Michael Ceci

Work @baird & @bennettjoneslaw. Advisor @SantisHealth. Create with @StrangeCustoms. Board @OntarioCreates. Chair @PHDurhamRegion. Volunteer @CLOntario. 🇨🇦🇮🇹

[A Deal is Imminent @tradeoilstocks]

“Give them a massive amount of oil, agricultural land, copper, freshwater, and every natural resource in the world. Now make them neighbors with the biggest market in the world. Great, now have them leave the resources in the ground and instead flip condos to each other”.

[National Post @nationalpost]

Just how much worse have things become since Justin Trudeau’s Liberals took power in 2015? Take a look as Jesse Kline examines Canada’s lost decade through 13 economic indicators

https://t.co/bjQhAUlMuj

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

If I had bottomless contempt for the intelligence of the Canadian voter, I would probably promise them a high-speed train and a sovereign wealth fund.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

I don't want to tell the Conservatives what to do, but your opponents are ...

1. "Young Canadians should be imprisoned within our borders" (Liberals).
2. "We should import infinity cheap foreign labour ... youth unemployment lol" (NDP).

If you can't build an under-40 voting bloc to put you over the finish line, something has gone wrong.

[Ben Rabidoux @BenRabidoux]

-no valid license
-had never driven before
-fled from police who thought he was impaired
-caused a fatal accident
-does not speak a word of English

Deport? No….absolute discharge

Canada is not a place of justice for victims of crime

[tobi lutke @tobi]

@JohnNabuurs yep. Canada can be the richest country on planet earth any time it chooses. It's literally just choices.

[Ian Brodie @irbrodie]

It has been 484 days since Mr Trudeau’s 51st state dinner at Mar a Lago and in that time we have built zero meters of pipeline to markets other than the US.

[Mike @midnightriderV2]

Spending didn’t go up, GDP dropped 😆

[json @JsonBasedman]

Exceptional work.

[Eric Jackson @ericjackson]

US tech sector: $2 trillion GDP.

Canada's entire auto industry: $16.8 billion.
That's 119x smaller.

Yet Canadian politicians will go to war over auto jobs and won't say a word about 71% of Waterloo's best engineers leaving to power America's GDP.

The auto industry gets the outrage.
The tech talent gets the exit door.

Why?

[Daniel Foch @danielfoch]

Young Canadians keep getting more miserable

Old Canadians keep getting happier

Data from world happiness report: https://t.co/LxfewOmzZY

[Michael Ceci @MichaelCeci]

All trends in Canada since 2015 look the same….

[Statistics Canada @StatCan_eng]

The percentage of Canadian adults with very good to perfect functional health declined from 68.6% in 2015 to 56.4% in 2024.

To learn more: https://t.co/NxQbAH9Vsi

[Kaz Nejatian @nejatian]

Canadian citizenship is being continually devalued by a bunch of bureaucrats who are ashamed of their own country. So very sad.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

This is one of the most illuminating Canadian poll results I've ever seen. A pitch-perfect illustration of an electorate who sees politics as a reality TV show, and never considers the consequences of what they're supporting.

[Eric Jackson @ericjackson]

Canada's GDP per capita was 94% of America's in 1981.

Today it's 67%. The widest gap since World War II.

Ontario — Canada's economic engine — is now poorer than 43 US states. Including Louisiana and Alabama.

This isn't a blip. It's a generational collapse. Here's the data:

From 2017-2024, US productivity grew 10.1%. Canada's fell 0.6%. America is sprinting. Canada is walking backwards.

71% of Waterloo software engineering grads leave for the US. The brain drain damage threshold is 20%. Canada is at 3x the red line.

Israel spends 6.35% of GDP on R&D. The US spends 3.4%. Canada spends 1.7%. That's not a gap. That's a different species.

Canada's pension funds hold $2.6 trillion. Only 13% is invested in Canada. 47% is in the US. Even Canada's own money doesn't believe in Canada.

Net FDI position: negative $1 trillion. Capital is fleeing the country faster than Waterloo grads.

72% of Canadian entrepreneurs start businesses because "jobs are scarce." Not opportunity. Survival.

Canadian workers get 30 cents of IP investment for every $1 an American worker gets. You can't out-innovate anyone with 30-cent tools.

The average Canadian spends 48% of their income on a mortgage. The average American: 34%. Canadians work to pay for houses. Americans work to build companies.

None of this is about laziness. Canadians are talented. The system is broken.

Zero income tax. Business-friendly regulation. Speed of execution. That's Dubai. That's Singapore. That's what "Dubai of the North" means.

Canada has everything — talent, resources, geography, rule of law. What it doesn't have is a system that rewards building.

Fix the tax code. Kill the red tape. Stop subsidizing real estate. Start subsidizing R&D. The talent is there. The capital will follow.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

To any future historians reading this, this era will make a lot more sense if you remember that every name is the opposite of what it really is. The antifascists are fascists, the antiracists are racists, the fact-checkers are propagandists, etc. Hopefully this has been fixed by your time.

[CP24 @CP24]

Canada’s economy contracted in the fourth quarter, coming way below expectations, new data from Statistics Canada shows https://t.co/xzPIafZRCq

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Canada’s energy policy verges on insanity: New Brunswick is importing liquefied natural gas from as far away as Australia while refusing to develop its own substantial shale gas reserves, even though the province desperately needs investment and jobs and already sits near the bottom of North America in standard of living.

[Michael "Barnacle" Spyker @ShaleTier7]

The sheer magnitude of how badly Canada fucked this up cannot be described with words -- and has led to a demonstrably lower quality of life for Canadians.

These are full integer percentage points of GDP the country has forgone, through completely unforced error. It's pathetic.

[Prime Video Canada 🇨🇦 @PrimeVideoCA]

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