David Pugh

Canada has one of the most strategic oil resources on earth, and Ottawa keeps treating it like a guilty habit instead of a national asset. The oil sands are already below the global average for carbon intensity, according to the 2025 budget language cited here, yet the government still wants to keep layering costs on the sector as if Canada is the villain in the global energy story. Meanwhile, no other major oil-producing country is tying its own industry down with the same kind of tax burden. That is not environmental leadership. That is economic self-harm with a press release. The worst part is the contradiction. Ottawa says it wants carbon capture. Fine. Industry says it is willing to advance Pathways if the regulatory and fiscal terms actually make sense. Also fine. Then the government turns around and keeps an industrial carbon tax sitting on top of the very project costs it claims to support. So the message to industry is basically: Build the project. Absorb the risk. Pay the tax. Stay globally competitive. And please clap. That is not policy. That is a hostage note written by people who have never had to make payroll, finance a project, or compete against countries that actually want their energy sector to succeed. Canada does not need more punishment layered onto production. It needs pipelines, export capacity, faster approvals, lower project risk, and a government that understands that energy wealth is national leverage. The oil sands are not Canada’s problem. The political class kneecapping them is.

You are completely full of it. The Liberals are not “ahead on the economy.” They are presiding over the wreckage they helped create: unaffordable housing, weak productivity, higher debt, food inflation, stagnant private-sector growth, and a country where young people increasingly see ownership as a fantasy. Calling that a “trust premium” is hilarious. That is not trust. That is media and polling conditioning plus Trump panic used as political bubble wrap. A year ago, Conservatives owned the economic debate because reality was on their side. Reality still is. The only thing that changed is that Liberals found a banker with better table manners and the press decided to pretend the last decade didn’t happen. Carney does not erase Liberal failure. He inherits it, defends it, and now owns it FFS.

I support Canada. Full stop. That means I support Canadian energy, Canadian jobs, Canadian sovereignty, lower debt, affordable homes, secure borders, and a government that puts citizens ahead of global approval. Dragging Trump into every Canadian debate is not an argument. It is a panic button. Pierre Poilievre is not Trump. Canada is not America. And pretending every conservative voter is secretly MAGA is lazy political branding for people who ran out of policy defence. So define “Canadian interests.” Is it doubling the debt? Killing investment? Driving up housing costs? Weakening the energy sector? Letting healthcare decline while Ottawa announces another shiny spending program? Because that is what we have been living through. I support Canada. That is exactly why I oppose what these Liberals have done to it.

It is astonishing how many Liberal voters still talk about spending as if Ottawa has a magic money drawer in the basement. Canada is not paying for these announcements with productivity, growth, or national wealth. It is piling costs onto debt and handing the bill to people who are not old enough to vote yet. That is not compassion. That is intergenerational theft with better lighting. And the worst part is the trade-off. Healthcare is strained. Housing is broken. Productivity is weak. Young families are drowning. Yet this government keeps treating spending announcements like moral achievements, while shutting down major parts of the energy economy that could actually help pay the bills. That is the insanity of it. You cannot kneecap your own resource sector, bury the country in debt, reward Liberal-connected insiders, and then lecture Canadians about responsibility. At some point, this stops being incompetence and starts looking like a governing class protecting its own ego, ideology, and access to money. A serious country builds wealth before it spends it. Canada’s Liberals have chosen the opposite.

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Mark Carney was Governor of the Bank of Canada in 2008. 📜 Under his watch, Canada's Big Six banks collectively received $114 billion in government support — and posted record profits that same year. Those same six banks went on to underwrite the specific Brookfield fund Carney led, becoming its main shareholders. While he slashed rates and held them at historic lows for five years, Canadians got priced out of the housing market. 🏠 Brookfield was buying the world on borrowed cash at near-zero interest. While Carney was Chair of Brookfield, the company faced documented accusations of Indigenous rights violations, human rights abuses, slave labour, and illegal deforestation. Remember the Air Canada CEO scandal? Carney removed the CEO who was standing in the way of a $2.1 billion Brookfield investment. ✈️ If this weren't all documented and sourced, I wouldn't blame you for not believing it. Every single claim is verifiable. Challenge any one of them. The receipts are all here 👇

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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?

