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At the start of the week we hard the Carney Liberals showing their support for Canada by moving a security contract from veterans to an American company. We close the week with the Carney Liberals saying once again they might force the sale of Stelco.
What they won’t do in either case is stand up for Canada in a meaningful way, it’s all performance.
Speaking of performance, did you catch Carney, Joly, Ford and every other Canadian politician asked swearing that they haven’t tried interfering in the American midterms? They’ve been bragging about what they’ve been doing and their strategy of targeting specific states and districts for 18 months.
Now, called out on it, they pronounce their innocence.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s ridiculous for the Americans to be upset at this, they’ve been interfering in our elections for decades going all the way back to JFK.
That’s a point I made in my Toronto Sun column.
Both sides are like the guys caught in a brothel pleading they are innocent choir boys.
I’m not buying it.
Now about Stelco…
When I was growing up, food was often on the table because of Stelco. My father was a boilermaker who worked at various times at the Hilton Works plant in Hamilton and at Lake Erie works while my stepfather was on the IT and industrial engineering side at Stelco as an employee.
I’m not an expert in the steel industry, but I understand a bit.
One of the things I know is that there are measures the Carney government could take, measures the Canadian steel industry has been asking for over years, but the Carney government won’t budge. They think they’ve done enough in tinkering with policies that might help the industry flourish in Canada.
They now prefer to offer subsidies and blame Trump’s tariffs rather than fix what we can control.
Trump’s tariffs are an issue but there are ways to mitigate them.
Things like cutting or scrapping the industrial carbon tax, changing the tariff and quota system for foreign steel.
We aren’t doing that.
As usual for Carney, fighting with Trump, or the owner of a steel mill that backs Trump is far easier than doing the hard work before them.
Details on what I am talking about here.
Will Carney’s budget make anything better…
The federal budget will be presented on November 5, just under two weeks from now. We can expect a steady stream of leaks from the PMO between now and then setting up how great Canada’s economy is already doing and how much greater Carney and his finance minister Franky Bubbles will make it.
Well call us skeptical, but on Batra’s Burning Questions this week, we took a different view.
Where is the delivery? Exactly 👍
For Carney it’s all optics and BS which seems to be all it takes to keep the non/critical thinking elbows crowd voting for him.
His decisions are all WEF driven