How Carney changed rules to allow partisan government ads | Opinion | winnipegsun.com - "Turn on TV or click on youtube and you’ll see them: slick federal government ads, wrapped in flags and patriotism, telling you how strong Canada is. The slogan is “Canada Strong.” If that sounds familiar, it should. It was the Liberal Party’s slogan in the 2025 election campaign. The party’s slogan is now the government’s slogan. And your tax dollars are paying to broadcast it. That’s wrong. Government advertising should tell citizens things they need to know like how to file taxes, how to apply for benefits, or how to stay safe in an emergency. When it becomes a way for the party in power to promote itself, it stops being a public service and instead becomes propaganda you’re forced to fund. In 2016, the federal government introduced strict rules requiring all government advertising to be non-partisan. Ads had to be factual and free from political party slogans and identifiers. That makes sense. Why should taxpayers’ money be used for the government to broadcast partisan slogans? Those rules held for nearly a decade. But then Mark Carney became prime minister, and the rules suddenly got in his way. As the Globe and Mail’s Campbell Clark has reported, Carney loosened the rules on partisan government advertising last year. The result is exactly what you’d expect. The Liberals’ “Canada Strong” campaign slogan now shows up in taxpayer-funded TV commercials, and it branded the government’s budget, too... Increasingly, we are seeing a pattern: when the rules don’t suit Mark Carney, he simply changes them. Consider how he got his majority government. Carney’s Liberals won 169 seats in April 2025, three short of the 172 needed. So he set about collecting opposition MPs. Five crossed the floor after a concerted Liberal pressure campaign orchestrated by Carney and his cabinet ministers. That’s how Carney clinched his majority. That made him the first prime minister in Canadian history to turn a minority into a majority through enticing floor crossers. No opposition MP walks across the floor for nothing. The perks of power are fantastic bait, and the Liberals have been happy to dangle them. The pattern is the same every time. The rules bend to serve the Liberals, never the other way around. Now consider what the advertising binge costs you. The federal government spent $78 million on advertising in 2024-25. Carney’s November budget then quietly added another $25 million to the annual limit on its central advertising fund. That’s where your money is going. Ottawa just ran a deficit of $67 billion, massively more than was predicted only a short while ago. Carney has blown through spending projections made just months earlier. Ordinary Canadians are struggling with groceries and rent. And the government is spending millions to buy itself a warm glow during the big game, dressed up in the governing party’s election slogan. Governments always face the temptation to use public money to make themselves look good. That’s exactly why the guardrails existed. Carney didn’t just bump up against those guardrails. He tore them down, one by one, whenever they stood between him and what he thought could give him a partisan advantage. A government that advertises for itself with your money has stopped serving you and started using you. Carney shouldn’t be allowed to use your money for his own partisan purposes."
Gunter: Carney continues Liberals’ historic economic downward slide | Edmonton Journal - "During the first 10 years of Liberal government — the Trudeau years — business investment per worker in Canada fell 18.8 per cent from $20,310 in 2014 to $16,493 in 2024 (inflation adjusted), according to the Fraser Institute. Over the same period, U.S. business investment per worker rose 31.3 per cent from $23,263 to $30,555, which means U.S. investment levels are now nearly double ours. If you want to know why our job growth is sluggish, our productivity is falling, inflation is stubborn and the dollar is weak, look no further than the lack of investment. For instance, if few foreigners are investing in Canada, they don’t need Canadian dollars, so the value of the dollar craters. But if you think this was just a Trudeau phenomenon and that Prime Minister Mark Carney (swoon) will turn things around, don’t hold your breath. Remember Carney had the worst first year of growth of any PM in 63 years. Moreover, business investment continued its decline in 2025. We even slipped into recession at the end of last year and the beginning of this, although we seem to have pulled out of it ever so slightly in the second quarter of 2025. This prolonged slump has led to fewer new factories, fewer expanded factories and