The Liberals Must Have Their Party Status Revoked For All Time

Only then can the Dominion of Canada heal:

Liberal leadership contender Karina Gould opened up a soul-searching debate in her party’s caucus after declaring Canadians “lost trust” in the Liberals during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s later years in office.

 

It's probably because of everything you said and did. 

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But there’s no evidence that Carney is going to be a tariff negotiating wizard. Negotiating tariffs was never part of his job requirements at either the Bank of Canada or Bank of England, as evidenced by the shot Carney took at the U.S., presumably because he dislikes the new president: “We are gonna stand up to the Americans,” he said, and later referred to our long-time friends and allies as now “just our neighbours,” as if all Americans are in on Trump’s tariff plans.

There’s also no evidence that Carney is particularly tied to the best interests of Canada. He left before his term with the Bank of Canada was even over, just as the media was asking tough questions about the Liberal Party trying to set him up as an alternative to Justin Trudeau in 2011. Can Canadians expect him to complete his term? How will he behave when he’s asked tough questions in the House of Commons? He doesn’t seem like someone who is used to having to answer tough questions on the spot. Carney also holds three citizenships, Canadian, British, and Irish. Where does his loyalty lie?

Like a rockstar, Carney had entered the small pub to “Eye of the Tiger.” His admirers were happily squished together, vying for a view of the man who they hoped might save their party. When Carney went to remove his jacket, one admirer shouted, “Take it off!” The crowd was so excited about being photographed with Carney that Erskine-Smith remarked, “Selfies all around.”

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Carney made it clear though how much involvement he thought government should play in the economy.

When he finally took the mic, Carney made sweeping vague promises including, “We are going to build the strongest economy that works for all Canadians.” He promised they’d be “building homes for everyone,” “fixing the housing crisis,” and “building a sustainable energy system.” “We can’t redistribute what we don’t have,” he said.

Carney then told the crowd that, after listening to Canadians through his virtual and physical consultations with them, that their problem is that they are “anxious” because of the “cost of living crisis,” “the housing crisis,” and “if they’re young, they’re worried about getting ahead,” and about the “changes that are happening in a more dangerous and divided world.” Did this insight require consultations? I guess if you don’t spend much time in Canada it might.

Anxiety is a feeling you have before something you fear might happen happens, or doesn’t happen. I’m not sure who Carney’s been listening to, but Canadians aren’t just anxious about these things, they’re already struggling through them.

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Here’s Freeland’s 5 minutes of fame - freezing Canadians bank accounts for attending a protest.

While she laughs. https://t.co/fLSsVPIJQU

— SteveNixon_2019 (@2019Stevenixon) December 16, 2024

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Transparency in federal spending “reached a new low” under ex-finance minister Chrystia Freeland, the Budget Office said yesterday. Analysts expressed anger over concealment of financial accounts that confirmed dramatic overruns in deficit spending: “Was there any political pressure?”

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Federal Liberals who argue they’ve put their vote-killing carbon tax controversy behind them, because their leading contenders for the party leadership are suggesting they’ll replace it with something else, are engaged in wishful thinking on steroids.

Equally unrealistic are claims by Liberal spin doctors and consultants, who argue Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in trouble because his entire election campaign was to be based on “axing the tax” and now the Liberals have killed it as an issue.

This, they argue, because whoever wins the race — previous fervent carbon tax supporters Mark Carney or Chrystia Freeland — will not be advocating for the carbon tax when Canadians go to the polls.

These arguments are disingenuous and ridiculous.

First, Carney and Freeland, other than in vague, general terms, have yet to explain what will replace the carbon tax.

Once you put a tax on people to pay for something they were previously not taxed for — in this case the emission of industrial greenhouse gases into the atmosphere — Canadians as consumers and taxpayers will be on the hook for it no matter what you call it.

A cynic might argue that whatever the Liberals are saying about killing the carbon tax today, they’ve lied so many times about the issue in the past that any promises they make today should be treated with the utmost skepticism.

The biggest lie the Liberals told us was that they would freeze their carbon tax at $50 per tonne of emissions. It’s now $80 per tonne, scheduled to increase to $95 per tonne on April 1, on its way through future annual hikes to $170 per tonne on April 1, 2030.

The Liberals who make these false arguments clearly don’t understand their carbon tax is but one of 149 measures costing the public more than $200 billion the Trudeau Liberals have earmarked, ostensibly, to lower emissions.

That’s because they also don’t understand their campaign to cut emissions is primarily an economic policy intended to reshape society and much more than an environmental policy.

 

But no one will stop heating their homes or fuelling their cars.

It is theft, pure and simple.

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Oh?:

Ontario member of Parliament Chandra Arya said the Liberal party informed him he’s out of the running to be its next leader.

Arya, who was the first to announce his candidacy to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said he is waiting on official communication from the Liberals and is considering his next steps.

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“This decision raises significant questions about the legitimacy of the leadership race and, by extension, the legitimacy of the next prime minister of Canada,” Arya said in a social media statement on Sunday.

Nothing about this sham is legitimate, interloper, Member of Parliament.

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Because Canada has been reduced from a have-country to a have-not country in the past nine years, it is not in a position to challenge Trump on anything.

Anything the reflexively anti-American Liberals suggest will only cost Canada.

This is why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith suggests doing what we ought to have done in order to at least get Trump off of our backs:

Smith sees “a growing consensus” on …. are you ready for this?

“The necessity of consulting with and securing consent from individual provinces before cutting off or placing export tariffs on key exports from those provinces.”

Smith opposes restricting or taxing Alberta oil to the U.S.

Here’s another.

The importance of building more pipelines east and west.

More border security. Let’s see the drones and the dogs and the cameras and the boots on the ground and show Trump that Canada finally means business.

Give him a win and more secure borders is a really good thing for both countries.