Even Trudy said, "democracy isn't a given" and apparently, he would know considering he wanted to eliminate it as much as possible!! Carney is the same unfortunately!
Mark Carney (Trudeau Liberal Replacement) as PM
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Canadian Head of State King Charles III meets his new Prime Minister - the former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney - at Buckingham Palace.
The Canadian monarch wore a red tie in support of Canada in the face of threats from the United States to annex the country and it's believed the King may soon visit Canada to further show support.
Carney is Canada's 24th PM and King Charles III's second.
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the turbanator and porcupine were going topple the government anyways. there was no escape from this. happy election/voting. 
Announcement coming Sunday.the turbanator and porcupine were going topple the government anyways. there was no escape from this. happy election/voting.
You'd be delighted, because then you'd be set up to whine forever.
I truly hope it does not happen. Carnage publicly declared himself an elitist and globullist. Then added that is just what Canada needs.
Which is exactly what we do not need. WE must have a Nationalist leader, or we will soon be wishing we had become the 51st state.
So. . . you're hoping for somebody who fakes being a "man of the people" and Canaduh going it alone?
Easy enough. Run for office yourself.
And who's never traveled outside the borders to them scary foreign places, like Russia and China and the U.S. and Toronto.
Britain, unlike Canada, has always been more brutally honest about what they like about Carney — but mostly what they don’t like. The wide range of criticism included Carney’s left-wing politics, such as his championing of radical environmentalist policies like net-zero emissions, along with his opposition to Brexit, his political inexperience, dull personality, volatile temper, lousy track record at the Bank of England and more.
Last month, Carney laid out Canada’s required contribution to his climate ambitions: “Canada must invest $2 trillion by 2050 — about $80 billion per year — to become carbon competitive and achieve Net Zero. However, investments in decarbonisation currently run between $10–20 billion annually.”
The implication is that another $60-70 billion a year will need to be wrung out of Canadian businesses and consumers, either through direct taxation and government spending or with regulatory browbeating to push Canadians’ savings and investments into global warming initiatives. This is the guy who “zeroed out” the consumer carbon tax starting on April fools Day during what will be an election campaign.
Good times. This led to an interesting dichotomy between Canadian and British media coverage of Carney during the Liberal leadership race. The former tended to be a balance of positive news reporting and middle-of-the-road analysis, with the natural exception of right-leaning columnists and political pundits.
The latter was far more negative and critical in its analysis, including from left-leaning pundits. Indeed, the dislike of Carney on both sides of the British political spectrum was rather remarkable to see.
Michael Taube: Heed Britain's stern warnings about Mark Carney — National Post
The British press has been far more critical of our new prime minister than our own
Larry Elliott — who served as economics editor of the Guardian, a left-wing U.K. daily, from 1996-2024 — wrote a fascinating op-ed about Carney on March 11. It’s a dreary portrayal of the man who had just won the Liberal leadership with 85.9 per cent of the vote two days prior.
Elliott acknowledged that Carney was a “strong believer in open markets and free trade” and “if he chose … could be charming.” Yet the negatives far outweighed the positives. “From the moment he took over as governor from Mervyn King in 2013,” Elliott wrote, “it was clear Carney considered himself to be the smartest man in the room and wanted to make sure everybody knew it. He was not a man to suffer fools gladly.”
While Carney was “intellectually self-confident and worked ferociously hard,” Elliott noted he had a “central banker’s caution when it came to public statements.” This was revealed in their first interview. “His answers to questions often went on for several minutes, making them pretty much unquotable,” wrote Elliott. “Given a 30-minute slot, I realized after 25 minutes that he had said nothing that would remotely make a news story.”
His final paragraph is jaw-dropping: “There was another side to Carney’s character. Journalists sometimes caught a glimpse of his volcanic temper and bank staff were wary of getting on the wrong side of him. As a governor he was respected but not especially liked.”
Indeed, Canadian journalists have already caught a mild snootful of Carney’s intemperate behaviour. CBC News Network’s Rosemary Barton was told by Carney in no uncertain terms to “look inside yourself,” and that, “You start from a prior of conflict and ill will,” when she expressed genuine doubt about his blind trust and any possible conflicts of interest he may have due to his years in the private sector.
Matthew Lynn’s March 10 column for the right-leaning Daily Telegraph newspaper was remarkably similar. The financial columnist acknowledged that Carney has “global experience,” “proven leadership skills” and “connections,” but that’s a small part of the story. “It takes only a cursory glance at his record to work out that Carney’s reputation is completely overblown,” he wrote. “In reality, he has been over-promoted all over again.”
