Canada election: Party leaders make their pitches as snap campaign kicks off
Canada’s 2025 federal election, explainedThe Latest
- We heard from the leaders of all the major parties on the first day of the campaign.
- Liberal Leader Mark Carney revealed he would introduce a middle-class tax cut that could affect up to 22 million Canadians.
- “Negativity won’t win a trade war,” he said in a shot at Tory Leader Pierre Poilievre during his first speech.
- Speaking earlier in Quebec, Poilievre unveiled his "Canada First, For a Change," campaign slogan.
- Poilievre said a "lost Liberal decade" has left Canada weak and vulnerable on the world stage.
- NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh went after Carney in his first address of the race.
- Singh said Carney has spent his career serving the rich and that he can’t be trusted to work for everyday Canadians.
- Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet urged voters to give the Bloc the balance of power in a potential minority government.
Updates
March 23
- Lucas Powers
We're wrapping up our live coverage
Jenna BenchetritWell, that was an absolute whirlwind of a day in politics. Thanks for following our live updates as the federal election campaign got underway.
A few of the party leaders have events around the country this evening, but we're closing this live page for now.
If you're just getting here, scroll down to get an overview of how the election call unfolded.
We'll have plenty more daily coverage and analysis of this high-stakes campaign all the way through to election day, so be sure to check out cbcnews.ca for the latest developments.
A clear throughline emerged today.
For the next few weeks, it looks like campaign messaging will be largely focused on protecting Canada from Donald Trump’s threats against the country’s sovereignty, and addressing a longstanding affordability crisis that could be made worse by the ongoing trade war.
Carney and Poilievre are each positioning themselves as the best person to deal with Trump — while Singh, Blanchet, Pedneault and May will punch up at the Liberals and Conservatives, who are currently neck and neck in the polls, according to CBC’s Poll Tracker.
Despite the tight race, there were calls among the leaders for national unity in the face of U.S. aggression.
The major party leaders are now boarding planes and buses to make their first campaign stops across the country, and where they end up may give Canadians a sense of where the parties think the election’s battlegrounds are.
Michael WoodsWhat to expect from CBC News this election
People line up outside a polling station in Toronto to vote in Canada's federal election on Sept. 20, 2021. (Mark Blinch/Reuters) Want to know what you can expect from CBC News during this federal election campaign?
Brodie Fenlon, general manager and editor in chief of CBC News, has a new post up in his editor’s blog about that.
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Michael WoodsHow Mike Myers lent the Carney campaign a hand
Canadian actor Mike Myers and Prime Minister Mark Carney appear in a social media video posted on Saturday, March 22, 2025. (X/MarkJCarney) The campaign officially starts today, but the Liberals already had some help from Canadian comedian Mike Myers in a video Carney posted yesterday on social media.
My colleague Ashley Burke has some details from the Carney campaign on how it came together.
Myers appeared in the closing credits of a Saturday Night Live episode a few weeks ago wearing a shirt that said “Canada is not for sale” (Myers has been playing Elon Musk in SNL sketches).
Carney’s team re-posted that. Then, Myers reached out to the Carney camp and asked how he could help. Myers came to Montreal to film the video with Carney earlier this week.
The video has about 6.6 million views on X (Musk’s own social media platform).
Sam SamsonAlberta premier’s ‘Let’s put things on pause’ comments draw campaign questions
Smith, left, Trump and investor Kevin O'Leary on a recent visit to Mar-a-Lago. (Danielle Smith/X) If you're hearing comments from Carney and Poilievre talking about Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, here's why.
Earlier this month, she went on the right-leaning U.S. media outlet Breitbart News Network to chat all things politics. The interview was posted on March 8. Smith was asked: "Are the Canadian people ready to go back the other way here, and go away from the Liberal side under Trudeau and whoever replaces him?"
This was the first part of Smith's answer: “Before the tariff war, I would say yes. I mean, Pierre Poilievre is the name of the Conservative Party leader, and he was miles ahead of Justin Trudeau. But because of what we see as unjust and unfair tariffs, it’s actually caused an increase in the support for the Liberals. And so that’s what I fear, is that the longer this dispute goes on, politicians posture, and it seems to be benefiting the Liberals right now.
“So I would hope that we could put things on pause, is what I’ve told administration officials. Let’s just put things on pause so we can get through an election. Let's have the best person at the table make the argument for how they would deal with it — and I think that's Pierre Poilievre.”
CBC News has reached out to Smith's office to clarify the comments.
Darren MajorNDP heads into election in tough spot
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh speaks in Ottawa on March 22, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press) The NDP and Singh could be in for their toughest election battle in recent memory.
Recent polling suggests the New Democrats' popularity has fallen to its lowest level in decades. Our Poll Tracker suggests that the party could lose several seats, and if that bears out on voting day, it would mean the NDP would have lost MPs in every election Singh has helmed.
Singh has been dismissive of the polls in recent weeks and was so again on Sunday.
“I’m very familiar and comfortable being [an] underdog. I think a lot of Canadians can relate to that,” he told reporters at his campaign launch.
“I know that folks like Pierre Poilievre and Mark Carney would want nothing better than for New Democrats to disappear … but news to them: we’re not going anywhere.”
Our colleagues Marina von Stackelberg and David Thurton have written about the tough spot the NDP is in, and you can read more here.
Ashley BurkeLiberals haven’t had time to brand their plane
The Liberal plane on the tarmac in Ottawa. (Ashley Burke/CBC) The Liberal plane isn’t wrapped with its logo yet. The campaign says the plane will be fitted next weekend with the Liberals’ branding.
Jenna BenchetritBlanchet on ‘the big question’ of Quebec sovereignty
Asked about his party’s stance on Quebec sovereignty, Blanchet said that “no one doubts independence for Quebec.”
“But if you think that the Bloc is going to organize a referendum on that — well, the fact is that as people who support independence, we have a chance to ensure that the economic system is something that works for us,” said Blanchet.
He added that some members of the Bloc Québécois will help the Parti Québécois, a provincial party that advocates for Quebec’s separation from Canada, elect sovereigntists during its own provincial election.
“Once there are sovereigntists in Quebec, I imagine that [Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon] will be establishing his strategy, and we will support it,” he said.
“When the big question comes up, they’ll be saying, we’re going to trust those people. So our job is to ensure there is that confidence.”
Michael WoodsHas Donald Trump ‘endorsed’ Mark Carney?
Trump and Musk sit in a Tesla in front of the White House on March 11. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Let’s talk about this claim that Singh made in his launch speech today.
“Donald Trump has come out and endorsed Mark Carney. Elon Musk has endorsed Pierre Poilievre,” he said. “I’m the only federal candidate that is 100 per cent not endorsed by the Donald Trump administration.”
This stems from Trump’s comments in a Fox News interview on Tuesday saying he wouldn’t mind if the Liberal Party won the upcoming election.
"I don't care," Trump responded. "I think it's easier to deal, actually, with a liberal and maybe they're going to win, but I don't really care. It doesn't matter to me at all."
On Friday, Trump took credit for the Liberals’ reversal of fortunes and echoed his earlier thought.
“Just a little while ago, before I got involved and totally changed the election — which I don’t care about … the Conservative was leading,” Trump said.
“I don’t care who wins up there. I, frankly, probably would do better with the Liberal than with the Conservative, if you want to know the truth.”
The Conservatives — and now Singh — say that constitutes an endorsement of Carney.
It is true that Musk has endorsed Poilievre. In December, billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman posted on X saying Poilievre “should be Canada’s next leader. The sooner the better.”
Musk responded with a 100 emoji.
