Robert Fife on X - "Pierre Poilievre has spent two decades in politics, but Canadians still wonder what he believes"
terry l. on X - "Is there a reason that you have put out three hit pieces on Poilievre in the last two days? What has Mark Carney promised to do for your paper and you personally?"
Regime Journalists Dropping Hit Piece after Hit Piece : r/CanadianConservative - "Carney spoke last year at a Century Initiative event hosted by the Globe and Mail. That's their shared goal: mass immigration. The Globe and Mail is owned by the richest man in Canadian history (David Thomson). He likes mass immigration."
Regime Journalists Dropping Hit Piece after Hit Piece : r/CanadianConservative - "Globe and Mail is a partner with Century Initiative since 2021"
Regime Journalists Dropping Hit Piece after Hit Piece : r/CanadianConservative - "None of these legacy newspapers are viable without govt subsidies, they know which party butters their bread"
Regime Journalists Dropping Hit Piece after Hit Piece : r/CanadianConservative - ">PP is a radical fringe extremist!
>We don't know what PP believes in!
Why can't they ever make up their fuckin' minds with these... "
Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦🎗️ on X - "This guy verbally assaulted & harassed my wife, he yelled & screamed at kids, and drove his bike into families. When Elizabeth asked him to stop, he said she's a target too because she's my wife. It's alarming to learn he's not only with the @NDP , he's their riding president. Is this what the people of #Toronto can expect from the NDP when they dare to speak out or disagree? Will @normsworld denounce this or does he support bullying and attacking constituents who disagree with the NDP's policies?"
Trump tells Canadians to 'elect the man' who will let Canada join U.S.
It's clear who he wants to win, but naive people just play into his hands
Jamie Sarkonak: Carney's immigration plan a recipe for overcrowding - "He has committed to capping temporary workers and international students — the two types of non-permanent residents — to five per cent of the population by 2027, consistent with the plan set by former immigration minister Marc Miller last year. But this idea isn’t poised to help us out all that much. A five-per-cent cap may sound like an improvement, because non-permanent residents reached 7.4 per cent of the population in fall 2024, but it’s still atrociously far away from restoring the status quo. Before 2020, non-permanent residents never surpassed three per cent of the population. Carney is also planning to limit annual permanent resident admissions to one per cent of the population by 2027, which is equivalent to a target of about 400,000 per year. This, too, is consistent with the targets set last fall by Miller. However, just like his non-permanent-resident targets, Carney’s goals are, once again, far beyond Harper-era numbers, which only saw permanent resident admissions reach 300,000 (these were often lower, in the mid-200,000s). This is only a partial solution to our crowding problem. Carney’s platform makes no mention of new naturalized citizens or reducing the number of asylum seekers in Canada. All he commits to on this front is the “support” for legal aid for refugees and asylum seekers. The challenges are numerous: Quebec is still being overwhelmed at its ports of entry by claimants coming over the United States border, a persistent problem that the Trudeau government never fully resolved. Claims by international students have grown exponentially, from less than 2,000 in 2018 to nearly 14,000 in the first nine months of 2024. The majority of claims from allied, not-at-war countries like Mexico and India, between 2018 and last fall, have been approved. The result? Record numbers. In 2016, a total of just under 24,000 asylum seekers arrived. In 2025, we’ve already surpassed that, at just under 29,000 applicants in the first three months of the year. Where is this headed? Well, in 2024, Canada took in 172,000 asylum seekers, for reference. It seems the word has spread that Canada can hardly ever say “no.” Most of these sojourners are likely here to stay, and soak up Canada’s extensive benefits — free first-world health care (the cost for which has risen sevenfold from 2017 to 2024), free hotel rooms, free bonus money — because our immigration bureaucrats accept more than 80 per cent of claims. (Even in 2018, acceptance rates were a more modest 62 per cent). Gaping loopholes have been created to open the door to unfalsifiable claims: the LGBT asylum guidelines, for example, don’t require much actual proof, leading to suspicious claims... at this time, non-citizens can commit crimes, ranging from minor to vile, and can often expect to remain in Canada even with a conviction — and sometimes even receive a sentence discount due to their immigration status... Many of Canada’s problems in the last 10 years can be traced back to over-immigration: housing is scarce as more people try to cram into relatively fewer homes, youth employment has suffered, and federal supports have been over-extended. Culturally, large influxes can bring about problems, too: foreign conflicts have played out in riots and in synagogue attacks, and few assimilative pressures have worked to counterbalance the tendency for some communities to form enclaves. It’s a problem that is difficult to acknowledge, let alone solve. It’s hard to see an end to it all. Not too long ago, the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, a majority-government-funded charity (essentially, a pro-government lobby group), produced a series of posters depicting immigration skeptics as mentally inhibited troglodytes, with distorted, slack-jawed, idiotic faces. That about sums up how arrogantly the Liberals have gone about piling newcomers into the country, without concern for the people already here and the positive immigration consensus that was created through strict, high standards. Carney fully intends to keep immigration levels far above Harper-era levels, and we can bet that he’ll expect us to like it — heck, the propaganda campaign to snuff out objections is already underway."
Left wingers blame Harper for high immigration under Trudeau, so
Juno News on X - "Mark Carney claims that Pierre Poilievre’s proposal to introduce harsher sentences and keep criminals locked up infringes on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms for the “most vulnerable.""