less updating of machinery and equipment. We also have one of the worst performances on research and intellectual property in the developed world. All this together has resulted in less physical productivity per worker and very slow wage growth. (That also contributes to the affordability crisis as wages fail to keep up with rents and grocery prices.) Despite their boastful ads about Building Canada Strong, it was Liberal policies under Trudeau that directly caused the slump and Liberal policies under Carney that are doing little or nothing to reverse the trend. The Liberals also seem uninterested in or incapable of attracting new private investment. (Have you heard the term “lower taxes” lately?) Instead, they seem intent on replacing private investment with government subsidies — debt-financed government subsidies. The new West Coast pipeline from Alberta and the parallel Pathways carbon capture scheme have no private investors, which leads me to think the main costs (upwards of $50 billion) will be borne by Alberta and Canadian taxpayers, even though no politician has had the courage to say so. Many more of the Liberals’ major projects are likely to follow the same template: Taxpayers pay for the infrastructure, private companies operate the completed ventures. To further understand how counterproductive the Carney Liberals’ strategies are, consider the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit — $1,800 a year per family, ostensibly to counter rising food inflation. However, the government is doing nothing meaningful to bring prices down. It’s not lowering taxes or tariffs or ending supply-managed agriculture or lessening regulations. All of those might lower retail prices. Instead, they’re cutting cheques of taxpayer money to help you pay the high cost of their unwillingness to tackle the core problem. Occasionally, even their subsidize-everything strategy falls apart. The Liberals are pumping hundreds of millions into new housing builds to help bring down the cost of buying homes. Yet the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation estimates that fewer homes — single family and multi-units — will be started this year (239,000) versus last year (248,000). The CMHC has said, and the government has accepted, the goal of 500,000 housing starts a year is needed for the next six to eight years in order to close the gap between housing supply and demand. Just as with pipelines and groceries, the federal government cannot spend its way to solutions, not even under the Great Mark Carney. Yet the Liberals seem to have no other ideas. Is it any wonder that Canada has fallen to 13th wealthiest country in the world, behind the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands and other peer countries?"
Meme - Tablesalt @Tablesalt13: "This is what headlines look like when you dont have a government funded media."
Bloomberg @business: "Canadians support Mark Carney's management of the economy, even though he's presided over the worst first year of growth for a prime minister since at least 1963, a poll showed."
"Carney Gets High Marks on Economy Despite Recession Talk, Poll Says"
Canada has gone mad 🍎 on X - "The worse Carney gets, the harder they attack Pierre Poilievre. Mark Carney has more conflicts of interest than any Canadian Prime Minister in history. Carney fumbled the USMCA talks... skipped key negotiations while a private citizen showed up. Caught conspiring against Trump on his British cell phone. Tanked trade deals because his office "wasn't ready." Buying German subs, sabotaging Ukraine peace efforts (costing Canada auto jobs with Korea), handing another $900M borrowed dollars to Ukraine, and announcing big defence spending with no clear funding. Plus $3B to bail out condo developers (and himself?). Worst first-year record of any PM ever... yet the media obsesses over smearing Pierre. Are Canadians noticing yet 😏"
Comment (elsewhere): "I love how liberals care about the resume now that carney is here but it wasn’t a requirement for Trudeau"
Christian Heiens 🏛 on X - "Carney still has a 60% approval rating and the Liberals are dominating in the polls. The lesson here is simple. You can spend a decade completely destroying the country, tanking the economy, and replacing the native population with millions of Third Worlders, and as long as you endlessly pander to pensioners you can never lose. Canada is the world’s first gerontocracy."
6ixBuzzTV on X - "Prime Minister Mark Carney says publicly calling out countries on issues like human rights is ineffective as Canada seeks new economic partnerships. “I do see that lecturing countries from afar is an ineffective strategy,” Carney said. “It’s satisfying, but it’s ineffective.”"