Jenna BenchetritA battleground in Quebec
FULL SPEECH | Quebec will 'express our own voice' in election, says Bloc leaderDuring an event in Montreal, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet said decisions for Quebecers need to be made by Quebecers, and that members of the Bloc are the ones best suited to advocate in Ottawa for the future of Quebec jobs, resources and clean energy development.
Asked about whether the Liberals are eating up votes in the Bloc’s home territory, Blanchet said, “The Liberals cannot take votes from the Bloc because the Bloc belongs to no one. Votes belong to the voters.”
He said there’s a sense within his party that the Liberals have “a desire to use people’s insecurity” around U.S. intimidation to introduce Carney, who he characterized as an untested and unknown leader. “You don’t know who he is, but it’s going to be fine,” said Blanchet.
The Bloc leader said part of his job is forcing Carney and Poilievre to reveal their platforms so that Canadians can make an informed decision at the ballot box.
“Quebec has seen people use fear before. So no, I’m not worried about that argument. And generally, we bring forward reason in the presence of fear,” said Blanchet.
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U.S. relationship likely top of mind for voters this federal election, poll analyst says
CBC Poll Tracker suggests tight race between Liberals, Conservatives
Liberals and Conservatives are running neck-in-neck to win the federal election April 28, says a poll analyst, who has identified three potentially close races in New Brunswick.
Éric Grenier, who covers Canadian elections, politics and polls on TheWrit.ca, pointed to Miramichi-Grand Lake, Fredericton-Oromocto and Saint John-Kennebecasis as ridings where the campaign could be tight.
And while housing and health care are still important to voters, Grenier believes those issues could be overshadowed by the likely major issue of the campaign — the tariff threats and threats on Canadian sovereignty by U.S. President Donald Trump.
With New Brunswick bordering the state of Maine, Grenier said he thinks that will put this issue top of mind for the province's voters.
The
parties led by Conservative Pierre Poilievre, left, and Liberal Mark
Carney nationally. Grenier says voter perceptions of parties and party
leaders are the most important factors in federal election outcomes. (Ethan Cairns/The Canadian Press)
According to the CBC Poll Tracker, the polls suggest a significant lead in Atlantic Canada for the Liberals, at around 50 per cent.
As of Sunday, when the election was called, the CBC Poll Tracker suggested a narrow lead nationally for the Liberals, with support from 37.5 per cent of those polled, over the Conservatives, with about 37.1 per cent.
"As we've seen in past elections, the two most recent ones for example, the votes and the seats don't always line up," Grenier said in an interview with CBC News on Monday.
"So despite the fact that we are looking at this pretty much tied race across the country, the Liberals are still the favourites to win the most seats."
The CBC Poll Tracker includes every poll that is being published right now, Grenier said. The tracker is an accumulation of all polls, including those from pollsters, such as Abacus, Leger and Ipsos, among others.
The shift in the polls since Justin Trudeau's resignation as prime minister has been remarkable, Grenier said, and probably one of the biggest shifts in Canadian history.
"We're looking at this enormous swing that has transformed the landscape from an inevitable Pierre Poilievre Conservative big majority government to now, what is essentially a toss-up race, where it's really either Mark Carney or Pierre Poilievre's election to lose," he said.
"It's just an incredible amount of change that we just normally do not see in Canadian politics."
Local candidates may matter in close N.B. ridings
Grenier said it's hard to predict where things will stand in the next five weeks, but if the election were held today, his personal projection would award the Liberals six seats in New Brunswick and the Conservatives four — the same outcome as the last election.
Nationally, Grenier said, voter perceptions of the parties and party leaders are the most important factors in the outcome of elections, and the importance of local candidates will differ from riding to riding.
While the name on the ballot may not be a decisive factor, it could make the difference in particularly close ridings.
"I think that is all the more the case in New Brunswick and other areas of Atlantic Canada, where the attachment to that local candidate usually and traditionally has been a lot stronger than we see in other parts of Canada," said Grenier.
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New Brunswick
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Eddie Cornell[3] |
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Donna Allen (Libert.)[32]® |
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Dominic LeBlanc |
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David Myles,[33] Tyler Randall[34] or Ryan Sullivan[35] |
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Brian Macdonald[6] |
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Nicki Lyons-MacFarlane[15] |
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Pam Allen-LeBlanc[28] |
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Heather Michaud[3] |
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June Patterson (Comm.)[17] |
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Bill Kudla[1] |
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Rob Moore[6] |
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Rob Moore |
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Guillaume Deschênes-Thériault[1] |
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Michel Morin[6] |
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Daisy Petersen[37] |
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René Arseneault$[38] |
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Lisa Harris[39] |
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Jake Stewart$[40] |
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Ginette Petitpas Taylor[1] |
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Jocelyn Dionne[6] |
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Serge Landry[15] |
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Mark Duperron[3] |
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Ginette Petitpas Taylor Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe |
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Wayne Long[1] |
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Melissa Young[41] |
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David MacFarquhar[28] |
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William Edgett[3] |
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Wayne Long¢ |
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Karen Ludwig[1] |
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John Williamson[6] |
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Andrew Hill[15] |
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Nathan Gower[42] |
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Richard Bragdon[6] |
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Vern Brundle[3]® |
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Liberal backbencher calls for Trudeau to resign in email to caucus
Saint John-Rothesay MP Wayne Long says new leadership needed 'for the good of our country'
Liberal backbencher Wayne Long has sent an email to caucus calling for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to resign as leader after the party lost a Toronto-area riding that's been solidly Liberal for decades earlier this week.
The New Brunswick MP is the first Liberal caucus member to openly call for Trudeau's resignation since Tuesday's byelection upset in Toronto-St. Paul's.
"For the future of our party and for the good of our country, we need new leadership and a new direction," Long wrote in an email obtained by CBC News.
"The voters have spoken loud and clear they want change. I agree."
The Saint John-Rothesay MP, who has spoken out against his government in the past, is not re-offering in the next election.
Liberal backbencher, former cabinet minister call on Trudeau to goNewfoundland and Labrador MP Ken McDonald responded to the email with, "Well said!"
He later told CBC News he liked how Long articulated himself but isn't calling for Trudeau to resign.
The Avalon MP, who has voted against his own party twice on the carbon tax, said it's the prime minister's decision to make alone, but stressed the need for an urgent, in-person caucus meeting with Trudeau.
According to sources who have seen the email chain, Kingston MP Mark Gerretsen asked members to stop hitting reply-all.
Conservative candidate Don Stewart hugs a supporter as the results come in during the Toronto-St. Paul's federal byelection. (Patrick Morrell/CBC)
Trudeau, who has not taken questions from reporters since the byelection, has insisted he plans to stay on as leader.
"I and my entire team have much more hard work to do to deliver tangible, real progress that Canadians can see and feel," he said in a media statement this week.
Before this week's vote, a Conservative candidate hadn't been competitive in Toronto-St. Paul's since the 1980s. The party hadn't won a seat in urban Toronto since the 2011 federal election.
Conservative Don Stewart secured the breakthrough, beating Liberal candidate Leslie Church by 590 votes.
CBC has reached out to Long for comment.
In 2017, he was kicked off two parliamentary committees after he supported a failed Conservative motion related to proposed small business tax changes.
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With files from Olivia Stefanovich
Federal Conservatives hand pick Saint John-Kennebecasis candidate
In doing so, the party is scrapping a four-candidate runoff in order to acclaim Melissa Young to go against incumbent Liberal Wayne Long
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When Canada could have an election
Liberals Kelloway, Battiste announce they will run in new federal ridings in N.S.
