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Liberals lose another ‘safe’ seat, Trudeau pleads with Canadians to get more ‘engaged’

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By Anthony Murdoch

Trudeau’s Liberals lost yet another by-election in a ‘safe’ riding, garnering just 27.2 percent of the vote. The seat, which has been held by the Liberals since its creation in 2015, was won by the Liberals with 42.9 percent of the vote in 2021.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau claimed Canadians need to understand what is “at stake” after his Liberal Party lost yet another byelection in a supposedly “safe” Liberal area.

After the last votes were counted early Tuesday morning, results from the Montreal-area LaSalle–Émard–Verdun riding byelection held on Monday had Bloc Québécois candidate Louis-Philippe Sauvé beat out Liberal candidate Laura Palestini by a slim margin.

The Bloc’s Sauvé garnered 28 percent of the vote, while the Liberal’s Palestini rang in with 27.2 percent of the vote. While the margin of loss was slim for the Liberals, the drop-off is significant considering the Liberals handily won the riding with 42.9 percent of the vote in 2021.

In third place was New Democratic Party with 26.1 percent of the vote, while the Conservatives came in an expected fourth place with 11.6 percent.

Speaking with reporters Tuesday morning, Trudeau, instead of taking blame for his Liberal Party’s increasing unpopularity and recent byelection upset losses, claimed that Canadian voters just need to be more “engaged.”  

“We need people to be more engaged. We need people to understand what’s at stake in this upcoming election,” he said,  referring to the looming 2025 election, which at this point could feasibly be called early. 

“Obviously, it would have been nicer to be able to… win… but there’s more work to do and we’re going to stay.”  

Last Friday, Trudeau boasted to reporters that he could not “wait for the conversations we’re having in LaSalle-Émard-Verdun.”

“I can’t wait to welcome Laura Palestini to Ottawa,” he added at the time.  

Monday’s Liberal byelection loss is the second shock defeat for Trudeau’s party in just over two months. In June, the Conservative Party won a by-election in a longstanding Liberal stronghold riding in downtown Toronto. 

The most recent loss suggests that Trudeau’s Liberal government is indeed hanging on by a thread, as suggested by all recent polls which have shown that Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is set to win big when the next federal election takes place.

The souring of voters to the Liberal Party under Trudeau comes at the same time that even some of his MPs are turning on him. Last week, LifeSiteNews reported on how Liberal MP Alexandra Mendès, who serves as the assistant deputy speaker of the House of Commons, became the first in the party to publicly call for Trudeau to resign, saying directly that he is not the “right leader” for the party. 

The Trudeau resignation call comes amid Trudeau losing support from the socialist NDP to keep him in power. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh pulled his official support for Trudeau’s Liberals two weeks ago. 

Poilievre has promised that at “earliest possible opportunity” he will bring forth a non-confidence motion against Trudeau’s Liberal government which, if successful, would force an immediate election.  

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Carney launches his crusade against the oilpatch

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Well, he finally did it.

After literally years of rumours that he was preparing to run for parliament and being groomed as Justin Trudeau’s successor.

After he, reportedly, agreed to take over Chrystia Freeland’s job as Finance Minister in December, only to then, reportedly, pull back once her very public and pointed resignation made the job too toxic for someone with his ambitions.

After he even began telegraphing, through surrogates, an openness to joining a Conservative government, likely hoping to preserve some of his beloved environmentalist achievements if and when Pierre Poilievre leads his party into government.

After all that, Mark Carney has finally thrown his hat into the ring for the position of Liberal leader and prime minister of our beloved and beleaguered country.

And, as I’ve been predicting, the whole gang of Trudeau apologists are out in force, jumping for joy and saying this is the best thing since sliced bread. Carney is a breath of fresh air, a man who can finally turn the page on a difficult era in our history, a fighter, and — of all things! — an outsider.

Hogwash!

This narrative conveniently ignores the fact that Carney has been a key Trudeau confidant for years. As Pierre Poilievre pointed out on Twitter/X, he remains listed on the Liberal Party’s website as an advisor to the Prime Minister. He’s godfather to Chrystia Freeland’s son, for heaven’s sake!

