Trudeau redux or Poilievre for real change?
Canada cannot afford four more years of Trudeau-style progressivism that pursues net zero and produces zero growth
Joe Oliver
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me four times? Seriously?
In Mark Carney’s first month as Liberal leader and prime minister, a picture has emerged of who he is: a technocratic version of Justin Trudeau, without the charisma, great hair or ability to communicate comfortably in French, but with many of his banished predecessor’s other personality characteristics and policy propensities.
The authors of Canada's 'lost decade' would like another try
All elections are consequential. But the one just called will be more consequential than most. At a time of self-inflicted economic decline and social weakness, we find ourselves in a trade war with the Americans, who until now have bought 80 per cent of our exports.
Carney is running hard against Trump and Trudeau
No good deed goes unpunished, but the Liberals are hoping bad deeds will be forgotten. Thus their leadership candidates are running against their own party’s record. For that to work, they’ll have to convince Canadians not to believe their lying eyes.
Where do we go from here in the Trump tariff drama?
Let's have an election then clear away trade irritants, the border, defence, supply management, that are own-goals
Contrary to what Trump thinks, America needs us
In his inaugural address, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that he would overhaul the American trade system and establish an External Revenue Service to collect “massive” tariffs, duties and other revenue. Later that day, he said he was considering imposing tariffs on Canada and Mexico on Feb. 1. Canada is targeted for political, economic and ideological reasons, some defensible, others...
Time to start benefiting from our vast natural wealth again
When Pierre Poilievre becomes prime minister, as still seems all but certain even after Justin Trudeau’s exit, he will face acute economic problems: out-of-control spending, massive deficits, ballooning debt and crushing interest obligations, as well as insipid productivity and lagging growth in real GDP per capita. He will need — we will need — faster income growth but without raising...
Where do Trudeau and the Liberals go from here?
Escape from Justin Trudeau's record will be hard. Beyond that the Liberals need to move to the centre, where most Canadians are
Justin Trudeau should resign or call an early election
For someone used to getting his own way for most of his life, public hostility, repeated failure and relentless bad news must be terribly trying for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. His government began in 2015 with high hopes and widespread good wishes. Now that it is all coming crashing down, he refuses to accept blame and either change course or...
Trudeau playing with fire supporting false charges of deeply flawed ICC
In an egregious instance of malign virtue signalling, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated that because of “who we are as Canadians” he would “abide by” a blatantly political decision of the discredited International Criminal Court (ICC) to enforce arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, as well Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif, who...
The walls are closing in on Justin Trudeau
Among the myriad problems Justin Trudeau is confronting, two have an immediacy that must be especially troubling. One is political, the other economic.
Bad policies, not poor messaging, will sink the Liberals
Last week, columnist Kimberley Strassel wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the Democratic Party’s central problem is, not Joe Biden’s deteriorating cognition, but its policies. The very same day, our own Prime Minister’s Office criticized Deputy PM and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland for poor economic messaging, a stunning public rebuke of the second most important person in the...
The shameful disinformation campaign behind the Biden debacle
President Joe Biden’s debate debacle laid bare a disgraceful willingness to deliberately mislead the public about a subject of geopolitical significance — the failing mental capacity of the world’s most powerful person. Perpetrators of this reckless disinformation campaign include the Biden family, White House staff, Democratic members of Congress, senior Democratic Party spokespeople and the progressive mainstream media.
A principled Canada would protect its Jews
Antisemitism has imposed a pervasive and pernicious double standard on the Jewish people for thousands of years, rampant during periods of extreme persecution but less overt during in periods of enlightenment, but always lurking in the swamp of human malevolence. Since 1948, that double standard extended to Israel with varying intensity. After the October 7 massacre by Hamas, it exploded...
Liberals underestimate Pierre Poilievre at their peril
In a much-remarked-on recent column — “The case for Trump — by someone who wants him to lose” — Bret Stephens of The New York Times gave U.S. Democrats a wake-up call: “You can’t defeat an opponent if you refuse to understand what makes him formidable.” Let me provide the same wake-up call to Canadian Liberals about Pierre Poilievre —...
2024 could be a pivotal year, politically, economically and culturally
The year just beginning could be a watershed, with turning points in politics, economics and culture, provided common sense and moral clarity prevail both here and abroad.
Once unthinkable, discrimination against Jews now a given on campus
The appalling Congressional testimony from the presidents of three elite U.S. universities offered an alarming revelation of institutional rot in higher education. The putrefaction is far ranging, extending to an eruption of antisemitism on campus and beyond and the weakening of core societal values, which are sapping the moral strength of western democracies.