One of the key components of a successful economy is its ability to attract investment – both from inside the country and from foreign sources. Attracting investment is especially important for Canada, as a relatively small open economy that is heavily dependent on trade. For decades, Canada was very successful as a desirable destination for […]

Government-run grocery stores seem to be the latest fad in politics across North America, with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Toronto City Council, and NDP Leader Avi Lewis all championing them as a solution to today’s affordability crisis.  A couple of months ago, Toronto City Council voted overwhelmingly to pilot four municipally operated grocery stores […]

Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney prefaced the Spring Financial Update by announcing that he would be creating a new sovereign wealth fund called the Canada Strong Fund. This fund is supposedly intended to invest in key strategic Canadian projects, such as energy transition and critical infrastructure, to generate wealth for future generations. The federal […]

The future of 24 Sussex Drive is once again under discussion in Ottawa, as Prime Minister Mark Carney signalled last week a willingness to address the long-standing issue of the official residence that has sat vacant for more than a decade. Carney recently described the condition of the residence as “an embarrassment” and indicated he […]

Last month, when Liberals gathered in Montreal for their policy convention, much of the news that came out of the convention focused on floor-crossings and impending by-elections that ultimately delivered Prime Minister Mark Carney his coveted majority.  But Liberals decided to both consider and support a number of important policies that, if implemented, could have […]

Hockey binds the Canada – United States relations; Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “elbows up” gameplan has set the tone for the latest tilt involving the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement. So, it was serendipitous what occurred at the recent hockey playoff game between Buffalo and Boston, when the anthem singer’s mic failed and went silent, and the […]

Entrepreneurship in Canada is on the decline and has been so for decades.  In a recently released report, the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI) notes that, despite the fact that Prime Minister Mark Carney seems determined to focus on promoting major new nation-building economic projects, federal policymakers desperately need to focus on how to revive entrepreneurship […]

Canadian hockey fans are still waiting for their first Stanley Cup since 1993. Odds are, they will still be waiting when these playoffs end. The table is forever tilted against Canadian teams, not just because there are fewer of them, but because tax incentives lure great players south. The NHL’s salary cap is $95.5 million […]

“Canada is an energy superpower.” That’s a line Prime Minister Mark Carney and energy minister Tim Hodgson like to repeat often. Canada should be front and centre in global energy trade discussions given the gas shortages and price hikes caused by the Russian and Iranian wars, and the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, which […]

Nearly one year after the last federal election, Prime Minister Mark Carney has managed to secure his majority mandate. The merits of how he did it are likely to be a matter of debate and speculation for some time, but the bottom line is he is now in the driver’s seat. Blaming opposition parties for […]

For most of the past year, Canadian politics has been pulled in a direction that feels different from the usual cycle of domestic debates. The centre of gravity has shifted outward. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s address on Sunday was a reflection of that shift. Speaking directly to Canadians, he argued that the United States has […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s video to Canadians that was aired this past weekend is creating a great deal of concern among Canadian businesses. During the almost 10-minute-long remarks, in Carney’s ongoing theme of Canada moving away from the U.S. in trading relations, he seems to have implied a much greater plan than he has in […]

As Prime Minister Mark Carney prepares to welcome members elected in by-elections, and the opposition MPs who joined his parade as it marched by, it stands in stark contrast to any majority government in Canada’s history. For the first time, our parliamentary democracy will attain a majority from floor-crossing MPs who ignored the banner under […]

Canadians are repeatedly being told by our politicians in Ottawa that Canada’s economy is strong, that we are leading the G-7 nations. François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s finance minister, gushed to a Liberal Party audience last weekend, “… the prime minister mentioned that this country would meet the moment. That we would move at a speed and […]

What do Marilyn Gladu, Matt Jeneroux, Lori Idlout, Michael Ma, and Chris d’Entremont have in common? Depending on your political stripes, they are either opportunists undermining Canadian democracy or pragmatic actors doing what politics has always allowed. For the Liberals, they are a path to the majority government they have long sought. For critics, they […]

Of all the defections to the Carney government, Marilyn Gladu’s is the hardest to reconcile. She was elected as a Conservative for Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong four times. She was a blue Tory, not a red one, espousing both fiscal and social conservative values. She rightly criticized the Carney government pretty much until she joined it. Principle is […]

The Ford and Carney governments are going back to the drawing board to try to spur more housing activity after previous policies fell short of the mark and housing starts remain far short of previous expectations. Late last year, both governments announced that they would rebate the HST on new homes worth up to $1 […]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has taken his fair share of flack over the years for his purported populist rhetoric. From sloganeering to offering up policies intended to limit the size and influence of government in the lives of Canadians, media and pundits have cried foul over his choice of words and delivery of messaging. That […]

From his Davos speech to his non-stop globetrotting, Prime Minister Mark Carney is on a mission to realign Canada’s foreign affairs and trade relations within the international community, expressly apart from the United States. Canada’s prime minister has forged a new strategic partnership with China to lay the foundation for his envisioned New World Order […]

Our current global instability, most recently driven by the Iran war and what it has done to energy markets, has again cast the entire issue of “Net Zero” into question. For the last few years, there have been many countries and organizations backing off on net zero goals they established in the past. Most of […]

The selection of Avi Lewis as federal NDP leader does little to resolve the party’s existential crisis. In fact, it might have exacerbated it. The party has drifted so far from its roots and the mainstream that it can barely hold together, let alone rally support. When Jagmeet Singh resigned as leader almost a year […]

When Canadians waved goodbye to former prime minister Justin Trudeau last March and welcomed Prime Minister Mark Carney to Parliament Hill’s executive offices, a sense of relief glided across the country. There would be no more hijinks and juvenile behaviour dominating our news headlines. The adults had arrived, and with U.S. President Donald Trump breathing […]

Last week, when Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast for a two-hour conversation, it was more than a media hit. In Ottawa, it was read as a signal. The Conservative leader bypassed the Parliamentary Press Gallery entirely and went straight to a global audience, reflecting how federal politicians are increasingly rethinking how […]

Canadians are so used to reading stories about our struggling healthcare system, it’s actually shocking to hear something good. But that is what happened recently when the American magazine Newsweek issued its annual list of the top 250 hospitals in the world. Toronto’s own University Health Network (UHN) was rated the second-best hospital in the […]

Take a look at the current state of the country and its citizens – by the numbers. The statistics and facts speak volumes.    Consider the country   0.5 per cent: Canada has had the lowest rate of economic growth in the G-7 over the last decade. In 10 years, the Canadian economy has grown […]

