๐ค Remember when your mother made you answer for things?
Apparently nobody told @MarkJCarney. Canadians were assured affordability was improving:
๐๐ป Food bank usage climbs.
๐๐ป Mortgage delinquencies climb.
๐๐ป Consumer insolvencies climb.
๐๐ป The country enters recession.
And suddenly, the man who promised to lead during a crisis has become harder to locate than a Sears catalogue.๐ญ
๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ Reporters can't find him.
๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ Canadians can't find him.
Hell, at this point I half expect milk cartons to start carrying his picture.
#cdnpoli #Canada #Economy #Recession #MarkCarney #CostOfLiving
@sha72336419@saskatchewan_in Seriously? You should sit down and shut your fucking face hole you retarded shitstain!
You have no idea what you're even talking about.
๐จ๐ฆ "Buy Canadian" sounds great in a speech.
Until #Ottawa quietly imports foreign modules for "Canadian" megaprojects, looks the other way on #Chinese dumping practices, and leaves actual Canadian businesses buried in #RedTape while politically connected insiders cash consulting contracts.
#CatherineSwift raises an uncomfortable question here: if this government is serious about buying Canadian, why do so many major projects keep bypassing Canadians?
It's kind of odd how "nation building" always seems to involve writing cheques overseas while lecturing #taxpayers about patriotism at home.
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@CityNewsVAN When is there another provincial election? This reeks of a desperate stunt to con BC citizens in re-electing that loser Eby who fucked them out of their property rights in the first place by letting DRIPA go uncontested. Fucking idiot! Federal liberals are scared of seat losses
@globepolitics@globeandmail Enough of this fucking cash pipeline to Ukraine!
How much do water bombers cost?
How much does a hospital cost?
How many houses can that build?
How much food could that supply to food banks?
FUCK OFF UKRAINE!
Ffs we're funding their goddamed pension system too.
@ZelenskyyUa
@parnel11231@saskatchewan_in@acoyne For decades the notwithstanding clause barely moved.
Since Trudeau itโs back in play.
Premiers donโt reach for it lightly, they use it when Ottawa overreaches.
And lately, thatโs happening a lot.
The message is clear.
The Liberals just refuse to accept that and want to erase it
From Crossing Floors To Crossing Lines:
Dear Michael Ma,
There are missteps in politics. Then there are moments so pristine in their execution that one almost wants to thank you for the demonstration.
Your appearance at the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade was one of those moments.
Not because it advanced anything.
But because it clarified everything.
You were questioning Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa and a long-established expert on China, global supply chains, international trade, and the forced labour risks tied to Uyghur slavery.
If ever there was a witness purpose-built to speak on that exact subject, she was it.
Credentials aligned. Expertise aligned. Topic aligned.
A rare moment where the system actually put the right person in the right chair.
And then you arrived.
Faced with Margaret McCuaig-Johnstonโs level of expertise, you chose not to engage her evidence, but to sidestep it. โAnti China,โ you suggested, as though documenting labour camps were a personality flaw rather than a matter of record. A neat little label, deployed with the confidence of someone hoping it would do the heavy lifting.
It didnโt.
Then came the tempo.
The rapid-fire questioning. The insistence on short answers. The carefully managed interruptions that ensure just enough of a response is heard to pivot away from it. It had all the hallmarks of a strategy, in the same way a cardboard cutout has all the hallmarks of a person.
You were not examining.
You were staging.
And layered over it all was that faint, unmistakable throwback tone. The kind that treats a highly qualified woman not as an authority to be reckoned with, but as something to be contained, redirected, and talked over until the room forgets why she was invited in the first place.
A little early-1900s patriarchy, lightly polished and rolled into committee procedure.
Very modern. Very progressive. Very on brand for a man who crossed the floor only to immediately begin crossing lines.
There was, however, a second performance worth appreciating.
In most committee rooms, when a Conservative so much as nudges a witness toward brevity, Liberals react as though parliamentary norms have been dragged into a ditch. Objections fly. Hands wave. Faces tighten. And the chair intervenes with great theatrical concern to ensure the witness is allowed to answer.
A well-practised ritual.
Which made the sudden outbreak of tranquility under Ben Carr feel almost experimental.
No intervention.
No reminders.
No concern.
Just a serene confidence that everything unfolding was, somehow, entirely appropriate. One assumes the rulebook was merely resting.
Because this is the part that lingers.
