THeBlueCashew

Our situation in Canada is dire and none of the political parties in Ottawa are taking it seriously.

Conrad Black: The nadir of our once great nation
We are, for the first time, in danger of losing our status as a prosperous and successful country

QuoteI think we should start by recognizing that this country, so rich in natural resources and with a skilled and law-abiding workforce and a generally stable social and political environment, is on the verge of losing its status as a prosperous and successful country. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) now predicts that Canada will be the poorest performing advanced economy in the world for the next 35 years if it continues on its present path. Under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada's per capita average income has increased by three per cent, from $54,154 in 2016, to $55,863 in 2022. In the same time the average per capita income in the United States rose by 12 per cent from $65,792 to $73,565. In approximately this same period, cash generated in Canada and invested outside Canada exceeded incoming investments in this country by nearly $300 billion. From the onset of COVID in February 2020 to June 2023, the number of private sector jobs in Canada increased by 3.3 per cent while public sector jobs increased in number by 11.8 per cent and public sector employees are paid 31 per cent more on average than those in the private sector. Canada now has 4.1 million public-sector employees, more than 10 per cent of our entire population. The corresponding percentage in the United States is slightly over six per cent despite that country's very large military establishment.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-nadir-of-our-once-great-nation

I like Mark. We have done business deals together. But, he does not want to make Canada great again. That is okay because his investments are making America great again.

Quote from: Brent on September 08, 2025, 12:03:51 PMOur situation in Canada is dire and none of the political parties in Ottawa are taking it seriously.

Conrad Black: The nadir of our once great nation
We are, for the first time, in danger of losing our status as a prosperous and successful country
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-nadir-of-our-once-great-nation

Mr. Black is right as he usually is. Of course we can all see Canada's rapid decline. I mean everybody except my Jo Jo.

Here is another big reason why Canada will be kicked out of the rich countries club.
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And another reason why our demomcracy is failing.
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Thank God I live in a free country like Canada. I'm so grateful we have a competent & Democraticly minded Prime Minister like Mark Carney Mark Carney. Not like The DonaldT Trump.

Quote from: Thiel on September 08, 2025, 01:22:21 PMMr. Black is right as he usually is. Of course we can all see Canada's rapid decline. I mean everybody except my Jo Jo.

I can only see your boyfriend's posts when you or Lokmar quote him. I gather he really doesn't like Canada or he doesn't care that it's first world status is in jeopardy. He supports everything that has pushed our beloved country to the edge of a cliff.

Ottawa has lost control of immigration.

Canada is on pace to bring in more than one million new people this year. Almost three million temporary residents are already here. And as many as 500,000 people are living in Canada illegally.

Ottawa refuses to count them honestly. Because of that failure, the provinces are left to pick up the pieces.

Their policies are putting more pressure on Ontario's health care, housing, jobs, education and public services.

Ontario has always welcomed newcomers. But immigration must be transparent, honest and sustainable.

Right now, it is none of those things.

Quote from: DKG on September 09, 2025, 10:37:25 AMOttawa has lost control of immigration.

Canada is on pace to bring in more than one million new people this year. Almost three million temporary residents are already here. And as many as 500,000 people are living in Canada illegally.

Ottawa refuses to count them honestly. Because of that failure, the provinces are left to pick up the pieces.

Their policies are putting more pressure on Ontario's health care, housing, jobs, education and public services.

Ontario has always welcomed newcomers. But immigration must be transparent, honest and sustainable.

Right now, it is none of those things.

This is the biggest reason the Canadian middle class is in danger of extinction. Carney is only here to make his rich friends richer.

I want to thank Joe and the entire elderly homosexual commmunity for their tremendous support.

Quote from: JOE on September 09, 2025, 01:45:06 AMThank God I live in a free country like Canada. I'm so grateful we have a competent & Democraticly minded Prime Minister like Mark Carney Mark Carney. Not like The DonaldT Trump.

That's cute Jo Jo.

Sweetie, when you are done counting your chocolate gold coins with the allowance I give you, look up Bill C-63 and then we will talk about democracy.

Quote from: The Donald on September 09, 2025, 03:03:31 PMI want to thank Joe and the entire elderly homosexual commmunity for their tremendous support.

Don't forget all the closet homos in your own community at the Blue Cashew The DonaldT he Donald. They make your existence and job possible.

Does Hajdu know or care about how bad the job market is for young people? I say she doesn't give a shit and Conman Carney don't either.
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This country lacks transparency too. I like Trump's DOGE office. It forced government departments to be transparent.
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Mark Carney and the Liberals have broken Canada's immigration system. Even worse than it was under Trudeau.

They've driven up unemployment.

They've fueled higher taxes and inflation.

Quote from: JOE on September 09, 2025, 06:06:28 PMDon't forget all the closet homos in your own community at the Blue Cashew The DonaldT he Donald. They make your existence and job possible.

We aren't closet gays Sugarplum. Everybody knows our orientation and our love for each other. :kiss:

Quote from: Thiel on September 10, 2025, 01:48:50 PMWe aren't closet gays Sugarplum. Everybody knows our orientation and our love for each other. :kiss:

JOEJ message from Thiel, shithead!

Quote from: Thiel on September 10, 2025, 01:48:50 PMWe aren't closet gays Sugarplum. Everybody knows our orientation and our love for each other. :kiss:

In wish you and Joe a happy life together and I want to thank both of you elderly gay men for your tremendous support.

Quote from: JOE on September 10, 2025, 06:25:43 PMGold 'n silver keeps goin' up...Lokmar!

So does Platinum! I admit, I shoulda listeend to you and bought s'mome.

I hope you hung onta some of yer Platinum....Loimar!

Derailing threads with that again. Fuck off troll.

Quote from: Brent on September 10, 2025, 06:37:29 PMDerailing threads with that again. Fuck off troll.

I agree. This thread is not about platinum. He has a thread in General Chit Chat for pretend platinum.

I would have moved his post to that thread, but I don't know how to do that.

This wanker is a lap dog of Trump and Xi. China and the US is where all his investments are.
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As Canada loses 50,000 manufacturing jobs, Carney talks climate buzzwords and Joly pushes EV imports, while Brookfield invests in pipelines abroad. Who is Ottawa really working for?

DAN KNIGHT:  MARK CARNEY'S NEW 'CLIMATE COMPETITIVENESS' PITCH FALLS FLAT 
 

Carney's brand-new slogan:  "climate competitiveness."
"That's the phrase. Climate competitiveness. Sounds impressive, doesn't it?  Canada is going to "compete" to be the greenest.
"You might think, okay, maybe Ottawa has a plan. Maybe, just maybe, someone in Mark Carney's office has thought: "Wait a second, all these goods from Amazon, all the crap piled high at Canadian Tire, maybe we should tax the carbon embedded in them, so we can actually build a Canada-first, Canada-strong economy."

"Seems obvious, right? Put tariffs on dirty imports. Level the playing field. Protect Canadian workers.

"Nope. Not happening. Elbows down, Ottawa doesn't tax a single ton of Chinese carbon. Not one. That's right — Beijing carbon heavy manufacturing gets a free ride.

"Our carbon taxes? They apply only to you. The farmer in Moose Jaw filling up his tractor. The commuter in Moncton just trying to get to work. The family in Thunder Bay who wants to heat their home through a Canadian winter. They pay. You pay. Everyone here pays. But China? The country that floods us with billions in imports, all made in coal-fired factories? Nothing.

"So let's be crystal clear: the carbon tax isn't about saving the planet. It's about punishing Canadians for living in Canada. And giving Beijing an even bigger advantage while we kneecap our own economy and call it... "climate competitiveness."

"But we have to ask the serious question, 'compete' against whom, exactly?

"China? India?
"China is the world's biggest polluter, building coal plants like Starbucks opens coffee shops. India has flat-out said, "We'll clean up in 50 years." And Mark Carney thinks Canada, with 40 million people, is "competing" with them by taxing farmers, commuters, and families into oblivion while handing foreign polluters a free pass.

"And if you think it's just China and India, think again. Let's take a quick tour.

"Brazil? They talk a good game at climate summits, but they're still torching the Amazon to make room for cattle and soybeans. Net-zero slogans on one hand, bulldozers on the other.

"Vietnam? Their economy is powered by coal too, and they're one of the fastest-growing importers of Canadian coal. Yes, we ship them coal so they can burn it. But don't worry, we'll slap a carbon tax on a Saskatchewan farmer for planting wheat.

"And Russia... Well, Russia doesn't even pretend. They drill, they mine, they pipe gas straight into Europe, and they laugh at the idea of "climate competitiveness." They're too busy selling oil to fund their wars.

