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Cision Canada
24-07-2025
- Politics
- Cision Canada
Statement by Prime Minister Carney to mark 42 years since Black July Français
OTTAWA, ON, July 23, 2025 /CNW/ - "Forty-two years ago, an anti-Tamil pogrom erupted in Sri Lanka, leaving thousands dead, families shattered, and countless others forced to flee. Black July remains a tragic chapter in Sri Lanka's history. Driven by the advocacy of Tamil-Canadians, Canada implemented a Special Measures program in 1983 to welcome more than 1,800 Tamils fleeing persecution, and in 2022, the Parliament of Canada unanimously declared May 18 Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day – an enduring commitment to truth, justice, and accountability. Canada stands with Tamil-Canadians in remembering the victims and survivors of these atrocities. On this solemn day, we honour the lives lost and affirm our work to build a world with meaningful justice and accountability." This document is also available at
Toronto Sun
04-06-2025
- Business
- Toronto Sun
MPs to vote on government's speech from throne in confidence motion
Published Jun 04, 2025 • 1 minute read Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney claps after Britain's King Charles III delivered the Speech from the Throne during the opening the first session of the 45th Parliament of Canada at the Senate of Canada in Ottawa on May 27, 2025. Photo by VICTORIA JONES / POOL/AFP via Getty Images OTTAWA — The Liberals are confident the government's throne speech will pass following the final vote scheduled for Wednesday evening, Liberal House Leader Steven Mackinnon said before the party's caucus meeting. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The vote is the first real test of Prime Minister Mark Carney's government, as it is a confidence matter. If the government loses it, it could be forced into a general election. The Liberals lost a vote Monday evening when opposition members successfully amended the throne speech to call on the government to table an economic update before Parliament breaks for the summer. That vote was not a matter of confidence. Government whip Mark Gerretsen insisted nothing went wrong with that vote, despite the Liberals losing it by a count of 166 to 164. Four Liberals were paired with three Conservatives and one Bloc Quebecois MP, which happens when MPs from one side agree to sit out a vote when members from the other side cannot attend. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Mackinnon would not say whether his party has the support of other parties, referring questions about their support back to those parties directly. 'I think we have an exciting, ambitious agenda for Canada,' MacKinnon said. While they have a minority government, he said, the Liberals have a mandate 'to deliver on our program for Canadians.' The speech focuses heavily on building up the Canadian economy by fast-tracking projects it considers to be in the national interest, and moving faster to build new homes. Opposition party leaders say the speech is vague, relies too much on slogans and doesn't explain how the government plans to scale back its spending. Columnists Celebrity Columnists Crime World
Toronto Sun
01-06-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
EDITORIAL: The quiet dignity of stable government
Britain's King Charles III delivers the Speech from the Throne next to Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney during the opening the first session of the 45th Parliament of Canada at the Senate of Canada in Ottawa on May 27, 2025. Photo by BLAIR GABLE / POOL/AFP via Getty Images As Canada basks in the afterglow of a flying Royal visit, now's a good time to assess the merits of the constitutional monarchy. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The colourful pomp and ceremony that accompanied the opening of Parliament and the speech from the throne underscored that, as Canadians, we change governments with quiet dignity. The ancient rituals, though, remind us of the sometimes difficult path which has led us to a stable and democratic country. Even before King Charles III delivered the throne speech, the newly elected Speaker of the House of Commons was dragged to his chair. This symbolizes a time when the Speaker reported to the King — and was occasionally executed for delivering bad news. Journalists always sit behind the Speaker so he can't influence their reporting. The doors to the House of Commons are slammed before the Usher of the Black Rod can lead MPs to the Senate for the King's speech. Parliamentary theatre, sure. But an important reminder that our rights and privileges aren't a given. Sometimes you have to fight for them. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. The visit by Charles and Queen Camilla made news around the world. It served to emphasize this country's strong connections to the U.K. and other nations of the Commonwealth, an organization of two billion people worldwide, of which we are a senior member. Importantly, it sent a message to our neighbours to the south that we don't bow to threats. President Donald Trump's petulant response was to post that we can have access to his 'Golden Dome' for $61 billion — or for free as a U.S. state. Thanks, but no. In an 1865 speech to Parliament, Canada's first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, outlined the need for a strong Canada. Of the U.S., he said, '… the president, during his term of office, is in great measure a despot, a one-man power, with the command of the naval and military forces, with a large amount of patronage … and with veto power … perfectly uncontrolled by responsible advisers.' Canada, meanwhile, has the stability of a constitutional monarchy, where the king is head of state and the prime minister is head of government. That fine balance served us well last week and sent a message that Canada is strong and resilient. And it's not alone in the world. Editorial Cartoons Sports Canada Toronto & GTA Columnists
Toronto Sun
29-05-2025
- Business
- Toronto Sun
EDITORIAL: Is this Carney's idea of restraint?