This is the clearest expression of pro-crime policies. Criminals are seen as victims, and their victims and their rights don't matter
Liberal calls China a 'likeminded' ally as Carney says it is a threat - "Days after Liberal Leader Mark Carney named China as Canada’s biggest security threat, a video published by a Chinese-language media outlet shows one of his Liberal candidates calling China one of its “like-minded allies.” In the recently-filmed video posted on Sunday, Majid Jowhari, the Liberal incumbent in the Greater Toronto Area riding of Richmond Hill South, also argued that Canada needs to deepen its trade ties with China amid the trade war with the United States. His comments are notable because they appear to contrast starkly with Carney’s view on China expressed during the English-language debate last week."... For years, Canadian national security agencies have considered China to be the most serious and sophisticated threat actor against Canada. Twice already this campaign, the federal election monitoring task force has warned that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was likely behind influence campaigns in Canada. On Monday, members of the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections (SITE) task force said the PRC appeared to be behind a transnational repression operation to undermine Joe Tay, a Toronto-area Conservative candidate and vocal critic of the Chinese regime. SITE members said they suspected the PRC was pushing a mock “wanted” poster of Tay online and boosting disparaging stories about the Hong Kong democracy activist while suppressing searches of his name on China-based social media platforms. “A Liberal candidate calls China a ‘like-minded ally.’ CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) says China is the most serious threat actor. SITE is tracking China’s (disinformation) ops. Yet the Liberals keep sidling up,” Conservative incumbent Michael Chong posted to X. “It’s time to treat national security seriously. Vote Conservative.”... The Liberals have also come under fire for their candidates’ perceived proximity to individuals suspected of ties with the Chinese government. Last week, National Post reported that a Montreal-area Liberal candidate invited the head of two organizations suspected by the RCMP of operating a secret Chinese police station to a campaign event... In a report published in January, Foreign Interference inquiry head Marie-Josée Hogue said the People’s Republic of China was the “main perpetrator” of clandestine and illegal influence operations in the country. “The PRC uses a range of tools, including Canada-based proxies. These tools include the monitoring of diaspora communities and transnational repression; activities meant to impact the outcome of Canadian democratic processes (including providing financial support to preferred candidates); and clandestinely shaping narratives in support of PRC strategic interests,” read the report. The Chinese government also exerts significant control on the Chinese-language traditional and social media platforms and uses the influence to promote “pro-PRC narratives, spread disinformation, and suppress anti-China content,” Hogue noted."
govt.exe is corrupt on X - "#WATCH: After being heckled in Windsor, Ontario... Mark Carney tells his supporters his plan to deal with Trump will drive up prices for Canadians, and the crowd cheers! What kind of moron would actually cheer for a tax hike?"
When you want to cut off your nose to spite Trump
Weird. In the US, left wingers claim that tariffs are bad
Michael Taube: Are cracks developing in the Liberal strategy to lionize the progressive vote? - "Poilievre should keep pointing out that Carney has stolen more policy ideas from the Conservative campaign than anyone else. If the recently reassigned Liberal operatives really wanted to use their “ Stop the Steal ” buttons effectively, maybe they should have designed them with Carney in mind! The PM removed the hated carbon tax that his Liberal Party implemented seven years ago, which the Conservatives wanted to axe from the start. Carney has called for stronger measures against criminals and gangs, cancelling the capital gains tax increase, and eliminating the GST on first home purchases. These policies have all largely been associated with the Conservatives for years. This led one reporter to ask him in March, “Why didn’t you run for the Conservative Party?”"
Tasha Kheiriddin: Poilievre's platform a direct challenge to Carney's boomer tome - "Carney had already announced his intent to change the government’s budgeting process, splitting spending into “operations” and “capital investments” — a move designed to highlight long-term value from expenditures like infrastructure and military procurement. But this begs the question: what constitutes investments? Trevor Tombe, a professor at the University of Calgary aptly described this shift as applying “a comms strategy to formal fiscal policy.” Tombe and other economists have also raised concern that by abandoning the party’s previous commitment to reducing the federal debt-to-GDP ratio, the Liberals could risk losing Canada’s AAA credit rating. It’s on style, though, that the parties’ divergence is most glaring. The Liberal document is a 67-page tome that would make even a technocrat’s eyes glaze over: text and numbers only, dense, and laced with phrases like “nation-building infrastructure” and “protecting Canadian stories.” The Conservative platform, in contrast, is a glossy, slogan-packed, 30-page brochure peppered with flattering photos of leader Pierre Poilievre and wife Anaida on the campaign trail. But it also includes a balance sheet, absent from the Liberals’ plan, which requires the reader to run the numbers themselves. The presentation embodies the underlying theme of this campaign: class polarization. The front-runners are speaking to two very different audiences. The Liberals are wooing older, wealthier, more educated voters with assets, who are terrified of Trump, and who might appreciate a textbook-style, big-vision platform, even if they don’t read it. The Conservatives are gunning for younger, struggling, less educated voters, who prefer their news in visual or simpler form and don’t trust elites, eggheads and funny accounting... while the Liberals are banking on the boomer vote, some older voters may shiver at their big spending — and stay home. Polls show the Liberal vote is less committed than the Conservatives’, so the ground game could make a big difference"
Left wingers usually like to dismiss those they disagree with with "ok, boomer". Ironic.