Both initially eyed same seat of Sydney-Glace Bay after changes to current ridings
Liberal Mike Kelloway has announced he will be the party's candidate for the new federal riding of Sydney-Glace Bay, while another high-profile Liberal, Jaime Battiste, is going for the riding of Cape Breton-Canso-Antigonish.
Kelloway, first elected as an MP in 2019, made his announcement in a social media post Saturday evening, saying he received confirmation from the Liberal Party and is ready for an election.
"I have to say to my team and myself were absolutely thrilled," he said in a video. "Let's keep up the fight for Cape Breton and Canada."
Both men were vying for the same seat of Sydney-Glace Bay after changes to their current ridings, but in the end Battiste decided to go in a different direction.
"My numbers were looking very strong in this riding and Mike Kelloway's numbers were looking very strong in the other riding. And so the whole point of this election is to get a strong mandate for Mark Carney," Battiste said.
2 Liberal MPs to compete for same riding in next federal electionBattiste was elected as Canada's first Mi'kmaw MP in 2019 and was also in the race to become the new Liberal leader, before dropping out in the campaign that Carney ended up winning.
"It helped me increase my profile, not just in my riding, but all across the Atlantic [region] and in a lot of ways all across Canada," Battiste said.
Part of the riding where he is running encompasses the area where Sean Fraser has been MP. Battiste said Fraser is helping his election bid now that he is not standing for election himself.
Ballot takes shape
Battiste will be up against former Nova Scotia cabinet minister Allan MacMaster, who is running for the Conservatives.
Judith Clifford is listed as the candidate for the People's Party of Canada on its website.
Lawyer Anna Manley has announced a run in Sydney-Glace Bay for the Conservatives. Jeffrey Evely is listed as the People's Party of Canada candidate for the riding. The Libertarian Party of Canada has Michael Pittman as its candidate.
It does not appear that the NDP or the Greens have chosen candidates for either riding.
The Sydney-Glace Bay riding has more than 82,000 people. There is a population of about 75,000 in Cape Breton-Antigonish-Canso.
The federal election is set for April 28.
When Danielle Smith tried explaining Poilievre to Americans, Canadians heard it too
Premier saying Conservative leader 'in sync' with Trump rattles both federal and provincial politics
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith came into the federal election campaign hoping her words would leave an imprint.
Well, maybe not like this.
She wanted her points about oil and gas regulation, and her demands on pipeline approvals, to influence the conversation. Less so her weeks-old remarks to a Trump-friendly media outlet about a strategic Washington "pause" on tariffs to avoid boosting Liberal fortunes, and that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre was "in sync" with the direction of Donald Trump.
After her interview with Breitbart News surfaced on the eve of campaign launch, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was most forceful in denouncing Smith's talk of advising Trump administration officials to pause tariff plans "so we can get through an election" and ideally elect Poilievre to deal with the U.S. president.
"Shameful," Singh termed it.
NDP
Leader Jagmeet Singh said it was 'shameful' that Smith claimed to have
advised Trump administration officials to pause tariffs until after the
election to avoid boosting the Liberals. (The Canadian Press)
"If you're loyal to this country, if you care about Canadians, you say, 'Stop the tariffs. Don't hurt Canadian workers. Don't hurt Canadian families. Don't hurt Quebecers,'" Singh said while on the stump in Montreal.
But this would overlook the fact that Smith has repeatedly argued against tariffs for the benefit of Canadian workers and families, in her province's lucrative oil sector and in other industries.
She even did so in the same Breitbart interview on March 8: "We really should maintain this tariff-free relationship between our two countries. Our industries are so integrated. And it's good for both partners."
Alberta's premier has been arguing in U.S. media interviews about the folly of tariffs for months. What was different about the Breitbart interview — to a more niche conservative audience than CNBC, CNN or Fox Business — was that she added electoral calculations to her bundle of arguments.
And told the pro-Trump crowd they'll like what they see with Poilievre.
Smith was, let's remember, a media pundit in her past career(s) — known to workshop or test-drive different ideas or theories live on air. Rhetorical spaghetti flung on the wall.
Had the remarks been publicized when she made them, in early March before Mark Carney was elected Liberal leader, they could have landed less explosively. But they surfaced just as the prime minister was calling the election.
Smith has pushed back against the interpretation of her own comments, saying her pitch for a campaign-long moratorium on U.S. tariffs was "exactly the opposite" of the foreign interference some critics suggested it was. However, it was her comment that Poilievre is more "in sync" with the U.S. tariffer-in-chief that federal politicians have weaponized.
Carney wondered at a campaign event who Canadians want to deal with Trump: "Someone who, to quote Danielle Smith, is in sync with him, or is it someone who's going to stand up for Canadians?"
In fact, Smith's analysis about Trump-Poilievre lines up well with a Liberal ad that matches up things the two right-leaning leaders say about "radical left" and "fake news."
When asked about Smith's comments about him, Poilievre himself began to discuss his conservative counterpart, but pulled himself back."Well sh…," he began, stopping before a "she" could cross his lips. "People are free to make their own comments. I speak for myself."
He's previously had a friendly relationship with the United Conservative premier he largely agrees with on energy policy. Last spring, he invited her to speak at an anti-carbon-tax Conservative rally in Edmonton, praising Alberta's "common-sense Conservative leader, the great Danielle Smith!"
Conservative
Leader Pierre Poilievre and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at a federal
Conservative rally in Edmonton in March 2024. (Facebook/Danielle Smith)
Poilievre wouldn't be the first Conservative leader with Alberta roots chafing at a compatriot's remarks spilling onto the campaign trail.
In 2004, then-Liberal leader Paul Martin took advantage of comments that the day's Alberta premier, Ralph Klein, made about health care reforms that Martin warned might violate the Canada Health Act. The delay in releasing those plans until after that June's election was proof, Martin insisted, that Conservative Leader Stephen Harper had a hidden agenda for private health care.
Tom Flanagan, Harper's campaign manager, wrote in the 2007 book Harper's Team that Klein's private health musings "certainly did nothing to help our stagnant poll numbers."
Flanagan wondered about Klein: "Was it just the general sloppiness that marked the final years of his time as Alberta premier, or was he being deliberately mischievous?"
Asked about that two decades later, former Conservative official Yaroslav Baran remembered how his party's war room dreaded Klein's election entree.
"I remember us saying, 'Ahh, come on, we don't need this right now,'" he recalled to CBC News. And not so much because it validated anything real, he added, but because it pulled his party off message for a while.
Baran said Poilieve is "somewhat inoculated" from what Smith said by Trump's own remarks last week that he'd rather not work with the Conservative leader, who "stupidly is no friend of mine," as the president said.
Baran said he doesn't expect Smith's comments to hurt Poilievre like the premier hurt the conservative leader two decades ago.
"This is not going to penetrate down to Main Street," he said.
U.S.
President Donald Trump said last week he'd rather work with a Liberal
prime minister of Canada than Poilievre, who 'stupidly is no friend of
mine.' (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
One important difference between Klein's health comments and Smith's Trump-tinged remarks is the timing.
Yes, both hit during the campaign, but Klein's came in the final week before the 2004 election; Smith's Breitbart interview surfaced in the first days of a five-week campaign.
Plenty will surely happen between now and April 28, including planned Trump tariffs next week and inevitably more provocative remarks from the president and his social media accounts.
Smith might make more international waves of her own.
She's signalled her intention to keep playing U.S. diplomat — "foreign interference my ass," her top aide scoffed on social media — including a speaking engagement Thursday in Florida with former Breitbart commentator Ben Shapiro, at a $1,500-a-plate fundraiser for a conservative education group.
