Meme - G.M. Forbes @gmforbes35: "Same person 1 year apart.
April 2024: Paying the carbon tax puts more money in your pocket!
April 2025: Eliminating the carbon tax puts more money in your pocket!
It's Schrödinger's Tax!"
Mona Fortier @MonaFortier: "Good news #OttawaVanier! Starting today, Ontarian families can expect to see an extra 255$ deposited into their bank accounts. The Canada Carbon Rebate is putting more money back into the pockets of 8 out of 10 Canadians, while reducing carbon emissions."
Mona Fortier 🇨🇦 @MonaFortier: "Our policies are already hard at work! Gas prices are already coming down, and we're putting more money back in Canadians' pockets. Canadian families can trust that a #Liberal government will make life more affordable and bring down the cost of living, starting at the pump ⛽️"
Singh facing backlash for campaigning with OnlyFans star, taking photos with fetish gear - "While other party leaders court blue-collar workers, NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is drawing attention for campaigning with anti-Israel pornstars and taking group photos with people in fetish dog masks... Another now deleted post showed NDP supporters wearing fetish-style dog masks cozying up with the NDP leader for a photo. The incidents had social media users confused about the direction in which Singh was taking his campaign."
NDP drops OnlyFans creator over anti-Israel content - "An OnlyFans creator who goes by Jessica Wetz, whose full name is Jessica Wetzstein, was one of the latest additions on the campaign trail for NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh — until the party said Thursday it would no longer be working with her due to comments she made about the Holocaust... This week on Instagram, she posted three videos — two of her talking with Singh and one showing her time with the NDP team on its campaign bus. In a video posted to Instagram on Monday, Wetz and Singh discuss the Middle East. “The (NDP Canada) advocate for Canada acknowledging the state of Palestine. It makes me so angry that the Liberals and Conservatives put us on the wrong side of history by refusing to do it,” Wetz wrote in the caption of the post. “As Canadians, we’re proud the American military does not get to decide what goes on inside our borders because we don’t vote them. Palestinians deserve the exact same thing,” said Wetz, speaking to Singh with a keffiyeh draped over her shoulders. “And I know you feel similar,” she added, gesturing to the NDP leader... Wetz said that the “censorship” on Palestinian voices was “unbelievable.”"
Clearly, being dropped for making Holocaust comparisons is censoring pro-Palestinian voices
Canada election: NDP promises national rent control - "“If any province or municipality wants federal investments … to build homes, they have to put in place laws that protect renters,” he said. “We’re not going to build affordable homes for those homes to just turn into unaffordable homes because there are no protections in place.”... Singh said an NDP government would also push provinces to ban so-called renovictions and fixed-term leases, which are lease agreements that don’t automatically renew beyond their set end date... The NDP also wants to prohibit the use of artificial intelligence to co-ordinate rent increases, and to recognize the right of tenant unions to negotiate with landlords."