Prime Minister Mark Carney, You didn’t begin your majority by making life easier for people staring at a grocery total and quietly putting things back. You didn’t start with housing Canadians can afford or energy costs that don’t feel like a monthly gamble. You started by changing the machinery Parliament uses to ask you questions, which is a revealing place to begin if everything is supposedly going so beautifully. Let’s be clear about what your government keeps trying to obscure. If you had won a clear majority at the ballot box, Canadians would understand majority committee control. That is how the system works. But that is not how you got here. Your majority was assembled mid-Parliament through by-elections and floor crossings, legal on paper but not the same as going back to voters and asking for broader authority. Canadians elected a minority Parliament. They expected cooperation. Instead, they are watching your government behave as if the voters accidentally left the keys in the ignition. And what did you do with that newly assembled control? You didn’t fix the bills people can’t avoid. You fixed the room where those bills get discussed, which is an elegant little Ottawa trick: move the furniture, call it democracy, and hope nobody notices the exits are being managed. Motion No. 9 did not replace all the chairs. It did something far more useful. It changed committee composition so your government now holds the majority on every committee. The chairs remain where Canadians expect them to be, which is convenient theatre. But committees do not run on appearances. They run on votes. And those votes now sit with your caucus. That means your side can decide what gets studied, who gets called, how long a file stays alive, and whether an investigation ever gets its shoes on. You didn’t need to grab the gavel. You took the outcome. It wasn’t just that you took a majority on committees. You added more than you needed. One extra seat would have done the job. You chose two. That doesn’t read like routine housekeeping. It reads like an over-correction, the kind you make when you want outcomes to be certain before the meeting even starts. It doesn’t inspire confidence that proceedings will be even-handed. It invites people to watch closely, not because they’re curious, but because they no longer assume the process will speak for itself. On the surface, everything still looks normal. Ethics is still chaired by a Conservative. Public Accounts still looks opposition-led. Government Operations, the mighty OGGO, still carries an opposition chair, as an oversight committee dealing with spending, procurement, and contracts should. Very reassuring, if one only reads the placards and not the math. The watchdog still has a collar. Your caucus now holds the leash. The timing is the part that stinks through the wrapping. The Ethics Committee was already circling uncomfortable questions involving your Finance Minister and a $90 billion Crown corporation file. Opposition MPs were pushing for witnesses. The process was moving in the direction it was designed to move, which is usually when governments discover a sudden spiritual attachment to procedure. Then came delay. Filibusters. Closure. Debate on the motion to stack committee votes was itself shut down, because apparently even the discussion about limiting scrutiny required less scrutiny. Subtle as a brick through a stained-glass window, but with better stationery. You will say this is Westminster tradition. Majority governments control committees. Everything is perfectly normal. Technically, yes. But that argument only works if we pretend this majority arrived through the front door in a general election instead of being stitched together halfway through the Parliament Canadians actually voted for. That is the problem. Not the existence of the rule, but the way you are using it. A majority assembled mid-Parliament should come with restraint, humility, and a public commitment to let scrutiny breathe. Instead, you concentrated the levers and narrowed the lanes while calling it tradition. Very tidy. Very managerial. Very “trust us while we make it harder to check.” Canadians are not short on process. They are short on results. They are watching costs climb, options shrink, and paycheques stretch thinner while Ottawa explains, in increasingly polished language, why none of this is quite urgent enough to disturb the carpeting. Ordinary people do not get to re-balance their lives by adding two friendly votes to the kitchen table. They pay what the bill says or they go without. They don’t get to reorganize their problems. They live with them. When Canadians watch your government engineer a system where scrutiny is technically allowed but practically impossible for anyone outside your caucus, the reaction is not always loud. It is worse than that. It is the quiet, poisonous conclusion that the people in power can change the conditions of accountability whenever accountability becomes inconvenient. That is the real damage. Not one scandal burning hot for a week, but the slow settling of public cynicism into the floorboards. People stop expecting answers because the system has taught them how the story ends. A committee meets. A witness is delayed. A motion dies. A report softens. A minister survives. Everyone is told the rules were followed, which is always comforting when the rules have been arranged to protect the people using them. You did not eliminate scrutiny. You made it manageable. You turned accountability into something that can be scheduled, softened, outvoted, and walked quietly off stage before it becomes dangerous. You were sold as the steady hand, the competent manager, the adult in the room. But the first instinct your government that is led by your example showed, with majority power, was not confidence. It was control. Not leadership. Self preservation. Insulation, to put it another way. And insulation does not fix what is breaking. It just makes it easier for the people inside not to notice the cracking. You may want to think carefully about the optics of this farcical performance. Because the seeds of mistrust are already in the ground. All it takes is one single ray of sunlight to help it grow. And as you like to say, there’s good news: If there’s anything Canadians are good at, it’s finding the sunlight and sharing it with others. So, every time a meeting looks managed instead of open, every time a witness is delayed, every time a line of questioning quietly disappears, it doesn’t read as routine procedure to the people watching from the outside. It reads as something being kept out of view. To hide uncomfortable truths, About you. That’s how narratives take hold. Not because they’re proven, but because the conditions make them feel plausible. If you were looking for a way to convince Canadians that everything is above board, this isn’t it. This is how you end up with people assuming the opposite, not out of partisanship, but because they can no longer see how the process is supposed to protect them, and the inherent sense that any person who goes to such lengths to conceal information, must have something to hide. And once that doubt settles in, it doesn’t fade. It compounds. It hardens. And it becomes the lens through which everything your government does is judged. 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This is classic Carney: take Canada’s greatest economic advantage and rebrand it as a threat so he can sell government-managed “independence.” Canada’s closeness with the United States is not a vulnerability. It is the reason we have had access to the richest consumer market on earth, integrated supply chains, massive cross-border investment, shared defence infrastructure, energy markets, tourism, technology, agriculture, autos, and logistics. Most countries would crawl over broken glass for the access Canada already has. But Carney looks at the best neighbour advantage on the planet and says, “What if we made this sound terrifying?” Yes, Canada should diversify trade. Obviously. Nobody serious argues we should have only one customer. But diversification is not the same as treating the United States like a toxic ex we need to escape. The real problem is not that Canada is too close to the U.S. The problem is that Liberal governments have spent years making Canada weaker, slower, more expensive, less productive, and harder to invest in. Now Carney wants to blame “exposure” to America instead of admitting the obvious: Canada has failed to build, export, approve projects, attract capital, and defend its own economic interests. The U.S. relationship is not the weakness. Weak Canadian leadership is.

