Jim Neal

@PierrePoilievre Whether or not this was a good deal or not is a matter of opinion. The fact that the PM lied outright is a matter of fact. The PM should answer for this and how Canadians should think about his integrity.

Prime Minister, You said: “Any sharing of the toll revenue won't happen until all the debt, all of the debt, is repaid." Yet we learned last night that you had signed a deal that gives the U.S. “50% of net bridge and crossing related revenues for the first 15 fiscal years of bridge operations.” Before debt repayment. Just profit sharing on a bridge 100% built with our tax dollars. The opposite of what you said. How do we trust anything else you say about dealing with the U.S.?

@OPP_GTATraffic Stuck in this quagmire for hours last night. No warning on the highway of the closure, zero police presence to address traffic issues. Hundreds of drivers travelling on both shoulders making it dangerous and near impossible to exit the highway. OPP should be ashamed of itself.

ROAD CLOSURE: #Hwy401 eastbound is fully closed at Guelph Line in #Milton for an ongoing investigation. Motorists are advised to expect delays and plan alternate routes. ^pia

@rupasubramanya @MarkJCarney I wonder what the poll results would be if they were adjusted for the impact of an extremely biased mainstream media. Carney benefits from the honeymoon phase and favourable media coverage, but this will turn as inaction on structural change persists and economic results decline.

There's no question @MarkJCarney has an extraordinary amount of political capital right now. Using it for incremental tinkering would be a shame. The tariff crisis last year as I've argued many times handed Canada a rare opportunity to pursue politically difficult but necessary structural reforms, the kind even Conservatives were too timid to touch. That moment was largely squandered. Now Carney faces the same test. If all this political capital results in minor tweaks and managerialism, he risks wasting the biggest mandate for economic reform Canada has seen in years.

@gothburz Regardless of the veracity of the claims made, it‘s inappropriate to litigate the matter in public, damaging a persons’ personal life and career. I am however curious if @jpmorgan agrees with the concept of “owning” employees. In the extreme leading to the behavior alleged.