The folly of piling ever more restrictions on aside, provincial jurisdiction is no match for the left wing agenda
KLEIN: Canada is losing jobs, investment, and stability: Voters must take this election seriously - "Statistics Canada reported our country lost 33,000 jobs in September. Even more concerning, 48,000 of those losses were in the private sector, mostly full-time jobs. At the same time, the U.S. economy added 228,000 new jobs. That contrast is more than just economic trivia. It tells a larger story, one of two countries moving in very different directions... The economic slowdown we’re facing isn’t a result of external forces. It’s the consequence of internal decisions — years of policy choices that have made it harder to grow businesses, invest in infrastructure, or plan for the future. Yes, global factors matter. It’s a mistake, however, to blame U.S. tariffs — which were applied broadly, to all countries — for Canada’s poor private sector performance. The numbers speak for themselves: While the U.S. added nearly a quarter-million jobs in September, Canada lost tens of thousands. If tariffs were the cause, the U.S. wouldn’t be growing. The core problem is that we’ve made it too expensive, too complicated, and too uncertain to do business in this country. We’ve burdened industry with taxes and red tape. We’ve added costs under the banner of climate policy, without balancing competitiveness. Meanwhile, public spending continues at a pace that isn’t sustainable. More Canadians than ever now rely on food banks. Over 2 million visits were recorded in a single month, according to Food Banks Canada. That’s not about a lack of compassion or generosity. It’s a sign that working Canadians are falling through the cracks. So again, ask yourself — are you better off than you were nine years ago? If you are, then more of the same might make sense"
Kelly McParland: Carney and Poilievre struggle to distinguish themselves - "Nothing was more arresting than observing Carney at his “Canada Strong” podium boasting about having axed the carbon tax — the signal policy of nine years of Trudeau Liberalism, a measure Carney supported from the get-go and one he hailed in a 600-page treatise as an achievement the rest of the world should emulate... Kory Teneycke, a former aid to Prime Minister Stephen Harper who’s now working for Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who only recently talked to Poilievre for the first time, popped up all over warning of disaster ahead. Poilievre “looks too much like Trump. He sounds too much like Trump. He uses the lexicon of Trump,” Teneycke said (without mentioning that Liberals used to say similar things about Ford). The consensus opinion was that Poilievre should ditch his pitch — which had been meticulously prepared to target Liberal failures and voters’ domestic concerns — and go full-throttle on a rampage against Trump. But Poilievre demurred. The Trump threat, he argued , validates his argument that Canada needs to look to itself to remedy the economic damage left by a decade of Liberal misrule... The opening days of the campaign saw several Liberals who had announced their retirement suddenly jump back into the race. Former cabinet minister Anita Anand said she changed her mind not because her chances of re-election went from two per cent to 94 per cent once Trudeau resigned — oh heavens no — but because Carney promised that, unlike his predecessor, he’d be “open to considering the viewpoints of his caucus and cabinet in a serious way.” Not a bad reason overall, but since becoming prime minister Carney has been anything but enthusiastic about sharing. He balked at offering details of his personal finances, his corporate ties or his role in a plan that helped business operations avoid taxes by registering in Bermuda, and refused to shift his view on Chiang, even when it became obvious that the candidate had to go. Poilievre, for his part, styles himself as determined to repair Canada’s Trudeau-battered finances while announcing a series of pricey new spending programs and a tax cut that would cost twice as much as something similar pledged by Carney. If anything, their tactics seem to consist of stealing ideas wholesale from one another... If there’s an honest chasm separating them it’s over energy and climate. Carney says he’d speed up permitting of resource projects, cut duplication and look favourably on pipelines, but he’d keep a tax on big emitters and maintain the Liberals’ controversial Bill C-69, sometimes derided as the “no-pipelines law.” To meet global emissions goals, he’s written that , “More than 80 per cent of current fossil fuel reserves (including three-quarters of coal, half of gas, one-third of oil) would need to stay in the ground.” Poilievre, in contrast, insists the energy industry is vital to reversing Canada’s economic slide"
Liberals offended by Poilievre’s compassion for ‘biological clock’ - "We have officially reached the point in the election campaign where expressing compassion for those struggling to find the funds to comfortably start a family lands you the charge of … misogyny... “Some people have said that I should stop talking about the doubling housing costs that have denied an entire generation the chance to own a home after the lost Liberal decade,” he said, extending the thought to drugs, crime and the economy. “I disagree. My purpose in politics is to restore Canada’s promise.” But what really set Liberal observers off was the words of sympathy he gave shortly afterward, acknowledging the plight of adults in their 30s who feel they can’t afford to have a family — and fear they might not make it in time. The full quote — and I’m providing it because a much shorter, context-deprived