Carney's 'spend less, invest more' marketing catchphrase means more taxes are coming - "Carney said he would change the way that government budgets are reported by separating them into operating expenses and capital. This is a deceptive style of reporting . If a government is paying for operating expenses or capital, it had better have cumulative or current net earnings. If not, it will acquire such assets or pay for operating expenditures with debt. Accordingly, ask yourself if the “spend less, invest more” phrase makes sense. If it does, you’ve invented a new accounting equation and should write accounting textbooks for a living... The Liberal government has had 10 years of continuous deficits . This means to fund investments, more liabilities and debt were accumulated. The Liberals on Saturday released a “ costing plan ” should they be elected. To be clear, this was definitely not a plan. It was a vague Excel spreadsheet with the strategic depth of a grocery list. What was clear, however, was that the spending initiatives are massive. Carney wants to implement more than $130 billion in new spending, dressed up in the familiar costume of investments and capital. That is a staggering sum bordering on fiscal insanity that will leave our next generations saddled with crippling debt. How will all this new spending be paid for, regardless of whether or not you separate the operational spending from the investment spending? New debt and new revenues, of course. Which means new and/or increased taxes . That simply follows the basic accounting equation... One thing is for sure: the Liberals have no interest in tax reform . They have had 10 years to make positive and very necessary tax changes for Canada with no uptake despite significant calls from the tax, business and economic community. Carney hasn’t offered a single substantive word on tax reform except to say that people and corporations need to pay their fair share — a vacuous phrase that means nothing. The April 28 election is just days away, so Canadians need to decide: Do we want a government that respects basic fiscal principles or one that needs a remedial accounting course? Calling every expense an investment doesn’t change the math, just like calling a donut a “carbohydrate-rich wellness circle” doesn’t make it healthy."
How will Liberals pay for their election promises? Taxes - "It’s obvious that the Liberal Party has pretty much all the same band members and playlist as it had before, so it’s not out of line to remind Canadians of some very controversial tax policies that have been considered by them during their time in power. The first is a home equity tax... Another thing that left-of-centre progressives often call for is a wealth tax... Wealth taxes were once in vogue, but the number of countries that currently have them in their tool belts has significantly declined. Currently, only four countries have a net wealth tax and another four deploy a wealth tax on the value of certain assets (usually real estate). The NDP’s 2021 election policy called for a one per cent wealth tax on a person’s net assets over $10 million, which the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimated would cost Canadians more than $60 billion over five years... For the Liberals, it came to light in 2022 that the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) was actively exploring the feasibility of a wealth tax in 2021. There were a number of Privy Council, PMO and Department of Finance people who were actively exploring such a proposal and cheerleading it. It has obviously not been introduced, but would it be surprising if the Liberals took another look and introduced it under a Carney government? Wouldn’t surprise me in the least bit. Again, the overall components of the band haven’t changed except for its new lead singer, who is just as ideologically driven as the old singer. Would it be a good idea to introduce a wealth tax? Absolutely not. It would accelerate the already steady stream of capital and successful Canadians leaving Canada. For example, France abandoned its wealth tax in 2017 to stem the tide of more than 60,000 successful French people who left. It was found to be costly to administer and a revenue-raising loser. What about the consumer carbon tax? Partisan Liberals are quick to cheer Carney for suspending the carbon tax, but Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre should be the one to thank for its suspension. In addition, it’s worth noting that the carbon tax legislation has not been repealed. It would be very easy for a Carney-led government to reintroduce it in the future while also significantly increasing or expanding the industrial carbon tax as well. Would that surprise me? Nope, not in the least. Carney is a well-known climate ideologue who lets his climate obsessions get in the way of common sense. As we head into the final stretch, don’t be fooled by the fresh face behind the mic. Carney may be new to the stage, but the Liberal playlist hasn’t changed: it’s still tax hikes, wealth grabs and climate crusades masquerading as policy. Behind every photo op and so-called day off to deal with Trump is a recycled idea that’ll cost Canadians dearly. Same band, new singer, same old tax tunes. Time to cut the mic."
John Ivison: Mark Carney's platform relies on fiscal alchemy - "Eugene Lang referred to “the trifecta — or what Van Morrison would call The Great Deception.” Lang, an experienced Liberal operative, was talking about the tendency of governments to promise to simultaneously reduce taxes, increase spending and balance budgets. “This kind of thing has never been achieved by any federal government,” he said. “It’s probably not advisable in any context, especially not the current context, where the prospects are that the Canadian economy is probably going to go into a recession, where the tax revenues will go down and automatic stabilizer expenditures on things like employment insurance are destined to go up.” Yet, that’s exactly what the Liberal policy platform promises to do... These documents are not drawn up under oath and there appear to be a number of highly presumptuous assumptions. For one thing, the baseline for all the calculations is a Parliamentary Budget Officer report from March, when the tariff situation was still in flux. For another, the platform books $30 billion in savings from productivity improvements over three years. All governments say they will make savings, improve program efficiency and cut red tape but they generally don’t make them the backbone of their revenue assumptions. More prudently, the platform only includes tariff revenues for the current year. I asked Liberal Leader Mark Carney if that suggests he thinks the trade war will be resolved in 2025. He replied that it is more a matter of fiscal caution. “I don’t think we want to rely on those revenues,” he said. Two decades of covering revenue projections have bred a deep cynicism. It is a truism that governments should be judged by results, not intentions... there is at least an attempt to tackle the productivity issue."
