Mark Carney has officially been installed.
#Carney
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📝 The new Liberal government:

The new Liberal government has 24 ministers and no deputy prime minister.

✔️International Trade and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister and President of the King’s Privy Council Dominic LeBlanc (Previously minister of Finance and minister of Intergovernmental Affairs)

✔️Foreign Affairs and International Development Minister Mélanie Joly (Previously minister of Foreign Affairs)

✔️Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne (Previously minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Registrar General of Canada)

✔️Innovation, Science and Industry Minister Anita Anand (Previously minister of Transport and Internal Trade)

✔️Defence Minister Bill Blair (Previously minister of National Defence)

✔️Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu (Previously minister of Indigenous Services and minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario)

✔️Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson (Previously Energy and Natural Resources minister)

✔️Treasury Board President Ginette Petitpas Taylor (Previously Treasury Board president)

✔️Canadian Culture and Identity, Parks Canada Minister and Quebec Lieutenant Steven Guilbeault (Previously minister of Environment and Climate Change)

✔️Transport and Internal Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland (Previously resigned as deputy prime minister and Finance minister)

✔️Health Minister Kamal Khera (Previously minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Persons with Disabilities)

✔️Justice Minister and Attorney General of Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Minister Gary Anandasangaree (Previously minister of Crown–Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs and minister responsible for the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency)

✔️Chief Government Whip Rechie Valdez (Previously minister of Small Business)

✔️Jobs and Families Minister Steven MacKinnon (Previously minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour and interim leader of the government in the House of Commons)

✔️Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness David McGuinty (Previously minister of Public Safety)

✔️Environment and Climate Change Minister Terry Duguid (Previously minister of Sport and minister responsible for Prairies Economic Development Canada)

✔️Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Minister Nate Erskine-Smith (Previously minister of Housing, Infrastructure and Communities)

✔️Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Minister Rachel Bendayan (Previously minister of Official Languages)

✔️Veterans Affairs and Minister responsible for the Canada Revenue Agency Elisabeth Briere (Previously minister of National Revenue)

✔️Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard Minister Joanne Thompson (Previously minister of Seniors)

✔️Government House Leader and Democratic Institutions Minister Arielle Kayabaga (First time in cabinet)

✔️Agriculture and Agri-Food and Rural Economic Development Minister Kody Blois (First time in cabinet)

✔️Government Transformation, Public Services and Procurement Minister Ali Ehsassi (First time in cabinet)

❌ Karina Gould, Marc Miller, Harjit Sajjan, Mary Ng, Ahmed Hussen and others are out.

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Trudeau addresses people for the last time as PM.
What do you think this slime is up to next?

#Trudeau
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🇪🇺 Brussels is ‘honored’ Canadians want to join the EU — but says it won’t happen

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📊 Majority of Canadians worried immigration levels 'too high' despite policy changes

58 per cent of Canadians polled in a survey conducted by Leger for the Association of Canadian Studies (ACS) still feel there are “too many” immigrants, compared with just three per cent who say there are “too few.”

Slightly less than a third of respondents (29 per cent) say Canada’s immigration levels are about right.
#immigration
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🇫🇷 France's Macron to host Carney in Paris on Monday

French President Emmanuel Macron will host Prime Minister Mark Carney for a meeting in Paris on Monday in Carney's first foreign visit since taking office, Macron's office said on Saturday.

Carney also plans to visit Britain next week.
#Carney #France #UK
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Protesters gather at Vancouver Tesla showroom, sound off on Musk and Trump

Dozens of protesters gathered outside the Tesla showroom on West 4th Avenue in Vancouver Saturday to voice their displeasure with the company’s CEO Elon Musk.

Waving Canadian flags and carrying signs with slogans like “Tesla funds fascism” and “Send Musk to Mars,” the crowd chanted, sang “O Canada” and chatted with at least one passing Tesla driver who expressed support for the cause.
#BritishColumbia
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🪖🇺🇸 Carney orders review of F-35 fighter jet purchase from U.S.’s Lockheed Martin

Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked for a review of Canada’s plan to purchase a fleet of F-35 fighter jets.

The deal with Lockheed Martin and the U.S. government is for 88 planes at a cost of about US$85 million each.

A spokesperson for Defence Minister Bill Blair said Carney has asked Blair to look into whether the F-35 contract is the best investment for Canada, or if there are better options.
#US
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🇬🇧👑 King plans early meeting with Canada’s new prime minister Mark Carney

The King is planning to meet Mark Carney this week, in a sign of the UK’s unwavering support for Canada amid continuing tensions with President Trump.

