Never forget that people actually voted for these robber-barons:
Spending cuts the prime minister is looking for include a 7.5% reduction in 2026-27, followed by cuts of 10% in 2027-28 and 15% in 2028-29.
While these cuts may sound steep, they are more than needed after the explosion of federal spending over the past decade.
These "cuts" are cosmetic.
If Carney truly had any fortitude, he would go all out and eliminate departments, a third of the public sector, and vanity projects we have no business wasting money on.
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Wasn't Mr. Elbows-Up installed elected to deal with this sort of thing?
I mean - he was a banker or something, right?:
Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested that a trade deal with the United States may ultimately still include tariffs on Canada, as the two countries attempt to work out a deal before the August 1 deadline.
Speaking to reporters ahead of a cabinet meeting in Ottawa on July 15, Carney told reporters that there is “not a lot of evidence right now” that any countries can achieve an agreement with the United States that does not involve tariffs.
Carney said that Canada currently has “almost free trade” with the country, despite higher tariffs on some industries like steel, aluminum, and auto exports, and potential tariffs on lumber, copper and pharmaceuticals.
“So we need to stabilize the situation for Canada,” Carney said, adding that the tariffs in effect for Canada are among the lowest in the world.
U.S. President Donald Trump has levied a series of tariffs against Canada, including 50 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum, 25 percent tariffs on cars and auto parts, and 10 percent tariffs on oil and potash. Trump has also imposed 25 percent tariffs on all goods not covered under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which he said on July 10 would increase to 35 percent at the end of the month.
Trump has also promised to implement 50 percent tariffs on copper imports, as well as tariffs of up to 200 percent on pharmaceuticals from foreign countries.
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What else might go if not the Quebec Dairy Protection Act?:
Price controls and import restrictions are also part of supply management. Some dairy products, for instance, are protected against imports from the States and EU by tariffs as high as 300 per cent.
It’s a good deal for supply-managed producers. It protects them from competition and ensures they received stable prices without much risk.
But it’s a bad deal for consumers. Economists estimate the average Canadian family pays $400 a year more for dairy alone.
There’s another problem, too. Milk supply is heavily skewed toward drinkable milk. That makes the price of milk for producers of, say, special yogurts, too expensive. So consumers have fewer choices.
Supporters of supply management claim it protects farmers’ incomes, making it unnecessary for governments to subsidize their livelihoods, as they often do in the U.S.
But that only means that Canadians are subsidizing farmers as consumers, rather than as taxpayers. (They shouldn’t have to do either.)
For decades, Canadian politicians of all stripes have been afraid to significantly modify supply management. The farm lobby is more vocal than the consumer lobby. And supply management is heavily concentrated in vote-rich Ontario and Quebec.
It’s no coincidence that the first motion passed by Parliament after April’s election was a unanimous resolution, introduced by the Bloc, to exempt supply management from any future trade talks.
It won’t be as easy for the Liberals to crater on supply management as it was on the DST. The digital tax had few supporters. Supply management has vehement defenders in parts of the country the Liberals count on to keep them in power.
For instance, while the farm receipts from supply-managed operations account for less than 10 per cent of total farm income on the Prairies, they can be more than three times that much in Ontario and Quebec.
And all across the country, diary quotas in particular can cost millions for new farmers to buy from older ones. That is a “stranded cost” that would have to be paid for by any government wanting to disband supply management.
The cost could be well over $20 billion to buy out supply-managed farmers.
Also - this was the plan. Let Big Aboriginal fight every single pipeline that will never see the light of day. That way Carney can shrug his shoulders and say that he tried.
He was adamant when shutting down truckers but won't say anything when someone prevents a pipeline:
Nine First Nations in Ontario are asking a court to declare a pair of federal and provincial laws meant to fast-track infrastructure projects unconstitutional and are seeking an injunction that would prevent the governments from using some of the most contentious aspects.
The Indigenous communities say in the legal challenge filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice that the federal law known as Bill C-5 and the Ontario law known as Bill 5 both represent a “clear and present danger” to the First Nations’ self-determination rights to ways of life on their territories.
“While the laws do leave open or commit that there will be some First Nation consultation at the very first stage... involvement in that decision alone is a smoke and mirrors trick, deflecting attention from all the other ways the laws necessarily diminish the ability of First Nations to engage on the regimes’ broader consequences,” they write in the court challenge.
