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@EricDLombardi If you're saying the Harper years included the minority period from 2006-2011, it also saw the greatest financial crisis since the Great Depression

“Booming Under Harper” Ontario saw major deindustrialization in the Harper years, and it basically got ignored.

@HoCStaffer Once the new MPs are sworn in, I imagine there will be some type of reset. One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that with a thin majority, a lot of MPs will be doing double and even triple duty on committees to fill the new Liberal seat on each one.

Spring Economic Update on April 28th, as per FinMin Franky Bubbles. Can't see Libs continuing to have minorities on Cttes when they have majority in the House. Easiest way to "fix" that is to prorogue. Is that a quick one, say just next week? Or a longer one post-update?

@FoodProfessor Canada being level-pegging with Australia in this is surprising: if i remember correctly, the Aussies only have 2 big national chains.

If you think Canada is overstored in food retail, not quite… Canada needs more grocery stores—not necessarily more grocers, just more stores.

@yuanyi_z @JJ_McCullough fct-cf.ca/en/pages/repre… "Counsel are asked to refrain from addressing the judges as "My Lord", "My Lady", "Your Lordship," or "Your Ladyship.""

@JJ_McCullough Unless otherwise directed, it is also acceptable to address a male judge as “My Lord” and a female judge as “My Lady”. courts.ns.ca/courts/judges

Parking my tank on their lordships's lawn:

@SophieLazier @1Casual0bserver @JJ_McCullough @Unmade333 Gender is much easier in Spanish: it's completely random in French.

@1Casual0bserver @JJ_McCullough @Unmade333 French is very similar to Spanish. That's why most of the Québécois are very good at Spanish. Don't make me laugh when you say the English Canadians would like to learn Spanish! If they can't learn French, why would they be able to master Spanish far better than French? Ha ha ha!

Everything about official bilingualism in Canada is built on myth. People can’t “just learn” a language they don’t need. Canada isn’t “built on” two equally-sized language groups. Bilingualism isn’t “necessary” to function at an elite level. It’s all just Laurentian folklore.

@JJ_McCullough Australian-style Republicanism would be a big draw here, especially in Quebec.

Canada's links to the British monarchy are not popular with Canadians, and polls show conservatives in particular don't like it. When Carney constantly bows and scrapes before King Charles, it turns many off. Conservatives should run against the monarchy, it's a good issue.

@FoulWritten @JJ_McCullough Lol no

@JJ_McCullough The EU will expand, and expand, until, a long time from now, all countries will be members: the result being a more interwoven and cooperative UN

Canadian politics is becoming so unserious. People are increasingly seduced by the absolute dopiest ideas, whether it’s “Alberta separatism,” CANZUK, or joining the EU. There’s this fixation on finding “one weird trick” to solve all our problems. It ain’t gonna happen, folks.

@FoodProfessor If this had been in place in 1994, would Walmart (which even the Competition Bureau acknowledges has had a positive effect on grocery competition) have been able to set up shop in Canada?

@stephen_taylor It's funny because Italians invented this term to dismissively describe watered-down espresso.

Stunning and brave.

@acoyne "Assuming that the Canada-Alberta MOU results in stronger carbon pricing, that cost might rise to nearly 50 cents—the price of a Timbit—per barrel by 2030." Completely disingenuous framing, but expect to hear this ridiculous factoid regurgitated constantly going forward

Ross Linden-Fraser: Industrial carbon pricing is not the reason our groceries are more expensive nationalnewswatch.com/2026/03/16/ind…

@EricDLombardi Australian states are much more homogenous than their Canadian counterparts. The latter don't even speak the same languages.

Been digging into interprovincial trade barriers and trying to understand what actually works to get rid of them. Honestly, I’m a bit shocked Australia isn’t brought up more often in Canada. In the 90s, they had the same problem — fragmented state rules, licensing barriers, internal trade friction — and it was starting to hurt their competitiveness. So they acted. They passed the Mutual Recognition Act (1992): if something is approved in one state, it’s allowed in another. That opened their internal market immediately. Then they backed it with the National Competition Policy (1995): governments had to review and justify rules that restricted competition — and the federal government tied funding to actually making progress. They didn’t eliminate every barrier. They changed the system: open the market first, then force alignment over time. This forces progress on the biggest issues quickly. Result: ~2–2.5% GDP growth. ~$5K AUD per household. In Canada, we’re still treating this like a coordination problem instead of a mechanism problem. Feels like Ontario should be learning from New South Wales here — lead and open the market unilaterally. And Ottawa should be doing the same thing Australia did — using incentives, timelines, and accountability to actually get it done, tying internal trade reform to competition reform more broadly.

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@cselley Linda McQuaig lol

lol in what world is Avi Lewis a populist? The faculty lounge at UBC?

@cselley Layton just played the part of leftist better: starting his speeches with "brothers and sisters", playing his guitar unnecessarily, etc.

Unpopular opinion: Mulcair was no more centrist than Layton.

@MungusShug Those aren't affectations: Canadians are Americans.

@Dan_Redlands @JJ_McCullough It's the ones that are Americaphilic in their affectations that we should worry about the most.

The fact that Carney moved to England, became a citizen, worked for their government, and now has a fetish for pretending Canada is a British colony—getting their king to open our parliament and telling us to spell “recognize” with an S—is very weird and should be discussed more.

@RealAlbanianPat Liberal is orange over there, Labour is red

@TristinHopper "set it and forget it"

I don't remember budget documents sounding this much like a Ron Popeil informercial. "365 days per year"?

@NovaMarkButler Not particularly. Cellular agriculture has been around for a while, so issues surrounding safety, etc. have been addressed quite thoroughly. Further down the road, there's the question of patenting genes which may prohibit innovation, but we're a long way from that, I think.

@agri_dan Any concerns?

A biotech company wants to use genetically engineered fruit flies to produce proteins to make fake meat and for other uses. What do you think? The Government is asking.