Michael Ceci

-no valid license -had never driven before -fled from police who thought he was impaired -caused a fatal accident -does not speak a word of English Deport? No….absolute discharge Canada is not a place of justice for victims of crime

@JohnNabuurs yep. Canada can be the richest country on planet earth any time it chooses. It's literally just choices.

The biggest problem with Alto high speed rail (beyond the fact that it’s unlikely to get built before we burn $100b) is that it’s not even an ambitious project. By global standards, it is not even a “high speed” train. Its projected average speeds are below 200 km/h, a full 100 km/h slower than peer systems. In reality, through design, we’ll likely compromise even more on speed by introducing onerous safety limits and add more stops. We’ll be lucky if this thing goes 150 km/h by the time it’s done (IF it ever is).

It has been 484 days since Mr Trudeau’s 51st state dinner at Mar a Lago and in that time we have built zero meters of pipeline to markets other than the US.

Spending didn’t go up, GDP dropped 😆

Exceptional work.

US tech sector: $2 trillion GDP. Canada's entire auto industry: $16.8 billion. That's 119x smaller. Yet Canadian politicians will go to war over auto jobs and won't say a word about 71% of Waterloo's best engineers leaving to power America's GDP. The auto industry gets the outrage. The tech talent gets the exit door. Why?

Young Canadians keep getting more miserable Old Canadians keep getting happier Data from world happiness report: worldhappiness.report

All trends in Canada since 2015 look the same….

Canadian citizenship is being continually devalued by a bunch of bureaucrats who are ashamed of their own country. So very sad.

This is one of the most illuminating Canadian poll results I've ever seen. A pitch-perfect illustration of an electorate who sees politics as a reality TV show, and never considers the consequences of what they're supporting.

Canada's GDP per capita was 94% of America's in 1981. Today it's 67%. The widest gap since World War II. Ontario — Canada's economic engine — is now poorer than 43 US states. Including Louisiana and Alabama. This isn't a blip. It's a generational collapse. Here's the data: From 2017-2024, US productivity grew 10.1%. Canada's fell 0.6%. America is sprinting. Canada is walking backwards. 71% of Waterloo software engineering grads leave for the US. The brain drain damage threshold is 20%. Canada is at 3x the red line. Israel spends 6.35% of GDP on R&D. The US spends 3.4%. Canada spends 1.7%. That's not a gap. That's a different species. Canada's pension funds hold $2.6 trillion. Only 13% is invested in Canada. 47% is in the US. Even Canada's own money doesn't believe in Canada. Net FDI position: negative $1 trillion. Capital is fleeing the country faster than Waterloo grads. 72% of Canadian entrepreneurs start businesses because "jobs are scarce." Not opportunity. Survival. Canadian workers get 30 cents of IP investment for every $1 an American worker gets. You can't out-innovate anyone with 30-cent tools. The average Canadian spends 48% of their income on a mortgage. The average American: 34%. Canadians work to pay for houses. Americans work to build companies. None of this is about laziness. Canadians are talented. The system is broken. Zero income tax. Business-friendly regulation. Speed of execution. That's Dubai. That's Singapore. That's what "Dubai of the North" means. Canada has everything — talent, resources, geography, rule of law. What it doesn't have is a system that rewards building. Fix the tax code. Kill the red tape. Stop subsidizing real estate. Start subsidizing R&D. The talent is there. The capital will follow.

To any future historians reading this, this era will make a lot more sense if you remember that every name is the opposite of what it really is. The antifascists are fascists, the antiracists are racists, the fact-checkers are propagandists, etc. Hopefully this has been fixed by your time.

Canada’s economy contracted in the fourth quarter, coming way below expectations, new data from Statistics Canada shows cp24.com/news/canada/20…

Canada’s energy policy verges on insanity: New Brunswick is importing liquefied natural gas from as far away as Australia while refusing to develop its own substantial shale gas reserves, even though the province desperately needs investment and jobs and already sits near the bottom of North America in standard of living.

The sheer magnitude of how badly Canada fucked this up cannot be described with words -- and has led to a demonstrably lower quality of life for Canadians. These are full integer percentage points of GDP the country has forgone, through completely unforced error. It's pathetic.

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This👇is great, but before getting too excited, recall that this is essentially what the Harper government sought to do for Canada through the Canada-Europe Trade Agreement, the Trans Pacific Partnership, plus a bunch of bilateral FTAs. The idea was to make Canada a global hub for free trade to reduce our dependance on the US market. Under the Harper government, Canada went from having largely tariff free access to 6 countries, to over 45 countries. But a decade after Harper's massive FTA expansion, Canada was even *more* dependant on the US export market. Why? because most of what the world wants and needs from Canada is commodities. Oil, gas, minerals, potash, grains, oilseeds, livestock, lumber, etc.. Stuff that is bulky, and requires massive infrastructure to move: pipelines, LNG liquefaction plants, expanded rail, bigger ports, etc.. Free trade access to foreign markets is great, but it only matters for Canada IF WE CAN ACTUALLY SHIP THOSE COMMODITIES quickly and efficiently. So yes, godspeed to the Carney government if it can help cement alternative global zones for freer trade. But it won't matter materially to Canada unless and until we have radical deregulation to build big things again, like pipelines and ports, at the speed of business. On that front, lot's of great talk from Ottawa. Now we desperately need bold, concrete action!

🚨The raw data for Canada's labour force stats for January, 2026 are horrific. The private sector lost 247,000 jobs. The public sector lost 10,200 jobs The private sector hasn't had growth since April, 2025!

“In this dangerous and uncertain world, Canadians must stand united so we can stand on our own two feet. United and strong, Canadians will bow before no nation anywhere on Earth," says Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in address to his party's convention in Calgary. #cdnpoli