Carney has promised regular trade updates. Why is YouTube his platform of choice?

Carney has promised regular trade updates. Why is YouTube his platform of choice?

Prime Minister Mark Carney has promised regular updates on his government’s efforts as Canada continues to work through a U.S. trade war while also seeking to strengthen relationships with other trading partners — and his medium of choice appears to be YouTube.

“I promise you, I will never sugarcoat our challenges,” Carney said in a video posted April 19 and titled Forward Guidance. “Instead, I’ll talk with you directly and regularly about our plan — why we’re doing what we’re doing, what’s working, what isn’t, and what we’re going to do next.”


CBC has much praise for their Great Communicator the one who knows Youtube vids garner larger audiences than the Ceeb.

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Israel welcomes Senate antisemitism report, but groups point out it doesn’t mention Islam for some odd reason

Israel welcomes Senate antisemitism report, but groups point out it doesn’t mention Islam for some odd reason

… Amir Epstein, CEO of Jewish advocacy group Tafsik, said that while the report properly acknowledges the rise in antisemitism, it shows a dangerous disconnect by ignoring the key factors driving Canada’s surge of anti-Jewish hatred.

“By ignoring the rise of antisemitism and anti-Zionism alongside the rise in immigration from countries that breed religious and cultural hate towards Jews, the government is refusing to acknowledge a problem obvious to anyone with a scintilla of intellectual honesty,” he said.


When your so-called government pushes blatant lies they demonstrate they simply do not care about the consent to govern.

Canada is not a free country.

 

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Just fire Christiane Fox already

Just fire Christiane Fox already

It’s time for Prime Minister Mark Carney to fire Christiane Fox before she becomes a stain on his own reputation.

The deputy minister at the Department of National Defence broke a key ethics rule, offered a lame defence of her actions, and doesn’t seem to understand why helping an acquaintance get a job in her department is a problem.

Does that sound like the sort of person who should be heading a major federal department?

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The important questions raised by Parliament’s game of musical chairs

The important questions raised by Parliament’s game of musical chairs

With Liberal MPs holding a majority of seats in the House of Commons, government House leader Steven MacKinnon moved a motion on Thursday that would see that majority reflected in the allotment of seats on House committees.

This would be an entirely unremarkable development — the sort of procedural housekeeping that occurs at the start of each Parliament — except for the fact that it was happening a year after the last general federal election.

It is for that reason — and for the remarkable events that have transpired over the last 12 months — that the change to committees was not simply waved through the House this week with unanimous consent.


An immediate election call after a floor crossing may dampen the enthusiasm.

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Expect Trump to try to punish Canada for not bending the knee

Expect Trump to try to punish Canada for not bending the knee

We’ve been warned for months that Canada faces exceedingly tough talks on renewing the CUSMA/USMCA trade deal. With Donald Trump blowing off the importance of Canada (“we don’t need anything they have”), it was shaping up as a cage match at the negotiating table.

As of this week, though, we face the very real possibility of an even more ominous prospect as the July 1 date for agreement or not-agreement on re-upping CUSMA approaches: no talks at all.

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Canada is siding more often with its European allies when it comes to Israel

Canada is siding more often with its European allies when it comes to Israel

Ottawa has been particularly critical of Israel recently, often moving in lockstep with European allies as the Trump administration’s relationship with the Netanyahu government deepens.

Last month, Prime Minister Mark Carney warned Israel against launching a “significant” ground offensive in Lebanon in a joint statement alongside European leaders. Just a few weeks later, he condemned the very military invasion he and Canada’s allies said should have been averted.

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Parliamentary record contradicts Liberal MP’s claim about forced labour comments … Beijing Stooge Silent

Parliamentary record contradicts Liberal MP’s claim about forced labour comments … Beijing Stooge Silent

OTTAWA — Parliament’s official record shows Liberal MP Michael Ma was referring to Xinjiang — a region in China where reports of forced labour have been documented — in a committee meeting last month, contradicting the MP’s claims that he was misheard during a contentious exchange with a witness.

Ma was also given the opportunity to correct the official transcript and didn’t do so, the office of the Speaker of the House of Commons told the Star.


Carney is Beijing’s stooge.

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If Canada doesn’t improve, I don’t expect my children to stay

If Canada doesn’t improve, I don’t expect my children to stay

At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I do not expect that my sons will choose to stay in Canada when they are adults. Certainly not if this country stays on its current trajectory — namely, on our slow and agonizing decline.

Swathes of Canadians seem unbothered, at best, by the country’s first unelected majority government, made possible by five dubious parliamentary floor crossings. Yes, the majority technically didn’t happen until three byelections, two occurring in Liberal stronghold ridings, clinched the deal; however, Prime Minister Mark Carney would not have a majority government without those floor crossers. That is incontrovertible.

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Ottawa spends $43M on health care for rejected asylum claimants sparking backlash

Ottawa spends $43M on health care for rejected asylum claimants sparking backlash

Federal figures show Ottawa spent more than $43 million last year providing health care benefits to illegal immigrants and rejected refugee claimants, fuelling criticism from Conservatives who say taxpayers are footing the bill for services many Canadians struggle to access.

Blacklock’s Reporter says data released by the Department of Immigration indicates 19,771 individuals whose asylum claims were denied still accessed coverage through the Interim Federal Health Program, including prescriptions, clinical care and transportation to medical appointments.

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John Ivison: Washington’s set to eat Canada’s digital sovereignty for lunch in the CUSMA talks

John Ivison: Washington’s set to eat Canada’s digital sovereignty for lunch in the CUSMA talks

Canada’s trade negotiator, Janice Charette, told a business audience this week that our trade agreement with the U.S. is “the envy of the world.”

The consensus in Ottawa seems to be that if Canada can emerge from the renegotiation process with much of the current trade deal intact, it will be a win.

But there is a minority view that looks at the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement through the lens of digital sovereignty and prosperity. From that perspective, Canada is not the most privileged of America’s trading partners: rather, it is the most captive.

Down Mexico Way …

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Prime minister should be required to divest assets, says committee

Prime minister should be required to divest assets, says committee

Prime Minister Mark Carney and other Canadian prime ministers should be required to divest their investment portfolios when they assume office, not just put them in a blind trust, the House of Commons ethics committee recommends in a new report.

In its report made public Thursday morning, the committee said putting assets in a blind trust isn’t good enough, recommending instead “that the Government of Canada amend the Conflict of Interest Act that, for the application of subsection 27(1) the prime minister, as a reporting public office holder, is fully divested from their controlled assets through sale, since placement in a blind trust does not constitute true divestment.”

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Joel Kotkin: Canadians must stop romanticizing a failing Europe

Joel Kotkin: Canadians must stop romanticizing a failing Europe

Canadians have long looked away from their often gruesome southern neighbor, tempted instead to embrace a chicer European identity. They could point to a more civil public culture, greater bilingualism and a more generous welfare state, compared to the dog-eat-dog reality of the United States. Prime Minister Mark Carney has called Canada “the most European of non-European countries,” and some policy wonks now advocate joining the EU.

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