L. Wayne Mathison

Entrepreneur & Ex Municipal Leader. Cross-disciplinary student of economics, psychology, and philosophy. I prefer local grit and real-world results over vibes.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Pelican Lake, Manitoba

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Wab Kinew has reached the height of his incompetence.

Once again, Manitoba’s NDP government demonstrates that political popularity matters more than understanding basic economics.

Kinew now wants to make housing more affordable by restricting how much landlords can recover from major repairs and improvements.

Brilliant. Just brilliant.

Buildings still need new roofs, heating systems, plumbing and maintenance. Property taxes, insurance and labour costs don’t magically disappear because Wab Kinew signs another regulation.

Who does he think pays for all this?

Protecting tenants from massive, unapproved rent increases makes sense. But discouraging investment in existing rental properties is economic stupidity.

When you punish investment, you get less of it. When you discourage maintenance, buildings deteriorate. When you make rental housing less attractive financially, investors take their money elsewhere.

And who ultimately suffers? The very tenants Kinew claims to be helping.

You cannot regulate your way out of a housing shortage. You need investment, construction, competition and more supply.

This is classic NDP thinking. Promise immediate relief, ignore the longer-term consequences, and blame somebody else when the inevitable problems arrive.

After decades in business, I understand one simple principle that apparently escapes our premier: You cannot keep increasing the costs and risks of providing something and expect people to provide more of it.

Wab Kinew needs an economics lesson. Manitoba needs competent leadership.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

@SpikeToronto Yep. 🤣

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Mark Carney has a “PhD” in economics, yet he seems to believe that imposing additional costs on Canadian industry will somehow make us more competitive.

Our steelmakers are fighting American tariffs, cheap foreign production and shrinking access to their largest export market.

Yes, cleaner technology can improve productivity and open new markets. But a carbon tax doesn’t magically create customers willing to pay more for Canadian steel.

Where are the sales contracts? Where is the measurable competitive advantage? Where are the jobs?

You cannot tax an industry into prosperity. Show Canadians the economic return instead of selling us another political elbow-zo slogan.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 PM Carney: “Carbon tax will make Canadian steel leapfrog the world!” 🐸

Reality check: ☑️

•🇨🇦Canada: $80/tonne tax
•🇺🇸 USA: $0
•🇨🇳 China: $0
• Jobs: Leaving faster than investment

This isn’t “leapfrogging.”

It’s pushing your own industry off a cliff. 🪦

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

At what point do Canadians wake the hell up?

2.35 MILLION food bank visits in a single month. Up 117% since 2019. And nearly one-third involve children.

This is what more than a decade of Liberal economic management has delivered.

We hear endless speeches about compassion, affordability, fairness and building a stronger Canada. Yet more working Canadians cannot afford the basics of life.

Housing is unaffordable. Groceries cost a fortune. Taxes eat away at disposable income. Productivity is weak, and the standard of living people worked decades to build is slipping away.

Now we’re supposed to believe Mark Carney, another architect of the political and economic establishment, is going to fix everything?

Give me a break.

I don’t judge governments by their speeches, promises or intentions. I judge them by the results.

And these results are disgraceful.

Canadians need to stop voting for promises and start demanding accountability.

A country that grows its government faster than its prosperity is heading in the wrong direction. And we’re living with the consequences.

[𝒮𝓊𝑒 𝑀𝒶𝒸 @GreatBig_Sea]

If fellow Canadians actually paid attention, they would never vote Liberal again.

[𝒮𝓊𝑒 𝑀𝒶𝒸 @GreatBig_Sea]

If fellow Canadians actually paid attention, they would never vote Liberal again.

[Bruce McGonigal @bruce_mcgonigal]

🟠📉🟢📈 : David Eby asked BC Green voters to support the BC NDP, to block the Conservative party.

The result? A surge in BC Green voter support in the latest poll. Disaster for the BC NDP.

If this holds, the BC NDP will be blown out of office, on Saturday.

https://t.co/tngkj1wgrz

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

I agree that we need to stop calling every disastrous political decision a mistake. These were deliberate policies, defended and repeated by elected governments.

The consequences were often predictable: pressure on housing, health care, infrastructure and social cohesion.

When political leaders repeatedly ignore those consequences, incompetence stops being an adequate excuse. Ideology, political incentives and a refusal to admit failure deserve serious scrutiny.

The real question is how much damage governments can do before voters finally demand a different direction.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

FRANCE IS A WARNING TO CANADA. AND WE ARE HEADING DOWN A SIMILAR ROAD.

France is learning an expensive lesson. You cannot keep expanding government, raising taxes, borrowing money and promising benefits without eventually confronting economic reality.

Government spending in France consumes roughly 57% of GDP. Taxes are among the highest in the developed world. Public debt exceeds 110% of GDP, economic growth is weak, and politicians struggle to reform a system that voters have grown dependent upon.

Sound familiar?

Canada is making many of the same mistakes.

We have weak productivity, declining affordability, growing public debt and governments that seem convinced every problem can be solved with another program, another regulation or another tax.

I’ve owned businesses, employed people and farmed for decades. I understand something politicians routinely ignore. You cannot redistribute wealth that nobody has created.

Businesses need capital, investment, customers and a reasonable return. Workers need productive jobs that pay well enough to build a decent life. Neither benefits when government continually increases the cost of producing something.

