Canada's Auto Industry Before and After 10 Years of Liberal Government: The Numbers

Canadian motor vehicle production fell from 2,393,890 units in 2014 to 1,339,288 units in 2024, a decline of approximately 44 percent over the decade in which the Liberal Party formed federal government. Direct employment in motor vehicle and parts manufacturing stands at around 130,000 today…

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Canada Has Granted Surveillance Powers Like Bill C-22 Before. Here Is How They Were Used.

Bill C-22's defenders argue that the bill's safeguards and stated use cases will prevent the new surveillance powers from being misused. The argument is not new. Canadians have heard versions of it before every previous expansion of federal surveillance authority, from the 1939 establishment of…

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Bill C-22 Is at Committee. Here Are the MPs Who Put It There — And How to Reach Them.

On April 20, 2026, the House of Commons passed Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act, 2026) at second reading. The bill is now at the Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU), which is the last realistic stage for substantive amendments. This article catalogues the load-bearing…

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Ottawa Signed a $200M, 10-Year Lease for a Launch Pad. The Site Is a Concrete Slab and Two Shipping Containers. The Tenant Reported $14,980 in Revenue Last Year.

On March 16, 2026, Defence Minister David McGuinty announced a 10-year, $200-million lease agreement between the Department of National Defence and Halifax-based Maritime Launch Services (MLS) for a dedicated launch pad at Spaceport Nova Scotia near Canso. The deal pays MLS $20 million annually…

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Alberta’s Citizen-Led Independence Petition Has Cleared the Signature Threshold. Here Is How the Process Compares to Quebec’s Two Sovereignty Referendums.

On May 2, 2026, signature collection closed on a citizen-initiative petition under Alberta’s Citizen Initiative Act asking whether the province should leave Canada. The petition’s organizer, Mitch Sylvestre of the Alberta Prosperity Project / Stay Free Alberta, reported approximately 302,000…

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The Canada Elections Act Does Not Regulate Who Can Vote in a Party’s Nomination Contest. Each Party Sets Its Own Rule.

Candidate nomination contests are how Canada’s federal political parties select who will appear on the ballot as their candidate in each riding. The Canada Elections Act does not regulate who can vote in those contests; it leaves the rules entirely to each party. The Foreign Interference…

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Liberals Used Their New Majority to Vote a $298M Health Hearing Behind Closed Doors. The Vote Was 6–5.

On April 28, 2026 — the first day the Liberals’ new House majority took effect — two House of Commons standing committees voted to go in camera on motions involving public-interest accountability. At HESA (Health), Liberal Parliamentary Secretary Maggie Chi moved to take the meeting in camera…

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Ottawa Spent $298M on PrescribeIT. Telus Kept 85% of the IP. The Service Shuts Down May 29.

PrescribeIT, the federal e-prescribing service operated by Canada Health Infoway and built primarily by Telus Health, will go offline at 11:59 PM EST on May 29, 2026. Health Canada has acknowledged "more than $290 million" in federal spending on the program over 10 years; Conservative MPs use the…

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Chris d’Entremont Won by 533 Votes as a Conservative. Six Months Later, He Was a Liberal — and Democracy Watch Filed an Ethics Complaint.

On November 4, 2025 — the morning of the federal budget — Conservative MP Chris d’Entremont became the first Conservative to cross to Mark Carney’s Liberals, six months after winning re-election by 533 votes on the Conservative ticket. Within ten days, the watchdog group Democracy Watch filed a…

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Nine Days Before Joining the Liberals, Michael Ma Called Them "Team Feudalism" in Parliament

Conservative MP Michael Ma crossed the floor to Mark Carney’s Liberals on December 11, 2025 — nine days after a Hansard speech in which he attacked the Liberal record on housing, productivity, and economic governance, calling them "team feudalism." He has since admitted he was "truly a…

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In November, Matt Jeneroux Resigned Citing Family. In February, He Crossed the Floor Instead.

On November 6, 2025, Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux announced he was resigning from Parliament, telling constituents there was "no coercion" involved and that his focus needed to be on his family. On February 18, 2026, he reversed course, kept the Edmonton Riverbend seat his constituents had…

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Marilyn Gladu Endorsed Byelections for Floor-Crossers in January. In April, She Crossed the Floor.

On January 11, 2026, Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu told a local newspaper she supported a petition calling for automatic byelections when MPs switch parties, saying voters "deserve a chance to have a redo." On April 8, 2026, she crossed the floor to the Liberals herself. Sarnia-Lambton’s mayor and…

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How the Liberals Built a Majority Without Winning One

Between November 2025 and April 2026, four Conservative MPs crossed the floor to join the Liberal caucus. Combined with three byelection victories, these crossings gave the Liberals a working majority in the House of Commons — without a general election. An Angus Reid poll found 74% of Canadians…

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Canada's New Privacy Bill Carries the Biggest Penalties in Its History. It Isn't Expected to Take Effect Until About 2030 — and the Independent Privacy Watchdog Won't Be the One Enforcing It.

On June 15, 2026, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon tabled Bill C-36, an Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act (PPCDA) — the most significant rewrite of Canada's private-sector privacy law since PIPEDA took effect in 2001. The bill's…

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In a Single Day, the Lawful Access Bill Cleared Committee, Report Stage, and Third Reading. The Privacy Law Meant to Balance It Is Parked Until 2030.

Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act (full title: "An Act respecting lawful access"), passed third reading in the House of Commons on June 18, 2026 and received first reading in the Senate the same day. According to Parliament's own LEGISinfo record, committee consideration, report stage, and third…

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As of June 12, Your Carrier Can't Charge You to Switch Plans. It's a Real Win — and It Quietly Admits How Locked-In Canadians Were in the First Place.

