Canada election: Campaign trail dominated by taxes as rivals target Carney's investment firm work

Trump is acceptable to talk astir car tariffs, but details are unclear

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It's been an unpredictable, on-and-off concern with the U.S. president erstwhile it comes to tariffs, truthful the federation is waiting to spot what this afternoon's announcement mightiness bring for the car industry.

It's just to accidental Canadians are watching closely, particularly those whose jobs and finances are intimately tied to the trade.

The White House said Trump would talk astir 4 p.m ET. That quality league hasn’t begun yet, but the president said “we’re going to spell with the tariffs connected cars” astatine different lawsuit up of the ceremonial announcement, according to The Associated Press.

Alberta premier says Liberals and NDP privation to 'frighten and divide'

Moments earlier Trump is acceptable to talk connected tariffs, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith defended an interrogation she did with U.S. media outlet Breitbart earlier this month.

Smith was speaking astatine the archetypal outpouring league of her province's legislature. She has been accused of asking for overseas interference by calling connected U.S. Republicans to intermission tariffs connected Canada due to the fact that they had bolstered enactment for the Liberal Party.

Today, she said premiers had been encouraged to talk to U.S. media and officials to transportation them to get Trump to backmost down — until Carney entered the field.

"Shame connected each who talk with the enemy, they present say," Smith said.

She said Liberals and the NDP wanted to “frighten and disagreement Canadians,” driven up assets improvement costs and weakened the subject "all successful the sanction of their greenish extremist religion and its cult leaders."

Smith credited Conservative premiers, including Saskatchewan’s Scott Moe and Nova Scotia’s Tim Houston for delays connected U.S. tariffs aft their efforts lobbying U.S. officials.

Poilievre’s assets and investments database a money that includes Brookfield

Poilievre’s astir caller fiscal disclosure to the morals commissioner’s bureau connected June 23, 2024 lists ownership of six speech traded funds, oregon ETFs.

Earlier this week, Conservative Party spokesperson Sam Lilly told CBC News that Poilievre had sold his funds with planetary assets and bought Canadian assets.

According to a database provided by the Conservative Party, Poilievre provided an update of his assets to the morals commissioner’s office. One of those is (VCE) Vanguard FTSE Canada Index ETF, an scale money invested successful the Canadian economy.

One of the apical assets successful the VCE scale fund? Brookfield Corp., which includes Carney’s aged concern firm.

Poilievre besides holds $8,124.61 worthy of bitcoin (value arsenic Monday).

Blanchet's 2 cents connected the beforehand runners

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As my workfellow Raffy Boudjikanian has mentioned, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet is attempting to support the TVA statement contented alive. Carney turned down the backstage TV chain's $75,000 invitation to a 2nd French-language debate. TVA past cancelled the statement altogether, citing costs.

The Bloc continues to suffer momentum successful the polls successful Quebec, according to CBC's Poll Tracker.

This morning, successful an interrogation with French-language vigor presumption 98.5 successful Montreal, Blanchet was asked who he'd similar moving with arsenic premier minister.

He said some Carney and Poilievre, who are successful a choky race, bash not look to person Quebec interests successful mind.

"He doesn't look to person a batch of economical knowledge. He's precise impetuous, he's precise dogmatic," Blanchet said of Poilievre. "But we cognize him better, that's the lone difference."

Blanchet called Carney a "Pandora's box," saying revelations astir his clip successful backstage banking and imaginable usage of a taxation haven portion astatine Brookfield, are "extremely worrying."

‘I sold my investments successful overseas economies’

A Radio-Canada newsman asked Poilievre if helium has immoderate assets successful taxation havens. The Conservative person said helium doesn’t, and added that helium precocious sold his overseas investments.

“After President Trump began threatening our economy, I sold my investments successful overseas economies, and present I put successful Canadian stocks and Canadian companies,” helium said.

Poilievre said he’s not acrophobic of radical knowing what helium has successful his portfolio, and that he’ll present measures successful the Conservative level to enactment an extremity to taxation havens.

“If a mechanic oregon idiosyncratic present is paying taxes, well, Mark Carney and millionaires should besides wage their taxes successful Canada,” said Poilievre.

He besides criticized Carney’s effect to the questions helium fielded connected the taxable earlier today.

Turning to the workers down him, Poilievre asked, “How galore of you funnel your investments successful Bermuda earlier bringing it backmost to wage taxes?”

It’s important to enactment that though the 2 funds Carney co-chaired were registered successful Bermuda, among different places, that doesn’t needfully mean they included immoderate of Carney’s idiosyncratic assets.

Poilievre’s words for Trump

“Stop tariffs that are creating chaos connected markets, and removing jobs connected some sides of the border,” the Conservative person said successful French.

Poilievre added that if Trump imposes much tariffs connected Canada, “We volition person to retaliate.… But we indispensable besides physique our system and make an economical fortress.”

Poilievre criticizes Carney implicit Bermuda taxation haven

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Poilievre is criticizing Carney implicit today’s study that the Liberal person co-chaired 2 concern funds registered successful Bermuda portion helium worked for Brookfield Asset Management.

“His company, nether his watch, enactment wealth successful Bermuda to debar paying Canadian taxes. All portion Liberals unit Canadians to wage higher taxes, Mark Carney dodges the measure himself. He thinks millionaires similar him shouldn’t person to pay,” Poilievre said.

The Conservative person besides claimed Carney is “hiding his assets successful overseas taxation havens.” To beryllium clear, it’s not known if those 2 funds had immoderate of Carney’s idiosyncratic assets.

Carney responded to the CBC/Radio-Canada communicative earlier contiguous and said the Canadian entities who person wealth from the funds wage the due taxes.

Working seniors ‘should not beryllium punished’

Here’s a recap of Poilievre’s elder taxation plan:

• Let moving seniors gain up to $34,000 taxation free.
• Let them support their savings successful RRSPs until property 73 (up from the existent bounds of property 71).
• Keep the status property astatine 65, which the enactment says would support outgo programs similar Old Age Security, the Guaranteed Income Supplement and the Canada Pension Plan.

“No elder should ever beryllium forced to work. But those who take [to bash so] should not beryllium punished,” helium said, saying the existent benefits aren’t enough.

“They volition virtually prevention thousands of dollars they tin walk connected a bully abrogation oregon possibly spoil the grandkids conscionable a small spot more,” oregon wage disconnected the remainder of their mortgage, helium said.

Homebuilding ‘one of my apical priorities,’ says Poilievre

Poilievre is speaking from a Maisons Laprise plant. The institution builds pre-fabricated homes, and homebuilding is “one of my apical priorities,” says Poilievre, adding that helium wants to “reverse Liberal lodging hell.”

Poilievre says galore of the works workers are implicit 65, and that they walk connected their contented to younger employees. That plays into the Conservative’s argumentation transportation contiguous — a taxation chopped for moving seniors.