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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience
@ButtsConscience
Liberal Apologist, High Falutin Eco-nutjob, Professional Bubble Buster & Dasher of Dreams. I carry Trudeau's water-box thingies. 🍎 🍏 Parody-ish
Canada Katılım Mart 2022
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Fascinating.
Your brain read “maybe we should question elite unelected political influence networks” and leaped straight to “KKK” in one hop, which says a lot about you.
That’s not even an argument. That’s a neurological cry for supervision.
Some of us are discussing conflicts of interest involving unelected policy circles, corporate influence and a sitting Prime Minister.
Meanwhile you’re over in the corner eating drywall and screaming “WHAT ABOUT THE KKK?!” like someone three beers deep trying to fistfight a parking meter.
This is why serious public discourse in Canada now feels like arguing economics with a guy wearing Cookie Monster pajama pants outside a vape shop.
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🚨 Tomorrow night @MarkJCarney attends a Canada 2020 dinner in Toronto.
For #Canadians unfamiliar with Canada 2020, this is not just some harmless public policy book club swapping banana bread recipes and budget ideas.
It is a DEEPLY connected #Liberal aligned INFLUENCE NETWORK founded by Liberal strategists and heavily tied to:
👉🏻global finance
👉🏻 ESG investing
👉🏻climate governance
👉🏻corporate lobbying circles
👉🏻international policy elites.
Mark Carney himself previously CHAIRED ITS ADVISORY BOARD.
The organization openly states it aims to “shape governments.”
Its orbit has included Liberal insiders, Bay Street executives, #Brookfield connected figures, central banking networks, climate finance advocates, global governance organizations and Davos style “stakeholder capitalism” circles.
So Canadians should probably ask a few questions:
When the Prime Minister privately dines with the same interconnected policy, finance and influence class that helped shape the ideology now governing Canada… where exactly is the line between public service and elite network management? And has his lacklustre underwhelming Ethics Screen been applied to this?
Yes, I'm talking to you Marc-André Blanchard (@mablanchard65) Carney’s Chief of Staff and Michael Sabia, Canada’s top civil servant and Clerk of the Privy Council - both of them are in charge of ensuring his ethics screen is applied.
Will Brookfield be there?
Who gets access?
Who gets influence?
Who benefits?
And why does it increasingly feel like ordinary Canadians are spectators watching a country being managed through invitation only policy salons?
Funny how “Buy Canadian” now apparently includes foreign owned corporations, while Canadian workers, manufacturers and taxpayers keep getting the austerity version of patriotism.
At some point Canadians are going to wonder whether they elected a Prime Minister… or hired a Davos regional manager with a maple leaf pin. 🇨🇦
#cdnpoli #Canada2020 #MarkCarney #Canada #cdnecon
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@TheBuckYouWill Its not real... its satire. Its been community noted in other places and comes from the Satire Squad acct
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🚨BREAKING: 89% OF CANADIANS VERIFIED TO BE RETARDED!!
Who the fuck are they asking?
This is 100% proof that a majority of Canadians are fucking retarded and that the media skews polls to fit the narrative.
IT'S ALL BULLSHIT.
(And EVERY day more people can't pay their bills, can't afford gas & food, are missing mortgage payments & rents, and are going broke because of Liberal policies - But 'Orange Man' bad!!)
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@midnightriderV2 Its not a real post. It's supposed to be satire.
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That tells me 89% of Canadians are extremely stupid.
Wall Street Mav@WallStreetMav
It is not Trump’s job to improve the Canadian economy. Trump’s job is to get the best trade deals for the USA and force the deadbeats of NATO to pay for their own defense costs.
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
Two visions. ✌️
Two directions.🔁
One: keep trade flowing with the partner that built our economy.
The other: experiment with “new alignments” while Canadians absorb the fallout.
But sure, let’s call that progress.🤦🏼♂️
Because nothing says stability like gambling your largest trading relationship on a theory and hoping it works out later.
The choice isn’t complicated. It just gets dressed up that way.
#cdnpoli @CPC_HQ #BeijingCantBeTrusted #CarneyConnedCanadians @ChinaEmbOttawa @POTUS
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@paul186282 @HHBronte @2021Ccmbc @WorkingCdns @PierrePoilievre @timhodgsonmt @ShannonStubbsMP @CPC_HQ @liberal_party Wow.. you're pretty thick. They should censorship mouthbreathers like you from social media. You drop the iq level by half just entering the room
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@HHBronte @2021Ccmbc @WorkingCdns @PierrePoilievre @timhodgsonmt @ShannonStubbsMP @CPC_HQ @liberal_party And you believe a AI generated image 😆
The catering cost for Mark Carney’s October 2025 flight to Washington was approximately $306 per person.
