Carney on how Trump's H1-B visa changes could be an opportunity for Canada: "The opportunity to attract people who previously would have got so-called H1B visas – one of the big cohorts is in the tech sector, not as many of those people are going to get visas to the United States."

Carney on Canada Post: "Canada Post is part of our country. It's part of our fabric. ... The government has indicated the corporation should move forward with some changes that are the start of a path towards viability. More will need to be done."

Carney outlines what he achieved for Canadians during recent trips to Mexico, New York, and London. (edited for length)

CARNEY: "I'm more certain than ever that there are endless possibilities for Canada."

This is such a wild scandal.

Canadian Labour Congress economist DT Cochrane on Carney's austerity plans: "Cuts like the Carney government has been indicating are coming are actually the wrong way to go... When the private sector starts pulling back, you need the public sector to step up."

Prime Minister Carney on cutting the consumer carbon tax: "It was, in textbook, a good policy, but a divisive issue."

CARNEY: "Going 15 years without real wages, without people getting ahead — the last time that happened was the middle of the 19th century, Karl Marx was writing the Communist Manifesto in the British Library. I mean, there is a connection here."

Prime Minister Carney on how his electoral and policy messaging resonated with voters and how his government is meeting the needs of constituents: "People want and deserve that positive agenda, so it's not engaging on the turf of the more negative agenda, but focusing on the positive."

#SOLIDARITY with CUPW. The employees / union members were put in a challenging position. The Minister was wrong. Please show your support for CUPW members and the need for a national, public postal system!

STARMER: "We are in an era of huge challenge, but we can take heart when we look around the world. ... Mark Carney, who stormed to victory in Canada at the beginning of this year ... So, in fact, pitted against our right-wing opponents, I'd say centre-left parties are having quite a year so far."

Today's top stories: 🔹 Canada Post workers on strike 🔹 Canada's GDP grew 0.2% in July 🔹 Trump announces new tariffs 📰 Keep up with the top headlines from Canadian politics and beyond ⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/canadano...

CUPW Negotiator Jim Gallant confirms all postal workers will be on nation-wide strike within 24 hours. (the union has since issued a statement saying that order is 'effective immediately')

CUPW: "We want to be delivering to people's homes, just like what we call our competition. We want those parcels because otherwise, all that happens is it deteriorates the post office and the writings on the wall at that point. So we need something that's sustainable, not a sunset industry."

The 🇨🇦 Government is not using Canada Post’s services to starve them. The disdain this government has for Canadians is breathtaking. #cdnpoli

COCHRANE: Should we expect to see CUPW off the job right across the country? CUPW NEGOTIATOR: I think that that should be your expectation, but what I see on those pictures is members of the union reacting to a minister that has made a drastic mistake. And we expect Canadians will get behind us.

CUPW negotiator on why Canada Post lost market share: "That market share is Amazon. That's what they've lost. The CEO, Doug Ettinger, told them that they could not hold the volumes that Amazon was offering. He sent them away. That's the market share that they've lost."

CUPW negotiator on William Kaplan's report on Canada Post's finances: "He had that commission four days, and was done by noon on all but one of those days. Sixteen hours...There were people that told the commission lies. And he comes out with a report that's exactly what [management] talks about."

CUPW NEGOTIATOR: "The government's still using people, other carriers that are American carriers, multinationals instead of using the post office. They're loading on to make sure that we're not going to come out of that [decline in revenue] while there's a problem."

CUPW NEGOTIATOR: "[Minister Lightbound] is carrying Canada Post's water. He says, 'I'm relying on Bill Kaplan's report', but Bill Kaplan relied on Canada Post management's report. So it ends up it's just a set of dominoes. It's the same story being told by different people."

COCHRANE: How confident are you Canada Post survives this process? LIGHTBOUND: I think it has to survive because it provides an essential lifeline to hundreds if not thousands of communities across the country, northern, remote, indigenous communities. I think we have an obligation to make it work.

Lightbound on the government continuing to underwrite Canada Post: "What we're doing is we're making it clear that Canadian taxpayers and Canadians won't repeatedly bail out Canada Post to an ever-growing tune."

Lightbound on the Liberals previously running against ending home delivery: "I have to say, I'm proud to be in a new government that's willing to make the hard decisions and I think that's what Canadians expect, that we show political courage."

LIGHTBOUND: "When you look at the Kaplan report, it's true that there are items that he's mentioning and I think shouldn't be off the table – flexibility for part-time workers and so on. However, there are some things that the government can do right away, and this is what we're doing right now."

