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Edmonton Journal
7 hours ago
- Business
- Edmonton Journal
Lorne Gunter: PM Carney set to worsen Trudeau's fiscal failures
Article content The first conclusion is no surprise. Trudeau's policies led to a decade of decline in the economy, industrial productivity, investment, per capita GDP, affordability and government finances. But Carney!? The man the Liberals touted as a financial genius who would correct all the failures of the Trudeau decade seems determined to repeat them. Or even magnify them. Thanks to the investigative work of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), we now know how obscenely the Liberals inflated the federal civil service. Call it 98,000 additional bureaucrats in just 10 years — a 38 per cent increase.
Toronto Sun
9 hours ago
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- Toronto Sun
Letters to the Editor, May 31, 2025
Saturday letters Photo by Illustration / Toronto Sun IF THE SHOES FIT… 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 Re 'Trudeau trashed over 'clown' shoes' (Denette Wilford, May 29): Once again, a member of the Trudeau family has upstaged a visit from the Royal Family. In the early 1980s, then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau did a very unprofessional pirouette behind Queen Elizabeth's back during two of her separate visits to Canada, which raised the anger of many Canadians. On May 27, his arrogant son Justin upstaged the throne speech by King Charles to some extent by wearing sneakers to this very prestigious event, likely to attract attention to himself. Sneakers! How disgraceful. I am surprised that self-righteous and jet-setting Justin didn't perform a pirouette as he was leaving the ceremony! Robert Norris Mississauga This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. (The Clown and the Crown) SNEAKY I guess you have to be a bit older to appreciate why Justin wore the green sneakers to the King's speech. He was putting on a childish show, meant for Quebecers, to express disdain for the English monarchy, just like when his old man did the pirouette behind the Queen. Hoping to make papa proud. Chris Wallace Markham (Still embarrassing Canada every chance he gets) SHUFFLE THE DECK Re 'He's no foreigner, he's King Canuck' (Editorial, May 26): The assertion can be made that King Charles is very much a foreigner — an unelected King at that. When it comes to the title Head of State of Canada, no one in our great country has ever voted for the British monarch, whose 'authority,' let's face it, comes through heredity and lineage, not from we the people. It would be more apropos if Donald Trump called himself Captain America than for us as Canadians to refer to Charles as Captain Canada. Jake VanderKooy Brampton (Playing your Trump card, eh?) HE'S A BEAUTY Will somebody please tell Donald Trump that all he has accomplished around the world is to Make America Ugly Now. Barry Roden Scarborough (We're on it) Sunshine Girls Toronto & GTA Sunshine Girls Toronto & GTA Canada
Ottawa Citizen
2 days ago
- Politics
- Ottawa Citizen
MacDougall: New nation-building acts must happen in the national capital
Watching the King of Canada hold court at the temporary home of the Senate this week felt like history being made. And like history coming back to life. Article content Article content Yes, the scenes of King Charles and Queen Camilla harkened back to previous visits by other royals, most notably the late Queen Elizabeth when she opened Parliament in 1977. But the history it evoked in me wasn't regal; it was of events a few years later in the same setting — namely, Pierre Trudeau's negotiations over the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, which took place in the same building when it served as the Government Conference Centre. Article content Article content The world, the King read in the throne speech, is now a 'more dangerous and uncertain place,' a coded message meant for Donald Trump and his dismantling of world order. But the same could have been said when the elder Trudeau convened the premiers in the wake of the FLQ crisis and the then-robust campaign for Quebec sovereignty. The West was upset, too, with the National Energy Program. Like now, bold action was needed to strengthen national unity and identity. Article content Trudeau's answer was the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and 'full' Canadian sovereignty. And while the resulting 'Night of the Long Knives' led to René Lévesque's refusal to agree to reform, then to another round of separatism moves (following the failed constitutional wrangling at Meech Lake), the constitutional gambit was a big, bold move when big bold moves were required. Article content Article content If Canada is truly experiencing a 'hinge' moment, then big, bold action is required. And that action will need the agreement of the provinces, especially on domestic trade barriers. All the more reason, then, for the new prime minister to pull a 1981 and get the premiers around the table — in Ottawa — to hammer out a deal. Article content The location matters. A nation has a national capital for a reason. Big events need to happen on big — and symbolic — stages. Minor players can also come to life, or be exposed, on said stages. If Danielle Smith thinks Alberta separation is a goer, she should meet with all of her colleagues to make the case as part of a broader conversation, as Lévesque did generations ago. Article content Our politics and political figures have gotten so small recently, it's hard to remember how enormous some provincial voices of old were. There was Lévesque. But there was also Bill Davis, Peter Lougheed, Bill Bennett and Brian Peckford. Even the ministerial ranks were stuffed with bright minds and big personalities: Jean Chrétien, Roy Romanow and Roy McMurtry. It took the collective action of their minds and the prime minister's to achieve the restructuring of Canada's constitutional order.
