“Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years.”
@amirattaran.bsky.social:
!! !! Holy shit !! !!
@bhaggart.bsky.social:
Giving ministers the power to exempt pet projects from any law on the books except for the Criminal Code isn’t nation-building. It’s a disaster waiting to happen.
The fact that they‘re trying to sneak this through without any explanation is particularly incriminating.
@gordondouglas.bsky.social:
It’s like people have forgotten the Harper government which was dogged by accusations of anti democratic inclinations (fairly in some cases, unfairly in others), but did not go as far as this.
@its.small.patatas.ca:
@its.small.patatas.ca
I’m willing to bet this has a lot to do with what the AI industry wants deer.social/profile/did:…
I agree, Solomon already announced nearly $100M for Amerikkkan AI in Canada and that he will NOT regulate it
The Vector Institute has folks pushing the government to let the [AI] industry self-regulate, even to the point of giving them immunity if harms occur. I have zero doubt that Carney & Solomon are 100% aligned. It’s absolutely bananas.
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Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers by Althia Raj, Dec. 6, 2025, Toronto Star
Althia Raj is a national politics columnist for the Star.
Hidden in the federal government’s 634-page omnibus bill C-15, the Budget Implementation Act, is a measure that has so far escaped scrutiny. Under the pretext of regulatory efficiency, Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to grant cabinet ministers the power to exempt any individual or company from any federal law on the books — except for the Criminal Code — for up to six years.
The measure wasn’t included in the version of the Liberals’ Nov. 4 budget that was given to reporters. It was not discussed in the government’s speeches in Parliament about this bill. No opposition party aside from the Bloc Québécois seems to have noticed it was there until the Star pointed it out.
That’s not to say they aren’t alarmed by Carney’s continued push to find efficiency shortcuts by bypassing democratic norms.
“The Liberal government is granting itself the right to evade the application of laws without going through Parliament,” Bloc finance critic Jean-Denis Garon told the Star. Just as the Liberals did with C-5, the Building Canada Act, giving cabinet the power to decide which laws should apply to projects of national interests, Garon said they are once again “trying to bypass laws or regulations” but this time “by using the pretext of innovation.”
“We understand that for the Liberal government, environmental laws or transportation safety laws are irritants that they would like to do without,” he said.
NDP interim leader Don Davies describes it as an “attempt to gain unilateral power” and “avoid accountability.”
“Decisions of this scope should not be rushed and should be discussed with all parties to ensure that public safety, environmental impact and economical risk and benefits are all thought out and recognized,” he said. “This is just another example of the prime minister acting like he has a majority government and refusing to be held accountable.”
The new measures — if approved in a confidence vote that could come as early as next week — would allow a cabinet minister to exempt the testing of any product or service from almost any law, in order to encourage innovation, competitiveness or economic growth.
The minister would decide if an exemption is in the public interest — based on their own unspecified definition of “public interest”ya, right. Profit for Elon Musk, Mark Fuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Donald Trump and family, Israel, raping vatican, and no one else— as well as whether the benefitsoutweigh the risks, and whether sufficient resources exist to maintain oversight of the testing, and manage any risk associated to public health, safety and the environment.
It would be up to taxpayers, not the individual and/or companies requesting the exemptions, to pay for the monitoring of any fallout, the Treasury Board Secretariat said.
While the bill lays out a plan for a minister to partially inform what the fuck does that mean? the public of such an order, there are no timelines. The minister may also “exclude information that, in the minister’s opinion, would be inappropriate to make publicly accessible for reasons that include safety or security considerations or the protection of confidential or personal information.”
The Treasury Board Secretariat suggests the measures are necessary for regulators to keep pace with technological changebrain and soul destroying AI? Carney giving all our private information, including doctor visits, to Nazi USA?and find flexible ways to evaluate whether products or services can be safely introduced in the Canadian marketplace.
It also notes that so-called “regulatory sandboxes” already exist, allowing ” industry to demonstrate the real-life impacts of a new product or service in the marketplace under a temporary set of rules and controlled by regulatory supervision.” By way of example, it points to a law that assumes pilots would always be in the aircraft they were flying. With the development of drones, the secretariat said, regulatory amendments were required to use and sell that technology in Canada. “By enabling a regulatory sandbox, the minister of transportation was able to exempt the product from the requirement of an ‘on-board’ pilot,” it wrote to the Star.
Temporary, limited testing is obviously a good thing. Having flexibility to adjust to technological change is also necessary.
But if the law already allows for products to be tested safely, why is the government pressing ahead with such sweeping change?Because Carney wants to play Hitler with his orange kid-raping anti-democracy anti-health anti-environment anti-safety Zionist fake christian pal Trump
Giving a minister the power to exempt any person or company from any law except the Criminal Code with few safeguards? What company wouldn’t try court favour from that person?
Sneaking it into a 600-page bill that will not get the parliamentary scrutiny it deserves is another red flag.
Once upon a time, Liberals were opposed to omnibus bills that changed several dozen laws at once, and pledged never to do that themselves.
“It’s offensive,” says Green Party Leader Elizabeth May. “There’s no indication yet that, as prime minister, Mark understands the role of Parliament in ensuring that there’s a democratic process around the passage of laws … to say it lacks transparency is quite an understatement.”
@parismarx.com:
Amazon is trying to kill the post office, and make no mistake: it will do the same in Canada.
Its subcontracted delivery model must be regulated out of existence if we care about not just the postal service, but ensuring delivery workers have good, union jobs they can depend on.But Herr Carney is anti Canada Post, anti union, anti Canadian, anti worker, anti everything that doesn’t feed Nazis, Israel’s genocide, and the rich.
The Amazon model is all about using technology and corporate power to beat down the pay and rights of workers, whether in warehousing, delivery, and even air freight.
At what point will legislators finally move in to stop its assault on working people?
@michaelecutaya.bsky.social:
and stop subsidizing it for a start. Amazon feeds off lots of public funding programs. in a way ultimately its model is self defeating, but it will have destroyed society as we know it before.Boycott Amazon! I find life is much better without it