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@PierrePoilievre @JohnBrassardCPC @ScotDavidsonMP You should do a PSA on what taxes make up the gas taxes. People are confused by the engineered messaging. Don’t make it political, just informative; it’ll be good optics.

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I might get heat for this. Today I went to Canada Strong & Free. An organization I recognize leans right politically. As many know, I’m non-partisan. I’m not on a political team, I believe all political parties play a role in our democracy, and I enjoy challenging all sides - because the better they are, the stronger our province and country is. I attended for a few reasons: 1. I need to have my views challenged. 2. I believe in the exchange of ideas. 3. We can’t continue to have silos where Conservatives have 1 view, NDP have another view, and Indigenous people have their view. If we’re going to reconcile we need to find a way for British Columbians, government and First Nations to agree on a path forward that transcends party politics. I appreciated the opportunity, and look forward to continuing to have my views challenged.

@EvanLSolomon Hey Evan, computer scientist here. 32 countries have public AK supercomputers, and 43 publicly accessible super compute resources. Why don’t you tell us who’s building it and how much it will cost, and I’ll share how much it normally costs.

@KirkLubimov Maybe no one told you, but that's THE EFFING JOB of the opposition. If it were reversed I would expect the Liberals to do the same thing. An pay attention: reducing gas tax, building pipelines are con suggestions that are being adopted. PAY ATTENTION!

Canada's Conservatives need to understand: You can't be Anti - EVERYTHING. Conservatives need to compete on ideas and thought leadership, not just sh!t on everything. Canada needs to compete in/on and develop future industries. Government support is a strong catalyst and has been so to your favourite companies in the US. I get it. We know there will be corruptions and massive incompetence with the Liberals. So come up with a better plan and communicate it better. Sh!tting on everything will get cheap likes on social media but it's completely fatigued in the real world and will never win against a government that's actually trying to do something. Don't let anyone tell you Canada doesn't have money to do great things. We do. And should do great things with our money for us. It's just mismanaged everywhere else.

@gator_gum I appreciate the different perspective. I still think it would be a better idea to team up with a Caribbean nation to do this, but maybe there's more to it than what's being said in media and in the Xverse

Let's take a really deep look at this project as I happen to know a little bit about what's going on. As always, Mario is being misleading and deceptive. This is a legitimate public-private defence contract. He is intentionally omitting critical context, misrepresenting the deal's structure and purpose, and making a ridiculous comparison to SpaceX. The picture going around shows the site's current early-stage appearance. This is accurate. It's currently a gravel road, two sea cans, and a small concrete pad. While it is factually accurate as of right now, Mario weaponizes this snapshot to imply pure waste, fraud, or incompetence. The site is minimally developed right now, but the lease explicitly requires MLS to use the revenue to achieve Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the dedicated DND pad by the end of 2026. This includes building out a launch control centre, payload integration/testing facilities, additional pads, power/roads/safety systems, etc. Mario's post treats the current bare-bones photo as the final product, ignoring that this is anchor-tenant funding to accelerate private development (MLS already had the land under a separate low-cost provincial lease). This is intentional and standard for commercial spaceports worldwide (e.g., many U.S. sites operate on leased private/government land). The model gives DND/CAF priority access to a dedicated pad at a multi-user site while MLS handles operations and expansion. The government gets sovereign launch capability without building/owning everything from scratch. Mario presents this as uniquely scandalous "leasing a field" instead of acknowledging it's a deliberate public-private partnership under Canada's Defence Industrial Strategy. Mario claims SpaceX "spent $200 million building Starbase" as a gotcha. Reality: SpaceX has invested billions into Starbase over years. The physical building doesn't equate the investment. This is part of Canada's new Defence Industrial Strategy to reduce reliance on foreign (primarily U.S.) providers for critical satellites/payloads. It positions Nova Scotia as a launch hub, creates Canadian jobs as 90 percent of all spending must be domestic. It's a cherry-picked "gravel pad = government blows" meme designed for engagement and rage bait by stripping away the lease terms, development obligations, domestic spending rules, paired rocket program, and national security rationale. Mario blows, and is intentionally deceiving people for clicks and monetization.

@charliesmirkley Selection bias. Small number of kids with highly motivated and likely skilled parents. COVID taught me that I'm not one of them.