Chris Selley: Mark Carney has quickly become the ultimate establishment Liberal - "Carney lavished praise on the late Pope Francis. Which is fine! I am as atheist as they come, and very fond of capitalism as a general concept — as is Carney, apparently — but I have quite a lot of time for Francis’s washing-the-peasants’-feet vision of Christianity , and his skepticism of the dominant global economic system. The world has enough energetic and well-connected capitalists to survive an alternative spiritual vision being offered them on a Sunday morning, should they choose to hear it. It’s just that, well, not so long ago, Carney said the articles of his Catholic faith were purely a private matter . He suggested — as faithful Liberals often do, when asked — that those beliefs were firewalled off from his political views, specifically (having been asked by a reporter) vis-à-vis abortion. The recently deceased so-called ”Cool Pope” certainly wasn’t cool enough to be cool with abortion... “(Francis) called on us to reintegrate human values into our economic lives,” Carney said in Fredericton. “He reminded us that markets don’t have values — people do, and it’s our responsibility to close that gap and turn that grappa in to wine.” Carney “committed” himself to “meeting that challenge.” If I didn’t know better, I would think these were the words of a prime minister who is quite serious about his Catholicism, and whose faith very much impacts the way he thinks about politics and public life. And that would be fine too, if he hadn’t essentially disavowed the notion before. “My faith is private” is the standard to which religiously observant Liberal and Tory ministers have been allowed to hew for most of my lifetime, though in more recent years Conservatives have not been afforded that courtesy. ( Readers may recall a ludicrous episode in 2022 , in which several high-profile morons took offence at Poilievre’s bog-standard Easter greeting in a newspaper ad: “He is risen.” They actually thought he was referring to himself.) That has always been a clumsy, facile demarcation. No politician would argue that their non -religious philosophical convictions have no effect on their day-to-day decision-making — that they’re guided by nothing but day-to-day political expediency. Why would they, when their convictions are divinely inspired? In any event, later in the press conference, a reporter from La Presse asked Carney why he had earlier accused Poilievre of intending to use the notwithstanding clause to override abortion rights, when Poilievre has in fact totally forsworn any government legislation on abortion whatsoever. “It’s not an accusation, it’s a fact,” Carney responded, astonishingly. His reasoning: Because Poilievre has indicated a willingness to use the notwithstanding clause to keep violent people in prison for longer, there’s no telling where he would stop. It was a bizarre, stupid argument that certainly did not turn any grappa into any wine. Presumably Poilievre would “stop” wherever he wanted to “stop,” right? It’s like saying “if we let the government make one law, there’s no telling what other crazy laws they might make.” No one accuses Quebec’s notwithstanding clause-loving politicians of plotting against abortion rights, because that would be idiotic. The irony, as University of Ottawa law professor Stéphane Sérafin noted in National Post last week , is that under existing case law, Poilievre wouldn’t need the notwithstanding clause to outlaw abortion. It’s Liberal dogma that the Supreme Court has definitively adopted abortion-on-demand as the only acceptable policy, constitutionally, but that never actually happened. As on many issues, neophyte though he may be, Carney seems to have had decades of self-serving Liberal cant and tactics downloaded directly into his brain."
WARMINGTON: Mark Carney caught in whopper of fib over Trump talk - "Even the CBC, which have been promised a $150-million boost in funding if he wins the election, are calling Prime Minister Mark Carney out on this bizarre obfuscation and misdirection... CBC’s Ashley Burke went at him with the information Radio-Canada reported that said the call was not as benign as originally suggested... “I asked you about this March 28 after the call and you said that President Trump respected Canada’s sovereignty both privately and in this public conversation. Were you being truthful? Now stone-faced, Carney said, “he absolutely did. Look, the president has certain things … The president has certain things in his mind, that he reverts back to all the time. The president says lots of things, but the essence of the discussion and where we moved the conversation to, was exactly what I said.” Then Mackenzie Gray of Global News took to the microphone and he didn’t let up. “I will give you one opportunity again, yes or no, did the president bring up the 51st state in his call with you?” “I said that he did, I said that he did.” Boom! There was the admission."
LILLEY: Carney continues to lie his way through campaign - "While making a health-care announcement in Charlottetown, P.E.I., Carney was confronted by a reporter after claiming that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre would ban abortion in Canada. “You have just accused Mr. Poilievre of using the notwithstanding clause to attack abortion rights. But Mr. Poilievre explicitly said he would not do so. So why this accusation?” the reporter asked. Carney’s answer was shocking. “It’s an accusation, but it’s not an accusation; it’s a fact,” Carney said. Let’s be clear, this isn’t Mark Carney claiming that he’s worried Poilievre would use the notwithstanding clause to ban abortion. He’s not saying he has concerns about this, he’s saying it is a fact when reminded that Poilievre has said the opposite... He has lied about having nothing to do with moving his company headquarters from Toronto to New York City. He lied when he claimed to have helped Paul Martin balance the budget despite not working in the finance department until years after the budget was balanced. He didn’t lie about working to help Canada during the financial crisis but he did exaggerate his role in that, taking credit for the work of the late Jim Flaherty. His first act as prime minister was to sit before the cameras and sign “an executive order” to lower the carbon tax. What he actually signed, Donald Trump style, was a piece of paper with no legal authority, meaning his first act after taking the job was to lie to the public. After he was sworn in as PM, Carney said he wouldn’t speak to Trump until the American president showed Canada some respect. In reality, Carney had called Trump immediately after being sworn in but Trump wouldn’t speak to him until about two weeks later."
Too bad lots of people believe and spread misinformation. Like claiming he will take away public healthcare even though there's literally no evidence for this claim at all either
Jordan Peterson says Canadians choosing 'severe pain' with Mark Carney - "a Carney government would yield accelerated economic decline and an increase in social disorder. On the disorder issue, Peterson specifically referenced the anti-Israel demonstrations and blockades that are now a regular feature of his former Toronto home... Peterson mentioned that he had twice read Carney’s 2021 book Values, summarizing it as a manifesto for deindustrialization and central planning that is often at odds with the platform now being pushed by Carney as Liberal leader. “All you have to do is read his book, but people don’t, of course, because it’s a book,” said Peterson. “Either he’s decided that every single thing he’s ever believed was wrong right to the core,” said Peterson, or he’s a “wolf in sheep’s clothing.”... “Your children and grandchildren see Carney as he is: not as the warm-milk and grandfatherly-advice 1950s Jimmy Stewart banker who will stand up to the mad Yankee mob and Make Canada Sensible Again but as The Man at the vanguard of anti-growth economic collapse and authoritarian financial control,” he wrote. Peterson took up a similar theme with Rogan, attributing Carney’s rise to a kind of reflexive nostalgia. “We look at Carney and we don’t pay any attention to politics and we certainly don’t read his goddamned book, and so we see someone who looks like a banker from the 1990s, when everything was just fine in Canada and Canadians were just as rich as Americans and the whole country was stable and peaceful,” he said. But Peterson largely attributed the change in Liberal fortunes to U.S. President Donald Trump, citing Trump’s threat to annex Canada as the singular factor that saved the party from likely “extinction.” “He’s going to pay for that, because once Carney is elected, Trump will not have a more seasoned enemy in the West,” he said."
