Liberals bring out the Knives
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Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and government House leader Karina Gould, all running for leader, have all said recently they are open to scrapping (?) the consumer carbon tax.
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When asked if he personally believed replacing the carbon tax for consumers was necessary, the minister did not offer a clear answer, and instead attacked Conservative party Leader Pierre Poilievre, ‘cuz Libs gotta Lib.
Guilbeault, the carbon tax's staunchest defender, admits it could be 'replaced' — National Post
The federal environment minister admits there are alternatives to the 'very unpopular' tax, and blames the Conservatives for making it so
Says in not so many words what I have been saying for years . We are not a serious country with no binding threads . Awash in the wilderness .
They are not really intending to remove the carbon scam tax. Just hide it in the retail price of everything we buy by imposing it at the manufacturing level. It will be much like the old Manufacturers Sales tax of old. Outta sight, Outta mind.Former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney and government House leader Karina Gould, all running for leader, have all said recently they are open to scrapping (?) the consumer carbon tax.
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When asked if he personally believed replacing the carbon tax for consumers was necessary, the minister did not offer a clear answer, and instead attacked Conservative party Leader Pierre Poilievre, ‘cuz Libs gotta Lib.Guilbeault, the carbon tax's staunchest defender, admits it could be 'replaced' — National Post
The federal environment minister admits there are alternatives to the 'very unpopular' tax, and blames the Conservatives for making it so
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You gotta love Guilbeault. He's like the whiney version of Tex Watson in the imploding Justin Trudeau Doomsday Cult
There was no time to scream, and I always count my shots and how many times the vehicle has rolled over.
Funny, Trudeau has gone down much like Mulroney, who was hated over a tax imposed on the working class. Mulroney backed Trudeau's carbon tax. In fact, so did Freeland, Gould, and Carney. They're desperate to hold power. I bet there are hard drives being smashed to pieces as I write this.
It’s as bad as Melanie Joly endorsement from the Hamas adjacent camp, but…
Carson Jerema: Does Mélanie Joly know she works for Hamas?
Israel has a right to defend itself, according to Trudeau and Joly, just so long as it isn't with military equipment, or ammunition, or so long as it doesn't happen in Gaza
That is an almost unbelievable coming from someone who was among the most prominent opponents of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline that would have exported diluted bitumen from the oil sands in Alberta to a marine terminal in Kitimat, B.C., for transportation to Asian markets via oil tankers. The Enbridge project was killed by the Trudeau government in 2016.
John Ivison: The curse for Carney of the ‘crazy carbon tax’ minister endorsement — National Post
There are legitimate concerns about Guilbeault’s influence on Carney’s policies on energy and growth
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has already called for Canada to “stop being stupid and start building LNG plants, pipelines, refineries, upgraders and other energy infrastructure so that we can sell our energy to the world without going through the Americans.”
But the realization that Canada needs to build probably does not extend to Steven Guilbeault, the activist turned environment minister, who has made it his business to ensure Canada’s energy business is regulated to death.
Guilbeault emerged from the cabinet retreat in Quebec this week to tell reporters that he is supporting Mark Carney in the forthcoming Liberal leadership contest. Guilbeault wants to ban road-building, nuclear power, shut down the forestry sector to save the caribou and is against hydro-electric dams.
The bicycling environment minister from downtown Montreal has become the public face the government’s activist agenda. While in office, he suggested that the Liberal government would no longer invest in new roads because the current network is “perfectly adequate to respond to the needs of Canadians.”
Guilbeault has long opposed all fossil fuel development and endorsed the idea that Alberta’s crude should be landlocked. He has made clear his lack of enthusiasm for small modular nuclear reactors and carbon capture technology.
He threatened his resignation if there were further exemptions to the carbon tax. And he pushed the idea of an oilpatch emissions cap, even though he knew it would hit production levels. The draft regulations for the cap were introduced at the most delicate time in the negotiations between government and industry on the most significant decarbonization agreement in Canada’s history: the Pathways Alliance carbon capture project.
Some of Guilbeault’s fellow travellers see Pathways as a subsidy to increase production (which it would, even as it lowered emissions), and as such, deem it undesirable.
…& now Frankie Bubbles throws his support behind Trudeau’s handpicked choice…’cuz Carney is such an outsider?
Champagne to endorse Mark Carney for the Liberal leadership this weekend: source — National Post
The former Bank of Canada governor is expected to be lining up more key endorsements from Quebec federal ministers in the coming days
Without naming names, Freeland proposes mechanism for Liberals to turf unpopular leaders — National Post
Many Liberal MPs pointed to the party’s lack of tools to trigger a leadership review
With the contest to replace Trudeau underway, the Young Liberals are calling on candidates to commit to championing a new policy pledge. Released on Thursday, the one-page document highlights different priorities it wants them to advance.
