breathe, you'll be fine.

Matt is a comedian, climber, and shiba-whisperer.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

“The government is too big. It’s too intrusive. It restricts what we can do. It’s becoming our master instead of our servant.”

— Milton Friedman

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Charlie: "The world is not driven by greed. It's driven by envy. The fact that everybody is 5x better off than they used to be, they take it for granted. All they think about is somebody else having more now when it's not fair..."

[breathe, you'll be fine. @MattLabucki]

Maybe the most middle class helpful bill since Harper made the TFSA

[Andrew Lawton @AndrewLawton]

The price of used cars has almost doubled since 2019. Yet every time a used car is sold at a dealership, the government taxes it again and again.

Today, @PierrePoilievre and I announced my bill, C-285, to scrap the GST on used cars and save Canadians thousands of dollars.

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman: “I am not a conservative. I’ve never been a conservative. Hayek was not a conservative.”

“We are liberals in the true meaning of that term: concerned with freedom. We are not liberals in the current distorted sense—those liberal with other people’s money.”

[Milton Friedman Quotes @MiltonFriedmanW]

Milton Friedman: “Those people who now call themselves ‘liberals’ have misappropriated the term because for them it simply means that they’re liberal with other people’s money.”

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Pierre today on Parliament Hill gets asked what affect Alberta separating would have on the Canadian economy & Alberta’s economy.

He reminds people that there have been only 3 referendums in Canada’s history & all have been while the Liberals are in power. He says they are the dividers of our nation.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

British sheep produce around 22,000 tonnes of wool a year. A renewable fibre, sheared from a living animal that regrows it for the next season, used for carpets, insulation, textiles, jumpers, and traditional products that outlast the sofa.

The environmental alternative is polyester. Spun from crude oil. Manufactured in a refinery. Non-biodegradable. Sheds microplastics with every spin of the washing machine. Ends up in every river, every ocean, every fish, every lung.

A single polyester fleece can shed up to 250,000 microfibres in one wash.

But the sheep grazing a Welsh hillside on rainwater is the problem, and we should all be wearing more crude oil instead.

The mental gymnastics required to call wool environmentally harmful while promoting polyester is Olympic-level.

Wool: renewable, biodegradable, grown on grass, naturally flame-resistant, insulates wet or dry, lasts decades, returns to soil at the end of its life.

Polyester: fossil fuel, never biodegrades, sheds microplastics for centuries, needs chemical flame retardants, manufactured in conditions that poison the air for the workers handling them.

Yet environmental groups campaign against wool while wearing fleece jackets pumped out of oil rigs in Texas.

The sheep is not the problem. The activist in the polyester gilet is.

[National Post @nationalpost]

Tristin Hopper: Kamloops residential school 'graves' could have been septic pipes all along https://t.co/ugGYnYIPMU

[breathe, you'll be fine. @MattLabucki]

@MarkJCarney Maybe stop releasing repeat violent offenders and terrorists.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A farmer dies in April 2026.

His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.

The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.

On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.

In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.

The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.

The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.

A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.

The Treasury collects £140,000.

The land never produces British food again.

[breathe, you'll be fine. @MattLabucki]

@SoCaL_list @_CryMiaRiver @RosyBoa823 You don't need surgery and lifetime of carcinogenic hormone treatments to write left handed.

[Handre @Handre]

The Soviet whaling fleet killed 180,000 whales between 1948 and 1973, delivering rotten carcasses that nobody wanted to eat. Soviet citizens had zero demand for whale meat. The ships hunted anyway, fulfilling quotas handed down from central planners who counted tons of dead whale as economic output.

This was bureaucratic box-checking that nearly drove multiple whale species to extinction. Soviet whalers targeted endangered right whales and humpbacks specifically because they were larger, helping them hit tonnage targets faster. The meat rotted on deck during long voyages back to port, where officials dutifully recorded the numbers and sent reports to Moscow declaring another successful harvest.

Central planners measured success in tons harvested, not consumer satisfaction or long-term sustainability. Factory managers got promoted for exceeding whale quotas, regardless of whether anyone actually wanted whale meat (they didn't). The feedback mechanism that normally connects production to human needs had been severed entirely. When bureaucrats replace market prices with administrative targets, you get mass slaughter with zero purpose.

You still see this today every time politicians promise to "create jobs" in industries that lose money year after year. When government agencies measure their success by dollars spent rather than problems solved. When university administrators chase enrollment numbers instead of student outcomes.

Remove the profit motive and price signals, and you get 180,000 dead whales rotting in the sun while commissars celebrate meeting their targets. You don't get rational planning.

Socialism is fundamentally destructive to the environment and inevitably leads to ecological disasters.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

What do you mean you have done enough?

Gas prices are 13.4% higher in Canada than in the U.S., and 50 cents-a-litre higher than under Harper, when oil was also at $100 a barrel.

Get rid of all the taxes on gas for the rest of the year so Canadians can afford gas and groceries: https://t.co/w3HLM90tut

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Here is how you get something built fast to respond to a crisis:

FEB. 2022 – Germany decides it needs to break its dependence on Russia for gas.

APR. 2022 – 60 days later, the German gov't permits a brand-new import terminal and pipeline.

DEC. 2022 – Project complete. Gas flowing.

They told me how they did it 👇

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Not one major project.
Not one oil pipeline.
Not one new big development.

Not one anti-development law removed.

What's changed?

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

The Liberal Party spent 10 years importing voters.

Today those voters showed up.

And voted against the Liberal they were supposed to support.

Federal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, endorsed by Mark Carney himself, just lost a provincial nomination race in Scarborough.

He lost to Ahsanul Hafiz.

A Bangladeshi-born business owner who owns 30 Domino’s Pizza franchises.

Today in Scarborough Southwest:

Sample ballots were handed out entirely in Bengali.

The Ontario Liberal Party allows temporary residents to vote in nominations.

Nate knocked on doors of his own “members” people who had no idea they’d signed up.

The Globe and Mail reported it themselves.

Nate cried irregularities.

Hafiz said: “The hallways were full of people wearing my badges. That’s the clear evidence of who won.”

The Liberals flooded ridings with new Canadians.

Those new Canadians just picked their own guy.

The man who built the machine is now complaining about the machine.

Welcome to the Canada you created. 🇨🇦

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Carney has taken at least 8 of Pierre’s ideas: axe the consumer carbon tax, cut fuel taxes, remove GST on new homes, internal free trade, trade corridors, faster project approvals, critical minerals strategy, and stronger-at-home leverage abroad.

Pierre diagnosed the disease. Carney copied the prescription label and watered down the medicine.

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

In 2015, under the last Conservative government, Canada had a balanced budget, a billion dollar surplus, the strongest economy in the G7, with the largest and most prosperous middle class in the world. Then the Liberals were elected. 11 years later, Canada now has the highest household debt, the most unaffordable housing, the lowest investment per worker, the second worst productivity, and the second highest unemployment in the G7. The direct result of a decade of Liberal policies.

[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Yes.

[breathe, you'll be fine. @MattLabucki]

@Garnet_2203 Supply and demand principles should be taught from K-12 because people can't grasp it even with overwhelming evidence.