clip has been circulated — is this: “The unjustified threats by President (Donald) Trump further strengthen the argument in favour of the Canada First agenda that I’ve been fighting for my whole life. And while we propose those solutions, we will not forget the single mom who can’t afford food; we will not forget the seniors who have to choose between eating and heating; we will not forget that young 36-year-old couple whose biological clock is running out faster than they can afford to buy a home and have kids; we will not forget the families terrorized by crime and drugs; and so we will continue, despite calls to the contrary, to talk about those things, even if I am the only leader in the country that offers any change.” The key term here is “biological clock.” We all know that, in women, fertility starts to decline in one’s mid-30s, which is around the same time that male gamete quality begins heading downhill. It also happens to be the age that many young Canadians finish their education, become settled in their careers and find stable housing that has enough space to fit an infant. Perhaps medical technology will one day change things, but until it does, the finite window to conceive is a fact of life. In the meantime, human beings will continue to talk about it, sometimes with the easy-to-understand idiom of “biological clock.” It surfaces in CBC coverage, the Toronto Star’s opinion section, and throughout pop culture, really. Well, on March 31, progressive partisans declared “biological clock” to be deeply offensive upon reviewing the Poilievre clip and performing a collective gasp of horror. Ontario MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, known for interrupting the press conference of a fellow female MP, declared that it was possible to talk about “the need to build housing without talking like this.” He was echoed by Etobicoke Liberal candidate Yvan Baker, who complained of “outdated and harmful rhetoric” — which was certainly news, as the term was perfectly acceptable the day before. Ottawa MP Yasir Naqvi even invoked abortion after calling the Poilievre soundbite “Absurd. Offensive. He’s not even hiding it anymore—this is blatant misogyny.” I note that Naqvi previously endorsed a book on Islam that condones hitting one’s wife to correct “serious moral misconduct” (an endorsement he made without reading the book, he says, but nevertheless). The overreaction was no doubt a partial attempt to change the channel from the nasty business that was Paul Chiang — an Ontario MP and former Liberal candidate who, despite receiving Mark Carney’s support, resigned after nudging supporters to turn in a Conservative candidate for a Chinese state bounty. But it was also an occasion for middle-aged male Liberals to position themselves as the truly feminist foils to their caveman-brained Conservative counterparts... Cardus, a family policy think tank, studied the issue in 2023 and found that Canadian women have about 0.5 fewer children than desired. This is a serious issue, but it’s one that receives next to no attention from federal politicians because it touches the passé topic of female fertility. The Liberals, as you know, have mummy-wrapped that issue in yellow “Do Not Cross” tape to appease the demands of the most vocal, most irrational branch of their base. In their view, acknowledging the economy’s role in family formation is only a short skip away from criminalizing abortion and indenturing women into Handmaid’s Tale harems. Unhinged. So it’s at least a relief that the affordability concerns — and, as part of that, family-starting concerns — of the country’s youth are being acknowledged by someone with a platform rather than language-policed into oblivion. The Canadian promise should include self-sufficiency before age 40, and we shouldn’t be afraid to say it."
When left wingers talk about empathy, they mean selective and weaponized empathy to push the left wing agenda
Liberals drop Edmonton candidate who praised Hamas, Hezbollah in video - "Loyola, an NDP member of Alberta’s legislative assembly since 2015, won the Liberal nomination for the new riding of Edmonton on March 26. He then announced he was leaving provincial politics to join Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s team. “(Carney) is the man of the hour that we need, especially to stand up to Donald Trump south of the border,” said Loyola at his March 29 campaign launch. Loyola has drawn criticism for the past for his public support of autocratic Latin American political strongmen including Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro. Loyola said in a 2021 podcast interview that he’s been unfairly targeted in Alberta’s legislature for his “support for Latin American progressive governments.” He doubled down on this support, saying he believed that Cuba and Venezuela were more enlightened than Canada in some respects. “It’s not necessarily saying that I want us to become the next Venezuela or the next Cuba… I’m just saying that we can learn from how they stress particular rights,” said Loyola. Chavez, the Venezuelan socialist leader widely accused of gross human rights violations, died in 2013, and Loyola was listed as the media contact for an Edmonton tribute to him, which was billed as “an opportunity to express solidarity with the Venezuelan people and support for the Bolivarian Revolution.” “The event will also share with the media and local community the hard work, dedication and achievements of President Hugo Chávez and his government,” read the description Loyola also compared Alberta’s oil and gas industry to right-wing military juntas that have seized power in parts of Latin America in a 2014 interview with Edmonton’s VUE Weekly magazine."
