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Posted by Herman
- December 12, 2025, 07:17:05 PMConman Carney wants every country to be prosperous except Canada. That is why he does not invest his fortune here.
Posted by Brent
- December 11, 2025, 12:15:57 PMOn top of this we have a government that thinks symbolic climate change measures are more important than making groceries affordable again.
QuoteCapital flight signals no confidence in Carney's agendahttps://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldberg-capital-flight-signals-no-confidence-in-carneys-agenda
Between bad trade calls and looming deficits, Canada is driving money out just when it needs it most.
Canadians voted for relative continuity in April, but investors voted with their wallets, moving $124 billion out of the country.
According to the National Bank, Canadian investors purchased approximately $124 billion in American securities between February and July of this year. At the same time, foreign investment in Canada dropped sharply, leaving the country with a serious hole in its capital base.
As Warren Lovely of National Bank said, "With non-resident investors aloof and Canadians adding foreign assets, the country has suffered a major capital drain" — one he called "unprecedented."
Why is this happening?
One reason is trade. Canada adopted one of the most aggressive responses to U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff agenda. Former prime minister Justin Trudeau not only imposed retaliatory tariffs on the United States but escalated tensions further by targeting goods covered under the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), something even the Trump administration avoided.
The trade story alone explains much of the exodus, but fiscal policy is another concern. Interim parliamentary budget officer Jason Jacques recently called Ottawa's approach "stupefying" and warned that Canada risks a 1990s-style fiscal crisis if spending isn't brought under control. During the 1990s, ballooning deficits forced deep program cuts and painful tax hikes. Interest rates soared, Canada's debt was downgraded and Ottawa nearly lost control of its finances. Investors are seeing warning signs that history could repeat itself.
Deficits of that scale matter. They can drive up borrowing costs, leave less room for social spending and undermine confidence in the country's long-term fiscal stability. For investors managing pensions, RRSPs or business portfolios.
Canada's balance sheet now looks shaky compared to the U.S. economy.
Add in high taxes, heavy regulation and interprovincial trade barriers and the picture grows bleaker.
The Carney government needs to take this unprecedented capital drain seriously. Investors are not acting on a whim. They are responding to structural problems — ill-advised trade actions, runaway federal spending and persistent barriers to growth — that Ottawa has yet to fix.
In the short term, that means striking a deal with Washington to lower tariffs and restore confidence that Canada can maintain stable access to U.S. markets. It also means resisting the urge to spend Canada into deeper deficits when warning lights are already flashing red. Over the long term, Ottawa must finally tackle high taxes, cut red tape and eliminate the bureaucratic obstacles that stand in the way of economic growth.
Capital has choices. Right now, it is voting with its feet and with its dollars and heading south. If Canada wants that capital to come home, the government will have to earn it back.
Posted by Herman
- November 19, 2025, 09:17:33 PMHere are four big reasons why Canada is going down the shitter.
Posted by Herman
- November 19, 2025, 12:42:36 AM
Posted by DKG
- November 18, 2025, 09:52:50 AMThis editorial appeared in the National Post. It highlights why investors prefer investing in the certainty and safety of the United States over Canada with a legal and bureaucratic apparatus to use lawfare and procedural sabotage to create a hostile environment for investment.
Carney's budget creating record deficits to spend billions of dollars to create hydroelectic power in Nunavut for 13,000 people does not reassure global investors and boost our sagging productivity.
Mr. Carney, investors don't see 'rule of law' in Canada — they see chaos
When asked what "extra" Canada does to appeal to foreign investors over the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney replied, "Well, we have the rule of law," a remark that was met with laughter in the room. This comment reveals a staggering disconnect from reality — a political fantasy that frames Canada as a bastion of stability against the "shaky and unpredictable" nature of its largest trading partner. An analysis of the objective investment climate exposes this assertion as nothing more than political marketing, divorced from economic reality.
