Retired Islander

Proud Canadian Veteran of 37 years. Will only say things I would say to you in real life! Very intolerant of Woke bullshit! Preferred pronouns MiLord/MiLord.

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@AaronGunn @MBrant75 Owned! Awesome response. The hypocrisy is so obvious with @WadeGrant. What a dirtbag.

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@iamrobinskies Lots of bitter sore losers out there, that’s for sure. Buck up, buttercup and enjoy the ride!

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@bcrawfordjr @BobDEithKC And a fanatical zealot!

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Why Do 50% Still Support Carney? My long-winded response.

That is a question we need to take seriously.

Leger’s latest federal polling has the Liberals at 50% support among decided voters, their highest level in that firm’s tracking since the Liberals first formed government in 2015. Abacus also found the political environment still favourable for Carney and the Liberal government. So this is not imaginary. This is not just CBC fairy dust sprinkled over Ottawa. The support is real. The harder question is whether it is rational.

My answer is simple: many Canadians are not voting for results. They are voting for the illusion of relief.

Even though Carney was in the economic background since 2020 he appeared to arrive after the Trudeau years like a man in a clean suit walking into a room after the dog crapped on the floor. Trump threatened 51st State. Carney looked calm. Unlike Trudeau. He spoke in complete sentences. He had the central banker aura. For exhausted voters, that was enough. They did not examine the wiring. They just saw someone who did not seem to be setting the curtains on fire.

Carney’s appeal is not built mainly on performance. It is built on contrast. Compared with Trudeau’s theatre-kid government of slogans, selfies, and moral lectures, Carney looks serious. But “serious” is not the same as right. A surgeon can look serious while operating on the wrong leg.

Canada’s economy is now weak enough that Carney himself has had to acknowledge ugly economic data. Reuters reported him addressing Canada’s technical recession and warning that some data will be “uneven” “ah ah ah” as the government pushes through policy changes. The Wall Street Journal reported GDP weakness, including two consecutive quarterly contractions, while Carney framed the pain as part of a broader economic rebuild.

That is where the sales pitch gets slippery.

When the economy weakens under Conservatives, it is called failure. When it weakens under Liberals, it becomes “transition,” “restructuring,” or “long-term transformation.” Same corpse, nicer label on the toe tag.

The deeper problem is that Canadians were never really asked whether they wanted Carney’s ideology. They were sold competence, not doctrine. They were sold expertise, not a governing philosophy that puts the state, regulators, climate finance, and elite managerial planning at the centre of national life.

Nobody knocked on doors saying, “Would you like a prime minister who believes markets should be bent around elite-defined social and environmental values?” No. They said, “He is smart. He ran banks. He knows Trump. He will steady things.”

That is not a mandate. That is a branding exercise.

And this is why the Conservative attack has to get sharper. Not louder. Sharper.

Calling voters stupid is a dead end. Many Carney supporters are not stupid. They are terrified of Trump. They are tired. They are anxious. They are looking at housing, debt, food prices, crime, productivity, health care, and a country that feels smaller than it used to, and they want someone who looks like an adult. Carney gives them the visual. He gives them the voice. He gives them the vibe.

But vibes do not build houses. Vibes do not raise productivity. Vibes do not lower debt. Vibes do not attract investment. Vibes do not make young Canadians believe they have a future.

The Carney government’s strongest weapon is not success. It is emotional permission. It lets Liberal voters tell themselves they have moved on from Trudeau without admitting the Liberal machine remains fundamentally intact. Same operating system, cleaner looking wallpaper.

That is why 50% still support him.

They are not endorsing the results. They are postponing the verdict.

Canada does not need a better-spoken manager of decline. It needs a government willing to reverse the policies that caused the decline in the first place.

Because a tight ship headed toward the rocks is still headed toward the rocks.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Britain had a moment of silence for George Floyd. Our politicians kneeled en masse to show their outrage at his killing. "I can't breathe" became a slogan.

George Floyd died on the other side of the world. He wasn't British.

Henry Nowak *was* British and his treatment by the police was shocking and negligent in the extreme. Yet there is no minute of silence. There is no coordinated public campaign. There is no kneeling at sporting events.