"So that's the global competition Mark Carney thinks we're in. Countries that are either doubling down on coal, clear-cutting rainforests, or weaponizing oil and gas, while Canada is told to spend a million dollars to move an anthill before we can build a mine.

AND MELANIE JOLY?
Joly talks climate targets as manufacturing jobs disappear.  Here's what "climate competitiveness" looks like in practice.

"Mélanie Joly shows up in Montreal, standing in front of aluminum executives, at the exact moment Canada has lost more than 50,000 manufacturing jobs since January. Fifty thousand. Gone. Families ruined, paycheques wiped out. And what does she talk about? Not jobs. Not tariffs. Not survival. No, she talks about climate targets. EV mandates. "Competing" with Chinese electric cars.

"Yes, while Canadian auto workers are staring down layoffs, her big idea is to import more EVs from Asia and call it competition.
"That's not a joke... she actually said that.

"So what's Joly's solution to the layoffs? Not to fix the tariffs. Not to protect Canadian auto workers in Cambridge, Alliston, Hamilton, Brampton. No... she wants to "compete with China's EVs" by importing them from Asia and Europe. Think about that: Canada loses tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs, and her answer is. Wait for it...
"Import more foreign cars. That's her industrial strategy.
"And then she promises, with a straight face, that Canada will still "follow our goals" for 2030 and 2035.

"This is the Liberal Party's version of economic leadership: brag about climate targets nobody believes in, while your auto sector bleeds out, while aluminum workers sit in a room wondering if they'll even have jobs next year. And she's smiling the whole time.

FINAL THOUGHTS
"Look, I'm not anti-green. Nobody's against cleaner air or smarter technology. But I'm also not stupid. And when you actually listen to these people. Mark Carney, Mélanie Joly, the whole Liberal bunch, you realize pretty quickly what's going on. They're snake-oil salesmen. Selling a grift to unassuming Liberal voters. And the pitch is always the same: 'don't worry, we've got a plan.'

"But the truth is, the plan is a scam. While Carney lectures Canadians about "climate competitiveness," his company Brookfield has been buying pipelines. Not small ones. Big ones.

"So here's the question: if pipelines are evil, if oil and gas are killing the planet, why is Mark Carney investing billions in them? Why is he making money hand over fist off the very industry he's suffocating here at home?

"Because it's a shell game. They've brainwashed you into thinking they're virtuous while they cripple your income, your children's prosperity, your country's future. They make it impossible to build here, then they offshore it to China, and sell it back to you at a premium. And if you tried to produce the same thing in Canada? Carney and his GFANZ banker friends would wag their climate-virtuous fingers and shut it down.

"Here's the reality: real progress doesn't come from more red tape and taxes. It comes from innovation. Twenty years ago a light bulb was 100 watts. Today, the LED equivalent is 13.5 watts. That's how you build, by making things better, faster, more efficient. Businesses already want that. Efficiency is savings, savings is profit. You don't need a Liberal lecture for that.

"And that's the choice in the next election. Do we keep letting
grifters in Ottawa sell us out to China while pretending they're saving the planet or do we take our country back?

"Canada was built by farmers who fed the world, by workers who laid the tracks, by families who braved the cold because they believed this country was worth it. They didn't wait for permission from bankers and bureaucrats. They just built.

"It's time we did the same. Build it strong. Truly build Canada first.
"This country doesn't belong to the Laurentian elite.
"It doesn't belong to the lobbyists in Ottawa.

"And it sure as hell doesn't belong to Mark Carney.
"It belongs to us... the people who built it, who work it, who love it. True North, strong and free."

Quote from: The Donald on September 10, 2025, 04:13:15 PMIn wish you and Joe a happy life together and I want to thank both of you elderly gay men for your tremendous support.

It is our pleasure Mr. President. And Jo Jo and I want you to continue the good work.

Sleight of hand. Take away one carbon tax and quickly replace it with another one. Is Trump bringing in a carbon tax? Hell no, he is too busy making energy as cheap as possible for Americans while the Conman does the opposite.
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This guy is losing it. Nah, he never had it.
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Finally some jobs created under Conman Carney but only for the right kid of people.
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The federal Liberals are deliberately stifling Canadian prosperity.

On a more positive note, half of all exports from TMX go to Asia at international prices.

The negative economic impact of Canada's proposed oil and gas emissions cap will be much larger than previously projected, warns a study by the Center for North American Prosperity and Security (CNAPS).

The report concluded that the cost of the emissions cap far exceeds any benefit from emissions reduction within Canada, and it could push global emissions higher instead of lower.

Based on findings this March by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), CNAPS pegs the cost of the cap to be up to $289,000 per tonne of reduced emissions.

That's more than 3,600 times the cost of the $80-per-tonne federal carbon tax eliminated this spring.

The proposed cap has already chilled investment as Canada's policymakers look to "nation-building" projects to strengthen the economy, said lead author Heather Exner-Pirot.

"Why would any proponent invest in Canada with this hanging over it? That's why no other country is talking about an emissions cap on its energy sector," said Exner-Pirot, director of energy, natural resources and environment at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Here are the folks responsible for sending Canada down the old turd pipe.
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Conman Carney's spending priorities are not your spending priorities.
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Quote from: Herman on September 19, 2025, 09:31:51 PMHere are the folks responsible for sending Canada down the old turd pipe.
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My boyfriend Thiel is right about Mark Carney being the one of the worst prime ministers in Canada's history.

Canada underwent massive de-industrialization under the Trudeau Liberals.
It's not looking any better under the "new" Carney Liberals either.
Elbows Up!
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Everything the Justine and Conman Liberals have done in ten years is to make all of us poor, have fewer choices over our own lives, take away our freedoms and make this country less safe.
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Conman Carney operates in secret for a reason. We would be going convoy on his elitist ass if folks knew how he is trampling on transparency and wasting our money.
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We are so screwed under this Liberal military junta.
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Conman Carney is a threat to what remains of Canada's democracy.

Parliament voted against this last year. Conman Carney, decided to skip a vote altogether. Ignore public or Parliamentary discussions. Insane.

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Another great plan that will never happen in Liberal demolished Canada.

Dale Swampy, chief executive of the National Coalition of Chiefs, said an updated project — which he referred to as "Northern Gateway 2.0" — could provide Indigenous communities with long-term economic benefits.
"A northwest tidewater bitumen pipeline is the answer to being able to increase our production or increase our economic activity," Swampy said in an interview.

Swampy, a member of the Samson Cree Nation south of Edmonton, worked on Enbridge's consultation team and helped negotiate economic benefits for Indigenous groups. After the collapse of Northern Gateway, he formed the National Coalition of Chiefs with a stated goal of addressing poverty on reserves through resource development.
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Conman and his cabinet.
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Federal diversity, equity & inclusion programs within 29 departments have cost $1.049 billion since 2016.

Almost $1.1 billion in 9 years to amass power and wealth in the hands of ideological activists and Liberal insiders.

And Mark Carney is pushing the same ideology while Canadians pay the price.

Reporting shows that the government is going to launch its gun ban and confiscation scheme soon.

The federal government has banned more than 2,000 models of firearms since 2020. Before they were banned, all those firearms were used for hunting or sports shooting by Canadians who passed safety tests and background checks.

For more than five years, Ottawa has said it's concocting a plan to confiscate the banned firearms and compensate gun owners for their now banned property.

But so far, it has failed to take a single firearm from individuals.

Now, the government's plan has hit another roadblock.

The Ontario Provincial Police said it won't participate in Ottawa's scheme. The Saskatchewan and Alberta governments have also said they won't help.

Even Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, the minister in charge of the ban, doesn't believe in his own program.

In an audio recording, a firearms owner asks the minister if he knows that legal gun owners aren't the problem. "I realize that," said Anandasangaree.

The union that represents the RCMP opposes the gun ban and buyback because it won't work and other police organizations are taking similar stands.

Canada is transitioning away from the good life and freedom at a rapid pace now. And it is all thanks to this lying, tax dodging fraud and his puppet predecessor.
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Quote from: DKG on September 23, 2025, 07:39:24 AMReporting shows that the government is going to launch its gun ban and confiscation scheme soon.

The federal government has banned more than 2,000 models of firearms since 2020. Before they were banned, all those firearms were used for hunting or sports shooting by Canadians who passed safety tests and background checks.

For more than five years, Ottawa has said it's concocting a plan to confiscate the banned firearms and compensate gun owners for their now banned property.

But so far, it has failed to take a single firearm from individuals.

Now, the government's plan has hit another roadblock.