Federal parties may be just as keen to find out what she says at that private gala. If politicos and the public are still talking about Smith's advice to Americans about Canadian politics five weeks from now, that may not bode well for conservatives at any level, provincial or federal.
Corrections
- An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect date for the Alberta premier's speaking event at a fundraiser for PragerU, a conservative American education group. The gala is on Thursday, March 27, rather than a day earlier.Mar 26, 2025 1:09 PM ADT
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Carney's green funds at Brookfield used Bermuda tax haven to attract investors
Liberal leader says funds go to Canadian entities that 'pay the taxes appropriately'
In his time at Brookfield Asset Management, Liberal Leader Mark Carney personally co-chaired two investment funds dedicated to the transition to a net-zero carbon economy, worth a total of $25 billion.
Those funds were registered in Bermuda, among other locations, allowing investors to benefit from significant tax advantages, according to information obtained by Radio-Canada.
The funds created while Carney was on Brookfield's board of directors are the Brookfield Global Transition Fund ($15 billion) and the Brookfield Global Transition Fund II ($10 billion), launched in 2021 and 2024 respectively.
According to the Ontario Business Registry, the funds were registered in Bermuda under the names of BGTF Bermuda GP Ltd. and BGTF II Bermuda GP Ltd.
In both cases, the provincial registry indicates that the "governing jurisdiction" for the corporations is located in Bermuda.
Tax havens widely used
The legal structure of the Brookfield funds is complex and includes many jurisdictions. However, experts say their registration in Bermuda raises questions about Carney's approach to fiscal policy in Canada.
"All sorts of companies are doing this … but [Brookfield] are one of the biggest users of this kind of scheme," said Silas Xuereb, political analyst with the group Canadians for Fair Taxation.
He says he hopes the next federal government will impose new limits on the use of tax havens, in particular by ending bilateral agreements with countries like Bermuda and strengthening international treaties to curb tax evasion.
Xuereb said it may seem "ironic" that environmental funds were registered in a tax haven.
But he said Carney was understandably motivated by profit in the private sector, and hopes that the Liberal leader "will have very different goals now that he is in political power."
Political analyst Silas Xuereb says the revelations raise questions about Carney's approach to fiscal policy in Canada. (Submitted by Silas Xuereb)
Conservative MP Michael Barrett said Carney should explain Brookfield's use of foreign entities.
"Mark Carney needs to explain to Canadians why he used offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes for the funds he set up and managed. Canadians deserve a leader who will put Canada first," said Barrett in a written statement.
On Wednesday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh criticized Carney and said the Liberal leader "chose to register [the funds] in another country to avoid paying those taxes. That's less money for health care. Less money for seniors. That's less investments in our country."
According to press releases issued by Brookfield at the time, BGTF and BGTF II were "co-headed" by Carney. The other manager of the funds was Connor Teskey, CEO of Brookfield Renewable Power.
During a news conference in Windsor, Ont., on Wednesday morning, Carney said the "structure of these funds is designed to benefit the Canadian pension funds that invest in them," citing the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
"I understand how the world works and how these structures work," Carney said.
The taxes are paid in Canada, Carney added, because the "flow through of the funds go to Canadian entities who pay the taxes appropriately, as opposed to taxes being paid multiple times before they get there."
A spokesperson for the Liberal Party refused to answer questions about Carney's activities at Brookfield or whether he had assets in tax havens before they were placed in a blind trust.
"Mr. Carney worked for Brookfield from August 2020 to January 2025, and has not been involved with the firm since. Any questions specifically related to Brookfield should be sent to the firm," said the spokesperson, Mohammad Hussain.
In a statement in 2024, Carney said that "the Brookfield Global Transition Fund strategy is aiming to deliver strong risk-adjusted financial returns for investors and make meaningful environmental impacts for people and the planet."
Located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Bermuda ranks among the largest tax havens in the world. Investments from Canada to the country have increased from $10 billion in 2011 to more than $130 billion in 2023.
The issue of tax havens often raises passions in federal politics. Former prime minister Paul Martin was notably targeted by the Conservatives over his shipping company's use of tax havens.
In a report published in 2023, the Center for International Corporate Tax Accountability and Research criticized Brookfield's tax policies, including the use of entities in Bermuda.
The firm responded that it complied with all tax rules, explaining that the company manages large infrastructure companies that pay their taxes in the jurisdiction where they are located.
"We would also note that jurisdictions around the world have substantially different corporate tax rates and offer important tax incentives for investment, for example in sectors such as renewable energy in which Brookfield is a recognized global leader," the firm said.
In a press release earlier this month, the NDP stated that Brookfield's use of tax havens has led to the loss of billions in corporate taxes.
In a statement, NDP MP Niki Ashton called on Carney "to come clean on his role in Brookfield's exploitative practices to dodge paying their taxes in Canada while working Canadians pay theirs."
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The three key federal riding races to watch in New Brunswick, and why
They’re the federal New Brunswick ridings that even the most savvy prognosticators and political insiders are shying away from predicting just yet.
Polling numbers are volatile, momentum can swing like a pendulum, things have, and can again, quickly change.
And that shines a bright spotlight on a select few ridings in New Brunswick where incumbents suddenly aren’t returning, a federal electoral boundary redraw has changed the equation, or historical battlegrounds are simply renewed in a very close race.
How three of the province’s federal ridings in particular fall – Miramichi-Grand Lake, Fredericton-Oromocto, and Saint John-Kennebecasis – may just end up being predictive of the result across the country.
Miramichi-Grand Lake
Up until just months ago, it was a riding that looked destined to be cemented Conservative blue as long as Jake Stewart wanted to hold the reins.
After winning four straight provincial elections, regardless of whether his party formed government or not, Stewart seamlessly transitioned to federal politics, grabbing his window in 2021 to make the jump.Stewart then made fast friends with Pierre Poilievre on the House of Commons finance committee, getting behind the federal party’s eventual leader at the ground level, with Poilievre travelling to New Brunswick as far back as 2021 to be the special guest at the Miramichi MP’s Christmas riding event.
At one point, he was part of Poilievre’s inner circle of nine as caucus committee coordinator.
His impassioned, emotional, and fiery brand of local politics played well, the stars potentially aligning for an eventual spot in cabinet.
But that upward trajectory recently derailed.
The financial agent for Stewart’s riding association quit his post in January over allegations that he was mistreated by the Miramichi MP and his staff.
There was an online fight with another former member of the MP’s constituency office team, and allegations that several other staffers had quit.Stewart was then accused of mocking a veteran party member in the riding for having a stroke.
His local constituency office temporarily closed amid it all.
As stories mounted, grabbing national attention, Stewart abruptly announced earlier this month that he would no longer be reoffering in a looming federal election.
That’s as the federal Liberals have selected Lisa Harris, a political bulldog in her own right with three provincial election wins under her belt, as their candidate in the April 28 election.
Harris lost to Stewart by fewer than 1,500 votes in 2021.
Prior to Stewart, Miramichi-Grand Lake was won by the Liberals in both 2015 and 2019.
But the math to get the Grits across the line again got a little harder recently.
The already expansive riding expanded slightly in a recent federal electoral boundaries redraw, adding communities dropped outside Fredericton, but also the parish of Waterborough that was in the electoral district of Fundy Royal.Poll by poll results show the Conservative vote was strong in both areas, and would have expanded Stewart’s 2021 win to nearly 3,000 votes.
That doubles the gap Harris must overcome.
On Monday, federal Conservatives announced current Miramichi West MLA Mike Dawson as their candidate in the riding of Miramichi-Grand Lake.
It means Dawson again steps in to fill the shoes of Stewart.
