Mike Sherrard

Turn-ons: human development, STEM, nature & history.

Turn-offs: authoritarianism, tribalism, identity politics & waste.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

"Nice bridge. It would be a shame if it burned down, exploded, or - God forbid - somebody got thrown off it, you know what I mean. Some of the local bridges are taking the precaution of contributing to a neighborhood protective fund run by the Don and his men."

[Mike Sherrard @BigTentThinking]

@jleighton22 @CanadaGoose911 "Profits" being the tolls minus the wages of the two agents collecting them?

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

Canada, where one First Nations group can stymie a project that is in the well being of the entire country.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Russia's giant size is no longer strategic depth, but an enormous weakness.
Long transportation is needed & can be attacked anywhere.
Russia can only defend a few spots.
Ukraine has invalidated Russia's whole strategy since the Napoleonic wars.
https://t.co/Ubo64lREzF

[David Frum @davidfrum]

One lesson of the Trump years: the US signature on an international agreement is worthless. There was an agreement in place to govern the bridge. Trump repudiated the agreement at behest of a donor with a direct anti-public-interest stake.

[Mike Sherrard @BigTentThinking]

@Graff2023 @acoyne He is stating that we should let the market decide what we do. Let comparative advantage do its thing. Do not sacrifice it to industrial policy that picks favourites based on prestige.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

There is precisely zero economic benefit in producing higher value-added goods. What firms want are higher *margins*, wherever they can get ’em — it doesn’t matter where in the value-added chain.
The value-added fallacy is one of the oldest and most pernicious in economics. It’s a form of industrial snobbery: the kind that leads people to lament being “hewers of wood and drawers of water” in the country with perhaps the greatest supplies of both in the world.

[Mike Sherrard @BigTentThinking]

@terrynewman Wait. Meat paste egg rolls. I've been away for too long!

[Darshan Maharaja @TheophanesRex]

“(Justice) Loo chose not to place Singh on the national sex offender registry after hearing that he faces potential immigration consequences.”

It almost feels like the courts are mandated to give lenient sentences to non-Canadian criminals.

https://t.co/B5hu8TmSgH

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

We've become remarkably desensitized to Trump's rhetoric. Declaring the Iran ceasefire "over," threatening to end all trade with Spain, calling Japan an "Islamic Republic"—a few years ago, each would have been a major story. Now they barely register. Why?

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

Canada sent no one to make its case against U.S. tariffs. So I went instead. What I saw sickened me. https://t.co/8UvaacCaov via @torontostar

[Mike Sherrard @BigTentThinking]

@PropositoyVida Hairpins were a lady's secret weapon in more dangerous times.

[Mike Sherrard @BigTentThinking]

@brew56200 @MichaelAArouet This illustrates the problem with wealth taxes. Unused land or a closed factory produces nothing (not wealth according to this definition). If anything, an unused capacity tax makes more sense. I said cash isn't real wealth, but we already have inflation (a tax) on that.

[Mike Sherrard @BigTentThinking]

@brew56200 @MichaelAArouet The productive capacity of a nation IS its real wealth. Money is only IOUs to claim products of that capacity, valued based on how much money there is compared to that capacity. Also public shares are easy to partially liquidate. Private shares and land are not.

[Mike Sherrard @BigTentThinking]

@jengerson I like your idea to name it the Obama Peace Prize Bridge. Maybe offer it as a free venue to Trump-hating artists like Springsteen.

[Mike Sherrard @BigTentThinking]

@brew56200 @MichaelAArouet Entrepreneurs' wealth is almost all in shares of their companies. If they are public companies, the shares are valued based on retained earnings PLUS the present value of what investors think future earnings will be. With private companies auditors would decide.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Today marks the technical start of the Ontario Liberal leadership race.

And that's why I've published my vision, "Ontario Can Still Win", built around three clear priorities:

- A competitive economy
- A capable government
- A new generational contract

Platforms rarely win elections, and I know few people will read the whole thing. That’s not the point, it’s the ideas and debate that matter.

The platform is organized into 12 sections, each with 3 goals: youth, seniors, the economy, democracy, housing/municipalities, health, education, energy, the north and rural Ontario, transportation, welfare, and justice and immigration.

Region specific, and party-specific ideas are still to come.

Within the platform, there are many ideas I believe are common sense. Some are provocative because real debates are worth having. I am open to changing my mind.

Ultimately, we need to confront why Ontario, a place blessed with extraordinary advantages, has stopped working the way it should.

So, please explore the topics that matter to you.

Challenge them, help me improve them, and let's build a renewed liberalism: rooted in its best history, grounded in enlightenment values, and oriented toward progress, development, order, and the future.

Ontario can still win! https://t.co/v0ZdiXJ8Yo

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

My timeline is full of tweets like this.

My genuine question. What constitutes adequate funding of public health care?

Public health care expenditures, as a % of GDP, have gone from 5% to 8% in my lifetime. How high is it supposed to get before we have a non-broken system?

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Imagine looking at this data and think: we need industrial carbon tax!

[Mike Sherrard @BigTentThinking]

@hollyanndoan @NationalDefence @CanadianForces Nuclear subs are an existing thing that is zero-emission, as well as able to run submerged until food runs out. We went with diesel there.

But we will pay $1.2m to study the feasibility of developing armoured EVs that will need to charge in enemy territory.