The Ontario Provincial Police said it won't participate in Ottawa's scheme. The Saskatchewan and Alberta governments have also said they won't help.

Even Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree, the minister in charge of the ban, doesn't believe in his own program.

In an audio recording, a firearms owner asks the minister if he knows that legal gun owners aren't the problem. "I realize that," said Anandasangaree.

The union that represents the RCMP opposes the gun ban and buyback because it won't work and other police organizations are taking similar stands.

Cucknadians should have NEVER registered their AR-15's and they'd still have them. Illinois banned AR-15 sales and required registration of guns AND magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. I did NOT comply!!!!!!

Quote from: Herman on September 22, 2025, 10:00:51 PMConman Carney is a threat to what remains of Canada's democracy.

Parliament voted against this last year. Conman Carney, decided to skip a vote altogether. Ignore public or Parliamentary discussions. Insane.

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My Davos friends did not appoint me as Canada's prime minister because they care about your democracy or prosperity. I'm pretending to be Canada's prime minister to make money for myself, my friends in New York and Europe and Brookfield.

Quote from: Herman on September 23, 2025, 04:33:24 PMCanada is transitioning away from the good life and freedom at a rapid pace now. And it is all thanks to this lying, tax dodging fraud and his puppet predecessor.
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Canadians are fools. They bought all my lies. :crampe:

Quote from: Mark Carney on September 23, 2025, 06:30:58 PMCanadians are fools. They bought all my lies. :crampe:

Yer doin' a good job for Canada.

Keep up the good Work Prime Minister Mark Carney Mark Carney!

Quote from: Jo Jo on September 23, 2025, 06:46:22 PMYer doin' a good job for Canada.

Keep up the good Work Prime Minister Mark Carney Mark Carney!

Sugarplum, we all know you are telling fibs again.

Remember how I explained to you after we had sex last night that Mr. Carney has had the worst start of any prime in Canadian history. Mark Carney's first act as a prime minister of Canada was to lie to the Canadian people. That may seem like a bold allegation, but there are no two ways about it.

Carney held a cabinet meeting, invited the TV cameras in and held a Trump-style executive order signing that was nothing but a charade.

On trade, energy, housing, immigration, freedom of speech,spending and debt he reversed the promises he made and made problems worse than when he assumed the office of prime minister.

Pussycat, I understand, you are very old, you don't have any form of employment and you are not a stakeholder in Canada. But, people thirty or more years younger than you do and Mr. Carney has been the worst prime minister in Canadian history at this stage of office.

Understand now Sweetie or should jump in the sack first again?

Quote from: Thiel on September 23, 2025, 07:17:27 PMSugarplum, we all know you are telling fibs again.

Remember how I explained to you after we had sex last night that Mr. Carney has had the worst start of any prime in Canadian history. Mark Carney's first act as a prime minister of Canada was to lie to the Canadian people. That may seem like a bold allegation, but there are no two ways about it.

Carney held a cabinet meeting, invited the TV cameras in and held a Trump-style executive order signing that was nothing but a charade.

On trade, energy, housing, immigration, freedom of speech,spending and debt he reversed the promises he made and made problems worse than when he assumed the office of prime minister.

Pussycat, I understand, you are very old, you don't have any form of employment and you are not a stakeholder in Canada. But, people thirty or more years younger than you do and Mr. Carney has been the worst prime minister in Canadian history at this stage of office.

I do not agree with you and Joe's fruity relationship. But, he is frickin lucky to get a queer like you.

BREAKING: Liberals vote to keep production cap on Canadian oil and gas.
During the election Mark Carney claimed he would unleash our energy sector and "build, build, build."

Every energy company said that Trudeau's Emissions & Production Cap must be eliminated before anything will be built
This means more lost opportunities for Canada and less money in Canadians' pockets.

Mark Carney said he'd be different but he's keeping Justin Trudeau's anti-energy policies!
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Canadians' standard of living is seeing it's worst decline since the Great Depression. By the Liberal government's own Parliamentary Budget Office's admission this decline will accelerate in the coming years and decades.

I am soooooo fucking glad I got my sons out of that country before it's too late.

Quote from: Herman on September 23, 2025, 08:41:57 PMBREAKING: Liberals vote to keep production cap on Canadian oil and gas.
During the election Mark Carney claimed he would unleash our energy sector and "build, build, build."

Every energy company said that Trudeau's Emissions & Production Cap must be eliminated before anything will be built
This means more lost opportunities for Canada and less money in Canadians' pockets.

Mark Carney said he'd be different but he's keeping Justin Trudeau's anti-energy policies!
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Jo Jo and I were just talking about how Mr. Carney is not putting his foot on the brake of Canada's economic decline.

Quote from: Thiel on September 23, 2025, 11:53:32 PMJo Jo and I were just talking about how Mr. Carney is not putting his foot on the brake of Canada's economic decline.

Carney is flattening the economic ruin accelerator.

Quote from: Thiel on September 23, 2025, 07:17:27 PMOn trade, energy, housing, immigration, freedom of speech,spending and debt he reversed the promises he made and made problems worse than when he assumed the office of prime minister.

I have doing this on purpose since bought the job of pm. It is only now that Canadian voters are waking up to my scam.

I don't care. I don't live or invest in Canada.

Quote from: Mark Carney on September 24, 2025, 01:31:36 PMI don't live or invest in Canada.

Neither do Jo Jo and I. And it is because of the lack of leadership from you and your predecessor.

Quote from: Brent on September 24, 2025, 01:10:37 PMCarney is flattening the economic ruin accelerator.

I had to think about this for a second or two.

Canadians weren't supposed to notice that Conman Carney aint even trying to improve living standards anymore.
Meanwhile Trump is getting foreign companies to build factories, cutting red tape, deregulating energy to make electricity cheaper, and lowering taxes.
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And on the liberty side. Conman Carney is turning the screws on haters which are folks he hates.
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Not another penny should go to the Liberals punishing their political enemies.
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Carney has to go back to the UK or the US.
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The end of the Canadian dream.
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There is no such thing as safe supply illegal drugs. It is creating junkies, driving up crime and making cities in Canada unlivable.

An Angus Reid poll indicates what anybody with half a brain knows - people in Canada view the TFW program negatively.

QuoteAngus Reid Poll Finds Canadians More Critical of TFW Program

The Sept. 2025 Angus Reid poll of 1,570 adults finds 52% of Canadians view the TFW program negatively and 55% say Canada accepts too many applicants. Concerns center on labour market harm, youth job prospects, and housing; support for citizenship pathways fell to 30%. The survey urges stronger inspections, safer reporting, and better ties between labour policy and housing planning.

A new Angus Reid poll indicates a sharp shift in public mood toward Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker program, with 52% of Canadians now viewing the program negatively and 55% saying the country accepts too many Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) applicants. Released in late September 2025, the survey underscores growing doubts about the program's impact on jobs, housing, and fairness, even as many respondents say workers themselves are often blamed for problems they did not cause.

The Angus Reid Institute surveyed 1,570 adults online from September 19–22, 2025. Its findings point to mounting pressure on Ottawa to re-examine how the program operates and who benefits from it. Only 23% hold a favourable view of the TFW program, and support for a pathway to citizenship for TFWs fell to 30%, down from 36% in 2024.

Poll highlights and shifts in opinion
Across key measures, skepticism has grown.

54% say the program hurts the broader labour market.
61% believe it harms the job prospects of young Canadians.
66% say the TFW program negatively affects the housing market — a particularly sensitive issue after years of tight supply and rising rents.
https://www.visaverge.com/news/angus-reid-poll-finds-canadians-more-critical-of-tfw-program/

Remember when Carney said he would take on the United States and protect our economy? This is how that's going.
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Old damn fools in the East voted for this fraud.
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Canadian company TC Energy announced ten billion in new ivestment in the States while cutting investment in Carney's Canada.

He is half right. The Justine/Conman Carney Liberals are standing in the way of higher living standards.
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Quote from: Herman on October 03, 2025, 09:28:50 PMHe is half right. The Justine/Conman Carney Liberals are standing in the way of higher living standards.
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I did this. :crampe:

Quote from: Mark Carney on October 04, 2025, 11:02:55 AMI did this. :crampe:

Go back to your American investments in New York.

Quote from: Brent on October 04, 2025, 11:46:59 AMGo back to your American investments in New York.

He will as soon as he loses the next election.

Good job Liberals. We were getting tired of freedom democracy and the good life anyway.
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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.
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I have never met anybody who honestly believes they are freer richer and safer in 2025 than they were in 2014.

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

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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.

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

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

The same folks that bought this lie fell for the elbows up bullshit too.
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Liberal ideologies instead of human lives. This is the result.
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Canada aint a stupid country. This is deliberate sabotage of our first world status.

