Matthew Protti
701 posts
Equalization is paid through general federal revenues. A person in PEI making $137k pays $23,528 in federal income taxes A person in Alberta making $100k pays $14,719 in federal incomes taxes. A PEI resident does not pay more into equalization.
Feds confirm ‘Buy Canadian’ policy benefits 100% foreign-owned corporations with storefront operations in Canada but couldn’t say if a company hiring temporary foreign workers would qualify. “The goal of the Buy Canadian policy is not to exclude foreign suppliers.” — Dominic Laporte, @PSPC_SPAC blacklocks.ca/more-buy-canad… #cdnpoli
But Trudeau said there was no business case…this is very good news. The sad reality is that GNL Quebec was tailor made for this deal but a lack of vision in Ottawa and Quebec City set us back a decade. nytimes.com/2026/05/26/wor…
Apple leaves no doubt about the risk of Bill C-22 : "as drafted, this bill allows the Government of Canada to force companies to break encryption by inserting backdoors into their products, something Apple will never do."
BREAKING: Canada Seals Landmark Deal to Export LNG to Germany. To export from BC coast, starting "early 2030s", for two decades, up to 1 million metric tons/year. Per two officials with knowldedge. nytimes.com/2026/05/26/wor… *Some details of the deal were first reported by BBG
A Prince Edward Island resident who makes $137,000 a year in the private sector pays more into equalization than an Alberta resident who makes $100,000 a year.
(1/2) Part 2 of Bill C-22 does not create new authorities, such as surveillance powers, for law enforcement and CSIS. It ensures that electronic service providers are able to respond to lawful access requests from law enforcement and CSIS.
Democracy also requires that all Canadians have a say when a fraction of the electorate in one part of the country tries to break Confederation. And democracy requires that in the event of an actual attempted separation, the parts of the province that don’t want to leave Canada, such as, oh, say, the cities of Calgary and Edmonton, remain part of Canada. If Canada is divisible, then Alberta is divisible. But none of this is about democracy. Democracy is not a free floating concept. It operates within existing institutions and social constructs. Separatists aren’t engaged in a democratic project, they are proposing a revolutionary act of constituent power. Democracy is the wrong lens through which to view attempts to break up a country in the absence of genuinely inhumane conditions or systemic oppression. And as much as I agree enthusiastically with many separatists’ grievances with Ottawa (and other provincial governments), this is not that.
