— Musings —04.10.2025 05:52 PM
— Musings —04.10.2025 05:52 PM
Warren,
Again, the CPC will ignore my wise advice, but here it goes anyway: I saw the latest commercials, but they won’t deflate Carney. What the party needs to do ASAP is run commercials that demonstrate every time Carney attacks journalists or gives them a dressing down for daring to ask him questions—you know, journalists trying to do THEIR JOB.
I agree. Canadians need to know if he’s filed taxes in Canada and need to see how he deals with tough questions. We’ll see how he does in the French debate with his questionable French.
Remember when folks were all excited because Scheer had a dual citizenship? That was so cute! Not to mention(and as I said at the time) that in order to give up a US citizenship is time consuming and expensive. Many people fell into the problem totally by accident and would rather have not been citizens. Your mother crossed the border to go shopping and went into labour prematurely. Guess what and by the way, you are a US tax paying citizen for life.
Carney’s tax filings, I am sure, would be very interesting.
Martin,
I remember speaking with my MacKenzie uncle and aunt both born in the States but living in Canada for decades. They were scared shitless of the IRS and double taxation. I told them not to sweat it a) given their combined yearly income and b) that they were in their late eighties and nineties. I said by the time the IRS gets to both of you, you’ll already be dead. I got that one right. All of their kids were born in Canada.
I had one client that contacted me and told me that her brother was telling her she was caught up in it even though she was born in Canada. I said that could not be right. Turned out she was because of some obscure rule that was eventually changed. It was an expensive mess.
Then the Liberals can point out that the Conservatives banned the media from their tour bus/plane – cut them out
So Butts destroys the OLP, destroys the Trudeau brand and now folks are going to fall for a guy that is getting counsel from him?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-who-are-the-people-steering-the-liberal-and-conservative-election/
From the article:
“He(Butts) also said “I’d be tempted to use the crisis presented by the Trump administration to fix some things about the structure of the Canadian economy that badly need fixing.””
He literally broke it!
Martin,
Apparently.
I wonder if Mark is shocked to discover there is gambling going on in this establishment. This is what the NDP/Liberal boomers consider international experience. It would be funny if not so sad:
“”Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s former firm Brookfield has registered more than a dozen business entities to an infamous address in the Cayman Islands that former U.S. president Barack Obama once described as either “the largest building in the world or the largest tax scam in the world.”
CTV News reviewed U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings between 2015 and 2024 that show the global investment firm registered limited companies and limited partnerships to a five-storey building in the capital of the self-governing British Overseas Territory.
That building is known as Ugland House, and is home to at least 18,000 corporate entities. The Cayman Islands charges no income or corporate taxes.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/federal-election-2025/article/brookfield-registered-entities-to-grand-cayman-address-obama-called-largest-tax-scam-in-the-world/
Martin,
But the tax treaties with the US, UK and Canada have all been revised, to use a polite word and that is not necessarily in favour of foreigners holding Cayman bank accounts. At first it was the foreign banks in Grand Cayman that came under the microscope. Today it’s domestic banks as well.
With 17 days to go, Carney is looking grumpy and tired.
Clearly, he’s not cut out for campaigning.
Too hard. Too much push back.
Plus, the ‘low’ is showing him too much disrespect.
Nanos, this morning, says the divide between the Liberals and the Conservatives is 3.
Hard to know what and who to believe with these polls.
But if Nanos says the Libs are out in front by 3, then I suspect the race is actually a dead heat.
Which means folks may be a little uneasy about the Banker, his disposition, and his relationship with the Asian superpower.
Disrespecting Israel wasn’t a wise move, either
Do you think for one second he will take counsel from his cabinet? I suppose that might be a good thing but he probably wasn’t lying when he told Fraser he would have lots of time to spend with his family.
Unsure who Fraser is.
Suspect the next leader of the federal Conservatives will be Caroline Mulroney
Douglas,
Fraser is one of the unretiring ministers. Anand is another.
As for the leader, Mulroney comes from the wrong wing of the party and will end up like Charest if she runs one day. But run she will. Meanwhile, sixty-six percent of the party will be incredibly busy blocking Ford. Can’t wait. Personally, I will move Heaven and Earth to accomplish that.
Yes, Fraser’s family has questions. As far as Caroline goes, she never got the memo from Kory and Doug to stay out of the federal election. She did a great job introducing Pierre in Toronto:
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=933967638814174
Martin,
It’s more like she got it but ignored it for future political considerations.
Douglas, with Conservative vote concentration meaning an overrepresentation in Alberta and Saskatchewan, and with the Liberal vote spread across Ontario, Quebec, BC, and the Atlantic Provinces – looks like the liberals are on pace for a majority, or maybe a big minority – but it’s not as close as that poll suggests due Conservative vote concentration in Sask and Ab.
Having said that, for the liberals
To win they have to fight everyday like it’s their last – anything can happen
Douglas,
Bingo but even if it’s a dead heat, we likely lose because of our surplus vote in the West.
I’m sure Carney’s team is thankful that their guy won’t have to face an unscripted segment with a hostile audience where his temper can get the best of him during the next week…oh wait!
PS – et en francais aussi!
I do not doubt that at least 50% of the house of commons and 75% of the senate have off shore bank accounts , along with a huge amount of Alberta oil field workers , corporate executives such as Jimmy Paterson, the owners of every sporting franchise in Canada !!
When you earn enough to employ a “good” tax consultant WGAF about the plight of we mere mortals?
For Poilievre to say he will seek out corporate tax dodgers is the most disingenuous statement I have ever heard from a politician!
TB
Warren,
Kory looks rattled and is doubling down with colourful language. Means the PCs are feeling the heat and not liking it. Good.
Who thinks Carney will skip the English and French debates. He is ahead and missing them may be safer bet then attending them.
No, he won’t skip them. If he does, he’ll lose support.
But will the loss of support matter. If as people are saying that the cat is in the bag then is it possible to cause more damage by shitting the bed at the debate. With Zoolander gone it appears people have settled with Mister Burns leaving poor Milhouse pining for his Electoral Lisa.
Dink,
It’s too late to pull out now.
Dr. Jordan Peterson provided a masterwork deconstruction of the Carney mythology in yesterday’s Post. The piece is full of quotable passages.
One that encapsulates what we’re dealing with: “He (Carney) is everything terrible about Trudeau, with a greater reach, internationally, and with more executive and managerial skill.”
Carney and his handler Gerald Butts have duped Boomers into believing he’s the second coming of Paul Martin despite his radical zero-carbon views.
To quote Dr. Peterson: “He has written that businesses who cannot or refuse to adapt to the hyper-expensive and anti-industrial reality that must be imposed will “cease to exist” in a war for the survival of the planet.”
I sum it up thusly : Carney is Trudeau with a triple-digit IQ. That makes him an existential threat to young people.
Unlike Trudeau, who although an unmitigated disaster as PM was not competent or intelligent enough to fully implement the degrowth and maoist speech-surveillance policies of his warped dreams, Carney actually has the stuff to pull it off.
Citizens under 50 need to prepare a Plan B that will allow them to escape Canada if Carney is able implement his full agenda.
Peterson is a loon.
Warren,
Agreed. Peterson lost the little credibility he had with me when he moved to the States to be closer to the OrangeAssholeTM. That did it for me. From that point, the benefit of the doubt evaporated.