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[Castor Canadensis @38_Leek]

@youbeenx @ConradMBlack Do you seriously believe that it is really about the preparation and NOT a political stunt?

[Eric @ericvideos91]

Three layups Poilievre could say today:

1. I will cut foreign aid to 0
2. I will get a great trade deal with America. Carney won’t
3. I will end DEI programs in Government

These are 1-foot putts

[Castor Canadensis @38_Leek]

@SeamusORegan We are dim. We are not smart.

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

Canada’s greatest weakness may be its arrogance, the belief that we remain a global example simply because we keep telling ourselves we are.

We boast about our healthcare, institutions, economy and moral leadership while ignoring the dysfunction, declining services and falling standard of living right in front of us.

Patriotism is not pretending everything is fine. It is caring enough about your country to confront reality, demand better and do the hard work required to rebuild it.

Canada’s reputation cannot survive indefinitely on nostalgia and self-congratulation.

A country that believes it is above criticism will soon find itself beneath the standards it once claimed to represent.

[Castor Canadensis @38_Leek]

@TheRoyGreenShow Didn’t think you would take the bait.

[RJ(Jimmy) @cco8226]

@saskatchewan_in The fact that Carney won't release the deal for transparency pretty much confirms what the US is saying.

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

I’m supposed to perform the obligatory little ritual now and pretend both versions of this trade debacle deserve equal credibility.

I don’t... I believe the Americans.

Not because they’re American. Not because politicians suddenly became trustworthy. And certainly not because Donald Trump has been canonized.

I believe them because the American account increasingly makes more sense.

Greer, Lutnick and Bessent have spoken openly and specifically about what happened. Their accounts have been remarkably consistent. They can discuss the negotiations like people who were actually involved in them, without appearing terrified that an unsupervised adjective might escape and without a teleprompter.

Meanwhile, what do Canadians get from our own government?

Carefully sterilized language. Vague explanations. Missing specifics. Scripted talking points. Every sentence apparently passed through enough communications people and lawyers to remove any detectable trace of information.

We’re being kept in the dark like bloody mushrooms while learning more about Canada’s own trade negotiations from American officials and American media than from the Canadian government supposedly representing us.

And somehow we’re not supposed to notice how politically convenient the Canadian version is.

We got:
👉🏻 Trump was unreasonable.
👉🏻 Trump changed the deal.
👉🏻 Trump threatened our sovereignty.
👉🏻 Trump forced Canada to walk away.

Trump. Trump. Trump.

Just keep Canadians sufficiently pissed off at Donald Trump and perhaps nobody asks the considerably more inconvenient question:

❓️ What exactly did Mark Carney walk away from, and why?

Because after the Gordie Howe Bridge fiasco, I’m fresh out of complimentary benefit of the doubt.

And here’s the part that absolutely reeks, discrediting any appearance of truth told by the liar in chief #MarkCarney...

If Carney possesses documentary evidence proving Trump suddenly dumped outrageous, unacceptable demands onto Canada at the eleventh hour, where the hell is it?

Seriously.

Think about what that evidence would be worth politically.

IF Carney had a piece of paper proving Donald Trump screwed Canada, blindsided our negotiators and forced our heroic prime minister to stand up, pound the table and walk away, the Liberal machine wouldn’t quietly tuck that document into a filing cabinet.

Are you kidding me?

▪︎ They’d wallpaper Ottawa with the damn thing.

▪︎ They’d hold press conferences about it.

▪︎ They’d wave it around in Parliament.

▪︎ They’d quote it in fundraising emails.

▪︎ They’d buy ads with it.

Every friendly pundit in the country would have a laminated copy by breakfast. CBC would probably commission a twelve-part documentary and an interpretive dance.

It would be political rocket fuel.
Carney could point directly at the evidence and say, See? I stood up to Trump.

And considering how desperately this government wants Canadians angry at Trump, they would squeeze every last political drop out of it.

Instead, we get:

- Words.
- Trust us.
- Trump did it.
- Don't worry about the details.
- Just keep your elbows up and direct your anger toward the orange man south of the border.