The mystery of Quebec City, the Tories' beachhead in La Belle Province - "“Psychosis exists here. People only talk about Trump… We are incapable, until further notice, of putting a little rationality into our thoughts. I have rarely seen that,” he said."
Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 on X - "I sued the Liberal government to challenge the constitutionality of the carbon tax. The Liberals managed to persuade 6 of 9 Supreme Court justices that the consumer carbon tax was necessary “to prevent irreparable harm” and that it was “critical to our response to an existential threat to human life in Canada and around the world.” Now that they’ve admitted none of this was true, will the Liberals apologize to the Supreme Court for misleading the justices about the rationale for the carbon tax? And will the Supreme Court be more sceptical when governments argue that they need to bend the constitution to prevent “irreparable” environmental harm?"
Melissa Lantsman on X - "There should be just one takeaway from the fall in gas prices: the Liberals had the power ALL along to make life more affordable for you and your family. They did absolutely nothing until they needed your vote. What happens again when they no longer need it? I’ll give you one guess."
Kelly McParland: NDP collapse contains further uncertainties - "Though Carney presents himself as a new wind blowing from a wholly different direction than Trudeau, he is surrounded by Trudeau’s caucus, Trudeau’s cabinet, Trudeau’s advisers and Trudeau’s legacy. While promising to unveil a reformist platform at some point in the future, so far, he has been campaigning along lines that could easily have served the former prime minister in a bid for a fourth term. A “middle-class tax cut” that would cost billions while somehow not affecting the deficit. Money to support the auto industry, money to expand the military, buy more equipment and pay it better wages, a tax break for housing and a pledge that none of the new spending will lessen the amounts Ottawa sends to individual Canadians or the provinces. No serious cuts, lots of new spending and no indication of how it’s to be paid for without adding further to the mammoth debt the Trudeau Liberals left behind. If not for the existence of Donald Trump and the opportunity he gives Carney to stand up as Canada’s champion, it would be hard to argue the new leader offers anything much different than the old. Liberals would be just as desperate to entice the left, at whatever the cost. That’s the problem facing U.S. Democrats, who Liberals so often ape as they seek ideas and tactics. Before former president Joe Biden was forced to step aside over concerns about his age, he had suffered a steady erosion in support from a sense he’d become too much a creature of the party’s vociferous and outspoken left... The peculiar reality of the NDP is that both the biggest parties need its existence to serve their own ends. Conservatives need it to siphon off crucial support when leftist “progressives” get fed up with Liberal antics. Liberals need it to prop up minorities or provide emergency reinforcements if fear emerges of a Conservative victory."
Opinion: A watershed election, but with the same old politics - "Is this what to expect for the next four weeks? A stream of special, one-off tax breaks, instead of a serious plan to address our economic challenges? Canada’s economy has been lacklustre for years. Business investment is poor, as is productivity, and per capita GDP is falling: the Trump tariff war was the last nail in the coffin. We need a new economic plan that includes fundamental tax changes , not giveaways. First, to retain and attract capital investment and make Canadian business as internationally competitive as possible, our corporate tax rate should be reduced. Our combined federal-provincial rate is about 26.5 per cent, compared with an average rate for OECD countries of below 24 per cent. While our rate is close to the average U.S. federal-state tax rate of 26 per cent, we need a competitive advantage against our new rival, not parity: not to mention that Trump has proposed a six-percentage point reduction for corporations that make their products in the U.S. Second, to keep our best and brightest in Canada and encourage risk taking, the rate in the highest personal tax bracket — for those with annual income above $253,000 — should be reduced to below the psychological barrier of 50 per cent. Canada has one of the highest top personal tax rates in the world: in 2022, the average for OECD countries was only 42.5 per cent. Third, to help pay for these corporate and personal rate reductions, the GST should be raised by at least two percentage points — to seven per cent, where it was before Stephen Harper lowered it in 2008. Economists say consumption taxes cause less economic harm than income taxes, yet Canada relies on them much less than most other developed countries. Finally, we need major tax reform, both to simplify our tax code and to eliminate special deals and preferences. The lower corporate tax rate on small and medium-sized businesses is much too generous and should increase. The exemption from tax for capital gains on a principal residence should be capped. And many other deductions and credits should be repealed or simplified. The new government, whoever forms it, should strike a tax reform committee, with instructions to report its findings and recommendations within six months."
