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@Cdhd123 @nationalpost OAS was not paid into. It is out of general gov spending, meaning it’s being paid for right now by either debt or tax pay dollars

@nationalpost $9 a month. After a lifetime of working and paying into the system, seniors get an extra $9. That’s not a “boost” — it’s an insult dressed up as good news. Announcing it like this only makes it look more pathetic.🤡

Old Age Security payments getting a boost — maximum from $743 to $752, and $817 to $827 this week nationalpost.com/news/canada/oa…

@andrew_leach Professor of economics who doesn’t know how to read economic data

These dudebros who think Canada is broken and that nothing is possible under a Liberal government sure are happy to tell you how much money they are earning.

@ronmortgageguy Yup, the Canadian dream for every young person: live in an overpriced shoebox because boomers are greedy and full of NIMBY, and also because of a retarded government

Ontario Has Just Stopped Building Single Family Homes Identical In BC Right end of graph in Red Yeah, it's invisible because it's so small NOT a conspiracy guy, but if I was I'd ask why New Builds in Single Family is about ZERO Boomers have a lock on those existing houses

@CdnCurt @in_trucks Should be $0.

@in_trucks Fuck, you're dumb. To receive a full OAS pension, an individual must have lived in Canada for 40 years after age 18. Those with between 10 and 40 years of residency receive only a proportional, partial amount.

Holy shit, Canada hands out Old Age Security pensions to approximately 2million foreign born migrants. That’s 5% of our population. Canada is about to be a failed State if this keeps up

@MakesKelly @tobi Na Toronto residents just want to export all the “problems” to other municipalities. I’m sure you have no problem with increased traffic at Pearson airport. Just more “not in my backyard” mantra that keeps this country unsuccessful

@tobi Imagine being a multi millionaire ceo and telling the entire population of a city that they are unemployed, unemployable, and useful idiots, because they opposed a shitty airport expansion that would have ruined the entire waterfront. Get fucked @tobi

Exactly what just happened in Toronto. Retired, Unemployed, Unemployable, and useful idiots are the only people who go to these town hall sessions.

@liberal_party Yeah helped your developer buddies and rich buyers/ groups who are buying in bulk now. Great jobs, retards

Mark Carney and our Liberal government cut the GST on new homes up to $1 million, saving first-time home buyers up to $50,000.

@rupasubramanya @acoyne Yeah I ain’t taking lessons from Liberals who supported a PM that said Canada has no core identity and is a post national state. Save the fake patriotism

"In virtually every other democratic country, patriotism is the province of the right. Only in Canada has it been the monopoly of the left." Fine column by @acoyne . How sad and pathetic is that the reaction from some Conservative politicians has been to shoot the messenger, rather than confront parts of the conservative movement that are carrying water for Trump or on board with separatism, both of which are politically toxic. What does it say about them, and by extension, their leader, Pierre Poilievre, that they'd rather pile on Coyne and this column rather than distance themselves from a part of the conservative movement that will ensure they remain in opposition for the foreseeable future. Stupid as it gets.

@Smileyyeg No.

I don't care how unpopular it is, I would keep these people. Close the door to future applicants sure, but let them stay.

@jkenney @jkenney Respectfully, the system is NOT working. We have unelected minority governments bribing MPs to cross the floor. People feel as if their vote doesn’t do anything, cause it doesn’t! Politicians are just legal criminals. Stealing from citizens to give to their friends.

This attitude, together with the declining attachment to Canada amongst Gen Z, is partly the result of shredding Canadian history and civics in our school curricula. How many of these young people who prefer a strong-man republic could write a paragraph accurately describing our constitutional monarchy rooted in the Westminster Parliamentary tradition? How many of them have been taught the fascinating story of the organic development of Parliamentary government over eight centuries? How many of them have been taught to be proud of having inherited one of the most stable, democratic systems of government in the world? A system that created the concept of the rule of law through the Magna Carta, the Common Law, habeas corpus, trial by jury, religious liberty, the abolition of slavery, etc.. How many of them have been taught anything memorable about the fight for responsible government in Canada, and how it is embodied in our Parliamentary institutions? Or the division of powers in our federal system? How many of them know that Canada is the fourth oldest continuous democratic state on Earth? Not only have they been denied this basic civic literacy that is a requisite for responsible citizenship, but they have been denied access to the poetry of patriotism: the old stories and heroes (including ordinary heroes like the voyageurs and pioneers,) that formed and transmitted pride in Canada for generations. Instead they are more likely to have been taught that Canada is a genocidal white settler society built on stolen land; that our British and French roots and institutions are the regrettable vestiges of Eurocentric colonialism; that our founders were nasty racists; and that we continue to be characterized by systemic racism. So is it any wonder that rather than embracing the customs and institutions that made Canada one of the most successful nations on Earth, the emerging generation prefers a strongman? This is the rotten fruit of the Canadian educational establishment having been dominated by Gramscians pumped out by OISE and adjacent institutions for decades.

