@MadTyAgain@hunter3682 Paid his dues? Fuck off. If Pierre everr assaulted his domestic partner, y'all would howl about it to anyone who would listen. Is domestic abuse ok because its a part of the culture?
After Sydney Crosby took an embellishment penalty. His first in his career. You gotta love the people looking up at the screen and seeing the embellishment, and then the woman’s expression to Crosby and Crosby’s expression back. This is Class stuff.
It’s going to be wild to watch the video of the Liberal caucus clapping like seals for the convoy-loving, ultra social-conservative new bestie Gladu after she’s railed against them for a decade.
What a time 🇨🇦
To Mark Carney & Those Applauding Him:
I am a Canadian paying for a country that doesn’t include me.
I live in the part of the country your map forgets.
About 2,600 kilometres from the nearest stop on your proposed $90 billion train.
I am an overtaxed, under-served Canadian.
I heat my home with rising costs.
I fill my vehicle at almost $2 a litre, depending on the day and my luck.
I watch a country with 163 billion barrels of oil behave like it’s on a meagre allowance.
And you want me to pay for a train I will never use.
How thoughtful.
I am a hard-working, falling-behind Canadian funding infrastructure I will never touch.
It runs roughly 800 to 900 kilometres, depending on how creatively it detours around reality, from Toronto to Quebec City.
Seven stops.
All neatly contained within Ontario and Quebec.
Top speed, 300 km/h.
National reach? Let’s just call it selective.
I am a Canadian treated like a revenue stream, invited only by invoice.
Roughly $90 billion. About $8,000 per household.
For a ticket I will never hold.
From where I sit in Saskatchewan, your high-speed rail corridor might as well be interstellar travel.
Two thousand plus kilometres away circling the station, and still billing me.
I am a Canadian bereft of a stop on this train.
Close enough to fund it. Far enough to never use it.
I am an overextended, nickel-and-dimed Canadian.
I am fixing my own road access.
Paying more for groceries.
Driving farther for basic services.
And now funding new infrastructure for people who already have airports, highways, and existing rail.
At this point, I would settle for a train that delivers affordable groceries.
No need for 300 km/h. Just cost-saving reliability.
I am a Canadian squeezed by government-made inflation, where every errand costs more than it did last week and every explanation from you sounds rehearsed.
I am a Canadian quietly recalculating the future, trying not to downgrade my retirement to a leaky camper on wheels, while the country accumulates debt it cannot repay and prints money to pretend it can.
I am a rural Canadian watching how this works.
Not on my land. Not this time.
But close enough to understand the mechanism.
Because an 800 plus kilometre corridor does not meander politely.
It cuts. Straight. Fast. With purpose.
Through farmland. Through properties. Through communities.
I am a watchful Canadian taking note of precedent.
Survey stakes. Expropriation powers. “Public interest” to be explained after.
It is not my yard today.
But it is someone’s.
And tomorrow, it will be called "necessary" for something larger.
Something urgent. Something climate-related. Something that cannot wait.
I am a wary Canadian noticing how easily "necessity" is declared to match your agenda.
And how quickly my rights become flexible once it is declared.
I am an observant Canadian with a long memory for names.
And somehow, the same SNC-Lavalin lineage Canadians were told to forget is back, rebranded as AtkinsRéalis, positioning itself for one of the largest public contracts in Canadian history.
A remarkable comeback. Truly.
No apology tour. Just a new logo and a larger taxpayer subsidized opportunity.
Seems history doesn’t repeat. It follows a predictable pattern.
I am an unimpressed Canadian watching familiar #Lavscam players return under reimagined branding.
The script is the same. Only the cover has changed.
I am an exasperated Canadian you included in your sales pitch.
I am told it will create 50,000 jobs.
I am told it will add $35 billion to GDP.
And I am sure it will.
In the corridor.
Where the stations are.
Where the density is.
Where the benefit is.
I am a shunned Canadian excluded from the outcome.
Included in all the arithmetic. Excluded from all the access.
I am a cynical Canadian being told this is nation-building. Though the nation appears to exist along a very specific set of coordinates.
I am the depleted Canadian who:
Reads grocery receipts like an audit.
Choreographs fuel stops around paydays not plans.
Measures distance in cost, not kilometres.
I am an overburdened, last-in-line Canadian.
Essential when it is time to pay. Optional when it is time to benefit.
I am an impoverished Canadian whose citizenship now resembles a pre-authorized debit agreement.
The withdrawals are national. The benefits are regional.
I am an exhausted, overlooked Canadian.
You’re not building this for me or my family.
You're just sending me the bill.
Signed,
Your most reluctantly reliable revenue stream,
Melanie in Saskatchewan
@kinsellawarren I'd prefer less subsidies for families to feed themselves but yeah, lets borrow to spend on defense and pat ourselves on the back. Elbows up!
@hedseeker@echipiuk Don't forget about the Quebecois singing , off key and at the top of their drunken lungs, French folk songs in the a la carte restaurants.
Trump just threatened to put 100% tariffs on every Canadian import, because I'm in bed with the Chinese Communist Party.
And I'm not backing down.
I don't care if every single Canadian loses their job - I'll just blame Trump for the tariffs.
Even though they're all my fault.
Reports are coming in from all over the province.
Cattle are restless. Trucks are rumbling.
The Legislature lights flickered.
The Most Albertan Man in the World has returned.
Bill Maher drops a reality bomb on Zohram Mamdani voters with a brutal history lesson on socialism.
“We’ve run this experiment many times, and the results are always obvious,” Maher said.
He looked straight into the camera and delivered a blunt warning about Mamdani.
“Democrats must recognize that Zohran Mamdani is the future of the party. Unfortunately, it’s the Republican Party.”
“Here’s capitalist South Korea at night from space,” Maher presented, showing a country lit up and thriving.
“Here’s socialist North Korea,” he followed, with the map pitch dark.
“Yeah. In 1990, Venezuela was wealthier than Poland. But then Poland, finally free of Soviet style economics, went all in on capitalism and now their economy is as big as Japan and people there have high wages, low inflation, cars, vacations, homes.”
“Meanwhile, Venezuela traded capitalism for Hugo Chavez’s socialism for the 21st century, which turned out to be like socialism in the last century or any century, a f*cking mess.”
“It turned one of Latin America’s richest countries into one of its poorest. Low wages, high inflation, shortages, outages, 8 million people fleeing. If you think New York can somehow reinvent this wheel, you’re in for a rude awokening.”