Mark Carney (Trudeau Liberal Replacement) as PM

Ron in Regina

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Well, at least she's not in government anymore. I suspect the fact she can speak Ukrainian has something to do with it. Don't know if its good or bad. I suspect nothing of import will result in this appointment.
She will remain an MP for the time being…
In order to have Carney distance himself from Trudeau, & in this case Mini-Trudeau, I wonder what the salary of this position they just made up for Freeland is (?) & this will fit into her government pension that I’m sure ties into her best couple of years, pay? I’m pretty sure she’s not taking a pay cut in order for Carney to remove her from His Cabinet and association with his current version of the Liberal Party….
 
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In order to have Carney distance himself from Trudeau, & in this case Mini-Trudeau, I wonder what the salary of this position they just made up for Freeland is (?) & this will fit into her government pension that I’m sure ties into her best couple of years, pay? I’m pretty sure she’s not taking a pay cut in order for Carney to remove her from His Cabinet and association with his current version of the Liberal Party….
She has not yet given up her seat .
 
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Next thing your going to hear is someone say Carney is doing not that bad of a job. Night and day from our time with Justin who is now out showing his true colours.

Very good chance Liberals would get their majority if we go to the polls IMO and wonder which riding Mr Poilievre would look to get a seat after that.
 
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Next thing your going to hear is someone say Carney is doing not that bad of a job. Night and day from our time with Justin who is now out showing his true colours.

Very good chance Liberals would get their majority if we go to the polls IMO and wonder which riding Mr Poilievre would look to get a seat after that.
Good grief, I certainly hope not. He's all talk & no action thus far & if Canadians figure that's "doing a good job" then we're doomed for sure!!
 

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Sad to say but Canadian voters are easily swayed.
Agree 100% If Canadians get pissed off by a Conservative-initiated election, the Liberals could end up with a majority, then we are totally fucked for four years, and they answer to no one. Sadly, the best path forward is to wait for the casualty numbers in the job world to continue piling up. There will be blood.
 

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Agree 100% If Canadians get pissed off by a Conservative-initiated election, the Liberals could end up with a majority, then we are totally fucked for four years, and they answer to no one. Sadly, the best path forward is to wait for the casualty numbers in the job world to continue piling up. There will be blood.
Canada is on a certain path to implosion , I almost wish I could be alive to see it .we no longer make any sense as a country with no national identity . Sad how we are throwing away the legacy our fore fathers I trusted us with .
 
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The 2015 ceremony was like a carnival: cheering crowds were invited to hail each new arrival as if they were Taylor Swift. Trudeau’s statement on why he had balanced men and women in his cabinet — “Because it’s 2015” — was his most memorable, carefully crafted but apparently impromptu line.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, backing away from a key international priority of his Liberal predecessors, says his government does not have a feminist foreign policy.

Cabinet ministers under former prime minister Justin Trudeau announced in 2017 that their government had a feminist foreign policy, and they continued to refer to the policy for years after. Their support deepened further in 2020 when the government promised to draft a full document to define the policy.

But despite years of backroom discussions by federal officials, no document was ever published. And now Mr. Carney is distancing himself from the concept.

Issues such as gender equality and reducing gender-based violence are an “aspect” of his government’s foreign policy, he told a press conference in Johannesburg on Sunday. “But I wouldn’t describe our foreign policy as feminist foreign policy,” he said.

His statement is in sharp contrast to many years of rhetoric from Mr. Trudeau’s foreign affairs ministers, including Chrystia Freeland and François-Philippe Champagne, who spoke often of Canada’s feminist policies on international issues.

“Canada is proud to have a feminist foreign policy, not because it looks good, but because it produces tangible and measurable results,” Mr. Champagne said in a speech in February, 2020.

In one key element of the policy, the Trudeau government introduced a feminist foreign-aid strategy in 2017, promising that at least 95 per cent of Canada’s bilateral foreign aid projects would include the goals of gender equality and empowerment of women and girls.

Mr. Carney, however, has placed less emphasis on feminist policies.
 

