Liberal Minority Government 2025 - ???

[Czech_pivo]

Does the Gov have the ability to go in and look at my banking ? Have they ever done that ?

Define 'the Gov't' - do you mean the RCMP, do you mean CSIS - then yes they do AFTER they provide the correct paperwork to your financial institution.

 

[YZT580]

No, you have a reasonable expectation of privacy over your financial records. We can obtain them from the banks with a court issued prosecution order or in very rare cases on an emergency basis (if it could be tied to imminent harm), but the government and police cannot simply examine one’s finances at a whim.

There’s also mandatory reporting of certain threshold or suspicious transactions to FINTRAC, but that’s kept within their data holdings and isn’t open for general inspection.

unless you are a truck driver requesting a meeting with the PM. (sigh)

 

[HavokFour]

Meeting with the leaders of the UK, Australia, Denmark, Spain and Iceland today in London.

Carney looks to strengthen trade, security ties in U.K. visit

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in London today to meet with the leaders of the United Kingdom, Australia, Denmark, Spain and Iceland.

www.bnnbloomberg.ca

 

[MilEME09]

I read it as sarcasm.

Very much so

 

[Kirkhill]

What would the headlines be if a group of rightwing politicians got together in a sponsored event every year?

Carney, Albanese and Starmer, Canada, Australia and the UK having just cocked a snook at Trump over Palestine get together with the PM of Iceland.

Global Progress Action Summit brought to you by the Center for American Progress. The creation of the Podestas who brought you Obama, Clinton, Trudeau, Ardern and now apparently Albanese and Carney who endorsed Starmer. They also brought you Canada 2020. The think tank that thinks for the LPC.

Funded and supported by the Open Society Foundations.

 

[Altair]

What would the headlines be if a group of rightwing politicians got together in a sponsored event every year?

I dunno, what do people say about CPAC?

Carney, Albanese and Starmer, Canada, Australia and the UK having just cocked a snook at Trump over Palestine get together with the PM of Iceland.

https://www.cpac.org/speakers-dc2025

Donald Trump, JD Vance, Liz Truss, Elon Musk, Argentine President Javier Milei, Nigel Farage, Santiago Abascal, Prime Minister Robert Fico

 

[brihard]

What would the headlines be if a group of rightwing politicians got together in a sponsored event every year?

They do. The International Democracy Union (currently chaired by Stephen Harper) holds two such events per year, one in Washington, one elsewhere.

 

[Altair]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-monthly-gdp-july-1.7644408

Canadian economy starts to rebound. I would like to see more in depth data, I am wondering if it's because of increased trade to Asia and Europe that we have seen in previous reports.

 

[Remius]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-monthly-gdp-july-1.7644408

Canadian economy starts to rebound. I would like to see more in depth data, I am wondering if it's because of increased trade to Asia and Europe that we have seen in previous reports.

Hmmm…

Growth in oil,gas, and mining extraction.

Funny that…

 

[Furniture]

Hmmm…

Growth in oil,gas, and mining extraction.

Funny that…

What, world shortages driving an increase in activity here?

We are weks/months away from the current government changing legislation, so whatever is happening is market, not politics driven.

 

[Altair]

What, world shortages driving an increase in activity here?

We are weks/months away from the current government changing legislation, so whatever is happening is market, not politics driven.

I mean, if the PM has been going from country to country trying to increase trade, would that not be politics driven?

That said, I would like to see more data. If this is based on increased trade to places he's been, I think we can say there is a correlation.

 

[PrairieFella]

you take whatever you can get. With his holdings it would be hard not to profit in any venture underwritten by the government. Prefabs make sense in our climate but it isn't THE way to increase the housing supply: it is just one way. It has the potential for actually reducing the labour available as construction would end up being done inside with more automation and the companies supply all their own people in teams to do the installation. There are pluses and a number of minuses too. Underwriting infrastructure and perhaps capping the municipal costs to reduce the overall price would be a better way to start.

The housing shortage situation is pretty well squarely the fault of provinces. Its provincial jurisdiction. If we were serious about the crisis, provincial legislatures would mandate as of right zoning for at least 4 plexes across all of their major cities facing shortages.

 

[Jarnhamar]

The housing shortage situation is pretty well squarely the fault of provinces.

Adding half a million permanent residents and letting in half a million international students and 900,000 TFWs in one year probably didn't help.

 

[Eaglelord17]

The housing shortage situation is pretty well squarely the fault of provinces. Its provincial jurisdiction. If we were serious about the crisis, provincial legislatures would mandate as of right zoning for at least 4 plexes across all of their major cities facing shortages.

Ahh yes because drastically increasing immigration well beyond the historic averages of 100-250k a year is the provinces fault.

It is only 100% their fault if they controlled immigration as well.

The provinces have some crosses to bear (such as stopping building public housing in the 90s) but to pretend it is only their fault is ignoring a huge facet of the problem.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Ahh yes because drastically increasing immigration well beyond the historic averages of 100-250k a year is the provinces fault.

It is only 100% their fault if they controlled immigration as well.

True, Ottawa controls the tap, but what percentage can be assigned to the provinces being public thirsty, followed by being thankful for any twist of the tap?

• BC, 2025: We need more!
• AB, 2024: We need more!
• SK, 2023: We're getting more - great!
• MB, 2023: We're getting more - great!
• ON, 2023: We're getting more - great!
• NB, 2025: We're getting more - great!
• NL, 2025: We're getting more - great!
• NS, 2025: We need more!
• YT, 2025: We're getting more - great!
• NT, 2025: We need more!
• All of the above, 2025: "As the premiers and territorial leaders were wrapping up their three-day meeting in Huntsville, Ont., late last month, they called for an increase to economic immigration levels to fill local labour gaps ..."

And if a Team Red government in Ottawa didn't open up the taps, would critics say, "why aren't you listening to the provinces?"

QC has way more control over immigration levels - which other provinces want too - so it appears (and I stand to be corrected) they don't have to "ask" Ottawa for mo' to get mo'.