CCMBC 2021

🤫 Catherine Swift quietly slipped an uncomfortable truth into the investment debate: When half your “foreign investment success story” is actually foreign firms buying up struggling #Canadian companies, that is not economic momentum. That is a clearance sale with a maple leaf on it. Meanwhile Ottawa keeps acting like antagonizing our largest trading partner is some kind of sophisticated geopolitical chess move instead of a high risk strategy being tested on the country that depends on U.S. trade to survive. 🇨🇦 Canada used to attract investment because we built things, extracted things, traded things, and generally behaved like a serious economy. Now we hold press conferences about “economic transformation” while private sector jobs evaporate and government bureaucracies reproduce like damp basement mold after spring runoff. Even Carney keeps most of his investments in the U.S. Which is a fairly loud vote of confidence if you think about it carefully enough.🤔 🔗 Link to article👇🏻 niagaraindependent.ca/canadas-invest… #cdnpoli #Economy #Canada #USMCA #CdnBiz #Investment #Carney #TradePolicy

🇨🇦 Canadian businesses are waving distress flares at this point. Investment is stalling. Jobs are leaving. 👋 Companies are quietly setting up shop in the U.S. while Ottawa keeps treating #tradenegotiations like a student council debate requiring a side therapy session. Meanwhile #Canadians still haven’t been told what’s inside the government’s “strategic partnership” with #China. Apparently transparency is now considered an extremist position. Businesses do not want slogans anymore. They want certainty. They want access to our largest trading partner. They want adults running the economy again. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli #USMCA #CdnManufacturing #Canada #Trade

🇨🇦 Canada now spends more servicing the #debt than it collects from the #GST. Think about how catastrophically stupid that actually is for a minute.🤔 We are not “building the future.”🏗 We are making interest payments on the past. Massive ones. While Ottawa struts around announcing programs like a financially illiterate uncle discovering his fifth credit card at Canadian Tire. YOUR family’s share is now roughly $3,400 just to cover the interest. Not roads. Not hospitals. Not infrastructure. Interest. Meanwhile the @MarkJCarney government keeps congratulating itself for its “economic management,” which increasingly feels like watching someone flood their own basement and then hold a nationally televised ribbon cutting for the sump pump. But relax. The press conference was bilingual and had a logo wall. So apparently everything is under control. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli #Canada #GST #Carney #Taxpayer @WorkingCdns @FinanceCanada @liberal_party

Europe: “Maybe wiring our entire energy grid and EV future to an authoritarian superpower that treats trade like a hostage negotiation was not the galaxy-brain strategy we thought.” 🧠 Canada: “Counterpoint. What if we did it harder?” 🇨🇦 The #EU is now blocking #Chinese inverter tech over fears it could manipulate power systems and expose critical infrastructure. Meanwhile #Ottawa is slashing tariffs on Chinese #EVs and calling it “diversification,” like a man replacing one leaking canoe with another one that’s actively on fire. Apparently “strategic independence” now means importing subsidized surveillance-capable rolling computers from #Beijing while gambling with North American auto integration during a #USMCA review year. Brilliant. No notes. Europe learned the hard way that dependency dressed up in green branding is still dependency. Canada appears determined to skip directly to the regret stage. #cdnpoli #CdnManufacturing @WorkingCdns @GasPriceWizard

"Net zero will totally work flawlessly during geopolitical instability," said every consultant safely buffered three continents away from the refinery shutdowns, tanker disruptions, and power demand spikes. Turns out modern civilization still runs on energy dense fuel and not just PowerPoint slides, ESG conferences, and a 2040 artist rendering of a happy family charging a bicycle beside a windmill. 🇨🇦 Canada had a chance to be an #EnergySuperpower. Instead we spent a decade treating our own #resources like contraband while dictatorships cashed the cheques. Awkward timing for the “fossil fuels are basically over” crowd. #cdnpoli #NetZero #CdnEnergy #Iran #EnergyCrisis

None of these are difficult. That’s the infuriating part.🤬 👉🏻Repeal the industrial carbon tax. 👉🏻Approve projects faster. 👉🏻Stop kneecapping the energy sector funding the country. But @MarkJCarney governs like a man trying to win applause at an international climate gala instead of trying to rebuild a functioning economy. 🇨🇦 Canada has #resources the world desperately wants, and somehow our leadership treats developing them like a moral embarrassment.🤦🏼‍♂️ #cdnpoli #Carney #Energy #CarbonTax #CanadaIsBroken

Canada: “We desperately need investment, jobs, growth, productivity and competitive industry.” 🇨🇦 Energy sector: “Then maybe stop taxing us harder than literally every competing oil producing country on Earth.” Ottawa: “No.” Brilliant strategy really. Punish the industry funding half the country, then act stunned when capital quietly packs its bags and heads south like a snowbird with survival instincts. At this point our economic policy feels less like nation building and more like a very expensive social experiment conducted by people whose groceries are catered. #cdnpoli #Carney #CarbonTax #Energy #OilAndGas #CanadaIsBroken

April: “Energy is leverage.” 🇨🇦 One week later: “Actually we would NEVER use energy as leverage.” 🇨🇦 At this rate, by next Tuesday they’ll announce pipelines are merely emotional support infrastructure and oil is a colonial rumour. Consistency. Stability. Serious leadership. Totally not government by focus group and panic briefing. 🍁 #cdnpoli #Carney #CUSMA #Energy #CanadaIsBroken @MarkJCarney

