Please, Quebec. Either have a referendum and become an independent country, or accept the fact that you’re simply a province like any other. It’s beyond annoying to watch you trying to have this both ways.
St-Pierre Plamondon chose not to attend after saying he would not accept being reduced to the role of a “spectator” without the opportunity to speak or negotiate on Quebec’s behalf.
I’m all for abolishing the Indian Act and getting rid of racial identity documents too. But what’s going to replace that? Years ago when I ran for public office I told a group of aboriginal chiefs that I thought reserves should be turned into municipalities like any other. That suggestion was met with a wave of outrage. My guess is that Canada’s mini-Soviet Unions will get nothing more than a political facelift should this idea go anywhere.
Kinew said he feels the Indian Act should be abolished altogether. He held up his First Nations status card, which he said identifies him as an “Indian within the meaning of the Indian Act.”
Who in their right mind would spend two billion dollars on a road that some ungrateful residents are promising to instantly blockade? Canada, that’s who. And that’s in a region where the national highway largely remains a two lane road.
Neskantaga First Nation and Attawapiskat First Nation have built a settlement where the proposed road will cross the Attawapiskat River. The Canadian Press visited the region last year, including the settlement, where community members plan to block the road whenever construction crews arrive, years from now.
Here are the results of the latest Carney/Blubber Dougie love-in: ever since Canada decided not to bother with any more trade negotiations with the US, taxpayers will now be expected to backfill the losses of those affected by the standoff.
A new “joint steel action fund” that includes $3.5 billion in funding from Canada and $1.7 billion from Ontario, spread out over five years, will assist steel companies in expanding the types of products they make.
The overall plan also includes $2.5 billion for the automotive sector — with the federal government chipping in $1.5 billion.
What about the shock of France going bankrupt while being pillaged by mobs of Antifa fellow travelers? Why wouldn’t that at least register on Macklem’s radar screen? Or would that get in the way of cheerleading for Canada’s new “relationship” with Europe?
The head of the Bank of Canada spoke to reporters on Saturday in a press conference from the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund meetings in Bangkok.
He said the prevailing message from his peers at the summit is that the global economy has been performing better than expected in the face of ongoing wars in Iran and Ukraine, sweeping trade disruptions and higher borrowing costs from rising bond yields.
Well, this is rich: During my time chairing the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, I sometimes felt like the agent of a state-funded extortion ring.
Back in the day when I ran for provincial and federal office a few times, the buzzword when dealing with aboriginals was “self-government”. Naturally, no one could define what that meant; you were just supposed to agree with it. Same goes today for “reconciliation”. If you can get to the end of the article without feeling physically ill, I congratulate you.
Littlechild said that while Carney has been focused on securing overseas investments, he’s ignoring the rights of Indigenous Peoples at home and sidelining their traditional economies by fast-tracking legislation that would allow for quicker project approvals and environmental reviews.
The “carrot” approach can be seen in how Carney’s cabinet is encouraging First Nations to back the Trans Mountain pipeline through a low-cost loan and a $2.5 million payment for willing investors that some are comparing to a bribe.
If the regulatory burden wasn’t so onerous, a northern pipeline would be self-financing, thus relieving Ontario taxpayers of the capital expenditure. But Blubber Dougie will promise pretty much anything to anyone these days, as do most of his political counterparts across the nation.
“Ontario is ready to supply the patient capital needed to get the project built,” Ford said. The premier later told reporters Ontario won’t pay for the pipeline alone, and that he expects outside investors to come to the table.
I guess Ontario’s deficits will just pay for themselves if only we build some pipelines?
Recall that back in 2018 Doug Ford called then-premier Kathleen Wynne’s spending “reckless” — which it was. But the deficit that year was $3.7 billion, not $13 billion. If the previous Liberal government’s $3.7-billion deficit was reckless, how the current government’s $13-billion deficit can be responsible is a mystery Premier Ford and his finance minister have left unexplained.
So Doctor Fruit Fly is frustrated and angry with our new PM? If only Carney would give him a lot more to get angry about.
Suzuki, 90, retired from hosting the show four years ago, but still wants to talk to Canadians about the environment. This time though, the educational message is tinged with exasperation.
Canadians and people around the world have their priorities wrong, he said.
