OTTAWA, ON – The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is demanding immediate and decisive action from the federal government to protect workers and defend jobs as an escalating trade war—fueled by U.S. President Donald Trump—threatens Canada’s economy. Just today, Trump announced yet another round of retaliatory tariffs on steel and aluminum, this time in response to Ontario’s energy surcharge. “This is spiraling out of control, and workers across Canada are rightfully alarmed. They are looking to their government for urgent and concrete measures to shield them from job losses and economic uncertainty,” said Bea Bruske, President of the CLC. Canada’s unions...
He’s the patriot that supported Canada doing mass immigration to reduce Canadian wages, to protect asset values against a “wage price spiral”, where workers finally had actual bargaining power for wages. The Liberals have hollowed out the middle class the last decade, while never funding a single program, so we owe a huge debt as per capita GDP fell.
Now Carney wants to withdraw the capital gains tax increase before it has even been implemented, and to tariff foreign emitters, a tax on ourselves in order to gift it to Brookfield’s ESG department for carbon capture. Coincidentally where he just used to work.
I’d like if we moved in the reverse direction, but I think too many people are benefiting from real estate to do anything about it. We just gifted 300m to Bangladesh, maybe its time we stopped destroying poor Canadians by removing GST on housing or building mass transit?