As Lynn noted, “Over eight years at the Bank of England, Carney was at best an indifferent governor, and, at worse, a disappointing failure.“ Despite his huge salary of more than £600,000 a year, more than any of his predecessors had been paid, he seemed to have little feel for the role. The City quickly nick-named him ‘the unreliable boyfriend’ for his constant changes of direction on interest rates.”
By the time Carney left the central bank, he had “created a mess which his successors have struggled to clear up. Inflation spiked up to a peak of 11.1 per cent in the U.K., compared to 5.2 per cent in France or eight per cent in Italy, hardly a country known for controlling prices effectively, largely because the bank had printed too much money.”
Here’s the real kicker: “Carney is the epitome of a remote, globalized, technocratic elite. He is very good at self-promotion, at collecting trophy jobs and of course negotiating fabulously generous salaries and expenses for himself along the way. He is just not very good at delivering.”
Mark Carney claps back at Donald Trump’s claim he changed Canada's political landscape — Toronto Star
Canadians will decide their next government, Carney said at a Friday news conference, adding any trade talks will only come after the U.S. president shows respect for Canada’s sovereignty.
If the Carney experiment fails, we’ll know exactly who to praise — and who to blame, & it isn’t Trump.
This is utter insanity: under Justin Trudeau Canada suffered rapidly declining business investment and now his successor wants the country’s business leaders to take financial planning directives from Greta Thunberg.
Matthew Lau: Carney is as climate crazy as Guilbeault
For a decade, Mark Carney has pushed Greta Thunberg's climate agenda on the world's largest financial institutions. Read more.
A Mark Carney-led government will immediately remove the consumer carbon tax and instead, create a system of incentives to reward Canadians for making greener choices, such as purchasing an energy efficient appliance, electric vehicle, or improved home insulation…but…what if we’ve already done all that (except for purchasing the electric car, which is just beyond our means)???
Now, from this link above, let this next little bit sink in. “Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism”…
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism?Carney plans to impose the tariff on imports from other countries if he thinks they aren’t doing enough to reduce emissions. That tariff would make the products more expensive to import into Canada and that means Canadians would pay more. This sounds exactly like what Trudeau was doing, but from province to province…depending on his opinion if a province wasn’t kneeling down and kissing Trudeau’s environmental ring enough…
In this current environment, how do you think that’s gonna go over with? Let’s say…American (?) or China (?) etc…Hell, that’s another form of economic suicide, right there. Carney’s carbon tax tariff is unlikely to do anything but cost Canadians more money.
Here's what Carney will replace the carbon tax with. Either way, you pay!
Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney has revealed his plan for ditching the carbon tax but it still means you pay more.
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Here’s a key question for Carney: How would Trump respond to carbon tariffs on American goods?
Gage Haubrich: Mark Carney’s carbon tariff would hurt Canadians and help no one
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Carney to charge 'Carbon border adjustment' tariffs on imports
'Carney to charge 'Carbon border adjustment' tariffs on imports' Watch today's episode of 'The Really Big Show with Jim Csek and Iain Burns' on KelownaNow.co...
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This is while Carney & the Libs will be campaigning on trying to compare Poilievre to Trump? Wow….yet the above & this below are happening right now?
Canada doesn’t have executive orders, & an order in council can only be signed by the Governor General, so this red folder & Sharpie marker was just a Bigly performative Trump impersonation & nothing more. Smoke & mirrors, with a side of bullshit.
So. . . he's PM now? Yay.
I look forward to Canada imploding. exploding, rotting away, collapsing, falling into the sea, or whatever awful fate awaits it.
I look forward to Canada imploding. exploding, rotting away, collapsing, falling into the sea, or whatever awful fate awaits it.
The election call will kick off a day before Parliament was to resume sitting, when the Mark Carney-led minority government would have faced near certain defeat.
Election planning by all political parties has been well under way since Justin Trudeau announced his exit from politics on Jan. 6.
Mr. Carney will visit Rideau Hall Sunday to ask Governor-General Mary Simon to dissolve Parliament and call the election for an expected vote on April 28.
“It has been a long time since Canada’s very existence has been as threatened as it is now,” said Carleton University historian Stephen Azzi.
“I can’t think of any time since Confederation where a U.S. president has been this blatant about wanting to annex Canada. So, this is without precedent.”
Like the historic 1988 free-trade election in which Canadians embraced the United States, this one will be fought over economic stewardship and whether Mr. Carney or Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre can best defend the country and build an economy that is less dependent on its biggest and now-hostile trading partner.