Dawson entered the provincial legislature in 2022 after winning a byelection called to fill Stewart’s Southwest Miramichi-Bay du Vin seat.
That was after Stewart made the jump from provincial to federal politics.
Dawson was then re-elected in October’s provincial election in the riding of Miramichi West.
The question of who wins the federal seat may come down to geography.
In 2021, Harris won all of the polls in the Neguac area where she thrived as an MLA, but while splitting the polls with Stewart in Miramichi proper.
That’s as Stewart won almost all of the polls in the riding’s southwestern region.
Dawson substantially won the provincial riding of Miramichi West in the fall general election with 57 per cent of the vote, covering the northwestern and southern areas in the Miramichi River Valley, Doaktown, and Upper Miramichi.
It means that Harris will need to pick up votes in the southwest corner of the riding, where Dawson recently won, or make substantial gains in and around Newcastle and Chatham to pull off a victory.
Fredericton-Oromocto
It was the closest riding race in New Brunswick in the last federal election.
Four years ago, Jenica Atwin stole back the Fredericton seat for the Liberals – essentially from herself – after she previously grabbed it in making history for the Green Party of Canada.
In June 2021, Atwin crossed the floor to the federal Liberals amid an internal Green party rift.
She was re-elected as a Liberal three months later in the 2021 federal election.
Atwin won the riding by 502 votes, or just 1.14 per cent of ballots.
Then amid the very recent Liberal chaos surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political future in the immediate aftermath of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s December resignation, Atwin called on Trudeau to resign, while contemplating her own future.
At the same time, forecasts by the political projection site 338 Canada, which uses aggregate polling and demographic data to predict future election results, had the federal Conservatives ahead in the riding by as much as 25 percentage points.
That’s as the Conservatives selected their own formidable candidate.
Former Fredericton area MLA Brian Macdonald, who served in the Canadian Armed Forces and is a past policy advisor to the previous Minister of National Defence Peter Mackay, has already held the party nomination for more than a year.
For months, the projection site has considered Fredericton-Oromocto a “safe” federal Conservative seat it would gain with nearly a 100 per cent chance of flipping blue.
But that has now completely turned on its head since Trudeau’s resignation, the installation of Mark Carney as federal Liberal leader, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s persistent threats against Canada.
338 Canada lists that the Liberals now have 97 per cent odds of winning.
On Tuesday, Juno-winning singer-songwriter David Myles was hand picked by the federal Liberals as their candidate in Fredericton-Oromocto.
That’s as long-time friend Premier Susan Holt, who herself turned a few Fredericton-area Progressive Conservative seats red in the recent provincial election, encouraged him to join the race.
Myles was acclaimed, as Ryan Sullivan, the associate vice-president of enrolment at St. Thomas University, and Fredericton business owner Tyler Randall both announced they were also seeking the party banner but were ultimately shut out by the party.
Meanwhile, the riding itself is a significantly different shape than it was four years ago.
An electoral boundary redraw now sees the newly named Fredericton-Oromocto riding lose the remainder of the Parishes of Maugerville, Sheffield and Canning to Miramichi-Grand Lake and will lose Burton Parish to Saint John-St. Croix.
Transposing the 2021 poll-by-poll election results to the new riding appears to show the change being beneficial for the Liberals.
Atwin’s 502-vote win becomes a 1,388 ballot victory.
Saint John-Kennebecasis
Wayne Long said he was going to retire.
The self-styled freethinking Saint John-Rothesay MP first headed to Ottawa in 2015 in the Trudeau sweep of Atlantic Canada, and then held on in 2019 when four of his 10 Liberal colleagues didn’t return.
He then convincingly won again in 2021 while his party returned another minority government.
But Long contended he always had an end date in mind, roughly a three-term 10-year window.
Two years ago, he announced he wouldn’t seek re-election again.
In context, though, that was as he was increasingly at odds with his own government, banished to the back benches, unappreciated for his rebel brand, and then calling loudest among his peers for Trudeau to step aside.
He got his wish, and then received a 40-minute call from Mark Carney in January, enough to reenergize his political ambition to seek a fourth term.
It’s undoubtedly a blow to the federal Conservatives who have long targeted the riding.
That’s as they appeared even more likely to steal the riding after an electoral redraw shifted boundary lines.
Changes to the electoral map now split Saint John in two, with those in the west end, where Long won a majority of polls, now voting in what is currently New Brunswick Southwest and renamed Saint John–St. Croix.
The new riding of Saint John-Kennebecasis extends from uptown Saint John east to Quispamsis.
Long won by over 5,000 votes in 2021, but a redrawn map cuts that victory in half to a gap of 2,345 votes as the federal Conservatives polled better east of the Port City.
It presents an opening for the Conservatives and their candidate.
It wasn’t until Sunday that the party official named who that would be.
Melissa Young, the recent CEO of Skilled Trades Ontario, confirmed to Brunswick News that she has now been acclaimed as the party’s candidate.
In doing so, the party scrapped a runoff with four contestants in order to hand pick Young.
It comes after the race grabbed multiple headlines in recent weeks and months.
Earlier this month, Leslie Keirstead, president of the Saint John-Kennebecasis Conservative federal riding association, abruptly quit citing a “lack of transparency” behind the selection of a local candidate.
That came months after Jeff Steeves, a doctor who said he had hoped to run for the Conservatives in Saint John-Kennebecasis, alleged last August as he publicly suspended his campaign that higher-ups in the party had already chosen the candidate
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-trump-call-today-1.7495824
Carney calls 1st official call with Trump 'cordial' and 'positive,' but tariffs still expected next week
2 countries agree to start discussions on new economic, security relationship post election
Prime Minister Mark Carney says U.S. President Donald Trump respected Canada's sovereignty when the two leaders spoke on the phone Friday, marking a shift in the relationship — at least for now.
"Perhaps there was a different impression before about how strong Canada really is," he said during a news conference in Montreal.
Carney, who was sworn in as prime minister nine days before triggering an election, said the call was "cordial" and "positive." While the men's paths had crossed before, it was the first time they spoke as leaders of the neighbouring countries.
Earlier in the day, Trump described his conversation with Carney as "very productive."
"I just finished speaking with Prime Minister Mark Carney," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
That one line is notable in its own right given Trump repeatedly called former prime minister Justin Trudeau governor as part of his annexation taunts.
"We agree on many things and will be meeting immediately after Canada's upcoming election to work on elements of politics, business and other factors that will end up being great for both the United States of America and Canada," Trump wrote.
The U.S. president's statement suggests he thinks that Carney will still be prime minister after Canadians cast their ballots April 28.
Speaking in the Oval office later in the day, Trump called Carney by his first name and described their conversation in glowing terms.
"We had a very good conversation," Trump said. "Mark called me today at 10 a.m. … we had a very, very good talk. He's going through an election now and we'll see what happens."
Carney previously said he'd be open to a conversation if the president, who has repeatedly said that Canada should become the 51st state, respects Canada's sovereignty.
Asked if he trusted Trump's positive review of the call or whether it was a negotiation tactic, Carney said "there's always a strategy in a negotiation."
Trump's response was remarkable by how normal its tone was. However, the president is notoriously unpredictable and results-driven, meaning what he says and what he eventually does can be very different.
Trump also celebrated a "very productive meeting" with Trudeau at Mar-a-Lago last year — then, days later, he began mocking the former prime minister.
There's also no suggestion Canada won't face tariffs next week, on top of the duties already in place on steel and aluminum products.
"The short answer is the president did not indicate a pulling back on the tariffs of auto, steel or aluminum during the call," Carney said Friday.
