David Clement 🌐

🧵Did you know that as a taxpayer, whether you like it or not, you are funding charities and NGOs that lobby the government? Anti-pipeline activism? You paid for it Anti-vaping activism? You paid for it Anti-housing activism? You paid for it Anti-alcohol activism? You paid for it

Excellent points made by my colleague @StephenKentX on steel and aluminum tariffs.

Great to see @Shopify raising concerns about the overbroad scope of Bill C-22. Lawful access powers need clear limits and strong safeguards. Important coverage of @tobi and @LiboiM in @the_logic: thelogic.co/briefing/liber…

"The big pricing story at the grocery store right now is chicken, not beef. Chicken prices have increased faster than beef in many parts of the country, yet the media is largely avoiding the topic — and we all know why. Chicken is supply-managed, and few are willing to criticize supply management ahead of the CUSMA review."

Looks like the SSW nomination appeal was dismissed, which is sad news for anyone who cares at all about the integrity of elections. 🤷‍♂️

This, but actually

As measured by its importance to the cognitioeconomic supply chain, the Swedish pouch industry is a critical American security interest on par with an ASML or TSMC - the nic must flow.

One fascinating consequence of GLP-1s/Ozempic: For decades, people said that big pharma would never release actually effective obesity drugs because they’d lose too much money from downstream chronic disease treatment. We’re seeing almost the exact opposite.

A Swedish minister has accused France of mounting 'an attack on the Swedish way of living' with its ban on nicotine pouches, setting aflame a single market fight over how governments should regulate smoke-free alternatives to tobacco. ft.trib.al/pkiwmf3

"If Carney government bureaucrats wanted to increase costs for consumers, drive businesses out of Canada, and anger the Trump administration all in one policy move, that’s exactly what they did on Thursday by making changes to the regulatory framework for the Online Streaming Act." My latest in the @calgarysun for the @ConsumerChoiceC calgarysun.com/opinion/column…

@rmohamed_yow x.com/davidclement/s…

"So when you ask what makes Canada the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the f**k you're talking about. Paramount Canada's Wonderland?!""

A calamity of unforced errors

@RomanFisher__ @andrewaperez @MarkJCarney Exactly

@andrewaperez @MarkJCarney Would be even better if they weren’t such cowards and the CBC didn’t feel pressured to keep their names under lock and key.

This is democracy and big tent politics — as it ought to be. The federal Liberal caucus isn’t a monolith under @MarkJCarney’s leadership. I continue to believe that our PM is well on his way to transforming Canada into a place that’s richer, more prosperous and ultimately more fair and just. #cdnpoli #BuildCanadaStrong

Peter MacKay CRTC 15% streamer tax "doesn't bode well for a successful (CUSMA) negotiation." @PeterMacKay

@isthisdimpeeb Magical times we are living in!

@davidclement It’ll make me skinny and cure cancer? It’s over for me.

More good news!

On the new streaming tax going from 5% to 15%. What we have here is an unelected regulator (the CRTC) tripling a streaming tax in the middle of a trade war, with no accountability for what comes next.

As bad as C-11, the CRTC’s implementation is somehow worse. Yesterday’s policy announcement will provoke a debate about the Online Streaming Act and the broader CanCon regime. But it really should lead to a bigger movement to disband the CRTC altogether. Spectrum licensing and other ongoing functions can be carried out by goverment departments. At this point the CRTC exists to finance its own expansion and growth and impose itself on the market preferences on Canadian consumers.

Maybe the CRTC thought the perfect time to announce *tripling the spending requirements for streamers* was when everyone in DC was packing for the long weekend… subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2026/0…

China and Russia deepen ties. @davidclement #forumdailynewsca

Today’s announcement by the CRTC that foreign streaming providers will have to pay three times more of their revenue toward “local media funds” is terrible news for Canadian consumers. It could lead to higher prices, fewer providers, and ramp up trade tensions with the U.S.