Jay Couture 🇨🇦

A simple message to the silly socialists. You’re upset by businesses telling you that they will fail with the minimum wage increase. You’re telling business owners silly things like if you can’t pay the minimum wage then you don’t have a viable business. I want to make this easier to understand, because if you mean what you say, you want people to have jobs and earn a liveable wage. So listen, businesses fail for all kinds of reasons, mainly because they are unprofitable. We are seeing a wave of business closures at the moment because of the compounding costs from the state against a cost of living crisis. To make a cup of coffee profitable it has to eat a lot costs: - 20% VAT (the inputs can’t be claimed back) - Business rates (a tax before you earn) - Rising NI costs - Employment rights load - Rising energy costs - Inflation All these are imposed by the state. There is also a time tax with all the accounting, HR and regularity requirements which impose cost of consultants and time costs to ensure compliance, distracting owners from operating their businesses. Then there are the other normal costs. A business owner needs to make a profit else the business fails. If the business fails there are less jobs and lower tax receipts. If there are less jobs then public services crumble and welfare requirements increase. This is a compounding problem and what leads to the downward spiral of a country. So… where does the money come from if there are less jobs. The government borrows it, that increase in the money supply drives more inflation, making life more expensive for the people you want to help. Some who now don’t have the job they once had. So what now? What is your plan? I get it, you don’t really have one, this is what has happened to every socialist state, this is how a country goes from rich to poor. We have no divine right to be a wealthy nation and can certainly lose that status. So this is your challenge, can you accept society has a distribution of wealth which means there are rich and poor or would you rather everyone was poorer as long as there are no rich. That’s what socialists tend to want, though I have a secret for you, you can’t get rid of people being rich. I know you think profit is ugly, but the profit motive is what creates business and jobs. So anyway. I’m going to keep promoting proper economics because that’s how a nation becomes prosperous and prosperity leads to a net better outcome for all. This does mean I am going to have to make fun of your stupid socialist ideas. Good luck, read a book and stop being a dumb dumb.

