Patrick Farrell

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[Patrick Farrell @PatrickFarrell1]

@TurnbullWhitby your govt is so boastful about accomplishments (which are few) yet infuriatingly opaque about failures.

Voters deserve transparency about PrescribeIT, we don't care (nor should we) whether or not the details embarrass your MPs or well-connected people. Do better.

[Dan Mazier @DanMazierMP]

BREAKING

Conservatives have forced another emergency meeting at the health committee on the $300 MILLION PrescribeIT scandal.

The Liberal Chair scheduled the meeting with the CAMERAS OFF, silencing us and keeping Canadians in the dark.

What are Liberals so desperate to hide?

[Duncan Dee 🇮🇱🇺🇦 @duncandee]

What's even more ridiculous is the Ontario Liberal Party (as demonstrated by their recent nomination meeting) allows literally anyone to vote. 14 year olds. Non-citizens. Even foreign "visitors" holding Amazon delivery receipts as their proof of residency. But a candidate who appears to be generating interest among more conservative Ontarians?

Yeah, Lombardi's the problem.

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

Can I just point out how funny this is, given the paper is owned by Canada’s wealthiest billionaire family, all of whom inherited their wealth.

Should we hate them for that? Of course not, because that would be gross.

But, it reflects our tall-poppy syndrome at its finest.

Personally, I’m glad that the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan is getting a nice payout, as will many others who took a big risk investing in SpaceX.

I wish we had more audacious entrepreneurs making big bets and generating great jobs and wealth here in Ontario. I want to create an environment that makes it even more likely.

The world is not zero sum. The size of the pie is not fixed. If we make more, everyone can get a big piece.

[Canada Spends @canada_spends]

There are many KPIs in the National Food Strategy.

Not a single one is the cost of food.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🚨 Canadian institutional capture scorecard:

📺 CBC: $1.4B to defend Liberal narrative

🏦 Bank of Canada: Redefining recession in real time

📊 StatsCan: Counting Census workers as jobs

📬 Senate: Hiding 240K postcards in warehouses

🌐 Bill C-8: MPs can delete you from internet

Not one institution left standing independently.

This is not democracy.

This is managed decline with Canadian characteristics. 🇨🇦

#cdnpoli

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 Canada didn’t run out of oil.
It made oil shameful.

Canada didn’t run out of land.
It made building impossible.

Canada didn’t run out of workers.
It made hiring unaffordable.

Canada didn’t run out of money.
It redistributed until nothing was left to invest.

This is what managed decline looks like from the inside. 🇨🇦📉 #cdnpoli

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Ottawa is starting to look a lot like Tim Hortons these days: a flurry of announcements designed to distract from weak economic and fiscal performance.

Lots of headlines, plenty of activity, but not much focus on the fundamentals.

[Pentagon Pizza Watch @pizzintwatch]

District Pizza Palace (1.0 miles from the Pentagon) is experiencing an extreme spike in activity, reaching 294%. Pizzato Pizza (2.2 miles from the Pentagon) also shows high activity at 163%.

DOUGHCON level is 3 as of Wednesday afternoon.

[Jon Fraser @JonFraserTF]

People who qualify for the "grocery rebate" are not shopping in boutique fruit and vegetable stores.

The fact that 12 million Canadians need this grocery rebate means that you and the rest of the Liberal government has failed them. Your woke policies and mismanagement has created rampant food inflation in Canada.

This is not something that should be celebrated, especially for @liberal_party partisan gain.

[Jon Fraser @JonFraserTF]

This guy entered Canada on a false passport. I don't care about any other argument, that alone should have been grounds for deportation.

[Harley Finkelstein @harleyf]

@ryangerritsen She’s right. Guilbeault was a disaster across every metric.

He should never be allowed to hold any power in this country again.

[Ben Rabidoux @BenRabidoux]

In his defence, if I was stuck with a bunch of Trudeau-era clowns in caucus, I’d probably spend a lot of time yelling too

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

> pick theatre kid as prime minister
> economy flats
> pick central banker bc muh oxford harvard
> recession
> still votes for same

[Patrick Farrell @PatrickFarrell1]

@financialpost Who chose the picture for this tweet, and what were they thinking?

[Greg Brady @gregbradyx]

This is a great statement by a potential OLP leadership candidate on crime & justice. Or….the OLP can gift-wrap another Ford majority in 2029/30 by coronating a tight-with-Trudeau Cabinet Minister who sat idly by while our system of law & order was, quite simply, eviscerated, to the point we are as lawless a country as we have been since the late 1800s - w/ a ton more violent crime.

[Jesse Pollock @jpolly22]

Pretty insane to see Habs fans asking for Marty St. Louis to get fired.

He has his squad in the conference final after beating two strong teams in Lightning and Sabres. Carolina is a relentless wagon that clearly has more gas in the tank from playing nearly half as much hockey in the playoffs so far. The Habs are just running out of gas.

I don't really understand the hate here.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🌍 Three energy rich countries.

Three different choices. 🇨🇦

🇳🇴 Norway:
Found oil → Built fund →
$1.7 Trillion in wealth ✅

🇦🇪 UAE:
Has oil → Builds pipeline →
Secures Asian markets ✅

🇨🇦 Canada:
Has MORE oil than both →
Debates carbon markets →
Signs MOUs →
Misses every window 💸

Same resource.
Different governments.
Completely different outcomes.

This is a choice. 🇨🇦

#CdnPoli #Alberta #Pipeline

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

TD Economics' new report contains stark warning about Canada’s "silent brain drain"

"The core challenge is not in attracting world-class talent, but in anchoring that talent within its borders to build, scale, and lead globally competitive firms at home. Absent progress on this front, Canada will continue to be a feeder system for the U.S. innovation economy"

According to TD, Canada's "demotivating personal taxes" and "labyrinthine business taxes" are big contributors to the problem

https://t.co/O5GhefY5z5

[Jackie Redmond @Jackie_Redmond]

“I don’t want anyone to feel like they need to protect me, or our team. So whatever’s happening in the game - good or bad - come out there and ask me whatever you want. I’ll answer for it. I don’t want to be protected. And sometimes those interviews are more valuable when things aren’t going well.”

- Martin St. Louis on bench interviews during Habs games. This guys is the definition of ownership and accountability ! 😎

#GoHabsGo #NHLonTNT

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Are you fucking kidding me? She systematically bankrolled Putin’s regime with staggering amounts of cash, even after the 2008 invasion of Georgia and the 2014 invasion of Ukraine. She knew damn well this would ignite a catastrophic war, yet she couldn't care less. She made Germany entirely dependent on Russian energy, she didn't earn an Order of Merit, she earned a prison cell.