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The new Cabinet is appointed as follows:
  • Shafqat Ali, President of the Treasury Board
  • Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations
  • Anita Anand, Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety
  • François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Finance and National Revenue
  • Rebecca Chartrand, Minister of Northern and Arctic Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency
  • Julie Dabrusin, Minister of Environment and Climate Change
  • Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
  • Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Transport and Internal Trade
  • Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages
  • Mandy Gull-Masty, Minister of Indigenous Services
  • Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario
  • Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
  • Mélanie Joly, Minister of Industry and Minister responsible for Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
  • Dominic LeBlanc, President of the King’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs and One Canadian Economy
  • Joël Lightbound, Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement
  • Heath MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food
  • Steven MacKinnon, Leader of the Government in the House of Commons
  • David J. McGuinty, Minister of National Defence
  • Jill McKnight, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence
  • Lena Metlege Diab, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship
  • Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health
  • Eleanor Olszewski, Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience and Minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada
  • Gregor Robertson, Minister of Housing and Infrastructure and Minister responsible for Pacific Economic Development Canada
  • Maninder Sidhu, Minister of International Trade
  • Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation and Minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario
  • Joanne Thompson, Minister of Fisheries
  • Rechie Valdez, Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Secretary of State (Small Business and Tourism)
The Cabinet will be supported by 10 secretaries of State who will provide dedicated leadership on key issues and priorities within their minister’s portfolio.

The new secretaries of State are appointed as follows:
  • Buckley Belanger, Secretary of State (Rural Development)
  • Stephen Fuhr, Secretary of State (Defence Procurement)
  • Anna Gainey, Secretary of State (Children and Youth)
  • Wayne Long, Secretary of State (Canada Revenue Agency and Financial Institutions)
  • Stephanie McLean, Secretary of State (Seniors)
  • Nathalie Provost, Secretary of State (Nature)
  • Ruby Sahota, Secretary of State (Combatting Crime)
  • Randeep Sarai, Secretary of State (International Development)
  • Adam van Koeverden, Secretary of State (Sport)
  • John Zerucelli, Secretary of State (Labour)
Speaker of the House?
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All Familiar faces in the front seat….
(YouTube & Is Melanie Joly leaving or being pushed?)
 

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PM Mark Carney's housing photo op faked, Privy Council Office admits
Carney faced accusations of constructing 'Potemkin village' to promote new federal housing agency

Author of the article:Bryan Passifiume
Published Nov 26, 2025 • Last updated 22 hours ago • 3 minute read

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces Build Canada Homes federal housing program at a fake construction site in suburban Ottawa on Sunday, Sept. 14 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney announces Build Canada Homes federal housing program at a fake construction site in suburban Ottawa on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025.
OTTAWA — It was all for show.


Newly released documents confirm the construction site used as a venue for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Sept. 14 press conference announcing a new federal housing agency was nothing more than an elaborate — and costly — stage for the cameras.


In a response to an order paper question filed by Conservative MP Arnold Viersen that asked who “made the decision to temporarily erect unfinished prop houses for the announcement,” the Privy Council Office admitted it was all for show — describing it as a “demonstration” by Ottawa-based modular home builder Caivan Homes.

Homes bound for the Arctic, Ottawa
“The homes have since been disassembled and the Nunavut home is now on its way to Canada’s Arctic for occupancy by family in need,” read the PCO’s reply.


“Similarly, the stacked townhomes are being assembled for a project in eastern Ottawa.”

The PCO also says the lot, owned by the federal government, “was an example of federal land that can be utilized for a housing project.”

The site of the PM's housing announcement, taken on Friday, Sept. 19 2025
The site of the PM’s housing announcement, taken on Friday, Sept. 19 2025
None of that, however, was mentioned by either Carney or Housing Minister Gregor Robertson during the announcement meant to launch Build Canada Homes (BCH,) the new federal housing agency headed by former Toronto councillor Ana Bailao.

“The two sets of homes behind me were manufactured in two days and assembled on-site in one week,” Carney said during the announcement from what was, and still remains, a vacant gravel lot on Merivale and Colonnade Rds. in Nepean.

