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John Ivison.Prime Minister Mark Carney made a revealing comment during his recent appearance at the BMO-Eurasia business summit in Toronto when the idea was raised of Canada and the U.S. coming together to compete with China.
Article content “I wouldn’t assume that that’s always the organizing principle,” he said of Canada-U.S. collaboration. “If it were, there would be more immediate progress...The assessment that he was the best leader to deal with Trump may be borne out — just not in the ‘elbows up’ way we were led to believe“Jam tomorrow” is a flimsy pledge to make to impatient, jaundiced voters. But that is the crux of the government’s position on Canada-U.S. trade negotiations. The opposition parties have the field to themselves at the moment. Donald Trump continues to promise more new tariffs on Canadian goods — the latest being a 25 per cent levy on cabinets and furniture...On this national Truth and Reconciliation Day, the federal government is facing the prospect of a meltdown in its relations with two B.C. First Nations that could bring the development of the Prince Rupert Trade Corridor to a grinding halt.Faced with a malfunctioning teleprompter during his address to the United Nations General Assembly, Donald Trump decided to extemporize. Babbling like an accident victim on his way to hospital, the president ventured the opinion that he has been “right about everything,” and that he has created the “hottest” country anywhere in the world, with the strongest economy, strongest borders, strongest...Chrystia Freeland’s exit from cabinet, while not expected, is no great surprise. Article content The job of transport minister is unglamorous, dominated by regulation of railway rolling stock and of passenger bills of rights. The minister’s path is potholed with potentially career-limiting port, railway or airline strikes.Prime Minister Mark Carney has been trying to frame his October budget without inducing panic. In a rare slip earlier this month, he said that it would be “an austerity and investment” budget.By all accounts, growing canola requires careful management: the small, shallow-planted seeds are sensitive to moisture, extreme temperatures and competition from weeds. But skillfully managing the elements turns out to be nothing compared to the perfect diplomatic balance that is required to get the product to customers. The U.S. is the biggest market for Canadian canola; China is the second...From a political perspective, it’s not an obvious win for Poilievre, even if the public is sympathetic to the intentHis political authority rests on the perception of competence and, if the economy slows further, people will start doubting he has itRecognition of a Palestinian state would vindicate Hamas’s strategy that jihad, violence and blood sacrifice is how you get what you wantMy suggestion in a column last week after Japan struck a trade deal with the United States — that it might be better if Canada didn’t settle with President Trump just yet — was ridiculed in certain quarters.Mark Carney told the premiers in Huntsville, Ont., on Tuesday that the federal government’s new major projects office will be open by Labour Day, representing a shift in attitude towards building big things, the prime minister said, “from ‘why?’ to ‘how?’” The statement expressed a confidence that, as with deceased baseball players in the movie Field of Dreams, “if you...Carney now has billions of reasons to buy fighter planes other than F-35s The auditor general’s report is a reminder that they're part of the solution to air security, but Canada also needs a more practical optionJustin Trudeau went to Washington for last year’s NATO summit and unveiled what he called a “credible, verifiable path” to spending two per cent of Canada’s GDP on defence … by 2032. Article content The lack of urgency and ambition was reflected in the then prime minister’s belief that two per cent is a “nominal target” that makes for easy...Wooing Sikh voters while turning a blind eye to Khalistani sympathizers worked well for Poilievre's party during the election. Conservative party deputy leader Tim Uppal posted on social media on Wednesday morning, urging Sikhs to remember 1984. “Forty one years ago, a pre-planned attack by the Indian army named Operation Blue Star was executed against one of the Sikh’s holiest...John IvisonInformation manipulation poses the single biggest threat to Canadian democracy, concluded commissioner Marie Josée Hogue, in her final report on foreign interference in federal elections, earlier this year.There have been concerns about the “presidentialization” of the Canadian prime ministership for years — worries that have been exacerbated by Mark Carney’s tendency to sign Trump-style legislative orders to grant tax cuts.As the new prime minister reflects with pride on his unsullied cabinet, he should remember the words of P.G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster: “It’s always when a fellow is feeling particularly braced with things in general that Fate sneaks up behind him with a bit of lead piping.”A