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Liberal Leadership Launch…

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We are one day away from Trump being inaugurated, the country may be thrown into 25% tariffs, in the hundreds of Executive Orders that Trump will be signing on his first days back in office as the 47th President of the United States…

And it’s hard to not notice that the Left Leaners are more focused on Premier Smith, not signing a retaliatory declaration on the United States – working to protect the economy and job base of Albertans…instead of continuing on with the actual issues that need be resolved:

  1. Border Security;
  2. Reducing Drug Trafficking.

This is what got us here in the first place…but legacy media only seemingly want to fade Justin Trudeau and the Liberal decade of failure, into the background.

If we had a government that wasn’t currently Prorogued, or that caused this through reckless policies in the first place…because of the Liberal Party collapsing due to a non-confidence vote being imminent…the Premiers of every province wouldn’t have had to try and unite…wouldn’t have had to try and put 26% (the largest portion) of the Alberta GDP, up as a lamb to be slaughtered.

“TEAM CANADA”, they screech…

“Smith has committed Treason”, they relent…

And in certain circles…this rage fest, is seemingly getting traction.

A part of this is all due to the Liberal Friendly, Legacy Media…some even due to censorship, where we full well know that through Bill C-63 – The Online Harms Act, throwing you in jail for mean tweets, or having you strapped with an ankle monitor if somebody even believes you are going to shit-post online.

Mark Carney…first to throw his official launch into the melee.

Parachutes into Alberta…where apparently, him and George “The Porch Pirate” Chahal, Thelma and Louised a City of Calgary vehicle, and headed into Redmonton for their Launch Event:

Where…they did invite legacy and alternate media to the event…

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And then, through the protection of Edmonton Police Services…selected a few friends to be allowed into the event…while trespassing others off of the property.

Isn’t Edmonton rife enough with Crime that their Police should be focused on, over playing private security, for a Liberal Party Launch…kicking out invited guests?

And then…let’s hop into how incredibly moronic Team Carney is…in botching not only one Logo, but also breaching copyright laws on a second…in 2 days.

Instead of just using the Liberal Party Logo…

Or, are we just supposed to forget that he’s running for Liberal Leadership?

Rightfully, Mark is being ruthlessly mocked online for his Copy Right infringements and lack of creativity…

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Freeland…not doing a whole lot better.

Thinking that if she changed her social media profile picture to be more Liberal Red, she’d come off more appealing…and ended up with this:

Dear Lord…this is Nightmare Fuel!

Even more so knowing that she could be the next Prime Minister of Canada, given her absolutely horrific track-record as an MP and deputy PM.

Where it’s only now, that he job is on the line…that she has taken to Axing the Tax, that everybody knows, does not give 8/10 Canadians more back than they contribute:

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Both her and Mark have made statements about this…

But they both seemingly allude to the idea, just like the previous last ditch efforts to keep the tax in place but make it more popular by rebranding it, around a year ago…

It’s a bullshit tax…

That will never actually achieve anything close to fixing the weather…

Because planetary temperatures and regional weather are completely dynamic…and are controlled by that large ball of fire in the sky, we refer to as, ‘The Sun’.

It’s hard to believe that there are still some people out there who don’t recognize that when the sun is up, the temperature outside is WARMER and at night time, it’s COOLER…but yet want to blame Soccer Mom’s in their SUVs for heating up the planet.

We could talk about the other no-name failures that haven’t got the traction to even compete in this spud race…

Frank Baylis – Liberal Supporter who got the contract for ventilators that were never approved for use in Canada, that were bought for thousands and sold of as scrap metal.

Chandra Arya – who claims to be fluent in French and English, while cannot speak a word in French and can barely communicate in English…

Karina Gould – who announce her intent to run, in a Tweet on X…and then blocked comments…

But, really…why bother?

Their leadership run is as much of a catastrophe as their rein over Canada, for the last decade.

It’s so terrible, you’d almost think that they are deliberately sabotaging their own chances at winning…where at least 24 Liberal MPs have already decided that they’re going to take some time off of politics, “to spend more time with their families”.

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It Took Trump To Get Canada Serious About Free Trade With Itself

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From the  Frontier Centre for Public Policy

By Lee Harding

Trump’s protectionism has jolted Canada into finally beginning to tear down interprovincial trade barriers

The threat of Donald Trump’s tariffs and the potential collapse of North American free trade have prompted Canada to look inward. With international trade under pressure, the country is—at last—taking meaningful steps to improve trade within its borders.

Canada’s Constitution gives provinces control over many key economic levers. While Ottawa manages international trade, the provinces regulate licensing, certification and procurement rules. These fragmented regulations have long acted as internal trade barriers, forcing companies and professionals to navigate duplicate approval processes when operating across provincial lines.

These restrictions increase costs, delay projects and limit job opportunities for businesses and workers. For consumers, they mean higher prices and fewer choices. Economists estimate that these barriers hold back up to $200 billion of Canada’s economy annually, roughly eight per cent of the country’s GDP.