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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.

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

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What the Liberal friendly media will not tell you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J8R4HbwCkk

Canadians are entering our eleventh year of globalist government. We are worse off because of it.
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The three main ways the Liberals are making us a third world dictatorship is with internet censorship, their obsession over our insignificant C02 emissions and of course mass immigration.

QuoteLiberal climate policies damaged our economy
Justin Trudeau's policies amounted to Canada cutting its own economic throat, given the importance of the oil and gas sector to our economy

Prime Minister Mark Carney acknowledged in a year-end interview with CBC that former prime minister Justin Trudeau's climate change plan was a $200-billion flop, the roots of that failure predate Trudeau.

They go back to then-prime minister Jean Chretien signing onto the United Nations Kyoto accord in 1998, committing Canada to economy-killing climate targets which – as top Chretien aide Eddie Goldenberg later acknowledged – the Liberals knew they couldn't achieve.

Even the U.S. at the time – with Bill Clinton as president and global warming guru Al Gore as vice president – never ratified the accord after the U.S. Senate, in a 95-0 bipartisan vote, said it would reject the treaty because it made no demands of China and other developing nations to lower their industrial greenhouse gas emissions.

Canada should have done the same, because while the leading advocate of the accord was the European Union and it was designed to hobble the U.S. economy, its implications for Canada – a big, cold, northern country with a relatively small population and a natural-resourced based economy – were even worse.

The problem was that by enacting the UN climate accord and its unachievable target of cutting Canada's emissions to an average of 6% below 1990 levels from 2008 to 2012, the Liberals committed to a UN process that culminated with the 2015 Paris climate agreement and Trudeau promising to reduce Canada's emissions to at least 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, on the way to net zero by 2050.

Trudeau's policies designed to implement that target – while failing to do so – amounted to Canada cutting its own economic throat, given the importance of the oil and gas sector to our economy.

Carney's measures since becoming prime minister – from cancelling the consumer carbon tax and the oil and gas emissions cap, to suspending Canada's EV mandates and signing a memorandum of understanding with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for a pipeline extending from the oil sands to tidewater in northern B.C. – are all direct repudiations of Trudeau's climate policies.

What remains to be seen is whether Carney's policies  – as the leading global corporate spokesman for net zero policies and higher carbon taxes prior to becoming prime minister – will grow the Canadian economy or further damage it.

https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-liberal-climate-policies-damaged-our-economy

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During one of his 2023 broadcasts, Joe Rogan declared "Canada is communist," and recently, author Kim Thuy claimed Canada is "more communist than Vietnam" while Olympian-turned-pundit Theo Fleury stated, "the Communist takeover of Canada is complete."

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This is so bad for Canada. It will lower the price of Western Canadian Select.

The U.S. president announced that the oil would be sold in the United States at market price.

The United States will soon receive 30 million to 50 million barrels of sanctioned Venezuelan oil from the South American nation in the near future, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Tuesday.

"I am pleased to announce that the Interim Authorities in Venezuela will be turning over between 30 and 50 MILLION Barrels of High Quality, Sanctioned Oil, to the United States of America," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

"This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!"

The Liberals are making the investment gap worse.

Quote"Canada: The Industrial Implosion" v. the United States
by Wolf Richter • Sep 12, 2025 • 129 Comments
Stunning charts of how investment in industrial machinery & equipment collapsed a decade ago in Canada but stayed on track in the US.
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
"According to the latest national accounts data, real investment in industrial machinery & equipment [in Canada] fell in Q2 to its lowest level on record (data back to 1981). As today's Hot Chart shows, the divergence with the U.S. is nothing short of appalling," wrote Stéfane Marion and Matthieu Arseneau, at Economics and Strategy, National Bank of Canada, in a note sent to subscribers today.

"How did we get here? Years of excessive regulation, and a chronic lack of ambition by successive governments in promoting domestic transformation of our natural resources

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/09/12/canada-the-industrial-implosion-v-the-united-states/

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Quote from: Brent on January 08, 2026, 12:13:05 PMThe Liberals are making the investment gap worse.https://wolfstreet.com/2025/09/12/canada-the-industrial-implosion-v-the-united-states/

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My Jo Jo won't invest his gold foil chocolate coins in the pretend Canadian market.

The Liberals are managing Canada's fast decline.
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Canadians are being crushed by the cost of Carney.

A new StatsCan report has revealed that unemployment in Canada jumped to 6.8%, and 73,000 more Canadians are now without work. Mark Carney promised he was the "man with the plan", but under Carney, thousands of Canadians are out of a job during a Liberal cost of living crisis.

Canadians need a real plan to unleash Canada's economic potential, create jobs and deliver a better and affordable future for the next generation. Conservatives will fight every day for an affordable life and to bring back high-paying jobs for all Canadians.
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The vast majority of Canadians are opposed to letting these drugs flow into our streets. Why do the Liberals and the NDP not listen?
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Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 2.4% in December, up from 2.2% in November, according to data released Monday by Statistics Canada.

Lower gasoline prices continued to exert the largest downward pressure on inflation. Gas prices fell 7.1% from November and were down 13.8% compared to December 2024. Excluding gasoline, the consumer price index rose 3% from a year earlier.

Statistics Canada attributed the decline in fuel prices to falling crude oil prices, which it said have reached their lowest level in more than four years amid global oversupply and other factors.

Food-related costs rose more sharply. Restaurant prices increased 8.5% year over year, reflecting the absence of the GST/HST holiday. Prices for food purchased from stores rose 5%, with notable increases in coffee and beef.

Other categories affected by the end of the tax holiday included alcoholic beverages, toys, games and hobby supplies, children's clothing and selected grocery items such as potato chips and candy.

Quote from: Herman on January 18, 2026, 07:19:37 PMThe vast majority of Canadians are opposed to letting these drugs flow into our streets. Why do the Liberals and the NDP not listen?
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Pot shouldnt have been legalized. Motherfuckin dirty dopers even stink up the highway while I'm driving 80 in the winter with the windows rolled up and the air recirc on! Thats right, the shit smells so fucking strong that I can literally smell it on the highway at speed! I talked to my cop friend and effectively, they cant do a whole helluva lot about it. I say if you can tell someone is smoking dope while driving their car, I should be able to whip out my AR-15 and mow em the fuk down!

Mark Carney is a millionaire from the heart of the global financial elite, sitting at Davos alongside George Soros, Larry Fink, and other ultra-wealthy figures — while lecturing Canadians on "tightening belts" and "making sacrifices."
Meanwhile:
 • Canadian jobs are threatened
 • Domestic industries face unfair competition
 • Billions of taxpayer dollars are sent abroad to countries that do not serve Canadian interests
And the media cheers.
The message is clear: Canada's citizens come last. The elite comes first.

Justice begins at home — in the pockets of Canadians, not Davos.
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Does this guy know a single thing about his job?
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Quote from: Herman on January 24, 2026, 03:08:45 PMDoes this guy know a single thing about his job?
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Fully automatic weapons SHOULD be in peoples hands. Its what you need to overthrow the federal government!

They keep telling us everything's fine.
The numbers say otherwise.
0.5% growth in a decade.
Alberta and Saskatchewan deserves better than what Ottawa offers.
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If you have time watch this video. It is an eye opener. Mexico will be richer than Canada in the not too distant future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJhI8_mQss

Quote from: Brent on February 16, 2026, 12:35:27 PMIf you have time watch this video. It is an eye opener. Mexico will be richer than Canada in the not too distant future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqJhI8_mQss

I'm not going to watch that whole video. However, I can definitely see Canada falling behind Mexico in the not so distant future. The brain drain from Canada is getting serous.

Canadian Restaurants Struggling

A new survey from Restaurants Canada shows that Canadian restaurants are struggling financially, with 26% operating at a loss and another 18% just breaking even.

Rising food and labour costs are the biggest pressures, as inflation affects both restaurant operations and consumer spending.

Owners have had to cut hours, reduce staff, and take on part-time work elsewhere to make ends meet.

Many restaurants plan modest price increases in 2026, but are cautious not to drive away customers who are already cutting back on dining out.

Restaurants Canada suggests federal measures, such as removing GST from all meals, could help support struggling businesses and protect jobs.

Quote from: DKG on February 17, 2026, 11:21:16 AMCanadian Restaurants Struggling

A new survey from Restaurants Canada shows that Canadian restaurants are struggling financially, with 26% operating at a loss and another 18% just breaking even.

Rising food and labour costs are the biggest pressures, as inflation affects both restaurant operations and consumer spending.