Only teachers are smart enough to educate children. Education majors, training to become certified teachers, score an average of 1029 on the SAT. While homeschooled students (taught by parents with no formal teaching credentials) score 1190.

@EricDLombardi I'd hardly call high speed passenger rail in a little used or desired corridor first-world infrastructure.

Too many people in this country have given up on having first-world infrastructure. If such projects are “bound to devolve into a boondoggle” then it means we should address our state capacity challenges rather than accept them as inevitable.

@Smil3yAngel Taxes aren't just HST? They include tariffs, supply management quotas (and restrictions), fuel taxes on the fertilizers and equipment, etc. Also, printing money reduces creates inflation on the pricing. "The more you know".

Hey Pierre, have you ever done any grocery shopping? Taxes on food have been exempt since 1991 😒

@JohnPaulDanko @PierrePoilievre @CPC_HQ It's literally their job you silly 🫏🤡

Canada is facing a dangerous and divided world. For the past year, under the leadership of @PierrePoilievre - @CPC_HQ MPs have blocked, delayed and obfuscated all government business in committee. This is not opposition - its just partisan obstruction - and it ends now.

@SarahTheHaider They'll just do the "Al Gore" and double down and say they were always right despite the obvious.

Okay, one final question for AI doomers: If it turns out that in, say a decade, AI continues to advance but no doom occurs, what will you have been wrong about?

@ShaunRickard67 No. Simple : economics.

Should Canada join the EU? If not, why not?

Canada’s govt leased this ‘spaceport’ for $200M I’ve detailed the money trail below Pic is 30 days ago from @HfxExaminer story halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/eve…

@yegwave Looks like a muskrat to me. Tail and size is a giveaway. Looks like a cross between a beavers and a rat.

“I thought Alberta was rat free! This thing was so big. Seen in Edmonton.” - Submitted in the DMs.

@terrynewman Why would we fight for Britain?

Not good... I'm with Heinlein about this. I wonder what the numbers would be for Canada.

@MarcNixon24 Good idea if you don't know anything about launching rockets. Maybe afterwards we can start planting citrus trees in the high arctic.

Steven McKinnon announces Canada wants to take on Elon Musk and launch rockets into space This could be a $40 billion industry What’s your thought? Good or bad investment?

The cynicism & hyper partisanship on this site can be exhausting. I see criticism of Conservatives like @erinotoole & @lraitt for agreeing to serve on the Prime Minister’s Canada-US relations advisory panel. Some say it represents “patronage.” To be clear, membership on advisory panels like this are not paid positions. Sometimes they will offer modest per diems for longer meetings requiring travel. But there is no material reward for participating in work like this. If anything it represents an opportunity cost for busy people who give up paid work or billable time in order to participate. In other words, it’s not patronage. Cynics, brace yourself: perhaps what motivates people to set aside partisanship and do voluntary work like this is an authentic sense of duty, of public service that puts country ahead of party. To the partisans who think it’s disloyal to accept a role like this: please remember that severely normal Canadians do not see the world through your hyper partisan lens. They expect Canadians to work together across party lines to help defend the country from external threats, like Donald Trump’s aggression. (Remember Stephen Harper appointing John Manley to lead the advisory panel on the Afghan military deployment; or appointing Gary Doer Ambassador to the US.) Finally, to Conservatives: one of the most unattractive feature of the contemporary left is its tendency to politicize absolutely everything. Don’t repeat their error. Conservatism is not a rigid ideological doctrine requiring loyalty tests and the demonization of our political adversaries.

@peteremcc Who's the Landlord fleecing the government? $200 mill on an empty piece of land that took maybe 100K max to level and infill.

I promise I am not joking... This is Canada's spaceport. Last month, the federal government paid $200 million to a company called Maritime Launch Services to lease it for 10 years.

Dying 🤣

@motivatedjoy @jkenney What if they said “no Jews” because as an ethnic group they are over represented in academia? Cool with that?

@jkenney Oh lord, white men in Canada are doing very well Jason

1% of the male population of Newfoundland was killed in the Great War. Memorial University was given its name to be a living, permanent memorial to their sacrifice. None of those men, or those who served with them, would now be eligible to teach at the university named in honour of their sacrifice. DEI has gone too far for too long. (BTW, I wonder if the same discriminatory hiring practices apply to janitorial, food services, and facility maintenance jobs. Or does the unjust treatment only apply to "elite" tenure track positions?)