Raul Avila Matos

[Raul Avila Matos @RaulAvilaMatos]

92 years young! Still a Canadian PM!

[CSPAN @cspan]

Former Canada Prime Minister Jean Chrétien: "I have message for American friends...never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, never mistake our kindness for softness...We bow to no one."

[National Post @nationalpost]

Ben Woodfinden: 'Blame Canada' conservatives are no better than woke statue topplers https://t.co/s0HN6V1g92

[Raul Avila Matos @RaulAvilaMatos]

@Cmlandin9 @Jomboy_ He did say it already, he was trolling him 😅

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

For generations Albertans have made astonishing sacrifices to build Canada, to defend it, and even to die for our country as the truth North strong and free.

But some rich Canadians who spend half the year sunning themselves in Arizona are going to take a break from their regular golf-and-happy-hour routine to drop by and sign a petition, in a foreign land, to tear apart the country built by their ancestors.

For shame.

[Michael Gerald Gibbs @Mikeggibbs]

Bless Jean Chretien AND Stephen Harper for doing that today.

I'm especially very impressed and surprised Harper did it.

We need to see more of it.

Canadians want to see our leaders getting along, and mending fences, instead of fighting.

Canadians are yearning for it.

[Raul Avila Matos @RaulAvilaMatos]

@PierrePoilievre @CliffordSmallMP @RickPerkinsCPC @grok is it true “Bill C-9 criminalizes bible verses”?

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

This is a great explanation of Canada’s aid to Ukraine, in two slides from Facebook. Read and be enlightened:

[44fore44 🇨🇦 ☮️ 🍁🏳️‍🌈 @SandyWiseman44]

@luvcaffeine @PierrePoilievre Look what a little googling can find. So many hypocrites.

[Melanie 🇨🇦 @Mellyfax]

#NeverPoilievre #hypocrite

[Jaro Giesbrecht @JaroGiesbrecht]

As Conservative House Leader, @AndrewScheer is currently leading the charge against the defections of Chris d'Entremont and Michael Ma to @MarkJCarney’s Liberal government. The hypocrisy lies in how he has completely inverted his 2018 logic to suit his current political needs.

"If, like @LeonaAlleslev, you supported @JustinTrudeau and the Liberals in the last election and you're frustrated or even angry with the ineffective leadership, know this: you are both welcome and needed in the Conservative Party of Canada."

[Mark Gerretsen 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @MarkGerretsen]

Not long ago, a bill tried to ban floor crossings.

Conservative MP Michelle Rempel Garner delivered a blunt, clear-eyed case for why that’s a terrible idea — and why she and her colleagues voted it down.

[Spencer Fernando @SpencerFernando]

Canada has managed to bring immigration under control without scapegoating and without cruelty. That is something to be proud of.
https://t.co/pEoVWK6uS9

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

Doesn't matter anyways. Scheer was waiting behind the curtains to abstain.

[@Coastliving @coastlivingnow]

Canadians Pls sign - Over 41,800 signatures and counting! Petition e-6679 closes Nov 27. We’re so close — let’s hit 50,000 and show Ottawa loud and clear: Canadians demand accountability from those we elect! https://t.co/QhFJjW5KfE

[Karen B 🇨🇦 🇺🇦🇲🇽🇦🇺 @LibArtsAndMinds]

If @AndrewScheer and @ScottReidCPC 's shenanigans (vote) doesn't tell you all you needed to know about how the #cpc wanted the Budget vote to go, you're not paying attention. They are fooling no one, except perhaps the gullible, and that's both telling and sad. #cdnpoli

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

“This budget is the worst thing for Canada!” *but we will quietly ensure it passes shhhhh*

Either it wasn’t so bad after all, or party over country because they know they’d lose an election if it failed.

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

I see the blame Canada crowd is out in full force today.

For them, it is a “provocation” to quote America’s greatest post war President articulating his life-long opposition to protectionism, and support for free trade.

They’re deeply concerned that Donald Trump’s feelings have been hurt by having to listen to Ronald Reagan.

They’re now repeating Trump’s laughable claim that Reagan was a protectionist.

They amplify Trump’s absurd claim that Canada triggered a massive trade war through southbound migration and fentanyl smuggling, despite the clear fact that northbound smuggling of narcotics, guns, and migrants from the US to Canada are all massively higher.

When Trump said on January 7 that his plan was to use “economic force” to “acquire and annex Canada,” how did the blame Canada crowd respond? By blaming Canada.

There is no simple solution to dealing with Trump’s attacks on our economy. Given his capriciousness and apparent determination to cannibalize entire Canadian industries, there may be no solution at all.

But in finding the best way forward, we should understand that Canada isn’t to blame for this mess, and that grovelling is not a strategy.

[Raul Avila Matos @RaulAvilaMatos]

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[Spencer Fernando @SpencerFernando]

There is real need for a principled and fiscally-responsible form of Canadian conservatism. For that form of conservatism to endure, the gravitational pull of Trumpism must be resisted. https://t.co/vMwmTOHzXR

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

The Conservative Party that was shaped by the nation-building of Sir John A. Macdonald, the moral conviction of John Diefenbaker, the bold ambition of Brian Mulroney, and the steady discipline of Stephen Harper is far greater than any one man.

It is a party rooted in history, principle, and purpose, a party built to serve the country, not the ego of a single leader.

No individual, no matter how loud or popular, has the right to rewrite that legacy or distort it into something it was never meant to be.

This week, Poilievre accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of committing what he described as the worst possible offence for a head of government, violating the Criminal Code and escaping justice. He claimed that Trudeau’s free vacation from the Aga Khan was a clear-cut criminal breach and that the RCMP deliberately chose not to lay charges.

Poilievre went further, declaring that Trudeau should have been criminally charged and sent to jail. He went as far as accusing the RCMP leadership of being “despicable” and actively shielding the Liberal government from prosecution.

In a rule-of-law democracy, no opposition leader should ever call for a prime minister or any political rival to be jailed. It undermines confidence in our justice system, our federal police and ultimately the Crown. That kind of rhetoric isn’t strength, it’s recklessness and it shows a leadership approach that remains rooted in grievance rather than governance.

Months after losing the federal election, Poilievre seems not to have learned the lessons of his electoral defeat.
For all the fiery slogans and viral clips, Canadians saw through the performance. What they needed was a prime minister-in-waiting. What they got was a man addicted to opposition, stuck

Months later, there’s little evidence he has reflected, adapted, or grown. If anything, he seems more committed than ever to the very approach that cost him credibility with the voters he most needed to win.

https://t.co/rXj4dhnf9G