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Jun 24 6 tweets 2 min read
PM @MarkJCarney is being sidelined.

New reporting from the Toronto Star reveals the PM has been excluded from at least 17 government deliberations because of conflicts tied to his corporate past. 🧵👇 (1/5) Image The details are contained in letters the Privy Council Office sent to a parliamentary ethics committee.

Carney's office created a "conflict of interest screen" covering 103 companies he previously worked with, including Brookfield Asset Management, where he served as chair, and Stripe, where he was a board member for four years. (2/5)
Jun 10 6 tweets 2 min read
Country singer @CorbLund's campaign to ban new coal mining in Alberta's Rocky Mountains has gathered enough signatures to meet the threshold under Alberta's Citizen Initiative Act. 🧵👇 (1/5) Image Prominent entrepreneur @WBrettWilson, invested in one of the proposed coal projects, fired back at Lund on X, accusing him of alignment with "US funded environmental extremists" and the Alberta NDP. Lund shot back: "I'm no more NDP than I am UCP. It's all BS." (2/5)
Jun 8 6 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: The Financial Times is reporting Canada has quietly shifted its trade strategy, pivoting from open defiance of U.S. tariffs to a "Fortress North America" pitch aimed at winning back a seat at the CUSMA negotiating table before the July 1 deadline. 👇🧵 (1/5) Image Canada has been frozen out of U.S.-Mexico trade talks since Ontario Premier Doug Ford's anti-tariff ad campaign upset President Trump last October. Ford is now heading to Washington to promote regional economic integration, while PM Carney recently told Wall Street executives: "Canada strong will help make America great again." (2/5)
Jun 6 5 tweets 2 min read
Is @MarkJCarney's corporate style risking his political capital? New reporting by @MariekeWalsh and @StephanieLevitz reveals growing tension behind closed doors between the PM and his caucus a year after turning a Liberal slump into a majority government. 🧵👇 (1/5) Image Inside West Block, MPs describe an exchange where Carney dressed down Nova Scotia MP @JaimeBattiste over an Indigenous policy file, telling him the decision was made and the local backlash was @JaimeBattiste's problem to manage. (2/5)
Jun 4 7 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: Canada's Parliamentary Budget Officer released its latest Economic and Fiscal Outlook today, projecting deeper deficits than the government forecast and raising serious questions about the sustainability of Ottawa's fiscal plan. 👇🧵 (1/6) Image The PBO projects the federal deficit will nearly double this fiscal year, from $36.3B (1.2% of GDP) in 2024-25 to $72.0B (2.2% of GDP) in 2025-26. Even by 2030-31, the deficit is still projected at $58.2B, with no return to balance anywhere in the projection window. (2/6)
Jun 3 6 tweets 2 min read
BREAKING: New reporting from @althiaraj reveals growing internal tension within the Liberal caucus, with MPs alleging that Prime Minister @MarkJCarney is tightly centralizing power and reacting harshly to internal dissent. 👇🧵 (1/5) Image According to Liberal MPs speaking anonymously, @MarkJCarney has adopted a strict top-down management style. One MP stated that the Prime Minister "yells" and "punches down at caucus all the time," reportedly telling members, "If you don't agree with our agenda, I don't want to hear it". (2/5)