2026 Canadian Political Thread

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Ottawa sidelines B.C. lumber

"I don't know what it's going to take to get the bureaucrats and the ministers in Ottawa to recognize that softwood lumber employs more people in Canada than steel and auto parts combined," Eby said.

https://www.biv.com/news/david-eby-...-focused-on-pipeline-not-bc-softwood-12234204

B.C. is trying to influence federal decisions from 4,500 kilometres away. It has an intergovernmental relations secretariat inside the premier’s office, where it relies on long-distance calls and virtual meetings by staff members safely ensconced in the provincial capital.

https://www.biv.com/news/commentary...-again-as-ottawa-sidelines-bc-lumber-12237185


BC appears to have capitulated on finding softwood tariff relief in the States. Instead focusing on Ottawa to print cash compensation while Alberta's parliament hill office keeps pushing for a bitumen pipe. Nobody but me pushing for a bitumen refinery near Prince George turning out careers in finished fuels, lubricants and plastic products.

Canada need more manufacturing in:
1. iron and steel manufacturing
2. Oil refineries
3. Pipelines for oil and water
4. Refined oil products eg plastics of all types
5. Energy production to include nuclear and rewable options.

Canada needs to be able to produce 100% of all food it consumes. Including fruits and veggis. So construction of large scale greenhouses will be needed.

Canada need to have a plan on how to renew trees on a national basis... so far most of our forests have been cut down in the last 70 years and it usually takes 100 years to grow a forest back. Need a system like in the Scandinavian countries, where only selected logging is used.

Canadian need to do the same for fisheries, and outlaw Aboriginal rights to fishing, as world populations increase, other countries will infiltrate our 12 mile and 200 mile limits at sea.

Canada needs to become a major recycling participant. To be able to recycle over 95 % of all manufactured and imported products including plastics.

So far Carney is only lining up Products that Brookfield controls or should I say companies that the liberal heart controls.......

 

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Really what we need a guide-line for what the government controls and makes money from. Then let the investors put money into systems that connect it all...

 

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Below-market priced hydroelectricity rates result in billions more for Quebec in equalization payments every year

https://www.todayville.com/below-ma...r-quebec-in-equalization-payments-every-year/

A small city Alberta view of Confederation via the Fraser Institute: Since Quebec Hydro charges below market rates to electricity customers in Quebec the decreased revenue qualifies Quebec for an extra $3.65 billion in equalization payments.

 

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The problem in Canada, is the Federal government acts like a "king", dividing the provinces up, which keeps them in their place on a political level, and on a physical level with the provinces mineral resources.
So much so that there are these provincial borders that things can not cross to protect from other cdn provinces, but not from the state just south of that cdn province.

Canadians need a overall cross Canada economic plan for the future.
#1 thing for Canada is to be self sufficient in shelter and food.
#2 Every city needs back up plans for schools, recreational places, manufacturing and housing projects
#3 Canada needs to have a mineral bank for future use.
#4 Simpler tax laws.

Economic plans for more highways, high speed train, waterways (AB, Sask, MB). One of the big things restricting growth on the prairies will be water resources... BC could easily supply water from Reverse Osmosis machines on the west coast. Pipe through the rockies (tunnel boring machines).

 

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Imagine this scenario: A First Nations-supported project, like a mine or LNG plant, is challenged in court by some non-indigenous NGO based on the fact one of the statutes for permitting the projects was not DRIPA-compliant.

Eskay Creek project supported by the Tahltan First Nation. But the mine project is opposed by a confederation of Alaskan Tribes, which are now using the Desautel Supreme Court decision to assert aboriginal rights in B.C. DRIPA gives further ammunition in a legal challenge to the Eskay Creek mine.

Former attorney general, Jody Wilson-Raybould warned First Nations leaders, and her own government, that UNDRIP was “unworkable” within the Canadian constitutional framework, and a “distraction” from reconciliation.

https://www.todayville.com/dont-open-that-undrip-attachment/


The premier doesn't want to be seen undoing his own handywork. If Premier Eby won't walk-back DRIPA, an election looks like a cheapest way out of muddy legal quagmires meant for young lawyers to get rich on government printed fiat rather than go into useful engineering careers solving supply chain issues and producing tradable products and infrastructure. BC Conservatives' five leadership contenders vowing to trash DRIPA. Lead by 10 points in recent polls over BC New Democrats.

