Patrick

Husband, dad, pilot, Rider fan. Opinions are my own. The sarcasm is not my fault. I’m from Saskatchewan.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

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[David T.S. Fraser @privacylawyer]

An absolutely shameful statement by Steven MacKinnon. Every organization with a long track record of expert commentary on the rule of law in Canada condemned the bill.

"Liberals dismiss ‘tinfoil hat’ privacy fears as lawful access bill passes"

https://t.co/fRLQsxDCjD

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

I may disagree with Laura on some things, but I have nothing but respect for her here. She saw that she was hoodwinked and had the integrity to publicly admit this and advocate for the truth, knowing, full-well, that this could lead to pushback from her fans and allies.

I welcome her transformation, and hope that she can visit Ukraine one day to meet the lovely people here 🇺🇦 😄

[Mark Towhey @towhey]

“WE HAVE NEVER seen anything like this. Ever.”

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

No-show Carney in the House. Coyne "And when the most powerful person in the country feels it's beneath them to show up, it sends really bad signals, and it weakens one of the last lines of accountability we've got."

Again, they could have said something earlier... but chose not to do so

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

I believe in a liberalism that puts the consumer first.

I realize it is not considered “good politics” to refer to people as “consumers”, so let me explain. 👇

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By consumer, I mean the person that systems of production are supposed to serve.

The citizen, the taxpayer, the patient, the student, the commuter, the homebuyer, the renter, the small business owner, and the person trying to build a life.

Every economy has producers and intermediaries. They are organized, and they have associations, lobbyists, professional bodies, unions, procurement relationships, and long-standing patterns of influence.

This is not inherently sinister. It is how organized interests behave, and serious politicians should expect them to behave that way.

In comparison, the consumer interest is often the least organized interest in politics, which is exactly why political leaders need to speak for them.

Because when politics engages primarily around organized stakeholders, as it is often today, the public interest is gradually defined through the lens of those already inside.

Policy becomes about protecting advantage rather than competing for it. Complexity becomes a form of power.

The citizen, a consumer, becomes a subject of policy rather than its purpose.

Politicians should more skeptical when regulation protects incumbents more than upstarts, when consultation becomes a tool of delay, when procurement creates dependency, when credentialing becomes exclusion, and when protectionism is defended as pro-worker.

It also means we should take competition very seriously.

Not because markets are sacred, or because every public problem has a market solution. Competition matters because it creates pressure against complacency, capture, and rent-seeking.

It gives new entrants a chance to challenge incumbents. It helps lower prices, improve service, raise productivity, and expand our choices.

All of these create real freedom.

Protectionism often wears a compassionate mask, but its beneficiaries are usually incumbents, and its costs are usually paid by ordinary people.

That is why putting the consumer first matters to me, and why politicians should see their role as representing consumers.

[Ben Mulroney @BenMulroney]

I fixed the headline: “Indigenous woman and her son, denied justice because of the race of her killer.”

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

Total mystery.

[Kyle Riley 🇨🇦 @Smileyyeg]

I actually saw a post arguing that people like me support Lombardi because we are trying to sabotage the OLP leadership race.

Is it really that hard to believe that I would support a person whose policies I agree with? That a person of character and intelligence could sway me?

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

Mind blowing.

My guest explained that he submitted a report with recommendations on our immigration policy and it was thrown in the garbage.

Then, the government did the exact opposite.

What a mess.

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

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[Jen Gerson @jengerson]

Perhaps we wouldn't be so pathologically insecure in the face of American expansionism if we had some shared living concept of "Canadian Identity" that went a little deeper than this 60-year-old metaphor.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

Feels like we’ve crossed a threshold with “Nosh-gate”

I’ve heard from both anglophones and francophones who all seem to agree: this has gone too far.

Protecting French matters. It’s part of what makes Quebec special.

But policing “nosh” and going after “Go Habs Go” isn’t protecting a language. It’s making a mockery of the mission.

Maybe this is the moment we get back to being reasonable.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

When I said this throughout my campaign, CNN people called me cruel and unhinged. Now, after they helped secure the election for the 2 dorks responsible for all these problems, CNN is now echoing my campaign talking points as gospel. Fascinating!

[Andrii Melnyk @MelnykAndrij]

Russians are far worse than any barbarian hordes in history. They just damaged one of the holiest shrines of Ukrainian Orthodoxy, the Dormition Cathedral (Uspensky Sobor), built in 1078, Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We will never forgive Russia😡Never🤬

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

You’re overthinking things.

Lombardi has a great reputation in Ontario, partially because he helped revolutionize the provincial housing discourse. Many conservatives genuinely like him and respect his wonkishness and pragmatism, so, yes, we’re boosting him. We earnestly see him as a better alternative to the Ford government, and it’s as simple as that. Not everything is a 4D chess strategy.

[Lisa MacLeod @MacLeodLisa]

I had never heard of this young man before yesterday but he sure does seem to be shaking up Ontario politics in a short time.

Odds are stacked against him winning the OLP leadership and a general but his early stuff looks like he could be a policy game changer thanks to his appeal to next generation centrist political influencers.

Fascinating to watch.

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

Eric founded @MoreNeighbours (MNTO), which consulted the province’s housing task force. The Ontario NDP’s housing platform was heavily influenced by MNTO’s recommendations, and he then helped write the OLP’s housing platform in last year’s provincial election.

He is regularly invited to speak on talk radio — particularly @am640 — to share his analyses. He also raised $100,000 within two days of launching his leadership campaign.

“No one knows about him.”
Yeah, sure, bud.

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

I had anticipated that the post-Trudeau leadership race within the federal Liberal Party would pit Chretien centrists against Trudeau progressives over the party’s ideological orientation. I was wrong.

As much as Trudeau had pushed the Liberals in an explicitly progressive direction, their default setting is still about political power. The party’s willingness to ruthlessly discard Trudeau-era priorities like the carbon tax is clearly evidence of that.

Yet if I over-interpreted changes in the federal Liberal Party, the intra-party dynamics that I anticipated may still play out in the impending Ontario Liberal Party’s leadership race.

The overt hostility to @EricDLombardi’s candidacy from the party’s progressive wing for a set of political ideas and policy positions that are in keeping with the Chretien-Martin era of Liberal politics is notable.

My own hypothesis is that Liberal progressives are feeling self-conscious about the obvious failures of the Trudeau era and Mark Carney’s repudiation of its excesses and they’re now worried that the Ontario Liberal Party similarly may reject their project to decidedly move Liberal politics to the Left.

In this sense, the OLP leadership race is bigger than who’ll lead the party into the next election against the Ford government. It could be an important contest over the future of Liberal politics itself.

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

.@EricDLombardi earnestly cares about Ontario’s future and, by volunteering countless hours of his time, has already had a major impact on the province’s housing policies. His accomplishments seem to irritate some of the old guard, yet, as these fossils find it hard to engage with the substance of his arguments, they resort to empty snark. It’s disheartening, but also reinforces the need for political upheaval.