Kelly

Children’s book author of “Tad the Trucker”. Also agriculture and my community. I love supporting !

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

Poetry.
“There is no ribbon-cutting. No news conference.
Yet, in a matter of weeks, tens of thousands of Canadian farmers and ranchers deploy billions of dollars, put enormous personal and financial capital at risk, and set in motion the production of food that Canadians and much of the world depend on.”

[Cole Hogan @colewhogan]

“Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the leading theorist of all this, had a very Ottawa-Montreal-centric view of the country, and, perhaps predictably, one of the most observable consequences of official bilingualism in practice was keeping political power in the hands of men and women with backgrounds similar to his own: bilingual urban professionals from the Laurentian region (occasionally supplemented by the odd New Brunswicker).

“This bilingual glass ceiling on political talent has warped Canadian democracy. Because French-speaking Canadians are not, in fact, distributed in any broadly even way across the country, Canada's most powerful ministries tend to be dominated by the most fluently bilingual, which in practice means politicians born, raised, educated and employed in the limited parts of Canada where French is part of day-to-day life. It's not a coincidence that over the last decade of Liberal rule, much power has been concentrated in the hands of white, bilingual central Canadians like Mélanie Joly, François-Philippe Champagne, Marc Miller, David McGuinty, David Lametti, Dominic LeBlanc and, for that matter, Justin Trudeau.” — @JJ_McCullough

[Kelly @KellyPaulgaard]

@dkreative1 @PierrePoilievre Yes yes yes!!!

[Eric Jackson @ericjackson]

71% of Waterloo's best engineers leave Canada (UWaterloo SE Class of 2022 graduate survey).

And nobody riots.

In any other country, a 71% talent export rate would be a national emergency. In Canada, it's Tuesday.

The problem isn't the people who leave. They're rational. The US pays 2-3x more, taxes less, and builds things that matter.

The problem is the people who stay and never ask why the system is designed to make leaving the rational choice.

Canada doesn't have a brain drain problem. It has a demand problem. Nobody demands better. Not from the universities. Not from the employers. Not from the government.

The best leave. The rest adjust. The cycle continues.

Every country gets the talent retention rate it deserves.

[Eric Jackson @ericjackson]

Canada lives next to an economy 10× its size — the most powerful growth engine in the world.

Geography like that isn’t a grievance. It’s a strategic gift.

The idea that Canada should emotionally distance itself from its largest customer, capital source, and innovation partner is not realism — it’s self-harm.

Every country on earth would trade places instantly for Canada’s proximity.

Strong nations don’t sulk. They negotiate, align incentives, and do business — especially when the math is this obvious.

[Kelly @KellyPaulgaard]

@FoodProfessor @AGMuse_bemused Depending on seed and chemical corporations to do the innovation and research makes your country vulnerable and farmers targets.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

My thoughts & analysis on Mark Carney's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos;

"Canada has what the world wants.
We are an energy superpower.
We have the most educated population in the world."

* It was an excellent, strong, and statesman like speech that Caandians in general should be happy and even proud of.
* It was an important speech to deliver ahead of Donald Trump's speech tomorrow. This is also an attempt to create contrast in leadership and stability.

The problem isn't the speech is what happens outside of it - the reality.

* You can't say Canada is open for business and not deliver.
* You can't tell the world we have what you want and take 20 years to navigate our own red tape.
* You can't tell the world we have the best educated people in the world while having a braindrain because they have nothing to work on.

The words sound nice but time and time again the government fails to deliver on them.
For Canada, to become the core power player we so desperately want to be we need to be dependable and stable. We can't be infiltrated and work with foreign government that openly want to destroy the West. We can't tell our allies there is no business case when they need us. We have to be confident in the integrity and sovereignty of our nation and not surrender it to the ideologies and foreigners who come by.

We need to fix and remove everything that gets in the way of what we are trying to offer to the world.

Even though we are obviously upset with Donald Trump conduct we also need to remember that Canada's closest ally and our biggest economic driver will always be the US and there is nothing wrong with it (and yes we need to grow outside of it).
With such, we need to have the sensibility not to run to the worst regimes around the world and surrender ourselves and this continent to them.
If we want to lead, sometimes we need to lead in our relationships including with the US.

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

Before 2019, most of us didn't care whether you were a Liberal or Conservative. We didn't care if you identified as a girl, boy or banana. Nor whether you were black, white, brown or purple. We all got along!

Until we elected a drama teacher.
That's when the drama began!
🤬

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Who says classical music is boring...
It's the perfect energizer!