 

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Louise Arbour: The post-national state’s Governor General

The regime change initiated by Pierre Trudeau with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms effectively stripped elected officials of supreme power and entrusted it to the apparatus of lawyers, activists, academics, and judges who work to interpret the Charter in order to impose policies on citizens from above, inventing new “rights” from its vague language. Ms. Arbour is a true product of this system.

Appointing a self-proclaimed “citizen of the world” as Governor General illustrates the absurdity of a hollow “pride”, built on the negation of its own identity.

https://www.todayville.com/louise-arbour-the-post-national-states-governor-general/

Another product of world decline following the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. Demographic expansion greased by the ink of printed money. The unprecedented scale. Two world wars, Great Depression, nuclear arms races, wars on civilians, rumours of war, mass migrations. Long commutes. Just try and look-up the friends you made in elementary and secondary school.

Each managers of decline, Arbour and Carney about as high profile in the field as you could find these days in Canada.

 

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How foreign actors are wading into the Alberta separatist discourse online

 

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Public deserves answers on Canada-China policing agreement: New Democrat MP

Kwan urged Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand to disclose the full text of the memorandum of understanding.

Kwan said the fact the text is being kept under wraps has created widespread uncertainty and legitimate concerns among Canadians, particularly within Hong Kong, Uyghur, Tibetan and broader Chinese diaspora communities dealing with transnational repression by Beijing.

The RCMP also has robust internal processes and mechanisms to ensure compliance with federal law on avoiding complicity in mistreatment by other countries, the department said.

China’s Ministry of Public Security has been linked repeatedly by international human rights organizations, journalists and democratic governments to intimidation campaigns abroad, Kwan wrote.

In addition to immediately releasing the full text of the memorandum, Kwan said she wants Ottawa to provide a public explanation of all related oversight, accountability, privacy and Charter compliance mechanisms.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...hina-policing-agreement-new-democrat-mp-says/

Must be a cost benefit analysis somewhere. Balance the cost of RCMP monitoring China’s Ministry of Public Security personnel in Canada with service China does in Canada in the best interests of Canadians.

 

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Metro Vancouver, Acciona settle lawsuits surrounding over-budget North Shore wastewater treatment plant

Originally supposed to be completed in 2020 with a budget of $700 million, but by 2021 the budget had increased to more than $3 billion, with no firm timeline for completion in sight. Metro Vancouver terminated the contract with Acciona, resulting in a lawsuit from Acciona and a counter-lawsuit from the regional government. The project is now expected to be completed in 2030.

An independent review of the plan was put on hold last year because of the complexity of the lawsuit, sparking outrage from many North Shore politicians.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-van-acciona-wastewater-settlement-9.7198556

Both the plaintiff and defendant look incompetent and seems strange BC court came down on one side. The complexity of the lawsuit stems from the original contract to build a state of the art tertiary wastewater treatment plant underpriced at $700 million. A project on 3.5-hectare site located at 1311-1321 West 1st Street, North Vancouver turning out to be plagued by severe site limitations, including unstable soil, a footprint deemed too small, and complex design changes requiring significant seismic upgrades. Court evidently decided the offshore professional engineering firm Acciona shouldn't have started or even accepted the contract. Seems like we haven't read the last debacle as the new treatment plant location contracted to PCL Construction on a site at 107 Pemberton Avenue also on a 3.5 hectare site. After discovery the original 3.5 hectare site at West 1st Street footprint deemed too small. Public still denied information about original $700 million ballooning to $3.86 billion to be born by North Shore resident property taxes. AI Overview couldn't find contractors bidding. Metro looks to have accepted a ridiculously low bid in 2017 to teach Acciona a lession about Canadian law and set the completion date off nearly a decade because everybody knew old-timers didn't deserve such a charge. Nearly $600 per annum 30 years.

 

[Larry's Torch]

From a recently locked thread:
Political commentary.

A - Why is anyone in the VSE?
B - You need better advisors. My stocks in the TSE are all doing well. Up 12% since beginning of the year.
C - If you're down, put the blame where it belongs - on Carney.

