Thanks for this article. What I find disappointing is that even when public money goes missing, like under Catherine McKenna ($Billions?) nothing is ever done about it, in terms of accountability. Citizens know this liberal gov't has a record of waste, and pork-barreling, but they got a pass because of TDS and a new face as leader.
Regarding Chinese influence, again we know it is there but no one ever gets charged for it. And now this gov't is cutting back on funds to the RCMP. This gov't and system needs some real fundamental changes to bring it in line with USA regulations, as well as to avoid further descent into banana republic chicanery.
I agree Jim, and thanks to Sam for another great article. The Liberals will not police themselves. It's been so easy for them for decades to fleece Canadians with the false rhetorical slogan- peace, order good government.
Fact is, it's been absolutely terrible government, but life is so comfortable in Canada in the post war prosperity, the charlatans can go for it- and they have. I don't see it changing. Even Liz Truss the former (corrupt) PM in the UK, she warned us that Carney had wrecked Britain and her comment got no press here of course in the media. He's doing it here in spades and showing no regret or concern. Lenin is his mentor. Look at the USSR. That is our future.
I guess Rosemary Barton won't be asking Carney about any potential conflicts of interest anymore after he told her to look inside. (I applaud her for doing so, but she got a lot of hate mail for that according to the CBC ombudsman (https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman/blog/Ombud_Inbox_March_2025). I have to conclude that for the most part the MSM are either complicit or too cowardly to get into this, so I thank Sam Cooper and his colleagues for their incisive reporting. Carney's supporters must be on a daily dose of the blue pill (blissful ignorance/ intellectual impotence, take your pick).
Former Ministers of Infrastructure and Communities like past Minister Catherine McKenna p*ssed away 100's of millions without being able to list even one infrastructure project. PM Carney's hire for its major projects office previously ran TMX and was responsible for about a $30 billion cost over run. With many 100's of billions at stake, will Liberals continue to line up at the trough, filling the pockets of Liberal elites and oligarchs? When the Conservative Party supported Bill C-5, the "Build Canada Act", did they ensure continued Liberal gov'ts as most expenditures will focused on their voting base in Quebec and the maritimes to ensure they remain in power, condemning Canadians to debt slavery, and declining standard of living for generations to come? Will this strengthen support for Alberta and Saskatchewan independence? Vive L'Alberta Libre
So, let me see! There are a number of laws, put in place by the Liberals over the past few years, that stifle investment in projects, particularly in 5he oil and gas sector, but also in housing and other areas. So, rather than revoking those laws, which would open Canada up to investment in many areas, they establish a Major Projects Office, that can advance projects the Liberals want (and advantage their friends). The anti-investment laws stay in place for the vast majority of other projects, however, meaning that ONLY projects the Liberals want will get advanced. Genius! Have I got it right?
Nobody seems to be talking about what this Major Projects office means.
Carney has said he would not repeal or fix all the investment killing regulations the Trudeau/Carney liberals put in place. Instead they, the inner circle, will decide what projects can go ahead and bypass those rules.
This is exactly how it works in banana republics, nothing happens unless the guy at the top is on board.
Invites corruption.
Entirely backward.
In a functioning democracy you would clean up the rules to provide sensible protection and then get out of the way.
Carney the “technocrat” has all the same instincts as any old line communist boss and we all know exactly how well all those plans turned out.
Well said but there’s not going to be any oversight on Carney and his investments. He knows what is in his portfolio and whether or not it’s in a blind trust has zero bearing for him. The guy was the governor for the Bank of England and owns a hedge fund. He’s already corrupt. Money is his god and that’ll never change. Op-Ed’s are a good thing but I’ve noticed they very likely go unheard and not much gets done even as the writer makes good serious points. Canada is addicted to foreign money and its crash is coming.
Another important article from the Bureau, with the author only giving us a snippet of his deep knowledge of what has been (and is) going on behind the scenes with our federal government leadership. We should hope he gives us more snippets soon, and that all Canadians have a chance to learn about them.
Back at the ranch, roads everywhere I drive in BC and through Rockies’ snowsheds need repaving, have insufficient or dull white lines or burned out reflectors. And, then there’s the pervasive lack of mobile phone coverage in isolated areas where it is most needed. One of Canada’s mortal enemies lives within its own borders. Wildfires! Think Jasper! The Feds and Parks Canada were warned two years ago that the town was vulnerable. Canada needs 100s of water bombers. But water bombers don’t vote. Lastly, in Vancouver and the Island insta-condos and quick chip board residential buildings are going up that are often versions of Klondike clapboard structures that popped up in 1898-1899. Have you seen any of these new structures burn from arson or accident? Thank you Sam and the Bureau’s contributors.
