Our premier is cut from the same corrupt big government cloth as Mark Carney. Both of them are reckless with public money and disincentive spund private investment.

What makes Carney worse is that his obsession with lowering our measly C02 emissions is expensive and costing jobs.

Public kept in dark about Algoma layoffs
This lack of transparency raises concerns about the billions of dollars our governments are shelling out to support companies impacted by tariffs

When it comes to the $500 million in loan guarantees the federal and Ontario governments gave to Algoma Steel in September, we now know they treated taxpayers who were financing them like mushrooms.

That is, they kept them in the dark and covered them with manure.

These announcements made no mention of the fact Prime Minister Mark Carney and Ontario Premier Doug Ford knew when they issued the loans – $400 million from the feds, $100 million from the province – that Algoma Steel was going to go ahead with major layoffs regardless of this financial support.

That only came out last week, when Algoma, after announcing it was laying off 1,000 workers at its steel plant in Sault Ste. Marie, revealed both levels of government knew in advance about the impending layoffs when they granted the loans.

The reason for the layoffs is that Algoma is converting from traditional blast furnace to electric arc furnace technology in order to make so-called "green steel," which produces fewer industrial greenhouse gas emissions but also requires significantly fewer workers to operate.

The issue is why wasn't this information given to the public at the time the loans were made?

The reason is obvious. They wanted to escape any questioning or criticism of the loans at the time they were announced, instead of being open and honest with the public paying for them.

This lack of transparency raises concerns about the billions of dollars our governments are shelling out to support companies impacted by tariffs.

What else haven't they told us about them – given that it's now obvious from the Algoma Steel and other examples that this financial support doesn't come with any job guarantees?

This even though we're constantly being told the purpose of all this government financial support when these programs are announced is to preserve jobs.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-public-kept-in-dark-about-algoma-layoffs

This was a letter to the editor I read that explains why Canada is no longer a top ten country to live in. We are barely top thirty.

It does not even touch on the 800 pound gorilla in the tea shop - flooding the country with millions of low skilled unproductive third world imports.

QuoteCanada entered the 2020s with an energy strategy grounded not in engineering or economics but in climate narratives and regulatory zeal. Carbon taxes and pipeline constraints raised the cost of fuel not through scarcity but through deliberate policy choices. A modern economy cannot escape the mathematics of input costs. When energy policy forces fuel prices upward, every other price follows. Inflation rose even before global shocks arrived. Deficit spending surged during the pandemic. The Bank of Canada resumed large-scale purchases of government bonds but not as part of a national development strategy. Instead, it was a crisis reflex that underwrote consumption rather than investment. When inflation accelerated, the Bank again raised interest rates, repeating the dynamic of the early 1980s but without the industrial strength Canada once possessed.

Investors responded rationally. Capital left for jurisdictions with stable regulatory frameworks and predictable policy paths. Domestic firms hesitated to expand. Foreign companies scaled back operations or withdrew entirely. Productivity declined because investment collapsed. Meanwhile, the welfare state grew costlier because demographic pressures mounted while the tax base stagnated. The consequence was not ideological. It was arithmetic. A country that undermines its productive sectors while expanding its dependent sectors will run deficits, accumulate debt, and lose competitiveness.

This brings us back to the question that opened this essay. Canada's economic deterioration was not mysterious. It was the long-term consequence of abandoning sovereign credit, embracing a regulatory culture that treated markets as subordinate to ideology, and filling the machinery of government with people who lacked the knowledge and humility required to manage complex systems. When merit declines, confidence often rises. This is the Dunning–Kruger effect in national form. Leaders who know least believe they know most. Leaders who know most understand the limits of their knowledge and tread carefully.

Canada once understood those limits. It built railways and ports when private capital could not. It used the Bank of Canada to finance growth efficiently. It kept regulation within the bounds of practicality. It relied on people with real experience to run portfolios that required expertise. In later decades, it did the opposite. It regulated at every turn, spent without discipline, taxed energy out of ideological conviction, and placed heavy responsibilities in the hands of those who did not understand their own tools.

The outcome is the economy Canadians now face. Investment has fled. Productivity has fallen. The cost of living is rising. Debt is growing. The welfare state has expanded faster than national income. None of this was inevitable. It is the product of choices, institutions, and leaders. Canada can recover what it lost, but not until it recovers the one thing that sustained its greatest successes: a governing class chosen for competence rather than conformity.

Canada aint a stupid country. This is deliberate sabotage of our first world status.

Liberal ideologies instead of human lives. This is the result.

The same folks that bought this lie fell for the elbows up bullshit too.

I read that Toronto's first Muslim deputy mayor Ausma Malik called for a "pathway to citizenship" for illegal immigrants.

he Liberals just voted against our Conservative plan to fix Canada's broken bail system, which would have ended the failed Liberal 'hug-a-thug' soft-on-crime, easy-bail laws.

The Liberals must see nothing wrong with the fact that since 2015:

Violent crime is up 55%
Firearms crime is up 130%
Extortion has skyrocketed by 330% across Canada
Sexual assaults are up 76%
Homicides are up 29%

The Liberals have doubled down on keeping repeat violent offenders out on our streets.

And Conman Carney is on track to be an even bigger fiscal disaster.

Anyone with a brain definitely realizes what's happening in this country. Canada has taken a massive nosedive in the global quality of life rankings. Sadly deranged liberal supporters are too brainwashed by the Canadian mainstream media to have 2 brain cells to rub together to see or understand what's truly going on as they keep blindly believing the lies & gaslighting  of their commie overlords. They'd rather blame Trump, the conservatives (who haven't been in power since 2015), claim this is "fake data" or anything else than admit their precious lying lunatic liberals keep destroying the country. Way to go. Elbows up sheep.

Quote from: Herman on October 04, 2025, 08:48:05 PM

The Liberals and NDP work for the UN and Davos not working Canadians.

Quote from: Herman on October 04, 2025, 08:38:21 PMGood job Liberals. We were getting tired of freedom democracy and the good life anyway.

I have never met anybody who honestly believes they are freer richer and safer in 2025 than they were in 2014.

Good job Liberals. We were getting tired of freedom democracy and the good life anyway.