Owners have had to cut hours, reduce staff, and take on part-time work elsewhere to make ends meet.

Many restaurants plan modest price increases in 2026, but are cautious not to drive away customers who are already cutting back on dining out.

Restaurants Canada suggests federal measures, such as removing GST from all meals, could help support struggling businesses and protect jobs.

I have seen successful restaurant chains close locations in my city.

Under the Liberal governments led by Justin Trudeau (2015–2025) and his successor Mark Carney (2025–present), who served as Trudeau's key economic advisor during the COVID-19 recovery and chaired the Liberal Party's Task Force on Economic Growth in 2024, Canada has experienced profound fiscal mismanagement and declines in measurable quality of life indicators.

These policies have contributed to rising debt, stagnant productivity, and worsening social issues like crime, poverty, homelessness, and drug addiction.

Here's a list of 50 key failures in these areas:

Stagnant economic growth: Annual per-person GDP growth averaged just 0.3% under Trudeau, the worst since the Great Depression of any Canadian Government.

Declining GDP per capita: Real GDP per capita fell by 2% from 2020 to 2024, marking a historically epic failure growth period.  The worst in the G7.

Productivity slump: Labour productivity declined 1.2% annually since 2019, reversing pre-pandemic gains.

Rising public debt: Debt expanded alarmingly without strategies for aging population pressures.

Fiscal overspending: Persistent deficits and missed targets post-pandemic, showing fiscal indiscipline.

Business investment drop: Per capita investment in non-residential structures fell 19% from 2015 to 2025.

Inflation surge: Peaked at 6.8% in 2022, eroding purchasing power and quality of life.

Housing crisis escalation: Average home prices rose from $435,036 in 2015 to $713,700 in 2025, worsening affordability.

Cost of living exceedance: Exceeded sustainable levels for most, with groceries up $700 annually by 2024.

Youth unemployment spike: Rose to 19.8% in mid-2024, impacting future economic prospects.

Business insolvencies rise: Up 16.2% nationally, over 40% in Ontario by 2024.  Don't make a mistake by calling Doug Ford a conservative.  He is basically Mark Carney's right hand man now and has completely sold out to liberal policies and has for quite some time.

Violent crime increase: Rates rose 34.9% under Liberals, with CSI up from 70.4 in 2015 to 77.9 in 2024

Homicide rate climb: From 1.5 per 100,000 in 2014 to 1.9 in 2024, despite overall declines in some areas.

Property crime growth: Increased 7% from 2014 to 2022, outpacing U.S. declines.
Urban violent crime surge: Up across nearly all major centres from 2015–2024.
Poverty rebound: Rose from 6.4% in 2020 to 9.9% in 2022, affecting 1.4 million children.078207

Child poverty increase: Climbed to 18.1% in 2022 after pandemic lows, reversing early gains.

Deep income poverty rise: From 5.1% in 2022 to 5.5% in 2023.

Average poverty gap widening: Increased to 32.9% below the line in 2023.

Homelessness explosion: Up 20% since 2018 to 34,270, despite $561 million annual spending.

Chronic homelessness growth: Increased 38% since 2018.

Unsheltered homelessness quadrupling: Up 303% from 2018 to 2024.

Ontario homelessness surge: Nearly 85,000 in 2025, up 8% from 2024.

Opioid overdose deaths peak: Over 50,000 since 2016, averaging 20 daily in 2024.
Drug toxicity persistence: 7,146 deaths in 2024, down 17% but still high.

Addiction crisis worsening: Rates rose 184% from 2016 to 2023.

Life expectancy drop: From 81.9 years in 2015 to 81.5 in 2023.  The first drop in mortality in nearly a hundred years.

Quality of life ranking fall: From 9th to 27th globally over the decade.

Youth happiness scores low: Ranked 58th internationally.

Health-care lag: Ranked below European peers, with chronic understaffing.

Justice system delays: Grown expensive and slow due to understaffing.

Food insecurity rise: Driven by inflation and policy failures.

Indigenous boil water advisories: Still 31 active in 2024, despite promises.

Carbon tax ineffectiveness: Emissions rose despite policies constraining the energy sector.

Immigration strains: Surge overwhelmed housing and services, leading to rollbacks.

Pandemic support inflation: Overgenerous programs contributed to price surges.

Defense shortfalls: Failed NATO commitments, with equipment issues.

Foreign interference inaction: Inadequate response to meddling.

Electoral reform failure: Promised but not delivered except for Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh, expanding Pierre Polliever's riding into sixty percent liberal dominated territory, leading to his first loss since he won that riding over twenty years ago.  A convenient talking point neglecting the boundary change of his riding.  That was the liberal's idea of election reform.

Infrastructure bank flop: Did not deliver market solutions.

Progressive tax shortfalls: System not made more equitable.

Housing financialization: Unchallenged, leading to skyrocketing rents.

Voter exhaustion: Liberals at historic lows among youth.

Gun control frustrations: Ineffectively targeted law-abiding owners.

Affordability crisis: Escalated prices for essentials.

Deficit spending failure: Did not boost incomes.

National unity weakening: Federal intrusions into provinces.

Ethics violations: Repeated breaches eroded trust.

SNC-Lavalin scandal: Destabilized government.

Blaming foreign governments for these failures is ludicrous.  Blaming, the opposition government that has not been in power for 11 years is also ludicrous. These failures are a result of poor policies from the liberals from the past 11 years.  There is no economic rebound from Carney that is implementing the same policies and carrying on with Trudeau era failed ministers shuffled into different positions that they can fail in.

Harper (2006–2015): Grew slowly but steadily — about 0.5% per year on average.
Trudeau/Carney (2015–now): Almost no real growth per person — only 0.3% average, and it's been shrinking in many recent years. Most Canadians are poorer per person now than they should be.

Crime (especially violent crime like assaults & robberies):
Harper years: Crime was dropping year after year.
Trudeau/Carney years: Violent crime jumped 34–50% since 2015. Homicides went from 1.5 to around 2 per 100,000 people. Streets feel less safe in many cities.

Drugs (opioid deaths & addiction crisis):
Harper years: The opioid problem was small and contained.
Trudeau/Carney years: Explosion — over 50,000+ opioid deaths since 2016 (20+ people dying every day at the worst points). Still very high even in 2025–2026.

Homelessness:
Harper years: Numbers were stable — didn't explode.
Trudeau/Carney years: Shot up big time — up 20% nationally since 2018, chronic homelessness up 38%, people sleeping outside up over 300% in some counts. Encampments everywhere despite billions spent.

Inflation (how much prices rise for food, gas, rent, etc.):
Harper years: Prices rose slowly and stayed manageable (about 18% total increase over his decade for basics).
Trudeau/Carney years: Much worse — food prices up over 50%, groceries costing families hundreds more per year, big spikes in 2022 (6.8%). Even now in 2025–2026, food inflation stays high compared to other countries.

Bottom line for everyday Canadians:
Under Harper things felt more stable — wages kept up better, crime was lower, fewer people on the streets or dying from drugs, and groceries didn't hurt the wallet as much.
Under the Liberals (Trudeau then Carney), most of these problems got a lot worse for regular families. Facts from StatsCan and health reports — no spin! ✊
The simple facts are when you compare the previous consevative government to the past eleven years of failed liberal policies, the evidence is abundant.

The answer is obvious: the average liberal supporter is smarter than everyone else.  Smarter than the Bank of Canada that just warned the government of impending recession, smarter than the Parliamentary Budget Office that just warned the government and the country that we as a nation are headed off a cliff, smarter than all the rest of us who have been questioning the government and their policies.  No, it is clear, the average Liebral is smarter than everyone.   
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Canadian cities are a mess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6NBVld0C58

Mexico has surpassed Canada as the top destination for US exports.

Quote from: DKG on February 21, 2026, 06:16:36 AMMexico has surpassed Canada as the top destination for US exports.

Do you mean Mexico exports more to the States than us or imports more from the States than us?

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Quote from: Brent on February 21, 2026, 12:35:54 PMDo you mean Mexico exports more to the States than us or imports more from the States than us?

They import more. They will soon export more to the US than us too.

Canada's GDP Per capita is now $10,000 lower than Mississipi, the poorest state in the U.S. Canada-$56K/year. Mississipi-$66K/year.