Lawyers query Carney’s role chairing firm battling sexism allegations - "one employee, who alleges in court documents she alerted her bosses about gender-based pay discrimination, says she was fired and marched out of the building nearly a year into Carney’s tenure. “There’s no scenario where, as the chair of the board, Mark Carney wouldn’t have been briefed on ongoing litigation. He would have been aware, and he certainly would have been aware of some of the (alleged) systemic cultural issues at Bloomberg LP, specifically around the systemic pay and equity issues and sexism,” said Kathryn Marshall, a human rights and employment lawyer. In fact, four employment lawyers National Post spoke to argued it’s a board chair’s job to set the direction of the company, and that a company’s culture can only be dictated from the top. “If you’re going to take a job and there’s already a public scandal, as there was here, you either refuse to take it, or you take it on a condition that you’re allowed to deal with the scandal and end it. That’s clearly not what happened here,” said Howard Levitt, a senior partner at Levitt LLP, which specializes in employment and labour law... Labour lawyer Annamaria Enenajor, a partner at Ruby Shiller Enenajor, said Carney’s role as chairman amid the allegations against Bloomberg LP is worth examining."
LILLEY: For Carney, health care is big and profitable business - "Mark Carney told a crowd in Charlottetown, P.E.I. the other day that health care is big business in the United States. He should have said health care is big business for him given how deeply invested Carney is in private health care through his holdings and options in Brookfield Asset Management... The full details of Carney’s trust have not been made public but to put it bluntly, Carney still stands to profit from Brookfield in more ways than one. According to filings with Security and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. , Carney has 209,300 unexercised stock options that he can purchase at a price of $35.13 US and another 200,000 that he can purchase at a price of $40.07 US. Those shares are currently trading on the NASDAQ at $50.57 US, meaning if Carney bought them now and sold at this price, he would stand to take in $5.3 million US in pure profit. The hospitals that Brookfield owns are currently the source of controversy. Healthscope owns 38 private hospitals throughout Australia. Last fall, the company began charging patients a $50 additional fee for day visits and a $100 charge for an overnight stay."
Just like Trudeau, Carney is planning to go full steam ahead on DEI - "Long before he entered politics, Mark Carney was a full-throated supporter of social engineering via progressive policy. His platform, released Monday, has confirmed that his government will be no different in that regard than that of Justin Trudeau. Carney’s plan shallowly pushes diversity both in form and in substance. Form-wise, his platform alleges itself to have been “reviewed through an equity lens using a GBA+ analysis,” meaning that for each commitment has been mulled over extensively by the privilege police. In government, this has become standard operating procedure for even the most minute regulatory changes and budget lines under Trudeau. Thorough identity analyses have been a feature of: 2024 changes to waterfowl hunting laws (analysts concluded that most hunters were white and male), the 2023 ivory importation ban (analysts attempted to study the race and gender of travelling piano players); the 2024 rules on the disclosure of fragrance ingredients; the 2023 federal tampons-in-the-workplace mandate (which covered “non-binary individuals, transgender men and intersex people”); and much more. The same exercise is even applied to the entire Canadian budget, because the Liberals made this the law in 2018. Carney’s priorities are no different: “We will continue to update the GBA+ tool to ensure it reflects the identities and values of all Canadians, including diversity as a core value.” In substance, the Carney platform is just as friendly to the traditions pioneered by Trudeau. Support is thrown behind the various identity-based programs that have taken root in the past few years. Most notable is his commitment to keep in place a Trudeau-era grant to employers of apprentices — a program that pays double when the apprentice ticks a diversity box. The program thus penalizes employers for hiring white, straight — non-diverse — males, because their corresponding grants of $5,000 are only half as lucrative. These are unfair on their face, explicitly valuing some apprentices less due to characteristics they can’t control. To appeal to niches of voters, Carney’s also set aside various funding packets, committing to make permanent various programs to give cash to activist LGBT non-profits ($40 million, so far) and what the government describes as “women’s and equality-seeking organizations” ($100 million, so far) and Black businesses. These are the latest in a long line of breadcrumbs to keep interest groups following in line, which the federal government has spent the last decade laying out. Most concerning of all, however, aren’t the specific lines of new DEI-related spending in the Carney platform. What matters more is the general commitment to the ideology that the Liberal leader has made in writing, preparing to submit his prospective government to the very same unproductive, often toxic, constraints that plagued the Trudeau Liberals. Two platform points of note are these: one, Carney promises a country “where everyone has a fair shot, feels a sense of belonging, and contributes to our shared future by reshaping systems to better reflect and support all Canadians and make sure that no matter your heritage or identity you can fully participate in Canada.” Two, he commits to “confront systemic barriers” and “create opportunities for Indigenous Peoples, Black Canadians, and racialized communities, ensuring equal treatment and access in all aspects of Canadian society.” Carney is correct in asserting that every Canadian should be treated equally — that’s just an essential element of human dignity. But his vague platform points about “full participation” and “systemic barriers” echo the language of the federal anti-racism plan, which aims to favour minority groups over others in all aspects of the government’s role. He seems to buy into the social panic that animated the 2020 BLM crisis, in particular, the idea that any statistical disparity that doesn’t favour a minority group is evidence of sinister systemic forces working to keep them down. This will make him no better than Trudeau, whose departments and agencies mechanically cranked out diversity plans accordingly, whose judges are appointed with identity as a prime factor, and whose research funding apparatuses have steeped themselves in politics. The force is inescapable because in 2021, the clerk of the Privy Council — Trudeau’s most senior civil servant — issued directions across the federal government to pursue identity-based promotions (and penalties for failing to meet targets), provide racially targeted career help and overall, orchestrate a whole-of-government paradigm shift. I would expect these shallow, degrading instructions to be repealed under Conservative leadership, but Carney? There’s no way. In the past, Carney has embraced the same principles that Trudeau did as prime minister: as Britain’s central bank governor, he touted the power of DEI as far back as 2017, referencing in speeches the same tired cliches that government hiring should aim to demographically reflect its country, and that greater surface-level diversity decreases groupthink. He beat Canada in doing so, as our own central bank didn’t begin kissing the DEI ring until 2021. Later, when he entered the private sector, Carney became an environmental, social and governance (ESG) fund manager in the Brookfield universe, where once again, his priorities strayed into using power to achieve preferred social outcomes. It’s clear from Carney’s platform that he promises to take that very same approach to governing Canada. If you’re expecting a rational technocrat, prepare to be disappointed if he wins."
