Canada is on the verge of losing it's status as a prosperous successful and free country

[DKG]

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.

[Thiel]

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.

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

[Lokmar]

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

JOEJ message from Thiel, shithead!

[The Donald]

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

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

[Brent]

Gold '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.

[DKG]

Derailing 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.

[Herman]

This wanker is a lap dog of Trump and Xi. China and the US is where all his investments are.

[Herman]

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."

[Thiel]

In 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.

[Herman]

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.

[Herman]

This guy is losing it. Nah, he never had it.

[Herman]

Finally some jobs created under Conman Carney but only for the right kid of people.

[DKG]

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.