@pprinters_ @CoopTory I tried to keep it simple but for sure some things have 3-4x. Means 4x the revenue for the gov

@ShockCan @CoopTory wow how about 300 and 400?

Taxes are effectively unchanged since the Harper era.

@CoopTory They get more expensive because they add money supply to the economy because they don’t know how to create a functioning economy. And the way those social benefits are set up are so skewed.

@ShockCan Everything the government spends money on also gets more expensive too, and most social benefits are indexed to inflation. So, it’s pretty neutral actually.

@Nugethenugget93 @CoopTory Orrrrrr because the gov printed a crap ton of money. Most of it going to insiders, themselves, and businesses that support their political party.

@CoopTory People bitch and complain about taxes Taxes aren’t the reason why I’m behind. It’s that housing costs are unreal and things cost way too much Yet again, human greed is the culprit

@nkeung First India wants to claim they are a developed nation and deserve a seat at the table with the rest of developed nations. BUT then all of a sudden every Indian wants to come to Canada for a “better life”, into a legitimate developed nation. Both cant be true. Go make India great

Many temporary residents are faced with more than just the struggle for immigration status, but the tremendous family pressure to stay in Canada and the possible shame of returning home without permanent residence, the prize that drew most of them here. thestar.com/news/canada/hi…

@bangkoksteve34 @DarkGaiaRPG @Martyupnorth “Most seniors rely on Gov subsidies?” Ummm you mean the same boomers who are sitting on $1 million dollar houses that have appreciated significantly? F*ck you, we don’t owe boomers anything. OAS is out of general tax revenue NOT a pension

You’d cut old age security? F*ck you. Couldn’t care less what you think of boomers but most seniors rely on govt subsidies. Many of them paid into a system of pensions etc and receive payouts that no longer cover their basic needs. Keep your totalitarian asshole thoughts to yourself.

This is how Ottawa spent your tax dollars in 2024/25. I could easily cut $100 billion.

@YukonStrong I see a big ol $80.3 Billion that could be seriously slashed and changed.

This makes my blood boil how do we have 24B a year in EI payouts in a nation that is supposedly so short staffed we have to migrate millions from the third world? 70% of my life is spent working two jobs to send my paycheque to parasites pretending they can't get work

@globeandmail Poor = benefit from Carbon tax Rich = don’t care, because well, they’re rich Middle class = get bent over like usual

End of carbon tax rebates a financial hit for Canada’s poorest, research shows theglobeandmail.com/investing/pers…

@fordnation I want people to genuinely use their brains right now, on both sides of the political spectrum. Since when do POLITICIANS actually care about us, our jobs, our incomes, our businesses? Because we all know they don’t, not today not yesterday, not 50 years ago. They are playing us!

We can’t roll over and we won’t back down. Team Canada needs to be united, standing up to President Trump and hitting back tariff for tariff until we get a fair trade deal.

@fordnation And we STILL have interprovincial trade barriers. The Prime Minister and you are USELESS

As premiers assemble in PEI this week, Team Canada is coming together and there’s never been a better time to do so. Together, we’ll stand united. We’ll never back down. We’ll never roll over.

@JimChuong Totally incorrect. If anything US dollar demand will surge as investor looking for safety as Gov Debt crisis comes to every western country.

One day the U.S. dollar will hit parity with the Canadian dollar just like it did during the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) That will be an another amazing opportunity for Canadians! 🇨🇦🔥