Ed Pilon

Your new RCMP. They've turned off the comments.

@politicalham Here’s my prediction: Alberta’s oil sector WILL shrink by 50% by 2035….but only if they stay in Canada. If Albertans vote to leave Canada by 2035 their oil and gas sector will grow in leaps and bounds and Alberta will be the wealthiest state or province in North America.

Here’s my prediction: Alberta’s oil sector will shrink by 50% by 2035.

@LauraBabcock I sure hope you’re right. Alberta joining America would be the best possible outcome. After Alberta leaves the rest of Canada will devolve into a third-world socialist welfare state like Cuba…but with shitty weather.

“I don’t believe for one second Danielle Smith is being dragged around by bunch of losers in cowboy hats. I believe that she wants to be part of Trump’s MAGA fucking universe and she’s trying to make that happen!” 🇨🇦 OShow Scandal Panel youtu.be/VlvYY0X5Afc?si… #Ableg #Cndpoli

@raghu_venugopal @CelticAshes “Rabid” What a term to use to describe East-Asians. What would you say if a white Pearson used that word to describe your people? BTW…this dance has nothing whatsoever to do with promoting hockey. It’s a performative display meant to assert authority and dominance.

Poor Nathan. He fails to realize east-Asian newcomers to Canada are rabid hockey fans, Canada's game. This is love of country and love of hockey, not the opposite. @CelticAshes

@jengerson I’m not a Danielle Smith fan. She’s been badly outplayed by Carney in all areas. However, if she manages to guide Albertans through the difficult process of separating from Canada without violence she’ll have accomplished the same thing Ghandi did…independence through peace.

I suspect she's on track to blow up her second Alberta Conservative party. A truly spectacular career record, if you stop to think about it.

@TrendPolCa @melaniejoly Looks like the federal government will be moving at least 100,000 Indians to Nunavut to fill those government jobs.

WATCH: Industry Minister @melaniejoly announces the Defence Industrial Strategy, a federal investment that would add 125,000 new jobs to Nunavut and increase the revenues of the sector by 240%.

The disastrous decline in health and hygiene standards at Tim Hortons and many other Canadian fast food chains is directly attributable to the Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program. Inside 18 months, Hepatitis A — a fecal-oral disease, by Public Health Canada's own definition — has been confirmed in Tim Hortons food handlers in Ottawa, Amherst NS, and Barrie. A Montreal location was fined $4,200 for premises containing rodent excrement. India is now Canada's largest source of foreign workers. India's own government has spent 11 years and billions on its Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign trying to end open defecation. The current phase is literally branded "Swabhav Swachhata, Sanskar Swachhata" — behavioural and cultural cleanliness — because their own surveys find roughly half of rural households continue to defecate in the open even when they own a toilet. They say they prefer it. The Indian government calls it a cultural problem. Their words, not mine. You cannot import food-service workers from this environment, hand them a hairnet and a 90-minute orientation, and call it a food safety system. There is no training program that closes a 25-year cultural gap in 12 weeks.

@sarobertson_ Looks like someone is angling for a job with the federal government.

Jen Gerson: "The momentum here right now is on the side of people who treat the idea of the Republic of Alberta as a kind of religious movement. It's a millenarian movement ... heavily influenced by the kind of nihilism that infects a lot of the broader MAGA movement."

@ronmortgageguy I don’t think the majority of these people have three cells phones because they’re cheating on their partner. I think it’s because they’re engaged in illicit or illegal activities. No drug dealer calls his momma on the same cell he uses to conduct his business.

Mortgage Default, Foreclosures & Power Of Sale Actions Are Way UP Banks & other Lenders are analyzing all the Data Points to figure out: who are the most likely to get in trouble with their Mortgage Regional & Employment Information is as expected But what about Cell Phones?

@jengerson @acoyne It’s the inevitable result of a generation of unserious leadership at the Federal level and Liberal Canadian dysfunction. Albertans would be far better off outside Canada, which is why federalists are terrified and believe that even asking the question is dangerous. Buckle up…

I am in a state of dissociative awe by how incredibly stupid, dangerous, and idiotic this all is. Just the inevitable result of a generation of unserious leadership and Conservative and Canadian dysfunction. readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson-s…

@nationalpost This is a great idea. After all, the misogynistic foreigners the Canadian government has recruited to staff our armed forces can’t be expected to go without the proper gear. Actual Canadian soldiers will simply have to give our their gear and learn their place.

Canada asks 10K armed forces personnel to return backpacks, vests and other gear due to equipment shortage nationalpost.com/news/canada/ar…

@NESports8186 @Sooner_Source @patriottakes @davidpugliese I work in private industry and was forced to deal with the inferior products of the US education system every day. If teacher remuneration was based on the quality of the graduates they produce most of them would be begging in the streets for small change.

@EdPilon4 @Sooner_Source @patriottakes @davidpugliese What part of the US education system were you working in?

Katie Miller: “What’s a conspiracy theory that you believe in?” Liz Wright, wife of Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “…The teachers unions want to keep the students stupid so they can control them and turn them into Democrats.”

@thereal1now @Sooner_Source @patriottakes @davidpugliese You don’t think the fact that virtually 100% of the people who work in education are Liberals has anything to do with the fact that schools have become Liberal indoctrination centres? It’s not education that turns people into liberals…it’s the leftist propaganda they’re fed.

