Barb Bierman

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[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Even though headline grocery inflation slowed to 3.8%, consumers are still feeling pressure because the categories rising the fastest are highly visible staples people buy frequently — meat, coffee, bread, and vegetables.

That creates the perception that food inflation is still “high,” even if the overall index is moderating statistically.

[Barb Bierman @BarbaraBierman]

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[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

Canada manufactures plastic straws and cups

and exports them, so Katy and Justin can use them at Coachella

but does not allow their own citizens to buy them.

Canada is not a serious country.

[Dan McTeague @GasPriceWizard]

Take away all taxes on fuel and don’t impose NetZero policies that drive up fuel costs while evisceratinf the Loonie and the price of fuel would be 99 cents litre here in Toronto. Remove refinery margins or subsidize them and the price would be more like 85 cents a litre

[Barb Bierman @BarbaraBierman]

@mattgurney 🙄🙄🙄

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

The candidate who beat Joe Tay in the election was Maggie Chi

shes the one who ordered the cameras shut off at a Canadian parliamentary committee.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Here’s the problem with this “debunk”: it admits half the Conservative case, then pretends it won the argument. Cute trick. Bad economics.

Harper ran deficits after 2008 because Canada was hit by a global financial crisis. That matters. You don’t judge crisis spending the same way you judge permanent ideological spending. The federal books show surpluses in 2006-07 and 2007-08, then the crash deficits, then a near-balanced result by 2014-15. Ottawa recorded a small $550 million operating deficit in 2014-15, with a final budgetary result of $1.834 billion once other items are included. That is not remotely the same as building a government addicted to structural deficits.

The GM line is also slippery. Yes, the government sold GM shares in 2015. But Budget 2015 says the sale brought gross proceeds of $3.3 billion and a net gain of $2.1 billion after book value. So calling it simply a “$3.5B+ loss” without the accounting context is not analysis. It’s slogan math wearing glasses.

On crime, the post tries another dodge: “crime was already falling.” Fine. But that does not erase the fact that crime fell during the Harper years. In 2015, Statistics Canada did report a rise in homicide and some crime indicators, so no one should pretend everything was perfect. But the broader point remains: the Conservative argument was public safety, sentencing, borders, enforcement, and consequences. The left now wants to pretend consequences never matter. That is not social science. That is daycare politics with a sociology degree.

On taxes, the post basically defeats itself. Harper cut the GST from 7% to 5%, reduced the lowest federal personal income tax rate to 15% from 16%, increased the basic personal amount, and cut corporate rates. Even the government’s own archived release says the GST was cut by two points and the lowest personal rate was reduced.

And yes, Harper moved to raise OAS eligibility to 67. That’s a real criticism. But fiscal adults understand why it was proposed: population aging, longer life expectancy, and the cost of entitlement programs. You can disagree with it, but pretending it cancels every tax cut and every fiscal improvement is childish.

So the honest verdict is simple: Harper was not flawless. No government is. But compared with the Liberal-NDP habit of spending first, taxing later, blaming “greed,” and calling arithmetic hateful, the Harper record looks pretty disciplined.

This post doesn’t debunk Poilievre. It debunks the author’s ability to compare crisis deficits with permanent mismanagement.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

While no one is paying attention, the Liberals are slowly but calculatively implementing authoritarian control in Canada with a number of Bills and changes:

> digital data collection and backdoor access from digital service providers and tech companies (Bill-C22).
> expansion of what mail law enforcement can search through and seize (SEU).
> Digital Credentials and ID.
> Systematic Biometric Collection.
> "Pre-emptive" Penalties that allows judges impose a "peace bond" or house arrest on individuals if there are reasonable grounds to fear they might commit a hate crime in the future (Bill-C63).
> Government regulated and controlled AI.
> More social media controls expected.

None of these work independently. They all tightening different parts of the rope, working together.

What's alarming is that some of these measures have been voted down before but the Liberals repackage them under new amendments and Bills and implement them.
The difference now is that they have a majority and can proceed with whatever they want.

[Barb Bierman @BarbaraBierman]

Wow 👇

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Testified before the parliamentary agriculture committee in Ottawa yesterday.

If you think committees aren’t tightly controlled by the Liberals, think again. Out of 60 minutes, Conservatives had barely 12 minutes of questioning, despite holding 41% of the seats in the House. That’s the current reality—quite unfortunate.

[Andrew MacDougall @AGMacDougall]

Who knew Mark Carney, the galaxy brained saviour of Canada, would turn out to be continuity Trudeau?

My column for the @torontostar on the same on tax and spend Liberals 👇🏻

https://t.co/39ZbQYEjWp

[Barb Bierman @BarbaraBierman]

So they can open my mail, but I dont get to watch them work?!? They work for us!!

[Kate McKenna @katemckenna8]

The federal Liberals have moved to turn the cameras off on a fourth Parliamentary committee this week. The government House Leader denies the Liberals are weaponizing their new majority status.

[Barb Bierman @BarbaraBierman]

@WR_Record Any social media bans for kids should be managed by their parents.

Canada should resist becoming a nanny-state

[Barb Bierman @BarbaraBierman]

@CanadianPM You've been PM for a year. Nothing is more affordable. Nothing.

[JamesMc | 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 @James_Mc666]

@MarkJCarney "our country’s strong fiscal position"

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

It was within living memory that an immigration officer could look upon a foreigner obviously contemptuous of everything Canada stood for, and decide they wouldn't be a good fit. It was Canada's own choice to defang and humiliate that kind of thinking.

[Barb Bierman @BarbaraBierman]

@bruce_arthur @dave1agar The fear of such rupture motivates support for him

[Lisa @YoungStreete]

Holy F*ck. I can’t believe this guy has the nerve to tell Canadians the Liberals have always been focused on making life more affordable for Canadians.

There is not one thing that’s more affordable. NOT ONE.

If affordability has been the focus of the Carney Liberals, Carney is FAILING miserably.

#LiberalsDestroyingCanada

[Barb Bierman @BarbaraBierman]

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[Kate McKenna @katemckenna8]

The federal Liberals have moved to turn the cameras off on a fourth Parliamentary committee this week. The government House Leader denies the Liberals are weaponizing their new majority status.

[Barb Bierman @BarbaraBierman]

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[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Cabinet rates its “nation building bill” a success though no project has been approved since it passed into law last June 26, Commons committee is told.
https://t.co/fztrzJ5Ygx
@AaronGunn @DLeBlancNB #cdnpoli

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

Lets be honest, its the Canada Debt Fund.

[Michael Guglielmin @MikeGuglielmin]

SHOCKING:

Canadian Manufacturers have lost faith in Carney's ability to negotiate a tariff deal with the US and are now paying to send PRIVATE CONSULTANTS to Washington to do their bidding, in a desperate attempt to save their industry.