Bryan Moir

Husband, Father, Grandfather, Economist

[Bryan Moir @BryanMoir]

Modern conservatism is not a force that conserves anything. It is mostly a media and political business model that monetizes outrage over decline while avoiding the causes of that decline.
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Carney and McGuinty at CANSEC are not just announcing defence spending. They are announcing Canada’s entry into the AI-enabled war economy: F-35s, submarines, drones, Arctic surveillance, quantum, cyber, AI and “build faster” procurement. Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas warns that technology detached from moral responsibility becomes Babel — power, speed and efficiency without the human face. Canada needs defence. But if we rush to build the machine without asking what it serves, we are not defending sovereignty. We are industrializing obedience to NATO’s next war.

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A Nation That Forgets Itself
On the anniversary of the dedication of the Canadian National War Memorial — built to honour Canadians who died at Beaumont-Hamel, Vimy Ridge, and across Europe — our Prime Minister chose instead to celebrate another nation’s identity and struggle.
This is becoming a pattern:
any-country-but-Canada first.
A nation whose leaders remember everyone else before their own people eventually stops being a nation at all. #NationalWarMemorial @RoyalCdnLegion @CanadianForces @MarkJCarney @Comd_RCN_34
https://t.co/yy5FSpMKtx

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Public infrastructure only exists because government possesses powers the private sector does not — expropriation, taxation, sovereign authority, and public risk. Once built, how do we balance professional management with democratic accountability and public ownership when strategic assets increasingly migrate into arm’s-length or quasi-private structures beyond direct taxpayer oversight?

[Bryan Moir @BryanMoir]

Public infrastructure only exists because government possesses powers the private sector does not — expropriation, taxation, sovereign authority, and public risk. Once built, how do we balance professional management with democratic accountability and public ownership when strategic assets increasingly migrate into arm’s-length or quasi-private structures beyond direct taxpayer oversight?

[Bryan Moir @BryanMoir]

Always look closely at who is conducting the “independent” survey.

The Global Infrastructure Investor Association is not a neutral public policy think tank. It is a lobbying and advocacy organization representing some of the largest infrastructure investors and capital pools on Earth. Knowing who is speaking often tells you as much as what is being said.
@MarkJCarney #cdnpoli #canadianinfrastructure

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The Real Reason They Want to Double Canada’s Electricity Grid https://t.co/1XzOFQWvN7

[Bryan Moir @BryanMoir]

Canada doesn’t become a strong sovereign nation by celebrating foreign-owned production contracts while pretending it’s a national industrial strategy.

Yes, Canadian workers building aircraft in Mirabel is good news.

But sovereignty means owning the strategy, the supply chains, the capital, the patents, the energy policy, and the long-term industrial direction — not just renting out skilled labour and calling it nation-building.

This is a win for workers.

It is not proof Ottawa knows how to build a sovereign economy.

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Canadians were told the priority was fixing our economic relationship with the United States — the country tied to roughly 75% of our exports, millions of jobs, and deeply integrated supply chains.

Now the language is shifting toward “shared values” and a long-term strategic pivot to Europe. Fine rhetoric for summit photos, but geography, energy, manufacturing, and trade reality still matter.

You don’t stabilize a struggling economy by chasing grand geopolitical rebranding exercises while your largest trading relationship remains unresolved. Europe is a partner. The United States is an economic lifeline. Those are not the same thing.

And many Canadians are starting to notice the narrative shift.

[Bryan Moir @BryanMoir]

Canada doesn’t become a strong sovereign nation by celebrating foreign-owned production contracts while pretending it’s a national industrial strategy.

Yes, Canadian workers building aircraft in Mirabel is good news.

But sovereignty means owning the strategy, the supply chains, the capital, the patents, the energy policy, and the long-term industrial direction — not just renting out skilled labour and calling it nation-building.

This is a win for workers.

It is not proof Ottawa knows how to build a sovereign economy.

[Bryan Moir @BryanMoir]

Canadians were told the priority was fixing our economic relationship with the United States — the country tied to roughly 75% of our exports, millions of jobs, and deeply integrated supply chains.

Now the language is shifting toward “shared values” and a long-term strategic pivot to Europe. Fine rhetoric for summit photos, but geography, energy, manufacturing, and trade reality still matter.

You don’t stabilize a struggling economy by chasing grand geopolitical rebranding exercises while your largest trading relationship remains unresolved. Europe is a partner. The United States is an economic lifeline. Those are not the same thing.

And many Canadians are starting to notice the narrative shift.

[Bryan Moir @BryanMoir]

Canada has over 2 million people using food banks. Young Canadians can’t afford homes. Veterans wait for care. Small businesses are drowning in taxes and debt.

Yet Ottawa is pledging $13 billion for ‘climate support’ abroad to satisfy a global ideological agenda while Canadians are told to lower expectations at home.

A government that can find endless billions for foreign programs, wars, and global conferences — but not for its own struggling citizens — has lost sight of who it’s supposed to serve.

[Bryan Moir @BryanMoir]

@MarkJCarney @MohamedBinZayed 'Unprovoked’ only works if the UAE was neutral. It wasn’t.
Israeli air defence systems and Special Forces units are operating on its soil.
When you host a combatant, you’re in the war.
This isn’t random aggression—it’s blowback.

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@MarkJCarney @MohamedBinZayed "Unprovoked" only works if the UAE was neutral. It wasn’t.
Israeli air defence systems and Special Forces units are operating on its soil.
When you host a combatant, you’re in the war.
This isn’t random aggression—it’s blowback.

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@CanadianPM “Unprovoked’ only works if the UAE was neutral. It wasn’t.
Israeli air defence systems and Special Forces units are operating on its soil.
When you host a combatant, you’re in the war.
This isn’t random aggression—it’s blowback.

[Bryan Moir @BryanMoir]

I’ve been working on something different.

Not a reaction. Not a headline. Something deeper.

It started as a question about craftsmanship—what we built, how we built it, and what we lost along the way. But it didn’t stay there. It led into something much larger: how modern systems measure everything… and still manage to feel disconnected from reality.

This is a three-part series.

Not about nostalgia—but about truth.
Not about the past—but about what still matters.https://t.co/NdSPrxwdeR

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@PierrePoilievre Calling a debt-funded sovereign ‘wealth’ fund is like calling a maxed-out credit card a retirement plan

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@JessieBeatzz @franco_nomics @joshryanjames Calling a debt-funded sovereign ‘wealth’ fund is like calling a maxed-out credit card a retirement plan.