Poilievre could only ever satisfy the media by becoming a Liberal - "The biggest, though by no means the smartest or the most coherent, complaint against Conservatives is that they aren’t Liberals. This complaint comes, bizarrely, as often from other conservatives, as it does from the left. Or perhaps it isn’t so bizarre, as Conservatives who want their side to become more like the other side will always be given time by Canada’s monochromatic media, which seems to agree that the only good Conservative is a Liberal. Throughout the election campaign, this assumed consensus has dogged Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has been attacked for not focusing enough on U.S. President Donald Trump, and too much on the Liberals. This, despite the fact that it is Poilievre’s platform that would allow Canada to weather any storm coming from the south. If his policies had been in place for the last 10 years, we wouldn’t even be contemplating a crisis, as the Canadian economy would be vibrant and growing... the Globe ran a headline that read, Poilievre Continues To Attack Liberals’ Record, as if the leader of the Opposition, in the middle of an election campaign, was doing something wrong by criticizing his opponent... A lot of the media, in fact, is openly campaigning for Carney, while pretending to be neutral and objective, constantly bringing up bogus issues like implying that Poilievre’s lack of security clearance means he has something to hide, along with unfounded and unsupported comparisons between the Conservative leader and Trump. On policy, this week, media have tended to ignore the vast differences between the Conservative and Liberal spending plans, suggesting that because the Tories would also run a deficit, they are not much better than the Liberals, which leaves the incumbents off the hook for their much more irresponsible plan, and their record of doubling the federal debt. Or consider crime and drugs, issues on which many in the media can’t contain their contempt for the fact that the Conservatives think voters want order in the streets. Or the fact that there has been little interest in what Carney was doing before he ran for the Liberal leadership in January, when he was working and advocating to keep natural resources in the ground, which is conveniently ignored to present him as the man who will fix Canada’s economy. The media hasn’t quite endorsed the Liberals’ accusation that Poilievre would restrict abortion, but we still have four days before election day. Give it time... As much as some in the media try to suggest that there is little difference between the Liberal and Conservative platforms, except of course the parts where Poilievre is scary, and thereby implying the Liberals deserve another chance, the Tory platform is a genuinely conservative document that offers a clear, and much needed, break with the last 10 years. Most importantly, the Conservatives would repeal the Impact Assessment Act, the emissions cap on oil and gas, fuel regulations and the electric vehicle mandate, while reforming the government’s regulatory regime and cutting taxes — plans that largely reverse Liberal policies that have discouraged investment and left the country overly reliant on trade with the Americans. Sure, it would be preferable if the Conservatives also planned to reform labour laws, and weaken union power, and change the age at which seniors are eligible for retirement benefits, but it is important to pick your fights. In a country where the temperament is not particularly conservative, the best approach is to identify those areas where the public is conservative and lean into them. Getting government out of the way to make it easier for people to find well-paid work is the right approach."
For Jewish Canadians, this election presents a stark choice - " Canada’s Jewish community, numbering nearly 400,000 strong, has always been an integral part of the national fabric — contributing to the arts, science, politics and business while maintaining a proud identity rooted in values of justice, human rights, and solidarity with the State of Israel. Yet today, Jewish Canadians are facing an unabated tsunami of antisemitism — one that has been emboldened, in part, by political ambiguity and moral equivocation from those in power. Once seen as a beacon of tolerance and an oasis of peace for Jews, the Canada I knew and loved, the one I grew up in and where I lived most of my life before moving to Israel, has become unrecognizable today, after the October 7 Hamas massacre. Seldom a day goes by without reports of Jewish schools being targeted by gunfire, synagogues being firebombed, including my own, and Jewish-owned businesses repeatedly vandalized. In the meantime, our students are fearful of just stepping foot on campus, while jihadists are publicly marching on our streets every week, as authorities stand by. Yet the government’s response has been tepid at best. Under prime minister Justin Trudeau, the Liberal party made a series of troubling decisions that have undermined both the Jewish community’s sense of security and Canada’s historical support for Israel. The suspension of funding to UNRWA following credible reports that numerous staff members participated in the October 7 atrocities was initially welcomed. However, the abrupt reversal of that suspension and the decision to restore funding — without sufficient safeguards or accountability — sent a chilling message: that moral clarity can be sacrificed for political expediency. Even more concerning was Canada’s decision to pause arms exports to Israel in the midst of a war for its survival against a genocidal terrorist organization. This policy shift was not grounded in international law or strategic logic, but in a misguided attempt to placate pro-Hamas voices on the radical fringe. Let us be clear: Israel, like any nation, has the right — indeed the obligation — to defend its citizens against terror. To hamstring Canada’s democratic ally at such a critical juncture is not only a betrayal of values, but a dangerous precedent that emboldens terrorists and undermines democracies. Trudeau’s replacement as leader of the Liberal party, Mark Carney, has not only failed to address these issues, he has indicated his policy on Israel and the surging antisemitism in Canada would be no different than his predecessor’s... In stark contrast stands Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who has emerged as a principled and consistent voice in defence of the Jewish people and the State of Israel. Poilievre has not only condemned antisemitic violence in unequivocal terms but has pledged to reorient Canada’s foreign policy in support of democratic allies and against terrorism. He has committed to defunding UNRWA, recognizing its deeply compromised role in perpetuating incitement and terror. He has promised to confront antisemitism in all its forms — on campuses, in politics, and online — through meaningful action, not just performative rhetoric."
