Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled off of a political coup when his party won three byelections on Monday after enticing five members of the opposition parties to cross the floor, thus turning a minority into a majority government for the first time in Canadian history. But to suggest, as many Liberals are, that he has formed some sort of “unity government” is patently ridiculous.

Mark Carney is swaggering about Canada with his new majority government, acting as if he’d just received a landslide mandate from the electorate. The truth is he acquired his precious majority not by climbing up on his soapbox and convincing voters, but by whispering sweet nothings to five MPs from other parties, upon which they mysteriously lost their political principles and crossed the floor. Does Carney believe in democracy? It’s hard to be sure.

Yes, his party did just win three special elections. But only one of those counted (the other two were held by Liberals already and in safe Liberal ridings, so made no difference to the number of seats the party held). Without the floor-crossings, Carney would be stuck with the minority he won last April.

Ottawa boasts of nation-building while debt rises, jobs vanish, and contradictions multiply.

The Liberal Party of Canada is ecstatic. They’ve finally caught the golden ring on the merry-go-round. There were three byelections in Canada on April 13, and the Liberal Party won all three of them, which now gives them a majority government. To be clear, they have been inching their way in this direction for almost a year now, since they won a minority government in the last federal election. They have been doing this by persuading Conservative MPs to cross the floor. The last such crossing was just a few days ago on April 8, when Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu did the treacherous little dance. She was the fourth Conservative MP to do so since the general election. In the Liberal Party press release, she justified her move by calling it an “opportunity … [to] build the nation at speeds never seen before.” That’s a current Liberal talking point, but it don’t mean a thing.

The federal Liberals now have their Parliamentary majority, completing the job with byelections but having had to set the stage with opposition MPs crossing the floor. How it happened becomes secondary to what they now do with it.

The composition of the House of Commons will always be fluid, just as righteous howls over floor crossing will always be with us.

Marilyn Gladu, MP for Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong, recently revised her opinion on the matter when crossing to join the Liberals. Yes, it’s a frustration for those in her riding who voted Conservative. Gladu’s socially conservative views have also prompted cynicism among some Liberals regarding Carney’s core values.

You can call it a majority by the letter of the law — but it’s actually an act of institutional arson.

Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney, parachuted in to save Justin Trudeau’s sinking ship, just pulled off the ultimate boardroom maneuver. After Monday’s by-election victories in Toronto’s University-Rosedale, Scarborough Southwest, and Montreal’s Terrebonne, the Liberals have manufactured a majority government out of thin air.

The three byelection wins by the Liberals on Monday night give the Carney government an unassailable majority. With 174 seats, they can pass any bill they like without having rely on the Speaker of the House of Commons to cast a deciding vote to break a tie.

Let’s put aside for a moment the fact that the Liberal majority was undemocratically obtained.

The Canadian economy is losing businesses faster than it can create new ones, and it is time for federal and provincial governments to act to reverse this trend, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.

A new report by the organization, calls it an “entrepreneurial drought,” which it defines as a year or more in which “business entry rates are strictly lower than business exit rates.”

It says the drought has been ongoing since 2024, making it the worst period for entrepreneurs outside of the pandemic.

Occasionally, events transpire that seem scripted to illustrate the political weirdness of Canada’s present moment. Recently, there were two. The first occurred when the prime minister himself appeared at the recent Juno Awards to present Joni Mitchell with a Lifetime Achievement Award, praising her as a Canadian icon.

Now, Mitchell ranks among the first tier of musicians of the popular era, and she richly merits whatever accolades come her way, but what stood out here was that she is 82, older even than the Baby Boomers; Mark Carney at 61 is a spring chicken by comparison. Meanwhile, she took the opportunity to return Carney’s praise, while lamenting the political conditions in the United States…where she continues to reside.