Mark Carney is the best Conservative Prime Minister Canada has had since Macdonald, and I do not mean that as a compliment. Of course, the Conservative PMs we have had are not a great lot in my view, particularly Diefenbaker, Mulroney, and Harper. Carney governs more like Harper or Mulroney than anyone, because he is
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A few months back, in January, Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a remarkable speech in Davos that garnered a lot of media attention around the world, most of it very positive. Carney was credited with saying important things that no other leader has said publicly. Carney made reference to something written by renowned writer and
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Perhaps the most intractable policy disaster handed to Prime Minister Carney by the Trudeau government is the immigration file. The ugliest detail in that file is undoubtedly the astronomic increase in temporary residents (largely foreign workers, international students, and asylum seekers) – a population that expanded from 3.3% in 2018 to 7.5% in 2024. The
It has been an incredible reversal of fortune for each of the two major Canadian political parties since November, and also the NDP, if you believe the many polls in the last few weeks. The only thing more incredible has been the change in the US since January 6th, 2021. Donald Trump has gone from
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At a recent skilled trades announcement in Ottawa, Pierre Poilievre was asked about Mark Carney’s decision to add Century Initiative co-founder Mark Wiseman to his list of advisors on Canada-U.S. relations. Poilievre responded by condemning what he described as the “radical, globalist ideology of uncontrolled population growth” driven by “corporate elites” to suppress wages. He