Happy Canada Day? 7 in 10 Canadians (70%) Think Canada is “Broken” as Canadian Pride Takes a Tumble
From JuneWhat's next for carbon tax and why is Canadian industry worried? - "Liberal Leader Mark Carney hopes to fortify what remains of Canada’s carbon pricing regime by introducing a “ carbon border adjustment mechanism ” (CBAM), effectively promising to tariff imports from non-carbon-taxed jurisdictions... There is not a single industrial carbon tax, but a patchwork of systems and carbon markets, including bespoke regimes in Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, since provinces and territories can administer their own systems as long as they meet federal standards. Under most regimes, large emitters must reduce their emissions based on sectoral- or facility-specific targets: emitters that exceed those thresholds pay a tax on their excess emissions; those that beat their targets earn performance credits that they can use later or sell to others. The industrial carbon tax is also the backbone of Canada’s climate plan, driving three times more emissions reductions than the consumer carbon tax. While never the political lightning rod that the consumer tax was, energy producers, miners, steel and cement makers and farmers have long complained that industrial carbon levies have made Canadian energy and products less competitive with rivals in non-carbon-taxed jurisdictions and thus less attractive to investors. Concerns about economic competitiveness and Canadian sovereignty have dragged carbon taxes to the forefront of the federal election campaign as Canada’s political leaders scramble to respond to the trade turmoil unleashed by United States President Donald Trump’s global tariffs and deregulation agenda... The Liberals’ decision to scrap the consumer carbon tax, with an emphasis in their party’s platform on making “big emitters pay,” has some private-sector firms worried that a new Liberal government could mean further hikes on pollution costs for large emitters... Carney’s proposed CBAM could generate revenue of $100 million in 2027-2028 from levies on imports from countries with non-existent or weaker carbon regimes, rising to $400 million the following year, according to election platform estimates released Saturday . But critics have questioned whether those estimates understate the potential costs on goods from Canada’s top trading partners, the U.S., China and Mexico... Fourteen executives from Canada’s major pipeline and energy companies said in an open letter last month to federal political leaders that Ottawa’s industrial carbon tax is “not globally cost competitive” and should be repealed, leaving provinces to set their own rules... energy executives say getting private investors to pony up the necessary cash to build new pipelines and infrastructure projects requires implementing a laundry list of regulatory reforms, such as repealing the federal industrial carbon tax, speeding up project assessments and eliminating the federal cap on oil and gas emissions. Oil and gas producers — as well as Canada’s other high-emitting, trade-exposed sectors such as minerals, fertilizers and steel — face growing decarbonization and regulatory costs without the ability to pass those costs onto customers since their prices are set in global markets. The upshot is business investment in Canada hasn’t kept pace with the U.S. and some other Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development member countries over the last few years, critics say."
Time for negative per capita GDP growth!
Trade wars are only bad when they hurt the left wing agenda
Carson Binda: Carney's industrial carbon tax will kill jobs, increase cost of living - "Liberal Leader Mark Carney is arguing that he can “tighten” industrial carbon taxes without increasing costs for consumers. That’s a tough sell. After all, a carbon tax on businesses is a carbon tax on Canadians that will make life more expensive for families struggling to make ends meet. New polling conducted by Leger for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation shows that Canadians overwhelmingly understand that the costs of an industrial carbon tax, like the one championed by Carney, are passed on to consumers. When asked who they think ultimately pays carbon taxes on businesses, 70 per cent believe that most (44 per cent) or some (26 per cent) of the costs are passed onto consumers. Only nine per cent believe Carney’s talking points that businesses will pay most of the cost... Carney claims he’s going to make “big polluters pay,” but Canadians know who will actually be left with the bill: families at the checkout counter. Nearly half of Canadians say that rising prices are already greatly affecting their ability to meet day-to-day expenses, according to Statistics Canada . Hiking hidden carbon taxes that pass costs down to consumers would likely only make the situation worse. For his part, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he will axe all carbon taxes. He is the only major federal leader making that promise... Carney, on the other hand, wants to keep hammering you with hidden taxes. While he did move the consumer carbon tax rate to zero, he left the law on the books, which means there’s nothing stopping him from jacking up the consumer tax, too, if he wins the election. The vast majority of countries, including three of the four biggest carbon emitters, do not charge a national carbon tax. If Carney and the Liberals are seriously planning on hammering Canadian businesses with a carbon tax, we will see more companies shifting production and jobs to other countries. When we are staring down the barrel of a trade war with the United States, hammering Canadian businesses with a carbon tax is like putting a backpack full of bricks on a runner before a marathon. A carbon tax on businesses will push our entrepreneurs to cut production in Canada and increase production south of the border. Anti-Canadian policies like the hidden carbon tax play right into U.S. President Donald Trump’s hands."
