Prime minister Mark Carney had a big day planned with the tabling of his big “One Canada Economy” bill, and he managed to stomp all over his own message with news that he had a call with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and invited him to attend the G7 summit in Kananaskis in a couple of weeks. There was a bit of a collective WTF from around the country considering that we still have not resolved the issue with the Modi government being credibly accused of ordering the murder of Canadian citizens on Canadian soil, along with other extortion rackets. Not only was this upsetting to Sikhs in Canada, but it also came on the anniversary of the attack on the Golden Temple in India, showing once again that Carney has inadequate political sense and is being poorly advised by those who allegedly have more political experience than he does.

chat is it normal to invite the head of a govt alleged to have been involved in the extrajudicial killing a canadian citizen on canadian soil to canada asking for a diaspora

— Supriya Dwivedi (@supriya.bsky.social) 2025-06-06T14:11:12.637Z

honestly hard to see this as anything other than the Carney govt thinking some canadian lives matter more than others it will also be incredibly difficult to take anything this govt says on transnational repression and foreign interference seriously given this pivot

— Supriya Dwivedi (@supriya.bsky.social) 2025-06-06T14:12:22.745Z

Carney defended the move by insisting this was about economic ties, and that he had reassurances that the law-enforcement process was ongoing (which India has refused cooperation around, and instead chose to make up a bunch of absolute horseshit about drugs supposedly being found on Trudeau’s plane). Others insisted that this was a diplomatic necessity, because diplomacy is not a reward for good behaviour (true!) and also stated that the other six members of the G7 have no problem with India and that Canada is an outlier. I would caveat that, however—the US has had their problems with India around this very problem, because some of it was also happening on US soil, and many other G7 countries don’t have the same Indian diaspora as Canada, which doesn’t mean that they would be safe from these kinds of activities. I would also say that there is an added implicit message with this invitation that you can essentially get away with murder if you’re economically important enough, and that’s a really, really bad message to send in this era of increasing authoritarianism and the democratic backsliding happening in Western countries.

On that note, Carney also had a call with Chinese premier Li Qiang, at his behest, about regularising communications channels. No doubt Carney has motivations of trying to get China to lift their tariffs on our agricultural and seafood products, which were in retaliation for our EV tariffs (because China is trying to behave in a predatory manner by trying to build a tech monoculture to suffocate our own EV industry). Not to mention, China continues to be a bad actor with its own foreign interference and transnational repression, so again, it is looking a lot like Carney is behaving like it’s 1995 and just one more trade deal with China will make them more democratic and respect human rights. Really! We mean it this time!

The last word goes to The Beaverton, who got it just right.

Carney limits G7 guests to one assassination each

— The Beaverton (@thebeaverton.com) 2025-06-06T21:09:26.706Z

Ukraine Dispatch

Russia launched another missile and drone attack on Ukraine in the early hours of Friday, killing at least six people. They claim this these are “military targets” in retaliation for Ukrainian “terrorist acts” against Russia, when of course we know this is nothing but bullshit. Ukrainian drones hit an industrial enterprise in Russia’s southern city of Engels.

Good reads:

• Speaking at an Eid event in Ottawa, Mark Carney reflected on the fourth anniversary of the murder of a Muslim family in London, Ontario.
• The government tabled their big bill to remove remaining federal internal trade barriers, and set up the “one process” for major projects.
• Carney claims that the government is prepared to sit into the summer to pass said bill (and no one really thinks through that particular threat).
• Mélanie Joly went to Dofasco in Hamilton to promise that she will protect workers from the Trump tariffs.
• Patty Hajdu announced that the government will create an additional 6000 spaces in the Canada Summer Jobs programme given high youth unemployment.
• The Department of Justice could eliminate as many as 264 positions as part of budgetary constraints.
• The Canadian and European Space Agencies signed a joint statement reaffirming their long-standing relationship (as NASA’s future is increasingly dicey).
• The AFN is planning an emergency meeting of its membership next week to discuss the federal fast-tracking legislation.
• GC Strategies, at the heart of much of the ArriveCan drama, has been barred from seeking federal contacts for seven years.
• François Legault says he plans to stick around, as his party crashes in the polls.
• Here is a deeper dive into the issue of Indigenous legal rights in the face of the crybaby separatists in Alberta.
• Anne Applebaum looks at how centre-left/centre-right parties now need to contend with blood-and-soil appeals by authoritarian populists in elections across the West.

Odds and ends:

For National Magazine, I delve into yesterday’s Supreme Court of Canada decision on acquittals in cases of wrongful convictions and the split on the Court over it.

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