On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order that will bring in a 25 per cent tariff on finished vehicles imported into the United States beginning next week.
Trump said Friday that he still intends to levy tariffs on his trading partners April 2, but hinted Canada may not be hit as hard as other countries.
"I'm not referring to Canada, but many countries have taken advantage of us … that has to stop," Trump said. "We are going to end up with a very good relationship with Canada and some of the other countries.
"We had a very good talk, the prime minister and myself, and I think things are going to work out very well between Canada and the United States."
Carney pitches new relationship to Trump
The prime minister said he and Trump agreed to sit down and negotiate a comprehensive "new" economic and security relationship between the two countries should Carney win next month's federal election.
"I made it clear that I will be working very hard over the next month to earn the right to represent Canada in those discussions," he said.
In the interim he said cabinet members will continue to stay in touch with their U.S. counterparts, including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
Shifting to campaign mode, the Liberal leader pushed on the need for Canada to "reimagine our economy" and become less dependent on the U.S. as a trading partner.
"We must ensure that Canada can succeed in a drastically different world," he said.
Asked about Trump's language shift after the call with Carney, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he hopes there is a change in tone coming out of the White House.
"We want to put an end to this crazy, tariff chaos," he told reporters in Nanaimo, B.C.
Poilievre said the Liberals have made Canada too dependent on the U.S., and reiterated his promise to unleash the country's natural resources.
"It's clear that the president would like to keep the Liberals in power," he said. "They've been very good for his agenda. He wants to take our money and our jobs and Liberals have helped him do it."
Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet responded to news of the call in a social media post, saying he's glad the conversation was productive but he wants more details on what was discussed.
"I would like to know what was said about supply management, softwood lumber, culture and aluminum — key sectors of Quebec's economy," he said in French.
"What about the tariff threats of April 2? Will they be postponed until May or later?" he added.
During his Friday news conference, Carney said he will never discuss supply management with the U.S.
"It's off the table," he said.
After a housing announcement in Toronto on Friday, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, whose party is failing to punch through with voters according to the polls, was asked how Trump has shifted the campaign.
"I think this campaign is really different," he said. "I think it's really put a lot of pressure on Canadians in a way that we haven't seen in a long time."
With files from Alex Panetta and Louis Blouin
https://amp.cbc.ca/news/politics/canadian-future-party-2025-election-1.7492981
Has the rise of Carney's Liberals sunk this upstart centrist party?
The Canadian Future Party bills itself as a place for voters disillusioned by Liberals and Conservatives
Dominic Cardy, leader of the upstart Canadian Future Party, is under no illusions that he will be prime minister after Canadians cast their vote next month.
"This party just started and what we really want to do in this race is to raise the profile for the ideas we're putting out there," he told CBC News.
"We're hoping that we can keep on providing new ideas that the Liberals and the Tories and really anyone else can steal if they want to. For us, it's about democracy, not about parties."
The Future Party officially launched last summer, billing itself as a centrist option for voters who have become disillusioned with the Liberals and Conservatives.
But the party was formed while Justin Trudeau and his more progressive Liberal brand was tanking in the polls. The Liberals have seen a sharp resurgence under Mark Carney's more centrist approach.
CEO and founder of Abacus Data, David Coletto, said there didn't seem to be much support for a new centrist party even before Trudeau stepped down.
"There is a myth about this centrist voter that exists that is moderate on all sides. I don't know if that's true," he told CBC News.
"It's too simple to say that most voters are in the middle or in the centre. I don't necessarily agree. It depends on the issue."
The Future Party ran candidates in two byelections in September but garnered less than one per cent of the vote in both contests.
Coletto said Carney's shift to the centre does leave "a lot less space" for the Future Party. But he argued a larger problem facing any new party is the emergence of U.S. President Donald Trump as a central ballot question.
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David Coletto said a problem for smaller parties is how to make a
response to President Donald Trump a central part of their message. (Matt Rourke/The Associated Press)
"I think that the broader issue-set has made it hard for a brand-new party with an unknown leader to get any traction, because Trump and all the chaos that's come from that has created a demand for stability," Coletto said.
But Cardy, a former New Brunswick MLA and cabinet minister, said he's concerned that the Conservatives and Liberals thus far are lacking sufficient plans to address Trump, specifically when it comes to national defence.
"There's still a huge gap between what we need to talk about when it comes to defending our country and what the major parties are proposing," he said.
Cardy also said he isn't concerned about the Liberal shift to the centre and its increasing popularity.
Liberal Leader Mark Carney is seen as more centrist than his predecessor, Justin Trudeau. (Andrej Ivanov/AFP/Getty Images)
"We'd always said that the goal, our biggest goal, was to try and drag politics back to the centre," he said.
"We certainly haven't had the time to build [our party] into anything formidable yet."
He said his party's platform focuses on issues where he thinks the Liberals and Conservatives lack "credible positions." The platform has three pillars: boosting defence, democratic reform and making social services more efficient.
Still, he said it's "fantastic" that the Liberals are moving toward the centre.
No full slate of candidates
The party isn't expected to run a full slate of candidates, but Cardy is optimistic that they can run in up to 100 ridings.
"The election is earlier than we'd hoped," he said, noting that the party only started creating its riding associations in January.
"We'll have as many [candidates] as we can get. But again, we decided that yes, we're going to run a campaign that's limited because we're new and that's fine."
Cardy himself is running in Fredericton. Although he said he will focus on his local campaign, he intends to make a few trips to various communities across the country — even if he has to fly there himself.
"I've got my own little two-seat, fast, little airplane. So if I can get that tuned up in time, I'm going to go and fly that around the country a little bit to get to events," he said.
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Dominic Cardy, carrying centrist party banner, will run in Fredericton
Dominic Cardy, carrying his new centrist party’s banner, will run in the riding of Fredericton-Oromocto in the upcoming federal election.
That’s as he sees a role for himself and The Canadian Future Party nationally as a sobering voice of “radical honesty” with plans to push the two major parties to be upfront with Canadians “that war is coming, and Canada is not prepared.”
The former New Brunswick NDP leader and more recent Progressive Conservative MLA and cabinet minister officially launched the Future Party last summer in a bid to create a centrist option for voters disillusioned with the Liberals and Conservatives.
Cardy was acclaimed leader in the fall at a founding convention in Ottawa.
That’s as the country’s political landscape has wildly shifted since the party’s inception.The federal Liberals turfed Justin Trudeau and his left-leaning Liberal brand for Mark Carney’s more centrist approach.
And voters now appear to be consolidating behind two major parties, as third party options struggle in the polls.
Cardy says he’s under no illusion that a political breakthrough is imminent for his months-old group, admitting that the party’s federal council openly considered not running a full campaign if an election call came in March.
“We’re not here to just take up space on a ballot,” he said.
“But we’re advanced enough that we felt we could field about 80 candidates and hopefully continue to apply some pressure to big parties in terms of their messaging to remind them that abandoning the centre has political consequences.”
Cardy added: “We’re introducing our party to Canadians in this election.”Instead, a successful campaign would see the major parties heed his party’s policy planks.
“We’re going to do everything we can to door knock and do all the traditional things to get votes, of course, but I think the big task right now, the big gap in Canadian politics, is a party that is ready to say a war is coming, Canada is not prepared,” Cardy said.
“Our economy and society is not prepared, and everyday that we delay preparations the more difficult it will be, the more expensive it will be, and the more it will reduce our chance of winning in that conflict.”
In its founding documents, the Future Party called for forming a national civil defence corps and comprehensive review of foreign and defence policy.
