C F (Chuck) Steeves

Retired local & regional politician, campaign mgr | Entrepreneur & Author | Strategy & governance can actually work | Allergic to baseless speculation #cdnpoli

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

Carney’s Calculated Risk: A Bump in the Road for Net-Zero, a Financial Cliff for the Rest of Us

PM Carney this week on Canada’s recession:
“The data’s going to be uneven… foundations coming into place, settling in…”
Flashback to Governor Carney in 2010: “Canada experienced a short, sharp recession.”

Same man. Totally different script.
Welcome to the Carney Recession.

Full column on Substack
https://t.co/XjZidfKJ9c
Word salad over straight talk. Again.

#CarneyRecession #NetZero

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

@alanfryermedia The flotilla-ists played the game—as it has been played repeatedly—and we can be sure it played out exactly as they wanted it.
They are antisemitic activist protesters, not humanitarians, who want the cameras rolling for their story.

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

Carney must be pressed — in the House and by the media — to explain how moving Canada deeper into the Euro-orbit is supposed to protect us, an ocean away from the same Europeans who took three years to decide Ukraine’s war was their war.

Until this past year, leading European nations treated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a distant conflict they could manage largely with sanctions and rhetoric — while relying heavily on American military and financial support. If it took them three years to respond meaningfully to a major war on their own continent, there can be no assurances for their support on ours.

Canadians are integrated and integral partners with the Americans in NORAD, but last week Canada was shuffled out of the USA joint defence board.

As a NATO member — not an EU member — Canada should be asking hard questions about what these recent events actually mean for our own commitments and resources. PMMC must be held to account for our national security.

#cdnpoli

[Diane Francis @dianefrancis1]

Beginning of the End: https://t.co/UYedCsoQcH

#Ukraine #Russia #Putin

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

@alanfryermedia @ByGeorgeJournal “He punches down at caucus all the time.”

One of the comments by MPs on Carney’s centralized, demanding style reminiscent of his central banking career at Bank of Canada and Bank of England.

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

@338Canada A rhetorical question:
What is the one thing the Conservative Party could do to immediately raise their polling numbers and prospects in an election?

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

Meanwhile there is research article waiting to be written to analyze the harm to Canada, to Canadians as a whole particularly the vulnerable to influence, and Indigenous-Canadians.
This episode was a massive distraction for Trudeau and his government to hide behind not advancing First Nations clean water, social support services, prosperity—all of which could have been the forward momentum for reconciliation.

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

@brianlilley @USAmbCanada Everyone wants a piece of the disoriented Canada. Some just want more.
Given Carney’s welcoming gestures to the CCP officials and ambassador, he would have a difficult time rebuffing the Americans even as they are taking advantage of the Alberta separatism issue.

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

The last of the Trudeau-era climate change zealots is gone.
But notice what has happened: Guilbeault, McKenna and Wilkinson no longer pull the levers. Carney has deftly shifted the mode of execution.

Public-facing nastiness isn’t his style. He prefers stealth moves and the occasional dose of passive-aggressiveness. Carney may be stepping over Trudeau’s implementation mistakes, but he’s still stepping around Canadians in his pursuit of net-zero hero status.

How long the smiles and expansive answers that dodge the real questions will sustain PMMC remains the real political question in Canada.

#cdnpoli

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

One of the three horsemen of economic destruction to the #Canadian economy. He along with @JustinTrudeau and @cafreeland brought the country’s GDP to 0. It took them a decade but they did it. An extraordinary achievement!

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

“Why does Canada seem unable to shake woke ideology, even as much of the Western world begins to move on? Saad argues the answer lies in what he calls “suicidal empathy”: a cultural instinct to prioritize feelings, victimhood, and moral posturing over truth, justice, and common sense.”

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

@nationalpost Carney risked and lost —voters mandate ignored and Canada in recession.

“The fear drummed up against Canada’s neighbour and most important trading partner worked great for Carney politically — but how much has it cost Canadians?”

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

The electrical grid in New Brunswick — its economics, infrastructure, and affordability — appears to be in even worse shape than residents are being told.

This is a critical issue for every household and business in the province. Can residents truly rely on NB Power, and can they have confidence that this government is providing proper oversight?

#cdnpoli #nbpoli

[Telegraph-Journal @TJProvincial]

In Edmundston, a symbol of NB Power's woes in plain sight https://t.co/ijxqy9DzS0

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

Carney is walking Canada on a dangerous fine line perception of just-enough elbows-up to show-it-to Trump, including concessions with China, to have us along on his desired migration toward Europe.
None of this fulfills why he was elected and leaves Canada in an even more precarious position.

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

Bill C-9 is likely to pass the Senate with only minor changes, leaving Canada’s deeper societal fractures unaddressed. Yet another contemporary law where Canadians remain at the mercy of how police, prosecutors, and courts choose how to interpret and enforce it.

Clarity and objectivity are insufficient in the bill. It is a narrow Criminal Code tweak that fails to deliver a broader statement on legal pluralism, secularism versus multiculturalism, or the clear supremacy of Canadian law over parallel systems.

While C-9 gives police and prosecutors stronger, faster tools against hate crimes, obstruction of worship, and public hate symbols, it does not confront the realities of 2020s Canada. Human rights remain vulnerable to foreign state interference in diaspora communities; Sharia and other non-conforming legal norms continue to be taught and applied in private homes and religious schools; and identity-based considerations in sentencing persist.

Canada needs a Prime Minister more focused on net-Canada than net-zero.

#cdnpoli

[National Post @nationalpost]

Conrad Black: Liberals unfairly target religious expression
https://t.co/3xtwkNiNgW

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

@terrynewman Our local Telegraph-Journal got this correct. Property owners in New Brunswick are eyes wide open.

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

House of Commons seat numbers have long bothered some Albertans -- but as the province nears 6 million and likely 43 seats, it is time to work on other reforms.

Canada does not have the bicameral regionally balanced Senate (like the USA)--in practice the Senate is a reviewer that allows the House to legislate.

The guaranteed minimum seats of the original Confederation agreement now have minimal impact on votes in the House given the population and seat growth in provinces like Alberta and B.C.

Messing with the House while not reforming the Senate to 3-E with regional balance, or devolving the Prime Minister power of appointments is mistaken.

#cdnpoli

[National Post @nationalpost]

Reforming Parliament seat distribution could help douse Western separatist flames: report https://t.co/qcuYaz2HI1

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

@brianlilley It is only a good point for the point it wants to make. In isolation of Senate reform it is not.

[C F (Chuck) Steeves @cfsteeves]

Perhaps the Prime Minister and Governor General could simply use Air Canada’s regular Business Class “Menu du Jour” and beverage list on government flights.
It’s what his own Ministers get when they fly commercially.

Security and dignity can be maintained with the caterer’s vetted staff in their facilities. Other countries successfully protect their heads of government while using far more modest catering standards.

#cdnpoli

[Tom Quiggin @TomTSEC]

The real question here is:
Who is the supplier racking in massive profits on overpriced meals? Is this just another way of the government transfering money to its friends?