Squawk Box Steve 🍁🇨🇦

Prime Minister Mark Carney announces a ‘grocery rebate’ (aka renamed GST credit) while admitting Canadians are struggling at the checkout. Then this: Standing in a FreshCo grocery store, he calls it ‘Hello Fresh’. 😆 Completely out of touch. Canadians don’t need more government cheques - we need lower taxes, less spending, and real relief on food prices. Video Cred: BeautifulCanada1 on TY.

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty Does the potential for violence not concern you?

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty For an UNNECESSARY Vanity Party. And who pays the Police? Ontario Government. Ford. Hosting an event that requires loads of extra work and extra pay. While health care and education get the scraps of what is left.

Who’s paying for all this excessive police presence: taxpayers or the @OntarioPCParty?

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty I’m more concerned with the potential violence that required that amount of police presence.

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty If he needed that much money for police then maybe don’t throw a TAXPAYER FUNDED PARTY FOR HIMSELF. ???

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty He doesn’t hire police. The OPP is responsible for securing public events for the Premier.

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty It wasn’t needed. He hired them to pay them. He’s funnelling as much money as he can to police and Staples for kickback and support.

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty Can we worry about people being violent towards our politicians? Or do we reserve that worry for politicians we agree with?

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty Spend money on Provincial Responsibilities such as Heath Care and Education and not Police for your vanity party. 12-24 hours ER waits and no EAs for students with autism, disabilities or in wheelchairs is a massive failure of provincial management.

@rinni_ @ThisIsWillAdams @MarkCandler @TorontoPolice It’s insulting and terrible behaviour but demanding police action while criticizing their presence is ironic.

@SquawkBoxSteve @ThisIsWillAdams @MarkCandler @TorontoPolice First symptom of being a Snowflake, but no, definitely not criminally offensive

These Ontario PC volunteers were harassing a female volunteer and mocking her for having had plastic surgery done. When I confronted them and told them to leave her alone, this gentleman called me a "f#ggot." His friends were also very polite to me. 📸 Jun 19, 2026 #FordFest2026 #ProtestMania

@MrsCHardie @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty No concern for why it’s needed?

@SquawkBoxSteve @WendyGoodes @OntarioPCParty Taxpayers (Ontario Residents) paying dozens of police to protect him because he wants to throw a ‘Yay Me’ party for fun while he’s robbing us blind is NOT good use of our money. Especially when people are waiting 12-24+ hours in the ER for stitches. Damn right we are mad.

@Mr_S_Ont The loudest group, wasn’t the small activist group of teachers led by the always embarrassing Nigel Barriffe. It was the OPSEU I believe.

@SquawkBoxSteve No, but it's what has been implied with the main headings/discussion being "for gets booked by unions" and then "high police presence"

Anyone have a video of this many cops at a World Cup game with 40 000 fans inside the stadium and thousands more outside? Was there this many, I'm the same space, at the Raptors Championship parade?

@Mr_S_Ont The ETF isn’t there and drones aren’t flying around because of teachers.

@connor__peters @ThisIsWillAdams @MarkCandler @TorontoPolice Or they’ll tell him that being insulted isn’t a crime.

@ThisIsWillAdams @MarkCandler @TorontoPolice Going to the closest station in Scarborough and asking to file a report But likely theyll say something like "why didnt you report it to the officers on site that day?"

@ThisIsWillAdams @MarkCandler @TorontoPolice Being insulted isn’t a crime.

@MarkCandler @TorontoPolice How does one go about pressing charges???

As people on the right have learned, the angry left is very violent. There’s a reason the OPP arranged this police presence.

@Mr_S_Ont Is that why you think they were there?

@SquawkBoxSteve But we need all those police for teachers asking for proper funding ? 🤷

@Mr_S_Ont That’s not hate speech. Being insulted with slurs isn’t a crime.

@SquawkBoxSteve Hate speech? ......

@Mr_S_Ont What crime do you see happening here?

@SquawkBoxSteve Throwing out slurs with at least 10 cops watching x.com/i/status/20683…

@Mr_S_Ont Neither of us understand the security needs. If you want to make assumptions, I guess you can do that.

@SquawkBoxSteve There is no cause for this much security that also allows an event to be considered safe I'm not sure how you don't understand that If you're thinking that a bunch of protesting educators needed this much police... I was in the pic below, with far less police(by ratio)

@Mr_S_Ont To reiterate, the government doesn’t deploy police.

@SquawkBoxSteve I also want to be clear that we definitely do need police and I have nothing against them. It's the way they keep getting deployed and promoted by this govt while everything else gets underfunded and cut.

@Mr_S_Ont I think we should consider why that much security is needed and address that problem?

@SquawkBoxSteve If you need that many police for such a small event then the event is not worth/safe to have. Unless you are trying to get political points 🤷

@Mr_S_Ont Do you know what security concerns actually were? You don’t know how police are assigned and allocated so I assume not. Without context or historical data, it can’t be assumed this is excessive unless you’re trying to score political points.

@SquawkBoxSteve You are 100% playing dumb if you believe that the threat at a hotdog BBQ with some educators was anywhere close to the same ratio as the World Cup with drunk and excited fans This was done on purpose. instagram.com/reel/DKuJw3-os… share.google/QgIQ0g4ZiirQd1…

@StephenBlais @TorontoPolice The OPP controls the amount of security needed which includes requesting support from local law enforcement

Do the @TorontoPolice just offer this level of protection to major events or does the event organizer need to cover those costs, like at a sporting event where the host pays? #onpoli

@Mr_S_Ont I’m not being dumb. I don’t know the needs or the threats. Doug doesn’t control the police at this events.

@SquawkBoxSteve It's excessive Don't be dumb about this You don't need 100 cops for what is advertised as a family event. Especially when you usually have security but for this year you somehow don't. Seems weird, doesn't it. And Dougie is definitely controlling number of cops