Carney is closely allied with the World Economic Forum (WEF) who push 'public private partnerships' as the preferred method of building infrastructure. We have seen this film before. The private sector builds something they own and leases it out to taxpayers for an outrageous sum of money & the maintenance falls to tax payers. It's an obscene profit grab and Carney has shown he's primed to grab as much as he can for himself & his friends, while riding roughshod over Canadians.
He set up tax shelters for Brookfield in Bermuda & the Isle of Mann. How much more evidence do we need that Carney is not a good steward for Canada?
Really super great comments from people who know what’s actually going on in Canada. I know because I write lots of these too. My one fervent hope is that when parliament convenes in a week or so, we all can watch opposition parties completely rip Carney and every crooked corrupt Liberal to shreds, narcissistic Carney most! His “I walk on water mind” just shrivels when he gets backed into a corner trying to cover up his ongoing lies - beautiful to watch and hear!!
Canada HAS to get rid of everything Ottawa’s currently represents…..we cannot just keep putting comments on articles that go nowhere!!
Trudeau, Carney, a donkey. Changes nothing. Carney speaks like a Conservative, pretends to act like one but at the end of the day, he is liberal royalty. They are part of the Oligarch elite who's sole purpose is to enrich themselves and their business buddies.
They started saying what people wanted to hear, something Trudeau refused to do at the end. They won't get anything done, it's simply not in the liberal DNA. They'll create new programs, new bureaucracies, new agencies, new laws. Everything they can to make it look like they're doing something. I truly hope Canadians can snap out of it. They broke everything, then swapped for a guy that says what Conservatives have been saying for a decade and Canadians just bought it up. If you wanted Conservative policies, you should have voted for the party that actually create and implements it.
I mean, people call Ford a liberal, but when you look at the 15 years prior, with actual liberals, they are nothing alike. They may spend the same amount of money, but liberal money goes to public servants and friends while Conservative (mostly) goes to the projects its meant for. You can't possible say and think that corruption during the Ford or Harper years are remotely close to what it was under liberal leadership.
Thanks for this article. What I find disappointing is that even when public money goes missing, like under Catherine McKenna ($Billions?) nothing is ever done about it, in terms of accountability. Citizens know this liberal gov't has a record of waste, and pork-barreling, but they got a pass because of TDS and a new face as leader.
Regarding Chinese influence, again we know it is there but no one ever gets charged for it. And now this gov't is cutting back on funds to the RCMP. This gov't and system needs some real fundamental changes to bring it in line with USA regulations, as well as to avoid further descent into banana republic chicanery.
All great points
I agree Jim, and thanks to Sam for another great article. The Liberals will not police themselves. It's been so easy for them for decades to fleece Canadians with the false rhetorical slogan- peace, order good government.
Fact is, it's been absolutely terrible government, but life is so comfortable in Canada in the post war prosperity, the charlatans can go for it- and they have. I don't see it changing. Even Liz Truss the former (corrupt) PM in the UK, she warned us that Carney had wrecked Britain and her comment got no press here of course in the media. He's doing it here in spades and showing no regret or concern. Lenin is his mentor. Look at the USSR. That is our future.
I guess Rosemary Barton won't be asking Carney about any potential conflicts of interest anymore after he told her to look inside. (I applaud her for doing so, but she got a lot of hate mail for that according to the CBC ombudsman (https://cbc.radio-canada.ca/en/ombudsman/blog/Ombud_Inbox_March_2025). I have to conclude that for the most part the MSM are either complicit or too cowardly to get into this, so I thank Sam Cooper and his colleagues for their incisive reporting. Carney's supporters must be on a daily dose of the blue pill (blissful ignorance/ intellectual impotence, take your pick).
Rosemary Barton is no journalist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ47dt3ESUo
Former Ministers of Infrastructure and Communities like past Minister Catherine McKenna p*ssed away 100's of millions without being able to list even one infrastructure project. PM Carney's hire for its major projects office previously ran TMX and was responsible for about a $30 billion cost over run. With many 100's of billions at stake, will Liberals continue to line up at the trough, filling the pockets of Liberal elites and oligarchs? When the Conservative Party supported Bill C-5, the "Build Canada Act", did they ensure continued Liberal gov'ts as most expenditures will focused on their voting base in Quebec and the maritimes to ensure they remain in power, condemning Canadians to debt slavery, and declining standard of living for generations to come? Will this strengthen support for Alberta and Saskatchewan independence? Vive L'Alberta Libre
So, let me see! There are a number of laws, put in place by the Liberals over the past few years, that stifle investment in projects, particularly in 5he oil and gas sector, but also in housing and other areas. So, rather than revoking those laws, which would open Canada up to investment in many areas, they establish a Major Projects Office, that can advance projects the Liberals want (and advantage their friends). The anti-investment laws stay in place for the vast majority of other projects, however, meaning that ONLY projects the Liberals want will get advanced. Genius! Have I got it right?
