[FoxNews] Carney expected to call election in coming days where he will face Conservative challenger Pierre Poilievre
Trudeau deserved everything he got, but unfortunately the fallout may take the election from Mr. Poilievre.
Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney will become Canada’s next prime minister after winning the Liberal leadership race on Sunday night. Carney told cheering supporters that "Canada never ever will be part of America in any way, shape or form."
We really don’t want you, guys. President Trump is just trolling because you insist on your right to let drugs and illegals pass across your southern border.
The prime minister-designate said Canada’s tariffs against the United States will remain until the Americans "show us respect" and added that Canadians "are always ready when someone else drops the gloves."
Carney said that while "Donald Trump thinks he can weaken us with his plan to divide and conquer," Conservative Official Opposition Leader "Pierre Poilievre’s plan will leave us divided and ready to be conquered."
Carney received 86% of the vote, or 131,764 votes of the 151,899 ones cast from the nearly 400,000 party members who registered to participate in the leadership election.
The new Liberal leader told party members that they should be prepared to fight "the most important election of our lives" where the "stakes have never been higher."
He said that Canada is the "greatest country in the world and now our neighbors want to take us. No way," said the incoming Canadian prime minister referring to President Donald Trump’s repeated desire for the U.S. to annex Canada as the "51st state."
When Trump announced his tariffs against Canada last month, Carney issued a statement that "Canada will not bow down to a bully. We won’t stand by as illegal U.S. tariffs hurt our workers and their families. As Canadians, we need to face this challenge as one united team."
But Canadian tariffs against American product are just fine? Got it.
In December, outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
…and thank goodness for that…
reportedly approached Carney to serve as Canadian finance minister, which caused the incumbent, Chrystia Freeland, to leave the Cabinet and publicly release her resignation letter in which she wrote that she and the prime minister had "found [themselves] at odds about the best path forward for Canada."
Less than a month later, Trudeau announced his intention to step down as Liberal leader and prime minister, saying that if he’s "having to fight internal battles, [he] cannot be the best option" in a general election scheduled to be held no later than Oct. 20.
But opposition parties have vowed to force an earlier national vote through a non-confidence motion in the House of Commons against the Liberal minority government when Parliament is recalled on March 24.
On Saturday, Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper reported that Carney will likely call a snap election the week before the March 24 resumption of Parliament, with voting day on either April 28 or May 5.
The new Liberal leader is expected to meet with Trudeau on Monday to discuss the transition that will find Carney and a slimmed-down Cabinet sworn into office by Friday.
But regardless of the Liberals having a new leader with some momentum in the polls, Canada’s Conservatives under their leader, Pierre Poilievre, are ready for a "change election," said Laura Kurkimaki, who served as deputy national campaign manager for the Conservative Party during the last federal election in 2021.
"We’ve had 10 years of a Liberal government, and Canadians are tired of that," said Kurkimaki, who also served as principal secretary to former Conservative official opposition leader Erin O’Toole, whose party won the popular vote but not enough House seats to win the 2021 election.
Furthermore, she said the new Liberal leader would be running on "Trudeau’s record," and while Carney wasn’t a member of the prime minister’s government, he was appointed last September by the Liberal Party to chair a task force on economic growth for Trudeau.
"The next election will be about who is going to make life more affordable for Canadians," said Kurkimaki. "What’s going on in the U.S. impacts that, of course, and creates economic uncertainty in Canada."
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Justin Trudeau's replacement as Canada's next Prime Minister sent a warning to President Trump just minutes after he was elected amid increasingly hostile relations between the United States and its northern neighbor.
Former central banker Mark Carney issued a withering takedown of Trump on Sunday immediately after he was chosen to take over Trudeau as the Liberal party leader and Prime Minister of Canada.
The 59-year-old leader made it clear that he intends to continue down Trudeau's path of public spats with the US leader.
He accused Trump of 'trying to weaken our economy' in his speech to a raucous room full of Liberal party voters.
'Donald Trump, as we know, has put unjustified tariffs on what we build, on what we sell, on how we make a living,' he said.
'He's attacking Canadian workers, families and businesses. We cannot let him succeed. And we won't.'
Opposition Conservatives hoped to make the election about Trudeau, who shed tears on Sunday while giving his farewell address to the party. The outgoing prime minister's popularity declined as food and housing prices rose and immigration surged.
Trump has repeatedly touted his ambition to annex Canada, referring to Trudeau as 'Governor Trudeau' and the nation as America's '51st state.'
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A quarter to a third of all Canadian exports go to the US. Around five percent of all US exports go to Canada. Guess who's economy would be hurt worse?
[NYPOST] The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says it is ending collective bargaining for Transportation Security Officers with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).
In a release obtained exclusively by FOX Business, DHS said the TSA has more people doing ''full-time union work'' rather than performing screening functions at 86% of U.S. airports.
This means that out of 432 federalized airports, 374 airports have fewer than 200 TSA Officers to perform screening functions.
These officers are paid by the government but work ''full-time on union matters'' and do not retain certification to perform screening functions, DHS said.
The department cited a recent TSA employee survey which found that more than 60% of ''poor performers'' are allowed to stay employed and ''not surprisingly, continue to not perform.''