“We held back the workers from finishing it so we could see how things fit together, how the computer design fits together and tailors the structure.”

Pointing out one of the units still on a flatbed trailer, Carney said it was being shipped to Nunavut, however, he spent the press conference implying the freshly graded lot — absent of buried utilities or roughed-in roads typical of a conventional construction site — would eventually become a new neighbourhood.



PM accused of creating ‘Potemkin village’
When the Toronto Sun revisited the site a few days later, the housing units were gone — replaced by an excavator and bulldozer grading the lot with gravel.

This prompted widespread criticism, with many accusing the government of erecting a “Potemkin village” for the benefit of the cameras.

While the Department of Housing had no comments to add to the response, they said the stunt cost taxpayers $32,707.23.

Feds sought ‘prototype build’
Caivan co-founder Frank Cairo told the Toronto Sun the government approached them with plans to demonstrate a “prototype build” as part of the BCH announcement.

“The rapid prototype build for this announcement was featuring actual homes but was never intended to be misunderstood as a housing development site,” he said.


“The Caivan/ABIC team prototype builds our homes prior to mass production — this is what occurred on the Merivale site in Ottawa where the announcement took place.”

He said the homes used on the site were disassembled and repurposed for a separate housing development in eastern Ottawa.

“There was no added cost in doing this as it was synergized with our existing process,” Cairo said.

“We are a proud Canadian company and are doing everything in our power to be part of the solution to the current housing crisis.”

Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, criticized the government for being disingenuous about the announcement.

“Carney billed taxpayers for a very expensive photo op,” he said.

“Carney shouldn’t be billing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars so he can pretend to be Bob the Builder.”

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PM Mark Carney's housing photo op faked, Privy Council Office admits
Carney faced accusations of constructing 'Potemkin village' to promote new federal housing agency

Author of the article:Bryan Passifiume
Published Nov 26, 2025 • Last updated 22 hours ago • 3 minute read

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces Build Canada Homes federal housing program at a fake construction site in suburban Ottawa on Sunday, Sept. 14 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney announces Build Canada Homes federal housing program at a fake construction site in suburban Ottawa on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025.
OTTAWA — It was all for show.


Newly released documents confirm the construction site used as a venue for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Sept. 14 press conference announcing a new federal housing agency was nothing more than an elaborate — and costly — stage for the cameras.


In a response to an order paper question filed by Conservative MP Arnold Viersen that asked who “made the decision to temporarily erect unfinished prop houses for the announcement,” the Privy Council Office admitted it was all for show — describing it as a “demonstration” by Ottawa-based modular home builder Caivan Homes.

Homes bound for the Arctic, Ottawa
“The homes have since been disassembled and the Nunavut home is now on its way to Canada’s Arctic for occupancy by family in need,” read the PCO’s reply.


“Similarly, the stacked townhomes are being assembled for a project in eastern Ottawa.”

The PCO also says the lot, owned by the federal government, “was an example of federal land that can be utilized for a housing project.”

The site of the PM's housing announcement, taken on Friday, Sept. 19 2025
The site of the PM’s housing announcement, taken on Friday, Sept. 19 2025
None of that, however, was mentioned by either Carney or Housing Minister Gregor Robertson during the announcement meant to launch Build Canada Homes (BCH,) the new federal housing agency headed by former Toronto councillor Ana Bailao.

“The two sets of homes behind me were manufactured in two days and assembled on-site in one week,” Carney said during the announcement from what was, and still remains, a vacant gravel lot on Merivale and Colonnade Rds. in Nepean.

“We held back the workers from finishing it so we could see how things fit together, how the computer design fits together and tailors the structure.”

Pointing out one of the units still on a flatbed trailer, Carney said it was being shipped to Nunavut, however, he spent the press conference implying the freshly graded lot — absent of buried utilities or roughed-in roads typical of a conventional construction site — would eventually become a new neighbourhood.



PM accused of creating ‘Potemkin village’
When the Toronto Sun revisited the site a few days later, the housing units were gone — replaced by an excavator and bulldozer grading the lot with gravel.