If you were to ask the leader of the Conservative Party, he’d probably tell you that poll numbers are both a blessing and a curse. When the numbers are trending in the right direction, they provide leaders with the latitude to govern with a singular voice on policy issues. Even when proposals are unpopular, few […]

The Canadian housing market seems set for a sluggish year in 2026. There is certainly some stabilizing going on in most regions, with prices coming down somewhat but not enough to significantly increase demand. This gradual change is much preferable to a housing market crash, which has been so destructive to families and economies in […]

Healthcare in Canada is far from free.  Sure, you may be able to see a doctor with your OHIP card rather than paying with your credit card, but the reality is that Canadians pay some of the highest healthcare costs in the developed world through taxes.  And the sad truth is, Canadians aren’t getting what […]

From Canada’s public broadcaster to its publicly-funded legacy media, the country’s journalistic institutions are in a woeful state.  The newest window into problems at the CBC comes from Travis Dhanraj, the former host of CBC’s Canada Tonight. He testified on March 10 to a Canadian Heritage parliamentary committee looking at the journalism and media landscape. […]

It is often said that the only sure things in life are death and taxes. In Canada currently, one of the things that is contributing in a big way to our economic demise is our tax system. For some time, tax professionals and policy experts have been arguing for a major overhaul of our taxation […]

In recent weeks, has Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, often described as beleaguered or struggling, been taking steps to answer his critics? On Feb. 26, at the Economic Club of Canada, he delivered what many called a powerful vision for Canada-U.S. relations if he were to become prime minister. Focusing on tariffs, the speech, filled with […]

Most Canadians are at least vaguely aware that there are some pretty big issues taking place in British Columbia right now regarding First Nations’ land claims and private property rights. This author recently spoke with Bruce Pardy, a Professor of Law at Queen’s University and Executive Director of Rights Probe, who has become somewhat of […]

The 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Olympics ended with a familiar feeling for many Canadians: pride in our athletes, but also a lingering sting. For hockey fans, that feeling came early. Canadians watched as both the women’s and men’s hockey teams fell to the United States in overtime, forcing the country that built its identity around […]

If politicians on the so-called progressive left want to understand why Mr. and Mrs. Front Porch frequently lose faith in our justice system, they need to consider how it responds when an individual tries to defend their home or business from being invaded by a burglar or other stranger.   Two recent cases underline the point.  […]

For the first time in almost 20 years, Canada does not have a Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO). This role was first created in 2006 by the Harper Conservative government with the passage of the Federal Accountability Act. The office was established to provide independent financial and economic analysis to Parliament and increase budget transparency. The […]

Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) is one of the finest budget watchdogs in the world, but a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is recommending that the Carney government make changes to improve it further still.  Established 20 years ago by newly elected prime minister Stephen Harper, the PBO has […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney is outspending former prime minister Justin Trudeau. Canada’s last fiscal year – and the estimates for the upcoming 2026-27 fiscal year – are the two largest federal government spending years in the country’s history – aside from that single pandemic year and the countless CERB cheques mailed to locked-down Canadians. So, […]

A number of recent news stories, combined with some things I have heard from several business owners, has all led to the same conclusion – Canada is on a very problematic path at present. The stories from business owners are interesting but disturbing. One of my small- to medium-sized (SME) business owner colleagues recently noted […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently announced five memorandums of understanding and plans for free trade by 2026. A better partnership with industrializing India and resource-rich Canada makes sense. Unfortunately, the details announced March 2 did far too little to secure markets for Canadian resources. On the face of it, […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney has tied Canada into a “strategic partnership” with China, signing a number of deals with President Xi Jinping. This partnership is the manifestation of Carney’s mission to align Canada with “like minded partners,” building a new coalition of countries that share Canadians’ values – such as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). […]

The battleground lines of the next federal election are in the process of being drawn up and to say that the territory is looking unfamiliar would be an understatement. Elections are local by nature, but this time around, federal leaders are turning their attention to the international stage to deliver the crux of their arguments […]

Parliament returned yesterday with a familiar question hanging over the House of Commons: how does a minority government become a majority without voters ever being asked? Prime Minister Mark Carney is now closer than ever to finding out. With the defection of Alberta MP Matt Jeneroux, the third Conservative to cross the floor in recent […]

Dumping has been an ongoing practice in the international trade world for some time. Dumping is simply defined as the practice of a country or a company exporting a product to a foreign market at a price lower than the price charged for the product in its home market or below what would be considered […]

Last week a report was published that finally admitted Canada was not on track to meet any of its many climate goals that have been imposed over the past few decades. That’s right, not even one. Unfortunately, this report was not given the kind of coverage in the legacy media it deserved, likely because it […]

The rise of Mark Carney to the prime ministership of Canada has done nothing to assuage the long-held conviction within the Canadian conservative community that the mainstream press favours those on the left. Not that Carney shows any great devotion to leftist ideology or policies. He simply represents the face of the largest contingent of […]

Canada’s Goods and Services Tax has only one purpose anymore: to pay interest on its ever-growing federal debt. And, thanks to continued deficit spending, these revenues aren’t quite enough to cover the entire cost. This should be a fiscal wakeup call for the federal government and all Canadians. Budget 2025 revealed the problem. The revenues […]

Last fall, it became clear that the electric vehicle (EV) mandate first introduced by the Liberals in 2022 was a ridiculous policy that was going to fail. The mandate was supposed to force Canadians to buy electric vehicles by requiring that auto dealers sell a certain percentage of EVs. The first requirement in the original […]

Pandora, in ancient Greek mythology, lifted the lid of a box that released into the world all curses and miseries upon mankind. The myth has passed down to us today an idiom to describe a person’s deliberate action that subsequently is the cause of great and unexpected troubles. And this idiom captures the essence of […]

Next week, Mark Wiseman will take up residence in Washington as Canada’s new ambassador to the United States, stepping into a relationship that looks nothing like it did even a few years ago. What was once a relatively comfortable posting with a close ally has become a daily stress test. Managing the Canada-U.S. file now […]

The Canadian manufacturing sector has been shrinking for some time. Manufacturing production volumes are currently at their lowest levels in over five years. Since 2018, manufacturing as a percentage of GDP declined by five per cent, while the comparable U.S. number increased by 10 per cent. This is important because the manufacturing sector in any […]

In politics, a day can feel like a lifetime, and we sometimes need to take a step back and realize that time is a necessary antidote to heal wounds and reputations. This sentiment was on full display this week as Conservatives gathered in Ottawa for the unveiling of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s portrait in […]

