It's going to be a great discussion - a great panel - Bob in Alberta - Andre in Quebec. Join us and participate as we assess the lay of the land.
Ça va être une super discussion – un super panel – Bob en Alberta – André au Québec. Joignez-vous à nous et participez pendant qu’on prend le pouls de la situation.
🚨 Mark Carney's mandateless European ambitions could come with a MASSIVE price tag.
Mark Carney can spend all the time he wants in Europe, but Canadians shouldn't be stuck paying for foreign bureaucracy and immigration policies we never voted for.
Canada already has a Parliament. It's a shame Mark Carney seems more interested in the one in Brussels.
This is the backgrounder Report - bring your own thoughts, predictions, and questions. Join us and @LePoeteRusse for a bilingual space on this important referendum.
Voici le rapport de contexte – apportez vos propres réflexions, prédictions et questions. Rejoignez-nous et @LePoeteRusse pour un espace bilingue sur cet important référendum.
Key issues and arguements of both sides now added. Please review and repost. Thanks
Les principaux enjeux et arguments des deux côtés ont été ajoutés. Merci de réviser et de republier.
As you vote, consider:
1. 55% of Alberta’s energy opportunities were delayed, deferred, or lost after a decade of “stranded assets” rhetoric and green policy risk that raised capital costs and killed projects—talk Mark Carney popularized globally while Alberta waited.
2. Roughly 58% of House of Commons seats (Ontario 122 + Quebec 78 of 343) are held by MPs from Ontario and Quebec. Most major federal decisions that hit Alberta’s economy, resources, and regulations are made by a central-Canadian majority.
3. Alberta receives $0 in equalization while Quebec alone gets over half the $27B pool. Albertans’ federal taxes fund transfers that flow primarily to Ontario and Quebec; recent data show Alberta as a large net fiscal contributor to the rest of the country.
Excellent discussion about the entire carbon credit scam that Carney is pushing to ill-informed Cdns that will further rip off Cdn taxpayers & line Carney’s pockets enormously. Hey @acoyne@RobertFife etc - how come you’re not on this? Right up your alley!
🚨𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗧! | Carney 2012🚨
Before Brookfield
Before U.N
Before Trump
Before Tariffs
Before Trade War
Telling a room of executives that Canada should organize itself to present its infrastructure to China's sovereign wealth funds.
Says it's "a tremendous opportunity."🤔
Find this man’s name and buy him a bottle of fine scotch on me. Because he’s bang on here.
The forever Canada crowd are angry little hateful shits that can’t bring any arguments or discussions to the table.
Spot on 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
🚨Small countries in dangerous times can study Canada closely, mainly as a detailed case study in what not to do at scale.
Please stock your Food Banks.
Please impoverish the middle class.
Please let violent criminals out on bail.
Please sell your airports (and other infrastructure) to foreign investors.
Please leave your car keys at the front door to pacify home invaders.
Please let antisemitism rise to unparalleled levels.
Please embrace democratic socialism.
Please make housing completely unaffordable for your own young people.
Please run the longest healthcare wait times in the developed world.
Please expand medical assistance in dying to the mentally ill, the poor, and people who are simply “inconvenient.”
Please decriminalize hard drugs, normalize open use, and watch overdoses climb.
Please pass online censorship laws in the name of “harms” and “safety.”
Please underfund your military to near-irrelevance while lecturing stronger countries.
Please run structural deficits for a decade and pile on debt.
Please ignore Chinese interference in your elections, universities, and political class.
Please impose carbon taxes that raise the cost of food, heat, and fuel.
Please drive your fertility rate well below replacement with no serious plan to reverse it.
Please import record numbers of people without building the houses, hospitals, or schools to match.
Please deliver near-zero productivity growth for years.
Please allow tent cities and open drug markets in your downtowns.
Please run a justice system that treats property crime and repeat violence as minor inconveniences.
Please miss NATO spending targets for decades while claiming moral superiority.
Please let foreign state-linked buyers acquire key assets and resources.
Please maintain internal trade barriers that function like tariffs on your own citizens.
Please tolerate campus occupations and street protests that target Jewish institutions.
Please preside over surging auto theft, home invasions, and random violence in cities.
Please operate an asylum system that takes years to process claims.
Please export your ambitious young people
Please impose one of the heaviest tax loads on working and middle-class households.
Please embed gender ideology in pediatric medical pathways.
Please accept declining educational outcomes and ideological capture of classrooms.
Please neglect Arctic defense and sovereignty while others expand.
Please let inflation erode savings and purchasing power for years.
Please prioritize climate rhetoric and targets over energy abundance and competitiveness.
Please watch food prices and grocery costs outrun wages for working families.
Please preside over a youth mental-health crisis with rising antidepressant use and despair.
I'm anti-separation, but this is a terrible article for making that case.
The author compares Alberta to Singapore and says that Singapore fares better than Alberta would on its own, one reason being its foreign worker population. And then it tries to imply that Alberta is somehow on the wrong track by proposing to reduce migrant benefits.