I promoted Lorna Hajdini to Executive Director at JPMorgan because she understood something most bankers never learn. Ownership. Not deal ownership. People ownership. The kind of leadership where you don't just manage a pipeline. You manage the person building it. Their trajectory. Their compensation. Their future at the firm. Their references when they try to leave. I taught her that. Not at NYU Stern. Not at Harvard. Here. In Leveraged Finance. In my corner office on the forty-second floor with the framed Tombstones from every deal that made this division what it is. Lorna's handshake could restructure a cap table. That's not a compliment. That's a performance review. When the complaint came across my desk, I read it twice. Not because it was disturbing. Because it was familiar. Every behavior described. The direct communication. The after-hours mentorship. The expectation that juniors earn their advancement through demonstrated commitment to the team. That's the playbook. My playbook. The one I handed Lorna when she made Executive Director and inherited a book of direct reports who needed to understand the hierarchy. "I own you." I've said it to thirty-one analysts over twenty-two years. It means: I control your rating, your bonus, your promotion slate, and whether the next firm you apply to hears "top-decile performer" or dead air. It's in the HR manual under "direct management accountability." We call it alignment of incentives. The complainant. A Senior VP in Originations who couldn't close. He alleges Lorna tied his advancement to "pleasing" her. I've read the promotion policy. An Executive Director has full discretion over direct-report advancement recommendations. Full discretion. We designed that authority. It incentivizes loyalty. It builds culture. It creates the kind of deep mentorship relationships that retain top talent. If he interpreted "full discretion" as something other than what every Managing Director on this floor has understood since the division was founded in 1998, that's a communication gap on his end. Not a policy failure. Harvard Business School profiled Lorna last month. "Leveling Up with Perspective, Practice, and People." She described a striking level of humility. A palpable hunger for knowledge. She talked about growing personally and professionally alongside her team. About being curious about perspectives different from your own. I wrote her recommendation for that program. I said: Lorna understands ownership the way very few people at her level do. The profile is still live on the Harvard website. Nobody took it down. That's not an oversight. That's an editorial decision by people who evaluate leaders for a living. The investigation lasted six weeks. I was consulted on a Thursday. They interviewed fourteen employees. Reviewed badge data. Calendar invites. Email metadata. Found no policy violation. The complainant declined to participate. He was already on wellness leave by then. Unrelated. Two witnesses are cited in the lawsuit. They were not cited in the investigation. I am told this is because the investigation's scope was determined prior to the filing. Scope is important. Without scope, every investigation into a Managing Director candidate with eighteen active deal mandates and a direct line to three of our top-ten private equity clients becomes a fishing expedition that puts nine figures of annual revenue in jeopardy. We are not in the business of fishing. Lorna remains employed. The complainant does not. His systems access was revoked on a Tuesday. I know it was a Tuesday because I approved the ticket. Standard offboarding protocol. The building badge, the Bloomberg terminal, the health insurance portal. All deactivated within the same four-hour window. He found out when his laptop locked at 2 PM and his key card stopped working at the elevator bank. The threatening phone calls started that week. "Just wait till you're back in New York, Brown boy." Someone knew his personal number. Someone knew he was out of state. Someone knew the racial thing would land. Those are outside the scope of the firm's responsibility. We cannot police what former colleagues discuss on personal devices during personal time. We did advise him to contact local law enforcement. In writing. Via his personal email, since his corporate account had already been deactivated. I am told he received that email. People keep asking if I'm concerned. I thought about him once. The complainant. On a Wednesday, I think. I was reviewing Lorna's Q3 revenue attribution and his name appeared on a deal she closed after he left. His origination work. Her closing credit. Standard reassignment. And I thought — briefly — about what it must feel like to watch your work get credited to the person who.· Anyway. Revenue attribution follows the active relationship manager. Policy is clear. Am I concerned? I built Lorna's career. I taught her how ownership works in Leveraged Finance. I watched her apply those lessons with a level of intensity I haven't seen since my own early years on the desk, back when nobody filed complaints because everybody understood the cost of being the person who didn't understand. If the system produced what that lawsuit describes, then I'm the system. But the investigation found no merit. So I'm just a mentor.

@cbcwatcher This is Mark Carney, aligning with China’s position on this issue. The Lebanese gov’t may or may not be sympathetic to Hezbollah but for sure we know there has been no containment of attacks on Israel leaving no choice but to defend itself since UN forces have been ineffective.

Nobody in Canadian media bothers to fact check Carney. Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese government. Its militia is stronger than that of the Lebanese army (LAF). Carney is correct that the government has banned the activity of Hezbollah militia, but it is unable to stop them. The group has explicitly rejected the government's demands to surrender its weapons, describing the move as unjustified Hezbollah insists it will not disarm north of the Litani River (and has shown resistance even in the south) Enforcement relies more on LAF initiative (and external pressure) than Hezbollah compliance and they don't have the ability "And that is the purported justification for this, for this invasion. So we condemn it." Carney knows this but Carney plays stupid! @MarkJCarney

@poperespecter1 Boomers??? I think you mean social media grifters.

Boomers every time Fox News says it is time for another regime change in the middle east.

@thevivafrei Massie isn’t inerested in Epstein’s victims or coconspirators, he’s only anti Trump.

Why?

@cbcwatcher @USAmbCanada @MarkJCarney THE AGREEMENT EXISTS AND CAN BE TERMINATED FOR FRUSTRATION BUT CANADA’S ONLY RECOURSE IS BINDING ARBITRATION, THE ENFORCEABILITY OF WHICH IS QUESTIONABLE. CANADA’S TERMINATION RIGHTS ONLY SERVE TO MITIGATE (FUTURE) LOSSES AND RETAIN A $4-6B STRANDED ASSET.

