Scott Haun

Lover of golf, hiking, mountains, and family. Not necessarily in that order. Not a fan of politicians.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

According to Canada’s Food Price Report 2026, a family of four is projected to spend $17,572 on food this year.

The Prime Minister’s Office might want to include a few people who can actually do food math before making affordability announcements.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Ayn Rand’s warning was not about some distant dystopia. It was about the moment a country starts punishing production and rewarding political access.

Look at Liberal Canada.

If you want to build, drill, mine, farm, hire, invest, or expand, you need permission from people who produce nothing but paperwork. If you play the subsidy game, hire the right lobbyist, repeat the right slogans, and flatter the right ministers, money magically appears.

Work gets taxed. Risk gets regulated. Failure gets funded. Competence gets buried under process. Graft gets renamed “partnership.” Waste gets called “investment.” Favours get dressed up as policy.

This is how countries decline. Not all at once. Slowly, stupidly, and with press releases.

Canada does not need more managers of decline. It needs a government that respects the people who actually produce the wealth in the first place.

[Tokyo Rosie @RosieRocks28]

Acting like a complete dick towards Alberta's referendum is a double edge sword for Carney. It may score him points with the elbows crowd but it also puts Liberal support in Quebec at risk.
Carney needs to tread very carefully here.

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

TD report on CANADA's BRAIN DRAIN is really interesting.

Canada is quietly losing its top talent to the United States in what economists call a silent brain drain. While Canada does a strong job educating highly skilled workers in STEM, engineering, and entrepreneurship, it struggles to keep them due to higher taxes that kick in at much lower income levels, limited opportunities to scale companies, weaker commercialization of ideas, and much better pay and growth potential south of the border.
-> Talent leaves mainly through temporary US work visas rather than permanent moves
-> Outflows are heavily concentrated among the highest skilled, especially in tech and advanced degrees
-> Onward migration is worst among immigrants and top university graduates
-> Canada has a missing middle of medium sized firms, relying instead on many tiny businesses and a few large ones
-> Personal tax rates often exceed 50 percent in major provinces and apply at much lower thresholds than in the US
-> Complex corporate tax rules push entrepreneurs toward tax planning instead of growth

All of this weakens productivity, innovation, and domestic returns on education, making Canada a feeder system for the US economy
REPORT: https://t.co/fA0VzaJDSm

[Scott Haun @ScottHaun]

@mcclusk Good post, I can’t as an Oilers fan argue with any of it.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

"It’s astonishing that almost no media outlet has reported on the UN’s downgrading of some of the most extreme climate scenarios that helped drive the urgency behind the Paris Climate Accord and carbon taxes around the world.

The UN-backed scientific community is now acknowledging that the planet is likely not warming as fast as some earlier worst-case projections suggested. Canadians deserve to know this, especially as major policies continue to reshape economies, energy systems, and food affordability."

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

Let me get this straight.

You’ve been in power for ten years. You’ve doubled the debt. You’ve weakened the economy. And now, your answer is to trap young Canadians?

On stage, the Liberal Party of Canada brings out Patrick Pichette, a former senior executive at Google, who now lives in Europe, to suggest that Canadians who want to pursue opportunities in the United States should face an exit tax of $500,000.

Half a million dollars to leave your own country.

This, from someone who once left Canada himself to build a career in the U.S. and paid virtually nothing to do so.

So let’s be honest about what this is.

It is not economic policy. It is not nation building. It is control.

A government that has mismanaged the economy now wants to limit your ability to seek opportunity elsewhere. Instead of creating reasons to stay, they are looking for ways to make it harder to leave.

You do not grow a country by locking people in. You grow it by giving them a reason to believe in it.

[Scott Haun @ScottHaun]

@ClaudeTan911 Chrystia Freeland was installed in the Ukraine to oversee and implement the massive money laundering program. Wake up Canada

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

Succinctly stated !

[Scott Haun @ScottHaun]

@Bzubyk Great post Brad. We’re a non-productive over taxed poorly governed country that has been fading into mediocrity and irrelevance for years.

[Chris Ryan @Watchdog_MP]

🚨 This should NEVER be allowed to happen in Canada 🇨🇦

Liberals are begging the Supreme Court to gut the notwithstanding clause (Section 33) and rewrite Canada’s Constitution WITHOUT a single vote from the people or proper amending formula.

I warned you the Carney Liberals would be the most authoritarian in Canadian history. They’re trying to amend the Constitution by judicial fiat exactly what the premiers blocked Pierre Trudeau from doing in 1982.

This is a brazen power grab by activist courts and Ottawa Liberals to strip elected governments and provinces of their democratic override.

Section 33 exists to protect democracy from unelected judges.

Fire any judge who tries to limit it!

Defend the Constitution as written or watch Canada become a full judicial dictatorship.
#Section33 #SaveDemocracy

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Let me walk you through what happened one hour before Trump announced the five day moratorium on Iran strikes.

$1.5 billion in notional S&P E-mini futures contracts. Four to six times normal activity.

One hour before the announcement.

Simultaneously, $192 million in crude oil futures purchased at the same time.