* Total Catering Cost: $16,824.65.
* Number of People: 55
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👓 Read that again:
🛩 $527,000… on airplane food!
For just one man.
Nearly 11× more on catering than fuel.⛽️
Meanwhile, Canadians are stretching groceries, skipping meals, and lining up at food banks in record numbers. 🛍🍝
But don’t worry. At 30,000 feet, it’s Wagyu and vintage Bordeaux.🍷
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Five-star service above the clouds…
🍽 rationing on the ground.
#cdnpoli #CarneyEatsCanadiansStarve
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
📣 So this is the “majority.”
Two safe Liberal seats stay put. One flips on a technicality.
And that somehow offsets five floor crossers? 🤔
No election.
No mandate.
Just a quick backroom recalculation and Carney gets his “stability.”🤝
Sure, totally legitimate.
But absolutely unearned.
#cdnpoli #LiberalsCheat
@WorkingCdns @MarkJCarney #PlayWithFireGetBurned
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
It’s actually quite touching when you think about it.😂
The Official Opposition puts forward an idea…
gets mocked for it…
and then a few weeks later, voilà, it reappears as government policy.
New branding. Same blueprint.
A 10 cent “holiday” on gas.
After years of piling it on.
Progress, apparently.
At this rate, we’re just a few conservative “independent ideas” away from accidentally fixing things.🛠️
#cdnpoli #LiberalsCopyPastePolicy
#PolicyByOpposition #BorrowedBlueprints
#OppositionWritesTheScript #LiberalsPlayingCatchUp
#LiberalsLoveLeftovers #ReheatedPolicy
#SecondHandSolutions #HandMeDownPolicies
#RecycledFromPierre @WorkingCdns @PierrePoilievre @liberal_party @CPC_HQ
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If this isn't a gigantic fucking Neon Sign for the @Nat_Div_RCMP and @CSIS to open a file on Michael Ma, assuming they haven't already, I don't know what else is.
#cdnpoli @MichaelChongMP @BenCarrwpg
Melanie In Saskatchewan@saskatchewan_in
From Crossing Floors To Crossing Lines: Dear Michael Ma, There are missteps in politics. Then there are moments so pristine in their execution that one almost wants to thank you for the demonstration. Your appearance at the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade was one of those moments. Not because it advanced anything. But because it clarified everything. You were questioning Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa and a long-established expert on China, global supply chains, international trade, and the forced labour risks tied to Uyghur slavery. If ever there was a witness purpose-built to speak on that exact subject, she was it. Credentials aligned. Expertise aligned. Topic aligned. A rare moment where the system actually put the right person in the right chair. And then you arrived. Faced with Margaret McCuaig-Johnston’s level of expertise, you chose not to engage her evidence, but to sidestep it. “Anti China,” you suggested, as though documenting labour camps were a personality flaw rather than a matter of record. A neat little label, deployed with the confidence of someone hoping it would do the heavy lifting. It didn’t. Then came the tempo. The rapid-fire questioning. The insistence on short answers. The carefully managed interruptions that ensure just enough of a response is heard to pivot away from it. It had all the hallmarks of a strategy, in the same way a cardboard cutout has all the hallmarks of a person. You were not examining. You were staging. And layered over it all was that faint, unmistakable throwback tone. The kind that treats a highly qualified woman not as an authority to be reckoned with, but as something to be contained, redirected, and talked over until the room forgets why she was invited in the first place. A little early-1900s patriarchy, lightly polished and rolled into committee procedure. Very modern. Very progressive. Very on brand for a man who crossed the floor only to immediately begin crossing lines. There was, however, a second performance worth appreciating. In most committee rooms, when a Conservative so much as nudges a witness toward brevity, Liberals react as though parliamentary norms have been dragged into a ditch. Objections fly. Hands wave. Faces tighten. And the chair intervenes with great theatrical concern to ensure the witness is allowed to answer. A well-practised ritual. Which made the sudden outbreak of tranquility under Ben Carr feel almost experimental. No intervention. No reminders. No concern. Just a serene confidence that everything unfolding was, somehow, entirely appropriate. One assumes the rulebook was merely resting. Because this is the part that lingers. You crossed the floor from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party to Mark Carney’s Liberal Party. A move presented, as these things always are, as thoughtful. Strategic. Necessary. You would be more effective, we were told, aligned with power. It is a compelling narrative. It does, however, rely on the assumption that effectiveness is transferable. What we saw instead suggests something