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Indigenous leaders urge Carney to raise LNG at G7 summit
OTTAWA — A group of Indigenous leaders are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to showcase the game-changing potential of Canadian liquified natural gas (LNG) at the upcoming G7 leaders' summit in Kananaskis, Alta. '(W)e would ask (you) to have a clear and positive message about the global energy security and emissions reduction role of LNG at the (summit) and in the communique to follow,' reads an open letter to Carney signed by the heads of five pro-development Indigenous organizations, all based in Western Canada. The letter stressed that building out Canada's LNG export capacity will be critical to raising living standards in Indigenous communities. 'For our Nations, (LNG) represents freedom from boil-water advisories and from the energy poverty experienced in many of our communities,' read the letter. Indigenous Resource Network head John Desjarlais, who helped write the letter, says it reflects a growing desire among Indigenous peoples to be involved with major projects that will shape their future. '(I)ndigenous people are starting to stand up and say we are very interested in advancing reconciliation and self-determination through economic development. And involvement in resource development is one of the greatest drivers of facilitating that self-determination,' said Desjarlais. The letter also said that the mid-June summit will give Carney a 'crucial' opportunity to reverse predecessor Justin Trudeau's pessimistic tone on Canadian LNG exports. '(W)e look to you to strike a balance with your peers that better integrates shared goals around energy security, economic growth and environmental protection,' reads the letter. Trudeau was widely criticized in 2022 when he said there wasn't a 'business case' for shipping Canadian LNG to Western Europe, despite the urging from fellow G7 leader Olaf Scholz that Canada play a 'major role' in Germany's efforts to break its dependence on Russian natural gas. Canada failed to substantially grow its LNG exports under Trudeau, while exports took off in peer nations like Australia and the United States. Canada's first large-scale LNG export facility, located in Kitimat, British Columbia, is set to ship its first cargo later this year. The letter added that time is of the essence as several of Canada's allies, including G7 partner Japan, will be finishing up long-term energy contracts with Russia in the coming years. 'As a result, they are seeking new LNG opportunities now, and Canada is perfectly positioned to be that partner,' reads the letter. A recent study by the Fraser Institute found that doubling Canadian LNG production and exporting the surplus to Asia could reduce global carbon emissions by up to 630 million tonnes, equivalent to 89 per cent of Canada's total emissions. Canada generates about 17.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day but consumes 60 per cent of this domestically, according to the Canada Energy Regulator. Almost all of the remaining 40 per cent is sent to the U.S. via pipeline. Desjarlais said that the Trudeau government's 'paternalism' toward Indigenous peoples was a major stumbling block stopping it from building effective resource partnerships with Indigenous groups. 'The spirit and intent was there, but there was also a sort of risk aversion when it came to trusting that Indigenous people can effectively co-develop resources,' said Desjarlais. Desjarlais said he was encouraged by the naming of three Indigenous MPs to Carney's new cabinet, including Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations Rebecca Alty. Karen Restoule, the director of Indigenous affairs at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, says she applauds the letter's authors for forcing the issue. 'At a time when Canada has been, for the last decade, led by a leader and party who have (played) ideological games with little to no recognition as to what the economic impacts would be on the country… I am incredibly grateful to (this group) for taking the initiative to restore Canada's economic footing, for Indigenous peoples and non-Indigenous Canadians alike,' said Restoule. 'This is what leadership looks like.' Carney said in an interview this week that 'virtually every' major resource project he backs as prime minister will have 'an Indigenous component.' National Post rmohamed@ Get more deep-dive National Post political coverage and analysis in your inbox with the Political Hack newsletter, where Ottawa bureau chief Stuart Thomson and political analyst Tasha Kheiriddin get at what's really going on behind the scenes on Parliament Hill every Wednesday and Friday, exclusively for subscribers. Sign up here. Our website is the place for the latest breaking news, exclusive scoops, longreads and provocative commentary. Please bookmark and sign up for our daily newsletter, Posted, here.