He didn''t start the war.
He didn't put on the tariffs.
I'm not a fanboi, but he's better than the last guy. Doesn't mean our economy is going to go through the roof; as a matter of fact I think we're in for a rougher ride than the 80's. With how the US is treating us in the upcoming trade deals; we're going to take some hits. They're already talking about Mexican cartels producing fentanyl in Canada and shipping it down south. Total BS, but anything to twist our arm to get what they want and what they want is resources at very little cost. They're looking at us as a piggy bank to crack open. My personal opinion is they shouldn't be getting that sweet deal on oil anymore and maybe the cost of potash should get to the point where they begin to think twice.

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[Cock Throppled]

From a recently locked thread:
Political commentary.



He didn''t start the war.
He didn't put on the tariffs.
I'm not a fanboi, but he's better than the last guy. Doesn't mean our economy is going to go through the roof; as a matter of fact I think we're in for a rougher ride than the 80's. With how the US is treating us in the upcoming trade deals; we're going to take some hits. They're already talking about Mexican cartels producing fentanyl in Canada and shipping it down south. Total BS, but anything to twist our arm to get what they want and what they want is resources at very little cost. They're looking at us as a piggy bank to crack open. My personal opinion is they shouldn't be getting that sweet deal on oil anymore and maybe the cost of potash should get to the point where they begin to think twice.

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Did you mis the part where my stocks are up?
Canada's economy is not doing well, and Carney is no different than Trudeau. Carney was his economic advisor.
There are still opportunities.
Why are we paying world prices for our own oil, which was Carney's explanation? Do you think the Chinese, Saudis or Russians are paying world prices?

 

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Metro Vancouver, Acciona settle lawsuits surrounding over-budget North Shore wastewater treatment plant

Originally supposed to be completed in 2020 with a budget of $700 million, but by 2021 the budget had increased to more than $3 billion, with no firm timeline for completion in sight. Metro Vancouver terminated the contract with Acciona, resulting in a lawsuit from Acciona and a counter-lawsuit from the regional government. The project is now expected to be completed in 2030.

An independent review of the plan was put on hold last year because of the complexity of the lawsuit, sparking outrage from many North Shore politicians.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metro-van-acciona-wastewater-settlement-9.7198556

Both the plaintiff and defendant look incompetent and seems strange BC court came down on one side. The complexity of the lawsuit stems from the original contract to build a state of the art tertiary wastewater treatment plant underpriced at $700 million. A project on 3.5-hectare site located at 1311-1321 West 1st Street, North Vancouver turning out to be plagued by severe site limitations, including unstable soil, a footprint deemed too small, and complex design changes requiring significant seismic upgrades. Court evidently decided the offshore professional engineering firm Acciona shouldn't have started or even accepted the contract. Seems like we haven't read the last debacle as the new treatment plant location contracted to PCL Construction on a site at 107 Pemberton Avenue also on a 3.5 hectare site. After discovery the original 3.5 hectare site at West 1st Street footprint deemed too small. Public still denied information about original $700 million ballooning to $3.86 billion to be born by North Shore resident property taxes. AI Overview couldn't find contractors bidding. Metro looks to have accepted a ridiculously low bid in 2017 to teach Acciona a lession about Canadian law and set the completion date off nearly a decade because everybody knew old-timers didn't deserve such a charge. Nearly $600 per annum 30 years.

I would luv to have the power to say to both sides:

"FIX the PROBLEM, or I'll chop both sides heads off with an AXE"

 

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Did you mis the part where my stocks are up?
Canada's economy is not doing well, and Carney is no different than Trudeau. Carney was his economic advisor.
There are still opportunities.
Why are we paying world prices for our own oil, which was Carney's explanation? Do you think the Chinese, Saudis or Russians are paying world prices?

