Gary Edwards

Combining passion for data science, innovation & customer insights to help leading brands deliver excellence in service to their clients. Tweets are my own.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

The Prime Minister is expected to unveil new measures tomorrow to strengthen Canada's food system and improve affordability. I recently discussed this idea with the Minister of Agriculture (Picture).

If I were Prime Minister, my priorities would be straightforward:

• Make food affordability a national priority and require all new policies and regulations to be assessed through a food affordability lens.
• Increase competition across the food supply chain.
• Modernize supply management to improve competitiveness and trade flexibility.
• Mandate Farm Credit Canada to play a much larger role in supporting agri-food startups, scale-ups, and accelerator programs.
• Accelerate AI and automation adoption to boost productivity.
• Invest in trade infrastructure and logistics.
• Cut regulatory duplication that raises costs.
• Expand domestic food processing capacity.
• Focus on food security through innovation, investment, and competitiveness.

Canada doesn't have a food shortage problem. It has a productivity and competitiveness problem.

[Brad Bradford @BradMBradford]

There are 16 mayors hosting World Cup matches in cities across North America.

Only one is buying up tickets and reselling them for a profit.

That mayor? Olivia Chow.

Here’s what you need to know. 👇

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

To all those grieving the terrible loss of life in Tumbler Ridge, know that you are not alone.

If you or someone you know is struggling, there is help available during this difficult time:

Kids Help Phone:
Call 1-800-668-6868
Youth can text: 686868
Adults can text: 741741
Visit: https://t.co/JBwn0GF9jf

Here2Talk: call 1-877-857-3397

Foundry BC also offers free, confidential mental health and wellness support for youth 12-24.

[SandraCobena @SandraCobena_]

INCREDIBLE. The Minister wants the power of a king, not because it is needed, but because it would be "helpful".

#cndpoli

[David Coletto @DavidColetto]

One of the quiet assumptions creeping into the current political conversation is that if Mark Carney’s offer is larger, it must therefore be universal. It is not.

Just as it is wrong to say all Canadians want what Pierre Poilievre is selling, it is equally wrong to assume that all Canadians want what Carney is offering.

Markets fragment along lived experience. When you cannot afford the rent, feel frozen out of opportunity, or believe you have little left to lose, you are not shopping for gravitas, restraint, or incremental reassurance. You are looking for urgency, disruption, and a sense that someone is prepared to break things to force change. For that segment, anger is not a bug. It is a feature.

Conversely, when your home equity is your safety net, your career risks are largely behind you, and your priority is preserving stability for yourself or your family, disruption feels less like liberation and more like danger. In that context, calm and competence are not abstractions. They are risk management strategies.

This is the core mistake in reading today’s polling as a referendum on personalities alone. Support and resistance are not evenly distributed. They are rooted in material conditions, perceived security, and what people feel they stand to lose or gain.

The political market in 2025 is not divided by ideology so much as by exposure to risk. And in that kind of market, no single product wins everyone.

[Gary Edwards @DoctorGE]

7️⃣ Harmonized coordination: use mutual recognition or “deeming” across jurisdictions to cut duplication while preserving local mandates.

[Gary Edwards @DoctorGE]

My recent @CDHoweInstitute commentary, Regulatory Reset, shows how rising compliance costs are pricing younger and lower-asset households out of professional advice. It also sets out practical policy remedies to expand access to advice. ⬇️

[C.D. Howe Institute @CDHoweInstitute]

About 1 in 3 Canadians now turn to online influencers for investment decisions. Rising regulation and costs are shutting younger households out of professional advice – pushing them toward risky alternatives. Learn more: https://t.co/0zg9rZnOwK

[Gary Edwards @DoctorGE]

6️⃣ Transparent oversight of regulators: introduce external audits, empowered stakeholder committees, public minutes, and KPIs.

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

@kinsellawarren Santa Claus withdraws his Trademark Infringement Suit

[Gary Edwards @DoctorGE]

@nejatian @Opendoor Awesome. Canada needs more @nejatian! Innovators and trades people build the housing market and homes , not governments. Godspeed on your journey!

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

From my perspective, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is giving Canada—and Carney—a masterclass in U.S. diplomacy.

It’s frankly embarrassing.

[Gary Edwards @DoctorGE]

https://t.co/ZAjYmEti5l

[Toronto Sun @TheTorontoSun]

EDWARDS: Carney’s interventionist philosophy not what Canada needs https://t.co/2K2VsjNb79

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Pierre Poilievre just announced:
No politician gets a summer holiday until THREE laws are passed:

•Affordability Act
•Safe Streets Act
•Jobs Act

Imagine Mark Carney being forced to actually work… to make life more affordable and safer.

Now that’s real leadership.

[Gary Edwards @DoctorGE]

@BenMulroney @PierrePoilievre Npp