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@RichardDias_CFA Probably just grandstanding to make the orange freakshow down south think he has less leverage over us than he thought.

How does ANY of this advance the interests of Working Class Canadians?

@MikePMoffatt God FORBID we ever build family-sized homes again, eh?

FWIW, my preferred solution is "leave seniors alone and accept they'll stay where they are". But that would mean we'd have to stop whining about empty bedrooms and actually allow for family-sized homes to be built.

New piece at the Globe: If Canadian governments expect seniors to downsize, and capital gains taxes on primary residences are off-limits, Canada will need to adopt Australia-like tax-advantaged savings plans for seniors who sell their homes. Read here: theglobeandmail.com/investing/pers…

🇨🇦's "sovereign wealth fund" isn't a fund but "another borrowing vehicle" for fiscal plans. This isn't an investment in our future. They're hiding a larger deficit spending. This is financial engineering one would expect from a penny stock fraud, not gov. via BMO.

@DrJacobsRad And why not? Why not tell a bully that you’re going to go play in another sandbox and leave him all alone? Trump will be a bad memory a few years. Then, we can make a deal with the USA. Why do you want Canada to just bend the knee to Trump?

Carney is pushing hard on two things, climate change and Canada joining Europe. He stumps for a Eurocentric new world order while ignoring Canada's economic and geographic facts on the ground. This may result in an even greater economic disaster than Trudeau left behind.

@GeoffreyShand @kinsellawarren Have you thought of blaming Putin, maybe?

@kinsellawarren Canada continues to buy the blood of young Ukrainians on behalf of the WEF/EU geopolitical goals. Disgusting 🤮

Canada commits $270M to Ukraine as Carney addresses European summit in Armenia thestar.com/news/canada/ca…

@kinsellawarren Cue the Putin apologists.

@keeksfromTX @Nana00018487212 @clashreport @DavidKrayden Ya globalism, WEF, illuminati, jewish banker conspiracies… Yada yada yada. Trump is as corrupt as they come. He’s no better.

@fuzzywidgets4 @Nana00018487212 @clashreport @DavidKrayden No. Globalism and Maas migration is much better🤡

Canadian PM Mark Carney: It’s my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt — but it will be rebuilt out of Europe.

@_Steve_34 @LesleyMkup @clashreport @DavidKrayden @MarkJCarney … or even dumber Trump memes. In fact, it makes you look like a complete 💩 head who’s bought every bit of random dribble that MAGA spews.

@fuzzywidgets4 @LesleyMkup @clashreport @DavidKrayden @MarkJCarney

@_Steve_34 @LesleyMkup @clashreport @DavidKrayden @MarkJCarney Posting random graphs and calling names doesn’t make you look any smarter there, champ.

@fuzzywidgets4 @LesleyMkup @clashreport @DavidKrayden @MarkJCarney You gotta stop looking dumb at some point. Today’s not the day tho.

@JRuff1126 @LesleyMkup @clashreport @DavidKrayden @MarkJCarney Because it serves them. He didn’t do it just to make us happy. Oil is just one cog in the machinery, and one pipeline doesn’t mean he isn’t going to try to rip up CUSMA or whatever the hell it’s called now, to browbeat us into giving him whatever he wants.

@fuzzywidgets4 @LesleyMkup @clashreport @DavidKrayden @MarkJCarney Meanwhile, it is Trump who signed an order to build a pipeline from Canada to the US while Canada largely continues to boycott the US and tries to rip its agreement to purchase 88 F-35's to protect North America.

@LesleyMkup @clashreport @DavidKrayden @MarkJCarney You realize Trump is ripping up agreements with Canada b/c he thinks it gives him leverage, right? Why would anybody want to play in that sandbox? Just walk away & find other friends. The USA is getting screwed under Trump. Its an utter shitshow.

@MarkJCarney Is Causing Economical Suicide On Canadians & Canada , his Words may impress the EU globalist Elites, but They Don’t Impress Canadians. He Is Putting Our Country At Risk With His Alignment With The Cruel Communist Regime Of China. We Are A Part Of North America & Canada’s Greatest Ally & Partner Is The USA. Carney Is More European Than Canadian, He Once Said That..He Is Welcome To Stay There. His New World Order Is Sinister & Will Not Align With True Patriotic Canadians, That Want Our Country To Be Glorious & Free. This Does Not Fit Carney’s Agenda, He See’s Canada As His Personal Piggy Bank & Net Zero Playground..International Order Rebuild Out Of Europe ??? Carney Can Go To Hell…

@Nana00018487212 @clashreport @DavidKrayden Ya… let be part of this regime instead. 🙄

@clashreport @DavidKrayden He’s excited to be part of this regime.

