BillDozer

Happily Retired Air Traffic Controller/ Commercial Pilot Spending the days in the Mountains of Sicamous President Sicamous Legion BR99 Dad Grandad Husband

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It's weeks like this where I fear for Canada's future. We have governments putting out housing plans they can't explain, and a media that struggles to report even basic facts, and won't correct their errors.
I'm not sure how Canadians can be expected to trust our institutions.
- Dr Mike Moffat, Economist, Western U

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

China slaps 73.5% preliminary tariff on pea starch from Canada...

So, how's that diversifying trade portfolio thing working for ya, Mark? https://t.co/BdvZCKf17F

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

BREAKING: President Trump expected to formally declare that the U.S. will not renew the USMCA/CUSMA, triggering the agreement's sunset review process.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine]

Question for Liberals: if Donald Trump didn’t win the last U.S. election, would Canada have pipelines? Would housing suddenly become affordable? Would our deficit, which predates any trade war, have shrunk? Would the 155,000 professionals who left largely due to taxes suddenly return back home?

If everything is Trumps fault, what would have changed for the positive had he not been elected?

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Some goofy awards write themselves ...okay, most do

CTV's latest Canada/US relations expert, Hunter Biden

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine]

Canada is the fourth largest resource nation on earth... and we chose to be poor. That's not Trump's fault. That's Ottawa's.

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PM Trudeau also admitted that under his government temporary immigration had grown “far beyond what Canada has been able to absorb” and that it needs to be brought “under control.”
- Global News, Apr 2, 2024

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

I want the United States to elect someone who will repair relations.
Two things.
1. The Democrats are better at Canada-U.S. relations, they just smile while trying to screw you - see Joe Biden.
2. Why is anyone interviewing Hunter Biden on Canada-U.S. relations?

[HoCStaffer @HoCStaffer]

I'm likely in the minority on this, but the longer I work in politics, the more I think there should be more restrictions on voting in general, let alone being an MP or Senator.

Why should a welfare recipient living in social housing have the same voting power as someone who runs a company, creates jobs, & pays property taxes?

At least half the country gets money from the govt in some form. That's an inherent bias to vote for parties that will give you more, no matter the consequences to the economy, others, or future generations.

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Facts Matter - MISLEADING to compare 2006 dollars with 2026 without taking inflation's impact on purchasing power into account. Bank of Canada calculates it takes $1.67 today to buy what $1 dollar did 2 decade ago.
$96.8 billion in FDI today buys about 27% less real stuff (factories, equipment, land, etc.) than the $80 billion FDI did in 2006.
Q: does the PM mislead the public and unsophisticated partisans like Mr Robertson on purpose?

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

I have no words

[Alexander Zoltan @AmazingZoltan]

CBC REPORTER: "A third of the condos you're targeting for 'affordable housing' opportunities cost more than a million dollars. Who, exactly, is this program supposed to benefit?"

BC NDP HOUSING MINISTER: "These are the details we are working on."

Wait. What?

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

Shockingly, Carney admits that in his call with Trump yesterday he didn't raise the issue of CUSMA.
He also kind of shrugged off the idea of getting a deal.
Wasn't that his big promise in the last election?

[Drea Humphrey @DreaHumphrey]

HECK YEAH!

Salmon Arm, B.C., now has a crosswalk honouring our veterans. It's located at the intersection of Shuswap Street and Lakeshore Drive.

If we're going to use tax dollars to paint an inclusive message on a crosswalk, this is how it's done.

[Steve Saretsky @SteveSaretsky]

Now we are learning that’s it really @Dave_Eby pushing for the condo bailout. The province is covering 90% of the funds.

The guy who got elected villainizing the developers is now bailing them out. Ironic.

[BillDozer @MtnSled24]

@FoodProfessor We have Walter Mitty as a PM

[Dan Albas @DanAlbas]

Luxury condo. buildings carry big monthly strata fees. Once Carney bails out his developer buddies buying these luxury empty condo's who will cover these ongoing monthly strata fees in so-called "affordable" housing?

[BCBarracuda @BCCuda]

What an absolute disgrace. Would not be a great time for a bunch of "useful idiots" to cross the floor, FINALLY!?

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Granular knowledge of how the Vancouver Condo Kings are the major supporters of people like Gregor Robertson, Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney was my past reporting beat. I’m not going back to it, other reporters need to pick that up. Read JWR’s chapter about meeting Trudeau in his friend’s pent house to understand who Carney is bailing out. I can say the Chinese money behind all these Liberals makes the story so much worse than a Liberal bail out of slick developers. This is scandalous and nationally ruinous.

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Freaking unbelievable - PM Carney is bailing out developers with your money

Mark Carney just announced a de facto bailout for Vancouver-area developers.
With 2,500 finished but unsold condos sitting empty in Metro Vancouver alone, Carney and BC NDP Premier David Eby plan to use taxpayer dollars and “innovative financing” to buy and convert them into “affordable housing.”
Developers don’t want to sell at a loss and can’t hold them forever — taxpayers foot the bill so that the federal Liberals and BC NDP are stepping in to rescue them instead of letting the market correct prices downward.