While investment risk in the United States is often political, external, and transactional, the risk in Canada is systemic, legal, and structural. For long-term, capital-intensive projects, this deep, internal rot is fundamentally more toxic and unmanageable than the headline-driven volatility of a U.S. administration.
If the "rule of law" in Canada is meant to provide the certainty and predictability that capital demands, it is failing spectacularly. Investors seek clear title and dependable contracts. Canada is increasingly delivering the opposite. Investors don't witness stability — they witness a fractured federation, a weaponized bureaucracy, and a legal system that injects profound uncertainty into the most basic elements of capitalism, like property rights.
Consider the devastating B.C. Supreme Court decision in Cowichan Tribes v. Canada. The court's declaration recognized Aboriginal title to land underlying private properties in a large, developed area of Richmond.
This decision didn't expropriate the land, but it accomplished something almost as destructive to investor confidence: it shattered the entire land tenure system. Landowners and businesses now confront a destabilized legal framework where the very ownership of their land hangs in question. This isn't theoretical risk — it's a judicial earthquake that injects massive uncertainty into property rights, the absolute bedrock of a stable, investable economy.
Carney claims the U.S. is unpredictable, yet Canada's greatest infrastructure challenge remains its own internal borders. We aren't one economy — we are 13 squabbling fiefdoms. The poster child for this dysfunction remains the Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline debacle. The project became so mired in regulatory gridlock and open inter-provincial warfare — with the B.C. government actively working to kill a federally approved project — that its private-sector proponent, Kinder Morgan, finally capitulated. The only way to get it built was for the federal government to nationalize it, a bizarre outcome for a nation supposedly committed to free-market principles.
This failure wasn't an anomaly. Just last month, the premiers of Alberta and B.C. were again publicly feuding over new pipeline proposals. This ongoing hostility is precisely the "unpredictability" that investors flee. Why would a company risk billions in a country where a provincial premier can unilaterally sabotage a project that has already cleared a billion-dollar federal review?
The prime minister's "rule of law" rhetoric ignores the brutal reality of Canada's regulatory and legal gauntlet — a system that, as the Macdonald-Laurier Institute recently exposed , has empowered a "legal and bureaucratic apparatus" to use "lawfare" and "procedural sabotage" to create a hostile environment for investment.
The duty to consult with Indigenous groups, a constitutionally vital principle, has been perverted by this bureaucracy into a process with no clear timeline, no off-ramp, and no point of finality. It has become a recipe for indefinite paralysis, granting a de facto veto to countless groups, including a sprawling regulatory state.
We witness the same paralysis in Ontario's Ring of Fire. A generational opportunity to supply the world with critical minerals for the green transition is, once again, indefinitely stalled by a web of legal challenges, regulatory duplication, and jurisdictional squabbling.
For all its political theatre, the U.S. often delivers what capital craves most: certainty and speed. A project in Texas or Louisiana may face hurdles, but it doesn't face a provincial government threatening to tear up the constitution, or a legal challenge that questions the ground beneath your feet decades after a city was built.
In Canada, "rule of law" has degenerated into a "rule of lawyers," where the process is the punishment. The result isn't stability — it's paralysis. A 2023 Fraser Institute survey of energy executives found that investors are significantly more deterred by regulatory duplication, environmental regulations, and disputed land claims in Canada than in competing U.S. jurisdictions.
The government's own actions and the text of its budget serve as a comprehensive admission that Canada's investment climate is failing catastrophically. If the nation's "rule of law" was a sufficient draw for capital, the massive state intervention proposed in Budget 2025 would be unnecessary. The budget, titled "Canada Strong," isn't a celebration of a functioning system but a desperate, $1 trillion attempt to "supercharge growth" and correct profound, long-term domestic failures.
Richard Ciano, CAIP, is Chief Strategist at Yorkville Strategies Inc., a market research firm.