LIGHTBOUND: "I think both parties have an opportunity, both management and the union to face the moment and respond to the existential crisis that Canada Post is in."

COCHRANE: Are you prepared to do legislative changes to the collective agreement if that's what it takes for Canada Post to make the structural changes it needs to do? LIGHTBOUND: I'd rather not speculate on labour relations going forward between the union and management.

COCHRANE: So government departments have been told to find 15% for reallocation or savings. Is that what you've asked Canada Post to do, or is it bigger given the size of the problem? LIGHTBOUND: I'm asking them to go as far as they can and respond to its financial reality.

LIGHTBOUND: "I want them to look at their corporate structure, their management structure, see where they can find efficiencies and reduce costs, and you know this is an exercise that we're going through as a government. I expect Canada Post to do the same."

LIGHTBOUND: "It costs significantly more to deliver mail to an individual address than it does to a community mailbox. 77% of Canadians already receive mail through rural or community mailboxes or in apartment buildings."

LIGHTBOUND: "Canadians can't be footing the bill forever, and it's going to be an ever-increasing bill unless we start taking actions, which is what we're doing with the proposed changes to Canada Post that I've announced today."

GOP North is as classy as ever!

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... This is straight out of Harper's playbook in 2013. He announced end door-to-door delivery (making Canada the only G7 country without door to door delivery) after strikes/lockouts/disputes with the union during negos from June 2011 to Dec 2012. short 🧵

The Liberals should be protecting good jobs and strengthening our public services. Instead they’re allowing Canada Post to cut services, fire Canadians and make it harder to get your mail. globalnews.ca/news/1145024...

Conservative MPs heckle while Minister Hajdu reads a grade 7 student’s comments about the school food program. ...

How are fucking pipelines more important to the national interest than the fucking mail?

#Breaking: Ottawa gives Canada Post go-ahead to end home mail delivery for everyone

🔹 Carney heads to London 🔹 Feds cut 2,000 student positions 🔹 What's driving inflation? 📰 Keep up with Canadian politics and the global stories that matter ⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/canadano...

“Is that legal?”

Minister Champagne rips the 'same old' Conservatives: "Slogans won't feed children, Mr Speaker."

FRASER: It's difficult to accept criticism of the Conservatives when it comes to issues of crime, given their lackadaisical approach when it comes to protecting Canadians against gun violence... At every opportunity, they have voted against measures that take assault-style weapons off our streets.

POILIEVRE: The Prime Minister has three grocery taxes in place...will he stop taxing food so Canadians can afford to eat? CARNEY: Let me bring the Leader of the Opposition up to speed on taxes... This government cut... The. Carbon. Tax.

POILIEVRE: He has absolutely no idea what guns he's banning...will he pick up a briefing note so that he knows what he's talking about? CARNEY: The Leader of the Opposition has his briefing notes, the RCMP has their experience. The RCMP decides this list – what should be kept off the streets.

POILIEVRE: The Prime Minister just admitted that he doesn't even know what his gun ban applies to. HECKLER: I hope you know more about banking than you know about guns. CARNEY: This government is providing fair compensation for...illegal firearms, illegal assault rifles.

POILIEVRE: Will the Prime Minister stop the politics, fire the Minister and leave Grandpa Joe's hunting rifle alone? CARNEY: Let me go back to something the Leader of the Opposition said which he described farmers, duck hunters using AR-15s to hunt. I don't see that in my great province of Alberta.

POILIEVRE: Why is the Prime Minister putting lives at risk for politics? CARNEY: I don't even know where to begin with that. ... The person who's putting lives at risk is the Leader of the Opposition who's voted against every single piece of gun legislation.

Poilievre claims the Liberal's gun buyback program is about politics — "going after farmer's and hunter's rifles is not going to fight crime." Carney says it's a "way for Canadians to voluntarily return prohibited firearms for fair compensation."

"Poilievre seems quite at home with the idea that nobody really cares about accurate, reliable information in an era of performative, emotion-fueled politics."

You cannot trust information coming from Kash Patel's FBI. You cannot trust information coming from ICE. You cannot trust information coming the Trump administration. You cannot trust information coming from Republicans.

I envy Canada for their leadership. Of course he's not perfect, but at least he's an intelligent person without seething malice and corrupt tendencies, like some other leaders we know. Good on you, Canada.