On March 12, 2026, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued Telecom Regulatory Policy 2026-43, amending the Wireless Code and the Internet Code to prohibit fees that discourage Canadians from switching plans or providers. The rules took full effect on June 12…

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Canada Pumps 6.1 Million Barrels a Day and Can Refine 1.9 Million. B.C. Sends Crude to Washington State — and Buys It Back as Gasoline. During a Trade War.

Canada produced about 6.1 million barrels of oil per day in 2025. Its 14 refineries can process about 1.9 million barrels per day and ran at roughly 90% of that capacity. The arithmetic gap defines the system: roughly 4 million barrels a day leave the country as crude, 98% of it to the United…

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Canada's Cell Phone "Monopoly" Is Actually Three Companies, and It Wasn't an Accident. Ottawa Helped Build It — Then Spent 18 Years Trying and Failing to Build a Fourth Carrier.

Canadians commonly call it the cell phone monopoly. Technically it is an oligopoly: Bell, Rogers, and Telus, together with the flanker brands they own — Fido, Chatr and Cityfone (Rogers), Koodo and Public Mobile (Telus), Virgin Plus and Lucky Mobile (Bell) — control roughly 90% of the Canadian…

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Tax Freedom Day Is June 9, 2026. The Average Canadian Family Will Hand $72,539 to Government This Year — 43.5% of Its Income. Here's the Full Breakdown.

Tax Freedom Day is the Fraser Institute's annual calculation of the day the average Canadian family has earned enough money to pay the taxes it owes to federal, provincial, and local governments combined. In 2026, that day is June 9. By the Fraser methodology, the average Canadian family (two or…

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What Parliamentary Privilege Actually Protects — And What It Doesn't.

Parliamentary privilege is a set of legal protections enjoyed by members of Parliament that allow them to perform their legislative duties without external interference. The most-cited element is freedom of speech in the chamber — an MP cannot be sued for defamation, or charged with hate speech…

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Canada's New Streaming Tax Will Cost Households Roughly $40 a Year, Per Service. The Last Time Ottawa Protected Canadian Companies This Way, We Got the World's Highest Cell Phone Bills.

On May 21, 2026, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) finalized a decision tripling the mandatory contribution rate that foreign streaming services with $25 million or more in Canadian revenue must pay to Canadian-content production funds — from a 5% interim rate…

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How to Read a Recorded Division in Hansard. The Civic Skill Every Canadian Should Have.

Every recorded division in the House of Commons is published on the official record — Hansard for the debate, and the LEGISinfo + ourcommons.ca portals for the vote tallies. This article teaches readers how to navigate those records: how to find a specific vote, how to identify each MP's position…

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What the Parliamentary Budget Officer Actually Does — and Why Their Numbers Matter More Than the Government's.

The Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) was created in 2006 to provide non-partisan, independent analysis to Parliament on the federal budget, economic projections, and the financial implications of legislation. The PBO is led by an Officer of Parliament appointed for a seven-year…

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Mark Carney Spent $524,815 of Public Money on In-Flight Refreshments in His First Year as PM. The Average Canadian Family Spends $16,297 a Year on Food.

Across Prime Minister Mark Carney's first year in office (March 2025 - February 2026), in-flight catering on the 28 official flights he took as Prime Minister cost approximately $524,815 CAD (£281,773 in the original UK media reporting). The figure was provided in writing by the Government of…

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Ontario's PCs Just Defeated a Bill to Remove HST From Groceries. Here's the Math on Why Sales Tax Hits the Middle Class Hardest.

On May 27, 2026, the Doug Ford Progressive Conservative government in Ontario voted down Bill 113, the Fair Prices and Tax-Free Groceries Act, 2026, introduced by NDP MPP Tom Rakocevic. The bill would have removed the entire 13% Harmonized Sales Tax (HST) from all food and drink sold in Ontario —…

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Carney's $25 Billion "Sovereign Wealth Fund" Is Borrowed Money. Real Sovereign Wealth Funds Are Funded by Surpluses. Canada Doesn't Have One.

On April 27, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Canada Strong Fund — characterized in the official news release as "Canada's first national sovereign wealth fund." The fund's initial federal contribution is $25 billion, seeded over three years, with stated investment priorities in…

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Carney Signed an RCMP Cooperation Deal With China's Police Ministry — the Same Body Behind the Illegal "Police Stations" in Canada. The Agreement Is Secret.

In January 2026, during Prime Minister Mark Carney's state visit to Beijing, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police signed a memorandum of understanding on law-enforcement cooperation with the People's Republic of China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS). A joint statement from Carney and Chinese…

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Carney Promised "the Strongest Economy in the G7." Canada Just Entered a Technical Recession. Mexico, Facing the Same Tariffs, Did Not.

Mark Carney won the 2025 federal election on a central economic promise — repeated verbatim when he called the April 28, 2025 election — to "build the strongest economy in the G7" and to manage Canada through President Trump's tariff war. As of the most recent Statistics Canada national-accounts…

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Designated Terrorists Have Obtained Canadian Entry, Residency, and Citizenship. Here Are the Documented Cases.

This article catalogues documented cases in which individuals tied to terrorism — by criminal conviction, by United Nations Security Council sanctions listing, or by the Government of Canada's own terrorist-entity designations — obtained Canadian entry, residency, or citizenship. The standard…

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The Prime Minister Still Holds $6.8 Million in Brookfield Stock Options. Parliament's Ethics Committee Says a Blind Trust Isn't Enough.

Mark Carney joined Brookfield Asset Management in 2020 as Vice Chair and Head of ESG and Impact Investing, later becoming Chair of the Brookfield Asset Management board. He held those roles until January 2025, immediately before launching his successful Liberal leadership campaign and becoming…

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