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney claps after Britain's King Charles III delivered the Speech from the Throne during the opening the first session of the 45th Parliament of Canada at the Senate of Canada in Ottawa on May 27, 2025. Photo by VICTORIA JONES / POOL/AFP via Getty Images While Prime Minister Mark Carney promised in his throne speech that his government would 'spend less so Canadians can invest more,' his government's main spending estimates for this year — released on the same day — told a different story. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Preliminary projections call for an 8.4% increase in federal spending this fiscal year — $486.9 billion compared to $449.2 billion last year. It's also predicted that the government will pay $49.06 billion in interest on the federal debt this year — more than it plans to spend on national defence ($35.7 billion) and the department of housing ($9.1 billion) combined. Carney's throne speech, read by King Charles, promised his government would be 'guided by a new fiscal discipline,' reducing annual increases in the federal operating budget from 9% under the Justin Trudeau government, to below 2% going forward. To achieve that, Carney is dividing the federal deficit into two components: The day-to-day cost of running the government and capital spending on infrastructure. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In his election campaign platform released April 19, Carney said the federal operating deficit would shrink from $9.2 billion this fiscal year (2025-26), to $9.1 billion in 2026-27 and $8.6 billion in 2027-28, with a $222.4 million surplus in 2028-29. But, when you add in the capital spending deficits — since no matter what it's called, it's financed by taxpayers — those deficits increase to $62.3 billion in this fiscal year, $59.9 billion in 2026-27, $54.8 billion in 2027-28 and $47.8 billion in 2028-29. In total, Carney's campaign platform called for $130 billion in new spending over four years with total deficit spending of $224.8 billion. That's 71% higher than the $131.4 billion in total deficits the Trudeau government projected in its fall economic statement released last December, although in fairness, had Trudeau run again instead of resigning, his numbers would have been higher than last year's estimates. In any event, the main estimates explain why Carney didn't want to release a budget this spring. Indeed, according to Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, the original plan was to wait until next year to produce a budget, although Carney now says it will be delivered in the fall. We'll have to wait until then to see how Carney's budget squares with his throne speech promise to 'spend less so Canadians can invest more.' Toronto & GTA Toronto Maple Leafs World Columnists Columnists
Toronto Sun
28-05-2025
- Business
- Toronto Sun
OPINION: Carney's ‘very different approach' will further erode Ottawa's finances
Prime Minister Mark Carney listens as King Charles III opens the 45th Parliament of Canada by delivering the Speech from the Throne during an official visit to Canada on May 27, 2025 in Ottawa. Photo by Chris Jackson - Pool / Getty Images This week, after five months off and one federal election, Parliament starts a new session in Ottawa. And federal finances should be a top priority. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. 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Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account Too much of anything can be harmful. In recent years, the size of the Canadian government and the government debt burden have grown too large, harming economic growth and living standards. When the government grows too large, it begins taking over functions and resources that are better left to the private sector. Consider this. From 2014 to 2024 , total government spending in Canada (federal, provincial and local) increased from 38.4% as a share of gross domestic product (GDP) to 44.7% — the second-fastest increase among 40 advanced countries worldwide. Consequently, the total size of government in Canada increased from 25th highest to 17th highest (out of the same 40 countries). Again, this means that government now essentially controls a significantly larger share of our economy. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. During the same 10-year period, Canada's gross government debt (federal, provincial and local) increased from 85.5% (as a share of GDP) to 110.8% — the third-fastest increase among the 40 countries. As such, Canada's debt ranking among the 40 countries increased from 14th highest to 7th highest. Why should Canadians care? A large government debt burden lands squarely on the backs of Canadians. For example, governments and the private sector compete for the limited pool of savings available for borrowing. As governments increase the amount they borrow, fewer savings are available for the private sector. All else equal, this drives up interest costs and makes it more expensive for families to take out a mortgage or businesses to attract investment. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Moreover, debt accumulation today will likely mean higher taxes in the future. Indeed, a 16-year-old Canadian in 2025 will pay an estimated $29,663 over their lifetime in additional personal income taxes (that they otherwise wouldn't pay) due to ballooning federal debt. In other words, by accumulating debt today, the government is disproportionately burdening younger generations with higher taxes in the future. Of course, when talking about Canada's overall debt load, the federal government plays a big role. The Carney government says it will 'build Canada into the strongest economy in the G7' by employing a 'very different approach' to federal fiscal policy than its predecessor. Yet the Carney campaign platform promises to add to Ottawa's mountain of debt (which currently stands at a projected $2.2 trillion) by running huge annual deficits until at least 2028/29, even outspending the Trudeau government's previous plan . This is not a 'very different approach.' The Carney government plans to table its first budget in the fall. As Parliament resumes, let's hope the new prime minister shows real leadership by charting a clear path towards fiscal sustainability and stronger economic growth. Jake Fuss and Grady Munro are analysts at the Fraser Institute Read More Toronto & GTA Canada Canada Tennis Music