Bill C-5 allows cabinet to quickly grant federal approvals for big projects deemed to be in the national interest such as mines, ports and pipelines by sidestepping existing laws, while Ontario’s bill allows its cabinet to suspend provincial and municipal laws through the creation of so-called “special economic zones.”
The First Nations are asking the court for an injunction prohibiting the federal government from naming national interest projects and prohibiting Ontario from implementing special economic zones.
Both the federal and Ontario governments have said their laws are tools to counteract the effects of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs by allowing Canadian development, such as natural resource development, to proceed more quickly.
From the most "transparent" government in the country's history:
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation is asking a federal judge to seal files regarding mortgages it “inadvertently” insured at Montréal’s Laurentian Bank. CMHC said it had confidential reasons for defying a federal order to release the records under the Access To Information Act: “There is a reasonable expectation that harm could occur.”
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Investments in companies like Chevron, Marathon, Occidental and Valero litter Mark Carney’s investment portfolio. That means our prime minister, the man who spent years lecturing the world about green energy and decarbonization, has been making money from oil exploration, drilling, refining and pipelines.
He may still be profiting from those activities, we simply don’t know.
The companies mentioned are just four of several “conventional energy companies” listed in his ethics disclosure released late last week.
Carney came under pressure after becoming Liberal leader and during the federal election to release his investment holdings to clear up any potential conflicts of interest. He refused, claimed several times that he had no conflicts of interest, got testy with reporters who dared to ask him questions, and said he was following all the rules.
Sure, Carney may have followed the letter of the law, which only required these investments to be made public after the election, but he didn’t follow the spirit of full disclosure.
“There’s no possible conflict of interest in your assets?” CBC journalist Rosemary Barton put to Carney in March of this year. “That’s hard to believe.”
“Look inside yourself, Rosemary,” Carney replied, before lecturing her about assuming there was a conflict.
As patronising as the village idiot.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney held a vast stock portfolio when he quit the private sector to run for the Liberal Party leadership last January 16, records show. Carney’s investments ran to millions’ worth of shares in 606 publicly-traded corporations including federal contractors, in addition to royalties from his book “Values: Building A Better World For All.”
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More than 120,000 mail-in ballots issued for the April 28 general election were never counted, according to Elections Canada. The agency earlier apologized for dumping uncounted ballots at a British Columbia returning office and mislabeling ballots in a Québec riding that gave Liberals an upset win: “We are demanding transparency from Elections Canada.”
Before he was appointed to the federal cabinet two years ago, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree wrote letters urging Canadian officials to approve the immigration application of a man they had determined was a member of a terrorist organization.
The letters, dated 2023 and 2016, were written on Anandasangaree’s House of Commons letterhead and sent to the Canada Border Services Agency on behalf of an alleged member of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers who wanted to move to Toronto.
Although Canadian immigration officials had repeatedly rejected Senthuran Selvakumaran as an immigrant due to what they described as his “protracted involvement” in the Tigers, Anandasangaree asked them to reverse their decision.
Also known as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, the Tamil Tigers fought a lengthy civil war against the Sri Lankan government. The conflict ended in 2009 but the Tigers remain on Canada’s list of terrorist organizations.
In his most recent letter to the CBSA, Anandasangaree said the agency’s refusal to grant Selvakumaran permanent residence had separated the 48-year-old Sri Lankan from his Canadian wife and child, which the Toronto-area MP called “cruel and inhumane.”
“I respectfully ask that you review and reconsider this decision,” Anandasangaree wrote on July 19, 2023, when he was in the last days of his term as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General.
Anandasangaree’s constituency assistant emailed the letter directly to the law firm representing Selvakumaran in his case against the government on July 25, 2023, according to records on the case released to Global News.
The following day, Anandasangaree received his first cabinet appointment as Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations in the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was sworn in as Public Safety Minister on May 13.
Now the polar bears are going to die.
Or something:
A new Leger poll released Friday asked Canadians about what they thought were the biggest challenges facing Canada. Trade and tariff issues and U.S. relations were No. 1, at 20 per cent. But climate change, one of the federal government’s key objections in recent years to building or expanding pipelines, ports and other big projects, was way down the list, a “third tier” issue, said Leger executive vice-president Andrew Enns.
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