else made the trip. Not improved. Not recalibrated. Just relocated. The Conservatives, for their part, have been handed a rather elegant escape. Not through foresight, but through timing. A problem that walks out the door is still a problem, just no longer yours to explain. That explanation now belongs to the Liberals. And here the irony becomes almost too generous. This is a party that never tires of informing Canadians that it will take no lessons from Conservatives. Yet when it came to you, the apparent vetting model seems to have been: well, he was over there, so surely somebody checked. A touching faith in invisible homework. Sadly, the Conservatives clearly did not do enough homework either. They just happened to unload the assignment before it exploded in someone else’s locker. The Liberals, however, cannot even claim surprise. They took a floor crosser from a rival party, apparently made sweeping assumptions, and then acted shocked when the package turned out to contain exactly what the label should have warned them about. Which brings us, inevitably, to Mark Carney. Because leadership is not tested by the decisions that go smoothly. It is tested by the ones that arrive with consequences attached. And you have arrived fully assembled. He now faces a choice. He can sideline you. Quietly reduce your profile. Remove the conditions under which this kind of performance becomes a recurring feature. In doing so, he also quietly dismantles the entire excuse for your floor crossing, that proximity to power would somehow make you more useful to your riding. Or he can do what his own track record suggests he may well do. Stand firm. Close ranks. Pretend the whole thing is overblown. Preserve appearances. Protect the ego that made the bad decision in the first place. Because to admit error would mean admitting that courting you over was not a show of strength, but a lapse in judgment dressed up as strategy. And that, politically, is where the trap closes. If Carney turfs you to the back benches, he blows a hole in your own justification for crossing. Suddenly the man who claimed he had to switch parties to get closer to power is left nowhere near it. But if Carney keeps you up front and keeps defending you, then he is not merely tolerating the behaviour. He is feeding it. He is teaching you that protection follows performance, no matter how boorish, how transparently partisan, or how steeped in old-school misogyny it may be. And people who feel protected rarely become more restrained. They become more confident. More willing. More asshole-ish. More certain that the room will adjust around them. So here we are. You crossed the floor in search of influence. And in short order, crossed a line by trying to discredit Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a woman whose expertise on China and Uyghur forced labour far exceeded anything you brought to that exchange. If ever there was a witness who could speak to Uyghur slavery, she was it. And Michael Ma’s answer to that was not substance. It was swagger, interruption, and the kind of stale patriarchal toxicity that should have been left somewhere around the invention of the typewriter. As for Mr. Carney, he may soon discover that in the pursuit of numbers, he acquired something far less cooperative. Not an asset. Not a coup. A stinking, rotting albatross now hanging around the Liberal Party’s neck like a garland of decaying principles. And if he chooses to keep feeding it rather than cut it loose, he can keep it. Sincerely, Melanie in Saskatchewan, A citizen who was paying attention 👇🏻 buymeacoffee.com/melanieinsaska… 👇🏻 open.substack.com/pub/melanieins…
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
Disturbing.
Did this Liberal MP really just deny that forced labour practices are taking place in China?
This is a documented problem. Why is this MP carrying water for the Chinese regime?
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
Micheal Ma RUNNING away from reporters.
He just EXPOSED the Liberals. It’s wonderful to watch.
Liberals about to TAKE a beating in the Polls.
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
It seems that Michael Ma designed his rapid fire questions at me so they could be used by Chinese state media showing that he went up against a critic of the regime. That’s what Chinese state media is reporting. It failed spectacularly here, but state media won’t report that.
Luke de Pulford@lukedepulford
🇨🇳 State media now praising 🇨🇦 MP Michael Ma’s attack on on @M_Johnston1 “Michael Ma launched a rapid-fire interrogation that sent tension through the room. The witness's stumbling response sparked uproar.” Increasingly damaging for @OurCommons 🔗 m.guancha.cn/internation/20…
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
Carney in Halifax today. Listen to this nonsense from Carney. Net Zero LNG? Low carbon oil? The world wants it? No investor is going to touch Canada with ideological rhetoric like this. Wait till the end where you will see Seamus O’Regan fawn all over him. These people are so blinded by this man.