David Rosenberg’s interview on BNN Bloomberg this week stripped away all the government rhetoric about how strong the Canadian economy is performing and exposed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s management of the finances and economic strategies for what they are. Rosenberg’s professional assessment is validated by a continual stream of published data by Statistics Canada, the […]

Pierre Poilievre received an overwhelming affirmation at the recent Conservative Party convention. That’s good. He represents a brand of conservativism most people in his party can get behind, not to mention many Canadians. Despite barely holding the Liberals to a minority, it is hugely significant that Poilievre led the Conservative Party of Canada to the […]

It’s time for Canadians to open up our economy – to ourselves. A year into the ongoing trade conflict with the United States, Canada’s politicians continue to talk a good game about tearing down the nation’s internal trade barriers.  After pronouncing that he would eliminate all Canadian internal trade barriers by July 1, 2025, Prime […]

Let’s consider three major international agreements Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has signed and obligated Canada to in his first year of office. In reading the fine print of the recently heralded agreements with China and Qatar, and the June agreement with the European Union (EU), Canadians can discern that Carney’s agreements may contain elements […]

This writer used to joke that Canadians don’t think we are good at anything until someone outside the country says we are. The truth of this sentiment was on display this past week after Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.  In many ways, it was a very depressing […]

Parliament is back, and for the first time in a while, it feels like more than a procedural reset. After a month of speculation, speeches, and positioning, the House of Commons returned this week with a sense that the stakes have shifted. The chamber has only been sitting for a day, but the tone is […]

Flip through your social media app of choice right now and you’ll find that nostalgia is back in vogue. Rather than focus on the hard truths of 2026 when coffee prices are through the roof and Greenland is on the frontlines of defending itself against the threats of the world’s most vocal politician, social media […]

For years, Mark Carney was called “Davos Man” because of his position on the Board of the World Economic Forum (WEF), which meets in Davos annually. He also obtained this title because of his Davos-consistent beliefs in global governance, extreme climate change policies and a brand of leftism in keeping with the elites that attend […]

From Beijing to Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has made international headlines with his consequential addresses about Canada’s participation in forging a “New World Order.” Last week Carney spent four days in Beijing with China President Xi Jinping and the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) attending to the details of a new […]

It’s no secret that Canadians are very heavily taxed. We endure high income taxes, consumption taxes (GST/HST/PST), payroll taxes (EI, CPP, Workers’ Compensation), capital gains taxes, property taxes, “health” taxes in a number of provinces, customs duties, excise taxes, and others. Every year the Fraser Institute think tank publishes a “tax freedom” day, after which […]

Think the carbon tax is gone? Think again. Prime Minister Mark Carney pulled a fast one on Canadians. He scrapped the consumer carbon tax last year but left in place a hidden carbon tax that is driving up the price of gasoline. Carney recognized when he was running for Liberal leader just how unpopular the […]

Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is currently over in China with much fanfare, supposedly looking to promote closer relations between our two countries. There are a number of important issues for Canada on the line, including steep tariffs that China is imposing on several of Canada’s most important agricultural exports and the high tariffs that […]

The Mark Carney Liberals claim to pursue two objectives: more economic growth and fewer carbon emissions. But, in an oil-rich country like Canada, those objectives are virtually incompatible. The further down the net zero path that Ottawa attempts to go, the more this project becomes politically and practically impossible to maintain. The latest watershed event […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Beijing this week to discuss closer relations with Chinese President Xi Jinping. This Canadian overture is taking place just as the United States is taking unprecedented actions to rebuff the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) influence in North America and across the western hemisphere. In a National Post op-ed “Carney […]

You know the economy is bad when politicians start needing a side hustle to get by. Over the past few weeks, Canadians have watched a growing number of MPs test the boundaries of what it means to serve full-time in public office, and in doing so, expose how thin and outdated our ethics rules really […]

Recent developments in Venezuela and Iran could lead to a very new set of circumstances for the Canadian oil and gas sector. On the other hand, it might not. Economists are famous for saying “on the one hand, on the other hand…” and failing to take a stand on an issue as a result. The […]

We have reached that mid-January slump where the goals for the new year start to waiver, and reality slowly starts to creep in for the masses. Meanwhile, those who attempted to make bold political predictions are almost certainly reneging on comments made about how Canada can best steer its economic ship in the weeks and […]

Canadian government-subsidized legacy media has been overworked in the first week of the new year broadcasting Prime Minister Mark Carney’s additional $2.5 billion to the Ukraine war effort, the “kidnapping” of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro by the Americans, the photo ops of Carney’s trip to France, and his closed-door meetings with European Union officials on the […]

To gain a majority government, Prime Minister Mark Carney only needs one more Member of Parliament to defect to the Liberals. Unfortunately for him, his political gamesmanship is doing nothing to help the economy and is alienating his base. This could be the year the Liberals lose power. Pierre Poilievre had to be more than […]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre faces a year of major tests in 2026.  Last year was certainly a year of lows for the aspiring prime minister – losing an election that appeared almost impossible to lose months prior; losing his own riding after representing Carleton for 20 years; and two floor crossings and another resignation putting […]

A review of the main events of 2025 provides more of a lesson of what not to do than anything else. Now that the evidence of how badly our country has been run under the Liberals for the last 10 years has become crystal clear, Liberals are finally admitting how much their past initiatives were […]

If there was ever a word that captured how people actually felt about artificial intelligence this year, it was slop. Merriam-Webster’s human editors named it the 2025 Word of the Year, defining it as low-quality digital content produced at scale by AI. Four letters that neatly summed up the year. AI was everywhere. Impossible to […]

The constantly changing landscape of Canadian politics means that one week can produce wildly different headlines, social media posts, and polling results from the next. For the first time since Mark Carney became prime minister last March, Pierre Poilievre is making headway. Polls released recently show Poilievre and his Conservative team in a position to […]

The Mark Carney juggernaut is Canada’s big political story of 2025. He walked into the top elected role in Canada’s government before the public even made him a member of Parliament. He revived a party disdainfully rejected by the Canadian public and rallied it to a near-majority win. As Prime Minister, Carney has made headlines. […]

Generosity in Canada has reached its lowest point in 20 years while the government rakes more into its coffers.  That’s according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.  The Fraser Institute created the Generosity Index to measure how much Canadians are giving to charity. The index measures two metrics: the percentage of tax filers […]