Clearly, if companies pass on the costs of an industrial carbon tax, it's their fault for being greedy
NDP incumbent says party needs 'soul searching' after election - "Jagmeet Singh has been at the helm since 2017. This race marks his third federal election. His first, in 2019, saw the party lose 15 seats."
Canada's terrible, no good, very bad decade. Look at the data - "Throughout the 2025 campaign, the Conservatives have frequently referred to what they call the “Lost Liberal Decade,” a reference to the fact that Canada has lagged dramatically on virtually every available indicator since the Liberals first came to power in 2015. In sum, the economy is worse, crime is worse, public services are worse, affordability is worse — and there’s a whole galaxy of niche indicators, such as firearms incidents, refugee backlogs, even life expectancy, that are worse than they’ve ever been... The Correctional Service of Canada publishes annual statistics on incarceration rates, and a noticeable trend begins to emerge starting in 2015: The prison population begins to plummet. On the eve of the Liberals coming to power, the incarceration rate in the federal prison system was 53.6 prisoners per 100,000, a rate that had stayed relatively consistent throughout the early 2010s. Starting in 2015, it begins a steady plunge until reaching 40.1 out of 100,000... crime has indeed gone up in tandem with Canada emptying its prisons... Tombe also tallied up the last decade of per capita GDP growth of every country in the OECD, an organization that effectively comprises the world’s developed nations. Of 42 countries, Canada was at rock bottom. The only country with worse GDP growth was the tiny European nation of Luxembourg. The average Pole has seen their share of the national economy surge by 40.1 per cent over the past 10 years. The average Korean has seen it rise by 23.8 per cent, the average American by 18.2 per cent. But in Canada, that figure was just 1.4 per cent. Not only has Canada’s economy been almost entirely stagnant since 2015, but it’s been stagnant even as the rest of the world gets richer... The Liberals took charge of a country with total sovereign debt of $612.3 billion. Adjusting to 2025 dollars, that’s about $800 billion. As of the end of 2024, it’s now $1.4 trillion... The eye-watering budget deficits incurred during the COVID-19 pandemic have played a part, but the Liberals have dramatically swelled government spending everywhere all at once... Canada now has one of the lowest birthrates on the planet. As of 2023, it had dropped to 1.26 children per woman, a rate matched only by four other “lowest low” countries: South Korea, Spain, Italy and Japan. When the Liberals came to power in 2015, the birthrate was unsustainably low at 1.6 children per woman, but not catastrophically so... When the Liberals took power, Canadian life expectancy at birth was 81.9 years. As of last count, in 2023, it was 81.5 That’s not a huge decline, but it’s basically the first time anything like this has happened"
Time to blame Harper and "conservative" provincial governments
KLEIN: Liberals eye home equity tax while Canadians shout ‘fake news’ and hurl emojis - "The response to my recent column on the Liberal government’s quiet interest in taxing your home equity was predictable — but revealing. Instead of engaging with the facts, many online commentators resorted to the usual routine: Hashtags, name-calling, shouting “fake news” into the void, and hurling emojis like they’re making a serious argument... let’s set the record straight, again — because the facts are not up for debate. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) — a federal Crown corporation — has investigated the possibility of a home equity tax on more than one occasion, using taxpayer dollars to fund that research. This was not backroom speculation. It was real, documented work. The Liberals paid a group called Generation Squeeze, led by activist Paul Kershaw, to study how the government could tap into Canadians’ home equity — including their primary residences. Kershaw, by the way, believes homeowners are “lottery winners” who didn’t earn their wealth but lucked into it. That’s the ideology being advanced to the highest levels of government. It didn’t stop there. These proposals were presented directly to federal cabinet ministers. That’s on record, and most of those same ministers are now part of Mark Carney’s team as he positions himself as the Liberals’ next leader. Yet when this was raised publicly, the online mob didn’t want to talk about facts. They wanted to shout it down. They didn’t check public records, CMHC reports, or even the government’s own briefing documents. Instead, they defaulted to the tired claim: “Conservative fear-mongering.” Let’s be clear: This is not about partisanship. It’s about math, and reality. The federal government is $1.2 trillion in debt. Interest payments on that debt are expected to hit $54 billion this year — which is more than the federal government spends on health care transfers to provinces. That’s right: We now spend more on interest than we do on health care... When a government runs out of money, if it doesn’t cut spending, which Mark Carney has no plans to do, it looks for new ways to take more from you. Enter your home... So why are so many people rushing to defend a government that keeps denying this idea publicly while investigating it, which public records clearly show? Because we’ve entered a dangerous era where facts are ignored if they don’t fit the narrative. If something doesn’t come from a subsidized media outlet or a friendly talking head, it’s labeled “fake.” Never mind that the Winnipeg Sun is one of the few remaining locally owned, independent daily newspapers in Canada — not bought and paid for by the $1 billion-plus in federal media bailouts. If you’re waiting for the CBC to challenge this government’s spending habits or debt trajectory, don’t hold your breath. The Carney Liberals gave CBC another $150 million on April 1, 2025, without asking you, without a debate, in fact, parliament wasn’t even sitting. Meanwhile, when anyone tries to bring up the numbers, when someone dares to say, “Hey, maybe taxing people’s homes isn’t the solution to overspending,” they get branded a conspiracy theorist, a hack, or worse. That’s what passes for debate in Canada today, and frankly, it’s embarrassing. Look, when governments get desperate, they don’t go after the billionaires — they go after the easiest targets. The ones who can’t move their money. The ones who don’t have accountants or lobbyists or offshore bank accounts. That’s you."