Clearly, "taxing the 'rich'" is the "moral" choice and will make everyone richer
Mario Zelaya on X - "Conservative signs are being taken down in Oakville. Down the same street, Liberal signs are allegedly being left up. This appears to be a by-law officer in an official Oakville vehicle."
Meme - Jonathan Kay @jonkay: "The newly appointed @CTVNews election “fact checker” is the same social media personality who spread the conspiracy theory that convoy truckers tried to burn down an Ottawa apartment building."
Rachel Gilmore: ""One of them taped up the door handles so no one could get in or out," Matias wrote. Taped. The. Doors. Shut. I feel sick.
!!! This downtown Ottawa resident says a full package of fire-starter bricks was brought into their apartment building's lobby at 5:00 a.m. Two men lit it. Luckily, he says, a passerby was able to get inside and put the fire out. The "what ifs" here are horrifying."
Sebastian Skamski @Skamski: "In a shocking new low for @CTVNews , they are having this disgraced disinformation peddler lie directly to their viewers under the guise of “news”. The Liberal media will do anything to ensure a fourth Liberal term. Remember that the next time they “fact check” Conservatives!"
FIRST READING: NDP says it has 'momentum' as it stares down electoral collapse - ""We are ready for this election,” NDP Campaign Director Jennifer Howard said in the statement. In truth, the NDP is entering this campaign with shaky finances and some of the worst poll numbers they’ve ever charted. If the party can’t turn it around in the next five weeks, they could well be staring down the worst electoral showing since their 1961 founding. NDP poll numbers have been in steep collapse ever since Jan. 7, when then prime minister Justin Trudeau announced his plans to resign, setting the stage for his replacement by Mark Carney. Before Trudeau’s resignation, the NDP had spent years hovering between 15 and 20 per cent of the popular vote. This is roughly in line with how they performed in the 2021 federal election, when the NDP captured 17.8 per cent of total ballots cast. But particularly in recent weeks, multiple pollsters have charted the NDP in single digits... If these kinds of figures hold out until election day, the NDP could end up facing the near-total annihilation of their caucus, which stood at 24 MPs as of Sunday’s election call. A recent projection by election modeller Raymond Liu forecast the NDP having a caucus of just two seats come April 28... To date, the NDP’s historical worst still belongs to 1993, when it won just nine seats under leader Audrey McLaughlin. The plummeting support has tracked closely with a proportionate rise in Liberal support, indicating that even longtime NDP voters appear to be stampeding to the Liberals under new leader Mark Carney. The election call also comes just as the NDP has finished digging itself out of a multi-million-dollar financial hole caused by the last general election. The party was forced to take out a $20 million loan to cover their expenses during the last general election, and only last year did party brass announce that the debt was paid . In the NDP’s most recent audited financial statements — for the fiscal year 2023 — they had just $289,808 in cash on hand, barely enough to cover the travel expenses of leader Jagmeet Singh in a national campaign. The NDP was able to fundraise $6.3 million in 2024, although this lagged dramatically behind the $15.2 million brought in by the Liberals, and an unprecedented $41.8 million brought in by the Conservatives. But in Sunday’s statement, the NDP still said it intended to spend the maximum amount allowed by Elections Canada. In the 2021 election, this was about $30 million . “This is the first time in a decade the NDP will spend the maximum allowed under Elections Canada’s limits,” read the NDP release."