It’s no secret that Prime Minister Mark Carney closely identifies with Europe and has stated that he believes Canada should move closer to Europe economically. Carney has even claimed to be European in the past, as is well documented, and lived there for years before deciding to come back to Canada just in time to […]

Even as Prime Minister Mark Carney told Canadians he had no plans to introduce a digital ID into Canada, his government was working to prepare the launch of new digital ID infrastructure and a government of Canada wallet app. Carney is saying one thing and doing another – and Canadians must ask to what end?  […]

If there was a single word that defined Canadian politics this year, it was adjustment. After years of volatility, personality driven governance, and crisis politics, 2025 became a year where Ottawa slowed down, recalibrated, and in some cases struggled to find its footing. Mark Carney’s election in the spring brought a sharp change in tone. […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s upset over the federal Conservatives in the spring election may have stolen the crown for biggest moment in Canadian politics this year, but the drama that has played out in British Columbia is coming in hot as a strong second place contender.  It’s been over a year since the B.C. NDP […]

Labour force data for November 2025 was released last week and showed an increase in job creation and a significant reduction in the unemployment rate. These numbers were more positive than had been expected by the usual economic commentators in their predictions for the month. Liberals were crowing about this development, claiming it had a […]

This week’s deeply disturbing revelations in Ottawa suggest that Prime Minister Mark Carney has been covertly, methodically establishing a Big Brother State, where Carney and cabinet executive orders will be extended without parliamentary oversight or need of public disclosure, and where Canadians’ rights and freedoms can soon be curtailed and managed. The Carney Liberals are […]

As proof positive that politics is fickle, the latest Angus Reid public opinion survey on the popularity of the various provincial Premiers shows considerable change from just a year ago. Angus Reid has done these surveys monthly for years, so there is a good amount of historical data to provide comparisons over time.  In the […]

A new report from the Montreal Economic Institute highlights the danger of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s rhetoric about turning away from Canada’s strategic relationship with the United States, particularly when it comes to energy. While there is a clear need for Canada to diversify its export markets, Canada’s economy, and the energy sector in particular, […]

From the union halls in Sault Ste. Marie to the docks at the Port of Vancouver, and in households across the country, there is no trace of Christmas cheer. For many Canadians, this year’s yuletide will be the bleakest holiday season in 45 years, perhaps since the great depression years.  Steel manufacturer Algoma Steel rocked […]

The term CCUS (carbon capture, utilization and storage) was on more Canadian lips last week than ever before, and for good reason. As one of the long list of conditions that Alberta must comply with to obtain the much-desired oil pipeline to the northern coast of B.C., the province has to commit to a massive […]

The Conservatives have turned the page on a rough stretch by handing the keys of their national campaign to someone who is respected in every corner of the party. Steve Outhouse isn’t a flashy pick, but he’s the kind of hire that signals a shift from chaos to competence, and maybe even a bit of […]

After a lackluster rollout of the second tranche of major projects earlier this month, Prime Minister Mark Carney saved the best for last and is sinking his teeth into the holy grail of controversy: a pipeline that will run directly to B.C. ‘s northwest coast. Over the last two decades, there has been a laundry […]

After months of talking points, innuendo, hints and vague promises, we have finally heard at least some of the terms of the so-called Grand Bargain between Alberta and the federal Liberal government. This bargain is supposedly a trade off where Alberta gets its coveted oil pipeline and the federal government gets a number of commitments […]

Most Canadians are well aware that the government of Justin Trudeau increased the size and cost of the federal government immensely in less than 10 years. During the Trudeau years, government size increased by over 40 per cent in terms of the number of people employed and 70 per cent in terms of the cost […]

The Canadian government is like a boat load of entitlements. Unless some cargo is cast off, the boat is going to sink. Unfortunately, the passengers are entirely unwilling to part with anything, and the captain won’t compel them. Federal Canadian debt has been rising steadily for the past 55 years, apart from an eleven-year reprieve […]

It turns out the Trudeau government really did look at Canada’s economy through rose-coloured glasses. Is the Carney government falling into the same pattern? New research from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy shows that federal budgets during the Trudeau years “consistently overestimated [Canada’s] fiscal health” when it came to forecasting the state of the […]

Last week the magazine Toronto Life published an interview in which Prime Minister Mark Carney stated “Toronto is the best of Canada because it is all of Canada in one place. Virtually half the people in the GTA were born outside the country and you wouldn’t know it because they quicky become Canadian.” The prime […]

It seems that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has a propensity for putting forward different policy models that attract criticism from those who want to resist change of any kind. Earlier this week, this happened again when Alberta was reported to be considering a different way of permitting doctors to work in the province. The draft […]

Within the Conservative Party, a strain of thought has been gaining steam. Pierre Poilievre has hit his high-water mark. After rising in the polls meteorically while the wildly unpopular Justin Trudeau held the reins, Poilievre has been sinking in support since. His party’s solid showing in the April election fell far short of what the […]

The federal budget passed its first vote in the House this week and is now on its way to committee. That alone puts to rest a month of rumours about a Christmas election. The government cleared its first major hurdle, which means we can finally focus on what is actually in the budget instead of […]

It turns out, spend less to invest more means just one thing: spend more.  Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne delivered the Carney government’s first budget last week, and the deficit is record-setting for a non-pandemic budget: $78.3 billion.  There is no plan to balance the budget or even to come close: within five years, the deficit […]

For the past couple of weeks, since Pierre Poilievre appeared on YouTube’s Northern Perspective, members of the dominant media in Canada have sounded like scorched rats howling in protest about his unfair comments regarding former prime minister Justin Trudeau. The problem with their frustrations seems to be more about what he said than about the […]

Canadians have now heard for months the Liberals talking about the “new” federal government doing big things – many very big things – at speeds never seen before! This while deadline after deadline that Prime Minister Mark Carney himself set for goals such as a trade agreement with the U.S., the elimination of inter-provincial trade […]

Every few months, Ottawa falls back into its favourite game: election speculation. The latest round started before Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne even finished reading his budget. Pundits and lobbyists are once again filling airtime predicting that Canada will head to the polls before Christmas. They’re wrong. This week’s budget is indeed the first test for […]

Most Canadians are aware that under the Liberal government for the past decade, our country has spent many more of our tax dollars on so-called “green” programs than in previous years. We have also been told for years that “the environment and the economy go hand in hand”, implying that all of those expensive green […]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trade plan to pivot away from the U.S. has been on full display the past two weeks. There was the prime minister’s televised address to the nation where he repeated his dire analysis that the Canadian-American economic relationship is over, while stating his goal will be to double Canada’s non-U.S. […]