“So if that doesn’t tell you right there what kind of a f–ked-up system we have, that is exploiting the very things that keep us alive. And we don’t put any value on it.”
A balanced budget at any level of government in Canada is wishful thinking on steroids these days. John Q. Voter’s capacity for critical thinking was numbed so effectively by the Covid spending spree that any political party would be wiped out at the polls if they implemented anything beyond token spending cuts.
The Parti Québécois is promising to balance the provincial budget by 2028-2029, a year earlier than the current Quebec government’s projections.
The PQ’s plan calls for a $6.6-billion reduction in government spending over five years.
Now Wab proposes to hand out tax breaks for “investments” in the Port of Churchill. Newsflash: a 7% cost reduction is unlikely to convince any investor to sink money into a port that’s locked in ice for a substantial portion of every year. It’s doubtful the green lobby will like the idea of ships bulldozing polar bears either.
The province say the new tax measure would apply to proposals for a new energy corridor and liquefied natural gas facilities, upgrades to the railway that runs to the port and icebreaking capacity to support year-round shipping.
Deliberately choosing to pay more than you need to for inputs doesn’t make your province richer; the reality is quite the opposite. My guess is that the “buy local” gambit is going to be used not only as an excuse to shut out American suppliers but suppliers in other provinces as well. In any case, there’s no way a few sales to the Quebec government can replace the losses from being unable to sell into a market ten times the size of Canada’s.
The Quebec government has announced a series of measures to promote buying locally in response to the escalating trade war between Canada and the United States.
Premier Christine Fréchette says the measures will inject about $1.5 billion into the Quebec economy in the next four months.
The perfect applicant would be a black, transgender Muslim, who identifies as a native Indian.
Every time a politician tells you that his policy will “come at a cost“, you just know he doesn’t have your best interests in mind.
Carney discussed Canada’s plan to respond to the U.S. trade war by striking new trade deals with other countries.
“We have everything we need to pivot and prosper,” he said.
“That pivot will come at a cost. There’s always a cost to action. But it doesn’t come close to the cost of standing still.”
Lady Churchill told Olive that when Sir Winston heard the Canadian election results “he was so excited he danced.” And when Olive remarked that everyone seemed interested in the outcome, Churchill shook his jowls: “Interested? …Why shouldn’t they be? It is the most important event since the end of the war.”
The above is in reference to John Diefenbaker winning the June 1957 election in Canada, defeating the Liberal government of Louis St Laurent. That said, Churchill was vehemently opposed to tariffs his entire life.
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Were the latest CRTC mandates, and justifiable American opposition to them, the excuse for claiming a supposed threat to Quebecois culture and ending the trade talks? None of that would surprise me. In any case, it’s an incredibly stupid hill to die on and it sickens me that Canadians seem happy to go along with that.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has said the U.S. put pressure on Canada to adjust its position on rules around discoverability of content online, and that U.S. demands would have affected Canada’s ability to protect its culture, including the French language.
Given what I know about the Canadian political classes, I didn’t expect any of them to call out Blubber Dougie on his renewed advocacy of economic suicide for Canada. But who put duct tape over the mouths of our captains of industry? Any miner that shut off legally contracted mineral exports to the US would be successfully sued in a matter of hours and go bankrupt within days.
“He underestimates Canada. We’re all in,” Ford said. “Up here, we’re at a fever pitch, everyone’s in for an economic war. They know they’re going to have to sacrifice.”
Ford said “everything is on the table” if the dispute worsens, including cutting off electricity and critical minerals from Ontario. He also called for Canada to consider using oil and potash as leverage.
“I’ll cut them off,” Ford said of critical minerals. “You won’t get a grain of sand out of Ontario.”
As of yesterday social media has been chock full of posts from Carney’s water carriers desperately trying to rationalize a defeat into victory. Good luck with that. All that remains now is to declare than any trade deal is a good deal so that the remaining provinces can safely lift the ban on American booze while hoping that no one remembers their idiocy.
“If I were leading the country, I’d fight. I think we should fight this guy,” he told the station.
Kinew said Manitoba still has to see some details, but if the booze goes back on shelves, his government reserves the right to pull it back off again if U.S. President Donald Trump changes terms.