The freshly constituted cabinet of Prime Minister Mark Carney met for the first time on Wednesday in Parliament Hill while the government dealt with a large amount of challenges that will be charged to fixation.
The new ministry has three different challenges, among others, bubbling in its surveillance: a commercial war of the United States that is already having an impact on the slow economy of Canada, the persistent challenges of consumer accessibility and the concern in western Canada on the future of natural resources development.
To address the cost of living concerns, Carney said that the first order of the cabinet business is to lead François-Philippe Champagne finance minister to write the legislation immediately to approve what the Government calls a reduction of middle-class taxes, a change that will save families of two revenues up to $ 825 per year.
“We are acting on the affordability while we seek to build this economy,” said Carney by signing a “decision note” on the subject in front of the cameras in the cabinet room, not very different from how the US president, Donald Trump, has signed executive orders in the Oval office.
Champagne said the tax cut will be introduced shortly after Parliament returns at the end of this month, and other initiatives will be described in the next throne speech, but there will be no budget until autumn, he said.
The Electric Vehicle Manufacture Strategy (EV) of the last liberal government is also in unstable land after Honda announced that it will stop its multimillion -dollar investments in this country, joining a growing list of unequivocal rates, stagnant or potentially failed in the projects of amid Ev Canadians tasted consumption for these vehicles and Trump’s triumphal The foreigner.
Mélanie Joly, who moved from foreign affairs to the industry at the Shuffle on Tuesday, said she will fight for automatic workers when she talks to the Honda chief later today. “We will make sure we are in mode of solution,” he said.
Carney also faces Western discontent with the first time of Alberta, Danielle Smith, saying that there must be a “restart” with the way Ottawa treats the provinces as his after the perceived hostility of the last government. In the days elapsed since the federal elections, Smith has said that it will reduce the threshold for referendums, which can include one about Alberta’s sovereignty.
The head of Smith personnel is also raising red flags about the new Minister of Environment of the Toronto de Carney area, Julie Dabrusin, who says on her MP website that “he adopted a strong position against the expansion of the oil sands”, something that framed as a virtue.
GUILBEAULT questions expansion of the pipe
One of the former Environment Ministers of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Steven Guilbeault, also seemed to pour cold water by expanding the capacity of the pipe on Wednesday, although that is not really a decision for him now that he is in charge of Canadian culture and identity under Carney.
Prime Minister himself has said that he is open to approve an important infrastructure, including conventional energy projects such as pipes.
“There are no investors, nor companies that say they want to build a east-west pipe at this time,” Guilbeault told journalists before the cabinet meeting, pointing out that it will be the industry that one builds one, not the government.
The Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Steven Guilbeault was asked about the comments of Alberta Prime Minister Danielle Smith, who has labeled it as Anti-Pipepeline. Guilbeult said Wednesday that the transmotain pipe is being used at 40 % capacity, but the company reported at the end of last year that it was using more than 75 percent.
“We buy a pipe and that is only used at this time to a capacity of approximately 40 percent. Perhaps we should maximize the use of existing infrastructure,” said former environmental activist turned into a politician.
It is not clear where Guilbeault obtained that 40 percent use figure. At the end of last year, the company itself reported approximately 692,000 barrels of oil per day that moved through its pipe system, approximately 77 percent of its maximum capacity.
The company’s CEO also reported that the pipe moved 790,000 barrels of oil per day in March, which is an even greater percentage.
Smith took advantage of Guilbeault comments on Wednesday, publishing on social networks that TMX “is already close to capacity.”
“This is just another example of how deceptive and destructive was this former Minister of Environment for the economy and the investment climate of Alberta y Canada,” he said, added that Dabrusin should reject Guilbeault’s comments.
Smith, conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and other oil patches drivers have advised for a long time for a new pipe through the center and east of Canada to open new markets for Alberta Oil and end the country’s dependence on foreign imports. Importers transported in about 500,000 barrels of oil to the day of the United States, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia in 2023.
Pailievre said Tuesday that the re -election to the Guilbeault cabinet, whom he accused of promoting “a radical green agenda” is worrying.
Minister of Natural Resources to go to the West ‘Very soon’
Meanwhile, the new Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson, a former member of the Meg Energy Board, a producer of Calgary -based oil sands, said he headed west “very soon” and is looking to work with the industry to “build a more prosperous, safe and safe canada”.
Saskatchewan Buckley Belanger Secretary of State said Carney “is very serious about joining this country”, and there will be Western voices around the cabinet table when the discussion becomes energy, pipes and the like.
“We are going to continue explaining some of the problems the best we can, which affects the province,” Belanger said.
Before the first complete meeting of the Liberal Cabinet, the new Secretary of State for Rural Development, Buckley Belanger, said: “Saskatchewan has and always will be an important part of Canada.” Belanger said that celebrating the first meeting of ministers in Saskatchewan in June is a good indicator that Prime Minister Mark Carly wants the province to be ‘united, strong and independent possible’.
As for Trump, Carney has identified that treating the American commercial problem as one of the most pressing problems for his cabinet.
The Prime Minister published a list of those who will sit in the new “Safe and Sovereign of Canada” committee, which will be responsible for managing the relations of Canada-United States, a file that Carney has said that he will personally take the lead. That committee will be chaired by the Minister of Defense, David McGuinty, who accompanied Carney to the White House last week.
A person who is not in that 10 members committee is the Minister of Transportation and Internal Commerce, Chrystia Freeland, whom Trump called “a terrible person” last week, although not by name.
Freeland said before the today’s cabinet meeting that is centered on the laser to tear down the national commercial barriers of Canada’s day, one of the main commitments of the Carney campaign.
She said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) states that Canada could increase GDP by four percent if you eliminate these internal obstacles.
“That’s a lot. We need it right now,” he said. “I really think we can do it at this time. Internal trade has begun to be sexy, it’s fun, but it’s true.”
Carney has appointed three different ministers who share some responsibility for the commercial archive, at a time when government data suggests that there has already been a considerable decrease in exports to the US. UU. In the midst of the confrontation of the tariff. Canada’s latest statistics are the fall of approximately seven percent.
International Trade Minister Manner Sidhu told reporters that Canada is “supercharged with the US. And we need to diversify trade.” He said that one of his priorities will be to open “new markets”, but did not specify which.