Our GDP per capita was competitive with the U.S. until 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZX8ZbLGhl4

A Liberal MP from Ontario, Patty Hajdu blames climate change for Canada's food inflation being twice as high as the U.S. :s_laugh:

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What is wrong with this country. :facepalm:

Australia ships LNG 25,000 kilometres to Eastern Canada amid Asian slump
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/australia-lng-canada-asia-demand-slumps

Quote from: Brent on February 26, 2026, 01:13:22 PMWhat is wrong with this country. :facepalm:

Australia ships LNG 25,000 kilometres to Eastern Canada amid Asian slump
https://financialpost.com/commodities/energy/oil-gas/australia-lng-canada-asia-demand-slumps

You beat me to it.
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Quote from: Herman on February 26, 2026, 03:32:58 PMYou beat me to it.
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Why?

The Canadian construction association predicts there will be 100,000 building related lay-offs this year due to Canada's collapsing housing market.

Quote from: Brent on February 27, 2026, 12:51:37 PMWhy?

Because the Liberals will not let us ship enough natural gas to the East of the country.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG_eNN_3YgY

It isn't just the countless scandals former prime mininster Justin Trudeau and his corrupt government were guilty of during his decade of darkness for which he and the Liberals were never held accountable. It was not SNC-Lavalin, the draconian mishandling of COVID-19 mandates, unlawful use of the Emergencies Act, or the accumulation of our now $1.3 trillion debt due to endless misspending and waste, which continues today.

It is all of that combined with a higher cost of living, lack of affordable housing, social unrest, race-based policies, climate scaremongering, rising antisemitism, climbing youth unemployment, and the deliberate destruction of our national identity, and the fact that the Liberals are still governing over us. And of course, mass immigration.

If you needed proof that the federal Liberals have completely lost the plot on immigration, look no further than the statements coming from India's High Commissioner to Canada, Dinesh K. Patnaik.

In a recent interview with CBC News, Patnaik suggested that because of our "complementary economies," Canada should be eager to welcome an additional 60 million Indians.

Let that number sink in for a moment. Sixty million.

Quote from: Brent on March 04, 2026, 12:48:03 PMIf you needed proof that the federal Liberals have completely lost the plot on immigration, look no further than the statements coming from India's High Commissioner to Canada, Dinesh K. Patnaik.

In a recent interview with CBC News, Patnaik suggested that because of our "complementary economies," Canada should be eager to welcome an additional 60 million Indians.

Let that number sink in for a moment. Sixty million.

Thats fukin shit! I hope your countrymen wise up!

Quote from: Brent on March 04, 2026, 12:48:03 PMIf you needed proof that the federal Liberals have completely lost the plot on immigration, look no further than the statements coming from India's High Commissioner to Canada, Dinesh K. Patnaik.

In a recent interview with CBC News, Patnaik suggested that because of our "complementary economies," Canada should be eager to welcome an additional 60 million Indians.

Let that number sink in for a moment. Sixty million.

The Carney government needs to grow a spine. When a foreign diplomat suggests something this outrageous, the response from Mr. Carney should be a firm and unambiguous "no."

Canadians take a look at Mr. Carney's Bill C-3. While Mr. Carney talks out of one side of his mouth about the need to reduce immigration and at the same time increases the number of temporary foreign workers 20 percent.

That is nothing compared to devastation Bill C-3 will cause to the country's health care and housing woes. This will allow generational migration based on one great great great grandparent having Canadian citizenship.

A B.C. nurse was fined $93,000 for pointing out that there are two genders.

This opinion about how Canada became poorer than Alabama was written by former Liberal MP Dan McTeague.

QuoteLast week, Twitter/X was all aflutter about a Globe and Mail article called, "How Canada Became Poorer Than Alabama." It discusses the fact that the state of Alabama, which too many of us associate with poverty and backwardness, has overtaken Canada in per capita GDP.

The most common reaction to this story seemed to have been sheer puzzlement: "How on earth could this happen?"

Well, the short answer is that the state did everything it could to attract investment, jobs, and talent, while keeping taxes low to make Alabama as affordable a place to live as possible.

To which all Canadians should respond, "Wouldn't that be nice?!" Our government seems more concerned with virtue signalling about climate than about making Canada an easier place to get a job, build a business, and raise a family.

One specific explanation for Alabama's attractiveness jumped out at me, though: "When companies invested in Alabama, they could receive permits and begin construction quickly. Red tape was for suckers."

That about sums up why Alabama is on the up, and Canada is losing ground.

Take, for instance, our desperate need for new and expanded pipeline infrastructure. Oil and gas is the backbone of our economy, but our ability to get it to market is constrained by our insufficient pipeline network. That makes it difficult to use our hydrocarbons to fuel Canada, it restricts the amount we can sell to the United States (US), and it makes it nearly impossible to sell anywhere else.

A new pipeline from Alberta to tidewater would enable us to open up Asian markets and shore up federal revenues, while creating thousands of jobs. It would also be a boon for national unity, making confederation work for discontented Albertans who are tempted to think their province might be better off going it alone. It's a no-brainer.

Yet months after the Carney/Smith Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) promised one, there has been zero visible movement.

Well, except for earlier this month, when Enbridge CEO Greg Ebel told investors that his company has no interest in financing the proposed pipeline.

And who could blame Enbridge? After losing roughly $600 million on the cancelled Northern Gateway, the company is not about to risk another dime of shareholders' money on a project that could be halted by protests, lawsuits, or overweening regulators before a drop of fuel passes through it.

Or, in Ebel's words, "I don't think investors or the infrastructure companies should be taking on the risk of development in jurisdictions that have historically created a challenge."

Barring any real assurance that the project is going to move forward, and that the government will have their back in a tough spot, the MOU pipeline project — which I was skeptical of from the first — is simply a bad investment.

Meanwhile, Mark Carney's Major Projects Office (MPO) — the centrepiece of his "build, baby, build" campaign rhetoric — has referred just a handful of projects for review. None have received the full "national interest" designation that actually clears the way for shovels in the ground. The Alberta pipeline itself won't even be submitted to the MPO until July, at the earliest.

Remember when Carney promised to "invest in nation-building infrastructure on a scale not seen in generations?" And to use "the emergency powers of the federal government to accelerate the major projects that we need in order to build this economy and take on the Americans?" So much for that!

There's rhetoric, and there are results.

If the Prime Minister truly wanted these projects to move forward, he would slash red tape permanently, repeal (not merely 'waive on a project-by-project basis') each of: Bill C-69, the No More Pipelines Act; Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act; Bill C-59, which restricts the ability of companies to tout the environmental positives of their work if it doesn't conform to a vague, government-approved standard; and a host of other legislation which restricts the operation of fossil fuel companies and adjacent businesses.

These are challenging times, economically. This past year saw the slowest annual growth for Canada since 2020, the height of the pandemic. In this climate, Mark Carney should be bending over backwards to signal that Canada is open for business.

Instead, he's bending over backwards to appeal to China, while consciously alienating our biggest customer, the US, in the lead-up to CUSMA renegotiations.

Current polling suggests that the public isn't holding this against him, at least not yet, because Canadians see him as a steady hand at the wheel. But he reads to me like the activist he's always been, doubling down on policies and attitudes which have gotten us into our present mess.

I said before that Canadians associate Alabama with poverty and backwardness. But the Globe and Mail piece makes clear that this idea isn't so much incorrect as out-of-date. The state was a basket case for a long time, reaching a low point in the 1980s. But the really inspiring part of that story is that instead of ignoring it, they looked the problem right in the face and turned things around.

Canadians should learn from that story. Here's hoping we do, before it's too late.

Another major Canadian energy project paused.

An $8.25B oilsands expansion in Alberta is now on hold because of all of the Liberal red tape.

After years of Liberal policies like Bill C-69, the tanker ban, and costly so-called clean fuel standards, companies are hesitant to invest in Canada.

Carney doesn't need to travel the world looking for markets for our energy.
Those markets already exist. We just need a government willing to remove the barriers stopping Canadian projects from getting built.

I used to work for CNRL. They had huge expansion plans that meant investment, jobs and tax revenuel. It's being cancelled thanks to Carney and the Liberals.

Quote from: Shen Li on March 05, 2026, 10:06:26 PMAnother major Canadian energy project paused.

An $8.25B oilsands expansion in Alberta is now on hold because of all of the Liberal red tape.

After years of Liberal policies like Bill C-69, the tanker ban, and costly so-called clean fuel standards, companies are hesitant to invest in Canada.

Carney doesn't need to travel the world looking for markets for our energy.
Those markets already exist. We just need a government willing to remove the barriers stopping Canadian projects from getting built.

I used to work for CNRL. They had huge expansion plans that meant investment, jobs and tax revenuel. It's being cancelled thanks to Carney and the Liberals.

Slow permits, endless regulations, and blocked resource projects are preventing Canada from reaching its full potential. That is not including our suicidal immigration numbers.