Time to slam the US as "fascist" again
Carney's global quest for photo ops comes with crippling compromises | National Post - "It’s a peculiar axiomatic reality of Canadian public opinion. Whenever the popular loathing of United States President Donald Trump is inflamed, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s approval ratings either solidify or rise... Despite what the Liberal party routinely claims, China is not Canada’s second-largest trading partner. Europe is, by far... The EU is on the lookout for allies. Japan, South Korea and Brazil are good prospects. Canada might have been, but that ship has sailed. Our own automotive sector is reeling from Trump’s intention to dismember North America’s integrated economy but Carney’s long-term low tariff guarantee to Chinese EV producers assures an “economic catastrophe” in the Canadian auto sector, says Brian Kingston, president of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association. “Europe was soft on China,” Kingston says. “Look at what the outcome has been: 90,000 auto jobs lost last year because they’ve allowed dumped Chinese vehicles into their market.” It isn’t only China that weaponizes its strategic vantage points in the democratic world’s economies, and Canada’s foreign-policy autonomy — and our internal security — is now further hamstrung by the Carney government’s trade and security agreements with the fabulously wealthy ruling family of Qatar, the Muslim Brotherhood’s primary global sponsor and benefactor. Just this past month, Volkswagen’s hopes to save its Osnabrück plant and its 2,300 jobs by converting to production of components for Israel’s Iron Dome defence system were dashed by Qatar’s objections. The Qatari sovereign wealth fund holds 10.4 per cent of Volkswagen’s shares and 17 percent of its voting rights. Among the several commitments Canada has made to Qatar in the hopes of convincing the Gulf autocracy’s ruling Al Thani family to double down on its energy investments in Canada is a June 25 memorandum of understanding between Canada’s Public Safety ministry and Qatar’s Internal Security Force. It’s also under wraps, like the RCMP agreement with Beijing’s Public Security ministry. The deal is supposed to extend Canada’s cooperation on a variety of law-enforcement portfolios, including money-laundering, financial crime and terrorism. This will be unavoidably awkward, owing to the Al Thani family’s conviction that the terrorist front Hamas, the Palestinian offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, is merely a national liberation movement. Qatar is already notorious in Canada’s national-security circles for the hundreds of millions of dollars it lavishes on the Muslim Brotherhood and its Canadian fronts and affiliates. Last year, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) published an in-depth study of the reach of Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood in Canada, recommending that Canada’s intelligence agencies keep much closer tabs on Qatar’s promotion of extremist ideology and support for extremist organizations in Canada. “It is imperative to assess their level of penetration, areas of influence, and long-term goals in order to effectively manage the risks posed to Canada.” Second only to Qatar in its support of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ambitions for a global caliphate is Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s regime in Ankara. Two weeks ago, in yet another “trade diversification” milestone, Prime Minister Carney announced that Ankara and Ottawa have formally begun negotiations for a free trade agreement. The Carney government has also embarked on talks for a free trade agreement with the 11-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc, which will require some fancy stickhandling around ASEAN member Myanmar, a brutal and genocidal China-aligned police state. The Paris-based Financial Action Task Force lists Myanmar among only three countries on its blacklist, along with Iran and North Korea. So it’s all well and good for Canada to be looking for deep-pocketed police state investors and maybe even some customers beyond the United States, at least for now. But the lasting damage to Canada’s national security, diplomatic sovereignty, moral conscience, democratic alliances and international reputation might also be taken into account from time to time."
Mark Carney unafraid to cozy up to dirty dictators | Toronto Sun - "Our Prime Ministerial frequent flyer was on the road again recently. One wonders if he leafed through Dr. Martin Luther King’s first book on the plane. There’s a memorable passage in it: “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting is really cooperating with it.” As such, the places Mark Carney visits are interesting. At the NATO Summit, he spent time with Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Erdogan has crushed the free press, systematically undermined Turkey’s judiciary, gone after his political opponents, and violated human rights with relish. He calls Judaism a “genocidal, occupying, expansionist” ideology. He is generally regarded as a monster... Another recent stop on Carney’s world tour was China. China, as is well known, is another unambiguous abuser of human rights. In China, Uyghurs, Muslims, Tibetans, and dissidents — as seen most vividly in Tiananmen Square — regularly face forced labour, mass detentions, religious persecution and brutal political and cultural assimilation. China also, it should be noted, illegally imprisoned two innocent Canadian men, and interfered in our elections in 2019 and 2021. But there was our prime minister, in convivial meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Carney’s own Privy Council Office said the Prime Minister did not “proactively” — that is to say, at all — raise human rights concerns with Xi. “Topics of human rights and foreign interference were not brought up proactively by the Canadian Prime Minister,” PCO initially admitted, before speedily recanting... The latest stop on Carney’s Human Rights Abuser World Tour was Saudi Arabia, just days ago. Here are some of the things that Saudi Arabia does:
• It hands out lengthy prison sentences, or the death penalty, for social media posts about human rights
• It executes hundreds of people, annually, including minors
• It discriminates against women, and regularly imprisons women who are courageous enough to advocate for basic freedoms
• It keeps thousands of migrant workers ensnared in its kafala servitude system, which is often likened to slavery for its abuses and forced labour practices
• It kills critics — as it did in 2018 with Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered and dismembered by Saudi agents in the aforementioned Turkey
And, notably, 9/11...