But Singapore offers fewer freebies to foreign workers than Alberta does! If you're a foreign worker over there, you have to pay thousands in tuition for your kids to go to school. Here, any TFW, unvetted refugee claimant, international student, etc, can show up with their four kids and plop them into our schools for free.
Singapore can handle a large foreign workforce because they're expected to pull their own weight. Out here, on the other hand, we do everything we can to attract net-negative contributors from some of the world's lowest-functioning countries.
I am Canadian, I am a taxpayer, I am a voter. Mr. Carney, I am a Canadian fed up with you treating my money, my vote and my patience like things you're just entitled to.
I get up, I go to work, and I pay my bills. When I can't afford something, I put it back. You should try that sometime with my money.
You sold yourself as the man with the experience to handle Donald Trump. So do what you told Canadians you could do. Get back to the table and get us a deal that gives our workers, our businesses and our families a leg to stand on. Your résumé has had its introduction. We're waiting for the part where it helps us, because contrary to your belief, you didn't just "get here."
A reporter once asked when you last spoke to the American president, and you flippantly said, "Who cares?" You called it a detail. You said you would speak to him again "when it matters." Well I CARE. And it already mattered.
It mattered to the worker waiting to hear whether there would be another shift. It mattered to the business owner losing orders. It mattered to the parent putting groceries back. You acknowledged your words were a mistake. But correcting your wording doesn't correct anyone's bank balance.
I am tired of you telling Canadians to keep our elbows up while we swirl the drain, struggling to keep our heads above water. You suspended trade negotiations and recalled your team on August 21. Counting that day and today, that's 56 days. You cited sovereignty and unacceptable terms.
So then show us the details on how you're getting better ones. Show us the progress. Show us the timetable. Show us what Canadians can actually count on because waiting to see how America's November 3rd midterm election turns out is not a viable or even reasonable option.
My bills have deadlines. Your promises need them too. And spare me another victory speech about diversifying trade. More customers would be welcome. But an invitation, a handshake and a potential market are not paid orders leaving the factory floor.
Your own government's report says America bought 72% of our goods exports in 2025. The rest of the world COMBINED bought 28%. You know the difference. Stop talking as though a collection of future possibilities can immediately replace the customer paying most of the bills.
And your interest in changing the global financial system didn't begin when you became prime minister. Back in 2019, you were discussing an alternative international currency system that could reduce the American dollar's global dominance.
You are entitled to your economic theories. I am entitled to ask what pursuing them means for my country and my kitchen table.
You campaigned on diversification. Fine. That does not excuse failing to deliver relief in the trading relationship Canadians still depend on. You don't get to mark your own homework by changing which promise we're supposed to judge.
I am done with the gaslighting. I am done with you expecting me to mistake another Liberal government announcement for Liberal government accomplishment.
And I am done watching your government applaud its announced efforts while I wait for something to reach my kitchen table. I can read a receipt. I can read a bill too. I can tell when a promise hasn't paid either one.
But I have noticed how quickly your government can move when the benefit goes directly to YOU!
You came out of the general election with a minority. That was the limit Canadians put on your power.
You deliberately recruited floor crossers to help assemble the majority you didn't win in that election, in defiance of the democratic process Canadians exercised. You can call that a change of heart, however I am entitled to find it eerily suspicious. Especially since others have come forward describing the pressure tactics your party uses to recruit opposition members.
Then your government changed committee membership to secure Liberal control while moving many in camera or sealing information rightfully belongingto tax payers.
I am Canadian. And I expect you to respect the voters' judgment as much as you welcome an MP pretending to suddenly changing theirs. You found a way to strengthen your position. I expect that same determination when ours is weakening.
I am tired of watching you acquire more power while being told I should expect less. Less certainty, less purchasing power but expected to have more patience, and sacrifice even more than I have already.
I am done being lectured about sacrifice by people insulated from the consequences of their own decisions. You make the announcement, but it's the Canadian people making the adjustments. We postpone repairs. We stretch groceries. We wonder what else we can cut as our stomachs rumble.
You call it a transition after a rupture. From my kitchen table, it looks like poorly calculated managed decline on the heels of a deliberate rupture orchestrated by you and you alone. And I flat out, vehemently refuse to have you sell it back to me as something I asked for when nobody did.
I am tired of you using Donald Trump as a cudgel to beat Canadians into accepting whatever you propose. His conduct does not make your decisions beyond criticism. His tariffs do not erase your promises. And disliking him does not obligate me to trust you.
I am Canadian. My loyalty is to this country. You have to earn my confidence through what you deliver. My taxes are not applause, my vote is not unconditional consent, and my
patriotism is not yours to manipulate.
I WILL question you.
I WILL challenge you.
I WILL organize with my fellow countrymen, speak out and demand answers.
And, so help me God, I WILL keep standing up for myself and my country until my dying breath. You can try to stop me, but I will defy you.
My name is Melanie. I am a Canadian living in Saskatchewan, and YOU - Mark Carney - work for me.
START ACTING LIKE IT!
#MakeHypocrisyShamefulAgain
#StopElectingIncompetence #cdnpoli #Think