FRIDAY RECAP: Carney didn't need to suspend campaign, tariff negotiations in May
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LILLEY: CARNEY DIDN’T NEED TO SUSPEND CAMPAIGN
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Mark Carney spent Friday playing the role of prime minister rather than campaigning after a rough week on the trail.
Let’s face it, the Liberal Leader isn’t good at campaigning, and he doesn’t like answering difficult questions about China or the media.
Did the campaign decide to pull Carney from the trail after he snapped at a Globe and Mail reporter asking about him meeting with front groups for the dictators in China?
“Well, I’m sorry, but you can’t believe everything you read in The Globe and Mail,” Carney said Thursday.
TRADE AND TARIFF TALKS WITH U.S. SET FOR MAY
Negotiations over U.S./Canada tariffs will begin this May, Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Friday.
Emerging from an hours-long cabinet meeting, Carney said the ministers discussed Canada’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
“We left instructions for officials to ensure that the next government, whichever government Canadians choose, will be in the best possible position for negotiations with the United States, which the President and I agreed will begin from the start of May,” Carney said before departing without taking questions from the press.
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IS CARNEY DEALING WITH TRUMP OR INVENTING A DISTRACTION?
In the latest edition of Lilley Unleashed, Sun political columnist Brian Lilley discusses how Prime Minister and Liberal Leader Mark Carney is a completely unvetted candidate who doesn’t hold up to pressure.
TORIES UNVEIL TAX CUT-HEAVY ECONOMIC PLATFORM
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his Liberal counterpart, Mark Carney, has found himself on the wrong side of every important economic issue of our time.
During a campaign stop Friday morning in St. Catharines, Ont., Poilievre revealed his party’s plan to boost Canada’s economy and reverse the ongoing housing and affordability crisis.
“Mr. Carney and the Liberals would deepen our weakness and push us further and downward towards recession,” Poilievre said. “He was wrong to support the carbon tax, he was wrong to oppose Canadian pipelines, he was wrong to say that inflation would not be a problem five years ago, and encourage rampant money printing that lead to mass misery in Canada and gave us 37% more food price inflation than we had in the states.”
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POLL SUGGESTS 9-IN-10 CANADIANS CONCERNED ABOUT RECESSION
A new poll conducted by Angus Reid suggests that nine-in-10 Canadians are concerned about a domestic recession in the next year.
The poll asked what issue would unify all potential voters during the federal election, with 85% of those surveyed choosing recession.
About two-thirds of Canadians polled believe the tariff saga with the U.S. is far from over, with 66% believing Trump will change his mind about not applying greater tariffs to Canadian exports.
CONSERVATIVES WON’T RE-OPEN ABORTION ISSUE: POILIEVRE
If the Conservatives are elected, the abortion issue will not be reopened.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre made that statement during a campaign stop in St. Catharines, Ont., on Friday. Poilievre said a woman’s right to choose was established in Canada long ago, and has no interest in resurrecting it again.
“I can guarantee you there will be no laws restricting abortion passed when I’m prime minister,” he said. “For 20 years, the policy of the Conservative party has been that there will be no restrictions brought in on a woman’s right to choose.”
Bryan Passifiume has more about it here.
LIBERTARIAN LEADER WARNS OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IF LIBERALS RE-ELECTED
The Leader of the Libertarian Party of Canada warned of civil disobedience if the Liberals are returned to power in the April 28 election.
Speaking at a Sarnia-Lambton-Bkejwanong all-candidates meeting the Lambton Federation of Agriculture at the fairgrounds in Wyoming, Ont., this past Wednesday, Jacques Boudreau said, “we may have no choice but to consider civil disobedience to protect our rights.”
“If they win again, we must resist, peacefully but firmly because freedom demands it,” Boudreau said. “If we don’t act, civil disobedience might be our last stand against a government that has forgotten who keeps this country running.”
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GUNTER: CARNEY PAUSES CAMPAIGN TO AVOID TOUGH QUESTIONS
Mark Carney has paused his election campaign for a third time to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade tariffs.
But according to columnist Lorne Gunter, Trump’s tariffs are the campaign.
Without the chaos created by the trade policies of Trump, Gunter says the Liberals would still be a distant second in voter preference. He writes that what Carney is doing is trying to grab the No. 1 campaign issue for himself without the scrutiny of the media or opposition.
BELL: CARNEY ON COLLISION COURSE WITH DANIELLE SMITH
If Liberal Leader Mark Carney wins the election and remains prime minister and ignores Albertans, he is in for a fight with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
According to columnist Rick Bell, smart money will be in a battle that Carney will not be able to stickhandle around, so he had better buckle up.
Bell says it appears Carney is not taking Smith seriously.
WHERE THE PARTY LEADERS WILL BE TODAY
Liberal Leader Mark Carney will be putting on his prime minister hat Friday, suspending his election campaign again to deal with the fallout of the U.S. tariffs.
Carney is expected to chair a meeting this morning with his cabinet committee on Canada-U.S. relations and national security.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh will also be in Ottawa today, where he’s scheduled to speak at the Broadbent Institute’s 2025 Progress Summit.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is set to hold a press conference in St. Catharines, Ont., in the morning and a rally in Windsor, Ont., in the evening.
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