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Trudeau tried to tell everyone, but no one would listen to him. They were all just hell-bent on getting rid of him.
June 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Truly a damn shame that Canadians allowed themselves to get brainwashed into running a sensible leader out of office before his time. Anti-Trudeau hate is how we ended up settling for someone who honestly isn’t the best fit for the job. He would’ve made way more sense as finance minister.
July 3, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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The pivot from campaign rhetoric to Carney’s governing style shouldn’t be a surprise.

He’s a former central banker who thinks attracting capital should be the priority above all else — and that means doing whatever will keep rich investors happy.

www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-carne...
Carney’s decision to back down on the digital services tax isn’t a surprise, given the tone his government has taken toward Trump. The prime minister occasionally praises the president and has even said Canada would join his ridiculous Golden Dome project. The nationalist front has all but disappeared, as the true politics of the central banker leading Canada take center stage: an approach to government that puts pleasing wealthy businesspeople as the top priority. Given all the money being splashed out chasing AI fantasies in recent years, Carney’s government is desperate to get a piece of the pie. It doesn’t matter if AI is just another tech bubble and whether there’s real long-term prosperity being built; the tech industry has money to spend, and the government wants to make sure more of it gets spent in Canada. So whether it’s some pesky environmental regulations, the rights of migrants, or a digital services tax standing in the way, Carney is ready to sacrifice it all to keep the capital flowing.
June 30, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Carney’s government has been rolling out the red carpet for tech investment.

They killed a capital gains tax increase, are limiting AI regulations, planning AI-enabled austerity, and now have killed the digital services tax all to placate tech executives.

www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-carne...
Canada’s AI minister has said the government will not be “over-indexing” on regulation and that future legislation will address issues around training on copyrighted works. The Liberal Party’s platform committed to taking down “red tape” on data center construction and the government now talks about AI as an important defense investment and way to make the public sector more efficient. Carney already removed the planned increase to the capital gains tax that infuriated local tech executives, and now has followed it up by killing the digital services tax. He’s even be cozying up to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to try to tap into its deep coffers for some Canadian AI investment.
June 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Carney said it was “elbows up” against the United States, but a lot of that has fallen away since the election.

The Trump administration has noticed how quickly he caved on the digital services tax, and they certainly perceive Carney as weak as a result.

www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-carne...
Despite spending the spring election telling Canadians it was “elbows up” against the United States, Carney folded under the pressure. It didn’t just show cowardice and further suggest his nationalist rhetoric was deceptive posturing; it also demonstrated to Trump that Canada can be pressured to make significant concessions in trade negotiations that Carney is hoping will be concluded by July 21. He previously said there would be an agreement by the time of the G7 meeting in mid-June. Even White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that Carney “caved” on Monday, showing Trump has the upper hand. But it also says something about the power of the tech industry on both sides of the border.
June 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Digital services taxes are a direct response to US tech multinationals not paying their fair share in the countries they operate. The United States has stood in the way of a global deal coming into force, and that’s why countries have been implementing them.

www.disconnect.blog/p/mark-carne...
Digital services taxes have been in the US tech industry’s crosshairs for years. The taxes are being passed around the world, in response to the fact multinational tech companies — often headquartered in the United States — are not just operating, but are dominant players in many countries, yet often don’t pay a reasonable amount of tax because they shift their revenues to lower tax jurisdictions. Several years ago, countries came together at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development to hash out a global tax deal that would see major tech companies pay more tax in the countries where the revenue is actually earned, rather than where it’s diverted after the fact. But the United States, under former president Joe Biden and now Donald Trump, has stood in the way of the most important parts of the deal.
June 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM