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Toronto Sun
16 hours ago
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
PIPELINE DELUSION: Trudeau's ill-informed green ideology haunts Canada economically
Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada Justin Trudeau speaks at a Liberal fundraiser, Monday, June 12, 2023 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld WATCH: After a trade deal between the U.S. and the EU, Sun political columnist Lorne Gunter explains how there are around 1 trillion reasons showing what a goof former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was. What do YOU think? Tell us your thoughts in the comment section below or send us a Letter to the Editor for possible publication to . Letters must be 250 words or less and signed. And don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube Channel. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account MLB Toronto & GTA Canada Toronto Blue Jays Canada
Toronto Sun
7 days ago
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
GUNTER: 'Attention-seeking' group stacking ballot in Alberta byelection should stop
Politicians shouldn't be in charge of reforming process, but protesters who represent no one but themselves shouldn't either An example of a ballot for the riding of Carleton, showing the names of Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Liberal Party of Canada candidate Bruce Fanjoy, is seen at the Elections Canada Distribution Centre on the day of the federal election in Ottawa on April 28, 2025. Photo by Justin Tang / The Canadian Press As of Tuesday, the Longest Ballot Committee had signed up more than 130 candidates to run in the Aug. 18 byelection in the Battle River-Crowfoot riding. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account All have the same registered agent, Tomas Szuchewycz, the official spokesman for the committee. And with a week left until nominations close, there is a chance the committee will reach its goal of signing up 200 candidates. The rule is that each candidate must have 100 signatures from people who live in the riding, signed in front of witnesses. At the time of writing, Elections Canada had not responded to my question about whether they had verified the residence of all 130 candidates' nominators. This is just an attention-seeking stunt. Most of the committee's candidates are not from the riding. I'd bet most have never been to the oil, farming and ranching riding in east-central Alberta. They might even have trouble pointing it out on a map. And most will never come — ever — not just during the campaign. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Many are people who let the committee place their names on the ballot in the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton during the April general election — the riding Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre lost, necessitating this byelection. The Longest Ballot Committee is not interested in what the voters of the riding want. They have no intent of listening to them or taking their views to Ottawa. They are in the race for one reason only, to gum up the works to draw attention to their demand that Canada jettison its first-past-the-post electoral system in favour of proportional representation. The irony is that their stated goal is to improve Canadian democracy. Politicians shouldn't be in charge of reforming the process. But they, who have never been elected to anything, who represent no one but themselves, believe they should decide. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Want the system changed with legitimacy, folks? Dedicate yourself to the hard work of getting elected, then going to Ottawa and convincing the other MPs to vote for change, too. The other irony? The committee focused its attack in the April election on Poilievre. They didn't also clog the ballot in Mark Carney's riding even though it was the Liberals who promised never to run another election on first-past-the-post after their 2015 election victory, then reneged. Don't you think if a group's aim is to highlight politicians' inherent conflict-of-interest in bringing in election changes, they'd focus their efforts on the party that promised but didn't deliver? Instead the committee is going after Poilievre a second time in under four months. That couldn't be a show of ideological bias, could it? This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The committee is at one and the same time arrogant and sophomoric. In their, 'Look at us! Look at us!' trickery, they are making it harder for voters who actually live in Battle River-Crowfoot (or any other riding they target) to cast a ballot for the person they believe will best represent their riding in Parliament. I'm not against electoral protests. Spoil your ballot, if you believe the exercise is futile. And I have more than once defended in print Edmonton's Eat Your Ballot committee. In the past, they have gone to their polling stations on election day, picked up their ballots, taken them outside to eat it in front of media cameras. I've seen them blend their ballots with juice on the polling station steps and drink them. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. One Edmonton protester even boiled hers in chocolate, poured it in a tart shell and ate it. The ballot-eaters had much the same electoral goals as the Longest Ballot Committee, but the difference is they were affecting only their own ballots. The ballot belongs to the voter, who should be free to do with it as he or she wishes. But the committee is making it harder for others to exercise their democratic rights. They should grow up and stop. lgunter@ Read More Bookmark our website and support our journalism: Don't miss the news you need to know — add and to your bookmarks and sign up for our newsletters . You can also support our journalism by becoming a digital subscriber. 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Toronto Sun
19-06-2025
- Business
- Toronto Sun
EDITORIAL: Carney's books as bad as Trudeau's?
