Poilievre calls for emergency debate on recession in letter to Carney

In a Sunday morning letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for an emergency parliamentary debate to address the state of Canada’s economy.

“You promised you would deliver the fastest-growing economy in the G7. You delivered the only recession in the G7,” wrote the Official Opposition leader.

On Friday, a report from Statistics Canada showed the country’s economy contracted slightly for the second quarter in a row — meeting the technical definition of a recession.

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GOLDSTEIN: The laughable claims of Justin Trudeau’s climate warriors

GOLDSTEIN: The laughable claims of Justin Trudeau’s climate warriors

Old myths die hard in Ottawa and one of the hardest to kill is that the government of Justin Trudeau was on track to meet Canada’s climate change targets under his failed $200-billion-plus strategy, before Prime Minister Mark Carney blew them up.

The myth was on display at a social gathering last week of Trudeau’s now-departed environment ministers/climate change warriors – Steven Guilbeault, Catherine McKenna and Jonathan Wilkinson, along with the former PM himself – at the private Rideau Club near Parliament Hill, reported by CBC.

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Conrad Black: Liberals unfairly target religious expression

Conrad Black: Liberals unfairly target religious expression

Bill C-9, the Combating Hate Act, which passed the House of Commons this spring has been controversial because of widespread fears that its broad definitions of hate speech and intimidation threatened fundamental democratic rights. Almost everybody opposes incitement to group hatred but almost everybody also supports the widest definition of freedom of human conduct that does not lead to chaos or promote or defend sociopathic behaviour. Opponents of C-9 are particularly concerned at the removal from the Criminal Code’s protection of people acting in good faith in reciting religious texts that could be construed as incitements to hate, even if unintentionally.

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Morgan: Carney’s Caucus Challenge

Morgan: Carney’s Caucus Challenge

While Alberta Premier Danielle Smith tries to maintain a balancing act between sovereigntists in Alberta and federalists, Prime Minister Mark Carney is walking a tightrope between factions within his own party that is no less precarious. The risk in trying to placate disparate views for too long is having a faction break away in discontent. Carney can only maintain equilibrium for so long before he finds himself forced to stand solidly on one side of his party or the other.

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Champagne mocked after comparing EV subsidies to Ford Model T

Champagne mocked after comparing EV subsidies to Ford Model T

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is facing criticism after incorrectly claiming the Ford Model T was not a success, while defending Ottawa’s $52 billion electric vehicle subsidy strategy.

Blacklock’s Reporter says Champagne made the remarks during heated Commons committee questioning over the federal government’s massive spending on electric vehicle projects, many of which have faced delays, layoffs or uncertainty.

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All for one: Norway, Germany sell Canada on shared submarine fleet

Both Norway and Germany invoked an all-for-one, one-for-all approach as they this week sharpened their public and private pitches for Canada to select the Type 212CD as the navy’s next submarine.

Both long-standing NATO allies, the two European powers are now putting more emphasis on what it means for Arctic and North Atlantic security for three nations to operate the same boat.

“We are thinking of the submarine fleet not as a Norwegian fleet and a German fleet and a Canadian fleet, we were thinking of a common fleet,” Marte Gerhardsen, the state secretary to Norway’s minister of defence, told CBC News in an interview this week.

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Mark Carney flexes the Liberal party’s powers of transformation

Steven Guilbeault’s breakup with his Liberal government was a long time coming, but the events that set if off were swift.

In an interview with my colleague Ryan Tumilty, the former environment minister and soon-to-be ex-MP underlined just how much the Liberals have changed in a matter of months.

“I’m not blind to what’s happening around us and in the world, but we ran on a platform that was very strong on climate change just over a year ago. Donald Trump was there a year ago, the tariff war had started a year ago,” he said. “This is not a course correction. We have basically abandoned large chunks of our climate change strategy.”


Carney will say anything for a vote.

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Mark Carney’s Brexit blunder

Mark Carney’s Brexit blunder

Politicians often refer to examples in history to make a point about a particular idea, policy or event. It can be an effective tool in everything from election campaigns to legislative speeches. Except when it’s not.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney recently made a significant political blunder when he tried to compare a referendum that will occur in one of the country’s provinces to, of all things, Brexit. Not only was this a poor campaign strategy, it ended up massively backfiring and leaving the PM with plenty of egg on his face.

Let’s go back a few steps to understand why.

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Canada is Cracking Down on Immigration. It’s Stabilizing Housing Prices.

Canada is Cracking Down on Immigration. It’s Stabilizing Housing Prices.

For years, Canada’s political elite insisted the housing crisis was caused by everything except immigration. It was a supply problem. A zoning problem. A financing problem. A speculation problem. A foreign-buyer problem. A NIMBY problem.

But never a population problem.

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Canada’s spy agency didn’t report potentially unlawful activity to feds: watchdog

Canada’s spy agency didn’t report potentially unlawful activity to feds: watchdog

Canada’s domestic intelligence agency has failed to report their employees’ potentially unlawful activity and Charter violations, a newly-released watchdog report warns.

Of the 22 instances in which the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) admitted “non-compliance” with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 2023-24, none were formally reported to the federal public safety minister.


I doubt it’s safe to share anything with the Liberal party given they’ve been compromised six ways from Sunday.

China, Islamists, Brookfield etc. Canada is a sieve.

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Trudeau’s climate policy architects gather as Carney changes course

Trudeau’s climate policy architects gather as Carney changes course

It was the end of an era and the four politicians who were its chief architects gathered in one room in Ottawa.

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau and his former climate change cabinet ministers — Catherine McKenna, Jonathan Wilkinson and Steven Guilbeault — on Wednesday were at the Rideau Club, a private social club near Parliament Hill.

Political operatives behind the scenes, MPs across party lines and journalists were also there. The room was packed and on a warm Ottawa evening in May it quickly got hot.

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Why Canada’s homeownership rate is hiding how bad the housing crisis really is

Why Canada’s homeownership rate is hiding how bad the housing crisis really is

Two-thirds of Canadians own their home. That number—66.5 percent in the 2021 Census—is often cited whenever the country debates whether its housing market is working. Taken at face value, it reassures policymakers that the system, whatever its flaws, delivers for the majority. But look beneath the surface, and the number tells a more complicated story.

Statistics Canada recently compared housing outcomes for Millennials, Gen-Xers, and Baby Boomers at the same stage of life. The headline finding was unsurprising but dispiriting: among Millennials aged 25 to 39 in 2021, 16.3 percent were living with their parents—nearly double the 8.2 percent of Baby Boomers in the same age bracket in 1991.

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HANNAFORD: Turns out Trudeau was wrong — Germany just proved Canada always had an LNG ‘business case’

HANNAFORD: Turns out Trudeau was wrong — Germany just proved Canada always had an LNG ‘business case’

So there was a business case for natural gas exports to Germany after all.

Of course, we never thought otherwise. But back in August 2022, with Europe freezing and scrambling after Russia invaded Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz came to Canada hat in hand looking for reliable LNG supplies. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau looked him in the eye and delivered his classic line, that there was “never a strong business case” for Canadian LNG exports to Europe. Too expensive, too far, Europe was going green anyway, etc.

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