The Liberals have made Mr. Trump the centrepiece of their early attacks ads, presenting Mr. Poilievre as a populist mini-Trump while extolling Mr. Carney’s economic credentials. Mr. Carney has derided his 45-year old Conservative opponent for spending half his life as an MP and never working in the private sector.
The Conservative Leader abandoned his year-long talk of Canada is broken to a Canada First slogan, and is threatening to respond in equal measure to Trump tariffs. So far, however, Mr. Poilievre has stuck largely to talk of eliminating the consumer and industrial carbon levy and bemoaning a decade of Trudeau-era rule even as voters are preoccupied with Trump tariffs and annexation threats.
Mr. Poilievre has a potentially powerful message that could resonate with voters. The nine-plus-year Trudeau legacy of progressive policies, high deficits, the housing crisis and a weakening economy will not be easy to run away from for Mr. Carney. As well, the Prime Minister is untested and will need to perform strongly in the English and French TV debates against seasoned politicians like Mr. Poilievre and Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet.
“It’s an open race and things could change quickly,” pollster Jean-Marc Léger said.
Economic uncertainty top of mind for voters as parties gear up for monumental federal election — The Globe and Mail
The Liberal Party’s election of Mark Carney as leader and Trump’s return to the White House have seemingly turned the tables on the Conservatives, who once appeared headed for a massive majority government
“Ontario will decide who will win and Quebec will decide whether it is a majority or minority government,” Mr. Léger said.
The outcome of the election may hinge on what Mr. Trump does on April 2. That’s the day he’s promised to bring in global tariffs, including 25-per-cent levies on all Canadian imports and 10 per cent on the country’s energy, critical minerals and potash. He’s already imposed 25-per-cent tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum.
“The current ballot question is who can defend Canada, but it could change to who can fight inflation,” Mr. Léger said.
“When the tariffs will be implemented on April 2, and a few days after, people will be hurt on groceries and their purchases, that could change the campaign.”
Nope just digging the hole deeper and continuing on the path to bankruptcy. Zimbabwean trillion dollar notes are our future .
Evan Solomon, fired by CBC decade ago, eyes Liberal candidacy in federal election
Author of the article:Spiro Papuckoski
Published Mar 20, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Canadian journalist Evan Solomon, photographed in Ottawa in 2015, is eyeing a run as a Liberal Party candidate in the next federal election.
Canadian journalist Evan Solomon, photographed in Ottawa in 2015, is eyeing a run as a Liberal Party candidate in the next federal election.
Mark Carney appears to have a close friend on board for the next federal election.
Evan Solomon, a former CBC broadcaster who was fired nearly a decade ago after a report alleged he helped broker art deals to wealthy Canadians including Carney, is planning to run as a Liberal Party candidate in the upcoming election.
Solomon announced his political intentions on social media Thursday afternoon.
“Given the urgent challenges and threats facing Canadians right now, I’ve decided it’s the right time to come home and do whatever I can to help serve my community and country,” Solomon wrote in an update on LinkedIn.
“I will be joining the team led by Prime Minister Mark Carney and will be running as a candidate in the next federal election. More details on this will be coming very soon.”
Solomon said he was stepping down as publisher of New York City-based GZERO Media and as a member of Eurasia Group’s Management Committee.
“While my time at GZERO and Eurasia Group has come to an end, my passion for fact-based, thoughtful debate remains as strong as ever,” he wrote. “I’m deeply grateful to my colleagues and friends for their support and look forward to working hard with so many of you on the road ahead.”
The 56-year-old Toronto native is a long-time friend of Carney, who took over from Justin Trudeau following a leadership vote on March 9.
Carney and Solomon once lived in the same tony Ottawa neighbourhood and were known to socialize together. They were often described as “jogging buddies,” one source said.
The prime minister’s wife, Diana Fox Carney, has been a senior adviser alongside Trudeau’s former senior aide Gerald Butts at Eurasia Group since May 2021.
Reports suggest Carney is expected to call a federal election on Sunday.
A decade ago, Solomon was working as a host of the CBC’s Power & Politics program when a report by the Toronto Star claimed he took a cut of art sales to people he knew through his work at the broadcaster. One of Solomon’s alleged high-powered buyers was Carney, the Bank of England governor at the time.
On June 9, 2015, the CBC announced it “ended its relationship” with Solomon following allegations he secretly pocketed $300,000 from commissions of the art sales.
“I did not view the art business as a conflict with my political journalism at the CBC and never intentionally used my position at the CBC to promote the business,” Solomon said in a statement at the time.
“I am deeply sorry for the damage that my activities have done to the trust that the CBC and its viewers and listeners have put in me. I have the utmost respect for the CBC and what it stands for.”