Ironically, it wasn’t until after Canada signed the North American Free Trade Agreement that it began to address domestic trade restrictions. In 1994, the first ministers signed the Agreement on Internal Trade (AIT), committing to equal treatment of bidders on provincial and municipal contracts. Subsequent regional agreements, such as Alberta and British Columbia’s Trade, Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement in 2007, and the New West Partnership that followed, expanded cooperation to include broader credential recognition and enforceable dispute resolution.

In 2017, the Canadian Free Trade Agreement (CFTA) replaced the AIT to streamline trade among provinces and territories. While more ambitious in scope, the CFTA’s effectiveness has been limited by a patchwork of exemptions and slow implementation.

Now, however, Trump’s protectionism has reignited momentum to fix the problem. In recent months, provincial and territorial labour market ministers met with their federal counterpart to strengthen the CFTA. Their goal: to remove longstanding barriers and unlock the full potential of Canada’s internal market.

According to a March 5 CFTA press release, five governments have agreed to eliminate 40 exemptions they previously claimed for themselves. A June 1 deadline has been set to produce an action plan for nationwide mutual recognition of professional credentials. Ministers are also working on the mutual recognition of consumer goods, excluding food, so that if a product is approved for sale in one province, it can be sold anywhere in Canada without added red tape.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has signalled that his province won’t wait for consensus. Ontario is dropping all its CFTA exemptions, allowing medical professionals to begin practising while awaiting registration with provincial regulators.

Ontario has partnered with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to implement mutual recognition of goods, services and registered workers. These provinces have also enabled direct-to-consumer alcohol sales, letting individuals purchase alcohol directly from producers for personal consumption.

A joint CFTA statement says other provinces intend to follow suit, except Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador.

These developments are long overdue. Confederation happened more than 150 years ago, and prohibition ended more than a century ago, yet Canadians still face barriers when trying to buy a bottle of wine from another province or find work across a provincial line.

Perhaps now, Canada will finally become the economic union it was always meant to be. Few would thank Donald Trump, but without his tariffs, this renewed urgency to break down internal trade barriers might never have emerged.

Lee Harding is a research fellow with the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.

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2025 Federal Election

Carney’s budget is worse than Trudeau’s

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By Gage Haubrich

Liberal Leader Mark Carney is planning to borrow more money than former prime minister Justin Trudeau.

That’s an odd plan for a former banker because the federal government is already spending more on debt interest payments than it spends on health-care transfers to the provinces.

Let’s take a deeper look at Carney’s plan.

Carney says that his government would “spend less, invest more.”

At first glance, that might sound better than the previous decade of massive deficits and increasing debt, but does that sound like a real change?

Because if you open a thesaurus, you’ll find that “spend” and “invest” are synonyms, they mean the same thing.

And Carney’s platform shows it. Carney plans to increase government spending by $130 billion. He plans to increase the federal debt by $225 billion over the next four years. That’s about $100 billion more than Trudeau was planning borrow over the same period, according to the most recent Fall Economic Statement.

Carney is planning to waste $5.6 billion more on debt interest charges than Trudeau. Interest charges already cost taxpayers more than $1 billion per week.

The platform claims that Carney will run a budget surplus in 2028, but that’s nonsense. Because once you include the $48 billion of spending in Carney’s “capital” budget, the tiny surplus disappears, and taxpayers are stuck with more debt.

And that’s despite planning to take even more money from Canadians in years ahead. Carney’s platform shows that his carbon tariff, another carbon tax on Canadians, will cost taxpayers $500 million.

The bottom line is that government spending, no matter what pile it is put into, is just government spending. And when the government spends too much, that means it must borrow more money, and taxpayers have to pay the interest payments on that irresponsible borrowing.

Canadians don’t even believe that Carney can follow through on his watered-down plan. A majority of Canadians are skeptical that Carney will balance the operational budget in three years, according to Leger polling.

All Carney’s plan means for Canadians is more borrowing and higher debt. And taxpayers can’t afford anymore debt.

When the Liberals were first elected the debt was $616 billion. It’s projected to reach almost $1.3 trillion by the end of the year, that means the debt has more than doubled in the last decade.

Every single Canadian’s individual share of the federal debt averages about $30,000.

Interest charges on the debt are costing taxpayers $53.7 billion this year. That’s more than the government takes in GST from Canadians. That means every time you go to the grocery store, fill up your car with gas, or buy almost anything else, all that federal sales tax you pay isn’t being used for anything but paying for the government’s poor financial decisions.

Creative accounting is not the solution to get the government’s fiscal house in order. It’s spending cuts. And Carney even says this.

“The federal government has been spending too much,” said Carney. He then went on to acknowledge the huge spending growth of the government over the last decade and the ballooning of the federal bureaucracy. A serious plan to balance the budget and pay down debt includes cutting spending and slashing bureaucracy.

But the Conservatives aren’t off the hook here either. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has said that he will balance the budget “as soon as possible,” but hasn’t told taxpayers when that is.

More debt today means higher taxes tomorrow. That’s because every dollar borrowed by the federal government must be paid back plus interest. Any party that says it wants to make life more affordable also needs a plan to start paying back the debt.

Taxpayers need a government that will commit to balancing the budget for real and start paying back debt, not one that is continuing to pile on debt and waste billions on interest charges.

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