No I did't miss that. I'm (finally) getting involved in investing so I'm interested in knowing more about it (but we're not allowed to discuss it in detail in these forums).
Yes, our economy isn't doing well and it's GOING to get worse with pressure from down south.
Tons of opportunities not being realised for perhaps one political reason or another (same old story).
And paying world price (I'm assumimg you're correct as I haven't looked into it for this post) for oil shouldn't be happening.
All I'm saying is it isn't totally Carney's fault. We're currently dealing with crap from the last guy. Perhaps he fixes most of it perhaps not, but it's been a systemic problem for the last 30 plus years. The biggest issue I see is we've believed that our neighbours are neighbourly. What we're dealing with has always been there in subtle forms over the years, but now it's overt. Meant to pressure us into giving up more to receive less. We've become complacent and lazy in that we've always felt that they had our backs and could be relied upon. Now we have to make some big changes and fast, but tha'ts not how things happen in Canada and the some of the countries we are approaching can smell the desparation and are using the same tactics as the US. It's going to be a long struggle and it's going to hurt financially.

 

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Federal Government role of health care “guardian” prevents desperately needed reforms

In the 1990s, in the face of serious debt and deficit problems, the Chretien government reduced federal transfers for welfare and allowed provinces more flexibility with policymaking. The resulting period of provincial policy innovation reduced welfare dependency and government spending on social assistance. When Ottawa stepped back and allowed the provinces to vary policy to their unique circumstances, Canadians got improved outcomes for fewer dollars.

https://www.todayville.com/federal-...guardian-prevents-desperately-needed-reforms/


Nadeem Esmail
Director, Health Policy, Fraser Institute


Mackenzie Moir
Senior Policy Analyst, Fraser Institute


Fraser Institute inspired Alberta small city view. The power base uses the broad based tax of inflation affecting 40 million Canadians to marshall continued centralized control regardless of outcomes.

 

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Agriculture shippers call for replacement of North Shore CN Rail bridge



Any sort of accident or mechanical problem in the future could shut down the bridge.
That would “immediately halt bulk exports” of grain, fertilizer and other products, the letter says.

“The (lift) bridge malfunctioned in late February and was unable to be raised, halting marine traffic and restricting rail service for four days,” it says. “Failure to address these infrastructure vulnerabilities will reinforce perceptions of Canada as an unreliable trading partner, with serious implications for investment, market access and the long-term strength of our export-driven economy.”


https://www.biv.com/news/resources-...ement-of-north-shore-cn-rail-bridge-12291086#

The CN Rail bridge at the Second Narrows crossing full replacement could likely run into billions. In the south end the track goes about 20 metres straight into a tunnel. Would need a tunnel alignment near the opening for a new bridge to be built just a few metres from of the old bridge. If I had Internet when I went to school everybody would have wondered why there weren't careers replacing worn parts. And foundry & machines shops nearby fabricating the parts.

 

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CBC American actors denigrate John A McDonald

Shame.

 

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Bill C-22 would “drastically expand Canada’s surveillance and data access powers in ways that create significant cross-border risks to the security and data privacy of Americans.”

Ruling requires exhaustive disclosure of sensitive intelligence, often incompatible with Five Eyes investigations that depend on classified cooperation between Canada and the United States, UK, Australia, New Zealand.

What Canada does not need is a mass metadata retention regime that blankets every Canadian with surveillance obligations designed for the few thousand individuals running the fentanyl platforms, underground banks, and Beijing-tied United Front brokerage houses.

The cartels, Triads, and hostile-state proxies that have made Canada a platform for continental narco-finance are not hiding. They are identifiable, documented, and in many cases well known to law enforcement on both sides of the border. The legal tools to reach them — targeted interception, financial intelligence empowerment, disclosure reform, Five Eyes cooperation free from the Stinchcombe barrier, the Supreme Court ruling the prosecution in criminal trials has a duty to make full disclosure to the defence prior to trial.

https://www.todayville.com/bill-c-2...ians-while-leaving-cartel-networks-untouched/

Quite a cat & mouse game Canada plays with foreign actors. First I'd read of sensitive US data kept on Canadian servers. The China infiltration old news. Too old.

 

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The international study program now synonymous with diploma mills, fraud and slumlords renting out crowded basements to desperate foreign students. International student population rising from just 122,665 in 2000 to 638,280 in 2019 and then soaring again to roughly one million in 2024.