You crossed the floor from Pierre Poilievreโs Conservative Party to Mark Carneyโs Liberal Party.
A move presented, as these things always are, as thoughtful. Strategic. Necessary. You would be more effective, we were told, aligned with power.
It is a compelling narrative.
It does, however, rely on the assumption that effectiveness is transferable. What we saw instead suggests something else made the trip.
Not improved.
Not recalibrated.
Just relocated.
The Conservatives, for their part, have been handed a rather elegant escape. Not through foresight, but through timing. A problem that walks out the door is still a problem, just no longer yours to explain.
That explanation now belongs to the Liberals. And here the irony becomes almost too generous.
This is a party that never tires of informing Canadians that it will take no lessons from Conservatives. Yet when it came to you, the apparent vetting model seems to have been: well, he was over there, so surely somebody checked.
A touching faith in invisible homework.
Sadly, the Conservatives clearly did not do enough homework either. They just happened to unload the assignment before it exploded in someone elseโs locker.
The Liberals, however, cannot even claim surprise. They took a floor crosser from a rival party, apparently made sweeping assumptions, and then acted shocked when the package turned out to contain exactly what the label should have warned them about.
Which brings us, inevitably, to Mark Carney.
Because leadership is not tested by the decisions that go smoothly. It is tested by the ones that arrive with consequences attached.
And you have arrived fully assembled.
He now faces a choice.
He can sideline you. Quietly reduce your profile. Remove the conditions under which this kind of performance becomes a recurring feature. In doing so, he also quietly dismantles the entire excuse for your floor crossing, that proximity to power would somehow make you more useful to your riding.
Or he can do what his own track record suggests he may well do.
Stand firm. Close ranks. Pretend the whole thing is overblown. Preserve appearances. Protect the ego that made the bad decision in the first place. Because to admit error would mean admitting that courting you over was not a show of strength, but a lapse in judgment dressed up as strategy.
And that, politically, is where the trap closes.
If Carney turfs you to the back benches, he blows a hole in your own justification for crossing. Suddenly the man who claimed he had to switch parties to get closer to power is left nowhere near it.
But if Carney keeps you up front and keeps defending you, then he is not merely tolerating the behaviour. He is feeding it. He is teaching you that protection follows performance, no matter how boorish, how transparently partisan, or how steeped in old-school misogyny it may be.
And people who feel protected rarely become more restrained.
They become more confident.
More willing.
More asshole-ish.
More certain that the room will adjust around them.
So here we are.
You crossed the floor in search of influence.
And in short order, crossed a line by trying to discredit Margaret McCuaig-Johnston, a woman whose expertise on China and Uyghur forced labour far exceeded anything you brought to that exchange.
If ever there was a witness who could speak to Uyghur slavery, she was it.
And Michael Maโs answer to that was not substance.
It was swagger, interruption, and the kind of stale patriarchal toxicity that should have been left somewhere around the invention of the typewriter.
As for Mr. Carney, he may soon discover that in the pursuit of numbers, he acquired something far less cooperative.
Not an asset.
Not a coup.
A stinking, rotting albatross now hanging around the Liberal Partyโs neck like a garland of decaying principles.
And if he chooses to keep feeding it rather than cut it loose, he can keep it.
Sincerely,
Melanie in Saskatchewan,
A citizen who was paying attention
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Hey @HHBronte this one jumped out at me right away, it really hits everything you were talking about. Whatโs interesting is how each line feels familiar, almost like youโve heard it before somewhere. Bits of messaging that have been repeated by Liberal MPs, echoed through media panels, and slowly stitched into the public consciousness.
The โno planโ line especiallyโฆ that one really stuck. And the by-election jab too, itโs one of those narratives that just keeps getting recycled.
Even the tone around โhateโ came straight out of those panel discussions that run on loop until it becomes accepted as fact.
And that last line, you can practically trace it back to House debates and the way it gets picked up and amplified afterward. A search through Hansard will give you names and instances of use. Let me know if you want a hand with that.
Itโs kind of fascinating to see it all compressed into five lines like this. You weren't kidding about the collective conscious and bias. I think this one might actually be a perfect test piece for Adam to try on his socials for you. Iโll keep an eye out for more like this.
I joined @DavidKrayden for an interview on corruption, influence, and the remarkably convenient timing surrounding Mark Carney.
Dates. Travel. Deals. Announcements.
At some point, coincidence starts looking like itโs on payroll.
Have a listen. ๐
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