At a time when Canada’s economy is in crisis, leadership demands that the prime minister take charge.  But Canadians looking for leadership from Ottawa in dealing with the Trump administration’s barrage of tariffs have been left wanting.  Since day one of the trade war, Canada’s premiers have arm wrestled over how to deal with U.S. […]

Most of us have heard about the many measures that have been put in place by the federal Liberal government to kneecap the oil and gas industry. Things such as the emissions cap that is really a production cap on the industry, the ban on tankers off the coast of B.C. when tankers on Canada’s […]

For some time now, a number of Canadian governments appear to have been pursuing a policy of cutting off Canada’s nose to spite our face. This old expression refers to a self-destructive act of revenge that ends up harming yourself more than the person you are trying to punish. This has certainly been true with […]

Canada’s federal senior’s benefit regime should have been reformed decades ago. But, as it is with all benefit programs, people like their perks and don’t want them taken away. It takes a crisis before the taxpaying public will squawk loudly enough to embolden a government to make necessary changes. Old Age Security (OAS) has reached […]

What are the costs of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to pivot away from the U.S.? What might Canadians expect in the short term and what will it mean for the country’s future prosperity? These are big questions as the Carney government stumbles through trade talks and bouts of tariff announcements with Canada’s largest […]

As New Democrats gather in Ottawa for tomorrow’s leadership debate, the stakes could not be higher. After their worst electoral showing in history, just seven seats and barely six percent of the vote, the NDP faces an existential choice: rebuild as a modern, broad-based movement or retreat to its labour roots and rebuild from the […]

Last week a great deal of media coverage emerged from a meeting hosted by the Bank of Montreal and the Eurasia Group with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. It was reported that, according to three sources that were at the meeting, Lutnick dismissed the possibility of a comprehensive auto deal with Canada. Lutnick reportedly commented […]

While reports of the Keystone XL pipeline and renewed talks of a bilateral security and trade pact dominated headlines during last week’s White House visit, there are also clear signs emerging that Canada’s provinces may be pitted against each other as they vie for the industries that prop up their regional economies. With Prime Minister […]

It seems kind of incongruous to be writing in opposition to a school food program at the end of the Thanksgiving weekend, when visions of well-cooked turkeys and tables laden with food are the dominant images. But here we are. Last week the federal government announced that the upcoming budget scheduled for Nov. 4 would […]

Canada faces an unprecedented national security challenge from the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and related entities that threatens its democratic institutions, economic stability, and social cohesion. The explosive revelations came out in August, in a book entitled, “Canada Under Siege: How PEI Became a Forward Operating Base for the Chinese Communist Party.” It was […]

After years of frustration for Alberta’s plans for pipeline construction under the Trudeau Liberal government, Prime Minister Mark Carney has hinted that his government could well be the one to finally approve the fabled pipelines. He has even almost teased Alberta with the prospect, alluding to the possibility while never actually stating that is the […]

The 13th postal work stoppage since Canada Post became a corporation in 1981 began on Sept. 26 in response to the Liberal government’s plan to end door-to-door mail delivery. During the 2015 campaign, Justin Trudeau promised postal workers and Canadians that he would not allow Stephen Harper to end what the future prime minister believed […]

From participation in the official addresses, session debates, side meetings, and media conferences at the United Nations General Assembly this week, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed more of his policy priorities than he has shared publicly with Canadians to date. Carney’s comments and actions in New York leave little doubt about the path he […]

With just over a month until Prime Minister Mark Carney tables his first federal budget, Ottawa is preparing to put defence at the heart of its new economic and security agenda. The Carney government has committed to increasing military spending to meet and then exceed NATO’s benchmark of two per cent of GDP, a target […]

It didn’t get a lot of media attention last week, but Ontario Energy Minister Stephen Lecce scored a political win for the government with the first-ever summit of interprovincial-territorial energy ministers.    Called “Connecting Canada: Building an Energy Superpower,” the overall purpose of putting all the country’s energy ministers in one room, was to keep pressure […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s fall travel schedule will see him criss-cross the globe. According to the Canadian Press, he has planned stops in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly, Kuala Lumpur for the ASEAN summit, South Korea for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum, and South Africa for the G20 summit. Carney’s international […]

This week a new agreement was announced between the U.S. and the U.K. on a $350 billion technology pact involving AI, quantum computing and nuclear energy. The “Tech Prosperity Deal” was done as a part of U.S. President Trump’s second state visit to the U.K. The agreement included such things as joint efforts between the […]

The various labour unions in Canada rarely disagree with each other – and especially not publicly – but there has been a recent rift between the Labourers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA) and the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL). Last week, the Ontario Provincial District Council of LiUNA sent an open letter to the […]

No new pipeline. For now. That was the takeaway from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first raft of so-called major national projects, announced last week.  After intense lobbying from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Canadians who see Canada’s energy sector as the key to unlocking future economic growth, Carney chose to punt.  Instead, he announced a […]

After several months of delays, Canadians have finally heard about the first five projects to be “approved” by the Carney government as priorities to be sped through the usually turgid and snail-paced regulatory morass by the newly hatched Major Projects Office. The chosen projects have all already been started in one way or another, which […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney repeatedly stated in the spring that Canada was facing “the biggest crisis of our lifetimes.”  Still, his government recessed the House of Commons after a short four week parliamentary session. Today, after a twelve week summer break, Canada is seized with mounting crises. Canadians are suffering 1) a housing shortage crisis […]

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe recently did something unusual for a provincial leader. Moe decided that he would make a personal trip to China in an attempt to open discussions with the Chinese government about the severe tariffs China has imposed on canola – a key Saskatchewan export which is also very important to Canada as […]

With Parliament set to return on Monday, the Carney government enters the fall sitting balancing high-stakes trade tensions, affordability challenges, and the political reality of a resurgent Conservative opposition. Carney’s Liberals are gathering in Edmonton today, aiming to regroup after a summer dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Prime Minister Mark Carney used the […]

When Canadians think of austerity, many will recall the former Harper government’s attempts to weather a post-recession storm and rein in spending with the introduction of their Deficit Reduction Action Plan (DRAP).  In the wake of the global financial crisis that crippled economies worldwide, the Conservative government had to move quickly. Fresh off an election […]

Canadians have been put on notice that Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will deliver the 2025-26 federal budget during the fall session of Parliament, sometime in October. This budget will be the first statement on Ottawa’s books in well over 500 days, since April 16, 2024. Our elected parliamentarians will finally get a chance to see […]

