Well written article. Worth reading
Characterizing Trump’s tariff war as an emergency that demands drastic action, the province of British Columbia has passed Bills 14 and 15, expediting resource extraction and development.
In Ontario, Bill 5 was whipped through the legislature in recent weeks, creating Special Economic Zones that the premier says will fast-track mining in the “Ring of Fire” – a vast region of boreal peatlands rich in critical minerals.
Carney has introduced an equally authoritarian legislative proposal called the Building Canada Act, which will grant to cabinet the extraordinary power to waive the application of almost any federal law in respect of projects it deems to be in the “national interest”
These so-called “emergency” levers being pulled in the national interest are a complete stunt. Besides a couple of thousand new security recruits – and a small surge of workers for a short period of construction – there is no job creation here, no reduction in cost of living, no difference to Canadians at the grocery store.
Instead, let’s look at who really gains from this concentration of new power in the executive branches, and who loses.
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/18/canada-trump-flood-zone
Carney was never a good choice, he was just a less bad choice then Pierre. Pierre would’ve gladly started chopping up the country for Trump, and/or brought Musk north for a Doge north department, or something even worse. Jagmeet wasn’t realistic, and didn’t offer a great platform, in part because they conceded to the libs before it even got rollin just to try and stop the cons.
Carney is a staunch neo-liberal, with a banker background to boot. Him being pro-market and pro-international business (ie. non canadian business) isn’t ‘new’ for him. Him throwing small businesses under the bus is totally on brand. But every party toted the same general neo-liberal approach, without any pushes for drastic overhauls of existing norms that would’ve been needed if we were to actually respond to what’s going on. We needed a more drastic shift away from the market-based rules, because the US had thrown out the rule book / started overtly breaking them on a routine basis – Carney, and all the rest, are still sticking to those old rules hoping things will blow over. Opening markets and acting like its business as usual granting access / control to US interests because “business!”, while the US president openly says they’ll be selling deficient military hardware to their allies cause “maybe they wont be allies for long”. Hell, the US bailed after like half a day at the G7, and spent most of that time whining about why Russia wasn’t included… if you think the status quo is still in the room…
And its unlikely that govt will listen to feedback between elections. Especially if you’re unfortunate enough to be from a riding that ALWAYS votes one way or another, as many of us are, because why would politicians even bother listening to your feedback if the vote is pre-determined in your area already? Alberta can be given pipelines left right and center, they’ll still vote conservative. Parts of Vancouver can be completely ignored for decades because they always vote NDP.
Yup. I also think big money realizes it can do whatever it wants now (post-COVID; grocery price-gouging, Palestine genocide, Trump and ICE, etc). People just take it these days. A good part of that is they don’t know any better, because of the highly-biased infotainment they consume and regard as news, either in the mainstream media or social media
We need to oppose the ‘drill baby drill’ mindset of this insane fascist
-Canada
OPEN THE MINES! FELL THE FORESTS! IT’S AN EMERGENCY!
-Also Canada
you have to study the monster to fight the monster
“cut a lib and a fascist bleeds.”
Cut a Nazi and the PC / Republican party falls out.
I guess everyone is a fascist or a Nazi.
