Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

[HavokFour]

Goodness there's a ton of stuff to keep track of today.

FTA with Turkey and Isar Aerospace from Germany are adding to our new spaceport.

Canada, Turkey formally launch talks on a free-trade agreement

Canada and Turkey have formally launched negotiations for a ‌free-trade agreement (FTA), Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's office said on Tuesday.

www.reuters.com

Isar Aerospace to build dedicated launch complex at Spaceport Nova Scotia in $112.5M USD deal

Maritime Launch Services and Germany's Isar Aerospace have signed a definitive $112.5M USD contract for a dedicated launch complex at Spaceport Nova Scotia.

spaceq.ca

 

[Altair]

Non partisan selection process is apparently dead, back to open patronage.

This sets back Senate reform significantly.

Yup.

Back to bribing people with senate seats. So gross.

I don't say it often, but Trudeau did it better.

 

[Altair]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-merchandise-trade-may-2026-9.7261012

Canada's merchandise trade surplus widened to a four-year high in May, rising for the fourth consecutive month, as exports to the United States top its highest level since February last year, data showed on Tuesday.

Canada clocked a trade surplus of $4.24 billion in May, ‌up 0.9 per cent from a revised $3.41 billion posted in the prior month, Statistics Canada said.

This was the third consecutive month of trade surplus for Canada and was led by a 1.5 per cent jump in exports to the U.S., its largest trading partner.

As U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs slammed some critical sectors in Canada, businesses have been trying to diversify away from the U.S., which usually bought almost three quarters of Canada's total exports.

But trade experts have said that while diversification is important, it might take time for many ⁠to unwind decades-old supply chain ⁠from the world's biggest market.

Still posting trade surpluses, which on a whole is good.

Bad news is that it's because of more trade with the USA.

But fun experiment I've been running since the entire "Stop funding traditional media" thing, I keep an eye on Juno News, Northern perspective, Rebel news, just to see if they post anything positive.

Like last months spike in GDP. Nope. Nada. Crikets. Same outlets that couldn't stop talking about recession.

I'll wait with baited breath if we hear anything about this.

 

[Jarnhamar]

Liberals shut down debate over proposed probe into B.C. condo buyout plan

Liberals shut down debate over proposed probe into B.C. condo buyout plan

Liberal MPs shut down a Conservative attempt to have the House of Commons ethics committee investigate the government’s plan to turn unsold condos into affordable housing in B.C.

www.ctvnews.ca

The Liberals used their majority on the committee to shut down further debate, and the meeting was adjourned.

The Carney government is just saving gas by shutting down these needless investigations.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

The Carney government is just saving gas by shutting down these needless investigations.

This increasingly evasive approach to transparency is quite worrying

 

[Brad Sallows]

This increasingly evasive approach to transparency is quite worrying

Not yet. A certain amount of obfuscation is always to be expected. I've yet to be surprised, even by governments run by people I vastly preferred over alternatives.

 

[Altair]

This increasingly evasive approach to transparency is quite worrying

We were just used to minority governments for a long time at the federal level.

But this has been happening at the provincial level the entire time, and people didn't seem to care.

 

[Halifax Tar]

This increasingly evasive approach to transparency is quite worrying

Doesn't seem to affect their polling...

 

[daftandbarmy]

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Hamlet (1.4), Marcellus to Horatio

Follow the Money: I Break Down Carney, the "Condo King," and the Fundraiser Behind the Bailout With Brian Lilley​

On the condo bailout, Lilley asked me to explain the connections behind Vancouver marketer Bob Rennie, the man dubbed the industry’s “condo king.” I traced the story back to my own history covering Vancouver city hall for the Province, and to the city’s 2010 Olympic Village crisis, when a developer went under and the city — under then-mayor Gregor Robertson, now Carney’s federal housing minister — was left backstopping roughly $700 million in high-end condos. Robertson’s council, I said, brought in Rennie to market those units; Rennie was also “a major backer of Gregor Robertson at the city hall” and a fundraiser for the provincial Liberal government of Christy Clark. My reporting for the Province in 2014 documented a $25,000-a-plate fundraiser Rennie organized for Robertson’s Vision Vancouver.

Follow the Money: I Break Down Carney, the "Condo King," and the Fundraiser Behind the Bailout With Brian Lilley

OTTAWA – I joined Canadian columnist Brian Lilley this week to walk through three developing Bureau investigations — the Carney government’s Vancouver condo bailout, a record fentanyl-precursor seizure in British Columbia, and a corruption case emerging from Toronto’s Project South investigation.

www.thebureau.news