Outsider?! This man is an insider’s insider.

But, more importantly, Carney has been a passionate supporter and promoter of the Trudeau government’s agenda, with the job-killing, economy-hobbling Net Zero program right at its heart. The Carbon Tax? He was for it before he was against it, which is to say, before it was clear the popular opposition to it isn’t going away, especially now that we all see what a bite it’s taken out of our household budgets.

Even his course correction was half-hearted. In Carney’s words, the Carbon Tax “served a purpose up until now.” What on earth does that even mean?

Meanwhile, EV mandates, Emission Caps, the War on Pipelines, tax dollars for so-called renewables, and all of the other policies designed to stifle our natural resources imposed on us by the activists in the Trudeau government? They’re right up Carney’s ally.

Plus his record at the Banks of Canada and England, his role as the U.N.’s Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, and his passion projects like the Global Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), and its subgroup the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), point to a concerning willingness to achieve his ideological goals by even the most sneaky, underhanded routes.

Take, for instance, the question of whether we need to “phase out” Canada’s oil and gas industry. Politicians who want real power can’t just come out and endorse that position without experiencing major blowback, as Justin Trudeau found out back in 2017. Despite years of activist propaganda, Canadians still recognize that hydrocarbon energy is the backbone of our economy.

But what if oil and gas companies started having trouble getting loans or attracting investment, no matter how profitable they are? Over time they, and the jobs and other economic benefits they provide, would simply disappear.

That is, in essence, the goal of GFANZ. It’s what they mean when they require their members – including Canadian banks like BMO, TD, CIBC, Scotiabank and RBC – to commit to “align[ing] their lending and investment portfolios with net-zero carbon emissions by mid-century or sooner.”

And Mark Carney is their founder and chairman. GFANZ is Mark Carney’s baby.

In truth, Mark Carney is less an outsider than he is the man behind the curtain, the man pulling the strings and poking the levers of power. Not that he will put it this way, but his campaign pitch can be boiled down to, “Trudeau, but without the scandals or baggage.” Well, relatively speaking.

But the thing is, it wasn’t those scandals – as much of an embarrassment as they were — which has brought an unceremonious end to Justin Trudeau’s political career. What laid him low, in the end, was bad policy and governmental mismanagement.

To choose Mark Carney would be to ask for more of the same. Thanks, but no thanks.

Dan McTeague is President of Canadians for Affordable Energy.

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Chrystia Freeland’s WEF page deleted after she announces bid to replace Trudeau

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By Clare Marie Merkowsky

Around the same time Chrystia Freeland announced she is running to replace Trudeau as leader of the Liberal Party, citizens noticed that her World Economic Forum page has been deleted from the globalist group’s website.

Former finance minister and deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland’s World Economic Forum (WEF) page has been deleted around the same time she announced her bid for leadership of the Liberal Party.

On January 19, Freeland, who recently resigned from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, announced that she would run for Liberal leader now that Trudeau says he is stepping down. Around this time, the WEF’s profile on Freeland was taken down from their website. 

“Sorry, but we can’t find the page you were looking for,” the page now says after clicking on the link which originally brought users to Freeland’s WEF profile. The page is still viewable via the internet archive, which notes that she is on the Board of Trustees for the globalist group best known for its infamous “Great Reset” agenda. 

In addition to the WEF page being deleted, the majority of Freeland’s Instagram posts have been removed from public view.

Many have speculated online as to the reason why these actions were taken, with some suggesting that Freeland desires to distance herself from the massively criticized group.

Critics often pointed to Freeland’s association with the group during her tenure as finance minister and deputy prime minister, as she was known for pushing policies endorsed by the globalist organization, such as the carbon tax and online censorship.

Freeland’s ties to the WEF seem extensive, with her receiving a personal commendation from former WEF leader Klaus Schwab.

Freeland is perhaps best known internationally for her heavy-handed response to anti-mandate Freedom Convoy protesters, which saw the then-finance minister direct financial institutions to freeze the bank accounts of Canadians who participated in or donated to the protest.

One of Freeland’s main opponents in the Liberal leadership race, Mark Carney, also has ties to the WEF, and has similarly come under fire from critics for pushing their globalist agenda.

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