Pete Castiglione

It ran out long ago. Carney is a con man. Always was, always will be. He is behaving exactly as I expected him to behave. Big on speeches. Zero on deliverables.

The Government started talking about the high speed rail in 1984. From 84 to 2010 almost $600,000,000 was spent on studies. Since 2020 over $4 billion has been spent on planning. Nothing is built. Not a single line of track. This is an epic boondoggle

🚨 WOW David Eby got caught. Red handed. He told Canadians there was "no proponent, no route, no project" to oppose. Meanwhile a leaked internal briefing note shows his government ordered ministers to secretly build the case to kill Alberta's Northern pipeline. A majority of Canadians support it. A majority of BC residents support it. Indigenous communities were offered 50% ownership. Eby is sabotaging a nation-building project behind closed doors while lying about it in public. This is who runs BC. westernstandard.news/bc/exclusive-b…

This is a lie. On April 1 the Carney government increased the excise tax on all alcohol by 2%. For the brewers this is a $14 million increase. Across all beverage alcohol sectors it is a $41 million increase. This is not tax relief.

This can't be true because Islam honors women. I learned this when I took an Intersectional Islamic Feminism course taught by @RoryStewartUK.

Ottawa wants to spend $90 Billion on high-speed rail between Toronto and Quebec City. That's $4000 out of the pocket of every Canadian taxpayer to fund something that 99% will never use. As usual, Western Canadians will be paying to subsidize Ontario and Quebec. Insanity.

The Japanese have been making videos showing Britain how to solve their problems God bless Japan! 🇯🇵

Diversity is their strength

WATCH: Interviewer asks Pierre Poilievre if right-wing politicians are weaponizing immigration to get elected. Q: "Do you feel that it's a sort of weaponized, divisive tool for people to get elected? Complaining about the brown people or foreigners?" Poilievre: "...What we encountered was a very sudden and inexplicable increase in the numbers in the period from 2021 to 2024." "This upset the social peace on immigration that we had had for two centuries leading up to it."

Pierre Poilievre opposing the $90 billion Liberal high-speed rail project has caused quite the controversy. Likely because the Laurentian Elite who loot Canadian taxpayers stand to gain BILLIONS and they want major backlash against anyone who threatens their impending goldmine of corruption. Let's do the math they don't want you to see.... The Base Cost: According to Joe Carson's "Diagnosis Red Tape," for every dollar paid in federal taxes, 26.72% never re-enters the private economy. It's consumed by bureaucracy. That means a $90B public project carries roughly $24B in administrative overhead. True taxpayer burden: ~$114B. There are roughly 20 million taxpayers in Canada. That's ~$5,700 per taxpayer, so that 12 million people in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor can have access to rail. EXCEPT THINGS NEVER GO ACCORDING TO PLAN Bent Flyvbjerg's database of 16,000+ megaprojects across 136 countries finds that 91.5% go over budget, over schedule, or both. The mean cost overrun is 62%. Rail projects specifically (according to Liberal friends McKinsey & Company) go over budget by an average of 44.7%, and their demand is overestimated by 51.4%. Applied to Alto: $114B × 1.447 = ~$165B. That's ~$8,250 per taxpayer. Meanwhile, the Liberals' projected $35B yearly GDP increase? If demand is overestimated by half, that's closer to $17B. Now, consider the recent Eglinton subway line in Toronto. The Eglinton Crosstown LRT was originally projected at ~$5B. Final cost: $13B and it took 15 years. The Eglinton Crosstown is 19km long. Alto is ~1,000km. That's 53× longer. The Eglinton Crosstown cost $684M per kilometre. If Alto hit a similar per-km cost, you'd be looking at $684B. That's obviously absurd but the point stands: Canada just proved it cannot build 19km of light rail on time or on budget. The answer is to build 1,000km of high-speed rail? The Eglinton's cost multiplied by 2.6×. Apply that same factor to Alto: $114B × 2.6 = ~$296B. That's ~$14,800 per taxpayer. But it gets EVEN WORSE. Now add corruption... The Charbonneau Commission established that mafia-linked cartels inflated Montreal public contract prices by up to 30%. A whistleblower told the Globe and Mail in 2009 that the Mafia controlled roughly 80% of road contracts, with prices inflated up to 35%. Then there's the "Green Slush Fund" scandal: the Auditor General found 186 conflicts of interest at SDTC, with an estimated $150-390M in misappropriated funds. That's roughly 17-45% of the fund's total approvals funnelled to insiders. Applied to Alto's $90B base: $15-40B in corruption. Applied to the Eglinton-style $296B scenario: $50-133B in corruption. Let's summarize, shall we? Best case (on budget, on time... which never happens): ~$114B total. ~$5,700 per taxpayer. Realistic case (Flyvbjerg's average rail overrun): ~$165B total. ~$8,250 per taxpayer. With half the promised GDP benefit. Eglinton case (2.6× cost escalation): ~$296B total. ~$14,800 per taxpayer. With corruption layered on top: $15-133B more (depending on the scenario) vanishing into the pockets of the politically connected. Also, don't forget: VIA Rail, the organization that would operate this system, currently can't run its existing trains on time. And that, my friends, is how you market corruption and economic insanity as "infrastructure investment."