All of this — Carney’s dalliances with the ruling gangsters in Turkey, China and Saudi Arabia — is morally wrong. It is the opposite of what a Canadian prime minister should be doing. And it is a repudiation of decades of Canadian human rights policy under successive prime ministers. Ask Lloyd Axworthy, the legendary former Foreign Affairs Minister and a Liberal. He knows. This writer served on Axworthy’s foreign affairs advisory group in Opposition in the early 1990s (alongside Jean Chretien’s principal secretary Edward S. Goldenberg, who passed away recently). I knew Axworthy to be fearless and principled, and resolutely committed to protecting human rights, here and abroad. Said Axworthy about Carney’s willingness to play footsie with abusers of human rights: “[Carney] keeps wanting to say he’s erasing the Trudeau legacy. Well, it’s not just Justin Trudeau’s legacy — he’s erasing a legacy that goes back a lot of years for a lot of Liberals. I mean, I was a Liberal since I was 17, and I’m finding what he’s doing to be quite disturbing.”"
EDITORIAL: Canada tells investors ‘we’re not ready’ | Toronto Sun - "The difficulty in turning around our economy after a decade of neglect by the Justin Trudeau Liberals should surprise no one because it’s like trying to turn around the Titanic before it hit the iceberg. For example, the Mark Carney government told the United Arab Emirates last month that it isn’t ready to move forward on $70 billion in investments from the UAE into the Canadian economy because its major projects office, set up in August, hasn’t approved any shovel-ready projects to invest in. According to a report in Tuesday’s Financial Times, this lack of ready-to-go projects is holding back Carney’s plan to double trade with non U.S partners in a decade. A Canadian official granted anonymity in the story said: “The PM keeps talking about the $70 billion UAE commitment he secured on his first visit (to Abu Dhabi) in November. None of that has been deployed.”... Former Quebec premier Jean Charest, co-chair of the UAE-Canada Business Council, told the Financial Times that while the major projects office is “only one bucket of potential projects” for investors, it “gave them the only answer they could give them, at this point we’re not ready. But that is the same answer for everyone.”... what this episode demonstrates is that it’s one thing to announce new investment agreements with foreign countries and quite another to deliver them, with Carney claiming he will catalyze $1 trillion in new investments in Canada in five years and double non-U.S. exports in 10. That’s because there are still numerous federal and provincial laws and regulations that hamper Canada’s ability to build infrastructure “at speeds not seen in generations,” as the prime minister likes to put it."
Weird. Left wingers tell us that signing a MOU is the same as securing investment
Marty York: Mark Carney is a failed economic wizard | National Post - "The consensus in Canada is clear to most of us — even irrefutable — that Prime Minister Mark Carney has done very little if anything to make Jewish people in this country feel safer or more content. His contributions to rising antisemitism and divisive behaviour haven’t bothered most of his supporters, however, judging by the popularity polls... Yet many of Carney’s supporters stand by him because they have a perception, unfounded, that he is an economic guru. He’s not. The supporters rave about Carney’s economic prowess but the truth is that, under him, the Canadian dollar sunk in recent days to the lowest it’s been in a year. What’s more, we are in a technical recession. And, while Carney travels on Canadian tax dollars to watch soccer with his wife, shakes hands in front of cameras with other global leaders, makes “important” and costly decisions (about $150-million) to enter Canada in the Eurovision Song Contest and feeds the Hamas-connected United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) millions and millions of our tax dollars, he is letting down Canadians on multiple economic fronts. He had sold voters a budget based on assumptions and wishful thinking, even though former PM Stephen Harper tried to warn us about him. In March, 2025, before Carney was elected, Harper accused him of taking excessive credit for helping guide Canada’s response to the 2008 global financial crisis. Carney’s history of leading the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013, before moving to the Bank of England, was the backbone of his campaign. He described himself as someone who would bring a steady hand to the economy. “I have listened, with increasing disbelief, to Mark Carney’s attempts to take credit for things he had little or nothing to do with back then,” Harper wrote in a letter to fundraisers at the time. “He has been doing this at the expense of the late Jim Flaherty (former Canadian Minister of Finance), who sadly is not here to defend his record. But let me be very clear – the hard calls during the 2008-09 global financial crisis were made by Jim.” So has Carney been the economic wizard he promised to be? Nope. