#LATEST: A professor specializing in politics at York University says not having the press attend an availability by the premier should concern everybody who’s concerned about transparency and accountability of government. https://t.co/jyGGt85vZC
it’s kind of crazy that we could have solved climate change 40 years ago and still had similar economic growth except like 11 oil executives wouldn’t have gotten as rich
The sheer number of lies from President Trump about Canada – growing again today – is remarkable. Just some fact checks from the last 18 months:
- Trump falsely said today that Canada's unemployment rate is "10% and rapidly rising,” though it is 6.4% (under the Canadian method that adds about a percentage point) and has been declining for three months
- Trump falsely said today that Canada does 95% of its business with the US, though 72% of Canadian exports went to the US last year
- Trump falsely said today that high Canadian agricultural tariffs have caused the entire US trade deficit with Canada, though that deficit is overwhelmingly caused by US imports of cheap Canadian crude and though something like 97% of US ag exports to Canada are tariff-free
- Trump has falsely said Canada generally doesn’t “take” US agricultural exports, though Canada is the world’s second-biggest buyer of those exports
- Trump has falsely said the Canadian public likes the idea of becoming the 51st state, which the Canadian public overwhelmingly opposes
- Trump has falsely said Canada is one of the world’s highest-tariff countries, though it is actually low in WTO global rankings
- Trump has falsely said Canada essentially doesn't have a military, though its military has fought with the US in multiple wars and its force size ranks in the upper half of NATO
- Trump has falsely said Canada hiked its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration, though they hadn’t changed since Trump’s first presidency
- Trump has falsely said the US trade deficit with Canada is “$200 billion,” though it is nowhere close
- Trump has falsely said Canada prohibits US banks, though it doesn't and though more than a dozen US banks were operating in Canada at the time he spoke
- Trump has falsely said Canada is “constantly surrounded” by Chinese and Russian ships, though that is fiction
- Trump has falsely said then-outgoing PM Trudeau was using their trade battle to run again for prime minister, though Trudeau obviously wasn’t running
No charges. No public updates. No end in sight.
The RCMP's Greenbelt investigation has reached the 1,000-day mark, and remains "ongoing."
Opposition is accusing the Ford government of "learning nothing" & continuing "backroom deals" as probe drags on.
https://t.co/13bN1k7Q3B
The RCMP announced a Greenbelt investigation in 2023.
It’s now 2026.
No charges. No public update. No explanation.
Ontarians don’t need a particular outcome.
We do deserve transparency.
What’s the status of the investigation?
#GreenbeltScandal#DougFord#ONpoli#RCMP
As the Carney government kicks off consultations on the expansion of Toronto’s island airport, more than two dozen prominent residents — including a former premier, former mayors, an Olympian and a famed author — are asking Ottawa to pump the brakes
https://t.co/WLNH77HfkL
#onpoli
I'm in today's Star with a piece on the Canadian government's "sovereign wealth fund", which is not in fact a sovereign wealth fund at all. Mark Carney may be talking like a Nordic social democrat but he is governing like a Thatcherite.