failure to accommodate shifting circumstances is prompting questions inside the party about whether a 45-year-old man can truly changeThe prime minister exited the Oval Office, and the most intense experience of his brief political career, with his dignity intactThey could grind down opponents with enough time. But the Liberals moved too quickly to dump Trudeau and install Carney for the plan to workThe Liberals will be disappointed that they fell short of a majority. But everything is relative. Three months ago, they were nearly dead.On campaign's final weekend, the Grits have the momentum With two days to go until polling day, Mark Carney was careful not to break into a victory lap. At a campaign event at Seneca College in this commuter community 40 km north of Toronto, Carney was asked to grade his own campaign performance.Even the latest mini-scandal that broke on Thursday works in his favour, given it concerns a subject he is desperate to talk about. Article content Radio-Canada reported that in Carney’s call with Donald Trump on March 28, the president brought up the issue of Canada becoming the 51st state of the United States. At the time, Carney said Trump had...Any hopes they had of profiting from the prodigal nature of the Liberal platform disappeared when they released their own costing documentThere has been a weightlessness to the Liberal campaign in the past two days, as if their internal polling shows the election is in the bagLiberal bus stops near the border and finds reason to be confident There are probably few areas of Canada where Liberal fortunes have turned as dramatically as they have in Niagara FallsThe impact on the broader election race was a nothingburger: there simply were no flashpoints that would justify anyone shifting their voteSingh thinks the polls have stabilized enough to make it safe for progressives worried about a Conservative win to 'come home' to the NDPI’m reading my six-year-old son Lewis Carroll’s classic Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, with all its delightful nonsense talk about shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.Carney’s trick is not talking about his climate policies. So far, it’s working It takes some gall for an assailant to want gratitude after he stops punching you in the face but anything goes in a general electionPaul Chiang's comments, and Carney's defence of the candidate, are a sign that the Liberal party’s inexplicable attachment to Beijing remains intactThe Conservatives have a month before election day and the benefit of all opposition parties now having Carney squarely in their sightsWe might get a carbon tax election after allAn allegedly secret foreign deal limiting Canadian propane exports could leave us all poorer B.C. First Nations claim betrayal, bad-faith bargaining and a propane monopoly that lets a foreign company cap Canada's export potentialHis party and most of its senior members will remain the same people who have dragged the country to such a low ebbThis week, John Ivison is joined by veteran pollster, Darrell Bricker, CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, to talk about the unprecedented shift in public opinion in Canada since Justin Trudeau’s resignation announcement in January.Carney’s front-runner Liberal campaign limps passionlessly in a nation fervid with emotionJohn IvisonThe sense that the Liberals need to be consigned to the penalty box remains strong and may be a decisive factor in the coming electionPoilievre revives ‘use it or lose it’ Arctic plan. Hopefully it’s not already lost Canada’s hold on the Arctic is, in the words of former defence chief Wayne Eyre, 'tenuous' — and it is likely to become more so with Trump in officeTrump fools around and finds out the foolishness of fighting Canadians 'The only way out of a mess that is not of our choosing is not only to inflict pain on American consumers and producers, but to let them know who is to blame'This government’s instinctive reactions have helped to get us into this mess — and are unlikely to get us out of itThe more that President Donald Trump feigns disinterest in all things Canadian, the more you have to think he really, really wants what Canada has. As Justin Trudeau gets ready to step out of the spotlight, his oldest son is poised to step into it, albeit not on the political stage. Xavier James Trudeau is releasing a debut original R&B song on Feb. 21, and the 17-year-old teased a snippet of what listeners can expect from his musical stylings in an Instagram post over the...How Carney plans to win the Liberal leadership and hold Poilievre to a minority Mark Carney will oppose the carbon tax and oil and gas emissions cap, while hoping to turn his elitist experience from a negative to a positiveEveryone knows the 'business as usual' directive is an illusion: the Liberals know it, the opposition knows it and, most importantly in this case, so does the public serviceEvery Saturday, Peter Mansbridge provides thoughtful takes on this week's news stories. Subscribe for FREE! You can unsubscribe any time.
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