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@sarobertsonca Bullshit. He got in because Trudeau asked him too. He was promised perks via taxpayers and lept at the opportunity
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Marc Miller: "I got into politics because I love my country, Canada. The opposition member got into politics because he had tendinitis."
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
I joined @DavidKrayden for an interview on corruption, influence, and the remarkably convenient timing surrounding Mark Carney.
Dates. Travel. Deals. Announcements.
At some point, coincidence starts looking like it’s on payroll.
Have a listen. 👇
#cdnpoli
David Krayden@DavidKrayden
How Delusional Are Canadians About Carney x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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.@CPC_HQ @PierrePoilievre @MelissaLantsman
She is absolutely 100% right! Canadians are living through this governments sick version of Moneyball.
Melanie In Saskatchewan@saskatchewan_in
Moneyball... The Canadian Political Edition Are razor thin election margins being quietly converted into Liberal seats? What if the path to power in Ottawa is no longer persuading voters but recruiting MPs from ridings the Liberals barely lost? Imagine losing an election in a riding by a few dozen votes. Not thousands. Not even hundreds. A few dozen. The voters speak. The ballots are counted. The result is recorded. The seat goes to the other party. Democracy has rendered its verdict. Now imagine that seat quietly changing hands anyway without another election. Not because the voters changed their minds. Because the MP did. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it should. It is essentially the political version of what the Brad Pitt film Moneyball made famous. In that story, the Oakland A’s could not compete with richer baseball teams by buying superstar players. So they did something different. They hunted tiny statistical advantages other teams ignored. Marginal gains. Overlooked players. Small edges buried in spreadsheets. Individually the moves looked insignificant. Collectively they changed the standings. Now consider Canadian politics. Not baseball players. Members of Parliament. Not batting averages. Election margins. And not trades. Floor crossings. To be clear, floor crossing is legal. It always has been. Members of Parliament are free to change parties. Canadian politics has seen it before. Conscience evolves. Ideologies shift. Personal calculations change. All of that is true. But something interesting appears when you begin looking closely at the numbers, specifically the ridings where the margins were razor thin. These are seats where the electorate was already divided almost perfectly down the middle. And those are precisely the seats where acquiring a single MP can flip the parliamentary math instantly. Consider several ridings from the last election where Conservatives defeated Liberals by extremely small margins. Terra Nova–The Peninsulas was decided by only a handful of votes. Milton East–Halton Hills South by just a few dozen. Windsor–Tecumseh–Lakeshore by fewer than a hundred. In Markham–Unionville and Edmonton Riverbend the margins were still narrow by federal election standards, measured in the low hundreds. In ridings with tens of thousands of ballots cast, those margins are not ideological fortresses. They are statistical coin flips. Now imagine you are a strategist trying to change the parliamentary math without calling another election. Would you target MPs who defeated your party by twenty thousand votes? Or would you look at ridings where the electorate was already split nearly fifty fifty? Where persuading one individual changes everything!? That is where the Moneyball logic appears. Instead of persuading fifty thousand voters, you persuade one MP. The scoreboard shifts instantly. No campaign. No election. No voters trudging through snow to mark an X. Just a quiet change of jersey on the House of Commons floor. Now consider the MPs who have crossed the floor or whose ridings are currently the focus of speculation. Seats like Edmonton Riverbend held by Matt Jeneroux and Markham–Unionville represented by Michael Ma sit squarely in that category of competitive swing ridings. Even Nunavut, represented by Lori Idlout, illustrates how single seats in geographically unique ridings can dramatically affect parliamentary arithmetic. Notice the pattern. Not massive strongholds. Swing ridings. Seats where the Liberal candidate already came within striking distance. Which raises an uncomfortable question. Is this coincidence? Or strategy? Because if a riding was decided by one hundred votes, persuading the MP to change parties is dramatically easier than persuading fifty thousand voters to change their minds. The parliamentary math changes instantly. The voters never get another say. (Just like Canadians did not get a say when 131,674 votes from Liberal Party members at Mark Carney's leadership race installed Mark Carney as defacto Prime Minister. He effectively became the Prime Minister of Canada through installation, not election. That is 0.33 percent of Canadians. Or, put another way, roughly one third of one percent of the country’s population participated in choosing the Liberal leader who then became Prime Minister through the parliamentary system