But Cardy said his party will soon call for five per cent spending on defence in five year’s time under a soon-to-be-unveiled “Beaverbrook Plan,” named after New Brunswicker Max Aitken, and a nod to his home province, who helped save the British armament sector in the beginning of the Second World War as minister of aircraft production in Churchill’s wartime government.
“We need that same process,” Cardy said.“The only way to protect our independence is to defend ourselves, and that means an incredible investment in defence which my party is wrapping that plan up.”
A national campaign launch will happen in Ottawa next week.
While Cardy said Carney has made strides in moving the Liberals back to the centre of the political spectrum, adding that it’s refreshing to “have an adult in the room,” he said both the Liberal and Conservative election campaigns are falling short.
“Having competitions over tax cuts right now is hallucinatory,” Cardy said, noting the multibillion-dollar pledges to date.
The Liberals have promised to cut the marginal tax rate by one percentage point, while the Conservatives are promising what amounts to a 2.25 per cent cut to the lowest income bracket from 15 per cent to 12.75 per cent.
“We are facing a war, our allies are busy cutting programs and introducing taxes and introducing conscription, spending billions of euros on rearming themself as quickly as they possibly can, and we’re sitting around saying ‘oh maybe two per cent by 2030’ and talking about buying fancy trains,” Cardy said, a reference to a Liberal high-speed rail commitment.
“If we want to be serious about protecting our independence we’re going to need to have a plan to make Canada a superpower and I don’t hear anyone talking about that, except for my party.”
He added: “So as long as that core feature of our politics is being left unaddressed by all of the other parties, my party is going to keep on pushing.”
In Fredericton, Cardy enters a race with former Fredericton area MLA Brian Macdonald, who served in the Canadian Armed Forces and is a past policy advisor to the previous minister of national defence Peter Mackay, as the Conservative candidate.
Meanwhile, Juno-winning singer-songwriter David Myles has been hand picked by the federal Liberals as their candidate in Fredericton-Oromocto.
The federal Greens are fielding Pam Allen-LeBlanc in the riding, a businesswoman and published author who lives in Durham Bridge.
Jamie Gillies, a political scientist at St. Thomas University, suggested Cardy’s impact on the Fredericton-Oromocto runoff may be minimal.
“I think it is going to be difficult for smaller parties, even those led by local candidates, to break through in this election,” Gillies said.
“It depends on how the campaign unfolds but once the crisis narrative takes hold, it becomes difficult for third parties to make appeals to voters since Canadians are looking for stable leadership through uncertainty.”
“We have seen examples where crises can create upstart parties, but the conditions are completely different than the ones that exist right now,” said J.P. Lewis, a political scientist at the University of New Brunswick in Saint John. “If you think about the constitutional crisis of the 1980s, it propelled the reform party, the Bloc Quebecois. They never won a seat, but the People’s Party had some support out of COVID.
“But this one, 90 per cent of Canadians just want to beat Trump. The thinking narrows to ‘who do I want to be prime minister?’”
Cardy said his intention is to turn the focus to policy action over the coming weeks.
“The only way we come out of this is to build a military that is strong enough to deter both of those countries, that’s it,” Cardy said, speaking of the U.S. and Russia. “We need to make sure we can defend ourselves and that’s going to be a total change in the way we approach our economy, our society, and prepare Canadians for the war that is already starting around the world and is going to include us.
“As long as our leaders aren’t being honest with Canadians and including Canadians in the plans for how we confront that war then this party has a role to play.
“I want us to be the party of radical honesty where we talk about things that are coming whether they’re difficult or not.”
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Liberal MP Sean Fraser changes mind, will seek re-election
Former cabinet minister announced in December he would not run again
Liberal MP and former cabinet minister Sean Fraser is cancelling his plans to retire from politics and will announce today he will seek re-election in his Nova Scotia riding of Central Nova.
CBC News first reported the news Tuesday morning and Fraser later confirmed it in an interview.
"It's an opportunity to demonstrate to my kids that when there are important fights to have, good people need to stand up to bullies," he said, in reference to the current U.S. administration.
Fraser said he made the decision Monday after a phone call from Liberal Leader Mark Carney asking him to reconsider.
Fraser announced in December he wouldn't run again because of the strain the job placed on his family life. But sources say Carney reassured Fraser they would find a way to balance his workload with his family life.
Liberal MP Sean Fraser changes mind, seeks re-election in Nova Scotia Fraser said Carney assured him that if he stayed on he would be able to spend more time with his family.
"We probably spent half an hour on the phone discussing the assurances that we could create a family-friendly environment that would allow me to serve my community without compromising my ability to be a present husband and father," he said.
Fraser and Carney are expected to appear together at an event later today in Nova Scotia where the news will be officially announced.
Asked about the news in Halifax, Carney said Fraser is an "exceptional public servant."
"I and my colleagues have wanted Sean Fraser to come back and serve Canada at this crucial time. Sean stepping up for our country ... is exceptionally good news for Canada," he said.
Fraser stepped down from the federal cabinet in December when he announced he wouldn't run again. He was the federal housing minister until then, and immigration minister before that.
The Liberals nominated a candidate to run in Central Nova last week. The nominee, Graham Murray, was the only Nova Scotia Liberal candidate absent from Carney's appearance in Halifax on Tuesday.
Fraser is not the first high-profile Liberal to change their mind about running in the upcoming election. Cabinet minister Anita Anand had said she would not run again, but changed her mind last month.
New Brunswick MP Wayne Long and Ontario MP Helena Jaczek also said they would not run again, but then reversed course.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre seized on the news to reiterate his point that a Carney Liberal government would lead to more of the same, and criticized Fraser's record on the immigration and housing files.
"He helped contribute to creating this crisis in the first place. And now Mark Carney and the Liberals say that he should be back," Poilievre told reporters in Vaughan, Ont.
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Date: Sun, Mar 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Subject: Re: Hey Hans Johnsen are you the guy running in Fundy Royal?
To: Hans Johnsen <notyourprince@gmail.com>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rwqnxIGV1g
Oct 11, 2019
Coverage of the 2019 Federal Election Debates, for the Fundy Royal Riding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cFOKT6TlSE
Oct 2, 2015
Federal debate in Fundy Royal, New Brunswick riding featuring candidates Rob Moore, Stephanie Coburn, Alaina Lockhart, Jennifer McKenzie and David Amos.