Carney talking about a sovereign wealth fund while Canada is already buried in debt is peak technocrat fantasy economics. A real sovereign wealth fund is built from surplus wealth. Norway built one from oil revenues. Alberta built one from resource wealth, then politicians treated it like a cookie jar. Carney wants Ottawa to act like a rich household opening an investment account while the credit cards are still smoking. The government is launching a $25 billion “Canada Strong Fund,” described as a sovereign-style investment fund for major projects. But Canada is not sitting on a giant budget surplus. The federal government was already running a $31.2 billion deficit for April 2025 to January 2026, and Finance officials had projected a much larger deficit for 2025-26. So the basic question is simple: Where is the money coming from? Because if Ottawa is borrowing money to “invest” money, that is not a sovereign wealth fund. That is leveraged political theatre. And the affordability angle is even worse. Canadians are being squeezed by housing, food, taxes, debt payments, and stagnant productivity. Then Carney strolls in talking like the country has extra cash lying around between the couch cushions. This is the same old Liberal disease: confuse spending with strategy, branding with results, and debt with wealth creation. Canada does not need another shiny Ottawa investment vehicle. It needs lower taxes, cheaper energy, less red tape, faster approvals, more private investment, and a government that understands money has to be earned before it gets “allocated.”

BREAKING @KellyDeRidderMP outlines how the Liberals have been actively trying to recruit her, to cross the floor. She outlines how they do it. How they engage in the conversations. And what they offered her. THIS IS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DEMOCRACY. It’s all about power

This is AMAZING! 🔥🔥 The Liberals were ignoring Pierre's questions in Question Period like usual when they decided to pull an uno reverse card by asking Pierre a question. What they didn't expect was that Pierre was about to teach them how to actually answer a question. 🤣

Carney keeps pretending Canada’s problem is bad luck. It isn’t. Canada has been dragged down by years of Liberal policy: weak growth, high debt, expensive food, unaffordable housing, and an energy sector treated like an enemy instead of a national advantage. Pierre Poilievre is right to frame this as a choice between top-down control and bottom-up opportunity. Carney represents the same technocratic Liberal mindset that lectures working people while making their lives harder. More committees. More slogans. More managed decline with nicer stationery. Pierre’s message is simple: let Canadians build, work, trade, produce, own homes, feed their families, and keep more of what they earn. That is not radical. That is basic common sense. Carney offers fear and dependency. Pierre offers work, growth, and responsibility. Canada does not need another elite manager of decline. It needs a leader who understands that prosperity comes from people, not bureaucrats. Support Pierre.

🇨🇦 One year of the "Carney Era" in one image. @MarkJCarney The slogans say "growth," but the math says otherwise: 📍Food prices up 28% 📍Youth unemployment at 16% 📍Investment down for 5 straight years 📍 $61B deficit and climbing Canada is growing in population, but not in prosperity. @PierrePoilievre @AndrewScheer @CPC_HQ Time to face the facts. 🇨🇦 Save the Infographic. 👇 #CdnEcon #Canada #Carney #Cdnpoli