And we all know why.

During the summer of BLM, some people said "All Lives Matter". This was treated as the highest form of racism and anyone who said this was immediately cancelled. Why? Because the people in charge don't actually think all lives matter in the same way.

They have created a racial hierarchy of victimhood where a career criminal who died through mistreatment by police in a foreign country with 0 evidence of racism like George Floyd is automatically sanctified because of the colour of his skin.

And Henry Nowak, a British man, one of ours, is automatically dismissed and ignored because of the colour of his.

This is the ugly fruit of so-called "anti-racism", an obsession with race that has created a two-tier society which treats people differently because of the colour of their skin.

This needs to stop.

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@TruthWorksLoops Love the ratio and this guy’s too stupid for words.

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@kammornanchor How to prove you’re a moron with one statement.

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@drotchford_BC Loving the ratio. What a foolish and stupid take.

[Keean Bexte @TheRealKeean]

RT if you changed your vote because of this decision.

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@ryanlpainter @RobShaw_BC @Conservative_BC Rob Shaw is a hack and a grifting shill.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

KLF wins leadership.

They immediately call her MAGA

Pierre during the election

They call him MAGA.

Erin O’Toole wore red high heels & they still called him MAGA.

Carney said he’d Make America Great Again!

“MAGA” NO LONGER CARRIES ANY SIGNIFICANCE IN CANADIAN POLITICS.

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@elenoresturko Just resign then.

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@KahlonRav @christineeboyle A moron speaks…

[Daniel Lacalle @dlacalle_IA]

Canada 🇨🇦. Trudeau and Carney wanted net zero, and they got it: zero growth, zero jobs, and zero productivity.

via Bloomberg

[Gina Unfiltered | 🇨🇦 @Gina_T1]

Hey @grok, Canada is reportedly the only G7 nation in a recession. Short answer: Is this primarily the result of global economic conditions, domestic policy choices, or both?

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

The group you keep hearing about in the media, Coastal First Nations, isn't a band.
They hold neither rights nor title.
They're a not-for-profit based in downtown Vancouver started with money from American foundations opposed to resource development.
https://t.co/dEolWB5IzT

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Steven Guilbeault is leaving federal politics, and not a moment too soon.

He may go down as one of the ministers who most aggressively weaponized science, funding questionable research groups like the Canadian Climate Institute and other pet projects to reinforce a single “climate crisis” narrative.

Anyone claiming Guilbeault truly believed in science is fooling themselves. He treated science like a buffet — picking only what supported his agenda. That’s not science.

He even misquoted me in the House of Commons, attributing claims to me that I have never said or published. That alone tells you everything you need to know about how evidence and dissent were handled under his watch.

Good riddance.

[Barbara Kay @BarbaraRKay]

That's fascinating. But it puzzles me that such adventures (as surely such catches were) were not captured in songs and stories, as one would expect in other pre-literate societies, to be handed down through the generations. Also their battles with other tribes.

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@ManonRaven @TristinHopper It is you peddling conspiracy theories. The likelihood of any graves existing is nil as no children went missing according to the records. Educate yourself.

https://t.co/r695a8LNaM

[The Reclamare @TheReclamare]

I think its important to also share that their was instances of criminal abuse at BC Residential Schools.

The situation in Kamloops is only working to detract from the documented truth of their brothers and sisters, but thats on the @Tkemlups conscience 🧵

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

An Inconvenient Truth for climate alarmists:

Al Gore’s dramatic climate warnings shaped a generation — but 20 years later, the data tell a very different story.

Climate-related deaths are down 97% over the past century, polar bears more than doubled since the 1960s, and global burned area has decreased by more than 25% over the past quarter century.

That's hardly a success of climate policy though: fossil fuels still provide 81% of world energy, emissions keep rising, and $16 trillion+ spent on green policies since Gore's movie came out hasn’t changed the trajectory.

A good reminder that panic is a terrible policy adviser.

https://t.co/PHVlqFB3Zg

[Retired Islander @RetiredIslander]

@BCBarrister Not getting it….