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BRIAN LILLEY ON CARNEY AVOIDING TAXES BUT EXPECTING YOU TO PAY YOUR ‘FAIR SHARE’
Mark Carney says Canadians, including Canadian companies, should pay their fair share of taxes.
The problem is that the Liberal leader thinks that applies to you but not to him or the companies he helps run.
According to calculations done by the NDP, Mark Carney has helped Brookfield Asset Management – the company he was formerly chair of – avoid $5.3 billion in Canadian taxes since 2021.
It turns out that Carney setting up $25 billion worth of investment funds in Bermuda, a well-known tax haven, is just the tip of the iceberg. According to the NDP though, Brookfield only paid a third of that amount.
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QUESTIONS SWIRL FOR CARNEY OVER DAD’S ROLE
OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Mark Carney fielded no questions Friday over his father’s role as principal of an Indian day school in Canada’s north.
Highlighted in a story published Thursday by CBC Indigenous, the Liberal leader’s father Robert J. Carney was principal of the Joseph Burr Tyrrell school, formerly the Fort Smith Federal Day School — a government-run federal Indian day school in the Northwest Territories.
The elder Carney began his role as principal of the Fort Smith school in 1962 — three years before Mark Carney was born — and he died in 2009.
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BRIAN LILLEY ON WHY CARNEY IS OUT OF TOUCH
Mark Carney keeps showing Canadians that he is detached from everyday life in Canada.
His bizarre remarks about fruit Thursday night followed by his comments about CBC show Carney lives in a different reality — and sometimes the past.
On Thursday, Carney appeared on a show produced by Radio Canada, CBC’s French division, called Five Leaders, one election. Every major party leader made an appearance to discuss the serious issues of the day, including how Canada is reacting to the American tariff situation.
“Do you still buy any American products? Do you buy strawberries from the United States?” one of the journalists on the panel asked Carney.
“I have to give you a strange answer, because as Prime Minister, I no longer buy strawberries and all that. Someone does it for me,” Carney said.
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POILIEVRE TAKES HARD LINE ON CRIME
OTTAWA — A Conservative government would send offenders to jail rather than giving them bail.
Speaking to reporters from Trois-Rivières — a city roughly halfway between Montreal and Quebec City — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre promised to end Canada’s “catch-and-release” justice system by keeping offenders behind bars instead of out on parole, particularly domestic abusers.
“Studies show that economic stress and financial strain worsen these types of family violence cases,” Poilievre said. “From 2009 to 2014, by contrast, family violence and intimate partner violence was actually on the decline — in fact, 2014 marked the lowest year of family violence ever recorded.”
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EDMONTON RAPPER-TURNED LIBERAL CANDIDATE TURFED FOR HAMAS COMMENTS
OTTAWA — Just 10 days after resigning his seat in the Alberta legislature to run for the federal Liberals, a three-term NDP MLA has been booted from the ballot for praising Palestinian terrorists during a 2009 political rally.
Rod Loyola, who until Thursday was the federal Liberal candidate in Edmonton Gateway, was recorded praising Hamas and Hezbollah during a videotaped rap session at an anti-NATO protest in Edmonton.
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JEWISH GROUP LAUNCHES PASSOVER-THEMED ELECTION AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
OTTAWA — How is this election different from all other elections?
That’s the question being posed by the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs ahead of this month’s federal election, seeking to raise exposure of issues deemed important by Canada’s Jewish community.
As this year’s federal election takes place adjacent to the Jewish holiday of Passover, CIJA’s hoping Jewish Canadians and their allies will ask four questions of their local candidates — echoing the custom of the youngest child during a Passover Seder posing four questions to the rest of the table.
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STOCK MARKETS TUMBLE
Canadian and U.S. stock markets continue to be roiled by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plans that sent several prominent indexes nosediving Friday.
The S&P/TSX composite index was down over 800 points, or more than three per cent, in early trading.
In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 2.6 per cent, while the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were down more than three per cent.
The Canadian dollar was down almost one per cent to 70.36 cents US after jumping to over 71 cents US on Thursday.
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NEW AND USED CAR PRICES TO RISE
Experts say U.S. tariffs on Canadian auto imports will drive prices higher for both new and used cars.
Sean Mactavish, CEO of used-car marketplace Autozen, says prices are already rising on some used cars as sellers anticipate buyers looking for a better deal compared to a new vehicle.
“New car prices go up. People (look) into the used cars, and then that increase in demand drives the prices up for used vehicles,” he said.
Mactavish says consumers are likely to trade down to used cars or even delay major vehicle purchases as they grapple with uncertainty and higher prices.
Once the tariffs start rolling through the supply chain, prices on new cars are expected to go up too, said Baris Akyurek, vice-president of insights and intelligence at Autotrader.ca.
“It’s inevitable that there’s going to be an increase in new car prices,” said Akyurek.
He added that demand for used cars was rising for weeks before the new tariffs were enacted as consumers anticipated what could be coming.
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JOCEYLN BAMFORD ON WHY VOTE PIERRE
SMITH NOT READY TO CELEBRATE
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn’t want to be “exuberant about dodging the bullet” with U.S. President Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcement but that it might push a trade agreement renegotiation until after the April 28 federal election.
The Trump administration went ahead Thursday with 25 per cent levies on all auto imports, which adds to existing 25 per cent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports.
Canadian goods imported under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, known as CUSMA, remain spared from tariffs, though imports outside the pact will be hit with 25 per cent levies, including 10 per cent for energy.
Smith told a room of business leaders in downtown Calgary many sectors will still be hurt.
“It’s hard for me to celebrate,” she said Thursday. She pointed to a “devastating” impact on the forestry industry, and for steel, aluminum and autoworkers.
She said a renegotiation of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement, known as CUSMA, could be pushed until after the election, something she deemed “very positive.”
AMANDA GALBRAITH ON WHY PIERRE RIGHT ON FERTILITY
ECONOMY SHEDS JOBS
The economy shed 33,000 jobs in March, the biggest loss since January 2022, while the unemployment rate ticked higher, Statistics Canada said Friday.
The agency said the unemployment rate for March rose to 6.7 per cent compared with 6.6 per cent in February.
The hit came amid increased uncertainty caused by U.S. tariffs that have threatened economic growth.
The job losses reversed some of the gains made at the end of last year and into January.
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