What drives a man like Mark Carney, who has held some of the most powerful economic positions on the planet, to subsequently slink into the role of prime minister of Canada?
“I’m not the usual suspect when it comes to politics, but this is no time for politics as usual,” Carney quipped at his launch to replace Trudeau in Edmonton. “It’s not the time for lifelong politicians such as Pierre Poilievre.”
It seems as if Liberal leadership frontrunners Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland both realize they won’t save their party in the next election unless they take Pierre Poilievre’s advice and “axe the tax.”
The highly unpopular carbon tax, that is.
Chrystia Freeland’s rally for the official launch of her Liberal Leadership bid had trouble launching Sunday afternoon. After a touching introduction by her two children, Freeland was interrupted time and again by Hamas-supporting protesters.
OMG this is comedy gold!
Chrystia Freeland says the one reason Donald Trump doesn't like her is because he's afraid of her.
How delusional can she be? pic.twitter.com/h15m38KTy0
— Bret (@Bret_Sears) January 19, 2025
OTTAWA—Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland made it official Sunday afternoon, telling a crowd full of supporters in Toronto that she is seeking the Liberal party leadership to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Her launch event was repeatedly disrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters, including one who attempted to rush the stage as Freeland began her remarks.
“I am not going to let anyone stop me from working with you, from talking with you, and from talking about how we together are going to stand up for our amazing country,” she said at the St. Alban’s Boys and Girls Club in Toronto Sunday. “There are definitely people who want to stop us, but we are not going to let them.”
Chrystia Freeland kicks off her campaign by getting screeched at unintelligibly by some kook wearing a mask.
What a shitshow lol. pic.twitter.com/tIgmCeoRF3
— Bret (@Bret_Sears) January 19, 2025
Hamas supporters are typically LPC/NDP so this is self defeating.
In the wake of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s drawn-out defenestration from his party’s top job, some Liberal MPs are opening the door to a formal mechanism to remove leaders, but most caucus members remain silent.
Three MPs told The Hill Times they support the party adopting the Reform Act in the next Parliament, which would provide a formal mechanism to remove a leader through a majority caucus vote—a tool that Liberal MPs lack in the current Parliament.
OTTAWA — A court has agreed to expedite its hearing of a legal challenge of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s move to prorogue Parliament.
In a ruling late Saturday, Federal Court Chief Justice Paul Crampton said the court’s usual rules on timelines will not apply, setting the stage for a hearing Feb. 13 and 14 in Ottawa.
In their application filed Jan. 8, Nova Scotia residents David MacKinnon and Aris Lavranos seek an order setting aside Trudeau’s decision to advise Gov. Gen. Mary Simon to exercise her power to prorogue Parliament until March 24.
Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly will endorse Mark Carney in the race for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, Radio-Canada has learned.
Joly will make the announcement in a written statement on Sunday, according to a source with knowledge of the decision who spoke to Radio-Canada.
This development comes on the same day that former finance minister Chrystia Freeland will deliver the first speech of her campaign to become Liberal leader. Her official campaign launch is scheduled for mid-day at an event in her Toronto riding.
With the Trudeau government soon to become history, whatever happens in the next federal election, the most accurate portrayal of what it became comes from a 30-year-old book on the prevailing liberal political vision of our time – the vision of the anointed.
Well, he finally did it.
After literally years of rumours that he was preparing to run for parliament and being groomed as Justin Trudeau’s successor.
After he, reportedly, agreed to take over Chrystia Freeland’s job as Finance Minister in December, only to then, reportedly, pull back once her very public and pointed resignation made the job too toxic for someone with his ambitions.
The Liberal leadership race is now shaping up as a contest between Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney. Freeland represents the tradition of the senior colleague of the outgoing leader seeking the succession: Louis St. Laurent, Lester Pearson, John Turner, Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin. Mark Carney is in the tradition of comparative newcomers: the Trudeaus, Stéphane Dion, Michael Ignatieff. But they are seeking the leadership of a government that will be trying for a fourth consecutive election. Only Macdonald, Laurier and King- St. Laurent managed that and they were much more distinguished governments. (The case could be made that Lester Pearson and Pierre Trudeau won five consecutive elections between 1963 and 1974, but they were short terms, three were minorities and one was effectively a draw.) The vital signs of the present government are flickering and the flight of potentially presentable leaders away from this contest is surely indicative of the government’s poor reelection prospects rather than of any sudden evaporation of career ambition by other potential contenders.
Spare a thought for beleaguered Canadians who have had to endure a decade of Justin Trudeau, only to discover Mark Carney is now running to replace him.
It was bad enough that the Canadian Prime Minister, who announced resignation earlier this month, presided over the gradual destruction of Canada’s economy, immigration system and international standing. But now Canadians are facing the prospect of someone even more smug and incompetent (if that’s possible) taking his place.
OTTAWA — He is not a Canadian and he is certainly not a Liberal, but U.S. president-elect Donald Trump has had a huge influence on the race to replace Justin Trudeau.
Before the end of the weekend, the Liberal leadership field should be set. Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney announced Thursday that he would seek the job of party leader and prime minister. Government House Leader Karina Gould is expected to announce her bid this weekend, and former finance minster Chrystia Freeland announced her candidacy on social media Friday morning, saying she was “running to fight for Canada.”
What gall.
Join the fight for Canada. pic.twitter.com/hArOytLUSU
— Chrystia Freeland (@cafreeland) January 18, 2025
Elon Musk has Donald Trump’s ear and a new-found interest in Canada. How much should we worry?
Standing in a neighbour’s driveway on Perry Mills Road in Champlain, N.Y., less than a kilometre from the border with Canada, Stephen Phaneuf points to fields and forest behind the small blue home.
“They come out from the fields, out from everywhere,” says Phaneuf, 67, referring to migrants crossing from Canada into the United States, who have been doing so in increasing numbers since 2022.
Phaneuf’s property across the road sits on the banks the Chazy River. Last winter, he said he found a woman and her child sleeping with his pigs in small plastic huts near the road.
OTTAWA — Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney made sure to play up his local roots at his official campaign launch in Edmonton on Thursday, but Albertan pundits and political strategists are still on the fence about whether he can connect with the province’s voters after decades away.