This prompted widespread criticism, with many accusing the government of erecting a “Potemkin village” for the benefit of the cameras.

While the Department of Housing had no comments to add to the response, they said the stunt cost taxpayers $32,707.23.

Feds sought ‘prototype build’
Caivan co-founder Frank Cairo told the Toronto Sun the government approached them with plans to demonstrate a “prototype build” as part of the BCH announcement.

“The rapid prototype build for this announcement was featuring actual homes but was never intended to be misunderstood as a housing development site,” he said.


“The Caivan/ABIC team prototype builds our homes prior to mass production — this is what occurred on the Merivale site in Ottawa where the announcement took place.”

He said the homes used on the site were disassembled and repurposed for a separate housing development in eastern Ottawa.

“There was no added cost in doing this as it was synergized with our existing process,” Cairo said.

“We are a proud Canadian company and are doing everything in our power to be part of the solution to the current housing crisis.”

Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, criticized the government for being disingenuous about the announcement.

“Carney billed taxpayers for a very expensive photo op,” he said.

“Carney shouldn’t be billing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars so he can pretend to be Bob the Builder.”

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Here in Metro Vancouver I'm seeing apartment and condo complexes building sites that are moving at a crawl. The weathering on the lumber speaks volumes.

Capital costs are out pacing sales. I dont see the concrete and aggregate moving like it was in 21/22. If there is already a glut and low confidence, many of these projects will be shuttered. Is this where the Feds swoop in and scoop these project in prime location for dirt cheap or will Brookfield do it.

A crash is coming.
 
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PM Mark Carney's housing photo op faked, Privy Council Office admits
Carney faced accusations of constructing 'Potemkin village' to promote new federal housing agency

Author of the article:Bryan Passifiume
Published Nov 26, 2025 • Last updated 22 hours ago • 3 minute read

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces Build Canada Homes federal housing program at a fake construction site in suburban Ottawa on Sunday, Sept. 14 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney announces Build Canada Homes federal housing program at a fake construction site in suburban Ottawa on Sunday, Sept. 14, 2025.
OTTAWA — It was all for show.


Newly released documents confirm the construction site used as a venue for Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Sept. 14 press conference announcing a new federal housing agency was nothing more than an elaborate — and costly — stage for the cameras.


In a response to an order paper question filed by Conservative MP Arnold Viersen that asked who “made the decision to temporarily erect unfinished prop houses for the announcement,” the Privy Council Office admitted it was all for show — describing it as a “demonstration” by Ottawa-based modular home builder Caivan Homes.

Homes bound for the Arctic, Ottawa
“The homes have since been disassembled and the Nunavut home is now on its way to Canada’s Arctic for occupancy by family in need,” read the PCO’s reply.


“Similarly, the stacked townhomes are being assembled for a project in eastern Ottawa.”

The PCO also says the lot, owned by the federal government, “was an example of federal land that can be utilized for a housing project.”

The site of the PM's housing announcement, taken on Friday, Sept. 19 2025
The site of the PM’s housing announcement, taken on Friday, Sept. 19 2025
None of that, however, was mentioned by either Carney or Housing Minister Gregor Robertson during the announcement meant to launch Build Canada Homes (BCH,) the new federal housing agency headed by former Toronto councillor Ana Bailao.

“The two sets of homes behind me were manufactured in two days and assembled on-site in one week,” Carney said during the announcement from what was, and still remains, a vacant gravel lot on Merivale and Colonnade Rds. in Nepean.

“We held back the workers from finishing it so we could see how things fit together, how the computer design fits together and tailors the structure.”

Pointing out one of the units still on a flatbed trailer, Carney said it was being shipped to Nunavut, however, he spent the press conference implying the freshly graded lot — absent of buried utilities or roughed-in roads typical of a conventional construction site — would eventually become a new neighbourhood.



PM accused of creating ‘Potemkin village’
When the Toronto Sun revisited the site a few days later, the housing units were gone — replaced by an excavator and bulldozer grading the lot with gravel.

This prompted widespread criticism, with many accusing the government of erecting a “Potemkin village” for the benefit of the cameras.

