Carney, like Trudeau, thinks big deficits are the answer to tough times
The Prime Minister seems to be following the path of his predecessor, which he warned against leading up to the April 28 election
Lorrie Goldstein
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Liberals and Conservatives must accept new reality of minority governments
Election results show Canadians want them working together for the common good rather than constantly warring with each other. Minority governments are the new norm in Canadian politics and it’s time the two major political parties in Canada started acting like it.
Reckless Liberal spending compromised our ability to fight tariff war
Liberal government misspending has left us ill-equipped to fight a tariff war with the U.S. – and one of the only alternatives the government has will be to increase taxes to do so.
Only Poilievre and Conservatives unequivocally condemn antisemitism
It's ironic that the strongest defenders of Canada's Jewish community are the Conservatives, who the Liberals often accuse of conspiring with neo-Nazis and white supremacists
Liberals screwing the West for political gain – again
Another federal election and the Mark Carney-Justin Trudeau Liberals are employing their tried-and-true tactic, made famous by the legendary Liberal campaign organizer Sen. Keith Davey in the 1980 election, to “screw the West, we’ll take the rest.”
Flip-flopping Carney wrong choice to lead fight against Trump
The idea that Liberal Leader Mark Carney and the current Liberal government are best equipped to fight a trade war with U.S. President Donald Trump is absurd.
Carney’s theft of Poilievre’s platform has turned into a farce
If Mark Carney and the Liberals are best equipped to take on U.S. President Donald Trump in a tariff war, why have they stolen their election platform from Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives?
Liberal media jump on board 'Team Carney' campaign
Let’s begun by debunking the myth – aided and abetted by the liberal media – that Prime Minister Mark Carney killed carbon pricing on Friday through a cabinet decree.
Justin Trudeau failed to achieve the legacy he set for himself
As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau prepares to leave office, the best way to assess his political legacy is to judge the expectations he set for himself when he won his first election in 2015.
Why Carney and Trudeau should be cheering for a tariff-induced recession
According to their own bizarre logic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney should be overjoyed that U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff jihad against Canada may cause a massive recession here.
New Statistics Canada data reveals standard of living on downward spiral
Buried because of the news about the Trump, Vance, Zelenskyy confrontation at the White House on Friday was the release of new economic data by Statistics Canada showing our standard of living has further deteriorated over the past two years.
Hiking carbon taxes during tariff war is economic madness
Increasing Canada’s national carbon tax (aka the consumer fuel charge) as scheduled on April 1 by almost 19% to $95 per tonne of industrial greenhouse gas emissions from the current $80 per tonne, when we may be in a full-scale tariff war with the U.S. by then, is economic insanity.
Despite his denials, Carney is definitely a politician
Liberal prime-minister-in-waiting Mark Carney keeps insisting he’s not a politician, but he’s selling himself short.
Liberals’ $200B climate plan needs a forensic audit
Now that the leading contenders in the Liberal leadership race – Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland – have promised, vaguely, to cancel Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax, what do they plan to do about the $200-billion-plus, taxpayer-funded sinkhole the Liberals have created since 2015, ostensibly to fight climate change?
Federal Liberals can't be trusted with the economy
Given their dismal economic record after 10 years in power, it’s hard to comprehend why anyone would trust the federal Liberals to be responsible stewards of the nation’s finances heading into this year’s election.
Trudeau Liberals say they were wrong about almost everything so re-elect them
Call it the great deception – the federal Liberals suddenly claiming they’ve seen the light on all of the mistakes they’ve made in governing Canada for almost a decade.
Mark Carney is campaigning as Pierre Poilievre-lite
Assuming Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney wins his party’s crown and becomes our next prime minister on March 9, voters in the next federal election will have a choice between a red-meat conservative — Pierre Poilievre — and a vegetarian version — Carney.
Build more pipelines to tariff-proof our economy
If we want to be economic masters in our own house, then “buying Canadian” to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s campaign to attack our sovereignty through a tariff war, while admirably patriotic, isn’t enough.
Why we can’t trust the Liberal reversal on carbon taxes
The reason the federal Liberals can never be trusted on the carbon tax is that even as they seemingly abandon it, they refuse to admit they were wrong to introduce it.
Carney’s ‘new’ climate change plan a word-salad of nonsense
Leading Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney unveiled his new climate change plan Friday accusing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of lying to Canadians by telling them they have to choose between the environment and the economy, and then he told Canadians a far bigger whopper of his own.
Most Americans don't want a trade war with Canada
As it turns out, most Americans oppose U.S. President Donald Trump imposing tariffs on Canada, believe it will raise prices for U.S. consumers and are skeptical about his claim the U.S. is subsidizing Canada $200 billion annually on trade.
Our politicians actually do think we're stupid
Between the death bed repentances of the federal Liberal leadership contenders trashing the political legacy of the Trudeau government they’re part of, and Ontario Premier Doug Ford insisting he needs a new election mandate to take on U.S. President Donald Trump on tariffs, the conclusion is inescapable.
