Christie Love Thomas

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Opinion: Tearing down a missing girl’s posters is grotesque https://t.co/QldRiX1boP

[Christie Love Thomas @Clothomas]

Thoughtful take.

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

Ontario’s political, civic, and business leaders are not engaged enough on Alberta separatism.

It should be understood as a warning about the state of Confederation and Ontario’s failure to play the leadership role this country has historically expected of us.

Ontario’s economy has been misgoverned for nearly 30 years. The consequence for Canada’s economic math is that Alberta is carrying a disproportionate and increasing burden.

In 2000, Ontario contributed about $26.4 billion more to Ottawa than it received back, compared with Alberta’s $7.2 billion.

On a per-person basis, that was about $2,250 per Ontarian and $2,400 per Albertan.

By 2022/23, Ontario’s net contribution was about $22.1 billion, or roughly $1,400 per person. Alberta’s was $14.2 billion, or roughly $3,000 per person.

The long-term picture is even more striking. From 2007 to 2022, Alberta’s net contribution to federal finances was about $245 billion. Ontario’s was about $42 billion.

The implicit contract that Ontario would be a leader in this country has weakened, just like Ontario allowed its social contract between generations to weaken too.

Meanwhile, our political class has too often shown disdain for Albertan complaints, undermined their key economic industries, and treated Alberta’s cultural identity with a condescension we would never show toward Quebec.

When Quebec was at risk of leaving, Ontarians showed their love urged the province to stay. Our civic leaders, business leaders, and ordinary people understood that national unity required more than constitutional and legal arguments.

Right now, we see very little of that seriousness toward Alberta.

It is time for Ontario’s leaders, particularly Premier Ford, to show that we are serious about building a strong Canada with Alberta. Building greater east-west ties is a matter of national urgency.

Many of the seeds are already there. But execution remains painfully slow. MOUs are not action.

We should be deliberately accelerating national energy and transport corridors through Ontario.

We should be investigating the merit of an oil pipeline from Alberta to refineries and industrial centres in Southern Ontario, including Sarnia and Nanticoke.

This could support the expansion of plastics, petrochemicals, upgrading, and other value-added industrial jobs here in Ontario.

The viability of such a project cannot be judged only on commercial grounds. It should also be judged on national interest, sovereignty, resilience, and whether it helps hold the country together. That also demands federal partnership.

I recognize the challenges of exporting oil from the east coast, including Quebec’s opposition to pipelines. But I also believe many Quebecers would be supportive in this moment if the project were framed as one of national unity and shared economic strength.

And if that path is not viable, we should still be investigating export alternatives, eg. expanding the port of Saint John in New Brunswick and using vessels appropriate for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence were practical.

Alberta separatism is not inevitable, but every dismissive comment, every legal obstacle, and every act of elite condescension makes the separatist argument easier to sell.

We saw this with Brexit, where leaders mistook frustration for ignorance, and assumed people would eventually accept a system led by people they no longer trusted.

Have we learned nothing?

A stronger Canada is possible, and Albertan separation is far from inevitable.

But Ontarios leaders need to step up and show Albertans their best future is with Canada.

[Christie Love Thomas @Clothomas]

The Prime Minister apparently has the same contempt for women’s history as he does for female reporters.

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

The Persons Case (1929) didn’t give Canadian women the vote. They’d already been voting federally for more than a decade by then.

If you’re gonna do performative feminism, do it better.

[Christie Love Thomas @Clothomas]

@TheDanLevy @CAEFto @TheCJN @MayorOliviaChow @oliviachow @TeamKerzner @fordnation @Canada @abctoronto_ @integrity_to @EndJewHatred Incredibly upsetting.

[Christie Love Thomas @Clothomas]

@canada_spends wow.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

This appears to be the most pressing foreign policy concern for the Carney Liberal government.
Sad really.

[TrendingPolitics.ca @TrendPolCa]

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[Christie Love Thomas @Clothomas]

@lucyhargreaves4 100%

[Jon Love @JonLoveKingSett]

How Hydroelectricity Prices in Quebec Dominate Canada’s Equalization Formula https://t.co/6lKl1KbzMt

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

Fair

[Brad Wall @BradWall306]

The fact that the central Cdn media do not seem to challenge the Liberals on this objectively, comically and irresponsibly nonsensical claim is sadly - not a great surprise. Please send me some evidence to the contrary and I will share.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

Took me more than an hour to get to Woodbine from downtown.
Earlier today my trip from Vaughan to downtown was close to 90 minutes.
That is double normal travel time.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Imagine that. The country with the resources might actually build something again.

Let’s go! 👏

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

If you are wondering why CEOs are getting more pointed, it is because they see the enormous opportunity laying at our country’s feet, but our political leaders are still not bending down to pick it up.
Let’s act with some urgency for once. Let’s attract some @%#! investment.

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

To say the thing: Canada and the US can win together. Anti-US rhetoric in this country is doing untold damage.

It doesn’t have to be this way. We can make different choices.

[Matt Cohen @mattybcohen]

🇨🇦 Bring it home 🇨🇦

New Tank Talks with @JonLoveKingSett, founder of @kingsettcapital , one of Canada's largest private equity real estate platforms.

His thesis: Canada doesn't have a capital problem. It has a permission problem.

👇We dug into:

The $25B Canada Strong sovereign wealth fund
Tim Hodgson's Major Projects Office and the 5-10 shovel-ready projects promised by spring 2027

Why institutional capital is finally coming home to Canada

And on real estate:

Triple-A office is quietly the strongest asset class in the country

For-sale residential is in pain, but a sharp recovery is coming

Office-to-hotel conversions are just getting started

The capital is here. The talent is here. The opportunities are here.

What's missing is permission to build.

Worth your time if you care about where Canada actually goes from here. (Links Below)

[Mark McQueen @markrmcqueen]

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[Canada Spends @canada_spends]

The most charitable reading of the honorable minister's statement is that the $6B that the expansion of the Canadian Journalism Labour Tax is over 5 years or $1.2B/year

The CBC's funding is $1.38B/year.

This would be the largest expansion of state-financed media since 1952.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

We need more of this.