Sources close to Charles said there was a “determination” from the monarch to see the new Canadian prime minister when he visits the UK in the coming days.
#UK
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🇫🇷 Carney, Macron launch new bilteral partnership on intelligence and security

Prime Minister Mark Carney pushed for closer trade and security ties with Europe Monday on a one-day trip to Paris and London just days after he took office.

Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed a new bilateral partnership on intelligence and security, focused on enhancing cybersecurity and sharing intelligence on “significant threats,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement about the conversation.
#France
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Mark Carney invites Zelenskyy to G7 summit in June

Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the G7 summit in June in the western province of Alberta, a government official told AFP on Monday.

Carney, who took office last week, spoke to the Ukrainian leader over the weekend, the official said, adding: “President Zelenskyy has been invited to the G7 meeting in Alberta in June.”
#Ukraine #Alberta
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Poilievre says he’ll scrap carbon pricing on industrial emitters and consumers if elected

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said that if his party is victorious in the coming federal election, his government would repeal the entire carbon-pricing law, including the levy on Canadian industries.

This means there would not be a levy on Canadian steel, aluminum, food production, concrete and other industries, he said.

There would be no taxes on consumers, no taxes on Canadian industries. Instead, provinces will continue to have the freedom to address this issue how they like, but there will be no federal obligation to impose the tax.

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💰❌🚙 Toronto excludes Tesla from EV incentive due to US trade war

Toronto is no longer providing financial incentives for Tesla vehicles purchased as taxis or ride shares due to trade tensions with the United States, the city's mayor, Olivia Chow, said on Monday.

We have certainly said that if you want to buy a Tesla, go ahead, but don't count on taxpayer money to subsidize it.

#Ontario #US
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🪖Carney announces plans to boost Canada’s military footprint in the Arctic

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday that Ottawa will expand the Canadian Armed Forces’ presence in the Arctic and turn to Australia’s over-the-horizon radar tech to monitor threats from adversaries such as China and Russia.

Carney also pledged $253 million in new funding for Indigenous reconciliation initiatives in the North.
#Arctic
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🇺🇸 Carney signals he's in no rush to speak with Trump after visit to U.K., France

Prime Minister Mark Carney signalled Tuesday he is in no rush to speak to his U.S. counterpart about the ongoing trade war between the two countries, saying a call will come at the "appropriate time."

Carney said Trump's tariff action has "called into the question the validity" of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), and there's a need for a larger conversation with the Americans about resetting the entire bilateral relationship, something that will only happen when the time is right.
#US
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NEW - Climate clowns attack Tesla store in Montreal, Canada.

@disclosetv

Trump says it’ll be easier to deal with Liberal leader in Canada

US President Donald Trump said he would rather work with the Liberal Party leader in Canada to resolve a trade war he instigated with Ottawa, weighing in on an expected national election in the neighboring North American country.
#US
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🇺🇸 Cross-border trips to the U.S. reach COVID lows with nearly 500,000 fewer travellers in February

Nearly 500,000 fewer travellers crossed the land border from Canada into the U.S. in February compared to the same month last year, according to data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The number of travellers entering the U.S. in a passenger vehicle dropped from 2,696,512 in February 2024 to 2,223,408 last month, reaching levels not seen since cross-border travel normalized in the post-COVID-19 era.
#US
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❗️🗳Mark Carney expected to call snap election for April 28

Prime Minister Mark Carney is poised to call a snap federal election Sunday for an expected vote on April 28, two sources say.

The Liberals, Conservatives and NDP already have booked campaign planes and buses, and their war rooms are set up in the expectation of the Sunday election call.
#Carney #election
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Montreal Tesla dealership vandalized amid backlash against Elon Musk

Activists sprayed paint on the exterior of a Tesla dealership in Montreal on Wednesday. Montreal police arrested a young man and woman.

The climate group Last Generation Canada claimed responsibility. In a statement posted online, the group called on Canada to "stand up" to Musk, who they said is "destroying democracies and spreading climate denial."
#Quebec
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❌🇺🇸 Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow supports removing U.S. flags from city property ‘wherever possible’

The mayor’s office says she’s in favour of taking down U.S. flags “wherever possible” as President Donald Trump continues to threaten punishing tariffs on Canadian goods and muses about annexing America’s northern neighbour.

The statement from Chow’s office comes after Mississauga’s mayor announced the municipality next door to Toronto would remove the Stars and Stripes from city-owned facilities there.
#Ontario #US
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