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[Forbes Rutherford @FRuthurford]

@SatireSquadHQ Ontario's pink conservative caucus needs to go as well. We need leaders less interested in stoking Liberal " house rich indexed pensioners" rage and more interested fostering private sector productivity & reduced regulatory controls by 416 & 905 municipalities.

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

🚨 21% approval. 100% bluster.

Doug Ford went on CNN to attack Trump—and got owned by his own polling. 😂

🎤 Featuring “Little Fat Guy.”

[Forbes Rutherford @FRuthurford]

Carney & his minions aren't overwrought by the loss of "middle-class" private sector mfg & trade jobs. Perhaps if a proportional writedown of public sector jobs, pensions & politico comp = to the % flux in a median mfg comp benchmark, a serious trade discussion would prevail.

[Forbes Rutherford @FRuthurford]

@k12careers @WayneMathison Turning out a mediocre graduate IS the expensive part. Disassembling a flawed system = long-term savings.

[Forbes Rutherford @FRuthurford]

@WayneMathison @k12careers I fail to see the goodness of K12's perspective on harmonization of compensation. It places mediocrity above performance, conformity over self-improvement. The public sector is inculcated in this diseased collectivist culture. Applying ind. STIP & group LTIP metrics is the point

[Forbes Rutherford @FRuthurford]

@WayneMathison @sarobertson_ Grok: List the top 15 hyperbolic comments on Bluesky by Charlie Angus, former Canadian MP.

GROK: List Mark Carney's last 15 attempts to gaslight Canadians only to fact checked that his statements or claims were false.

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

Dear America,

To President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and the Americans sitting across the negotiating table from our government:

I'm writing this from Canada with a request I never thought I would make of another country.

Please help us.

Not our government. Us. The Canadian people. Please help us understand what is happening to our own country.

Our relationship with the United States is deteriorating. Our economy is hurting. Canadian and American families are worried about jobs, businesses, mortgages and the country we're going to hand our children. Yet through one of the most consequential trade disputes of our lifetime, ordinary Canadians are being left in the dark about what is actually happening.

We hear statements and vague explanations from our government. What we don't get to see or hear is what actually happened at the table.

Increasingly, Canadians are learning more about negotiations involving our own country by watching non-subsidized taxpayer funded American news and American officials.

Think about how extraordinary that is. Our media isn't working for us. Canadians are looking across the border to understand what our own government is doing. So today, I'm asking you to look back across that border at us.

Please don't leave Canadians in the dark. You have the perfect opportunity to shine the light on the truth and help Canadians to see it.

If you made Canada an offer, show us. If our government rejected something, show us. If Canada made demands that prevented an agreement, show us those too. Because we simply cannot trust what our own government and media is telling us.

Give us the timeline. Give us the documents. Give us whatever can legally be made public.

Then please do something unmistakably American...

Put it in front of the people.

Buy the television ads. Buy the newspaper ads. Buy the digital ads. Build a website containing the documents and put the address everywhere. Run a commercial during the hockey game if that's what it takes.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford bought advertising in your country because he wanted Americans to hear Ontario's message directly.

Please return the favour. Buy the ads in our country. Television, radio, social media...all of it.

Do it for Canadians who deserve to know what is being done in their name.

Americans understand something deeply that shouldn't stop mattering when you reach the 49th parallel: a government should answer to its people.

And people cannot hold their government accountable when they aren't given the information necessary to do it.

That is where we need your help.

For generations, Canadians and Americans have been neighbours in a way that goes far beyond politics. Our families live on both sides of that border. We trade together. We build things together. We defend this continent together.

Our governments can fight.
Our people don't have to become enemies.

So I'm asking you sincerely, and with more humility than Canadians are generally comfortable showing:

Please help your neighbours.

We aren't asking you to interfere in our politics. We aren't asking for money or special treatment.

We're asking you to turn on the light.

Give ordinary Canadians access to the information you already have. Speak directly to us. Trust us with the facts.

There was a time when Canada would never have needed another country to help its citizens understand what their own government was doing.

It pains me to admit that today, some of us believe we do.

And of all the countries in the world, there is only one I would think to ask.

America.

Our neighbour. Our friend. The country that has stood beside us through wars, disasters, terrorism, recessions and generations of shared history.

We're standing on the other side of that border now asking you for something remarkably small that could make an enormous difference.

Please show Canadians what happened.

• Put the documents in our hands.

• Buy the ads.

• Tell us what our own government will not.

Because right now, your Canadian neighbours need some help. And we're asking America not to look away.

@POTUS @DonaldTrump @jamiesongreer @JDVance @howardlutnick @bennyjohnson

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

🚨 Trump got tough on crime and illegal immigration—and he has the receipts to prove it’s working. 👮‍♂️

Meanwhile, Trudeau 2.0 Mark Carney has done nothing to fix the broken system turning Canada into a top destination for criminals. 🤔🍿

#Trump #MarkCarney #Canada #BorderSecurity #crime #immigration

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

Is Doug Ford’s TDS Blinding Him to Carney’s Lies? 🇨🇦

#TDS #DougFord #MarkCarney #PierrePoilievre #CUSMA #Trump

[Forbes Rutherford @FRuthurford]

@WayneMathison The mistake comes when fear takes over the populace and the political analysis by charlatans see the crisis as a path to ensuring their power. Two countries applying different Post-COVID-19 lessons, the 🇺🇸 seeks self-sufficiency, 🇨🇦 seeks pre-covid status quo.

