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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 2h

Today's top stories:

🔹 LeBlanc remains in D.C. for trade talks

🔹 Alberta pipeline proposal will need B.C. government support: Energy Minister

🔹 Displaced Palestinians return to northern Gaza

📰 Catch up quickly on the top headlines from Canadian politics ⤵️
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Morning brief: LeBlanc remains in D.C. for trade talks

Plus: Postal workers shift to rotating strikes Saturday

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 12m

Q: Are you at all considering repealing either the tanker ban or the emissions cap?

CARNEY: It depends... We want to see lower carbon conventional energy, lower carbon mining, lower carbon manufacturing, because that is going to be a driver of competitiveness.

Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 15m

Carney on a pipeline to the west coast: "Those elements coming together can come together in a pipeline to the west coast. It depends on the specific proposal, it depends on all of those elements, and this government will engage with proposals that have a possibility or prospect of achieving those."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 20m

Q: What lessons did you learn from having to water down and re-table your government’s first bill?

CARNEY: This is a government that passed the most comprehensive and, what will be seen in the fullness of time, impactful economic measure in decades, which is the One Canadian Economy Act.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 24m

Q: Are you comfortable with the notion that police or intelligence can go to any service provider...without a warrant?

CARNEY: We have a responsibility as parliamentarians, as the government, to protect our communities and protect our borders...there is merit...to take those measures to save lives.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 31m

CARNEY: "The President and myself have been in conversations over time about where there are opportunities for cooperation and where there are cases where there will be competition between our two economies."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 32m

CARNEY: "The benefits that we are protecting, the Canada Child Benefit, the Disability Benefit... we're going to make the responsible pragmatic choices as a government led by the minister of finance in this budget to ensure that we have those programs not just today but for tomorrow for the future."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1h

Carney on the Canada Strong Pass: "We created the Pass so that Canadians can see more of our great country for less... Since no one can possibly experience all that Canada has to offer in just a few short months, we're renewing it for the summer of 2026."

(someone get this man a glass of water)

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1h

Carney on Canada's National School Food Program: "No child should go to school hungry or sit in a classroom all day wondering where their next meal will come from... Until today, this program was a pilot..so, we're announcing we'll move forward with the funding and legislation to make it permanent."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1h

Carney on automatic federal benefits: "This program will pay out hundreds of millions of dollars in benefits in the next few years that would otherwise be left unclaimed, helping our most vulnerable get the supports that they need."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1h

Carney on three new measures that will be in Budget 2025: "First, we're launching automatic federal benefits to help our most vulnerable get the money that they're entitled to. Secondly, we're making the National School Food Program permanent. And thirdly, we're renewing the Canada Strong Pass."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 2h

Morning brief: LeBlanc remains in D.C. for trade talks

Plus: Postal workers shift to rotating strikes Saturday

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 17h

Poilievre on Danielle Smith's pipeline pipe dream: "This is exclusively a federal decision. So, David Eby is well worth ignoring. He has no legal constitutional authority to block this project."

(a window into federal-provincial relations if this guy ever becomes pm...)

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 18h

Q: Do you think the Online News Act is working if influencers dominated online discourse during the election and not media journalists?

GUILBEAULT: The Act is providing $100m that is being invested in Canadian media So, yes, it's working. Let's see if it can be improved upon, but it is working.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 18h

Anand on Gaza aid flotilla: "It is our understanding that there are six Canadians who have been detained and we are offering consular services to them. ... We are calling on Israeli authorities to release any detained Canadians as soon as possible so that they can safely return."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 19h

JOLY: “We had at one point the Avro Arrow project, which I'm very fond of, and that we had to let go."

(forget the f-35, restart the avro arrow)

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 19h

JOLY: “And you know we can have a strong military complex here at home and be a progressive country."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 20h

Carney gibes the opposition as MacKinnon responds to some Conservative nonsense

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 21h

THOMAS: This is exactly what this PM wants to do, he wants to drive investment from Canada to the US.

MacKINNON: We have this disturbing trend about the Leader of the Opposition making something up, and then members down and up the line, they even add on new and very intriguing figures and facts.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 21h

POILIEVRE: Days ago the PM voted in favour of an energy cap...As long as he blocks production, we won't be able to fill [Keystone XL] with oil. So what is he going to fill it with? Maple syrup?

CARNEY: I voted, as did others, against a motion to get rid of something that does not actually exist.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 21h

CARNEY: "Today is a momentous day, and I'm sure all parliamentarians would join me in recognizing the historic progress that has been made in the Middle East under President Trump's 20-point peace plan. ... I would like to commend...the architects of the plan, Mr. Kushner and Witkoff."

Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

Today's top stories:

🔹 Carney voices support for Israel-Hamas peace plan

🔹 Liberals gut "strong-borders" bill

🔹 Joly unveils industrial strategy

📰 Catch up quickly on the top headlines from Canadian politics ⤵️
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Morning brief: Carney backs Trump’s Israel–Hamas peace plan

Plus: Daaaaaaa Yankees lose!

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

“Perhaps it is more illuminating to ask: is Alberta an actual province, or just a company town? The oil patch has intruded so far into Albertan institutions it is difficult to discern where private interests end, and public government begins.”

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www.desmog.com/2025/10/08/d...

Danielle Smith’s Pipeline Without a Proponent Is All Dollars and No Sense

Canada has a higher calling than wasting time and political capital indulging fossil fuel fever dreams.

www.desmog.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

“A second inflatable frog has now been spotted wiggling through Portland.”

Marco Rubio whispers into Donald Trump's ear.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

CARNEY: I think about Canada...I think about expanding Canada elsewhere – our relationships elsewhere. We don't have imperial ambitions.

BUTTS: I thought we were going to break some news there.

CARNEY: That's the problem, you get in this office and all of a sudden you're an empire.

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 1d

danielle smith strikes me as the kind of politician who would 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 say one thing in public and another in private

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