Santiago Perez

🇨🇦 Latinos in Canada, 2nd episode of “Somos Canada” is now available!!! By far the most important of the series, we dissect the macro-economic performance of the Liberal Administration. Understanding the “The Lost Liberal Decade” is essential to realize the risks that Canada currently experiences as a country. I have no doubts that after listening to my conversation with @carloseveras , you will feel confident that we need a big change in leadership. Voting for the Conservatives is the choice of prosperity! (Podcast is in Spanish with English subtitles)! 🎙️ #LatinoCanadians #VoteConservative #CanadaElections vote for @PierrePoilievre Check us out somoscanada.com Episode 2: youtu.be/WnfofPovWEI?si…

And many Canadians are still surprised/upset why there is a secessionist movement in Alberta that is gaining popularity every month???

I hope you don't end up erasing this tweet in a few months when the big ticket items get announced. This is minutia compared to the other 2 so stop bragging...

The Pathways project should be immediately scrapped. It was contemplated in a radically different world than now, and seemingly the only entity on the planet that cares about a barrel's carbon profile is the Canadian Liberal Government. Ideology ➡️ unnecessary, uncompetitive cost

Hilarious, zero room to raise income tax. And voters hate consumption taxes. So where, oh where, will they get the $?

The world without oil and gas from the Middle East will go back to the Stone Age. #OOTT

Oilsand maintenance + Spring break-up (seasonal decline in Canadian rig counts) guarantees that there’s no production increase in Q2 2026. Guaran-fucking-tee. The +23.6 million bbl production increase is a myth. There’s a higher chance the fucking tooth fairy is real.

You could almost believe that major projects in this country can't be built without government funding. They can, and there is a long list of projects that the private sector themselves have proposed, and want to build, and would create better infrastructure in this country, and just need a rational regulatory process to move ahead. Please, let's start with the projects that taxpayers don't need to pay for first!

👀 Canada’s energy policy has come full circle. To reduce electricity demand and risk of blackouts, Yukon is cutting EV subsidies and instead is incenting propane and heating oil for home heating.

@brianlilley This country has become a joke….

Oh FFS...

My latest @financialpost article is out. It talks about my youth and how that shaped my views on business… “I grew up in Fort McMurray, Alta…It was home and the spirit of community was everywhere…It was a place where hard work, entrepreneurship, community and opportunity were not abstract concepts, but daily realities. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, my family owned a go-kart track in an energy-fuelled, but entertainment-starved town. In the winters, we did whatever it took to survive…It was hard, honest work and great until Pierre Trudeau’s National Energy Program devastated Alberta’s economy… Those experiences shaped my view of business. Put simply, entrepreneurial activity matters... That was true…decades ago and remains true today on a much larger scale through the expanded oilsands... Recently, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre appeared on Joe Rogan’s podcast and defended Canada’s oilsands against the now-familiar claim that they are environmentally irresponsible... …activists conveniently ignore a basic economic reality: global demand for oil persists and that is highlighted during times of global strife like the current Iran conflict. The question is not whether oil is produced, but where. …In 2024, Canada’s oil and gas industry employed approximately 900,000 people and contributed more than $8 billion in taxes (plus tens of billions of dollars in royalties) to the federal and provincial governments and represented approximately 7.8 per cent of Canada’s nominal gross domestic product… A report released last week said increasing Canada’s pipeline capacity could have a significant upward impact on GDP. In other breaking news, water is still wet... From a tax perspective, opponents of the…industry often claim that the sector receives subsidies that should be stopped. That is a convenient misunderstanding of how Canada’s tax system works… Singling out oil and gas companies for criticism is a selective narrative, not a principled tax policy argument. Tax policy shapes behaviour in very real ways. Governments introducing uncertainty, complexity or targeted hostility are met by investors quietly delaying decisions or moving capital elsewhere. One example is the layering of an industrial carbon tax on top of an already high-cost, highly regulated industry. Oil is a globally traded commodity priced on global supply and demand, not on the carbon intensity of a particular barrel. Is there a premium market for decarbonized oil? No… Canada has an opportunity to produce energy responsibly, supported by sound tax policy, efficient infrastructure and a competitive investment environment. That approach recognizes a simple truth: economic prosperity is not an obstacle to progress; it makes progress possible. financialpost.com/commodities/en…

I just can't see Pathways being viable., especially in the current reality of the world. The question is will there be off-ramps to the deal in case this mega project falls apart or is that the sentence of the whole deal. I also hope we see an announcement soon confirming the death of CER, one of the most punitive legislations imposed by the feds, which will impeded Alberta becoming a datacentre emporium and the end of affordable power in the province. I assume that falls under the industrial carbon pricing negotiation bullet as it will be replaced with TIER equivalency.