In the intervening years, Solomon was the host of CTV’s political affairs program Question Period and substituted in the anchor chair for CTV National News.
By 2022, Solomon joined digital media company GZERO Media as its publisher while he continued as a “special correspondent” on Canadian politics and global affairs with CTV News.
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Author of the article:Spiro Papuckoski
Published Mar 20, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 2 minute read
Canadian journalist Evan Solomon, photographed in Ottawa in 2015, is eyeing a run as a Liberal Party candidate in the next federal election.
Canadian journalist Evan Solomon, photographed in Ottawa in 2015, is eyeing a run as a Liberal Party candidate in the next federal election.
Mark Carney appears to have a close friend on board for the next federal election.
Evan Solomon, a former CBC broadcaster who was fired nearly a decade ago after a report alleged he helped broker art deals to wealthy Canadians including Carney, is planning to run as a Liberal Party candidate in the upcoming election.
Solomon announced his political intentions on social media Thursday afternoon.
“Given the urgent challenges and threats facing Canadians right now, I’ve decided it’s the right time to come home and do whatever I can to help serve my community and country,” Solomon wrote in an update on LinkedIn.
“I will be joining the team led by Prime Minister Mark Carney and will be running as a candidate in the next federal election. More details on this will be coming very soon.”
Solomon said he was stepping down as publisher of New York City-based GZERO Media and as a member of Eurasia Group’s Management Committee.
“While my time at GZERO and Eurasia Group has come to an end, my passion for fact-based, thoughtful debate remains as strong as ever,” he wrote. “I’m deeply grateful to my colleagues and friends for their support and look forward to working hard with so many of you on the road ahead.”
The 56-year-old Toronto native is a long-time friend of Carney, who took over from Justin Trudeau following a leadership vote on March 9.
Carney and Solomon once lived in the same tony Ottawa neighbourhood and were known to socialize together. They were often described as “jogging buddies,” one source said.
The prime minister’s wife, Diana Fox Carney, has been a senior adviser alongside Trudeau’s former senior aide Gerald Butts at Eurasia Group since May 2021.
Reports suggest Carney is expected to call a federal election on Sunday.
A decade ago, Solomon was working as a host of the CBC’s Power & Politics program when a report by the Toronto Star claimed he took a cut of art sales to people he knew through his work at the broadcaster. One of Solomon’s alleged high-powered buyers was Carney, the Bank of England governor at the time.
On June 9, 2015, the CBC announced it “ended its relationship” with Solomon following allegations he secretly pocketed $300,000 from commissions of the art sales.
“I did not view the art business as a conflict with my political journalism at the CBC and never intentionally used my position at the CBC to promote the business,” Solomon said in a statement at the time.
“I am deeply sorry for the damage that my activities have done to the trust that the CBC and its viewers and listeners have put in me. I have the utmost respect for the CBC and what it stands for.”
In the intervening years, Solomon was the host of CTV’s political affairs program Question Period and substituted in the anchor chair for CTV National News.
By 2022, Solomon joined digital media company GZERO Media as its publisher while he continued as a “special correspondent” on Canadian politics and global affairs with CTV News.
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Evan Solomon, fired by CBC decade ago, eyes Liberal candidacy in federal election
Mark Carney appears to have a close friend on board for the next federal election.
TVA says federal parties have to pay total of $300K for head-to-head French debate
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Sidhartha Banerjee
Published Mar 21, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
MONTREAL — If the four main federal political parties want to take part in the TVA network’s head-to-head French-language debate in the upcoming election campaign, they will have to shell out $75,000 each, the Montreal-headquartered broadcaster said Friday.
The Quebecor Media-owned television network says it needs cash to offset the costs of producing the Face-a-Face debate, which is divided into segments pitting one leader against another.
Louis-Philippe Neveu, executive producer of the debate, says that given the difficult financial, economic and competitive situation facing TVA Group and other media industry members, the only option for producing the show is to ask parties to contribute to production costs.
Neveu said in a statement that the $300,000 being sought will only cover part of those costs and will not yield any profit to TVA. The network doesn’t generate any advertising revenues during the broadcast, he said.
“Indeed, a program of this magnitude requires the deployment of considerable resources and technical and technological solutions,” Neveu said, describing costs for such things as setting up a studio and a production control room.
Quebecor says its TVA operations are about to move to a new studio east of downtown Montreal that isn’t large enough to hold the leaders debate, which will have to take place at Studio Mels, a production facility also owned by the telecommunications company.
Quebecor says its request for money isn’t out of line. Political parties spend money on advertising, the company says, adding that the $75,000 being sought is equivalent to taking out a page in the Saturday edition of the National Post.