The French expression “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” means the more things change, the more things stay the same. This is certainly true in Canada right now, and that is a bad thing. What we desperately need in Canada currently is substantial change on a number of fronts so we can reverse […]

After building up massive opposition to the consumer carbon tax, to the point that even the federal Liberals had to get rid of the tax they insisted for years was absolutely necessary, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre now has set his sights on what he call Carbon Tax 2.0. This tax is actually called the Clean […]

Pierre Poilievre is back. An Alberta by-election win gives him a seat at the table and in the House of Commons, again. Though Poilievre faces two challenges at once: a leadership review in January and the daily task of positioning his party as a government-in-waiting. He has succeeded in keeping party loyalists on his side, […]

Since assuming office in March, Prime Minister Mark Carney has consistently demonstrated confidence in his ability to not only develop Canada’s resources but also manage U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to Canadian sovereignty. His renewed mandate at the end of April positioned him as Canada’s choice to articulate the nation’s interests and defend its independence. […]

At the time of writing, the Air Canada strike was at a complete standstill. No negotiating going on, no arbitration happening and no planes in the air. This labour action is taking on the complexion of being a precedent-setting strike where labour unions are taking a stance for reasons broader than just those involved with […]

A few weeks ago, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative Party (UCP) colleagues called on Prime Minister Mark Carney to drop the federal Electric Vehicle (EV) mandate that requires all new vehicles sold in the year 2035 to be EVs. Alberta’s Transportation Minister, Drew Dreeshen, has called this mandate “straight-up lunacy.” He also […]

As August reaches its midway point, the Canadian news cycle is currently dominated by a range of pressing issues that have managed to break through the sea of out-of-office notifications and the onslaught of back-to-school ads. From the highly anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska to the […]

When highlighting his approach to developing Canada as an energy superpower, Prime Minister Mark Carney has repeatedly used the mantra “build baby build.” In the first few months of governing, Carney’s Liberals passed an omnipotent Bill C-5 that gave them unprecedent power to build necessary national energy infrastructure. The prime minister met with the country’s […]

There was a prophetic line in the first Jurassic Park movie, said by the Jeff Goldblum character, that “life finds a way.” It was a response to the claim by the scientists creating dinosaur clones that supposedly couldn’t reproduce that they really couldn’t control the outcome of their dangerous experiments. As anyone who has seen […]

Ottawa has taken a necessary and overdue step. It has raised pay for members of the Canadian Armed Forces and aligned that decision with the commitment to reach NATO’s spending target. The package is straightforward. Starting pay for privates rises from approximately $43,000 to $52,000. Most ranks up to lieutenant colonel receive a 13 percent […]

Remember the classic sci-fi movie The Blob, and how the blob keeps getting bigger and bigger while oozing over everything, heedless of the screams around it? That’s what’s happening at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In 2023, CBC said it was issuing lay-offs and cutting costs. “CBC/Radio-Canada… will reduce its English and French programming budgets for the […]

Costs are soaring for Canadians. The price of the essentials, like food, shelter, and clothing, just keep going up. The economy is struggling. Canada faces a youth unemployment crisis. And yet, at the very same time, Canadians’ tax burden has never been higher. According to the Fraser Institute, the average Canadian family now spends far […]

During the federal election, Prime Minister Mark Carney sold Canadians on the promise of ‘elbows up.’ With a resume showcasing top-tier experience, he made it clear through his sloganeering and policy chops that he was ready to take on the job, to deliver results for Canadians and protect trade-exposed industries like auto, steel and aluminum, […]

It has been well known for some time that Canada’s young people are having challenges finding entry level summer or part-time jobs. Some of the reasons for this are a sluggish economy, the impact of technologies that replace people with machines, economic uncertainty in a turbulent world and bad government policies that are punitive to […]

As Canadians suffer through summer heat and threats of damaging tariffs from our neighbour to the south, it’s easy to ignore a growing existential threat to our civil society – antisemitism.   Disruptive street demonstrations, vandalism and violence perpetrated against Jewish businesses and places of worship, social media campaigns against individual Jews, the list goes on. […]

The Liberal government’s “soft-on-crime approach” to Canadian law and order has left many Canadians feeling threatened, insecure, and less safe on their city’s streets – and in their residential neighbourhoods. The data and a constant stream of serious, lawless incidents reveals that criminals have become emboldened and fearless of the police and the Canadian justice […]

Back in 1979, there was an interesting movie called The China Syndrome, in which it was theorized that the possibility of a nuclear reactor meltdown in the U.S. could be so devastating that it would penetrate through the earth to reach China. Thankfully, that was fiction. A more recent version of the China syndrome that […]

Loopholes aren’t enough to get big projects done.  That’s the message that the energy sector is delivering loud and clear to the Carney government.  Just weeks ago, the Carney government passed Bill C-5, otherwise known as the One Canadian Economy Act.  For some, the bill was a step in the right direction. After years of […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney wants to get the government back into the business of building homes. As part of his Liberal Party’s platform during last spring’s federal election, Carney promised to create a new Crown corporation to act as a real estate developer for affordable housing: Build Canada Homes. But recent experiences from New Zealand […]

For decades, through successive federal governments, executive and legislative powers in Ottawa have been centralized within the prime minister’s office (PMO). Today, government policy and some legislation is developed by PMO staff, not parliamentarians and public servants as a functioning Westminster model government would have it. This centralization of power leads to a perverted democratic […]

The latest monthly report from S&P Global on the state of the Canadian manufacturing sector showed that manufacturing continues to decline. This report is based on an index comprised of surveys of purchasing managers (PMI) in the sector. The results for June saw sharp contractions in both output and new orders, indicating that these tough […]

Pierre Poilievre is poised to return to Parliament through the safest route possible: a by-election in Alberta’s Battle River–Crowfoot, the bluest riding in Canada. With former MP Damien Kurek stepping aside, the Conservative Leader is expected to cruise to victory in what will be a largely symbolic but necessary return to the House of Commons. […]

If there is one thing all Canadian politicians supposedly agree on, it’s that we badly need new housing development all across the country. Ridiculous immigration numbers for much of the past decade is one key reason, as well as the fact that increases in taxes, development charges and other fees and levies imposed by municipal […]

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s campaign to pick up a by-election seat in Alberta is currently in full swing. With voters set to head to the polls next month, his return to Parliament in time for the fall session appears all but guaranteed.  Although he’s been on the sidelines, Poilievre hasn’t been absent from the political […]

