The world has always been a dangerous place and watching what’s going on in the Eastern Europe, the middle East and now even in the US is definitely depressing.  Our political leaders foment division between people in pursuit of personal political gains and it’s maddening.  It’s sad that people are so easily manipulated to “hate” the other side, something I always tell Brandon is to try and control his emotions, look at things rationally and remember that if someone uses anger & rage, that they’re trying to use you.

I don’t believe there’s a grand conspiracy to push us in a “preferred” direction but there certainly are corrupting influences, especially in American politics and that leaches into the rest of the world.  If you have a politician blaming one group for all of a problem that you know requires multifaceted solution, don’t fall for the bait and instead do your best to throw the bums out, they’re useless!

One more lane, one more ban or one more bomb, there are no easily solutions to life’s problems and our leaders act like a bunch of school yard children at the international level.  Don’t fall for it and demand better.

I mean this is just funny…  Mark Carney & the Liberals ran on being tough and willing to fight Trump and when I told people that Ian Bremmer who runs Eurasia Group that happens to be filled with Liberal insiders like Carney’s wife, Evan Solomon the new Minister for AI or Gerald Butts (former Trudeau friend and PMO staffer).

America’s largest trade partners, Mexico and Canada, are facing more significant trade pressures from the Trump administration, but the imbalance of power is such that they have no credible strategy to push back. Everyone understands they’ll have to accept Trump’s terms eventually; the only question is whether capitulation comes before or after a costly fight. Riding an 85% job approval, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has enough domestic political space to yield to Trump’s demands to keep Mexico in his good graces, as she is already doing. By contrast, Canadian leaders have a political incentive to put up a bigger fight because Trump’s threats toward Canada’s economy and sovereignty have sharply inflamed nationalist sentiment north of the border in the run-up to the April 28 elections. However, I expect Ottawa will quietly fold shortly after the vote to ensure that ongoing relations with the US remain functional.

Source: GZERO

Bold emphasis my own, anyway looks like Carney has done just that.

Canada has effectively suspended almost all of its retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products, tamping down inflation risks and improving its growth outlook, according to Oxford Economics.

Source: National Post

PM Carney told us during the election that Canada’s old relationship with America is over, Look I understand the need to be pragmatic, the US is next door and a huge market, they’ll always be our largest market and we’ll consume a lot of their goods but then say that.  It’s what I hate about politicians, saying one thing and doing the opposite…  For someone who loves to say they’re not a politician the PM certainly learns the bad political habits quickly.

My next question if we’re suspending our tariffs what are we getting in return?  Unfortunately the answer to that is nothing, exactly what Bremmer said but elbows up right…

The Toronto Star is not news, it’s the propaganda arm of the Liberal Party of Canada…  No immigration is not something that should be talked about after the election, this story should have been published before.

Experts said these are only symptoms of a slew of deeper problems within the immigration system.

“One of the critical challenges (for the system) is a loss of accountability and maybe even a loss of competence in the decision-making processes,” Hyndman said.

Source: The Star

An expert that they interviewed said there’s a loss of accountability and even a loss of competence but we can talk about it now after all the astroturfing the Star did to help the Liberals win.  If you believe the same group of people who surrounded Trudeau (politicians and insiders in the PMO) now surround Carney and he’ll do something different, well I guess you’re a boomer who voted for Trump’s preferred candidate.

10 years of shit governance at the federal level and now we have to watch this slow moving train wreck get worse…  Mark Carney is my PM and I hope to god he cleans house, get rid of all the Trudeau loyalists and cabinet members, none of them deserve to remain in power.  Only then do we have a chance of having a fresh start but I doubt it and when shit continues to deteriorate, I can’t wait to see how The Star astroturfs the Liberal record like they did when Trudeau was in power.

This is pretty funny, during an interview with Trump he was being truthful about preferring Carney so boomers & Liberals voted for Trump’s preferred candidate.

Skipped ahead in the video to where Trump talks and I also laughed when he mentioned the Conservative hated Trump more but that’s ok Liberals will justify this because they’re always right…  I do agree that no matter what happens, we need to have to deal with the US and they’ll always be our biggest trading partner but man it’s just funny how things work out.

Thanks boomers!

A Liberal candidate Paul Chiang told supporters they should kidnap his former Conservative opponent Joe Tay, deliver him to the Chinese consulate for the $1 million HKD reward (Hong Kong authorities have a bounty on Joe Tay) and for some reason Mark Carney decided to keep his Liberal candidate.  Big misstep, I mean they turfed someone on Friday so why keep this guy around, they could replace him and slot someone else in quite easily.