Carney's budget creating record deficits to spend billions of dollars to create hydroelectic power in Nunavut for 13,000 people does not reassure global investors and boost our sagging productivity.
Mr. Carney, investors don't see 'rule of law' in Canada — they see chaos
When asked what "extra" Canada does to appeal to foreign investors over the United States, Prime Minister Mark Carney replied, "Well, we have the rule of law," a remark that was met with laughter in the room. This comment reveals a staggering disconnect from reality — a political fantasy that frames Canada as a bastion of stability against the "shaky and unpredictable" nature of its largest trading partner. An analysis of the objective investment climate exposes this assertion as nothing more than political marketing, divorced from economic reality.
While investment risk in the United States is often political, external, and transactional, the risk in Canada is systemic, legal, and structural. For long-term, capital-intensive projects, this deep, internal rot is fundamentally more toxic and unmanageable than the headline-driven volatility of a U.S. administration.
If the "rule of law" in Canada is meant to provide the certainty and predictability that capital demands, it is failing spectacularly. Investors seek clear title and dependable contracts. Canada is increasingly delivering the opposite. Investors don't witness stability — they witness a fractured federation, a weaponized bureaucracy, and a legal system that injects profound uncertainty into the most basic elements of capitalism, like property rights.
Consider the devastating B.C. Supreme Court decision in Cowichan Tribes v. Canada. The court's declaration recognized Aboriginal title to land underlying private properties in a large, developed area of Richmond.
This decision didn't expropriate the land, but it accomplished something almost as destructive to investor confidence: it shattered the entire land tenure system. Landowners and businesses now confront a destabilized legal framework where the very ownership of their land hangs in question. This isn't theoretical risk — it's a judicial earthquake that injects massive uncertainty into property rights, the absolute bedrock of a stable, investable economy.
Carney claims the U.S. is unpredictable, yet Canada's greatest infrastructure challenge remains its own internal borders. We aren't one economy — we are 13 squabbling fiefdoms. The poster child for this dysfunction remains the Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline debacle. The project became so mired in regulatory gridlock and open inter-provincial warfare — with the B.C. government actively working to kill a federally approved project — that its private-sector proponent, Kinder Morgan, finally capitulated. The only way to get it built was for the federal government to nationalize it, a bizarre outcome for a nation supposedly committed to free-market principles.
This failure wasn't an anomaly. Just last month, the premiers of Alberta and B.C. were again publicly feuding over new pipeline proposals. This ongoing hostility is precisely the "unpredictability" that investors flee. Why would a company risk billions in a country where a provincial premier can unilaterally sabotage a project that has already cleared a billion-dollar federal review?
The prime minister's "rule of law" rhetoric ignores the brutal reality of Canada's regulatory and legal gauntlet — a system that, as the Macdonald-Laurier Institute recently exposed , has empowered a "legal and bureaucratic apparatus" to use "lawfare" and "procedural sabotage" to create a hostile environment for investment.
The duty to consult with Indigenous groups, a constitutionally vital principle, has been perverted by this bureaucracy into a process with no clear timeline, no off-ramp, and no point of finality. It has become a recipe for indefinite paralysis, granting a de facto veto to countless groups, including a sprawling regulatory state.
We witness the same paralysis in Ontario's Ring of Fire. A generational opportunity to supply the world with critical minerals for the green transition is, once again, indefinitely stalled by a web of legal challenges, regulatory duplication, and jurisdictional squabbling.
For all its political theatre, the U.S. often delivers what capital craves most: certainty and speed. A project in Texas or Louisiana may face hurdles, but it doesn't face a provincial government threatening to tear up the constitution, or a legal challenge that questions the ground beneath your feet decades after a city was built.
In Canada, "rule of law" has degenerated into a "rule of lawyers," where the process is the punishment. The result isn't stability — it's paralysis. A 2023 Fraser Institute survey of energy executives found that investors are significantly more deterred by regulatory duplication, environmental regulations, and disputed land claims in Canada than in competing U.S. jurisdictions.
