Trump sounds warning mass migration in Canada, Danielle Smith exclusive interview and why Pierre is opposed...

Plus out of touch NDP and academics.

The Trump administration is so concerned about mass migration that they’ve instructed their ambassadors to raise the issue with host countries.

It was the front page of the Toronto Sun on Saturday morning and my column took up a whole page on the inside.

The Americans have valid concerns, and I could only touch on some of them quickly in the piece because there are so many.

The two-tiered justice system that we are now seeing, the impact on the housing market, the negative impact on the economy, all things that Canadians have been raising. As I said in my column, we don’t need Ambassador Pete dropping by to see Mark Carney and raise these issues, Canadians are already raising them, it’s just whether the government is listening.

I suspect there will be the usual hand-wringing and denial claims from our progressive set. They will claim that by writing this, I’m blaming immigrants for all of Canada’s problems, or that we are importing racist American rhetoric.

None of that is true and I’ve provided links in my piece to all the Canadian sources that were talking about these issues long before Trump or J.D. Vance were talking about them.

The Trudeau Liberals took over an immigration system that averaged about 250,000 new permanent residents each year and pushed it up to 400,000 and were on a path to 500,000 before they reversed course. What’s worse is that they dramatically and uncontrollably increased the number of foreign students, temporary foreign workers and allowed our asylum system to become an abused backdoor for economic migration.

I still don’t think they’ve scaled things back to a manageable level and they won’t without further pressure, from Canadians.

Premier Smith defends her deal with Mark Carney…

I’ve heard plenty of criticism about the Carney-Smith deal.

Readers have told me it will never work, the whole thing is a sham, that by supporting it I’m pushing Liberal talking points but that’s not what I’m hearing from people in the industry. People who know and understand the energy industry say this deal sets up the right conditions to move forward.

It’s not perfect, but it is a step in the right direction and that is the point Premier Smith made in an exclusive interview with me late Friday.

I understand all the criticism, but I also understand that it’s important to listen to voices like Premier Smith and the industry people who are supporting her.

Sonya Savage is one of those people…

The former energy minister in Jason Kenney’s government, she also spent years working for Enbridge and the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association.

“There are folks on X characterizing the MOU between Ottawa and AB as a sell-out, but having spent 19 yrs in the pipeline industry, government, and law - 9 of them working on Northern Gateway - I don’t see it that way. The MOU is a win for the Premier and for Alberta,” she posted on X.

“It’s true that there is no absolute guarantee that a Northern Gateway 2.0 pipeline will be built, but removing the political obstacles - the emissions cap, tanker ban, C-69 - enables the private sector to see a way forward that has been missing for a decade. A win.”

It’s a long thread that takes on many of the criticisms and talks about the benefits of the deal.

Why are the Conservatives opposed to the deal…

Pierre Poilievre and his Conservative Party in Ottawa have come out hard against this deal. They want to say it is a pipe dream and not a pipeline.

Perhaps it will end up that way, but I don’t think so. In my view, Danielle Smith’s hard work starts now and she will deliver a private sector proponent by next summer.

The reason the CPC is so against this deal is that if it succeeds it’s a threat to them. A federal Liberal government that can deliver for the Alberta energy industry very likely means ending the Conservative stranglehold on Alberta.

In the most recent federal election, the Conservatives took 34 of 37 seats, the Liberals two and the NDP one. If this project is successful do the Liberals suddenly start taking five or six seats in the province? Do they breakthrough again in Saskatchewan and win seats around Regina again if they aren’t seen as antagonistic to Western Canada?

Poilievre and the Conservatives have valid questions about this deal, questions the government is not answering at this point, but the real opposition to the deal comes from its threat to the CPC’s political future.

The NDP can’t help themselves…

The Carney-Smith deal came up at the NDP leadership debate in Montreal the other day and they found plenty of reasons to oppose it, including that they don’t want there to be an oil and gas industry in Canada. This statement by Avi Lewis though is shocking to me for the party that likes to claim they are the party of the worker.

Lewis said Mark Carney’s plan to support nation building projects will lead to lots of work camps with men, which means lots of women being assaulted.

I’ve had friends tell me that he’s a smart guy and a nice guy, but this comment tells me he is exactly what the NDP would claim not to support - he’s a class ridden snot looking down his nose at people who work with their hands.

Speaking of out of touch academics…

Conservative MP Matt Strauss from Kitchener is a doctor, a smart guy and someone who knows that women should be allowed to drive. The vice-dean of the University of Toronto’s Temerty School of Medicine couldn’t say that.

Strauss was asking about the impact of donations from Saudi Arabia. Dr. Patricia Houston couldn’t exactly answer.

This is a shame and shocking.

That a Canadian academic says they cannot say if women should be allowed to drive shows you how out of touch these folks are.