Juno News - Liberals have no timeline for foreign agents registry

00:00:00.000 a liberal mp is calling foul on conservatives after the opposition seized on a video

00:00:09.600 of the mp criticizing his party's federal budget conservative leader pierre polyev is calling on

00:00:15.940 carny to quote get out of the way of critical energy resource development projects the liberals

00:00:21.360 public safety minister has confirmed that the government has no timeline for creating a public

00:00:27.080 registry of foreign agents operating in canada after over a year of promising to establish one

00:00:33.600 hello canada it's thursday november 13th and this is the true north daily brief i'm clayton domain and

00:00:40.720 i'm jeff mate we've got you covered with all the news you need to know let's discuss the top stories

00:00:46.060 of the day and the true north exclusives you won't hear anywhere else a liberal mp is lashing out at

00:00:54.240 conservatives after they brought attention to a video he posted criticizing the liberal 2025 budget

00:01:00.600 saying it quote falls short of the liberal election promises and the expected quote wartime effort

00:01:08.620 prime minister mark carney pledged to deliver toronto-based liberal mp nate erskine smith is

00:01:15.400 calling foul and saying the conservatives have taken him out of context after the toronto-based

00:01:21.300 liberal mp released a video expressing the good the bad and the ugly in his party's 2025 budget

00:01:28.540 erskine smith said the promised quote generational investments were not enough and climate action was

00:01:35.660 delayed tax cuts for first-time homebuyers were insufficient for quote moving the needle on

00:01:42.960 development charges now to the bad or more fairly where expectations were set at a level that we failed

00:01:49.420 to meet including including on the question of generational investments first stalled climate

00:01:54.820 action i don't want to be too dismissive here as the canadian climate institute rightly highlighted

00:01:58.780 the importance of a strengthened industrial carbon price but apart from that promise there was nothing

00:02:03.000 new yes we are moving forward with strong methane rules and clean investment tax credits and

00:02:07.780 these are key pieces but we are also cutting tree planting moving away from an emissions gap

00:02:12.940 winding down greener homes and the budget offers no new money for climate action

00:02:17.900 on housing we've got the beginnings of build canada homes a tax cut for new homebuyers and some dollars

00:02:24.160 for housing enabling infrastructure that are important but unfortunately very unlikely to move the needle

00:02:28.940 on development charges to a degree we would like it falls short of these specific promises in our platform

00:02:34.240 and it unfortunately falls well short well short of the wartime effort that many of us thought we'd deliver

00:02:40.220 he also noted that the promise was to quote spend less and invest more but the budget failed to

00:02:46.220 deliver more capital spending than operational spending he said quote the budget adds 140 billion

00:02:53.640 dollars in new spending over five years 90 billion dollars net after savings and only 36 percent of

00:03:01.560 the net new spending is capital there is a lot of deficit financing here to cover non-capital new spending

00:03:08.160 yes honoring our initial two percent commitment to nato made sense and a middle class tax cut was a

00:03:16.440 platform promise but these are far and away the two largest financial commitments he said the defense

00:03:22.960 spending and tax cuts were quote non-capital expenditures and that his quote kids shouldn't pay for

00:03:30.800 for today's military for me to save four hundred dollars of income taxes and much needed old age

00:03:37.260 security reform he also wasn't happy with the budget providing corporate welfare to liquid natural gas

00:03:43.280 facilities so jeff what was the response to erskine smith's video and how did the liberals react to those

00:03:50.200 responses well clayton conservatives wasted no time pouncing on erskine smith's video with mp chris

00:03:56.480 warkington tweeting quote wow even liberals agree that mark carney's budget is a failure sharing a

00:04:01.900 clip to amp up the narrative deputy leader melissa lanceman piled on saying in an alternative universe 0.99

00:04:07.600 the media will spend the next week focused on the growing cracks in the liberal caucus

00:04:11.720 as one of their own mps openly speaks out against mark carney's budget and questioning if he'd even

00:04:17.160 vote for it erskine smith fired back hard calling out the selective editing and responses to both

00:04:22.300 to lanceman he wrote watch and share the whole video and you'll find out or share a selectively

00:04:27.800 edited clip and maintain the fake outrage machine that's going so well for your very united and

00:04:32.740 serious party to workington he hit with a desperate lie and selective editing to deflect from the complete

00:04:39.260 absence of serious leadership from his own party poliev had ctv staffers fired for less on the liberal side

00:04:46.080 toronto star columnist althea raj who obviously leans left defended the whole thing as healthy debate

00:04:53.160 tweeting quote nate has normalized independent thought so it isn't news

00:04:57.760 imo it would be nice to see this from other mps those outside of cabinet their job is to hold the

00:05:04.660 government to account more independent thought means better reports better debate better policy

00:05:09.760 better social cohesion too it's turned into a mini firestorm with the conservatives trying to paint it

00:05:14.940 as liberal infighting while the pushback frames it as proof of a big tent party

00:05:19.280 conservative leader poliev is demanding prime minister mark carney get out of the way of canada's

00:05:28.760 energy industry and energy industry and scrap the liberals nine bad laws backing alberta premier

00:05:35.080 daniel smith's ultimatum to remove the policies by thursday poliev was asked during a press conference

00:05:40.420 about the failures of the latest liberal budget specifically regarding smith's ultimatum

00:05:44.760 to carney the premier demanded carney allow new pipeline development in alberta to transport oil

00:05:50.420 and gas to tidewater and scrap the government's nine bad laws that hinder resource development in

00:05:55.860 the province smith gave carney until the start of the gray cup on thursday she threatened to sell

00:06:01.060 more oil to the u.s amid a tariff war if if the liberal government fails to permit new pipelines to get

00:06:06.580 alberta oil and liquid natural gas to tidewater allowing trade instead with asia and europe