[Forbes Rutherford @FRuthurford]

@therealmrbench So, an existential war is declared by a European technocrat with three passports, 94% of his assets and family living outside the wire and the Commons in recess and likely to return after an election

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

@davidraymo30440 😆

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

Explain this to me like I am five.

There is a crisis.

People are told they must give up fundamental civil liberties, close their businesses, sacrifice their livelihoods, and comply with extraordinary government measures “for the public good.”

And most people do.

But some of those people are harmed by what was asked of them. Some suffer physical injuries. Some suffer financially.

If society demanded the sacrifice “for the public good,” then society does not get to abandon the people who were harmed making it.

Where is the compassion?
Where is the kindness?
Where is the collective responsibility?

If the benefit belonged to all of us, the burden also belongs to all of us.

And to every elected official and person in a position of influence who continues to ignore those who were harmed, dismiss or disparage their experiences, or tell them it is time to “move on”: you have lost all credibility. Your conduct shows a complete lack of integrity, character, and moral courage.

You demanded sacrifice when it was politically convenient, and now you dismiss, disparage, or ignore the people who paid the price. That is a reflection of your character, not theirs.

That is not leadership. It is cowardice.

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

Kory Teneycke, enough.

There is a name for this pathetic behaviour of yours lately...

attention-seeking public humiliation politics.

And from a grown man who has spent years telling everyone else how professional politics works, it's painfully embarrassing to watch feom a so-called grown man.

You want to criticize Pierre Poilievre? Use your big-boy vocabulary and make an argument.

Calling him a “pussy” or an "asshole" in public while sitting around with Liberal strategists isn't analysis. It isn't courage, and it certainly isn't the sophisticated political insight you seem to think we're witnessing.

It's a pompous middle-aged man in leather pants with copious media attention performing for the cameras because apparently being watched has become confused with being important or relevant.

It's juvenile.

Worse, you know exactly what you're doing. You know how clips work. You know how headlines work. You know perfectly well that every cheap insult becomes ammunition against the party you supposedly want to improve.

So stop preening like you're bravely speaking truth to power.

Nobody elected you. Nobody appointed you guardian of conservatism. And having Scott Reid and David Herle nearby doesn't magically transform schoolyard behaviour into statesmanship.

If a young Conservative staffer behaved this way publicly, people like you would have them hauled into an office and told to smarten the hell up.

Consider yourself hauled in.

And Kory, perhaps ease up on mocking Pierre Poilievre for going to the gym while parading around in a reported $10,000 Gucci leather jacket, leather pants, soft paunchy belly and no discernable leg muscle.

Leather. Pants.
On a political strategist.

If Kory wants to spend ten grand dressing like black Twizzler licorice, that's between him, Gucci and whatever happened in the fitting-room mirror.

But that's not quite the position from which I'd be handing out unsolicited assessments of another man's masculinity. You showed up looking like Temu’s idea of an aging rock star’s second divorce, dressed for a Whitesnake reunion where even Whitesnake would have security remove you for excessive leather, and decided to talk smack about Pierre. How very pedantic and puerile.

You're old enough to know better, experienced enough to know exactly what you're doing, and apparently far too impressed with yourself to notice the spectacle. You should be embarrassed of yourself.

For a man who fancies himself a sophisticated political strategist, you're behaving like a caveman who learned to grunt louder in the mistaken belief volume equals validity.

The self-awareness shortage among performative acting pundits may actually be Canada's most pressing supply-chain problem.

[Forbes Rutherford @FRuthurford]

@saskatchewan_in I hope i never find myself in your crosshairs. What a takedown!

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

𝗦𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗲....

Here you go... Look them up yourselves! 🙃

[Roro @rorotrader]

@elie_mcn

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

📷 A monkey could do Carney’s job. 📷📷
Borrow billions. Spend billions. Call it growth.
Pierre Poilievre exposes Carney’s fake investment economy.
📷 Featuring the Irish pub hit “Carney Doing Nothing.” 📷
#MarkCarney #PierrePoilievre #CanadianEconomy #CanadaNews #PoliticalSatire

[Forbes Rutherford @FRuthurford]

Grok, "What publicly traded main stream Canadian news media outlet trades a large enough stock float to enable an acquisition by a private fund?" The result describes an elitist hegemonic concentration. A Faustian bargain between political power cronies & oligarch facilitation.

[Forbes Rutherford @FRuthurford]

@WandererKPB @junonewscom 'Federal party members' representing their respective riding associations. You're implying shenanigans, and like all political organizations, no doubt there were. However, a high eighties plurality would suggest that any skuldugery that took place, failed. The membership spoke.