The government's own actions and the text of its budget serve as a comprehensive admission that Canada's investment climate is failing catastrophically. If the nation's "rule of law" was a sufficient draw for capital, the massive state intervention proposed in Budget 2025 would be unnecessary. The budget, titled "Canada Strong," isn't a celebration of a functioning system but a desperate, $1 trillion attempt to "supercharge growth" and correct profound, long-term domestic failures.
Richard Ciano, CAIP, is Chief Strategist at Yorkville Strategies Inc., a market research firm.
Posted by Herman
- November 17, 2025, 09:48:06 PMQuote from: Thiel on November 17, 2025, 12:57:39 PMJo Jo, I know how hard you try to get the attention of posters here and yet those meanies continue to ignore you. Sweetie, you have my word I will never do that.Jesus H I laughed so hard my gut hurt when I saw working folks showing the prog Conman what they think of him.
Mr. Carney was booed at yesterday's CFL championship while doing what he does best - throwing away other people's money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azZgSY3pV-I
Posted by Thiel
- November 17, 2025, 12:57:39 PMJo Jo, I know how hard you try to get the attention of posters here and yet those meanies continue to ignore you. Sweetie, you have my word I will never do that.
Mr. Carney was booed at yesterday's CFL championship while doing what he does best - throwing away other people's money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azZgSY3pV-I
Mr. Carney was booed at yesterday's CFL championship while doing what he does best - throwing away other people's money.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azZgSY3pV-I
Posted by JOE
- November 17, 2025, 07:03:59 AMSingapore works a lot harder than Canada:
Posted by JOE
- November 17, 2025, 06:56:43 AMReality of Retirement in Taiwan:
Posted by JOE
- November 17, 2025, 06:54:38 AMReality of retirement in South Korea:
Posted by JOE
- November 17, 2025, 06:50:48 AMReality of retirement in Japan:
Posted by JOE
- November 17, 2025, 06:42:05 AMQuote from: Shen Li on November 16, 2025, 10:44:49 PMThis video is not that long. Watch it.
This ugly white British guy is no conservative either. He has tapped into why so many skilled immigrants and Canadian born are looking for trading Canada for freer countries that want their citizens to succeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAHGpq8DMA
I've seen that guy's videos on YouTube Shen Li
Shen.What he & all the Canada bashers NEVER mention is how much harder Asians & other countries have to work work to maintain their standard of living.
Here's a video about the new Prime Minister of Japan who gets 2 hours of sleep per night & expects her cabinet members to work as hard as she:
Asia's success is no accident.
They probably work 50% longer hours than Canadians do.
Meanwhile we have postal workers who whine about working beyond 9-5 no weekends. And Canada's postal service is falling apart.
You often blame the Liberals for the lack of growth and productivity be in reality it's entirely their fault. There are many lazy Canadians who just don't realize how hard citizens in other countries work to keep a roof over their heads.
Plus they retire later and get shittier pensions & benefits Shen.
A lot of Canadians are too soft and lazy. Many are starting to complain about Mark Carney too , even the ones who voted for him.
Posted by Shen Li
- November 16, 2025, 10:44:49 PMThis video is not that long. Watch it.
This ugly white British guy is no conservative either. He has tapped into why so many skilled immigrants and Canadian born are looking for trading Canada for freer countries that want their citizens to succeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAHGpq8DMA
This ugly white British guy is no conservative either. He has tapped into why so many skilled immigrants and Canadian born are looking for trading Canada for freer countries that want their citizens to succeed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeAHGpq8DMA
Posted by Herman
- November 02, 2025, 06:23:27 PMHow about helping young people here in Canada get jobs?
Are the Liberals interested in trying that?
Are the Liberals interested in trying that?
Posted by Herman
- November 01, 2025, 11:36:34 PMWhat a prick.
