Squawk Box Steve 🍁🇨🇦

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces a ‘grocery rebate’ (aka renamed GST credit) while admitting Canadians are struggling at the checkout. Then this: Standing in a FreshCo grocery store, he calls it ‘Hello Fresh’. 😆 Completely out of touch. Canadians don’t need more government cheques - we need lower taxes, less spending, and real relief on food prices. Video Cred: BeautifulCanada1 on TY.

@WendyGoodes @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty And the police did step in when things almost got physical.

@SquawkBoxSteve @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty Harassment is unacceptable in any situation but when it comes from volunteers and can be heard by the police, it should have been dealt with. Teens using foul language towards adults is not simply an insult. It doesn’t need to be a crime for it to be addressed.

Who’s paying for all this excessive police presence: taxpayers or the @OntarioPCParty?

@WendyGoodes @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty It’s not harassment to insult someone and the police won’t intervene because someone has hurt feelings. It’s not a crime to be a terrible person.

@WendyGoodes Politicians do public events. They will always do public events. This is a long-standing family tradition.

@SquawkBoxSteve Once again, read my words carefully. I would much rather the funding that went towards this unnecessary vanity campaign event go to our education and healthcare needs. Perhaps our educators who HAVE to work wouldn’t have to dress like this in order to teach.

Your reading comprehension needs some improvement. Read the first part of the statement. 🤦🏼‍♀️

@WendyGoodes @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty It’s not a crime to be insulted.

@SquawkBoxSteve @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty That’s BS. I saw a clip where a woman was being harassed by some PC volunteers. She approached the police and shared her concerns. The police did nothing. I guess only the premier matters.

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty You can thank the police presence.

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty There. Was. No. Violence. If you are okay with your tax dollars going to a vanity party, good for you. The rest of Ontario thinks it’s a waste of our money.

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty We are responsible for funding the security of all politicians, even when we don’t like them. None of you have any concern for political violence.

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty And all an UNNECESSARY EXPENSE for Ontario Taxpayers because he wanted a party for himself. I support Ontario Taxpayers. If you are an Ontario Taxpayer and you want your hard earned taxes to go to a party for him, then great. I do not.

Zero concern for political violence. This is what the modern left has become. 🙂‍↕️

@WendyGoodes @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty No concern for political violence? Wow.

@SquawkBoxSteve @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty Because it’s not work related and is a waste of my tax dollars.

Paid protesters and a free meal. A good gig if you can get it!

@WendyGoodes @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty Yes, because the OPP coordinates the coverage and requested TPS’s support.

@SquawkBoxSteve @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty Toronto police were present as well.

@WendyGoodes @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty The police handle risk assessment, not the Premier. Why are you okay with someone having to cancel events for fear of violence?

@SquawkBoxSteve @MrsCHardie @OntarioPCParty If he thinks that there is that much potential violence, perhaps he shouldn’t have held the event. Completely unnecessary except to attempt to drum up support for the by-election.

@GreatBusker If he was afraid of optics, why were all the people allowed to protest and disrupt his speech?

Was it the OPP? Was this safety really at risk? Please. This is because the beloved premier is afraid of the optics of people actually disagreeing with him in public. The police acted as crowd control. On our dime. For a political event for his party. How dare people actually express how they feel! My God! Heckling the premier is not being violent. And unless you can show some other threat out there, I am doubtful of your unsubstantiated claim. I remember when those on the right were a bit hot and bothered about Trudeau and his cabinet, harassing him physically at public appearances. I missed your criticism of those individuals. Somehow only the right is angelic and never violent.

As people on the right have learned, the angry left is very violent. There’s a reason the OPP arranged this police presence.

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty Does the potential for violence not concern you?

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty For an UNNECESSARY Vanity Party. And who pays the Police? Ontario Government. Ford. Hosting an event that requires loads of extra work and extra pay. While health care and education get the scraps of what is left.

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty I’m more concerned with the potential violence that required that amount of police presence.

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty If he needed that much money for police then maybe don’t throw a TAXPAYER FUNDED PARTY FOR HIMSELF. ???

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty He doesn’t hire police. The OPP is responsible for securing public events for the Premier.

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty It wasn’t needed. He hired them to pay them. He’s funnelling as much money as he can to police and Staples for kickback and support.

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty Can we worry about people being violent towards our politicians? Or do we reserve that worry for politicians we agree with?

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty Spend money on Provincial Responsibilities such as Heath Care and Education and not Police for your vanity party. 12-24 hours ER waits and no EAs for students with autism, disabilities or in wheelchairs is a massive failure of provincial management.

@rinni_ @ThisIsWillAdams @MarkCandler @TorontoPolice It’s insulting and terrible behaviour but demanding police action while criticizing their presence is ironic.

@SquawkBoxSteve @ThisIsWillAdams @MarkCandler @TorontoPolice First symptom of being a Snowflake, but no, definitely not criminally offensive

These Ontario PC volunteers were harassing a female volunteer and mocking her for having had plastic surgery done. When I confronted them and told them to leave her alone, this gentleman called me a "f#ggot." His friends were also very polite to me. 📸 Jun 19, 2026 #FordFest2026 #ProtestMania

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty No concern for why it’s needed?

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty Taxpayers (Ontario Residents) paying dozens of police to protect him because he wants to throw a ‘Yay Me’ party for fun while he’s robbing us blind is NOT good use of our money. Especially when people are waiting 12-24+ hours in the ER for stitches. Damn right we are mad.

@Mr_S_Ont The loudest group, wasn’t the small activist group of teachers led by the always embarrassing Nigel Barriffe. It was the OPSEU I believe.

@SquawkBoxSteve No, but it's what has been implied with the main headings/discussion being "for gets booked by unions" and then "high police presence"

Anyone have a video of this many cops at a World Cup game with 40 000 fans inside the stadium and thousands more outside? Was there this many, I'm the same space, at the Raptors Championship parade?