Smith's rant was disingenuous in that it implied the $400 billion would be new expenses.
We are already on the hook for national debt if we stay and we already pay for all the services she listed.
There will be expenses, but nothing like what the premier claimed.
Gary Mason with yet another one of his unhinged takes.
MAGA north? Please. Individuals like Gary are the reason our nation is so divided.
What type of label even is this? Why is it ok to call Canadians with different political views or opinions names & get other Canadians angry at them for now reason? You can’t hate the media enough in our country.
This is what the ‘51st State’ could actually mean, without calling it that. There are a decent number of Canadians who’d happily join an economic union with the United States — and they’re right. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Canada is a resource-rich nation governed by incompetent socialists who’ve turned our dollar into a joke.
We need to think bigger.
What would it actually look like?
1. One North American passport. Live, work, and travel freely between the two countries. No more border nonsense for actual citizens.
2. Ditch the pathetic Canadian dollar for the USD. End the currency weakness, inflation games, and ‘Trudeau peso’ embarrassment.
3. Total free trade. Zero tariffs. Integrated supply chains. North America becomes an economic fortress that China couldn’t dream of competing with.
4. Resources + American capital = explosion of wealth. Canada’s oil, minerals, and water paired with U.S. markets and investment. Actual prosperity instead of managed decline.
5. Harmonized regulations so doctors, engineers, and tradespeople can work anywhere without jumping through endless bureaucratic hoops.
This isn’t becoming the 51st state. It’s two sovereign nations acting like adults and building the strongest economic bloc on Earth.
Forget the European Union. It’s a weaker version of this. Canada’s current path is national suicide. Choose strength over feelings & TDS.
Thoughts? 🇺🇸🇨🇦
Some of the most unhinged hate that I receive comes from other academics. The soldiers, the corrections officers, the truckers, and all those from the muscular classes (to borrow @VDHanson's term) seem to greatly appreciate my work and style. The deeply leftist professors seem to have a deep visceral aversion to my personhood including my humour, my spicy sarcasm etc. Why is that? Hmmm.
@sauve_brian@PatKelly_MP Listen to the utter wasteful bureaucracy that @sauve_brian and the federal RCMP have to deal with, just to get a new taser! (he's cut off by Liberal chair @karinagould of course! 🤦♂️)
💥 BOOM: @Sauve_Brian, representing 20,000 federal RCMP officers, DROPS A BOMB 💣 on the Liberals gun grab, telling @PatKelly_MP going after licensed gun owners:
✅ isn't backed by ANY statistics
✅ is a "complicated/expensive" waste of $$
✅ will take police away from REAL crime
Under PM Harper...
Q1 2015: -0.8% annualized GDP
Q2 2015: -0.5% annualized GDP
Bank of Canada: "Yes, Canada meets the technical definition of a recession."
Under PM Carney...
Q4 2025: -1.0% annualized GDP
Q1 2026: -0.1% annualized GDP
Bank of Canada: "Two negative quarters of GDP alone should not be used to define the state of the economy."
FACT CHECK: A Toronto Star columnist is treating Alberta's grievances as evidence of entitlement rather than evidence of unresolved political conflict.
Tim Hortons announces plan to hire 10,000 local job seekers.
After years of telling us that Canadian youth were "too lazy" to work and that only TFWs could pour coffee, Tim's is trying to win back lost support.
This is a PR stunt from a company that betrayed Canadians.
I tried asking APTN what their involvement is in the CBC "prank show."
Their comms director accidentally sent me an internal email stating that they were going to ignore my inquiry because I'm just a lowly Canadian citizen and not a media outlet (not that they will give a sufficient answer to the media either.) I followed up and asked who I can contact then, and they just didn't respond.
It's actually crazy that these taxpayer-supported institutions think that they don't need to answer to anyone. They don't even think I deserve a modicum of an answer to my questions, even though they shouldn't be difficult to respond to.