Immigration authorities in Japan have detained an illegal immigrant. The immigrant begged for one more day, but the Japanese authorities refused and are deporting her immediately.

Danielle Smith rightfully ridicules the NDP convention's equity card circus. 🔊🔊🔊

In all the things that never happened, this is the neverest.

Naheed Nenshi was bought and paid for by the Chinese dictatorship and global elites — and now he wants to lecture everyone else on ethics? Might be best for him to sit this one out. 🔗 unitedconservativecaucus.ca/nenshis-hypocr…

Danielle Smith rightfully calls out the Federal NDP for not having a single Canadian flag on stage during their leadership convention.

This is the best part from Pierre Poilievre appearance on the Diary of a CEO podcast; "Those who push a socialist ideology have a gross contradiction in their view of human nature. They say that human beings are wretched, self-interested, greedy when they’re in the private voluntary economy, but they’re angels when they’re in the governmental economy. They argue that the government should just control everything because then we have all these angels that will decide for us." 🎯

Wow, @DanWilliamsAB was really quick on his feet here. Exceptionally strong response to activist "journalists" in the press gallery, that are for some reason hyper-fixated on letting kids access pornography.

A Japanese woman warns her fellow citizens about immigration: ”Acid attacks in the UK have increased by over 500% in the past four years. Regarding Islam, what’s dangerous is that it comes from a culture that looks down on women.”

Hear me out here - MULTIPLE high speed rail lines. Have them running to East/West coasts. But make them underground. And shape them like a tube. And don't put trains or people in them - put crude and nat gas in the fucking things

🚨 Douglas Murray DESTROYS BBC Newsnight Presenter Douglas Murray calmly dismantles the BBC on his “less Islam” comment: Nick Watt: “We should have less Islam in this country. Was that a wise phrase?” Murray: “Perfectly wise phrase… This country had a wildly stupid and lax immigration policy for decades.” On the bomber Salman Abedi: “One of the sons they gave this country was Salman Abedi who at 22 killed 22 young girls… one for every year of life this country gave him.” Then the key logic: “Jihadist extremism, jihadism comes from Islam. Therefore, if it’s 1%, 5%, 15% of people of the Muslim faith who follow that version of it, you’ve got a hell of a problem. And the more people, this is simple math, the larger the number of people who are followers of a faith that has not solved the extremism problem in its midst… the more extremism you will have. You don’t get that from the Catholic Church… or the Anglican church.” Murray closes powerfully: “Nobody else is as incredibly slow in learning as the British media and political class when it comes to this problem. Why is it the case that Saturday after Saturday we have thousands of people going through major British cities who support the death cults who would murder Jews and the rest of us next? That’s a question you and Newsnight should answer.” Countries with less Islam have less Islamic terrorism. Straight talk the BBC clearly struggles with.