A new survey suggests that public opinion in the five largest member states leans in favour of admitting Canada to the European Union.
The research, conducted by international market research and data analytics firm YouGov, surveyed more than 1,000 adults in each of France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain. Respondents were asked: “To what extent, if at all, would you support or oppose Canada joining the European Union?”
A corrupt union of declining powers. A perfect match for Carney’s vision.
Submarines are sleek and stealthy watercraft, designed to glide silently and undetected beneath the surface while an often oblivious world goes about its business hundreds of metres above.
When it comes to buying submarines, there’s a similar hidden undercurrent. The vessels often cost billions of dollars. In the competitive world of lobbying, government relations and “success payments,” submarine manufacturers have often come under fire for less than ethical practices to secure those lucrative government contracts.
Back in August 2015, while still trailing the NDP in some polls, Justin Trudeau pulled off an impressive political feint. Having committed himself to a balanced budget just a few weeks earlier, Trudeau abruptly reversed course and started channelling the language of Keynesian economics instead. His rhetoric was appealing and, in the Liberal pledge to invest tens of billions in (mostly unspecified) “social infrastructure,” what many Canadians heard was the promise that the state would once again be used for progressive ends.
Canada’s auto sector is raising alarm bells over Ottawa’s decision to open the door to Chinese electric vehicles, warning the move could undercut domestic manufacturing and cost jobs.
Blacklock’s Reporter says executives from General Motors Canada told MPs that new federal concessions allowing thousands of low-tariff Chinese electric vehicles into the country risk weakening Canada’s industrial base and “hollowing out” its skilled workforce.
We were likely to lost auto manufacturing anyway, this will accelerate it.
They certainly didn’t waste any time …
Chinese EVs were spotted in Toronto, here’s what you need to know ahead of their Canadian release
h/t Mauser (Incognito)
PM Carney announces $270M in military aid for Ukraine
Canada is sending more military aid to Ukraine as it continues to defend itself against Russia.
Prime Minister Mark Carney made the announcement at the European Political Community summit in Yerevan, Armenia, on Monday.
Carney says Canada will contribute about $270 million toward critical military capabilities, drawn from NATO’s prioritized list of needs for Ukraine.
The funding adds to more than $25 billion Canada has already committed to supporting Ukraine since Russia launched its full‑scale invasion in 2022.
Hey Grok! How many fighting aged men & women have fled the Ukraine or are otherwise dodging the military draft since the start of hostilities with Russia? What is the current size of the Ukraine armed forces compared to those who have avoided the draft?
“Approximately 540,000 conscription-age (military-age) Ukrainian men have fled the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022, while roughly 2 million more (mostly men) are currently evading or wanted for draft-related violations inside Ukraine.”
Read the whole thing. Ukraine is the new Forever War scam.
We fund a war in Ukraine that many of its own citizens refuse to fight. A war where draft evaders (2.5 Million) outnumber official armed forces numbers (900,000).
Zelensky will have a shelf life similar to Afghanistan’s Ashraf Ghani the minute the money stops until then the grift will buy him time.
Is there a collective security benefit to wearing Putin’s army down? Probably, but that means Ukraine is defending Euro states with their own dubious commitment to self defense.
Do Ukrainians appreciate being cannon fodder for that purpose? Probably not.
1 in 10 Canadian citizens live in poverty. Carney has no business swanning about Europe doling out cash to burnish his bona fides as Captain Euroguy.
Carney knows a good grift when he sees one.
Canadian PM Mark Carney:
It’s my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt — but it will be rebuilt out of Europe. pic.twitter.com/Dpe0oRIaIb
— Clash Report (@clashreport) May 4, 2026
The Liberal government is running perilously low on money.
The spring economic update celebrated a deficit lower than had been projected but still contained a fiscal shortfall that can only be called massive. This likely inspired the government to pitch the notion of privatizing Canada’s airports for the second time in a year. Funds from the sale of airport infrastructure could be used to reduce government debt or to add to the planned sovereign wealth fund. Nearly 20 percent of the world’s airports are privately owned, and it comes with risks and benefits.
There were several rounds of chatter over the summer and into the fall about whether the honeymoon was over for Prime Minister Mark Carney – and if not yet, when that moment would come.
Elbows sagged; President Donald Trump went on blowing up like a puffer fish; tariffs were carving up certain sectors of the economy and regions of the country; CUSMA hadn’t been rescued; the only shovels in the ground on major projects would have been digging anyway; groceries, gas and mortgage payments were still gouging.
It isn’t about the Honeymoon, it’s about his voters holding their breath in the hope they pass out before having to admit they made a horrific mistake that has created a lost generation of Canada’s youth.
Canada did not stumble into its current economic position.
It, if one can imagine such, chose it.
Canada is not in a mild economic slowdown.
It is in a self-inflicted investment crisis — and the numbers are no longer debatable.
Officials in Brussels often joke about Canada joining the EU.
Some European leaders, including Alexander Stubb, the Finnish president, have even started to entertain the idea.
It remains a pipe dream for now – but Mark Carney will at least get to play the part of a European leader in Yerevan on Monday.
The Canadian prime minister will become the first leader of a non-European state to join a summit of the European Political Community.
It’s alarming that Prime Minister Mark Carney, citing China as a “strategic partner,” has agreed to a secret deal on co-operating with Chinese police, given the highly controversial nature of these agreements in the past.
Since the details can’t be disclosed without China’s permission, all we know about it is the brief description the Prime Minister’s Office released when Carney announced his EV-canola deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in January.
The country’s poverty rate barely budged in 2024, remaining well above 2020 levels with more than one in 10 Canadians qualifying as impoverished, according to Statistics Canada.
In a newly released survey, the agency found 11 per cent of Canadians — about 4.5 million people — lived in poverty in 2024 versus 11.1 per cent in 2023 and seven per cent in 2020.
The fairest way to judge someone is by the standards they set for themselves.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is failing his own standards on spending.
A Regina man has been sentenced and fined $75,000 for falsifying federal immigration documents.
Abdulkader Ali pleaded guilty to submitting false immigration sponsorships to Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) and counselling a refugee to provide false information on their IRCC application and counselling someone to sign as a sponsor without their knowledge.
Ali had been working as a refugee field worker with a local sponsorship organization at the time.
This should be treated as an act of demographic warfare by Islamists.
If one thing is clear from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s economic update this week, it’s that he’s taking progressive voters for granted.
Headlines like “A Canada for All” sound nice. As do statements like: “the government is protecting the essential social programs that give Canadians a fair chance to get ahead — child care, dental care, and pharmacare.”
In the wake of the federal government’s spring mini-budget boasting about the resilience of the economy, a new study finds youth unemployment in Canada increased from 10% in 2022 to 13.8% in 2025, the largest three-year increase on record when the economy was not in a recession.
The report by the Fraser Institute says that last year, 437,000 young people between 15 and 24 years of age looked for a job but could not find one, up 57% from 290,000 in 2022.