Liberal Markham candidate to stay on despite call for ouster - "Mark Carney’s Liberals say they won’t turf Markham-Unionville candidate Paul Chiang, despite calls for his ouster after it emerged that he told a diaspora media outlet earlier this year how to claim a bounty Hong Kong had placed on a Conservative rival. “Paul Chiang recognized that he made a significant lapse in judgment. He apologized and has been clear that he will stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Hong Kong as they fight to safeguard their human rights and freedoms,” a spokesperson from Carney’s campaign told the Star in a statement... At a January event with ethnic media outlets, Chiang spoke with Ming Sheng Bao, the Canadian subsidiary of Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao, and referenced a $1 million (HKD) bounty — about $184,000 — that Hong Kong police had placed on a local Conservative candidate. He told the Chinese-language outlet that if anyone present at the event brought the candidate to the Chinese consulate general in Toronto, they could obtain the reward... Chiang apologized for his remarks on Friday, calling them “deplorable and a complete lapse of judgment,” and saying that as a former police officer, he “should have known better.”... NDP candidate Jenny Kwan, a former target of the Chinese government in part for her advocacy for human rights in Hong Kong, called Chiang’s comment “absolutely astounding.” Kwan said the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) putting a bounty on any Canadian is “intimidation at its worst,” and that Chiang “played right into it.” “In what universe is this normal?” Kwan said at a news conference with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in British Columbia, adding that transnational repression is a deeply serious issue that has caused people in Canada to fear for their lives. Earlier in the day in Toronto, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters that Chiang “must be disqualified.” “I find it incredible that Mark Carney would allow someone to run for his party that called for a Canadian citizen to be handed over to a foreign government on a bounty. A foreign government that would almost certainly execute that Canadian citizen. Think about that for a second,” Poilievre said."
LILLEY: Chiang is gone and so is any claim that Carney is a leader - "Liberal MP Paul Chiang’s announcement that he would step down as a candidate just before midnight Monday shows a massive failure of leadership by Mark Carney. It took four days for Chiang to be removed as the Liberal candidate in Markham-Unionville and it came after Carney had spent all morning defending him. It shouldn’t be hard to distance yourself from someone who advocates for kidnapping a rival and handing them over to China for a bounty, but the Liberals blew this one. The resignation only came after the RCMP confirmed they were investigating Chiang’s comments which may have violated several sections of the law by counselling others to commit a crime... “This is another example of China exerting undue influence in our election,” Yiu said. “Our political parties are being held hostage in the sense they are afraid to run candidates not favoured by China.” China’s ongoing political interference in our country is a massive problem that we are still not taking seriously. In the 2019 election, then Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and his team were briefed by CSIS on concerns about one of their Toronto candidates and China interfering his nomination. Trudeau took the information and did absolutely nothing with it. In fact, that candidate — Han Dong, who always has denied any help from China — was allowed to sit in the Liberal caucus, to run again in 2021 and nothing was done until media stories came out in 2023. Now, after a foreign interference inquiry, multiple reports on the matter, we have a Liberal MP and candidate encouraging people in Canada to do Beijing’s bidding. The reaction from the new Liberal leader is the same as the last one, do nothing until forced to by never ending media stories. As Trudeau’s former cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould commented, it looks like the new guy is a lot like the old guy."
Lorne Gunter: Carney uses 'teachable moment' excuse to avoid strong action against rogue candidate - "About the only person who seems to have needed a “teachable moment” to understand just how wrong Chiang’s remarks were, was Carney himself. The Liberal leader insisted he had complete confidence in his candidate up until the moment Chiang resigned. Carney’s “teachable moment” explanation should also remind voters of just how much he is like Justin Trudeau. Trudeau used the “teachable moment” phrase (or similar euphemisms) whenever he got himself into trouble and wanted all of us to share his blame."