@clashreport Look… If Trump is going to destroy existing agreements with Canada just to try to gain leverage in renegotiating them, Canada might as well walk away and look to Europe for market access. Trump is Making America Small Again. So why stick around?

President Biden made a visit to Kyiv in 2023 walking through the city as air raid sirens blared to show America stands with Ukraine. Donald Trump doesn’t have the balls to do the same.

🚨BREAKING: IRAN JUST POSTED THIS

@ItsDeanBlundell Probably not. The Bureaucracy will be horrendous. That said, if it means getting to leave this Canadian liberal dump and its winters for sunnier climates if I want, then game on. I’m leaving Canada, and taking my startup with me, for a low/no tax jurisdiction anyhow.

Before the end of the year, Canada will be part of the EU.

@RippleXrpie Uh… no. 1.2 BILLION Latin Americans will beg to differ. They do not belong to the USA.

🚨IT'S OFFICIAL: The U.S confirms the new WORLD ORDER! 🇺🇸 U.S Secretary of State - Marco Rubio: “Russia, China, and Iran are not going to come from outside our hemisphere, destabilize our region in our own backyard, not under President Trump.” “THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE IS OURS!”

@EricDLombardi THE problem is CORRUPTION, and politicians finding novel ways of escaping accountability for their corruption. For instance: - abusing prorogation to shut down corruption investigations - de-funding Access to Information The problem ISNT our democratic system, such as it is.

Canada and Ontario are a democracy, but it often feels like we’ve lost *democratic culture*. You can see it in the debates we’re having (and lack there of). I’ll use the Toronto Island/Billy Bishop controversy as an example. 👇 First, what is the problem? - The island airport lease was set to expire in 2033, but has been extended to 2045 to figure out next steps. - The Q400 turboprop planes that fly out of the airport are no longer mass produced. - While maintenance works for the next decade or two, the island airport really has 2 options: Extend the runway to allow jets or shut down the airport. - - - The democratic approach to solving this problem would look like the following. 1) Establish a working group to evaluate future options, should be governed by clear stakeholders from all participants (Feds, Province, City, TPA etc). - Expand the airport - Maintain the airport - Shut the airport It should also propose a transparent mechanism for determining a path forward. This doesn’t mean every stakeholder gets what they want, but people understand how the decision is made and accept it. 2) Present clear futures to the public for scrutiny and debate. - Detailed proposals outlining cost/benefit/context/trade-offs/remediation. - Context of other potential infrastructure investments and developments (eg, HSR, Ontario Place, Port Lands) - Access and Local/regional transit upgrades to improve connections - Impacts on airline competition in the region, and remedying options (eg, upgrading Hamilton Airport) - The potential of working with De Havilland/Bombarier/Embraer on re-production of suitable planes for the existing or reduced runway expansion scope - Business/investment potential - Cultural and environmental impact 3) Period for public scrutiny. The reality is that reports and commissions get a lot wrong, because humans are fallible. Public advocacy (not NIMBYism) often improves outcomes and clarifies preferences. The public and civil society have a role here. 4) Decision by arms-length mechanism suggested in (1) and a clear/written justification for the approach. It should not be a partisan decision by the Ford government, which will be long gone before anything materializes. That’s how you ensure legitimacy going forward so a future gov doesn’t change course after spending billions of dollars. Not everyone will be happy, but at least people will know that fair consideration actually occurred. - - - The problem with the ham-fisted approach being pursued by Ford, TPA and the Conservatives (and from the shameless silence of the Federal Government) is that the public has very little information to go by. The city itself is completely in the dark. And yet, there is a rush to use eminent domain over the entire islands. It’s an authoritarian impulse to believe that opposition has no inherent legitimacy. I love democracy, debate, and ideas. Yet our leaders have been afraid to actually believe in it in their actions. Everyone is reacting pathologically. So, do I support the island airport expansion? I can’t possibly know. We literally don’t have the information to judge. And that’s the core democratic failure. All I can say is that we should demand better from @fordnation @PrabSarkaria @MarkJCarney cc @RunChiNguyenRun @WaterfrontAll @WaterfrontBIA @NoJetsTO

Trump pulling 5000 American troops from Germany right after talking to Putin is no coincidence. It is a massive strategic blow that heavily weakens US force projection across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. He is outright sabotaging the US

@McFaul The problem isn’t whether it’ll be back. The problem is that Trump has show how much a criminal can bend US institutionalism with a complicit GOP that has even less regard for decency and the truth.

As a trusted ally, responsible player in the international system, and champion of liberty and democracy around the world, America will be back. Of course there’s no going back to some utopian era called the “liberal international order.” (It never really existed) But the fatalistic assumption — now conventional wisdom— that we are all doomed to live in some Hobbesian world where all that matters is power is a hypothesis not a destiny. And I’m in the right to avoid that dark future. Realistic, reform-minded liberal internationalists of the world, unite!