“In the current context of TVA Group, production costs remain an insurmountable barrier without the contribution of the political parties,” Neveu said. “Without the support … the face-to-face debate cannot be presented.”
The Bloc Quebecois and the Conservative Party of Canada were on board with the cash call.
“The Bloc Quebecois calls on the Liberal party and the NDP to stop procrastinating and to take the necessary measures to participate in the TVA debate out of respect for the Quebec population,” party spokeswoman Joanie Riopel said in an emailed statement.
The Conservative party said it was ready to provide the requested amount. “It’s important to reach out to Quebecers and francophones across the country,” the party said in a post on X. “We shouldn’t be debating the debate.”
A spokesperson for the NDP said that while the party looks forward to debates, it hasn’t made a decision on paying TVA, adding that the network’s request would set an uncomfortable precedent.
The Liberals did not return a request for comment on whether they would pay to attend the debate.
During federal elections, there is typically an English and a French-language debate organized by a consortium of media and the Leaders’ Debate Commission. The head-to-head TVA debate format has been used during recent provincial and federal campaigns and has proven quite popular, attracting an average of 1.3 million viewers, according to the network.
When asked, Quebecor’s media team declined to say whether the debate would go ahead without the participation of all four political parties. It also declined to say whether a similar amount would be sought from provincial parties during the 2026 provincial election.
“The presentation of this unique format is clearly in the public interest and has already proven effective in guiding Quebecers in their election decisions,” Neveu says.
— With files from Anja Karadeglija in Ottawa
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Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Sidhartha Banerjee
Published Mar 21, 2025 • Last updated 1 day ago • 3 minute read
MONTREAL — If the four main federal political parties want to take part in the TVA network’s head-to-head French-language debate in the upcoming election campaign, they will have to shell out $75,000 each, the Montreal-headquartered broadcaster said Friday.
The Quebecor Media-owned television network says it needs cash to offset the costs of producing the Face-a-Face debate, which is divided into segments pitting one leader against another.
Louis-Philippe Neveu, executive producer of the debate, says that given the difficult financial, economic and competitive situation facing TVA Group and other media industry members, the only option for producing the show is to ask parties to contribute to production costs.
Neveu said in a statement that the $300,000 being sought will only cover part of those costs and will not yield any profit to TVA. The network doesn’t generate any advertising revenues during the broadcast, he said.
“Indeed, a program of this magnitude requires the deployment of considerable resources and technical and technological solutions,” Neveu said, describing costs for such things as setting up a studio and a production control room.
Quebecor says its TVA operations are about to move to a new studio east of downtown Montreal that isn’t large enough to hold the leaders debate, which will have to take place at Studio Mels, a production facility also owned by the telecommunications company.
Quebecor says its request for money isn’t out of line. Political parties spend money on advertising, the company says, adding that the $75,000 being sought is equivalent to taking out a page in the Saturday edition of the National Post.
“In the current context of TVA Group, production costs remain an insurmountable barrier without the contribution of the political parties,” Neveu said. “Without the support … the face-to-face debate cannot be presented.”
The Bloc Quebecois and the Conservative Party of Canada were on board with the cash call.
“The Bloc Quebecois calls on the Liberal party and the NDP to stop procrastinating and to take the necessary measures to participate in the TVA debate out of respect for the Quebec population,” party spokeswoman Joanie Riopel said in an emailed statement.
The Conservative party said it was ready to provide the requested amount. “It’s important to reach out to Quebecers and francophones across the country,” the party said in a post on X. “We shouldn’t be debating the debate.”
A spokesperson for the NDP said that while the party looks forward to debates, it hasn’t made a decision on paying TVA, adding that the network’s request would set an uncomfortable precedent.
The Liberals did not return a request for comment on whether they would pay to attend the debate.
During federal elections, there is typically an English and a French-language debate organized by a consortium of media and the Leaders’ Debate Commission. The head-to-head TVA debate format has been used during recent provincial and federal campaigns and has proven quite popular, attracting an average of 1.3 million viewers, according to the network.
When asked, Quebecor’s media team declined to say whether the debate would go ahead without the participation of all four political parties. It also declined to say whether a similar amount would be sought from provincial parties during the 2026 provincial election.
“The presentation of this unique format is clearly in the public interest and has already proven effective in guiding Quebecers in their election decisions,” Neveu says.
— With files from Anja Karadeglija in Ottawa
TVA says federal parties have to pay total of $300K for head-to-head French debate
TVA says it needs cash to offset the costs of producing the Face-a-Face debate.