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre — granted, not unbiased — noted recently that Canada is “the only G7 country in a recession.” He added: “Canadians are starving, losing their jobs and missing mortgage payments. And Mark Carney is hiding from accountability.” Canadians lost 112,000 jobs in the first quarter of 2026 and have the worst per-capita number of job losses in the G7. Business investments have declined for five consecutive quarters. Canada has the worst investments per capita in the G7. Canada has the worst household debt in the G7. Poilievre also cited Food Banks Canada statistics showing rising food insecurity. But he is not the only one noticing Carney’s shortcomings economically. Annette Ryan, Canada’s new independent Parliamentary Budget Officer, recently acknowledged in a response to Conservative MP Tamara Jansen that Carney’s budget has a 99 per cent chance of missing its targets. “I think that is a fair statement,” Ryan said, adding: “Our forecast saw a lot of revenue weakness, especially in personal income taxes.” And what about Carney’s vow to stand up to, and reach a deal with, U.S. President Donald Trump? Well, that’s gone nowhere. Trump has declined to renew the Canada U.S. Mexico Agreement and economists say more obstacles with this will further unsettle Canada’s financial problems. And Carney’s plans to accelerate homebuilding by giving $5-billion of tax money to B.C.’s infrastructure? Yep, many questions here, too. According to a recent commentary at the Fraser Institute web site, the plan to buy 2,200 vacant condos in B.C., and convert them into affordable homes, is deeply flawed. “Using taxpayer dollars to buy existing condos will not increase the housing supply,” the Fraser Institute said. “Instead, it could undermine the competition that’s desperately needed to improve housing affordability in the province. Government should stay out of the condo market.” Carney justified his economy in early June by saying the recession is part of a “settling-in” period. But while the “settling-in” period takes place, many Canadians are hurting. More and more."
Carney’s summer spending spree lacks detail and transparency, economists assert - The Globe and Mail - "Mark Carney’s wave of summer spending Thursday included numerous billion-dollar references to new projects in British Columbia and Alberta, but economists are questioning the lack of detail as to where the money will come from. In his typical rhetorical style, the Prime Minister made several references to “catalytic” investments that will attract more than $200-billion in private capital... As is increasingly the case with major federal announcements, the background documents provided by officials lack important details. No information was released that explains how much Ottawa plans to spend each year on the various projects, nor how much would be direct spending versus loans. Nor was an update provided as to what the flurry of announcements would mean for the size of Ottawa’s deficit and debt. Those details will presumably have to wait until the release of the government’s fall budget. “I’ve been involved with budgets in one way or another since 1977 and I’ve never seen such a lack of transparency,” said Don Drummond, a professor at Queen’s University’s School of Policy Studies. The former senior finance official is a co-author of the C.D. Howe Institute’s annual shadow budget, where a team of economists attempt to estimate the size of the federal deficit before the budget is announced based on spending announcements made throughout the year. “We’re trying to generate a ‘status quo’ fiscal update, and we do not know what to do,” he said. “Are these loans? Are they loan guarantees? Are they actual capital purchases, which under accrual accounting we just record as amortization? The answer to all of the above is: ‘I don’t know.’”... Jimmy Jean, chief economist with Desjardins Group, said he understands that some of the lack of detail around the pipeline is due to the fact that the financing structure is still being negotiated. Mr. Jean said in an e-mail that the government may be planning on drawing from existing funds like the Canada Infrastructure Bank or the Canada Strong Fund for some of these projects, but such information was not provided. “It’s very difficult to figure out what was pre-committed or not,” he said."
Damn Maple MAGA!
Don't these ignorant "economists" know that Carney has an Oxford Masters and PhD?!
Carney releasing 'strategic plans,' with few results: Tristin Hopper | National Post - "the report reads like a wish list published by a think tank, rather than a position paper from a government with unprecedented powers to actually build out electrical infrastructure. The report says that, given current trends, Canada must deliver “twice as much power as it does today” by 2050. But as to how this will be done, there’s no new policy in the strategy. Anytime some specific government measure is cited, it’s something that Ottawa was doing anyway. One example: “The Government of Canada will … continue to prioritize projects of national interest that support electricity system growth.” In a conclusion, readers are told to register three takeaways from the National Strategy for an Electrified Canadian Economy: “It is time to act,” “it is time to think big” and “it is time to work together.”"
Lots of woke motherhood statements too, but that won't stop left wingers from denouncing him as a "conservative"
Jimmy Ruffian | Facebook - "And Carney has basically stripped every environmental protection and climate change initiative. The relentless pursuit of capital for the privileged few is going to be our end unless we do something."