without being elected by the people of the country. • 131,674 people chose the leader • out of about 41 million Canadians) Of course nobody in Ottawa will describe it this way. Politics prefers softer language. You will hear phrases like cooperation, evolving priorities, responsible leadership, and national unity. Politics prefers poetry. Arithmetic prefers patterns. Individually every floor crossing can be explained. Each one comes with its own "so-called" story, its own "so-called" reasoning, its own "so-called" justification. But collectively something else begins to emerge. A seat here. Another seat there. Nothing dramatic. Until one day the standings look different. Exactly the way Moneyball worked. No blockbuster moves. Just quiet arithmetic accumulating advantage until the outcome changed. Which leads to the question Canadians should probably start asking. What happens when parliamentary power can be quietly reconstructed not by voters but by strategic acquisitions? Because when an MP crosses the floor in a riding decided by one hundred votes, something remarkable happens. The voters who cast those ballots never get a second say. The riding simply changes hands. The scoreboard updates. Democracy becomes adjustable. Perhaps it is coincidence. Politics produces coincidences the way prairie fields produce dandelions. Sudden ideological awakenings. Perfectly timed conversions. Entirely possible. But if it is strategy, it is an elegant one. Because the brilliance of the Moneyball approach is that it hides in plain sight. Each move looks isolated. Each explanation sounds reasonable. Each crossing appears personal. Until one day you step back and notice something unsettling. The standings have changed. And the voters were never asked again. Because if Canadian politics has truly entered its Moneyball era, the most powerful force in our democracy is no longer the voter. It is the margin. And if the margin is small enough, the voters themselves can apparently be traded after the game is over. That is not strategy. That is rewriting the final score after the stadium lights are off and the crowd has already gone home. Melanie in Saskatchewan * Of Note: I submitted a petition to address this, and if it’s accepted and sponsored I will post it. Hopefully we can put an end to this type of dishonesty in our parliament. 👇 buymeacoffee.com/melanieinsaska… 👇 open.substack.com/pub/melanieins…
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I know karma always wins but fml... what will it take before Canadians see the liberals are suffocating growth, strangling innovation while squandering our money and need to go the way of the dodo!?!
Swift is bang on here!
CCMBC 2021@2021Ccmbc
🇨🇦 Canada used to produce entrepreneurs. Now we mostly produce paperwork for them. 📝 Take 3 minutes and listen to Catherine Swift describing the life of a Canadian entrepreneur in 2026: 👉🏻Higher taxes. 👉🏻More regulation. 👉🏻Less incentive to build anything. And somehow government still wonders why investment is leaving.🤦🏼♂️ #MakeSanityGreatAgain #cdnpoli
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
There is a scene in Titanic where Molly Brown, played by Kathy Bates, casually explains the chill between old money and new money. Same dining room. Same crystal. Different bloodlines. The old guard does not hate wealth. It hates arrival.
I just happened to watch it again, and I can't help but think about Pierre Poilievre.
Not because he is a movie character. Because the reaction to him feels theatrical in the same way.
I am not a blind partisan. I am a skeptical voter. I have voted based on policy, temperament, and performance. But I am exhausted with the assumption that one party, particularly the Liberal establishment, considers itself the natural governing order of Canada. As if leadership is something etched into Laurentian granite and everyone else is a temporary inconvenience.
And people like me? We are treated as if we wandered in from the service entrance.
That tone is not imagined. It is cultural. It shows up in commentary panels, in Ottawa cocktail chatter, in the quiet sneer that suggests conservatives are unsophisticated, unserious, or morally suspect for disagreeing.
Now insert Poilievre into that ballroom.
Degree in international relations. Command of data. Rapid recall in debate. Years of grinding committee work. A career built the slow way, not inherited through family lineage or political aristocracy. Whatever one thinks of his ideology, the man has put in the work.
And that is what unsettles them.
Like Molly Brown, he understands the rules of the room. He just did not grow up in it. He did not inherit the assumption that he belongs at the head of the table. He claimed his seat through competence and stamina.
There is something almost comical about how irritated the establishment becomes when someone from outside their cultural orbit proves sharp, disciplined, and effective. It disrupts the comforting belief that the right to lead flows naturally from the right surname, the right social circle, the right network.
As a conservative voter, I will admit something with a grin. I take a certain delight in that discomfort.
Not because I hate anyone. Not because I want chaos. But because it is healthy for power to feel pressure. It is healthy for elite circles to be reminded that leadership in Canada is not hereditary. It is chosen.