They made between $300 and $400 million dollars off those trades.

Trump claimed he spoke to an Iranian official to negotiate the moratorium.

The Iranians said that person doesn't exist and the conversation never happened.

This is not the first time.

It has happened multiple times. He says something. The trade goes on. He says another thing. The market moves.

But whatever you call it — they are laughing at you and they are laughing at me while they do it.

Hunter Biden sold a painting and Washington lost its mind.

These people are making hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars trading on information that only exists inside the most powerful office in the world.

I think we are dramatically underreporting how much money is actually being made here.

This isn't politics anymore.

This is a financial operation running out of the White House.

[Scott Haun @ScottHaun]

@liz_churchill10 Another reason to love Japan

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇯🇵 Japan is trending on X today. Good. It’s long overdue.

Let me tell you three things about this country that will quietly rearrange everything you thought you knew about human nature. And animal nature, for that matter.

Someone left an iPhone on a bench in Tokyo. Not in a sleepy suburb. In Tokyo, a city of thirty-seven million people, most of them late for something. The phone sat there. The next day, it was still there. Which means that every single person who walked past it made a small, private decision: not my phone. Leave it.
In most cities, that phone would have had the life expectancy of a mayfly in a thunderstorm.

Then there are the football fans. Japan plays a match, the stadium shakes, and then they tidy up. Every wrapper, every cup, every last plastic bag. They leave the stands cleaner than they found them. As a matter of course. As if it simply never occurred to them to do anything else.

And then there is Nara. In this ancient city, over a thousand wild deer roam freely among temples and schoolchildren and tourists. They have lived alongside humans for thirteen centuries, considered sacred messengers of the gods. They will walk up to you, look you in the eye, and bow. Deeply and deliberately. It is, I should mention, a learned trick to get rice crackers. But here is the thing: somewhere along the way, a deer decided that the correct way to ask a human for something was to bow politely first. In Japan, even the wildlife has manners.

No law requires any of this. No fine threatens it. It emerges from something much harder to legislate: the quiet, unshakeable conviction that the space around you is shared, and therefore your responsibility.

Three small stories. One very large idea.

The rest of us might want to take notes.

ありがとう、日本。
Thank you, Japan.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Scott Haun @ScottHaun]

@FoodProfessor State run grocery stores, not at all socialist. The stupid part of this is the government thinks they can provide these groceries at reduced cost, but, they need to increase taxes / or go further into debt to achieve this. Which we ultimately pay more for. Grade 6 economics.

[Handre @Handre]

The Berlin Wall created the most brutal controlled experiment in human history: identical people, split by ideology, watched for 41 years to see which system would prevail.

West Germans embraced market economics while East Germans suffered under socialist central planning. The results? Devastating. By 1989, East German GDP per capita sat at roughly 30% of West Germany's level. East Germans consumed 40% fewer calories, owned cars at one-tenth the rate, and waited 12 years for a telephone connection. Meanwhile, their western cousins enjoyed rising living standards, technological innovation, and personal freedom that made West Germany an economic powerhouse.

But the socialists had excuses ready. "East Germany started from a worse position after the war," they claimed. Bullshit. Both regions faced identical devastation in 1945. The Soviets actually stripped more industrial equipment from their zone (roughly $10 billion worth), yet this affected rural areas less than urban centers. And East Germany possessed abundant natural resources like lignite coal and uranium that should have provided economic advantages.

The real difference? Property rights, price signals, and entrepreneurship versus state ownership, price controls, and bureaucratic allocation. West Germans could start businesses, invest capital, and respond to consumer demands. East Germans filled quotas set by party officials who had never run so much as a lemonade stand. You can't coordinate an economy through committee meetings and five-year plans when prices tell you nothing about real supply and demand.

East Germans voted with their feet—2.7 million fled west before the Communists built their wall in 1961. After reunification, investigators found Stasi files on one-third of the population. When you need secret police watching every third citizen, your economic system has already failed.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

🚨 LOOK AT THIS CHART

Money supply (M2) growth since 1968:

🇨🇦 Canada: 10,784%

🇩🇪 Germany: 6,273%
🇨🇳 China: 5,844%
🇺🇸 United States: 4,155%
🇯🇵 Japan: 3,811%

Canada printed more money than every major economy on earth.

Every other country started levelling off.

Canada’s line goes VERTICAL.

This is why your dollar is worthless.

This is why homes cost $1 million.

This is why groceries doubled.

This is why food bank visits hit 2.2 million.

This is why your savings buy less every single year.

It’s not “global inflation.”

It’s a printing press that never stopped.

IT’S THE CANADIAN PESO.

The government devalued YOUR MONEY to fund spending it couldn’t afford.

[Scott Haun @ScottHaun]

@Mikeggibbs You’re an unhinged lunatic

[Scott Haun @ScottHaun]

@MarkJCarney In Canada, we believe that everyone should have a chance to get ahead, especially Indian students. So for next year, we’re launching a $100 million scholarship and funding program for Indian foreigners, money that Canadians just don’t need.

[Scott Haun @ScottHaun]

@alexstubb As a Canadian I applaud you and your country for making life the happiest for your citizens.