They include lowering the voting age to 16, restricting temporary foreign work in regions where young people don’t have jobs, ensuring youth have “debt-free” access to post-secondary and halving green house gas emissions by 2035.
Topping the list of priorities is one that reads: “the housing affordability crisis is a national emergency.” Etc…
Young Liberals have a plan to win the youth vote back from Pierre Poilievre — National Post
Topping the list of priorities is one that reads: 'the housing affordability crisis is a national emergency'
While Liberals, New Democrats and others dismiss Poilievre’s efforts as nothing more than social media soundbites and slogans, months of back-to-back polling suggests his message has worked.
Phillipe Fournier of the polling aggregator, 338Canada, says Conservative are leading among those aged 18 to 34, with the Liberals and NDP battling it out for a distant second. Oh well.
This is just crazily insane….
The statement received relatively little coverage at the time because it was overshadowed by Chrystia Freeland refusing to deliver it and quitting cabinet, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told her he was removing her as finance minister.
Giroux this week released his report to parliament assessing the economic statement, which is standard practice, and a reasonable message to take from it – my words, not the PBO’s – is that re-electing the Liberals in the looming federal election and keeping them in charge of the books would be a financial disaster for federal taxpayers.
Among Giroux’s findings:
The Liberals overshot their predicted deficit of $40.1 billion for the 2023-24 fiscal year – which Freeland had described as a necessary fiscal guard rail to rein in spending when she set it – by 54%, coming in at $61.9 billion.
Government revenues were $1.4 billion lower (0.3%) and program expenses $13.9 billion higher (3.1%) than the Trudeau government estimated for 2023-24.
Giroux found the government’s economic scenarios downplayed potential economic risks facing taxpayers in light of uncertain and volatile global events.
He said the demographic assumptions underpinning the fall economic statement weren’t transparent and were likely inconsistent with current government policies.
For example, Giroux wrote, the “positive impacts of (its) new immigration policies are highlighted … while none of the negative impacts are mentioned.”
He also warned that expenses for contingent liabilities the government faces, largely to resolve potential payments for Indigenous claims, “continue to grow and are an increasing source of fiscal risk.”
In an earlier report in July, Giroux estimated those liabilities at $76 billion as of March 31, 2023, noting that starting in 2016, the year after the Trudeau government was elected, “the stock of outstanding contingent liabilities has grown, on average, by roughly 30% annually.”
Based on those numbers, Giroux wrote in his latest report, “there is a clear and pressing need for additional transparency in the government process for estimating contingent liabilities as well as to reconcile settlements of these claims with provisions previously booked.”
Finally, Giroux warned, the Trudeau government’s “ability (or willingness) to produce high-quality, timely financial statements continues to deteriorate.”
He said the government reached “a new low” this year by not releasing its public accounts until almost nine months after the fiscal year closed and “even worse, the audited financial statements were inexplicably tabled the day after the fall economic statement, rather than prior to, or alongside, the government’s economic and fiscal plan.
“As noted ad nauseam by the PBO, the timely publication of the public accounts is crucial for transparency and accountability in government finances.”
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Given these chronic delays, Giroux recommended moving the publication date for the public accounts ahead to Sept. 30 every year, as opposed to as late as Dec. 31.
Given that the best indicator of future performance is past practice – and that the Trudeau government has failed to address these concerns after almost a decade in power – it’s reasonable to conclude a new Liberal government will simply continue these reckless fiscal practices.
Shoddy bookkeeping, manipulation of data and long-delayed reporting of the government’s public accounts can also contribute to wasteful and reckless government spending and to the potential for political corruption in how taxpayers’ money is being spent.
The statement received relatively little coverage at the time because it was overshadowed by Chrystia Freeland refusing to deliver it and quitting cabinet, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told her he was removing her as finance minister.
Giroux this week released his report to parliament assessing the economic statement, which is standard practice, and a reasonable message to take from it – my words, not the PBO’s – is that re-electing the Liberals in the looming federal election and keeping them in charge of the books would be a financial disaster for federal taxpayers.
Among Giroux’s findings:
The Liberals overshot their predicted deficit of $40.1 billion for the 2023-24 fiscal year – which Freeland had described as a necessary fiscal guard rail to rein in spending when she set it – by 54%, coming in at $61.9 billion.
Government revenues were $1.4 billion lower (0.3%) and program expenses $13.9 billion higher (3.1%) than the Trudeau government estimated for 2023-24.
Giroux found the government’s economic scenarios downplayed potential economic risks facing taxpayers in light of uncertain and volatile global events.
