Since the 2021 election, there’s been no safer bet in Canadian politics than wagering that Jagmeet Singh would ultimately back the Liberal Party. With Justin Trudeau stepping down as leader, we shouldn’t take for granted that this dynamic is necessarily going to change. Singh has repeatedly demonstrated a willingness to compromise his stated principles in exchange for concessions—or even the appearance of influence. Now the stage is set for a new Liberal leader to test this pattern.
It’s not impossible that Mark Carney could be just the guy to repair Canada’s economy and guide the country through what threatens to be several years of turbulence.
He certainly has the resume. Every article about the former banker, bureaucrat, investment executive and corporate honcho takes note of his skills, experience, education and success in handling difficult and complex problems across a range of situations, both economic and political, over a period of 20 years in top levels of business and government.
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From Ipsos – Three-Quarters (77%) of Canadians Want an Immediate Election to Give Next Government Strong Mandate to Deal With Trump’s Threats
Federal environment minister Steven Guilbeault posted a video over the weekend in which he was skating on the Rideau Canal.
“One of the reasons we are fighting climate change,” he says, “is to protect iconic places” like the Ottawa landmark.
It’s a perfectly reasonable point: the skate season on the canal has been shrinking in recent years amid warming Ottawa winters. Two years ago it didn’t open for skating at all.
Only at the Star and CBC will you find blind enthusiasm for Trudeau’s climate scam policy.
OTTAWA – Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland is seeking to distance herself from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as she competes for his job.
In an interview today with CP24 Freeland says she found herself disagreeing with Trudeau more often in recent months and ultimately decided the government was on the wrong path.
Freeland quit cabinet in December after Trudeau told her he planned to replace her as finance minister with former central banker Mark Carney once she delivered the fall economic statement in the House of Commons.
The head of one of Canada’s largest energy advocacy groups is urging the federal government to follow US president Donald Trump’s lead and scrap EV mandates in this country.
Minutes after Trump announced the end of EV mandates south of the border, former Liberal MP and current president of Canadians for Affordable Energy (CAE), Dan McTeague, urged Liberal leadership candidates, including Mark Carney, to take decisive action by repealing the federal government’s mandate for all new vehicles sold in Canada to be electric by 2035.
The race to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and Prime Minister of Canada has barely begun and the best reasons not to vote for the Liberals in the next federal election are coming, rather hilariously, from the leadership candidates themselves.
As she announced her bid for the Liberal leadership, Chrystia Freeland found herself a victim of the incivility she helped bring about in this country.
Protestors yelled from the gallery and rushed the stage. A masked protestor was removed after getting within inches of Freeland. That is not acceptable.
She is the least likeable of an entire string of unlikeable candidates.
For all the bravado about retaliation, Canadians were like prisoners on death row on Monday morning, waiting for the door handle to turn to find out if they’d been granted a reprieve or were about to have their final breakfast.
The Wall Street Journal story that Donald Trump won’t impose broad tariffs on Day One of his presidency , instead ordering a review of trade and currency imbalances, was like a stay of execution.
The only person more toxic to Liberals than Donald Trump right now appears to be Justin Trudeau.
Liberal MPs and leadership contenders are falling over themselves to outdo Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre in dumping on the prime minister and his past policies.
For Kingston, Ont., city councillor Greg Ridge, the pain of food insecurity is personal.
When Ridge was eight years old, his dad was hurt on the job and had to go on disability. Ridge said he recalls wondering why his grandparents were suddenly dropping off groceries and his parents were talking in hushed tones about money.
“I remember once in the kitchen my mom was crying, and I went over and I gave her a hug and I said, ‘Mom, it’s going to be OK,'” the King’s Town councillor said, fighting tears of his own.
OTTAWA — More calls are coming for the Trudeau Liberals to scrap their imperiled policy to mandate 100% EV car sales by 2035.
On Monday, Canadians for Affordable Energy joined the call made last week by Canada’s auto industry, noting the government’s decision earlier this month to cancel the Incentives for Zero-Emission Vehicles (iZEV) program, which offered federal subsides to those who purchased an all-electric vehicle.
Unlike Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland, Karina Gould is not running for prime minister of Canada — at least according to her launch video. She has limited her declared ambition to becoming the next leader of the Liberal party of Canada: “We need to rebuild our party so that we can rebuild our country.”
While her opponents are running to beat the Conservatives — or at least to save the furniture — Gould appears to have no illusions. Should she inherit the party, it will be akin to moving into an unfurnished apartment during an affordability crisis, with a low bank balance to cover expenses.
Sunday afternoon, at the St. Alban’s Boys and Girl’s Club in Toronto, former finance minister Chrystia Freeland officially announced her bid to run for the leadership of the Liberal Party. To call the event tense would be an understatement.
What was quickly made clear is that Freeland is woefully unprepared for the Canada that lies ahead of her — a Canada with an increasingly extremist anti-Israel/pro-Hamas segment who, even with a prisoner-hostage exchange occurring in Gaza as she announced her bid, were still unsatisfied with her party. A party that, frankly, did everything it could to not help Israel and appease the protesters. And now it’s clear where that’s gotten them.
The race to become Canada’s next Liberal leader is shaping up into the battle that Justin Trudeau keenly wanted to fight himself — one in which U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump, and the forces behind his resurgence, are top of mind for Canadians.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre isn’t forgotten, but Trump has found a way to make himself a much bigger headache for Liberals in the immediate term.
Trudeau has spent months saying privately and publicly how much he was spoiling for the fight with Trump. He was sure that as Canadians saw the scope of what they’re up against — a vivid vision they’ll see on Monday when Trump is inaugurated, Trudeau and his government would be seen as the best, if only alternative.
Whoever “wins” will enjoy a bitter victory.
