Carney’s Digital Tax Debacle: How Ottawa Triggered a Trade Fallout with Washington
Trump walked away from trade talks over Canada’s retroactive digital services tax—enacted by Mark Carney’s Liberal government despite clear warnings from experts, businesses, and industry leaders.
"This entire debacle is proof that the Liberal Party is utterly incapable of negotiating with strength. They don't understand leverage, they don't understand power, and they clearly don’t understand how to protect Canada’s economic interests. Mark Carney, Trudeau’s handpicked heir, isn’t some master tactician—he’s a globalist relic from 2008, still clinging to failed ideas and the fantasy of technocratic rule.
"Unfortunately for him—and for us—this isn’t 2008 anymore. The world has changed. Trump is back, the rules are different, and while other countries pivot, adapt, and push back, Canada’s Liberal government is stuck in the past. Rigid, arrogant, and dangerously out of touch.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/carneys-digital-tax-debacle-how-ottawa
Usually when Ministers build industries they like to cut ribbons, wear hard-hats and brag to locals about how many jobs they are creating. Instead, it’s almost like the government doesn’t want Australians to know about all the Clean Green transformation.
Perhaps because it looks like this?
From the press release: The Truth Map totals include:
31,000 wind turbine towers — six times the current national number to be replaced every 15-20 years, operating 30% – 40% of the time.
28,000 km of high-voltage transmission lines — longer than [half] a lap around the equator*.
7,800 km of undersea cabling — cutting through fragile marine habitats.
44,000 km of new haulage roads — longer than Australia’s coastline.
350–550 million solar grid panels covering 443,755 hectares — an area larger than metropolitan Sydney to be replaced every 25 years, operating 18% – 25% of the time.
$1.38 trillion in total costs — overwhelmingly subsidised by taxpayers.
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Abolish the teachers' unions
Alberta strike cancelling classes across the province shows unions have far too much power
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/carson-jerema-abolish-the-teachers-unions