Alberta-Canada MOU to miss self imposed deadlines - IAA collaboration agreement done - methane equivalency to be announced imminently ✔️ - industrial carbon pricing still being negotiated - pathways alliance trilateral deal not struck cbc.ca/news/canada/ca…

The two most incompetent and destructive ministers in my lifetime, who brought our immigration system from best to worst, are promoted in Carney’s cabinet. Nothing has changed. A Liberal is a Liberal.

Unfortunately it’s unlikely to happen. It’s an eco radical ideology within the Liberal Party that will impede any meaningful energy project to happen. It’s extremely frustrating and quite frankly unforgivable. Additionally any new economic pain that the country will experience in the next 3 years will all be scapegoated to Trump so the Liberals have their perfect electoral excuse to maintain their anti fossil fuels policy.

“There is no business case” for East Coast LNG - Justin Trudeau, immediately following Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine. This must stand as one of the most flagrantly stupid remarks ever made by a Canadian Prime Minister. Everyone in politics says dumb things from time to time. I sure did. The problem is that this dumb statement reflected government policy, based on an astonishing blend of energy, economic, and geopolitical illiteracy. Mark Carney was elected on the premise of being literate on energy, the economy, and geopolitics. On the promise of getting big things done “faster than ever,” of making Canada “an energy superpower,” of becoming the “fastest growing economy in the G7.” So get on with it already. Eastern Canadian provinces are increasingly positive on gas production and exports, eg Nova Scotia lifting its ridiculous gas production ban. There is a growing shift back to energy realism in Quebec politics. Enough consultations, meetings, and triangulating energy politics. Embrace East Coast LNG as a moon shot project, with war time urgency. Prove that Canada can once again do big things quickly, while making Canada wealthier, and helping the world achieve energy security.

Ejemplo de la transformación q puede lograr Latinoamérica con un gobierno serio de derecha.

"Canada’s story gets even more depressing when only young people under 25 are counted. The country then falls to 71st, another new low. Young people were once, on average, the happiest Canadian cohort; now they’re the most miserable. And when compared to 136 countries, that 10-year drop in life satisfaction is one of the largest in the world, placing Canada just four slots from the bottom."

TC Energy was able to get permits in seven months for its Southeast Gateway natural gas pipeline in Mexico, he added, “and I assure you no environmental corners were cut.” @TCEnergy @MarkJCarney

I hope you heard loud and clear from true energy experts that unless your party doesn't change the ideology it is absolutely impossible to become an energy superpower. Deregulate and let the private sector do its thing... This idea of holding the industry hostage by forcing Pathways is irresponsible, it ignores the reality of the World and the precarious economic situation of Canada.

As Canada positions itself as a global energy superpower, partnerships between the federal government and the energy sector are essential to ensuring a strong and sustainable energy future for Canada. In Calgary yesterday, Parliamentary Secretary @coreyhoganyyc and I met with the @OilGasCanada, who represents Canada’s oil and natural gas industry. I also met with @Suncor Energy, one of Canada’s leading oil sands companies. Canadian companies like these create good jobs and help ensure Canadians have a reliable, Canadian energy supply.

Venezuela es Campeón del Mundo en beisbol. Nuestro DEPORTE NACIONAL. Tenemos visa para celebrar. 🇻🇪⚾️

As a GenXer I love this country. Argentina is like a late 80s, early 90 punk rock band.

Feel poorer at the grocery store? Here’s exactly why. Since 2020: Food prices ↑ ~30% Wages ↑ ~20% That shaded gap? That’s lost purchasing power. Canadians aren’t imagining it.