While the Department of Housing had no comments to add to the response, they said the stunt cost taxpayers $32,707.23.

Feds sought ‘prototype build’
Caivan co-founder Frank Cairo told the Toronto Sun the government approached them with plans to demonstrate a “prototype build” as part of the BCH announcement.

“The rapid prototype build for this announcement was featuring actual homes but was never intended to be misunderstood as a housing development site,” he said.


“The Caivan/ABIC team prototype builds our homes prior to mass production — this is what occurred on the Merivale site in Ottawa where the announcement took place.”

He said the homes used on the site were disassembled and repurposed for a separate housing development in eastern Ottawa.

“There was no added cost in doing this as it was synergized with our existing process,” Cairo said.

“We are a proud Canadian company and are doing everything in our power to be part of the solution to the current housing crisis.”

Franco Terrazzano, federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, criticized the government for being disingenuous about the announcement.

“Carney billed taxpayers for a very expensive photo op,” he said.

“Carney shouldn’t be billing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars so he can pretend to be Bob the Builder.”

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Wasting taxpayer seems to be the way of the Liberals. They just can't help themselves. It's not coming out of their pockets, so they'll just continue to spend, spend, spend.
 

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Wasting taxpayer seems to be the way of the Liberals. They just can't help themselves. It's not coming out of their pockets, so they'll just continue to spend, spend, spend.
They have to pay for their base , somehow . Easiest to spend free money and hope the Piper doesn’t come calling until after they retire .
 
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Too many quit to do that. Trudeau was just throwing Band-Aids on the situation with his last cabinet shuffle just to keep the chairs warm.

Hell, Dominic Leblanc was appointed finance minister…& and he himself openly admitted that he was bad at math & sciences. I shit you not! Carney didn’t ditch him, but shuffled him sideways and appointed Frankie Bubbles as the finance minister…& that’s his 5th cabinet posting in the last six years…& the last finance minister…sorry, the second last finance minister before Frankie Bubbles so waaay back about 3 months ago quit the morning she was supposed to present the budget, & even she made it into the cabinet!!!🤣

If Carney didn’t trim down the number of cabinet appointments, he would’ve had to appoint Stefan Dion’s taxidermied dog Kyoto to a cabinet position but Carney is trying to distance himself from environmental appointments until after the next election. Look at where Guilbeault landed (but still in Cabinet)!!

The last I heard there was about 50 current liberal MP’s that aren’t gonna run again in this next federal election whenever that happens…so roughly 1/3rd.
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…& many of those where cabinet ministers so the pickings where slim.
Prime Minister Mark Carney will shuffle his cabinet again today after the resignation of Steven Guilbeault, who served as minister of Canadian identity and culture. Mr. Guilbeault left the post Thursday over concerns the government was walking away from efforts to combat climate change, five weeks after qualifying for his lifetime pension.

The swearing-in ceremony is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Rideau Hall.

Mr. Guilbeault served as environment minister in the last Liberal government but was placed in charge of new portfolios after the spring election. He remains the MP for Laurier–Sainte-Marie, where he was first elected in 2019.

Mr. Guilbeault is the second cabinet minister to leave since the Liberals were re-elected with a minority government in April.

Former transport and internal trade Minister Chrystia Freeland left cabinet in September to become the Special Representative for the Reconstruction of Ukraine and her responsibilities were split. Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon added the transport file to his job, and internal trade went to Dominic LeBlanc, the intergovernmental affairs minister who is also in charge of Canada-U.S. trade.
 

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Marc Miller, who last served as Minister of Immigration under Trudeau, has been appointed as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages.

Minister of Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement Joël Lightbound will now take on a larger portfolio, assuming the role as Quebec Lieutenant, while Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin will inherit the nature file.

Rycycling. It’s good for the environment, etc…but maybe not so much when Carney is trying to distance himself from the Trudeau Stank…& to resurrect a Trudeau Cabinet Minister of Immigration and Refugees? Uhmmm…well, it’ll give the opposition something to laugh about anyway. Glass half full.