🚨 Farmers are getting crushed by #diesel, #fertilizer and operating costs during seeding season… grocery prices keep climbing… and Ottawa’s response is still basically: “Have you tried believing harder in net zero transition?” 🚜💸 Meanwhile @MarkJCarney and the Liberal brain trust keep insisting #affordability is improving while the people producing Canada’s food are stress-calculating whether they can even afford next year’s inputs. Funny how “imaginary taxes” somehow keep creating very real bills. 🤔 Nothing says economic brilliance quite like making food production more expensive, then acting baffled when food becomes more expensive.🤦🏼‍♂️ But relax. We're sure another downtown climate summit with artisan sandwiches will solve western farming realities any day now. 🇨🇦🌾 #cdnpoli #skpoli #CdnAg #Farmers #FoodPrices #CarbonTax #Carney @WorkingCdns @GasPriceWizard

61% of Canadians now support West Coast #LNG development and nearly half say Ottawa should be pushing harder on #pipelines and energy infrastructure. Canadians: “Build pipelines. Export LNG. Create jobs. Lower costs.” Ottawa: “Best we can do is another #climate roundtable and a consultant with a slideshow.” Even Angus Reid is showing the public shifting hard toward #energy development now. Turns out people prefer paycheques over ideological performance art. Question is whether Carney finally listens to voters… or keeps following the same narrow agenda that always seems to orbit neatly around #Brookfield’s interests. Totally random, surely. 🤔🇨🇦⛽ #cdnpoli #LNGCanada #Pipelines #EnergyCrisis #Carney #Canada #CdnEnergy

This must NEVER happen again

@CanadaFP When will your government stop and ask Canadians what THEY want? None of them voted for this or any of what you have been serving up for the past 12 months.

Canada is now the first non-European country to sign the Convention establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine - an international mechanism that will help hold Russia accountable for the destruction and suffering caused by its illegal war. #SlavaUkraini

🚨 Canada now spends more on debt interest than it collects from the GST! Just sit with that for a second. The country is basically making minimum payments on its national 💳 credit card while lecturing taxpayers about “responsible economic management." These are the same people who set the kitchen on fire.🔥 And YOUR family’s share is now roughly $3,400. Meanwhile #Ottawa celebrates.🥳 Because in modern politics, setting money on fire counts as leadership if the press release is bilingual. 📣 🛣 No roads. 👩‍⚕️ No doctor. 🤑 No miracle prosperity boom. Just #billions vaporizing into interest charges while #Ottawa congratulates itself with hashtags and stage lighting. #cdnpoli #Canada #DebtCrisis #Carney #EconomicUpdate

🙄 Nothing says “economic superpower” quite like deliberately making energy, manufacturing and production more expensive during global instability and calling it “competitiveness.” 🏭 Canadian industry: “We’re struggling with costs, investment flight and weak growth.” 👨🏻‍💼 Ottawa: “Have you tried paying even more for energy? For the climate. Probably.” At this point the industrial carbon tax feels less like policy and more like a loyalty test for people still pretending factories run on inspirational speeches and PowerPoint decks. #cdnpoli #CarbonTax #Carney #CanadianManufacturing

@timhodgsonmt @KINECTRICS @j_maloney @SimaAcan We are not a global energy leader. We are global energy hoarders.

🇨🇦 Canada: bleeding full time jobs, replacing them with scraps of part time work and calling it “economic resilience.” Meanwhile the U.S. is adding jobs during a literal geopolitical crisis. 🍿 Can’t wait for the Liberal explanation package to drop. Apparently this will somehow be caused by Trump, climate change, late stage capitalism, Mercury in retrograde, “global headwinds,” and Canadians selfishly expecting full time paycheques instead of the exciting new subscription model of employment. “Own nothing, rent everything, work two part time jobs and trust the process.” 🤦🏼‍♂️ The economic master plan nobody asked for. #cdnpoli #Canada #Economy #Jobs

@Taleeb Opposing is not the same as allowing lawyers to use property rights in the appeal. Sit down. Wait for the real grown ups to arrive.

There is no ambiguity about where our government stands. From the Prime Minister on down: we oppose the Cowichan decision, we appealed it, and we will keep advancing every viable argument to defend property rights across Canada in the courts — where these discussions belong.

🤨 What did I just read?! Under @MarkJCarney's “Buy Canadian” policy, a company can be 100% foreign owned, even state owned, and still qualify as “Canadian.” Apparently all you need to become #Canadian now is a storefront, a PO box and access to taxpayer money. 🏪📬🏧 At this rate the Beijing could open a chain of Tim Hortons kiosks in Winnipeg, and #Liberal Ottawa would call it domestic manufacturing. Carney... Just another out of touch Liberal🤦🏼‍♂️redefining words until the headlines sound patriotic while actual ownership leaves the country. #cdnpoli #Canada #MarkCarney #BuyCanadian

🤔 Funny. I don’t remember Canadians voting to become a discount branch office of Brussels or Westminster. I didn’t vote in the EU. And if I wanted European style governance, #energy costs, bureaucracy and managed #decline, I’d move there myself instead of having it imported one failed policy at a time. #Canada is supposed to have a Canadian government focused on Canadian interests, Canadian #industry and Canadian workers. Not a Davos themed international consulting project. At some point Canadians are going to ask why PM @MarkJCarney always sounds more emotionally invested in #Europe’s future than Canada’s present. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli #Canada #MarkCarney #CanadianPolitics

Remarkable. The government apparently managed to locate every possible ‘stakeholder’ except homeless veterans. 🪖 Apparently the same government that can track emissions, regulate speech, and invent billion dollar programs overnight suddenly became helpless when it came to finding ex military members in need. Then they wanted secrecy to avoid ‘negative stakeholder reactions.’ Which is bureaucratic dialect for: ‘This looks terrible and we know it.’ #cdnpoli #Canada #Veterans #CanadianForces #CAF #Homelessness #VeteransAffairs @gregorrobertson #cdngov #Ottawa #SupportOurTroops