Terry Glavin: Beware, Mark Carney's affection for authoritarian China - "the Chiang scandal provides yet another fleeting glimpse into Beijing’s ongoing subversion of Canada’s political culture, specifically, in this case, in the overbearing presence of Beijing’s collaborators and influence-peddlers in the Greater Toronto Area’s Liberal Party establishment. If you spend any time peering into those backrooms and banquet halls and business-class venues these days, you’ll notice that the forces that have long been attempting to pull Canada into Beijing’s orbit have become immeasurably stronger now that U.S. president Donald Trump is taking a chainsaw to the structural foundations that prop up Canada’s place in North America’s integrated economy and defence architecture. It’s like 2015 all over again. Back then, boasting of his abiding family ties with the Chinese Communist Party, Justin Trudeau enlisted the kleptocrat-enabling, oxycontin-boosting McKinsey and Company to formulate a strategy to solemnize a “win-win” marriage of Canada’s natural resources and advanced capitalist economy with China’s investment capital and China’s consumer markets. McKinsey global managing director Dominic Barton was brought in to chair Trudeau’s blue-chip Advisory Council on Economic Growth, delivering big ideas about attracting investment and radically boosting immigration. More than $180 million in federal McKinsey contracts later, along with several Beijing-induced national security scandals and election-monkey-wrenching outrages and a pattern of economic catastrophe, Ipsos polling showed that, by last summer, seven in ten Canadians judged the country to be “broken.” And then, last September, the Liberal Party enlisted another oracle, Brookfield Asset Management board chair Mark Carney, to chair the Liberal Party’s Task Force on Economic Growth. And after Trudeau’s abdication and the shuttering of Parliament in January, the Liberal establishment threw everything it had into Carney’s succession as party leader. Canadians go to the polls April 28. “I’m really wondering whether, if Carney becomes the prime minister, it’ll be like if Dominic Barton became the prime minister,” Charles Burton, a former diplomat at Canada’s embassy in Beijing who’s currently a member of the Taiwan-based Doublethink Lab’s China in World Global Index Committee and a senior fellow at Sinopsis, a global China-focused think tank based in Prague. Four years ago, Carney and Barton convened a “fireside chat” with the Canada-China Business Council, where they boosted opportunities for enhanced cooperation between China and Canada in green energy, agri-food and other areas. “We’re all obviously all focused on Donald Trump, but I worry that ultimately, Carney’s plan is to out-Barton Dominic Barton. I’m concerned that Mr Carney will make us more and more beholden to the demands of the Chinese regime by expanding or raising public expectations of increased economic benefits with China.”... For at least a quarter of a century, Beijing’s overseas “elite capture,” strong-arming and influence-peddling institution, the United Front Work Department, has singled out Canada for special attention. In 2003, the UFWD boasted about electing six of its preferred candidates in Toronto, and in 2006, the UFWD claimed to have helped elect 10 of its 44 favoured Toronto-area candidates. The UFWD redoubled its efforts in Canada during the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, mainly targeting Conservative candidates, and the Trudeau government went out of its way to keep the operations out of the public eye. In 2019, Trudeau was warned in advance about Beijing’s mobilization of Chinese foreign students in the Liberal Party’s 2019 selection of Han Dong and the party’s candidate in Don Valley North — a case that sparked a flurry of disclosures and intelligence-agency leaks about Beijing’s interference in several ridings — but Trudeau said nothing and did nothing. In his testimony to the recently concluded Hogue Commission on foreign interference, Trudeau said he didn’t think there was anything particularly wrong about Chinese students voting in a Liberal Party candidate selection race. While the Conservative Party told the Commission it detected suspicious activity in 13 ridings across the country, former prime minister Jean Chrétien told a party gathering two years ago: “Ten or 15 constituencies in Canada at most? I don’t think it’s a very big problem.” While Carney has stressed that he has no intention of reviving the Trudeau government’s early enthusiasms for tighter and more intimate relationships with Beijing, his apparently cavalier attitude about Paul Chiang’s conduct raises serious questions of trust, according to Cheuk Kwan of the Toronto Association for Democracy in China... Carney had sought and received a $276-million loan for Brookfield Asset Management from the Bank of China last fall, while Carney was doing double duty as Brookfield’s chair and as the head of Trudeau’s economic growth task force. But that’s not the half of it. In his capacity with Brookfield, Carney paid several visits to China, where he routinely praised Xi Jinping’s leadership and urged the advancement of the Chinese renminbi as a global reserve currency to challenge the U.S. dollar. While he was governor of the Bank of England, Carney oversaw the creation of a $1 billion investment fund to support Beijing’s globe-encircling “Belt and Road” initiative and participated in the conclusion of a deal allowing Chinese banks access to the United Kingdom’s currency market. Last March, Carney was back in China, praising China’s leaders in the deployment and application of artificial-intelligence technologies. Beijing’s AI has proved handy in recognizing the facial features of Xinjiang’s persecuted Uyghur minority. Kwan said none of this can be said to shore up Carney’s trustworthiness among pro-democracy Chinese-Canadians, and Beijing’s malign influence is far broader and deeper in Canada than is generally understood. “I keep telling everybody, look, you’re looking at more than just federal elections. It’s pervasive at every level of society, down to the election of trustees of school boards.”"