00:06:11.940 poliev's message get out of the way and scrap the anti-energy laws holding alberta back from

00:06:16.980 getting energy to market so they keep telling us that something is going to happen tomorrow mark

00:06:22.180 carney's been prime minister for eight months promising to move at quote unimaginable speeds

00:06:27.700 and yet there's not a single project that he has launched that was not already

00:06:33.220 in the making or approved before he took office mark carney needs to do only one thing for us to get a

00:06:39.620 pipeline from alberta to the pacific get out of the way get out of the way there are trillions of dollars

00:06:49.860 of international investment crying out for the chance to build that pipeline without any government

00:06:55.860 support all they need is the federal government to stop blocking it poliev said quote get out of the

00:07:02.980 way and repeal the nine bad laws that block energy projects remove the ban on shipping oil off the

00:07:09.060 northwest coast of bc a ban that only applies to canadians american tankers could travel between

00:07:15.140 alaska and california in those very same waters so why not allow canadians to do the same he called on

00:07:21.620 the federal government to repeal the liberals industrial carbon tax to produce enough oil to

00:07:26.820 fill a future pipeline so clayton what else did polyev say about alberta's deadline set to expire today

00:07:32.980 yeah jeff so polyev called out carney for getting no new development projects started while canadians

00:07:39.620 had months of seeing carney giving press conferences and giving photo ops while wearing hard hats uh he noted

00:07:47.140 that these photo ops were being held all while investment was fleeing the country you know like

00:07:53.860 the 21.2 billion dollars that left canada in just the second quarter of this year so according to true

00:08:01.780 north zone quinn patrick uh canadian investors spent 26.8 billion dollars on foreign assets in that quarter

00:08:10.660 which at least was down from the 36.5 billion dollars it spent in the previous quarter and that's all

00:08:18.100 largely on u.s shares but there was a net outflow of 43.7 billion dollars leaving canada in the second

00:08:27.380 quarter bringing the total outflow to 85.9 billion dollars for the year up till that point and you know

00:08:37.140 our audience would know that that amount is well over the amount that carney suggested as a deficit

00:08:44.820 in the most recent budget uh polyev also criticized the idea that the liberals would sign a memorandum

00:08:51.380 with smith's alberta government saying that memorandums quote don't pay the bills or get shovels in the

00:08:57.860 ground he also demanded that carney announce an exact start date for a new million barrel a day pipeline

00:09:05.860 from hardesty alberta to prince rupert or kitemat british columbia but there's a lot of doubt

00:09:12.420 that carney's announcement today announcing the quote second wave of nation building projects

00:09:19.380 with reports coming in already indicating that alberta's oil pipelines were omitted

00:09:25.300 from this round of project announcements

00:09:28.340 the carney government confirmed there is no timeline for creating a public registry of foreign

00:09:37.060 agents leaving canadians vulnerable to foreign interference public safety minister gary ananda

00:09:43.460 sangari confirmed that the liberal government's promise to appoint a foreign interference transparency

00:09:49.300 commissioner is still quote going through a process despite parliament passing bill c70 more than a year

00:09:57.300 ago the government has not acted on what is considered a known threat to canada's democracy

00:10:04.180 and electoral process the legislation passed in june 2024 allows for a new foreign interference

00:10:11.620 transparency commissioner as well as amendments to the criminal code and the canadian security intelligence

00:10:18.260 act to make foreign interference an offense it also provides for the creation of a public registry

00:10:24.820 listing individuals who have arranged to work in canada as agents on behalf of foreign governments

00:10:31.860 conservative mp frank caputo grilled ananda sangari on the issue during a thursday committee meeting to

00:10:39.460 discuss bill c8 a cyber security bill caputo said quote this could not be a more clear question

00:10:47.780 when was the foreign interference commissioner supposed to be appointed ananda sangari responded

00:10:54.180 that he's already indicated a number of times that quote they will be appointed in short order

00:11:02.180 he said quote we are finalizing and will bring forward a name to colleagues for their feedback i wish it was much

00:11:10.420 earlier so jeff there's been a lot of time passed since the bill mandating a foreign registry be enacted

00:11:18.980 uh was passed and you know there was a lot of mps who actually opposed this registry what were some

00:11:26.580 of the reasons that the bill was proposed in the first place so clayton bill c70 officially the counter

00:11:33.780 foreign interference act was designed to beef up canada's defenses against sneaky foreign meddling by

00:11:39.220 creating a public registry for anyone acting as an agent for foreign governments or entities so think

00:11:44.180 lobbyists or influencers pushing agendas from abroad who would have to register their activities

00:11:49.780 funding and contacts to shine a light on potential influence ops it also beefed up the criminal code

00:11:55.060 with new offenses for things like coercing or deceiving people into foreign directed actions that

00:12:00.180 mess with elections or security and gave cc more leeway to warn the public about threats without spilling

00:12:06.020 secrets plus it tweaked the security information act to criminalize stuff like intimidating witnesses

00:12:10.980 in interference cases and updated election laws to flag foreign cash for meddling more effectively

00:12:16.660 it got proposed back in early 2024 as a direct gut punch to growing worries over foreign interference

00:12:22.500 sparked by explosive public inquiries that exposed meddling from countries like china and india in

00:12:27.860 canadian elections community groups and even mp nominations stuff that eroded trust in democracy and

00:12:34.260 left officials scrambling the liberals framed it as filling big holes in old laws after a year of

00:12:39.940 consultations with experts and security folks aiming to deter bad actors without overreaching on free

00:12:45.380 speech all while responding to calls from the hoag commission and others to get serious about

00:12:50.900 protecting sovereignty before the next vote cycle that's it for today folks thanks for tuning in you

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Juno News - November 13, 2025

Liberals have no timeline for foreign agents registry

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