Roundup: Eby calls out Poilievre’s baloney factory

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Because the clown show never ends, Pierre Poilievre sent a letter to BC Premier David Eby yesterday, calling on him to not increase the carbon price on April 1st in line with the federal expectation. This after he has been spending months claiming he’ll “axe the tax” in BC if he forms federal government, never mind that it predates the federal system and has frequently been higher than the federal price, and very few have balked at it. Along the way, Poilievre also claimed that BC was just “administering” the federal levy, which again, is not true.

Eby, for his, part, laughed at Poilievre, pointing out that he doesn’t live in Poilievre’s “campaign office and baloney factory,” that BC has long had the price and that if they did stop the increase, it would mean less money for people in the province (who get the rebate back mostly as tax credits and not cash transfers). But seriously, this has broad-based political support in the province, it was brought in by the then-BC Liberals (who are mostly conservatives, some of whom now sit in the federal Conservative caucus), and nobody has time for Poilievre’s performative nonsense.

More to the point, Poilievre likes to play fast and loose when it comes to jurisdiction—he keeps telling Justin Trudeau to butt out of areas of provincial jurisdiction and leave the premiers to run their own provinces (especially around things like odious anti-trans policies), and how he’s writing premiers and trying to get them to do things his way and stand against valid federal laws? How exactly does he think this is going to play if he ever forms government federally? But then again, he’s counting on the cognitive dissonance that he’s training people to accept for them to not notice his inconsistencies or his complete reversals, or when he swallows himself whole, and that remains a very big problem within the population.

Ukraine Dispatch:

A Russian missile struck a residential area in Odesa and at least twenty people have been killed and more than seventy wounded; President Volodymy Zelenskyy has promised a “fair response” against Russia for it. Ukrainian authorities are also evacuating communities in the northern Sumy region after extended periods of shelling. Ukrainian drones damaged another Russian refinery, this time in the Kaluga region. Russians claimed that they repelled another cross-border incursion by Russian rebels in Ukraine. A UN report has found evidence that Russia systematically tortures Ukrainian POWs.

https://x.com/ukraine_world/status/1768642103968485561

Good reads:

  • While meeting with Premier François Legault, Justin Trudeau again rejected Quebec’s unconstitutional request for full control over the province’s immigration.
  • Trudeau also suggested that premier Furey is “bowing to political pressure” on the carbon price, and that the doing the right thing is to stay the course.
  • In a French-language radio interview, Trudeau said he thinks about quitting all the time, but he sees the state of the world and knows he can make a difference.
  • François-Philippe Champagne wants TikTok users not to worry about the national security review of the app, insisting it’s about the company and not the users.
  • The Supreme Court of Canada ruled on the right of appeal in administrative law decisions, and when they are and are not allowed.
  • Here are the details for Mulroney’s lying-in-state and state funeral.
  • The Alberta government continues to try and sabotage renewable energy projects with its map of “no-go zones” for projects, which exclude the best wind resources.
  • Paul Wells reflects (somewhat crankily) on Trudeau’s recent conversion to the school of thought were it’s good to not be popular (like Mulroney told himself).
  • My weekend column looks at why the creation of the Parliamentary Budget Officer was a mistake, particularly in how it was about undermining the civil service.

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2 thoughts on “Roundup: Eby calls out Poilievre’s baloney factory”

  1. Paul Wells enjoys being cranky. He’s so sarcastic that I had to stop reading him. The current government seems to be his whipping boy.

  2. “Baloney factory”. That was awesome.

    Re Paul Wells, I agree with the other comment, his crankiness, or sarcasm, has become a characteristic that gets in the way, for me, of getting much out of his writing.

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