[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

* except oil. The Liberals prefer to import U.S. and OPEC oil to the east coast, rather than piping in the good stuff from Alberta.

[Kelly @KellyPaulgaard]

@jpdjt @CraigBaird 😂To represent the game of Bunnock which is played with horse ankle bones and is very popular in Macklin.

[Kelly @KellyPaulgaard]

@CraigBaird It is a beautiful place to visit! They also have an in impressive indoor succulent garden!

[Kelly @KellyPaulgaard]

@Karen22912 @AJ_Circelli All of the scandals forgotten! Green slush fund, where is the money! Foreign interference, heads should roll! We need justice in this country!

[Adam Zivo @AdamZivo]

A new peer-reviewed study has found that British Columbia’s “safer supply” and decriminalization policies were associated with a statistically significant increase in opioid hospitalizations with no reduction in deaths.

My latest for @nationalpost.

https://t.co/KuIbaqOGe1

[Kelly @KellyPaulgaard]

This is shocking.

[Shaun Rickard @ShaunRickard67]

For all the Canadians out there who've dismissed the incredible investigative journalism conducted by, Sam Cooper (@scoopercooper) at The Bureau, or are too naïve to believe that Canada has massive industrial scale drug manufacturing facilities operating within our borders, perhaps CBC can convince you to sit up and finally take notice. Even Canada's state funded MSM now know that this scandalous issue is just way too big to ignore.

These cartel 'Superlab' facilities and international distribution operations are incredibly sophisticated, well funded, and extremely well organized, they are also insanely lucrative.

I would be willing to bet that we will soon learn that high-level government officials have ties to these operations, hence why to date, Canada has seemingly been intentionally turning a blind eye and has refused to prosecute top drug kingpins who are known by RCMP investigators to be involved.

This story covers one Superlab, how many more are there that have yet to be discovered, and why have @MarkJCarney or @JustinTrudeau never addressed or even so much as spoken about this serious problem?

The Bureau: https://t.co/Ulm650z5wa

[Nadine Ness @NadineGNess]

Why does it take Trump threatening tariffs for Canada to do something about the fentanyl problem? We should have been dealing with this without a tariff threat!

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

March 29, 2021

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky infamously declared on MSNBC:

"Vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don't get sick."

Emails obtained by FOIA from Jan 30, 2021 show that Walensky knew this was a lie at the time she said it.

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[Dylan Biggs @TKRanch]

Sunrise on the frigid prairie this morning.

#arcticair #sundogs #parhelia

[Jason James @jasonjamesbnn]

The calls for a "Team Canada" approach to Trump's tariffs are falling on deaf ears and for good reason.

Were we Team Canada when Justin Trudeau declared us a post national state?

Were we Team Canada when the Trudeau Liberals opened the door to China and accepted millions in donations from operators within China's United Front Work Department?

Were we Team Canada when the Trudeau Liberals conveniently ignored boatloads of fentanyl arriving at our ports and entering our communities because the people shipping the fentanyl in were also Liberal donors?

Were we Team Canada when Trudeau pushed to legalize highly addictive opioids that vastly exacerbated the fentanyl problem and killed thousands of Canadians?

Were we Team Canada when Trudeau referred to a large segment of our country as racists and misogynists because we refused an experimental gene therapy?

Were we Team Canada when millions of Canadians showed up in Ottawa to peacefully protest Trudeau's government and were crushed by militarized police?

Were we Team Canada when Trudeau froze the bank accounts and seized the assets of protestors?

Were we Team Canada when Trudeau threw some of those people in prison for merely expressing a differing political view?

Were we Team Canada when Trudeau flooded our country with unvetted immigrants?

Were we Team Canada when we came to realize that some of these immigrants were active terrorists living in our communities?

Team Canada doesn't exist because Trudeau deliberately poisoned our national identity. We don't know what this country is because everything that was has been desecrated and obliterated.

Now he wants us to stand behind him in solidarity, but you can't have it both ways. We are a distant shadow of what we once were, and that's a direct consequence of Trudeau and his devotion to an ideology designed to eviscerate nationalism at all levels.

Canada is a figment of Justin Trudeau's imagination, and we will never get it back under a Liberal government.

It's time for the real Team Canada to step up and save what's left of our country.

[Eric Nuttall @ericnuttall]

There are countries whom have successfully leveraged their resource wealth to enrich their citizens, and then there is Canada. Stymieing our energy sector with self-flagellation has made us poorer and vulnerable. The path to a stronger country -> building more oil pipelines now.