Canada’s lead negotiator QUITS as trade talks stall
As Canada’s top trade negotiator exits, a Carney-backed candidate emerges — raising questions about whether Ottawa is preparing for a new approach at the negotiating table.
Canada’s ambassador to the United States, Kirsten Hillman, will step down in the new year, opening a key post as Ottawa and Washington enter a new phase of trade discussions. Mark Wiseman — a close ally of the Prime Minister and a vocal critic of supply management — is under consideration as her replacement, raising questions about whether the Carney government may revisit dairy protections in negotiations with the Trump administration.
The government is also facing backlash from religious groups after Liberal MPs backed a Bloc amendment to Bill C-9 that removes a Criminal Code defence protecting good-faith religious expression in hate-speech cases. Ministers insist the change won’t criminalize faith, but critics warn it could expose religious Canadians to prosecution.
Canadian Constitution Foundation litigation director Christine Van Geyn joins Marc Patrone to break down the implications of Bill C-9 and what it could mean for religious freedom.
And in Parliament, Liberals voted down a Conservative motion supporting a pipeline to the Pacific, defeating it 196–139.
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Everyone knows that supply management and artificially inflated prices for cheese and dairy are one of the contentious issues. Non CUSMA trade negotiations being the other, along with interprovincial free trade. Is this a realpolitik signal? Hopefully. As for C9, we know who the targets are - not the ones burning the flag or fighting age males blocking traffic in downtown for Friday prayers. The other ones, the turn the other cheek folk.
Preposterous, ridiculous, many other words that describe the criminals at the head of the Liberal party.