I was taking Luna out for a walk today with my wife. A friendly woman with her dog joined us for a bit. She was super chatty, gave Luna a delicious treat, and her big fluffy dog got one too. She was especially fired up about the price of gas. She seemed pretty savvy, sharing all the tips she uses to save at the pump, and she kept saying how brutal it is for regular folks now that it’s climbing toward $1.90 a litre. I told her I was surprised we haven’t hit $2.00 yet, like they’ve already seen in B.C. She looked absolutely stunned. And you know what? Millions of Canadians are going to wear that exact same stunned look when gas really starts marching north of $2.00 a litre — because it’s coming, folks. It’s coming hard. Millions of us are already tapped out and broke. We’re the ones staring at the pump in disbelief, doing the mental math on whether we can afford to drive to work, pick up the kids from hockey, or even run to the grocery store without wincing. And while we’re scraping by, Canada, this massive, resource-rich beast of a country, could be an absolute economic powerhouse. We could be the energy capital of the world. We could be creating wealth, lowering prices for every family from coast to coast, creating hundreds of thousands of high-paying jobs, and telling the world “come and get it” on our terms. If the Liberals had just positioned us properly. Instead? They sold us out to ideology and handed the Americans the keys to our own wallet. Think about it. Canada sits on the third-largest proven oil reserves on the planet, the oil sands alone are an absolute monster. We’ve got natural gas for days, hydro power that could light up half the continent, and the geography to be the energy bridge between North America, Asia, and Europe. Done right, we could be exporting clean, reliable Canadian energy to the world at full price. No more selling our raw bitumen at a massive discount to the Americans while they refine it and sell the finished product back to us at a premium. No more begging for pipeline capacity. No more watching our own oil get bottlenecked and discounted because Ottawa spent years demonizing the very industry that could have made us rich. We could have had pipelines running east, west, and south, Energy East, Northern Gateway, a properly fast-tracked Trans Mountain that didn’t balloon into a multi-billion-dollar clown show. We could have had west-coast ports shipping our product straight to hungry markets in Asia instead of forcing 97% of our crude down a single leaky pipeline into the U.S. market where they set the terms. We could have built refineries here at home so Canadian families aren’t getting gouged at the pump while American refiners laugh all the way to the bank. But no. The Liberals, with their virtue-signaling, their endless environmental reviews, their Bill C-69 that basically made it illegal to build anything bigger than a lemonade stand, and their carbon tax that punishes every driver, trucker, farmer, and senior just trying to heat their home, chose ideology over infrastructure. They killed project after project. They delayed, they regulated, they virtue-posted on social media while the rest of us watched our lifeblood get siphoned off. And now? The Americans have us by the throat. They control the pipelines. They control the refining capacity. They buy our heavy crude cheap because we have nowhere else to send it, then sell us back gasoline and diesel at whatever price the market (and their profit margins) will bear. Every time global tensions spike or a refinery hiccup happens south of the border, we feel it immediately at the pump, while our own vast reserves sit there like a trapped gold mine we’re not allowed to fully develop. This isn’t bad luck. This is policy failure on a national scale. This is why your wife is cutting back on groceries. This is why the single mom down the street is choosing between gas money and rent. This is why truckers are idling their rigs because the numbers don’t add up anymore. This is why small businesses in every province are closing their doors. Energy is the foundation of everything, heating, transportation, manufacturing, food production. When you let ideologues strangle that foundation, the entire economy starts to crumble. And the worst part? The Liberals had the chance, hell, they still have the chance under Carney, to flip this script. To say “Canada first,” to fast-track the infrastructure, to partner with industry and Indigenous communities the right way, and to turn our energy advantage into real sovereignty and real prosperity. We could be the envy of the world instead of the cautionary tale. We could have 85 cent gas and a booming economy funding better healthcare, better roads, and actual climate innovation that doesn’t bankrupt families. But they chose the opposite. They chose the photo-ops, the international applause, the net-zero fairy tales while real Canadians get hammered at the pump and in the wallet. So the next time you’re standing at that gas station watching the numbers climb, remember this: it didn’t have to be this way. Canada didn’t have to be held hostage by American leverage. We could have been the energy powerhouse of the planet, rich, independent, and thriving. Instead we got weak leadership, neglected infrastructure, and a government that would rather lecture you about your carbon footprint than secure your future. Wake up, Canada. It’s time to demand better. Because at $2.00 a litre and rising, we’re not just paying at the pump anymore, we’re paying for decades of Liberal failure. And Luna and I are tired of watching good, hardworking people get stunned into silence while the country we love gets sold short. What do you think, am I wrong? Or is this the conversation we all need to be having before it’s too late?

The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke told TVLine yesterday exactly who the character Firecracker was based on, and why she was always going to die. "It's the most predictable pattern in the world, which is Trump demanding ultimate allegiance, making someone compromise every value they've ever had, and then kicking them out into the cold. It's just to make the point that it doesn't matter how much you kiss Homelander's a**. It doesn't matter how much you give up. Nothing will ever be enough, and you'll eventually get hoisted on your own petard, which just means stabbed on your own spear, and that's what happens to her." The character was modeled on Marjorie Taylor Greene, Megyn Kelly, Lauren Boebert, and Pam Bondi. He also called Pete Hegseth "a clown in charge of the military" in the Hollywood Reporter. He's compared Homelander to Trump by name for five years. When conservatives pushed back he told them to "go watch something else." The show has a 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. Amazon is making a prequel. He's getting Emmy buzz. If a conservative showrunner named AOC, Ilhan Omar, and Rachel Maddow as the inspiration for a character he wrote to be murdered, every journalist in the country would call it a threat. When Kripke does it, it's prestige satire. Should Kripke be investigated for inciting violence?

An unelected majority is called a dictatorship.