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The article itself isn't focused on the real problem because it wanders around instead of getting to the point, so I'll make it clear:
LESS THAN HALF of the TSA employees were actually working on "Transportation Security". The rest were paper pushers "working" for their union.
*Your* tax money funded this madness, and nobody gave a damn until now.
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But, but... The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents TSOs, has pushed back on DHS’ claims, saying TSOs who volunteer as union representatives account for less than half a percent of all work hours performed at TSA
There's a clever lie buried in that particular phrasing.
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I have supervised in both union and non-union facilities over the years. Both can be efficient. It is more difficult to get rid of poor performers in a union shop. Market conditions and management cowardice can also make discharging poor performers problematic. The priorities and interests of union hierarchies above the shop steward level often diverge from the interests of the union membership. As a taxpayer, my primary interest is in not being blown up. My secondary interest is in not getting ripped off. In this case I don’t have a problem with eliminating the union for TSA. I would also like to see TSA managed effectively. Luckily, the FAA currently is making TSA look well managed.
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major TSA change to shorten airport security wait times
They going to classify all of us as illegals and avoid the entire process too?
[FoxNews] President Donald Trump has used his new powers to dismiss a slew of lawsuits filed under former President Joe Biden, including challenges to state abortion bans, allegations of racism in police and fire departments, environmental and anti-whistleblower cases, and various business-related disputes. Meanwhile, he has largely left Biden-era antitrust lawsuits untouched.
The Trump administration took steps as recently as this week to drop a lawsuit challenging Idaho's abortion ban that only permits the procedures when necessary to save the life of the mother, or in cases of rape or incest. The Biden administration tried to circumvent the state ban with its lawsuit that argued the federal Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) required doctors to provide abortions in cases when they are needed to prevent serious health consequences, not just the life of the mother.
"Democrats’ abortion extremism cost them the election," said Katie Daniel, Director of Legal Affairs & Policy Counsel at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. "With President Trump and a new administration in charge, Biden’s weaponization of the federal government is over — no more lawfare. The will of the people is clear and activist judges must not interfere."
Multiple federal civil rights cases revolving around hiring discrimination have also been dropped under Trump. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said it intends to drop a 2023 case alleging anti-immigrant hiring practices at Elon Musk's SpaceX. Additionally, several federal civil rights lawsuits accusing police and fire departments of racial discrimination based on their provision of certain physical fitness tests and other requirements like credit checks have also been dropped.
"American communities deserve firefighters and police officers to be chosen for their skill and dedication to public safety — not to meet DEI quotas," U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement after dismissing the lawsuits that had been levied against multiple jurisdictions around the country.
A former DOJ civil rights attorney, Heritage Foundation Senior Legal Fellow Hans von Spakovsky said that in one of the cases against a fire department in Cobb County, Georgia, a judge refused to grant a settlement proposed by the Biden administration due to a lack of evidence proving physical fitness tests and credit report checks are racially discriminatory toward minorities. Spakovsky noted that settlements are typically approved by judges, but the one in Cobb County sought to set up racial hiring quotas that the judge likened to "a racial spoils system," he said.
"Here's a direct quote from the judge: ‘The court will not approve of an agreement which may violate the rights of others without a sufficient evidentiary basis to show that such race-based action is warranted,’" Spakovsky said.
"The broad scope of all of these dropped civil rights cases," he concluded, "is that they are throwing out the ones — in my opinion — that call on defendants to violate federal laws against discrimination."
Two other high-profile lawsuits recently dropped by the Trump administration include a Biden-era Environmental Protection Agency case against local Louisiana regulators and the synthetic rubber manufacturer Denka, which alleged failure to adequately protect the predominantly minority community near its plant from cancer risks linked to air pollution.
Another dropped case involved a medical whistleblower, Dr. Eithan Haim, who faced prosecution from Biden's DOJ after he leaked documents to the media revealing Texas Children's Hospital in Houston was performing transgender medical procedures on minors, even after it said it had stopped complying with new state regulations.
Trump has also dropped a number of consumer protection and cryptocurrency lawsuits, but has done little in the way of disrupting the Biden administration's antitrust enforcement, something tech professionals were expecting after the last administration challenged Big Tech companies aggressively for allegedly building monopolies.
"It's a big plus for the crypto and fintech sector as a whole, because you just see them celebrating, like you see social posts online of a lot of these executives at those companies that just missed lawsuits who are really happy," said Kison Patel, a financial tech entrepreneur and the host of "M&A Science," a podcast about mergers and acquisitions. "It seems like there's going to be less scrutiny and regulations around that sector."
Patel added that while mergers and acquisitions were expected to ramp up this year, he isn't so sure anymore considering the approach Trump has signaled towards antitrust enforcement.
"I think there's still a lot to watch in the antitrust area," said Patel, who pointed to a new case the Federal Trade Commission has brought against a medical device company on antitrust grounds. "But, the take home is there doesn't appear to be a big shift in position in the realm of regulations around antitrust."
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I was horrified to learn that we apparently have laws that allow the arrest of peaceful protest at abortion sites. How can we pretend this is ok while simultaneously allow major universities to have their buildings taken over by lunatics when THEY wish to protest?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