Municipal governments do not usually attract the same amount of attention in Canada as do provincial and federal governments, but they should. All levels of government have had a spending spree over the last decade or so. Part of this was justified by the pandemic, but data show that governments used the pandemic as an […]

Taxes are very much on the agenda these days as governments at all levels carry significant debt and are looking at how best to stave off credit rating downgrades without making Canada even more uncompetitive than it already is compared to other developed countries. The most recent international tax comparison report by the Tax Foundation […]

With the re-election of Donald Trump in the U.S. and re-election of a Liberal government in Ottawa, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has passionately taken up the mission to advance the Canadian oil and gas industry with a zealous commitment that has her seemingly everywhere, all at once. The premier is forcibly presenting an articulate argument […]

What kind of Canada Day are we going to have this year? Will it be a day of celebrating what we have accomplished as a country? Or will it be a day of recriminations, of selecting bits of history, without context or understanding to condemn what countless Canadians – whether born here or arrived here […]

As Canadians gather today to celebrate our nation’s birthday, there’s a quiet but powerful shift already underway. Across the country, millions of Canadians have adjusted their spending habits, choosing to support local businesses, vacation within our borders, and buy homegrown goods. This grassroots movement speaks volumes. Now it’s time for the federal government to match […]

At last year’s NATO Summit, Canada showed up with little more to offer than platitudes. The former Prime Minister attempted to save face with world leaders by announcing an eleventh-hour pledge to meet its two per cent target by 2032, but it did little to appease an alliance that has steadily ramped up investment in […]

As you may have heard, the Carney federal government has introduced a very controversial piece of legislation comprising two parts. The first part deals with federal measures to reduce interprovincial trade barriers, something that most businesses and Canadians support. But that’s not the contentious part. The second part of Bill C-5 involves giving the federal […]

The health of the relationship between Ottawa and the province of Alberta is central to the country’s economic growth and Canadians’ future prosperity. Central Canadians should understand how the federal government’s response to Albertans’ aspirations will have ramifications for the country as a whole. It is not hyperbole to state that to devalue or dismiss […]

As the G7 Summit draws to a close in Kananaskis, Alberta, many Canadians may be wondering what this annual gathering of world leaders has to do with them. With a packed domestic agenda, cost of living, housing, healthcare, it’s easy to view global diplomacy as distant or disconnected. But in reality, the G7’s work touches […]

If Prime Minister Mark Carney doesn’t listen to the West, it’s going to cost Canada. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe are demanding that Ottawa stop stomping on their provinces’ natural resource production. Smith is telling Carney to scrap the no more pipelines law, Bill C-69, lift the cap on Alberta’s energy and cancel […]

Canadians heard a lot about a Liberal “lost decade” from the Conservatives during this year’s federal election campaign.  The Tories pointed to surging government and household debt, weak economic growth, nationwide housing deficits, and crumbing infrastructure as evidence of 10 years of Canada falling behind.  A new study from the Fraser Institute shows that the […]

The relationship between Ottawa and Alberta involves much more than oil and gas – at its core is an intricate, convoluted dialogue respecting the country’s cooperation between regions and people. The dynamic Ottawa-Alberta partnership has taken on a new form with the re-election of the federal Liberals and their continued pursuit of green policies, and […]

The adage “Don’t waste a crisis” has a new and unfortunate application with Bill C-2, legislation to radically infringe on the privacy of Canadians under dubious justifications. Bill C-2, introduced on June 3 as the “Strong Borders Act,” has made border security, the fentanyl crisis, and transnational crime the pretense to introduce new policing powers […]

A new report from the Montreal Economic Institute shows what every Canadian who has been to an emergency room knows in their bones: wait times are unacceptably long and getting worse. Despite more and more government spending, Canadians’ stays in emergency rooms are getting longer and longer.  In Canada’s largest province of Ontario, for example, […]

Our collapsing healthcare system has become a major concern of Canadians in recent years, and deservedly so. Our wait times get longer and longer, we hear regularly of emergency room closures in hospitals, about six million Canadians do not have a regular primary healthcare provider and horrific stories of Canadians who died waiting for care […]

After years of virtue signalling and contentious bills designed to wedge political opponents by the former Trudeau government, the arrival of Prime Minister Mark Carney on the scene feels like a breath of fresh air after years of stagnation in Ottawa’s corridors of power. The early days of the new government signal that Carney is […]

“We know how to grow this economy without spending money,” stated Prime Minister Mark Carney in the House of Commons this week – in answer to a question asking why the government would not introduce a budget this spring and provide the details of its near half-a-trillion-dollar spending plan. This statement is an eerily similar […]

Canadian natural gas is the silver bullet that could both help grow Canada’s economy and reduce global emissions at the same time.  If Canada were to significantly increase the production of natural gas here at home and export it to countries heavily reliant on coal to power their economies, like India and China, the Canadian […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney is betting big on a bold, high-stakes strategy to reset Canada’s trade relationship with the United States and shield the country from the economic fallout of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime. Carney welcomed a recent U.S. court ruling that invalidated key parts of Trump’s trade agenda, including border-related tariffs on Canadian […]

Has the tide to erase Canada’s history started to turn? Two recent Ontario Government decisions last week give rise to the hope that the misinformed and misguided attempts to remove Sir John A. Macdonald from our history may be easing.   It is about time that a defence of the founder of Canada and our first […]

As if we needed anything else to add to the economic challenges Canada will be facing over the next couple of years, the mortgage situation could prove to be very difficult for many Canadians. As many as 3.3 million mortgages are set to renew in the next 18 months, likely at interest rates considerably higher […]

The evidence demonstrating how unleashing Canada’s oil and gas sector will massively benefit the entire Canadian economy is so overwhelming it’s astonishing that any government can continue to ignore it. Two recent studies by the Fraser Institute think tank merely add to the enormous body of information that shows what fools our Canadian politicians are […]

“Skipping a federal budget would have been a significant departure from convention while raising obvious questions about fiscal transparency, parliamentary oversight, and accountability,” observes Financial Post columnist and financial analyst Kim Moody. He reasons, “Transparency, oversight and accountability are not aspirational objectives. They are foundational to providing a responsible government. Trust in institutions will inevitably […]

These days it seems that U.S. President Donald Trump and his tariffs are responsible for pretty much all the problems facing Canada, at least according to the politicians. Some businesses are also blaming Trump’s actions for changes in their business plans. For instance, large auto maker Stellantis just announced this week that they will be […]