Fascism
Nobody seems to be talking about what this Major Projects office means.
Carney has said he would not repeal or fix all the investment killing regulations the Trudeau/Carney liberals put in place. Instead they, the inner circle, will decide what projects can go ahead and bypass those rules.
This is exactly how it works in banana republics, nothing happens unless the guy at the top is on board.
Invites corruption.
Entirely backward.
In a functioning democracy you would clean up the rules to provide sensible protection and then get out of the way.
Carney the “technocrat” has all the same instincts as any old line communist boss and we all know exactly how well all those plans turned out.
Well said but there’s not going to be any oversight on Carney and his investments. He knows what is in his portfolio and whether or not it’s in a blind trust has zero bearing for him. The guy was the governor for the Bank of England and owns a hedge fund. He’s already corrupt. Money is his god and that’ll never change. Op-Ed’s are a good thing but I’ve noticed they very likely go unheard and not much gets done even as the writer makes good serious points. Canada is addicted to foreign money and its crash is coming.
Another important article from the Bureau, with the author only giving us a snippet of his deep knowledge of what has been (and is) going on behind the scenes with our federal government leadership. We should hope he gives us more snippets soon, and that all Canadians have a chance to learn about them.
Back at the ranch, roads everywhere I drive in BC and through Rockies’ snowsheds need repaving, have insufficient or dull white lines or burned out reflectors. And, then there’s the pervasive lack of mobile phone coverage in isolated areas where it is most needed. One of Canada’s mortal enemies lives within its own borders. Wildfires! Think Jasper! The Feds and Parks Canada were warned two years ago that the town was vulnerable. Canada needs 100s of water bombers. But water bombers don’t vote. Lastly, in Vancouver and the Island insta-condos and quick chip board residential buildings are going up that are often versions of Klondike clapboard structures that popped up in 1898-1899. Have you seen any of these new structures burn from arson or accident? Thank you Sam and the Bureau’s contributors.
Carney is closely allied with the World Economic Forum (WEF) who push 'public private partnerships' as the preferred method of building infrastructure. We have seen this film before. The private sector builds something they own and leases it out to taxpayers for an outrageous sum of money & the maintenance falls to tax payers. It's an obscene profit grab and Carney has shown he's primed to grab as much as he can for himself & his friends, while riding roughshod over Canadians.
He set up tax shelters for Brookfield in Bermuda & the Isle of Mann. How much more evidence do we need that Carney is not a good steward for Canada?
Really super great comments from people who know what’s actually going on in Canada. I know because I write lots of these too. My one fervent hope is that when parliament convenes in a week or so, we all can watch opposition parties completely rip Carney and every crooked corrupt Liberal to shreds, narcissistic Carney most! His “I walk on water mind” just shrivels when he gets backed into a corner trying to cover up his ongoing lies - beautiful to watch and hear!!
Canada HAS to get rid of everything Ottawa’s currently represents…..we cannot just keep putting comments on articles that go nowhere!!
Trudeau, Carney, a donkey. Changes nothing. Carney speaks like a Conservative, pretends to act like one but at the end of the day, he is liberal royalty. They are part of the Oligarch elite who's sole purpose is to enrich themselves and their business buddies.
They started saying what people wanted to hear, something Trudeau refused to do at the end. They won't get anything done, it's simply not in the liberal DNA. They'll create new programs, new bureaucracies, new agencies, new laws. Everything they can to make it look like they're doing something. I truly hope Canadians can snap out of it. They broke everything, then swapped for a guy that says what Conservatives have been saying for a decade and Canadians just bought it up. If you wanted Conservative policies, you should have voted for the party that actually create and implements it.
I mean, people call Ford a liberal, but when you look at the 15 years prior, with actual liberals, they are nothing alike. They may spend the same amount of money, but liberal money goes to public servants and friends while Conservative (mostly) goes to the projects its meant for. You can't possible say and think that corruption during the Ford or Harper years are remotely close to what it was under liberal leadership.