Patricia Best

From hack to flack and sometimes back. Views my own. 🇺🇦

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

Team Canada needs to stand together more united than ever before.

The prime minister has my full support for a strong response—tariff for tariff, dollar for dollar. As we fight to protect Canadian sovereignty and economic security, everything needs to be on the table. Ontario is ready to do its part.

[Brad Bradford @BradMBradford]

Canada didn't choose this fight, but we'll get through it the way we always have: together. It's going to be a tough stretch for Toronto workers and businesses.

Do your part. Buy Canadian, support local, and stand behind the people who build things here.

[Laryssa Waler 🌻 Лариса Валєр @LWaler]

Read the article and think for yourself: It says that Fedeli didn’t bill the Ministry for meals and expenses for staff. His EDA picked up that tab. He wasn’t simultaneously billing for the same expenses, as this tweet would have you think. The words are crafty but read through them.

On a personal note: every (every) time I’ve gone for dinner or a lunch or even a coffee with Minister Fedeli, he insists on paying his own way. And I’ve known him a long time.

Vic is the kind of guy who will sooner drive back to North Bay rather than fly when prices are high because it’s better for the public purse. In my 20+ years in politics, I haven’t met many people more loyal to the Crown- to the public good - as Vic Fedeli.

[Patricia Best @pbest2010]

@davidfrum @TheAtlantic .@davidfrum please see your email from me - thx

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

When a Jewish-owned business gets hit twice, it’s not coincidence, it’s a targeted campaign of intimidation on one community. Synagogues, schools, and Jewish businesses come under attack again and again.

This country needs to wake up to the hatred metastasizing in its streets.

Canada’s Jewish community isn’t asking for sympathy, they’re demanding action. Find the people responsible, arrest them, and prosecute them. Toothless bills, thoughts and prayers and more statements don’t quell a community’s anxiety, they just insult it. Task forces don’t act. No more councils that don’t speak up.

Just do the results part. Enforce the law.

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

Last night’s shooting at Temple Emanu-El Synagogue in North York was a vile and targeted act of antisemitism, an attack not only on a place of worship, but on the safety and dignity of Ontario’s Jewish community.

Antisemitism has no place in our province. We will not tolerate hate, intimidation or violence against any community. We stand firmly with our Jewish neighbours and will always defend their right to gather, worship and live openly and safely in Ontario.

https://t.co/6uQ7CTeC7B

[Michael Kerzner @TeamKerzner]

Today, I issued a letter to the @TorontoPolice Service and the @TPSBoard to clearly outline concerns surrounding the lack of consistent enforcement when it comes to intimidation, harassment and other hate-motivated offences.

Our government’s efforts to protect Ontario have been extremely proactive to ensure that public safety is consistent across Ontario, by backing police with the tools, authorities and investments to address hate-motivated crime and public order challenges.

We have made our expectations clear: these tools must be used. Torontonians and all Ontarians deserve to feel safe in their neighbourhoods, in public spaces, and in their daily lives.

@TPAca

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is how friendly Neighbors should act toward one another. Friendly competition between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays and two great leaders.

It’s also a great ad against tariffs which I’m sure Donald Trump is going to flip out about.

[Patricia Best @pbest2010]

Ukraine will win

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

So using the judge's, ahem, logic, government could not reduce health care spending, or decommission a hospital... After all, both of those measures would endanger someone's safety.

[Joe Oliver @joeoliver1]

Today marks the 10th anniversary of Canada’s last balanced budget I was honoured to present on behalf of @stephenharper government. @MarkJCarney profligate fiscal platform promises $130 billion higher Liberal deficits than previously forecast.

[Social Security Whisperer aka Greenspaceguy @greenspaceguy]

@Scaramucci I misunderstood, I thought it was Libation Day and I'm already 6drinks in

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

President Trump calls tomorrow Liberation Day. I call it Termination Day.

Tariffs are absolute job killers. Millions of Americans’ livelihoods will be put at risk.

[Mark McQueen @markrmcqueen]

Full marks to @MarkDWiseman for leaving this Tweet up.

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

Canadians and Americans deserve stability. Today, I sat down with @johnrobertsFox to discuss the urgency of reaching a trade deal that works for both sides of the border. Let’s get to the table.

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

President Trump’s tariffs are driving markets down, hurting American workers and businesses. It’s time to drop these tariffs for good and reach a fair deal. Until then, Ontario won’t back down.

[Patricia Best @pbest2010]

@cselley How can I like this 1000 times

[Crowbar Jones 🥘🔪 @gomichild]

It’s time to go Full Canadian.

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

After Canadians stood firm, Secretary Lutnick today extended an olive branch. I’m going to work with him in good faith toward a free trade deal that’s fair for both countries.

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

This morning, I met with Mark Carney, Canada’s incoming prime minister for a positive and productive discussion. We agreed on the need to stand firm and strong in the face of President Trump’s threats, including additional retaliatory tariffs in response to U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, which will raise costs for American businesses and families. Team Canada has risen to the challenge and proven that no one should ever underestimate the strength and resilience of the Canadian people. Together, we will get through this more united than ever before.

Canada won’t relent until the threat of tariffs is gone for good. I look forward to sitting down with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and members of the Trump administration’s economic team tomorrow. Facing the cost of Ontario’s 25 per cent surcharge on electricity exports, Secretary Lutnick extended an olive branch to start a conversation about the future of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. Over the coming weeks and months, I’m going to work with Secretary Lutnick, our federal partners and every premier in good faith toward a free trade deal that’s fair for both countries.