Parliamentary budget officer blasts reckless Trudeau government spending
In what may well be the last independent and objective assessment of Trudeau government spending before it becomes a part of history, parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux has eviscerated the Liberals’ fall economic statement delivered last month.
Carbon tax remains an albatross around Liberals' necks
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.
Liberal leadership contenders sound like Poilievre in trashing Trudeau’s legacy
The race to replace Justin Trudeau as Liberal leader and Prime Minister of Canada has barely begun and the best reasons not to vote for the Liberals in the next federal election are coming, rather hilariously, from the leadership candidates themselves.
In Trudeau’s vision of himself, he was always the chosen one
With the Trudeau government soon to become history, whatever happens in the next federal election, the most accurate portrayal of what it became comes from a 30-year-old book on the prevailing liberal political vision of our time – the vision of the anointed.
Trudeau’s big bet on electric vehicles goes bust
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau posted a self-congratulatory video on X last year, boasting that his Liberal government “bet big on electric vehicles” and “now that industry is betting on us.”
Trudeau sounds like the captain of the Titanic
Many Liberal MPs believe they will lose their seats in the next election if he's still in charge of the party
NDP reversals on carbon taxes a pre-election gift to Poilievre
So according to David Eby, the NDP premier of British Columbia, the best carbon tax in the world is bad for British Columbians.
High immigration policy undermining housing, healthcare and climate goals
It’s hard to know what the Trudeau government was thinking two years ago when it dramatically increased its immigration targets given the added pressure this has put on three issues it says are priorities — housing affordability, improving healthcare and reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
Trump’s denunciation of green energy ‘scams’ a major headache for Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s climate change policies could be thrown into chaos if former president Donald Trump wins the U.S. election on Nov. 5 and makes good on two things he promised in his speech to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last week.
Trudeau Liberals just playing for time
In an interview with Bloomberg News in which Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland denied reports of a rift with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, amid speculation he wants to replace her with Mark Carney, she also indicated the Liberals’ strategy for winning next year’s election.
National caucus meeting won't fix what ails Liberals
Whenever the federal Liberals finally decide to hold a national caucus meeting, here is the problem confronting them about the government of their leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Trudeau does the same things while expecting different results
The reason Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is refusing to say whether he’ll meet with his own caucus of MPs to discuss Liberal political fortunes is that he doesn’t have anything new to say to them.
Trudeau wrong choice to lead fight against foreign interference
Here’s the most alarming thing about Canada’s foreign interference crisis. It’s that our response to it is presided over by a prime minister who ignored years of warnings about how serious it was and then fought tooth and nail against holding a public inquiry into it, until he had no choice because of unrelenting political, public and media pressure...
A word in defence of the Parliamentary Budget Officer
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux and his staff are among the few independent, non-partisan sources of information that critically examine the cost of federal government policies.
Trudeau government keeps moving goalposts on climate targets
A major problem with evaluating the effectiveness of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s $200-billion climate change plan involving more than 100 government programs is that the government keeps retroactively changing the historical record of Canada’s annual industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
Trudeau was Teflon, now he’s Velcro
The political trajectory of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau from 2015 to 2024 can best be summed up as his transformation from a Teflon PM to a Velcro one.
Foreign interference goes far beyond federal elections
While the foreign interference inquiry headed by Commissioner Marie-Josee Hogue appears to be doing credible work in investigating foreign interference in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, it isn’t addressing the elephant in the room.
Trudeau wants us to know he feels his pain
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has a “crazy job” and he thinks about quitting all the time, but, “I couldn’t be the man I am and give up the fight at this point.”
The painful truth about Trudeau’s ‘rebranded’ carbon tax
It’s absurd that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the Liberals believe that rebranding their “climate action incentive payments” as “Canada carbon rebates” is what’s needed to fix their carbon tax.
Trudeau Liberals are barking mad
The Trudeau government wants you to know it’s mad as hell and it’s not going to take it anymore. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s, to put the term politely, “PO’d” with Bell Media for its “garbage decision” to lay off journalists.
The terrible costs of Canada’s dysfunctional immigration system
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. That’s what happened to Lisa Loumakos, 55, of Mississauga. On Sept. 22, 2023, her mother, Stella Skarmoutsos, 77, died in Lisa’s home, where she had been living with her daughter and her now 15-year-old granddaughter, Zoey, since May 2021.
The Israel-Hamas war will end – the anti-Semitism won’t
Now that the evil of the world’s oldest form of hatred – anti-Semitism – has been on full display across Canada for months, what will happen when the latest war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza is over?
The shameless hypocrisy of putting world’s only Jewish state on trial for genocide
At the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Israel is on trial for genocide and, once again, is being judged by standards expected of no other country on earth.
Liberal immigration policy sabotaging Liberal housing policy
Federal Housing Minister Sean Fraser’s year-end announcement in an interview with The Canadian Press that the Trudeau government will unveil a “renewed” housing plan in 2024 raises the question of what happened to all of its previous housing plans?
Trudeau’s green energy policy means more mining
One of the many ironies of the Trudeau government’s clean energy strategy is that it means dramatically increasing the number of mining operations in Canada and approving them far more quickly than in the past.