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On Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com> wrote:
New Brunswick
See also: Canadian federal election results in New Brunswick
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal Conservative NDP Green PPC Libertarian Other
Acadie—Bathurst
Serge Cormier[2]
James Brown[6]
Ty Boulay[10]
Wayne Wood[3]
Randi Raynard[4]
Serge Cormier
Beauséjour
Dominic LeBlanc[2]
Nathalie Vautour[6]
Alex Gagne[22]
Josh Shaddick[3]
Eddie Cornell[4]
Donna Allen[23]®
Dominic LeBlanc
Fredericton—Oromocto
David Myles[2]
Brian Macdonald[6]
Nicki Lyons-MacFarlane[10]
Pam Allen-LeBlanc[3]
Heather Michaud[4]
Crystal Tays[22]
Dominic Cardy (CFP)[24]
Jenica Atwin†[25]
Fredericton
June Patterson (Comm.)[12]
Fundy Royal
Bill Kudla[2]
Rob Moore[6]
Hans Johnsen[3]
Alastair MacFarlane[4]
Wayne Wheeler[22]
Rob Moore
Madawaska—Restigouche
Guillaume Deschênes-Thériault[2]
Michel Morin*
Daisy Petersen[10]
Ann McAllister[3]
François Provost[22]
René Arseneault$[26]
Miramichi—Grand Lake
Lisa Harris[2]
Mike Dawson[6]
Matthew Ian Clark[3]
William Jones[22]
Jake Stewart$[27]
Moncton—Dieppe
Ginette Petitpas Taylor[2]
Jocelyn Dionne[6]
Serge Landry[10]
Mark Duperron[4]
Sherie Vukelic[22]
Ginette Petitpas Taylor
Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe
Saint John—Kennebecasis
Wayne Long[2]
Melissa Young[6]
[g]
David MacFarquhar[3]
William Edgett[4]
Austin Venedam[22]
Wayne Long¢
Saint John—St. Croix
Karen Ludwig[2]
John Williamson[6]
Andrew Hill[10]
Nathan Gower[28]
Marc-André Michaud[4]
Keith Tays[22]
Kelly Newman (CFP)
John Williamson
New Brunswick Southwest
Tobique—Mactaquac
Richard Bragdon*
Michael Winter[10]
Liam MacDougall[3]
Vern Brundle[4]®
Patrick Geraghty[22]
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Date: Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/hans-johnsen-7817271/?originalSubdomain=ca
Hans Johnsen
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BeetBox’s ComFarm is a community garden, but better
By Apartment613 on June 12, 2024
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In 2017 a group of young farmers founded the Beetbox cooperative farm who saw the value of coming together to grow good food for the community. As a workers co-op, its members own and democratically manage the farm. That means the farm is committed to creating good jobs for new farmers while contributing to food security for all. The farm is in Ottawa’s Greenbelt, the largest publicly owned greenbelt in the world. It’s surrounded by protected forests and wetlands, and has a history of farmers growing with more sustainable methods right next to the Ottawa river.
The farm has also expanded over the years into quite a community hub. Like many local farms, it offers a 3-season vegetable subscription program. It also has a farm store where customers can buy on-the-spot, and community events throughout the year. We dove in deep about the future of farming in 2021 with one of the founders of Beetbox, and you can read all about it here.
ComFarm in the field. Photo: Beetbox
One of the most innovative projects at Beetbox is the Community Farm Program (they call it ComFarm) that’s been successfully operating since 2020. The idea behind it is simple: a coordinated group of gardeners with a little bit of planning, expertise, and equipment from the farm can produce a lot more food than the same gardeners working alone. Community Farm is like a grow-your-own CSA basket. Participants work a weekly or biweekly shift in the collective garden plot (a ½ acre) at BeetBox Farm. From May to September, they weed, prep, plant and maintain the collective plot, and harvest a weekly share of fresh veggies from it.
The difference between grocery store arugula and arugula from the farm is so stark that people feel like they haven’t even tried arugula. – Hans Johnsen, long-time ComFarm shift coordinator who grew up on a farm.
There is a sliding scale of cost to join the program, and participants can choose which level of payment they are comfortable paying, to support wide access to the program. Volunteer coordinators run the program and plan shifts six days per week on evenings and weekends during the farming season. There is no serious gardening experience necessary to join.
ComFarm field prep. Photo: Beetbox
Participants love the program because they get to play in the dirt with others outside, exercise, and grow much more food than they could alone with the combined resources and labour. Once the grow season is up and running, everyone returns home from their 3.5 hour shift with their own food box. ComFarm gives its surplus produce to local food banks, a much-needed service since 1 in 7 people in Ottawa are currently food insecure.
ComFarm Harvest. Photo: Beetbox
We asked the good folks at ComFarm about their experiences at the farm, and here is what they have to say:
What inspired the idea of ComFarm at Beetbox?
ComFarm was born during the pandemic out of a desire to connect outdoors safely while growing food. Farms were considered an essential service so could remain open.
The cost of food in Canada has made been making the news daily, is ComFarm also affected by these market fluctuations?
“Yes, the cost of tools, seeds, other inputs, and leasing land have gone up with inflation. Thankfully, we still manage to offer ComFarm shares at a sliding scale. That means that people who are better off can pay more to subsidize those who need help. It’s a great program! The ComFarm share is super great value. We estimate that people get the market value of $1000 worth of super fresh, super local veggies with a ComFarm share,” Angela Plant, Beetbox worker-owner and marketing wiz.
Which produce items are ComFarm volunteers most excited about bringing home?
“I think garlic excites a lot of people. And tomatoes. But I think what excites people even more than a specific item is the abundance of our harvests. They go home with a large bag of so many items. And they love how the items vary,” Maureen Russell, long-time ComFarm shift and greenhouse coordinator
Growing healthier food takes a whole community. It is so much hard work, time commitment, and often done for wages that should be higher considering the importance of the service, especially as the cost of everything goes up and the climate gets more difficult to deal with. If we want farms to keep feeding us into the future while protecting our super precious greenbelt, getting involved in a program like ComFarm is the way to go. It’s super fun, meaningful and great exercise – Julie Baribeau, past full-time farm worker, now ComFarm coordinator and advocate for better food systems.
If you are interested in volunteering with ComFarm and filling your home with fresh fruits, veggies, and herbs there are still spots available for the 2024 growing season.
BeetBox Co-op Farm
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230 Davidson’s Side Road,
Ottawa, ON K2K 2Z4
(613) 416-9171
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From: David Amos <david.raymond.amos333@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Subject: Hey Hans Johnsen are you the guy running in Fundy Royal?
To: <notyourprince@gmail.com>
New Brunswick
See also: Canadian federal election results in New Brunswick
Electoral district Candidates Incumbent
Liberal Conservative NDP Green PPC Libertarian Other
Acadie—Bathurst
Serge Cormier[2]
James Brown[6]
Ty Boulay[10]
Wayne Wood[3]
Randi Raynard[4]
Serge Cormier
Beauséjour
Dominic LeBlanc[2]
Nathalie Vautour[6]
Alex Gagne[22]
Josh Shaddick[3]
Eddie Cornell[4]
Donna Allen[23]®
Dominic LeBlanc
Fredericton—Oromocto
David Myles[2]
Brian Macdonald[6]
Nicki Lyons-MacFarlane[10]
Pam Allen-LeBlanc[3]
Heather Michaud[4]
Crystal Tays[22]
Dominic Cardy (CFP)[24]
Jenica Atwin†[25]
Fredericton
June Patterson (Comm.)[12]
Fundy Royal
Bill Kudla[2]
Rob Moore[6]
Hans Johnsen[3]
Alastair MacFarlane[4]
Wayne Wheeler[22]
Rob Moore
Madawaska—Restigouche
Guillaume Deschênes-Thériault[2]
Michel Morin*
Daisy Petersen[10]
Ann McAllister[3]
François Provost[22]
René Arseneault$[26]
Miramichi—Grand Lake
Lisa Harris[2]
Mike Dawson[6]
Matthew Ian Clark[3]
William Jones[22]
Jake Stewart$[27]
Moncton—Dieppe
Ginette Petitpas Taylor[2]
Jocelyn Dionne[6]
Serge Landry[10]
Mark Duperron[4]
Sherie Vukelic[22]
Ginette Petitpas Taylor
Moncton—Riverview—Dieppe
Saint John—Kennebecasis
Wayne Long[2]
Melissa Young[6]
[g]
David MacFarquhar[3]
William Edgett[4]
Austin Venedam[22]
Wayne Long¢
Saint John—St. Croix
Karen Ludwig[2]
John Williamson[6]
Andrew Hill[10]
Nathan Gower[28]
Marc-André Michaud[4]
Keith Tays[22]
Kelly Newman (CFP)
John Williamson
New Brunswick Southwest
Tobique—Mactaquac
Richard Bragdon*
Michael Winter[10]
Liam MacDougall[3]
Vern Brundle[4]®
Patrick Geraghty[22]
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