When the Laurentian set bristles at him, it feels less like policy disagreement and more like social offence. As if the real transgression is that someone without their pedigree mastered their game.
From where I sit in Saskatchewan, that irony is rich. Many of us were not born into influence. We built our lives the long way. We respect effort. We respect preparation. We respect someone who can defend their case without hiding behind inherited prestige.
Old money dislikes being reminded that the ladder still works.
And perhaps that is why the tension feels so sharp. Not because he is new money in a literal sense. But because he represents something the old guard would rather forget.
The door is not theirs alone.
And some of us rather enjoy watching it swing open.
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
I Am a Conservative Canadian. And I’m Done Being Ruled by the Laurentian Elite Who Broke the Country:
The Laurentian Class Broke Canada and Still Thinks It’s Our Fault!
I am a Conservative Canadian.
Not the cartoon the pundits like to sketch on television. Not the villain in the tidy little morality play performed every night in Ottawa studios.
Just a citizen who works, pays taxes, and has reached the point where the lectures from the people running this country have become unbearable.
Because here is the truth no one in Ottawa seems willing to say out loud.
Canada is not failing because Canadians are selfish, backward, or resistant to progress.
Canada is struggling because the people in charge have confused moral theatre with competence.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
I believe a country should produce things.
Energy. Food. Opportunity.
Not just announcements.
I believe budgets should eventually balance because debt is not compassion. Debt is simply a bill we hand to our children and pretend we did them a favour.
I believe the truck driver hauling freight across the Prairies contributes more to Canada in a single winter storm than a room full of policy advisors drafting their seventh strategy document about him.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
Which means I believe the people who actually build the country deserve a government that respects them.
And that is where the “anger” comes from.
Because the class that governs Canada today does not respect those people.
They manage them.
The Laurentian elite speaks endlessly about the working class while living comfortably in a world completely insulated from it.
They host conferences about sacrifice.
They publish essays about equity.
And then they bill the taxpayer for lunch.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
And I am tired of watching a political class lecture the country about responsibility while demonstrating none of it themselves.
They tell Canadians we must accept higher energy costs in the name of the planet while sitting in a country blessed with enough resources to power half the world.
They tell families struggling with grocery bills that the real problem is their consumption habits.
They tell us housing is unaffordable because the issue is complicated.
Everything is always complicated.
Everything except the part where ordinary Canadians are expected to quietly absorb the consequences.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
Which means I have very little patience left for hypocrisy.
The same people who lecture the country about sacrifice never seem to sacrifice anything themselves.
They fly to climate summits to explain austerity to people who cannot afford their heating bills.
They expand government year after year while telling Canadians to tighten their belts.
They preside over failure and then congratulate themselves for managing it.
And when Canadians finally push back, we are told the real problem is our attitude.
That we are angry.
That we are misinformed.
That we simply do not understand the brilliance of the plan.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
And I understand it perfectly.
What I do not accept anymore is the arrogance behind it.
Because this country does not belong to the people who dominate the panel discussions on television.
It belongs to the people who wake up before dawn to keep the lights on.
The farmers who feed us.
The tradesmen who build for us.
The truckers who haul for us.
The small business owners who take risks for us while Ottawa writes rules.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
Which means I believe the purpose of government is actually quite simple.
Protect the country.
Maintain order.
Create conditions where people can thrive and build their own prosperity.
That is it.
Government is not supposed to micromanage the economy, redesign society, or lecture citizens about how enlightened it is.
And it certainly is not supposed to behave like a permanent ruling class that believes its authority comes from virtue rather than results.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
And I believe Canada deserves better than this slow drift into managed decline.
It deserves leadership that actually believes in the people who built it.
I am a Conservative Canadian.
And I am finished pretending that the people running this country know better than the citizens who keep it alive.
Enough.
- Melanie in Saskatchewan
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Gerald Butts' Conservative Conscience retweetledi
🤔Funny how the same people who spent a year insisting @PierrePoilievre would “bend the knee” to #Trump suddenly applauded his Economic Club speech once they actually listened to it.🦻
Turns out calm policy, Canadian sovereignty, and serious ideas sound pretty good when the alternative is a government that gives speeches, signs MOUs, and somehow still delivers… nothing! 🇨🇦
Hmm, who knew? (Pierre knew, that's who)
#cdnpoli @WorkingCdns #FuelFreedom @POTUS #Bupkis @GasPriceWizard @AndrewScheer
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