Donald Trump is a fascist, but China is good.
Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 on X - "Here is Paul Chiang’s replacement for his Liberal riding. It’s Peter Yuen singing a ballad for the CCP while in uniform. Does Mark Carney approve of this new candidate?"
Good riddance to all the Liberal bills that Trudeau just culled - "The online harms (censorship) bill? Dead. The Liberals were already backing off Bill C-63, having announced in early December that the hulking piece of legislation would be split in two in hopes of making at least parts of it into law. Now, the whole thing is off the table. It’s mostly good news: the draft online harms law would have subjected social media companies operating in Canada to a new government bureaucracy in the name of “safety.” Moreover, it would have introduced the vague crime of “hate crime” and tasked the Canadian Human Rights Commission with regulating comments online. Now, this also means the death of the parts of C-63 that worked to crack down on child sexual abuse online, but even that had its flaws. Also dead is that bill that would have made thousands of people around the world eligible for Canadian citizenship. Bill C-71, if you remember, would give the children of Canadians born abroad citizenship through descent, as long as the parents can establish a “substantial connection” to Canada. The guardrail wouldn’t be a secure one, since some judges don’t believe that there are any citizens who lack a connection to the country. The bill’s proponents marketed it as a remedy to a rare problem that sometimes afflicts Canadian families who live abroad, such as military families. However, in trying to solve their problems, the bill would have made it much easier for citizenship to be obtained by the grandchildren of birth tourists (people who travel to Canada to give birth, which secures Canadian citizenship for their child). Lesser-known Senate bills of grave consequence are in the grave, too, including a bill that would have allowed every minority group to establish its own healing lodges (that is, low-security incarceration facilities for prisoners). Bill S-230 would have required a lot worse, too. If passed, the law would require the Correctional Service of Canada to approve all requests by prisoners to transfer to their respective healing lodges, unless a court were to decide that such a transfer was “not to be in the interests of justice.” Introduced by the same senator jockeying for identity-based healing lodges, was Bill S-233, which is also now dead. It would have required the government to create a Universal Basic Income framework that would cover anyone in Canada over the age of 17 — even non-Canadians like temporary foreign workers, permanent residents and asylum seekers. Though it was more a concept of a plan and didn’t set out any dollar figures, the bill would have opened the door to even more unproductive spending. And finally, the Senate bill that would have commandeered Canadian banks to regulate the climate impact of its clients has met its timely end as well. The draconian Bill S-243, which was midway through the Senate, would have allowed the federal financial regulator to mandate banks to increase the amount of capital clients need to finance loans related to the fossil fuel industry. The bill would have also mandated that corporate directors in the finance industry uphold the federal government’s climate commitments, violating the public-private boundary that free countries are supposed to respect. “The bill would effectively discourage — in some cases probably even block — financing of pipeline operators, natural gas distributors and fuel companies”... Also dead is the capital gains inclusion rate hike... Not all bills before Parliament will die, unfortunately. Private members’ bills that start in the House of Commons are immune to prorogation, according to House rules. That means that the jurisdiction-defying school food program bill (which comes with all sorts of cultural restraints), Bill C-322, will live to see another session. As will C-332, which would criminalize “coercive control” — that is, behaviour that makes a person’s spouse or partner that makes the other person feel unsafe. The latter is an honourable goal, but the way it’s drafted is so broad that it risks capturing relationships that, though toxic, aren’t dangerous."
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