He said the demographic assumptions underpinning the fall economic statement weren’t transparent and were likely inconsistent with current government policies.
For example, Giroux wrote, the “positive impacts of (its) new immigration policies are highlighted … while none of the negative impacts are mentioned.”
He also warned that expenses for contingent liabilities the government faces, largely to resolve potential payments for Indigenous claims, “continue to grow and are an increasing source of fiscal risk.”
In an earlier report in July, Giroux estimated those liabilities at $76 billion as of March 31, 2023, noting that starting in 2016, the year after the Trudeau government was elected, “the stock of outstanding contingent liabilities has grown, on average, by roughly 30% annually.”
Based on those numbers, Giroux wrote in his latest report, “there is a clear and pressing need for additional transparency in the government process for estimating contingent liabilities as well as to reconcile settlements of these claims with provisions previously booked.”
Finally, Giroux warned, the Trudeau government’s “ability (or willingness) to produce high-quality, timely financial statements continues to deteriorate.”
He said the government reached “a new low” this year by not releasing its public accounts until almost nine months after the fiscal year closed and “even worse, the audited financial statements were inexplicably tabled the day after the fall economic statement, rather than prior to, or alongside, the government’s economic and fiscal plan.
“As noted ad nauseam by the PBO, the timely publication of the public accounts is crucial for transparency and accountability in government finances.”
GOLDSTEIN: Parliamentary budget officer blasts reckless Trudeau government spending — Toronto Sun
Re-electing the Liberals in the looming federal election would be a financial disaster for federal taxpayers
Given that the best indicator of future performance is past practice – and that the Trudeau government has failed to address these concerns after almost a decade in power – it’s reasonable to conclude a new Liberal government will simply continue these reckless fiscal practices.
Shoddy bookkeeping, manipulation of data and long-delayed reporting of the government’s public accounts can also contribute to wasteful and reckless government spending and to the potential for political corruption in how taxpayers’ money is being spent.
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2. The check's in the mail.
1. I'm independent and not beholden to any party.
Huh…Trudeau’s cabinet minister backs Trudeau’s chosen successor. I’m shocked (not)!! Anand was first elected on Oct. 21, 2019, and made public works minister on Nov. 20, & will probably be one of the outgoing Liberal MP’s who won’t qualify for a gold plated pension if an election happens on or before October 20th, 2025, especially with her not running again.
'This news has hit me really hard,' Anita Anand reacts to Chrystia Freeland's unexpected resignation
Oakville MP, Minister of Transport and President of the Treasury Board Anita Anand was emotional over the news of Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister ...
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. It’s because he’s such an outsider, right?
They really believe that he will lead them out of their self imposed wilderness . Shows exactly how out of touch they are and why they are in this position .
Saturday afternoon, Liberal MP Nathaniel Erksine-Smith held a small gathering at Beaches Brewpub in Toronto’s East end so that his special guest Mark Carney could make an “announcement” to the Beaches-East York community. Carney was given the rockstar treatment by this small crowd that gathered in the east of Toronto to see him — it was pure adoration.
The emcee for the event asked the crowd, “Can we give everyone a round of applause for just being here?”
He continued, “I think we’re all here because we want renewal in our party, in our government, and I can’t think of a better place and person to help us lead that way.”
Erksine-Smith, MP for Beaches-East York, and newly minted Minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities, took the stage to say repeat this claim: “We have an opportunity in this leadership race, we have an opportunity in our politics, to renew our politics, to renew our party.”
Judging by his short speech it seems like Carney will, indeed, be positioning the party for renewal, if by renewal he simply means resuming the party as was.
Terry Newman: Redistribution Carney announces he is Trudeau 2.0 — National Post
At Toronto meeting with Liberal faithful, he talks up the same environmental pablum as the man he hopes to replace
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.”
None of the gathered party members seemed eager to press Carney on how he would accomplish any of the things he said he would do, nor did they ask for particulars.
No one seemed even remotely curious.
It was a room buzzing with blind trust for the long-time leadership hopeful…
…a room of Liberal MPs and supporters who didn’t seem at all interested in why they were in such a desperate state in the first place, a room looking for a saviour.
Carney, who is the former Bank of Canada governor, has never held elected office and currently does not have a seat in the House of Commons. It is also not known yet which riding he will run in to represent.
When asked where he will run at his campaign launch last week in Edmonton, Carney said, “I will run as an MP somewhere, but I’m running for prime minister. I’m running for prime minister of all of Canada.”
Carney ‘committed’ to running in next general election regardless of Liberal leadership outcome — CTV News
Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney will run in the next general election regardless of the outcome of the race, according to his campaign team.
