To address Canada’s housing crisis, the Carney government made the promise to build 500,000 new homes per year and it launched a new federal initiative to boost the country’s housing construction.
In a media exchange at one of his announcements last week, PM Mark Carney was addressing the issues of affordability when he paused to say, “You know, I just really want to hammer this point home: we’re working to make the lives of our citizens better.” It was not one of the PM’s finer moments as he stumbled over this statement.
It is a classic case of pathetic fallacy to have had Canada Day in the Nation’s Capital washed out with a once-in-a-lifetime deluge that had revelers scrambling for safety.
It has been described as empowering a totalitarian surveillance state, establishing a digital gulag or cage, in which individuals’ rights are stripped.
The on-going debate about whether Canada is in a recession or not is moot when one learns that working Canadians are finding refuge living in trailers parked in highway 401 carpool lots.
Members of Parliament return to Ottawa next week and one piece of legislation that the Carney government has set as a priority to push through the House of Commons before the summer recess is Bill C-22, “the Lawful Access Act.” This legislation establishes a new law that will expand Canadian law enforcement’s authority to access private digital data and subscriber information.
From stages in Davos to New York, and this week in Yerevan, Armenia, Mark Carney does not miss an opportunity to enlighten international audiences on his vision of a New World Order.
Hockey binds the Canada – United States relations; PM Mark Carney’s “elbows up” game plan has set the tone for the latest tilt involving the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement.
Tristen Hopper, the National Post columnist, reflected this week on X: “My main frustration these days is convincing Canadians that things are *not* working as intended and they have to pay attention to politics for the first time in their lives.”