It would be a welcome change to have something positive to write about the Canadian economy these days, but unfortunately the pickings are slim, and the news is relentlessly bad. A recent study by the National Bank of Canada just adds to the misery as it focusses on the decline of the Canadian manufacturing sector.  […]

President Donald Trump’s recent trip to the United Arab Emirates sent a powerful message about the global race for artificial intelligence—and where the world’s emerging centres of power may lie. In a series of landmark deals valued at over $200 billion, Trump backed partnerships between U.S. tech giants and Gulf state champions that will see […]

Last month, Canadians cast their ballot with two major issues in mind: standing up to President Donald Trump on Canada–U.S. relations and seeking change at home after nearly a decade of Trudeau era policy decisions. While voters could easily distinguish the parties’ approaches to managing Canada–U.S. relations under Trump, the promise of domestic change became […]

Since 2015, year over year, the Liberal government increased the number of people they ushered into Canada. Through the decade the Liberals systematically implemented a make-over of Canada’s immigration system, and the early signals from Prime Minister Mark Carney suggest that he intends to proceed with the same immigration approach that was established by former […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney is taking over a country with deep divisions.  After 10 years of the Trudeau government stymying Alberta’s attempt to develop its natural resources at virtually every turn, Premier Danielle Smith has set in motion a plan that could ultimately lead to a referendum on Alberta independence as soon as next year.  […]

Statistics Canada’s monthly Labour Force Survey was published late last week, and the numbers were not encouraging. The overall rate of unemployment increased to 6.9 per cent, which was the highest rate in eight years except during the pandemic years. Although an increase in the unemployment rate is never a good thing, the real story […]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith almost upstaged Prime Minister Mark Carney’s planned visit with US President Donald Trump earlier this week when she came out with her “Alberta Next” statement. That statement clearly outlined Alberta’s demands from the new federal government. After a decade of mistreatment from the Trudeau Liberals, Smith isn’t wasting any time making […]

A consensus can be drawn from recent economic data that the Canadian economy is in a precarious state. For a decade the Liberals’ big spending, big government approach to managing the economy has left the country in a weakened condition to respond to, and perhaps pivot from, the trade threats posed by the United States. […]

After a fiercely contested election and a high turnout result that left the Liberals just shy of a majority, Ottawa is gearing up for one of the busiest Junes in recent memory. With the 45th Parliament set to return, King Charles III confirmed to deliver the Speech from the Throne, and key questions looming about […]

Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy announced this week that the provincial budget will be read on May 15. The government has already begun to announce measures that will be included in the budget, such as an increase in the tax credit for Ontario manufacturers, which will amount to an additional $1.3 billion over three years. […]

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith wasted no time after the federal election to make known her views that the status quo is not an option for Alberta. She refers of course to the terrible treatment Alberta received from the Justin Trudeau Liberal government, which went out of its way to squelch opportunities for Alberta, notably by […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney emerged victorious after Monday’s federal election, with Canadians voting in favour of giving the Liberal Party a fourth consecutive mandate. While major questions remain–namely how Carney will govern and who will hold the balance of power in the House of Commons– serious regional challenges also lie ahead as the new government […]

This will be an election for the ages. By the time you read this, the final result should be known. But this column is being written while everything is still up in the air. Although polls have been predicting a small or large Liberal victory for some time, the outcome is still not guaranteed as […]

Prime Minister Mark Carney won a narrow mandate of his own from Canadians on Monday.  After years of badly trailing the Conservatives in the polls, the Liberals made a stunning comeback, winning a minority government.  The Liberals, buoyed by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and 51st state talk and a new leader who some Canadians […]

With the Leaders Debate and advance polls in the books, Canada’s major party leaders are now entering the closing sprint of a campaign defined by economic uncertainty, tension with the United States, and a battle for the middle class. If the English-language debate was meant to shift momentum, it didn’t. According to Abacus Data’s snap […]

The country’s immigration trends have been a growing concern for Canadians, yet during this federal election campaign immigration policy has been fully eclipsed by anxieties relating to U.S. President Donald Trump and the threats posed by American tariffs. Political rhetoric stirring up a mix of fear and loathing about Trump politics has squelched any discussion […]

On April 16 and 17, the Canadian electorate will have a chance to size up its choices for prime minister when the party leaders meet to debate the issues in the only French and English debates offered before voters go to the polls on April 28.  National elections in Canada have included debates since 1968. […]

There is perhaps no greater contrast that can be drawn between the Liberals and Conservatives than their respective approaches to developing Canada’s natural resources, and specifically the country’s oil and gas sector. The Liberals are charting a course for Canadians that would have the country exit the oil and gas sector in the next few […]

For the first time since the 2025 federal election began, a major poll has put the Conservative Party ahead. Innovative Research now has the Conservatives at 38 per cent, narrowly edging out the Liberals at 37 per cent. While this would still likely translate into a Liberal minority — thanks to the efficiency of Liberal […]

Finding a silver lining in the current trade war between Canada and the U.S. is not easy. But there may be an unexpected one and it is none too soon for Canada’s strained health-care system.   Put simply, Canada does not have enough family doctors. A recent report from Health Canada estimated that not only were […]

If there were any lingering doubts about the direction of the ballot box question in Canada, President Donald Trump put them to rest on Wednesday with his latest round of global tariffs. While Canada and Mexico seemed to dodge the worst of the impact, the Canadian economy still faces significant consequences. Sectors like steel and […]

The vote on April 28 for who will lead Canada is perhaps the most consequential vote Canadians will have had since the 1988 federal election when we decided the fate of a Canada – U.S. Free Trade Agreement. This month’s vote will decide the country’s energy and immigration policies, factor large in national unity issues, […]

Trump’s about-face on relations with Canada under Carney suggests he wants to Liberals to win.  It sure seems as though U.S. President Donald Trump wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to win when Canadians go to the polls on April 28.  Following months of belittling former prime minister Justin Trudeau, arguing that Canada ought to become […]

For those who closely follow the political scene in Ottawa, what has been most striking with the Liberals’ changing of the guard is how little things have actually changed. With his international roles, Prime Minister Mark Carney introduces new circles of influence to the position of prime minister, but he is being supported by the […]

Last week several senior CEOs in the oil and gas industry, including some distribution companies, penned a letter to all national party leaders. The letter was entitled “Build Canada Now” and outlined a strategy to strengthen Canada’s economic sovereignty by the development of Canadian energy resources.  Considering the well-documented contributions our oil and gas sector […]