When the Temporary Foreign Worker Program was introduced in 1973, it was limited to specialized occupations like academics or engineers. Employers have only been able to hire low-skill temporary foreign workers since 2002, with the program expanding into sectors such as food service and hospitality.

https://www.todayville.com/its-time-to-turn-off-the-immigration-tap/

Since turn of millennium countless high-rise apartment buildings built from imported components with imported equipment. Free inflationary get out of debt programs with up to 80% forgiven. No available work force to fabricate and assemble domestic products in demand let alone an export market. Federal Canada looks to have been coerced or embroidered in foreign agendas with no concern to the point of food inflation and lengthy medical wait times. Contrary to constitutionally mandated provincial responsibilities. Shrunken military and security capacity. Uninvestigated unprosecuted money laundering.

 

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The international study program now synonymous with diploma mills, fraud and slumlords renting out crowded basements to desperate foreign students. International student population rising from just 122,665 in 2000 to 638,280 in 2019 and then soaring again to roughly one million in 2024.

When the Temporary Foreign Worker Program was introduced in 1973, it was limited to specialized occupations like academics or engineers. Employers have only been able to hire low-skill temporary foreign workers since 2002, with the program expanding into sectors such as food service and hospitality.

https://www.todayville.com/its-time-to-turn-off-the-immigration-tap/

Since turn of millennium countless high-rise apartment buildings built from imported components with imported equipment. Free inflationary get out of debt programs with up to 80% forgiven. No available work force to fabricate and assemble domestic products in demand let alone an export market. Federal Canada looks to have been coerced or embroidered in foreign agendas with no concern to the point of food inflation and lengthy medical wait times. Contrary to constitutionally mandated provincial responsibilities. Shrunken military and security capacity. Uninvestigated unprosecuted money laundering.

How about updating foreign doctors and nurses, give them back working skills and english class, that would solve the some of the doctor problems. Even then it might be a racist problem on those medical boards that determine how many doctors Canada needs... They been doing a shit job for the last 50 years....
Put 3x as many medical students in. Maintain the same standard and you will get more doctors out of the schools....
By law all dominatrixes have to give 2 free hours to medicals students, and make them watch reruns of old doctors TV programs (ER, north of 60, Grey Anatomy etc)....(just kidding....)
Will need more chemistry and engineering students and work programs ...
Free college and university for the first 4 years, after that they can pay for their own masters and doctorate.

 

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Bill C-22 would “drastically expand Canada’s surveillance and data access powers in ways that create significant cross-border risks to the security and data privacy of Americans.”

Ruling requires exhaustive disclosure of sensitive intelligence, often incompatible with Five Eyes investigations that depend on classified cooperation between Canada and the United States, UK, Australia, New Zealand.

What Canada does not need is a mass metadata retention regime that blankets every Canadian with surveillance obligations designed for the few thousand individuals running the fentanyl platforms, underground banks, and Beijing-tied United Front brokerage houses.

The cartels, Triads, and hostile-state proxies that have made Canada a platform for continental narco-finance are not hiding. They are identifiable, documented, and in many cases well known to law enforcement on both sides of the border. The legal tools to reach them — targeted interception, financial intelligence empowerment, disclosure reform, Five Eyes cooperation free from the Stinchcombe barrier, the Supreme Court ruling the prosecution in criminal trials has a duty to make full disclosure to the defence prior to trial.

https://www.todayville.com/bill-c-2...ians-while-leaving-cartel-networks-untouched/

Quite a cat & mouse game Canada plays with foreign actors. First I'd read of sensitive US data kept on Canadian servers. The China infiltration old news. Too old.

They are only worried about their own profits. Aren't most major VPNs in the USA, and are subject to the snowden hidden survellance of all electronics in the USE....

Everything can be broken or hacked into given enough time. The FBI scared off the masses for illegal downloading and shut down Z-library, which gave some profit to the manufacture of electronic books...

Can't touch the cartels because of their links to inside the banks and wallstreet , off-shore banking and politicians of all levels in the USA... Don't want Canada to find that stuff out ......
The VPN don't want to have to build a storage place in Canada for Canadian officials can access legally... if they pull out....Now how big would that be.... several city blocks with enormous amount of cooling needed for the servers.... (cost billions); so they move out of Canada so they don't have to spend money.

Same thing for news networks on the major advertising place like face book and twitter. These companies would lose profit because now they would have to share it with the Canadian government...Who can now give it back to the independent news agencies.... I say do it....