. In a Wednesday post to X, Morin objected to Trump’s executive order to ban biological males from competing in women’s and girl’s sports in the United States.
Call it the great deception – the federal Liberals suddenly claiming they’ve seen the light on all of the mistakes they’ve made in governing Canada for almost a decade.
Throughout the ongoing Liberal leadership race, the candidates have been tacitly admitting that on major issue after major issue, their outgoing boss, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was wrong and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was right.
Mark Carney and the Chinese Communist Party
Mega-Thread below in light of today's news that Canadian intelligence services have identified Chinese state support for Mark Carney in the Liberal Leadership race.
Very few people in public life have longer or deeper relationships…
— Andrew Haynes (@AndrewJWHaynes) February 8, 2025
Interesting thread, Canada’s China class has picked Justin’s successor.
h/t XC
NATO’s two per cent defence spending target, derided only last summer as a “crass mathematical calculation” by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, was feverishly embraced this week by the Liberal leadership hopefuls vying to replace him.
The statements represent a remarkable conversion for the governing party, which has looked upon the gross domestic product goal — even under intense allied pressure and the occasional public shaming — as arbitrary and meaningless.
“We’ve always questioned the two per cent as the be-all, end-all of evaluating contributions to NATO,” Trudeau said last July in Washington — after meeting with allied leaders and leading U.S. lawmakers and after belatedly committing to reach the benchmark by 2032.
Liberals lie.
Three men from Chile have been arrested after a failed carjacking in the Township of King in York Region last month.
York Regional Police (YRP) say officers responded to an attempted carjacking on Jan. 9 near King Road and Highway 27.
Police say the victim had been driving on King Road when their vehicle was rear-ended by the suspect vehicle.
As the victim exited their vehicle, two suspects wearing face coverings approached and at least one had a gun, police say.
Seems foreigners find Canada the crime tourism capital of the world. h/t Patti Jo
When Augustus, Rome’s first emperor, seized control of the state, he liked to boast that he came to power because all of Italy “swore allegiance to me of its own free will.”
Now, the enthronement of Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney as the first emperor of Canada seems all but assured, as ministers, media and minions enthusiastically fawn over him.
In all of my decades on the Canadian political scene, I’ve never witnessed such dirty, under-handed tactics to coronate a party leader.
And not just a party leader, but an interim Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking at a Black History Month reception in Ottawa this week bragged he can be “ruthless” about doing as he pleases in his last days in office.
Trudeau on January 6 announced his “intention to resign” as prime minister. However, he refused to call an election to let Canadians decide their next leader.
It was curious that in the heat of Friday’s furor over the Trump tariffs, Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney issued his plan for change on the consumer carbon tax. Typically, a Friday release, especially on a busy news weekend, is designed to avoid notice.
Chrystia Freeland’s Liberal leadership campaign has been targeted by “co-ordinated and malicious activity” traced back to a WeChat account accused of having ties to the Chinese government, according to the task force set up to monitor foreign election interference.
According to the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force (SITE), which is made up of senior intelligence and security officials, the activity was traced to WeChat’s “most popular news account — an anonymous blog that has been previously linked by experts at the China Digital Times to the People’s Republic of China.”
My bet is Trudeau and Carney ordered this up.
Nearly 20,000 Indian students have failed to enrol at their designated colleges and universities after arriving in Canada. This has raised significant concerns about immigration fraud and the misuse of the student visa system.
A variety of factors play into this mystery. The first involves many Indian students being lured by fake colleges. And some have used their student visas to enter Canada and work rather than study. Some of those students seem to have been misled by unregulated agents promising easy access to jobs or permanent residency.
Let’s take a moment to appreciate how outrageous it is that Canada’s Parliament is not sitting during this critical time.
In three weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump could decide, because his breakfast eggs are too runny that morning, or he doesn’t like the look of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s face, that our efforts to secure the border have proven unsatisfactory. He could then plunge our economy into a recession, and our Parliamentarians will have to resort to the lowest chamber – social media – to speak on behalf of their constituents. All because the Liberals need time to choose between Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland.
OTTAWA — It’s a race to two per cent.
A day after Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney pledged he would hit Canada’s long-delayed defence spending target by 2030, two other leadership rivals declared they would achieve that threshold even faster.
In a statement Thursday, former finance minister Chrystia Freeland unveiled her own plan to boost Canada’s defence spending to the equivalent of two per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2027.