Global News
2 days ago
- Business
- Global News
Carney government tables $486 billion spending plan with few details
The Carney government presented Parliament Tuesday with a plan to spend about the same amount of money in the fiscal year ahead as the Trudeau government did in its final year — about $486 billion, a plan that left the Conservatives unimpressed. 'Just like Justin Trudeau, Mark Carney's spending is absolutely out of control. In fact, it's worse,' Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre told reporters outside the House of Commons. And indeed, the spending plan tabled Tuesday is almost certain to change when it is updated in the fall when it will likely include nearly $24 billion in spending commitments for this year that the Liberals promised during the election campaign. There was no evidence that the spending plan tabled Tuesday contained, for example, $3.5 billion that campaigning Liberals said they would spend this year on a Trade Diversification Corridors Fund. Story continues below advertisement During the campaign, the Liberals promised to boost CBC's funding by $150 million a year but, in the spending plan tabled Tuesday, the CBC's budget is up by just $42 million to $1.43 billion. The minister responsible for the CBC, Steven Guilbeault, declined to answer questions Wednesday about his department's spending plan. Still, even without those platform commitments factored in, the spending plan tabled Tuesday, known formally as the Main Estimates, gives Parliamentarians the first outlines of how the Carney government's finances will differ from the Trudeau government's. One of the biggest changes described in the Main Estimates is the disappearance of the carbon price rebates. The Trudeau government paid out an estimated $11.67 billion in consumer carbon price rebates to Canadians in all provinces except B.C. and Quebec in the last fiscal year. The Carney government expects to see that drop to $3.5 billion, since it cancelled the consumer carbon price and rebate program after the final payout in April, in the current fiscal year. Similarly, the Canada Carbon Rebate paid to small businesses will drop by $1.9 billion this year compared to last. But no information was put before Parliament about the how much Ottawa collected through the carbon price or, for that matter, any other taxes or fees. The government's revenue plan and revenue estimates are typically a key part of the formal budget. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Conservatives have criticized the Carney government's decision to postpone that formal budget until the fall, saying, among other things, that it's difficult for Parliamentarians to consider and be asked to vote on a $486-billion spending plan without considering the government's revenue plan at the same time. Story continues below advertisement 'With economic storm clouds moving in, how is it possible not to have a budget this spring?' the new Conservative MP for Newmarket-Aurora Sandra Cobena asked Wednesday during the first question period of the new Parliament. The Main Estimates are part of a family of budget documents, which includes the formal budget and the fall economic statement, that are presented to Parliament at various points during a fiscal year and that require Parliamentary approval. The Main Estimates are presented to Parliament near the start of the fiscal year and then modifications and updates to the government's spending plan, known as supplementary estimates, are presented at three other points during the year. The votes on each set of estimates are considered confidence votes. All comparisons in this article of the Carney government's Main Estimates are made against the Trudeau government's Supplementary Estimates (B), which Parliament approved in December. The 2024-2025 Supplementary Estimates (B), then, would have been the Trudeau government's final spending plan and final budget document. The Trudeau government, in its final year, was not able to present or pass Supplementary Estimates (C). Until the Public Accounts of Canada are tabled later this year, the 2024-2025 Supplementary Estimates (B) provide the most recent and up-to-date spending plans for the Trudeau government's final year. The Main Estimates tabled Tuesday by the Carney government do not include $74.1 billion in spending in the current fiscal year that the Trudeau government committed to in the 2024 Fall Economic Statement. Those items include spending an anticipated $28.8 billion on employment insurance benefits and $29.6 billion in Canada Child Benefit payments. Story continues below advertisement When all the spending commitments from the 2024 Fall Economic Statement are added to the spending plan described in Tuesday's 2025-2026 Main Estimates, the projected total expenses for 2025-26 rise to $554.5 billion — again, that's before any Liberal election funding commitments are factored in. Among the 130 federal departments and agencies presenting funding requirements to MPs, the largest is the Department of National Defence, which is requesting $33.9 billion. The defence department is seeking approval for a capital budget of $10.9 billion, an increase compared to last year of nearly 22 per cent or $1.94 billion. Specific details on the defence department's capital program will be tabled in Parliament later in June as part of yet another family of budget documents known as Departmental Plans. The Department of Public Works and Government Services is seeking a 61-per cent increase in its capital budget, from $2 billion last year to $3.3 billion in the current fiscal year. But details on its capital program will also have to wait until Departmental Plans are tabled in June and Public Works Minister Jöel Lightbound also declined Wednesday to discuss those plans. Story continues below advertisement The department of Indigenous Services — second in size only to the defence department — is looking for $25.2 billion to support approximately 700 First Nations deliver health, education, housing, social programs and other services. The Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs (CIRNA) seeks $13 billion — the fourth-largest spending budget across government, most of which is used to settle treaty claims and other kinds of claims by Indigenous groups. But those departments submitted funding requirements for the current year that are significantly smaller than their estimated spending last year: $2.4 billion less for Indigenous Services and $4.87 billion less for CIRNA. Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty also declined a Global News request to discuss her department's spending requests. The Government House Leader, Steven Mackinnon, promised parliamentarians will be given the chance to grill all ministers about the estimates. 'There will be extensive examination with ministers being accountable for those sums in the House of Commons more than that has ever occurred in recent memory,' Mackinnon said.