Of all the hysterical overreactions, navel gazing (imagining that only Western carbon affects the climate) and epic failures to understand things, this takes the cake (so far)
Meme - Wyatt Claypool @wyatt_claypool: "Apparently it demonstrates someone "cares about human rights" by going to a government-sponsored Pride parade in Toronto. You know the same parade whose organizers oppose parental rights, support hate-speech laws and support the terrorist organization Hamas over Israel."
Laura Babcock @LauraBabcock: "Carney clearly cares about human rights. Where was Poilievre?"
Mark Carney @MarkJCarney: "Happy Pride, Toronto. #PrideToronto2026 *Carney waving fist*"
Building Canada Act’s purpose questioned as Carney government marks 1 year without a single project designated - "Nearly a year after Parliament passed the Building Canada Act (BCA) with promises to urgently advance projects across the country, not a single project has been formally designated under the legislation—and policy experts are questioning whether the law was ever capable of delivering the results the Carney government promised. A new intelligence memo from the C.D. Howe Institute, published June 11, argues the BCA has compounded the very problem it was designed to solve. “Rather than creating a clearer and more predictable approvals framework, these changes expand federal discretion and further politicize the regulatory process,” wrote George Vegh, a senior fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, and Kate Koplovich, a senior policy analyst at the C.D. Howe Institute. The stakes for Canada’s economic future are large. The number of oil and gas projects in the Carney government’s major project inventory has fallen 76 percent from its 2017 peak, a decline the authors describe as reflecting a “sustained erosion of investment confidence” in Canada’s energy sector over the past decade... Vegh and Koplovich argue that the machinery is structurally flawed. Cabinet ministers and, they say, the Prime Minister’s Office in reality, were granted “virtually unconstrained discretion” over both ultimate approvals and the process governing them. That discretion, they argue, means the government can effectively predetermine the outcome of a hearing before evidence is weighed, with regulators going “through the motions” to produce a record supporting a political decision already made. The memo also raises a fundamental ambiguity: the BCA may not replace existing review requirements under the Canadian Energy Regulator Act or the Impact Assessment Act (IAA); it may simply add to them, compounding uncertainty for investors rather than resolving it."
Clearly, Mark Carney is a conservative, because he believes that government should play a big role in the economy. But then, left wingers are actively hostile to economic growth, so anything that is aimed at improving it is "conservative" to them
Mark Carney’s 26 trips abroad: A breakdown of the prime minister’s trade deals and travel after 1 year in office - "Prime Minister Mark Carney is living up to his self-avowed globalist status. Since taking office exactly one year ago, the globetrotting former central banker has been outside of Canada 68 days, or 20 percent of his first year in office... The Hub compiled a list of the 26 travel trips Carney has made so far to other countries (each country visit is counted as a separate trip). We want to understand what deals and partnerships he’s made with foreign nations to see if these new trade avenues will have a material impact back home, and just how soon they could take effect. Is all of Carney’s journeys to foreign lands bearing fruit, or are they mainly airy flights of fancy?... Despite the majority of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s 26 trips to foreign focusing on diversifying trade, no major expansive trade deals have yet been signed. “In terms of his negotiations with trade agreements with new partners, Carney has made important steps towards diversifying trade but has few concrete accomplishments to point to,” Steinberg told The Hub. “Only one new trade agreement has formally been signed, [with Indonesia], and it has not yet actually been ratified yet.” Steinberg also pointed to reductions in Chinese agricultural tariffs, but noted that this only brings us back to the 2024 status quo, rather than adding net-new export destinations. While Steinberg believes Carney is on the right track with signing new trade deals, he says it’s too early to celebrate. He adds that trade with the U.S. should still be Canada’s primary focus. “I applaud the ongoing discussions with other trade partners, especially India, where I see great long-term potential, but most of these discussions have yet to actually reduce any trade barriers,” Steinberg explained. “Carney’s primary focus should be on renegotiating CUSMA, or at least keeping it alive until President Trump leaves office. Losing CUSMA would hurt our economy more than any potential trade agreements with other countries could possibly help it.” While laudable, the economics professor sees diversifying the bulk of Canada’s trade elsewhere outside of the States to be a foolhardy exercise."
From March. One left winger slammed PP for criticising Carney for poor progress on this front and claimed that trade deals take 1-7 years to negotiate. If that's the case, he should instead of criticising all the left wingers glazing Carney for his huge success in "signing trade deals", since they're lying