How extraordinarily convenient.

And while Canada spends years shrieking about foreign interference, demanding security clearances for opposition leaders and warning us about other countries trying to influence Canadian politics, Canadian politicians seem remarkably comfortable inserting themselves into American partisan politics.

Apparently foreign political influence is a mortal threat to democracy when it crosses the border heading north.

Heading south?
Nothing to see here, carry on.
So enough of the carefully packaged Liberal bullshit.

Release the negotiating documents.

• Show Canadians the American demands.
• Show us Canada's demands.
• Show us what changed.
• Show us when it changed.
• Show us exactly what was sitting on that table when Canada walked away.

Because if those documents prove Carney's story, his government has every political incentive imaginable to release them, and its quite odd that they haven't.

Their continued absence doesn't prove he's lying, but it sure does suggest it!

And considering the Americans are providing details while our own government feeds us verbal oatmeal, it sure as hell gives Canadians a reason to stop swallowing everything we're spoon-fed.

Mark Carney isn't an oracle. He isn't our father. And Canadians aren't intellectually deficient children who need the PMO to decide which facts we're mature enough to see.

Stop telling us whom to hate.
Show us what happened.
Then we'll decide for ourselves who is full of shit.

#cdnpoli

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

Carney was very explicit—he walked away from the talks BECAUSE of the US position on French/media stuff. He said clearly that was his breaking point. So if the Americans didn’t actually care much about this stuff, Carney might have blown up the talks just to pander to Quebec.

[Castor Canadensis @38_Leek]

@ryangerritsen Should he be charged with counseling to commit an offence as per ss. 22 and 646 of Canadian Criminal Code?

[Castor Canadensis @38_Leek]

@FoodProfessor Ontario removed the US booze of Feb. 2, 2025. Not sure I understand “this policy” in your comment.

[Castor Canadensis @38_Leek]

@jonkay The same folks prefer Olivia as their Mayor

[Castor Canadensis @38_Leek]

@CheriDiNovo And can you live without your Zinfandel?

[Castor Canadensis @38_Leek]

@Reil76 Because these Canadians do not understand how Trump’s tariffs work

[Castor Canadensis @38_Leek]

@LauraBabcock How successful is your business? Something tells me you have plenty of idle time to kill.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

A lot of folks don't seem to realize that plunger Trudeau is the exact same Trudeau they repeatedly empowered to demolish the country. That was who he was before politics, that's who he was as prime minister, that's who he is now.

[The Roy Green Show @TheRoyGreenShow]

Are Canada's main media leftist? As a politically and personally conservative national talk radio host I would often grind my teeth over the undiguised left wing blather posing as news in Canada. Occasionally off air exchanges even with friends became very loud.

[Mayor Tom Mrakas @TMrakas]

In 2024, I brought forward a motion calling for municipalities and school boards to work towards a MOU to open school gymnasiums making them available to local municipalities for community recreational use during evenings and weekends.

That motion passed.

Unfortunately, nothing has changed. Despite multiple productive meetings with the Minister of Education to discuss the importance of protecting community access to these facilities and ensuring local recreation remained affordable no progress has been made.

Now we’re seeing the consequences. Local not-for-profit sports organizations are facing dramatic increases in school permit costs, increases that could force long-standing basketball, pickleball, volleyball, Special Olympics, and other community programs to shut down. That should concern us all.

Our schools are taxpayers funded community assets. Our municipal recreation facilities are taxpayer funded community assets. So, instead of putting up financial barriers that make it harder for residents to stay active, we should be working together to maximize use of the facilities taxpayers have paid for.

This is why I initiated discussions for an MOU two years ago, and why I am continuing to do so today.

We need to find a better way, because affordable access to recreation facilities strengthens our community.

https://t.co/P42ob3suJq

[Castor Canadensis @38_Leek]

@FoodProfessor Yea, we can. I checked and the bar for initiating a petition is very low. Anyone can do it, the only thing you need is a sponsoring MP

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

Canada could spend $1 trillion on ending homelessness and the problem would get worse. When your entire methodology is corrupt, the money becomes meaningless.