Carney urged Canada to get on a "wartime footing," but has subsequently proceeded as though there was no crisis. The January 2026 announcement of the Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit — a repackaged and enhanced Goods and Services Tax Credit — put a small bandage over the hemorrhaging finances of low-income Canadians while costing the cash-strapped federal coffers more than $12 billion. At the same time, massive expenditures on national defence, infrastructure, social programs, emergency relief for Canada Post, and an overly large civil service undercut any federal claims for frugality.

Truth be told, Canada is in significant economic difficulty. Each new social program or benefit is now a financial charge on our grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Canada needs frankness and truth-telling rather than platitudes, slogans, and fancy speeches. The economy will not be strengthened by the current approach of the Liberal government, which is based on protecting Canadians from fiscal realities, refusing to require real sacrifices, and pretending that all will be fine with a few more government agencies, programs, and subsidies. Canada is capable of much more, but the Government of Canada currently shows neither the courage nor the vision to forge a new economic future.

Ken Coates is a Professor Emeritus at the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan.
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Justine and the Conman are accomplishing their goal.
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Instead of prioritizing unemployed young Canadians for jobs, training, and workforce opportunities, the Liberals want to expand Express Entry immigration.

That will only push young Canadians further away from jobs that get them the income and experience they need.

Current immigration levels are already straining housing, healthcare, and job opportunities for Canadians.

While there STILL isn't any clear plan on how the THREE MILLION non-citizen temporary residents whose permits expire by the end of 2026 will leave Canada once their visas expire.

We just recently imported LNG from Australia.
If it were the other way around, Canadians would be richer AND Australia wouldn't be facing critical shortages.
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by  Joseph Fournier
Commentary
Canada is facing a productivity crisis that can no longer be waved away as a statistical quirk or an academic concern. The Bank of Canada has warned repeatedly that our economic output per worker is falling behind our peers, and the consequences are already visible: stagnant wages, declining investment, and a shrinking capacity to compete in global markets.
Yet at the very moment when the country needs to unleash its most productive industries, the federal government continues to tax them more heavily than any other advanced economy.
The industrial carbon tax, part of the federal carbon pricing system for large industrial facilities, is a direct tax on productivity itself.
Imagine a worker who generates five days' worth of revenue for their employer while only working four. That is what high productivity looks like: more value created per hour, more prosperity per unit of effort.
Now imagine forcing that same worker to perform the same job while carrying a backpack full of rocks. They may still get the work done, but they will do it more slowly, at greater cost, and with less competitive edge.
This is precisely what the industrial carbon tax is doing to Canada's most productive sectors.
The tax will ultimately add roughly $8 to $9 per gigajoule to natural gas, while the fuel itself costs only about $1.70 per gigajoule in Alberta. It will drive up the cost of that energy to four to five times its original price.
No industrial economy can thrive under a regime where the tax on energy dwarfs the cost of the energy itself. And no government that claims to care about productivity can justify a policy that forces factories, mills, refineries, and food processors to pay dramatically more for industrial heat than their competitors across the border.
This is not an abstract concern. It is already showing up in grocery bills. Canadians are bracing for what many economists warn will be a second wave of food inflation. The first wave was triggered by the global supply chain rupture during the 2020–22 COVID-19 lockdowns.
The second wave is being manufactured domestically under federal policy.
A large industrial bakery or food processor in Alberta or Saskatchewan will have to pay far more to fire its ovens and dryers than a similar plant in the United States, where recent regulatory changes have removed federal climate policy constraints on industrial energy use.
When a Canadian plant pays significantly more for heat than a competitor in North Dakota, the outcome is inevitable: higher prices and a growing incentive to shift production south. That pressure extends beyond a single plant. This is the quiet part of the productivity crisis that few in Ottawa seem willing to acknowledge.
Canada's highest productivity industries are also its most energy reliant.
Mining, refining, petrochemicals, steelmaking, fertilizer production, and advanced manufacturing all rely on large volumes of affordable, reliable energy. These sectors routinely generate labour productivity far above the national average and pay wages that support families, communities, and regional economies.
They are the backbone of the country's export capacity and the anchor of its industrial base.
When the cost of energy rises by a factor of five, companies do not simply absorb the difference. They cut investment, delay expansion, automate more slowly, reduce hiring, offer smaller wage increases, or close facilities entirely.
A tax that was sold as a tool to reduce emissions has become a tool that reduces productivity, competitiveness, and national resilience.
The timing could not be worse.
Since 2020, Canadians have been leaving Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal in record numbers and moving toward rural and mid-sized communities where industrial jobs still offer stability. That shift represents a quiet but powerful rebalancing of the national economy.
But the industrial carbon tax is choking off the very industries that make this rural revival possible. Blue-collar jobs in mining, energy, construction, and manufacturing are the front line of Canada's productivity recovery. They are also the sectors most exposed to global competition.
When Ottawa forces these industries to pay dramatically more for energy than their American counterparts, it is effectively asking Canadian workers to run a marathon while breathing through a straw.
Taxing the energy required to transport Canadian goods to global markets guarantees that the United States will remain our dominant trading partner, not because of geography, but because Ottawa has made every other market prohibitively expensive to reach.
Canada cannot tax its way to higher productivity, and it cannot punish its most productive industries without harming national prosperity.
The industrial carbon tax must end.
Canadians should demand a credible plan from Ottawa to attract investment into the sectors that actually generate wealth: mining, refining, petrochemicals, manufacturing, and energy.
These industries built the country once and they can do it again if government gets out of the way.
Joseph Fournier is a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy.
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Every Goddamn Liberal and NDP MP.
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This Liberal Party's obsession with our emissions is a big part of why Canada is losing it's developed country status.
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This is a complete lie by Mark Carney.

Responding to the disastrous February job loss of 84k, Carney claims Canada gained NET 80,000 jobs:

"If you look at the performance of the labour market over the course of the last 6 months, we have created over 80,000 jobs net."

Here are the facts, over the last 6 months:
(September - February)

Total employed went from 21.039M to 20.783K = 255.8K job loss.

Private Sector went from 13.748M to 13.479M = 269.2k job loss.

Public Sector went from 4.598M to 4.623M = 25.7k job gain.

Either Mark Carney is lying or completely clueless to what is going on in Canada. Both are equally alarming.

https://x.com/KirkLubimov/status/2032513786331140259

Millions of Americans can now claim Canadian citizenship by descent under Bill C-3.
Hopefully they're all conservatives.

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Canadians know they live in a country that has embraced big government as the path to economic prosperity, but just how big it has become is alarming, and a new study says it is curtailing economic growth.

The fiscally conservative Fraser Institute, in a report released Thursday, estimates total public spending by federal, provincial and municipal governments grew to 43.6% of Canada's GDP in 2024, up from 37.4% in 2007 and far higher than the optimal level for economic growth of 26% to 30%.

"Put simply, the size of government in every Canadian province is above the optimal size to maximize economic growth," said Jake Fuss, co-author of the study, The Size of Government in Canada, 2024.

"In some provinces, it is twice as large as the optimal size."

In 2024, the only province where total government spending was close to 30% of GDP was Alberta, at 30.4%.

From 2007 to 2024, the size of government relative to the economy increased in nine of 10 provinces (except for P.E.I.), while from 2019 to 2024 it increased in every province.

In many provinces, government spending as a percentage of GDP is staggering — 61.2% in Nova Scotia in 2024; 60.6% in New Brunswick; 58.7% in P.E.I.; 52.7% in Manitoba; 50.1% in Quebec; 49.7% in Newfoundland and Labrador; 43.4% in Ontario; 40% in B.C.; 39.7% in Saskatchewan; 30.4% in Alberta.

At the same time, public sector employment steadily increased to 21.5% of all Canadian workers in 2024 and is now at its highest level since 2007, when it was 19.2%.

During that period, public sector employment in every province increased as a share of total employment.

As for what effect this rapid growth in the size and cost of government had on our economy, Prime Minister Mark Carney, when he was campaigning for Liberal leader, cited the high operational costs of the federal government as one of the reasons our economy was weak before U.S. President Donald Trump launched his global tariff war.

Over the past decade, Canada experienced the worst record of economic growth as defined by real GDP per capita, a widely accepted metric of the standard of living, of any federal government since that of R.B. Bennett during the Great Depression.
https://torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-big-government-cut-economic-growth

Neither Carney nor any premier is learning their lesson. They keep growing the size of their government. They keep spending more money, hiring more unnecessary employees, adding new bureaucracies and creating new red tape.

Mark Carney's has an uncanny ability to trick people into believing he is fiscally responsible as well as a shrewd negotiator. Nothing could be further from the turth.