And before someone starts shouting about healthcare, education and pensions, I support essential public services. But those services must be affordable, accountable and sustainable.

A government can legislate higher wages, more holidays, additional benefits and greater spending. It cannot legislate productivity, investment or prosperity.

France remains a wealthy country with many successful industries. But its enormous public spending commitments are becoming increasingly difficult to finance.

Canada should be paying attention.

We cannot build a prosperous country by expanding government faster than the productive economy that finances it.

We need private investment, higher productivity, fewer unnecessary regulations, responsible spending and a tax system that rewards people for working, saving and taking risks.

The lesson from France is simple: When governments promise more than their economies can produce, someone eventually pays the price.

Usually the taxpayer. Eventually their children and grandchildren.

Canada has tremendous natural resources, talented people and enormous economic potential.

What we lack is political leadership willing to admit that prosperity must be earned before it can be spent.

A bigger government does not automatically mean a better country. And borrowing against tomorrow to buy votes today is no economic strategy.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine]

This is very valid. You must remove the bad apples…

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

In Iran in 1979, Marxists, socialists and Islamists helped overthrow the Shah. Once Khomeini secured power, the Islamists systematically crushed their former left-wing allies.

The lesson is simple. Sharing a common enemy doesn’t mean sharing common values.

When political movements excuse authoritarianism because it serves their immediate interests, they risk helping destroy the very freedoms they claim to defend.

Canada should learn from history instead of repeating its mistakes.

[M Moore @MickeyCootes]

@WayneMathison We also have a lot of Islamism + "Communist-lite" happening in almost all of urban Canada.

It's like the social version of mixing an acid with a base.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

So when Macron says something it becomes the media’s gospel, but if other politicians they don’t align with say something they are “far-right” and completely wrong.
If people can’t see or believe what’s happening right before their eyes there is no hope.
And more so if they listen to politicians & the media telling them not to believe their lying eyes.

[YEGWhisper @YEGWhisper]

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

[Jim McMurtry @JimMcMurtry01]

Garbage dump on Cowichan Tribes land was discovered in 2004 and still isn’t cleaned up.

Last year the Cowichan were awarded a chunk of Richmond BC because they had a summer camp there in 1846.

Residents in the claim area can’t sell their valueless property—it too is wasteland.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Canada should be leading the development of extended-range electric vehicles (EREVs).

Think about Canadian winters, long highway drives, rural communities and people who tow campers and trailers.

An EREV gives you electric driving around town and a gasoline generator when you need extended range. You get much of the benefit of an EV without depending entirely on charging infrastructure.

The technology makes practical sense for a country like Canada.

I’m tired of governments picking winners with billions in taxpayer subsidies. Let manufacturers innovate, build vehicles Canadians actually want, and compete for our business.

The future doesn’t have to be all gasoline or all battery electric. Give Canadians choices and let the market decide.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

MY TAKE: CANADA IS GETTING POORER, AND OTTAWA KEEPS SELLING US SLOGANS.

2,355,075 food bank visits in a single month. An 80.6% increase since 2021.

Think about that. In one of the wealthiest, most resource-rich countries on Earth, millions of visits to food banks every month. Working Canadians struggling to put groceries on the table. Seniors watching their purchasing power disappear. Young families wondering if they’ll ever afford a home.

And what did we get? More Liberal government and a chorus of Elbows Up cheerleaders convinced that Mark Carney was somehow going to save Canada.

Carney was advising Trudeau in 2020. He chaired the Liberal economic growth task force in 2024. He’s been prime minister since March 2025. He cannot be blamed for every economic problem Canada has, but he certainly cannot pretend he just arrived on the scene.

I’ve spent my life running businesses, farming, employing people and paying taxes. I understand that prosperity comes from productivity, investment, competition and creating real value. Governments cannot tax, borrow and regulate a country into prosperity.

And here’s what really irritates me. Canadians were sold patriotism as a substitute for economic competence.

You cannot eat a slogan. You cannot pay your mortgage with patriotism. And you cannot build prosperity by making everything more expensive.

To the Elbow-zos who cheered this government on, here’s a serious question: At what point do you stop applauding the performance and start demanding results?

I don’t care how impressive Carney’s résumé looks or how many international conferences he attends.

I care whether Canadians can afford groceries, housing and a decent standard of living.

More than 2.35 million food bank visits in March 2026 should embarrass every politician in Ottawa.

Canada has the resources, the talent and the potential to do far better.

Enough speeches. Enough fucking excuses. Show Canadians some results.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

The Hunger Count is out for 2026, published by Food Banks Canada, and it's not good...

[RWB @cambellrwb]

Nothing. All the non-Jews will finally find out what it's like.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 PM Carney: “Carbon tax will make Canadian steel leapfrog the world!” 🐸

Reality check: ☑️

•🇨🇦Canada: $80/tonne tax
•🇺🇸 USA: $0
•🇨🇳 China: $0
• Jobs: Leaving faster than investment

This isn’t “leapfrogging.”

It’s pushing your own industry off a cliff. 🪦

[Steven Edginton @StevenEdginton]

Two years ago today, Deng Chol Majek took a screwdriver and plunged it into the face of a hotel worker, Rhiannon Whyte, 19 times. He penetrated her skull 11 times. She died three days later.

Majek, an illegal migrant from Sudan, then bought beer and was recorded dancing. He is the face of evil.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Immigrants armed with weapons that private citizens can't even own, all funded by taxpayer dollars.