I welcome Alberta’s success in attracting Meta’s investment. A project of this scale demonstrates that Canada can compete for world-class AI infrastructure when governments create the right investment conditions.
My concern has never been with Alberta’s initiative. My concern is that after eleven years of federal policies that have delayed major energy and infrastructure development, Canada has made it far more difficult to attract and support innovation.
Brady on the Pat McAfee show today talking about the trade
“Obviously I wanted to win in Ottawa, I was there for 8 years. This past year I just wasn’t feeling it and needed my brother more than ever. I can’t win on my own. Also I’m gay.”
Poilievre posted this clip of Carney saying “weaknesses.” He cut the sentence in half, as usual. The full quote: “The U.S. has fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising its tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression. Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become weaknesses that we must correct.”
@PierrePoilievre, you know the risk of a single customer holding 75% of your exports. You know what happens when that customer launches an unprovoked trade war against its closest ally, threatens annexation on Truth Social, and holds your steel industry hostage over a fentanyl crisis your border did not cause. Calling that a structural vulnerability is Economics 101. Calling it strength is a pitch deck for surrender.
Regarding the “rupture”: Carney used the exact right word. The 25% general tariffs, the 50% steel tariffs, the threat to make Canada the 51st state, and the open diplomatic warmth toward Putin, we can keep going, validate it completely. @MarkJCarney diagnosed reality. Poilievre attacks the diagnosis.
Both quotes in that video are true and completely compatible. Diagnosing over-dependency and demanding a stronger bilateral relationship operate as a single, unified strategy. They only sound contradictory when someone cuts the sentence, deletes the context, and manufactures a scandal. Sounds familiar, Pierre?
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This is a great podcast and my pal @Sean_Speer makes a very important observation about US-Canada relations: when the dust settles, the long-term consequences of the Trump years on Canada will have more to do with things Canada did to itself than anything Trump did to Canada.
Remember the Trump gold card? Pay 5 million as an immigrant and you get to live and work in the US. Nutlick said he sold 1000 in one day. Do you know what the real number was?
It's this stupid project wherein Europeans who don't don't know anything about Canada but want to imagine we're "like more them" because they hate the US, find common cause with our prime minister who also hates the US and wishes he didn't have to share a continent with them.
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This is a shockingly virulent screed against the United States, published in Canada’s self-proclaimed leading national newspaper, written by two elite academics. Unhinged anti-Americanism is a seriously toxic, destructive force in Canada that needs to face more resistance.
ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH CLIP... Deputy US Trade Representative Rick Switzer on USMCA
"They can have a weak economy that is underperforming and not doing well, and Carney can feel superior."
"Or they can have an economy that participates with as a partner of the U.S. economy."
"And Carney can do what a grownup should do, which is figure out."
"...It's my job as a person who's supposed to protect Canadian jobs and Canadian citizens and the Canadian economy to not let my ego and my feelings dictate what's best for my own economy."
Q "Do you think this will have implications for the USMCA?"
Switzer "Yeah, of course it is..."
"Look, was Ambassador Greer in Canada? Did he meet with Carney? No."
"...The grownups are in the room talking because there's a grown up in the presidency in leadership there, and I would argue there's not a grown up in Canada in charge there."
"You don't go out of your way to antagonize the leader of the country that you are absolutely existentially tied to."
"It's just political malpractice." @markjcarney
Reallocating dairy import quotas more fairly and ending the embargo on American alcohol are very much in the interest of the Canadian economy as a whole, particularly for Canadian consumers! These things shouldn't even be viewed as concessions at all!
"Canadian Prime Minister Mark “Carney has a problem with us; he gets on a plane and he goes to China,” Lutnick continued. “Does he think China’s… going to buy his stuff? China is an entirely export-driven economy. So what did he do? He came back and said, ‘Oh, we’ll take their electric cars.’ I mean, is this nuts?”"
I’m noticing a lot of lunatics gloss over the fact that this administration is hyperbolic at best. Greatest what? Nothing they’ve done is the greatest anything and they’re very aware.
I’m noticing a lot of foreigners who seem to not understand why we’d risk hundreds of lives, spend millions of dollars, and sacrifice several aircraft to rescue one guy. And the reason they don’t understand is also the reason people can’t be made American by a piece of paper.
Mark Carney has box seats at the Ottawa Senators game today.
Currently we have about 2.2 million visits to food banks per month.
There’s the have-nots in Canada and then there’s the have-yachts.
We live in a world that hates Christ and those who believe in Him, but that's to be expected. Just as He was persecuted, so will we be.
Consider me a Jaden Ivey fan.
Cancelling Harry Potter because of Rowling but remaking/doing spin offs of Narnia and LOTR despite Lewis and Tolkien being two of the most prominent Christian figures of the last century who undoubtedly share Rowling’s views she’s been cancelled for.
Make it make sense.