@cbcwatcher @USAmbCanada @MarkJCarney How could anyone invest $4B in an asset and not have an advance agreement on how that asset would be operated in perpetuity or at least for the period necessary to achieve a return on investment??? Is Canada that incompetent?

"Final point is the president asked, appropriately, that his ambassador, who's from Michigan, of course, play a role in smoothing the conversation in and around the bridge." @USAmbCanada @MarkJCarney

@Aliya562219 2

How many people went for the picnic?

@therealmrbench My suspicion is that Liberals and some Liberal media types are leaving X as a precursor to actions proposed to be taken when Bill C-63 (0nline Harms) comes into being. Already happening in other jurisdictions like Spain.

The reason why Liberals in Canada are leaving X. Could it be that they can't control the narrative when facts are used. This is an example of an ICE narrative vs. reality.

@atensnut Philadelphia by Springsteen always makes me sad thinking about all the loss of life and circumstances involved.

Cats in the Cradle

@simonateba It matters only if the activists were acting illegally In the church. Think of it this way, if a group of bank robbers met to plan a robbery and you attended, then you met at the bank to participate in the robbery with a camera, are you guilty of robbery or ‘just a journalist’

Be brutally honest: Now that Don Lemon is on video clearly identifying himself outside the church as a journalist and distancing himself from the activists, are you still convinced he broke the law or does the evidence finally speak for itself? Yes or no? WATCH.

@KonstantinKisin “If something is not working in practice, why would you keep doing it” - because the people making the decisions don’t have to suffer the consequences. Soon income, capital gains, consumption taxes won’t suffice and property rights will have to be confiscated via wealth taxes.

Congratulations, you taxed the rich. Now half a million people have to pay more so you can feel good.

@Concern70732755 75% USA, 25% ROW to keep leverage over USA.

If you I had a chance to vote on this who would you prefer Canada to align wth as a major trading partner? 1) USA 2) EU 3) China 4) India

@jasminlaine Inflation came primarily from money supply increases. From 2019 to 2025 M3 increased by approximately 35%, M2 approximately 42%. You have 35 - 40% more currency competing for a marginally increasing level of goods and services. The resulting inflation shouldn’t be a surprise.

WATCH: Pierre Poilievre argues that GOVERNMENT TAXES, not price gouging (as the NDP loves to argue) are the reason why grocery bills are so high in Canada. Do you agree?

@ScottJenningsKY Propaganda is as old as war, used in all conflicts. So I don’t believe media “fell for it” i.e. incompetence, but rather it was done knowingly. We can speculate on motive, but I’m beginning to think it’s just all about media audience engagement - what sells to target audiences.

Is anyone in the Western media or any celebrities who fell for Hamas propaganda going to be apologizing or issuing corrections? The truth is coming out and it's unfathomably evil 👇

@Tablesalt13 Sure, it’s funny. But does PP think he can win an election if he alienates Canada’s mainstream media? There are a lot of older voters who still get the majority of their information and bias from these sources. He’d be well served to tone down this rhetoric until he’s in office.

😂😂 🔥🔥POILIEVRE: "I never said I was going to shut down the CBC I SAID I was going to defund it. Maybe they can find some other funding models? Perhaps they can open up shop in a tax haven so that Brookfield can help?"

@brianlilley Isn’t it all just a sham anyway? Scheer and Reid delay their no votes until it’s clear the budget is going to pass, otherwise likely to abstain. CPC claiming the budget is a disaster for the Canadian people but all along planning to let it pass to protect their political interest

Normally government MPs ask the government a planted question that lets them send out their message. On Monday, "Green Leader" Elizabeth May asked a planted question of Mark Carney. She'll be voting for the budget.

@MarcNixon24 100%

The Liberals want you talking about a floor crosser instead of a $78 billion deficit. They turned a national crisis into a soap opera. Distraction politics at its finest when you can’t defend your numbers, you manufacture drama.