Mark Carney’s response is even worse.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney says Paul Chiang will remain a candidate under his party’s banner, despite calls to drop the Markham-Unionville incumbent for suggesting people turn in a Conservative candidate to the Chinese consulate and collect a bounty.

“I view this as a teachable moment,” Carney said during a campaign stop in Vaughan, Ont., Monday.

Carney is facing external pressure to drop Chiang after he told a Chinese-language media news conference in January that people could cash in if they turned Joe Tay in to the Chinese consulate in Toronto. Tay is running for the Conservatives in the suburban Toronto battleground riding of Don Valley North.

Source: CBC

Bold emphasis is mine but what?  Rumors are that the Liberal party is soft on Chinese influence and this does nothing but reinforce that image.  I certainly hope the Liberals make more of these idiotic mistakes and that it costs them dearly in this election.

I do not like the reporting in the Toronto Star, I’m ok with bias (everyone has that) but they’re simply not objective with their reporting and this article is a prime example.

Source: The Toronto Star

For anyone who only reads headlines, that’s a big AH HA moment but there’s absolutely nothing there.  Pierre Poilievre bought a broad based Vanguard Canadian ETF that happens to have Brookfield stocks in it, it’s not like he purchased them directly himself.  By the headline’s logic, I’m a Nazi because I buy Vanguard VFV every month and it holds Tesla.  It’s so bad that the article rebuts the headline, so what was the point?

Unfortunately most people don’t read past the headline and will assume Mr. Poilievre is a hypocrite when that’s not justified (in this case).

TVA a private Quebec broadcaster cancelled its political debate today after Mark Carney of the Liberals refused to join its debate.  This isn’t an obscure thing, it’s been going on for a long time now (2021, 2019, 2015 as an example) but the Liberal candidate is skipping it and now it’s cancelled altogether.

Contrary to what he suggested Monday morning, Liberal leader Mark Carney will not participate in the TVA network’s Face-to-Face debate , which has decided to cancel this election campaign event.

“Why not?” Carney simply replied on Monday in Gander, Newfoundland, after being challenged to attend by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. But on Monday afternoon, the Liberal Party’s Guillaume Bertrand nipped the leader’s participation in the bud, specifying that he would only take part in the debates in French and English on Radio-Canada and CBC.

Source: Le journal de Monteal

Sorry I don’t speak French so it’s translated by Google.  Imagine the Liberal outrage if Pierre Poilievre skipped debates but because it’s the Liberals doing it, it’s ok.  I understand why Mark Carney & the Liberals are skipping it, they’re trying to ride the honeymoon period of him becoming Liberal leader and win the election by default.  I can’t speak for other people but I like debates, it shows how someone performs under pressure and it also gets people on the record regarding policy…  Important to know for this election and the next but because Mr. Carney is skipping it, they’ll cancel instead.

Imagine the Liberal outrage (rightly) if Pierre Poilievre skipped a debate, man we’d never hear the end of it about how he’s scared or cowardly but because it’s the Liberals well it’s some how ok.

I’m obviously partisan but this is objectively bad and should be seen as a sign that Mark Carney can’t handle the pressure.

I mean this is just pretty funny, the Liberal party of Canada celebrating PM Carney getting rid of the consumer carbon tax.

With this & the higher capital gains inclusion rate (generational fairness remember?) Liberals are cheering Mark Carney undoing everything Trudeau has done and stood for.  What’s funnier is that they’re perfectly fine with the hypocrisy too.  Well I mean you got to give it to the Liberals, they do whatever it takes to win.

I just hope that Canadians are not stupid enough to fall for this crap, the last 10 years have been a disaster and won’t get better with a new face leading the Liberals.

Mark Carney has been voted in as the next Liberal party of Canada leader and will become the next PM despite having told Liberal supporters no real policy positions…  Funny because I remember Liberals complaining about the lack of policy from Pierre Poilievre but Carney well that’s ok.  To be fair the few policy positions that he has released (along with the other Liberal leadership candidates) have stolen a lot of what PP has proposed, I guess that’s ok since it’s good policy but yeah it’s kind of funny to watch the Liberals run away from everything they’ve stood for in the last 9 years.

Unfortunately Trump has shaken politics up in Canada and looks Liberal fortunes are on the rise, I certainly hope come election time people aren’t fooled by the same people who are now running on almost a completely opposite platform.

On the Conservative side, PP really needs to stop talking about the carbon tax.  You won, talk about how even without being in government, you’re able to get everyone to drop that lousy policy but talk more broadly about affordability or how the last 9 years of Liberal rule has left Canada weak and vulnerable to Trump and his antics.  Sigh what a mess but it appears team sport politics is most important and it’s maddening.