Today's News: Canada is wondering why Carney's Cabinet needs a primer on Trump's authoritarian Project 2025

And if they do, here's one:
 

Tonight Canada social media was absolutely furious to find out that Carney has invited US

 Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts --- AKA a fascist Trump lackey -- to speak to our Cabinet at its Thursday meeting about Trump's authoritarian Project 2025 playbook.
Now, Carney explained that Cabinet needs to know about Project 2025 in order to understand what Trump is doing. 

But anyone who wants to understand Project 2025 can just read it. 

And here's a website that is tracking its implementation across the US government.
Besides, does any Cabinet minister think Roberts will speak truthfully about whether Project 2025 is necessary or successful?
All in all, it is a disappointing decision by Carney, to host this man and give credibility to his vile agenda by discussing it at such a high-profile meeting.

Lots of negative reactions:

Wait, the guy who created Trump’s blueprint that includes stripping women of their rights is invited to speak to Cabinet?? There’s nothing (L)iberal about that.

Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting.

h/t @supriyadwivedi⁩ https://t.co/3vb6ARZCBT

— Lisa Kirbie (@lisakirbie) September 4, 2025

WTAF? Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting. Why is our federal government listening to one of the authors of Trump’s authoritarian playbook? https://t.co/7MEKESgOH7

— Gil McGowan (@gilmcgowan) September 3, 2025

I was happy when Carney beat Poilievre, too. But blind devotion is not a positive thing in a democracy. Project 2025 is a blueprint for fascism on our doorstep. Being shocked that one of the authors is being welcomed into the inner sanctum of our democracy is NOT click bait.

— Gil McGowan (@gilmcgowan) September 4, 2025

This makes me more and more convinced that the Liberals do not understand the moment we're in.

Fascists are to be confronted, not invited to break bread. And not to sit in a Canadian cabinet meeting.https://t.co/VXm4IEji17

— Dominic Cardy 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 (@DominicCardy) September 3, 2025

So was meeting with the author of Project 2025 part of the ‘plan’? I guess I missed that part.

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— careeven.bsky.social (@careeven.bsky.social) September 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM

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I read several posts like this online too:

Prepping for a negotiation by getting someone who knows who you’re negotiating with to give some advice is a good thing

Carney isn’t bringing the Heritage guy in to plan macroeconomic policy, let’s not be dumb

— Evan Scrimshaw (@EScrimshaw) September 3, 2025

And this reply:

PM Carney could of consulted these three.https://t.co/DdKfobxoO4

— Penny Powers (@PennyPo54201061) September 4, 2025

I saw a fascinating article from The Walrus, reprinted on Substack, about how Carney is governing. 

It was published before tonight's contretemps, but may offer some insight on Carney's apparent move away from Trudeau's "left" politics:
Mark Bourrie / The Walrus

Who Is Mark Carney, Really?
We hired the guy with the best résumé. He’s now using power in ways few other prime ministers have dared
...Why have Liberals stayed silent about Carney’s move to the right? A veteran of the last three Liberal prime ministers told me many in the party, like plenty of Canadians, were fed up with what they saw as Trudeau’s fixation on identity politics. If Trudeau’s team was winning elections, there wasn’t much they could do about it. “The Liberal Party is a big tent. Sometimes, the left dominates, sometimes the right. It changes to suit the times, and right now, people in the party and voters want a leadership that can handle Trump and deal with whatever economic changes come from what’s happening in the United States.”
Just as the federal Conservatives are splitting between western populists and eastern centrists because of Poilievre’s insistence on hanging on to the leadership, Carney’s Liberals have issues that may eventually bring them down. In the first months of his government, people saw the change in tone and policy but not the results. How do the Liberals square years of reconciliation with First Nations and Carney’s Bill C-5? What happens when Trump stops threatening Canada? Or when people realize that money spent on the military is cash that no longer goes to the things they think are important? Events could change the vibe: an environmental catastrophe, a global financial meltdown, a foreign crisis that Canadians can’t ignore, a George Floyd–style racial reckoning, another pandemic.
By mid-summer, an Abacus Data poll showed 69 percent of Canadians believed Carney is “calm and steady during uncertain times,” his most favourable attribute. Just 50 percent said the same about Poilievre— who, in a bid to claw his way back into Parliament, was preparing to fight for a seat in an Alberta by-election. On “avoiding unnecessary conflict,” Carney led Poilievre by twenty-two points. Overall, the Liberals had reversed the polling numbers of the summer of 2024. That, in itself, was a mandate for big change.
High approval ratings in a honeymoon period when your opponent is busy fighting for his political life can generate hubris. Most political careers end in tears or, at least, intense frustration. Can a prime minister remake Canada’s economy while spending so many hours dealing with Trump’s petulance? Can he remake the Canadian economy to reduce our dependence on the US?...

Yeah, well....about that "avoiding unnecessary conflict" thing? I think Canadians will conclude that inviting a fascist jerk like Roberts to speak to our Cabinet ministers sends the wrong message about Carney priorities for Canada.