Mark Carney, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, embraces Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after being announced the winner at the Liberal Leadership Event in Ottawa, on Sunday, March 9, 2025. Photo by Justin Tang / THE CANADIAN PRESS New concerns expressed by the parliamentary budget officer suggest the financial books of the Mark Carney government could be as bad as those of the Justin Trudeau government. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account In his June economic and fiscal monitor released June 19, Yves Giroux said that given Carney's decision to delay the budget until fall, he doesn't know if Carney's claim he will balance the operating budget by 2028-29 is credible. That's because Carney has also said he will run deficits on capital spending, without explaining what he means by capital versus operating spending. 'There is no commonly accepted definition of what is defined as 'operating' or 'non-operating/capital' spending,' Giroux wrote. 'Hence (the) PBO is unable to assess whether the government's recent fiscal policy initiatives presented in Parliament … are consistent with achieving its new fiscal objective.' Giroux warned, 'The government could fulfil its operating budget goals, and yet at the same time the federal debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio could grow because of additional borrowing for non-operating spending (for example, new acquisitions of weapons systems for the Canadian military.) This means the government could achieve its fiscal objective and yet be fiscally unsustainable.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Giroux also said that due to a lack of information, he can't assess whether Carney will meet his pledge to increase Canada's NATO spending to 2% of GDP within this fiscal year through an additional expenditure of $9 billion. 'Since the NATO 2% target is based on actual expenditures — not just plans — and, given (the defence department's) historical record of lapses, it is difficult to assess whether Canada will reach the target this fiscal year,' Giroux told the Ottawa Citizen . Given the information he has, Giroux estimates that for the 2024-25 fiscal year, the federal deficit will be $46 billion, with interest payments on total debt costing $53.5 billion. Giroux's concerns are similar to those he expressed in January, over the fall economic statement released by the Trudeau government, before the PM resigned. He found its economic scenarios downplayed potential economic risks, made demographic assumptions that were not transparent and likely inconsistent with government policies and failed to account for growing contingent liabilities, mainly having to do with the settlement of Indigenous claims. Giroux warned that the government's 'ability (or willingness) to produce high-quality, timely financial statements continues to deteriorate.' MMA NHL Canada Toronto & GTA World
Montreal Gazette
05-06-2025
- Politics
- Montreal Gazette
From the archives: Marc Garneau on The Corner Booth
The Corner Booth Back in early 2025, former astronaut-turned-politician Marc Garneau said what many in the Liberal camp appeared to be thinking at the time: '(Justin Trudeau) waited too long. I think that he had trouble recognizing that his moment had passed and held on, and unfortunately put himself ahead of both the party and the country.' Garneau, who died on Wednesday at age 76, was featured in a January episode of The Corner Booth alongside former Liberal MP David Lametti. The two former ministers discussed Trudeau's momentous — and perhaps overdue — decision to resign as Prime Minister and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. In light of Garneau's passing, here's a look back at that conversation.
Business Wire
05-06-2025
- Politics
- Business Wire
Liberal Party of Canada Leadership Election Concludes Successfully with Simply Voting's Secure Online System
MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Simply Voting Inc., a leading provider of secure online voting solutions, proudly announces the successful completion of the Liberal Party of Canada's leadership election using its voting platform. Mark Carney was elected as the new leader of the Liberal Party and is now Canada's Prime Minister following this highly anticipated race. The election, which concluded on March 9, 2025, saw significant engagement, with 151,899 members securely casting their ranked ballots through Simply Voting's platform, representing nearly 93% of verified members. With 85.9% of the vote, Carney defeated the former finance minister Chrystia Freeland, the former government house leader Karina Gould and the former member of parliament Frank Baylis. He also dominated in all 343 ridings, showing he has Liberal support across the country. A Secure and Transparent Voting Process The contest followed a ranked ballot system, ensuring that the winning candidate had broad support across the country rather than just securing the highest number of votes. "The challenge was complex, requiring the seamless integration of Canada Post's Identity+ service, the Liberal Party's custom voter registration platform and our voting system, ensuring secure, real-time synchronization across all components,' said Brian Lack, President of Simply Voting. Liberal Party officials praised the seamless experience of using Simply Voting's system. 'Simply Voting was a great partner in this process, their technology worked flawlessly and ensured a secure, fair, and robust Leadership race,' said Azam Ishmael, National Director of the Liberal Party of Canada. Simply Voting's platform ensured the highest level of election integrity through its robust security features, including strong encryption, anonymous electronic ballots, and instant tabulation of results. The system allowed party members from across the country to participate securely, reinforcing confidence in the democratic process. About the Liberal Party of Canada The Liberal Party of Canada is one of the country's major political parties, dedicated to the principles of individual freedom, responsibility, and human dignity within a framework of a just society. Committed to providing equal opportunity for all persons, the party emphasizes the enhancement of Canada's unique and diverse cultural community and the preservation of the Canadian identity in a global society. For more information about the Liberal Party and their initiatives, please visit About Simply Voting Inc. Simply Voting Inc. is a Canada-based company specializing in secure online voting solutions for organizations across various sectors, including local governments, political parties, professional associations, educational institutions, and unions. With a focus on security, simplicity, and reliability, Simply Voting has been trusted to conduct thousands of elections worldwide. For more information about Simply Voting and its services, please visit