Carney is as irresponsible with our money as his predecessor. Actually he is more incompetant than Trudeau. And he has Canada on a path similar to what we were in during the early 1990's facing a debt reckoning.

This editorial was written by Lorrie Goldtein of the Toronto Sun.

Study accuses Carney Liberals of 'substantially' worsening federal finances
Combined deficits from 2025-26 to 2029-30 will total $321.7 billion, compared to $154.4 billion projected by Trudeau

Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to spend more and run deficits more than twice as large over the next five years compared to those planned by the previous Liberal government, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

As a result, Carney's combined deficits are projected to total $321.7 billion from 2025-26 to 2029-30 — $167.3 billion higher than the $154.4 billion former prime minister Justin Trudeau was projected to spend during the same period, according to the report by the fiscally conservative think-tank.

The study says that will increase the total federal debt to a projected $2.9 trillion in 2029-30 or 79% of GDP.

In addition to running higher deficits, the Fraser Institute report says the Carney government plans to increase spending by $67.6 billion over five years compared to the Trudeau government's projections — $47.8 billion more for new programs and $19.8 billion more for servicing the debt.

Carney vowed 'different approach' to spending
This despite expecting slower total annual revenue growth from 2024-25 to 2029-30 of 14.2% or $72.3 billion, compared to 19.9% or $101.8 billion projected under Trudeau.

The study — "Comparing Federal Fiscal Plans: Is the Carney Government Truly Taking a Different Approach than its Predecessor? — is based on a comparison of the Trudeau government's last fall economic statement or "mini-budget" in December 2024 and Carney's first budget in November 2025.

"During the 2025 election, the Carney government promised to take a very different approach to federal finances than its predecessor," said study co-author Jake Fuss, noting Carney criticized Trudeau for "spending too much."

"But based on his first budget, spending is higher and deficits are double what even Trudeau planned to spend, which substantially worsens the state of federal finances."

Spending 'inappropriately' shifted?
The study is also critical of how Carney's budget divides government spending into operational spending — the cost of running the government — and capital spending on new infrastructure, while projecting a balanced operating budget by 2028-29.

While this is sensible in theory, the Fraser Institute study notes, the Parliamentary Budget Office has reported that 30% or $94 billion of the capital spending proposed in Carney's budget isn't, in fact, capital spending, but increased operating spending that may or may not lead to the creation of new assets.

"Simply put, nearly a third of the Carney government's planned capital investments should not be considered as such and instead represent operating spending or tax credits that have been inappropriately shifted over to the capital side of the budget," the Fraser Institute report says.

"Correcting this miscalculation shows that the Carney government is set to fall short of its commitment to balance operating spending against revenues."

Canada has failed the next generation. In the 2026 World Happiness Report, people under 25 in Canada fell to 71st out of 136 countries.

Is this what "elbows up" was all about?
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A new Bank of Canada study confirms what many have been warning about for years. The GDP per capita collapse isn't just about bad policy or pandemic math. It's about who is leaving.

Roughly 40% of Canadians who would rank in the top 1% of earners have emigrated to the United States. Another 30 to 50% of the next tier? Gone too. These aren't people who left because they failed. They are more educated than native-born Americans. They earn more. They cluster disproportionately in the top income brackets of every city they move to.


𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗱𝗮 𝗶𝘀 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 — 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗱𝗹𝘆.

Here's what that flight left behind. GDP per capita that grew 3.2% over ten years while the United States grew 20.2%. Canada fell below the OECD average for the first time in recorded history. Food bank usage doubled since 2019. Healthcare wait times hit 28.6 weeks — the second-longest ever recorded. Canada's World Happiness ranking collapsed from 5th in 2012 to 25th today. Young Canadians under 25 rank 71st globally in happiness.

And the government's response to a decade of this? Expand public spending from 38% to 45% of GDP. More bureaucrats. More transfers. More deficit financing. More government with fewer results — because the people whose taxes once funded all of it have moved to Austin and Miami and Seattle.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘁𝗮𝘅, 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗱𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗺𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲.

Trudeau spent ten years building a country that the most capable Canadians didn't want to live in. The voters just replaced him with the former Governor of the Bank of Canada — an architect of the same economic regime — and called it change.

Canada doesn't have a GDP problem. It has a trust problem. And talented people vote with their feet.

Including myself, this governments excessive intervention is creating barriers for individuals and businesses trying to grow.
This is counterproductive, as it puts those working to get ahead at a disadvantage rather than enabling their success.

Why stay to have nothing? High earners. Like do just that or leave.

Wake up.
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Barry Tuttle
And that's exactly why the liberals don't want pipelines... they want the country to go completely bankrupt so they can sell the place to India and China for next to nothing.

Canada is on steady downhill slide.
From the envy of the world to the frickin trash heap.
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Canada is done. Pretending otherwise changes nothing. No one can show me a real path under the Liberals that fixes this country.

Dear Mark Carney,

I just wanted to extend a heartfelt thank you for completely solving the housing crisis. It's incredible. Studio apartments are now only $3,000 a month, bedrooms in someone's basement are a steal at $1,850, and a modest one-bedroom is a jaw-dropping bargain at $3,700. Truly affordable living. I especially appreciate how owning a home now only requires a $180,000 down payment and a small, manageable $4,900/month mortgage. Homeownership has never been more within reach.

Also, thank you for fixing the cost of living. Groceries are unbelievably cheap now. Eggs at $9.49, butter at $8.99, ground beef casually hovering around $14/lb — honestly, I'm saving so much money I don't even know what to do with it. I went in for milk and bread and only spent $97, which is basically nothing these days. What a time to be alive.

The tax relief has been phenomenal too. Keeping almost half of my paycheck is just incredible. I absolutely love watching 40–50% disappear before I even see it — it really builds character. Nothing says financial freedom like calculating whether you can afford both rent and food in the same month. Taxes have truly never felt lower.

And the foreign aid, money laundering situation overseas is amazing! Sending $100 million dollars to gender neutral water treatment studies in Uganda is so beneficial and essential to Canadians survival. Or the $62 billion dollars sent to the laundromat in the Ukraine, to the corrupt regime buying mansions and yachts is an amazing benefit for swindling away all of our tax dollars, while we freeze and starve.
Also thank you for lobbying for more, foreign workers to have jobs that we subsidized over 70% of their wages with our tax dollars, so our kids can't get jobs to support their growth.

And even more so thank you for providing Indian students in India with another $100 million in scholarships, while completly ignoring Candian students. I don't think my children wanted to go to college and university and further their futures with some assistance with skyrocketing tuitions here in Canada.

Additionally the corruption ! Wow isn't that the best part of being Canadian. Working our hearts out daily, so you and your billionaire elite friends can milk 75 % of Canadians money in taxes, so you can steal it all and benefit yourselves and impoverish us at the same time. This is next level narcissism. The gaslighting program and CBC funded propaganda is doing wonders on most Canadians that still think you are amazing while you loot the country dry, and they keep willingly handing you money!

That's next level gaslighting! I for one am amazed how you've managed to convince the masses that you are actually doing something for Canadians while stabbing us all in the back.

And the Brookfield contracts ! Sweet deals all over the world, building pipelines, rebuilding infrastructure, and using our CPP money to get it done at no risk to you, only to Canadians! That's astounding work my friend. Cap and destroy our own energy sector and oil independence and prosperity for a nation, while laundering away all
The money you need to make solid investments overseas is world renowned! Other countries thank you. Good job Mark

And the safety improvements — wow. Streets have never been calmer. You can now confidently walk past open-air drug use, random screaming matches, and bike chop shops knowing everything is totally under control. The fentanyl crisis? Basically solved. The homelessness crisis? Completely handled. There are only rows and rows of tents, which is obviously just modern minimalist housing.

The crime situation has also improved dramatically. Nothing reassures citizens more than seeing repeat offenders released faster than a drive-thru order. It really keeps things exciting. Who doesn't love a little unpredictability on their commute? Keeps the adrenaline pumping.

And finally, thank you for making life in general so affordable. Gas hovering around $1.80–$2.10/L, insurance climbing, utilities up 30–40%, and somehow everyone still expected to smile and say "things are improving." The financial gymnastics required just to exist are truly inspiring.

From the bottom of all Canadians' hearts, thank you for this stunning 180. Housing has never been more affordable, groceries have never been cheaper, taxes have never been lower, and the streets have never been safer. Everything is perfect. Absolutely flawless. No notes.

Warmest regards,
A financially thriving Canadian

P.S. If you could also fix interest rates, rent increases, groceries, crime, healthcare wait times, and wages while you systematically disarm us but like, don't rush. You've already done so much, for Brookfiel. I mean Canada