@Sooner_Source @EdPilon4 @patriottakes @davidpugliese But is she wrong? I’m proud the school system is turning our students into democrats. The more educated someone is, the more likely they are to be a democrat. Why are democrats denying this and crying about it?

@ABDanielleSmith This ad is over the top cringe. Not Doug Ford level cringe, but pretty darned close.

Alberta isn’t slowing down for anyone. We’re building. We’re drilling. We’re hiring- backed by the highest paycheques in Canada and continuing record investment. The Alberta Advantage lives on and we’re just getting started.

@Sooner_Source @patriottakes @davidpugliese I’ve worked extensively in both the U.S. and Canada, and I can assure you that both education systems are failing the children they’re supposed to be educating. The quality of university graduates(other than STEM) has dropped so precipitously as to make degrees worthless.

@EdPilon4 @patriottakes @davidpugliese I don't know anything about the Canadian education system, and I'm pretty confident you don't know jack shit about the US one.

@GalenSsa @MattWalshBlog I’ve been to many foreign countries, some of them quite poor. I have yet to experience a 3rd world country with a high-trust society. Can you provide any examples? BTW…the culture in many areas of America is high-trust, however some areas have a culture of zero trust.

@EdPilon4 @MattWalshBlog If you have any understanding of cultures outside of America, you’ll see that it’s a mixed verdict. You will have places that target you the moment they see you. You also have poor but high-trust societies where mistreating foreign guests is seen as shameful. Do more research.

This kind of “traveling” is overrated. Tourist destinations are all the same. A resort in Florida is like a resort anywhere else. These kinds of people think they’ve “seen the world” but they’ve seen less of the world than someone who reads books instead.

@MattWalshBlog You are 100% correct. Most of the “authentic” areas, on every continent, are no more welcoming to outsiders than American inner-city ghettos. The view may be different, but the experience is essentially the same.

Real traveling means going to the places where regular people live. But you don’t want to do that in most countries outside of the western world. I drove through the “authentic” parts of Kenya and it was a nightmare. Trash everywhere and everyone’s trying to steal from you. That’s the “authentic experience” of the vast majority of the globe.

@nationalpost Whose fault is it? It’s the fault of imbecilic Canadians who have kept the utterly incompetent Liberals in power for over a decade. They are going to pay a very high price for doing so.

Carney and Trump are at an impasse on trade negotiations. Whose fault is it? nationalpost.com/news/carney-an…

🇨🇦The Most Unsatisfying "Told Ya So" Ever🇨🇦 I'm thinking about verbal warning shots throughout my life. In 1974-ish, my father said during a family discussion, referring to immigration, that one day we would have our enemies living next door. People naturally called him Archie Bunker and a racist for feeling in his guts that there would one day be a clash of cultures. The liberal types in my family argued that immigrants are immigrants even back then -- that they would come to Canada, they would assimilate and one day we'd be a nation full of peace-loving beatniks with different skin tones. I was too young at the time to understand what was going on, let alone argue a of point of view. But in retrospect, I think back to my time in elementary school. My first year, grade one, I was surrounded by first or second-generation immigrants. Many of my friends' parents still had some type of European accent, and even some of my friends were not born in Canada. All of our grandfathers had fought on one side or the other of the war. My closest group of friends were named Passmore, English; Brettl, German; Biagioni, Italian; Metzger, Swiss. I was the old-timer Canadian in the group because my family has been here since the late 1880s. Yet my grandfathers and great-uncles and my friends' elders had been taking potshots at one another a mere 16 years before we were all born. My family was Christian, and the people who owned the property next to us were Catholic. I didn't see any difference between the two. It was like Anglican versus Baptist. There was zero religious tension. In fact, the Brettl family and the Passmore family, English and German, lived next door in town right near our school and barbecued together on weekends. Imagine a hockey game with these accents: 'Mark, pass it ova, give me the pook, mate.' or 'Yah, zat vuz good shot!' The broader point is that these people assimilated immediately. They have the same childhood memories of the Beatles, the Monkees, I Dream of Jeannie, The Munsters, and the 1972 Summit Series that I do. They are fully Canadian in every way today. To compare that post-war group of immigrants to the ones arriving today from cultures so distant from ours is ridiculous. They are not the same. I just watched a video of Khalistani Sikhs riding down a highway in Brampton on horseback -- dressed in full Nihang warrior regalia, swords drawn, looking like they had just stepped off an 18th century battlefield. It wasn’t a cultural festival. It was a deliberate martial display -- a show of force that felt like they were saying, 'This is who we are, and we’re here now.' My childhood friends’ parents never brought their wartime grudges to Canada. They didn’t ride through the streets dressed as soldiers from the old country. They came here to build a new life, not to recreate the old one. There is no cultural cohesiveness with groups like this. I foresee no time in the future that I get to reminisce with some guy named Singh about how we loved Rush and Deep Purple when we were kids. It sounds trivial, but that stuff matters -- that was the shared experience that connected Canadians from British Columbia to Newfoundland. My father was sounding warnings in 1974, and I was sounding warnings about Trudeau in 2015, as many of you were...but nobody listened. And now here we are -- fractured, divided, and importing the very conflicts we were warned about. Now ask yourself this important question: In the case of war, or especially civil war, with all these people from different cultures within one border...who fires upon who? This is what our government did to us. Peace ✌️ 🤨