Adam Poot

Standing athwart history yelling I didn't leave the left, the left left me! (I did leave the left)

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

Woke person : Here is a radical new idea that we must reorganize society around

Normal person : I don't like that proposal

Woke Person : The Far Right is starting a culture war!!

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

This pathetic attitude is among the worst things about our political culture in Canada and I cannot reject it enough.

It gets cloaked in the language of progressivism but it is deeply cynical, ugly, and regressive.

Story time!

Growing up, I was hugely inspired by RIM (BlackBerry). It was one of the reasons why I wanted to go to Waterloo.

I thought it was so cool one of the most innovative companies on earth was an hour away from home.

In fact, my program, Nanotechnology Engineering, was able to exist in part due to the philanthropy of Mike Lazaridis, who funded the Institute of Quantum Computing and Nanotechnology (along with the Perimeter Institute for theoretical physics, which is a brilliant asset for the province and country). Balsillie, for his part, has spent tens of not hundreds of millions of his personal wealth on advocacy and institutions to make Canada a better place. But he too was castigated in our media.

Through high school, I saw how Canadas media took an axe to RIM founders (Mike and Jim), and basically cheered on the decline of the business against competition from Apple and Google.

It was a complete disgrace.

Well, in 2013 I got my second co-op job there, just as they rolled out BB10 (the QNX operating system). 6 weeks into my co-op, my entire department was laid off (Modems/Semiconductors).

Nearly every one of my colleagues ended up moving to the US. Some of the most capable talent on earth, poached in weeks. It was loss that was absolutely devastating to witness.

I have no doubt people like Bruce cheered on the spectacle, just like he would cheer the downfall of Shopify if it were to ever happen; despite the champion it’s been for the country, the thousands of good jobs it’s created, and all the spin-off businesses that have created huge wealth for Ontario.

Well let me be clear that I will have none of this nonsense.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

In many areas, Canada is so dysfunctional it needs extremely strong medicine to treat the sickness. Mark Carney, for the most part, is administering reiki therapy but calling it strong medicine.

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@BenWoodfinden One clue as to the problem here : 'Democracy' is a sacred word, the highest good, while 'politicizing' is foul and horrid. But there is no democracy without politics. Curious

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@AndrewJWHaynes @TristinHopper I don't think thats the right, unless by his ideology you mean Managerialism. Other than that, I don't think he believes most of what he says, at all.

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@JLevendia @GeoffRuss3 I can still hear his voice complaining about harry potter and Hommo-Sexsual Wizzads

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@jonkay It's a heat sheild from around the brakes. Performs a function, but you could drive it indefinitely without it.

Absolutely not a wheel hub or spindle knuckle.

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@Clif_Clemotte @GeoffRuss3 @DrMichaelBonner Same

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@mattgurney What terrifies me : imagine if the public broadcaster paid for a months long, convoluted, borderline fraudulent scheme designed to publicly humiliate their political opponents - imagine how it would embolden their critics!!

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@curtis_yarvin Everything you flush down your toilet, we put on our mantle

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@owenbroadcast The most enlightened comment thread I've ever encountered

They're only "forbidden" when studying elementary counterpoint. It's more that they don't sound good on instruments other than overdriven electric guitars

That said, punk should be banned

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

He's doing the usual dodge, sidestepping your point by saying "ok but how would the *response* have been different?"

Well hmm maybe we wouldn't have farted around so long in the "lets go to chinatown and lick doorknobs" stage, would have had a better idea what we were dealing with, and wouldn't have had 2 damn years of complete stupidity because we were deliberately kept in the dark

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@miriam_cates @jburnmurdoch

[Buy High, Sell Low @tradeoilstocks]

“Give them a massive amount of oil, agricultural land, copper, freshwater, and every natural resource in the world. Now make them neighbors with the biggest market in the world. Great, now have them leave the resources in the ground and instead flip condos to each other”.

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@EricDLombardi Conservative, liberal, right, left....who cares? It's sensible.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

Canadian leaders are too afraid to engage seriously with the frustration many normal people feel about immigration after the last few years.

But I share many of their concerns.

We have made honest conversation too difficult. And in Ontario especially, we have been naive about the effects of sudden population growth on housing, wages, infrastructure, public services, and yes, social and cultural cohesion.

Immigration has historically been one of Ontario’s greatest strengths. It helped build our industries, our cities, and our prosperity.

But many Ontarians feel gaslit if they express frustration about current circumstances.

Young people watched rents explode. Entry-level work became more competitive and lower paid. Colleges transformed into immigration pathways. Infrastructure and healthcare struggled to keep up. It has changed our politics, too.

People are not imagining this. Ontario experienced a genuine immigration shock. This at least is somewhat acknowledged.

And while Ottawa deserves plenty of blame, Ontario cannot pretend this simply happened to us.

Doug Ford’s government helped create the conditions for this crisis by blowing up the higher education funding model.

They froze tuition, underfunded colleges and universities, then allowed institutions to make up the difference by massively expanding international student enrollment.

That turned parts of our higher education system into an immigration-processing business.

Now Ontario now needs a reset.

And because immigration policy is ultimately federal, Ontario will need to work closely with (and pressure) Ottawa to pursue a system that is sustainable, orderly, and capable of maintaining public trust.

Permanent immigration should return to a more normal and sustainable baseline, and no longer be subject to insiders claiming “labour shortages”.

Over the next 5-10 years, Canada should gradually unwind the enormous temporary resident population from roughly 5 million people nationally to well under 1 million. Some, of course, should be offered a path to stay, but many cannot and we need to honestly acknowledge that.

That likely means a prolonged period of near-flat population growth.

Going forward, temporary worker, asylum, and student streams need to shrink substantially. More than they have. Visa rules need to actually mean something. Asylum claims cannot quietly become a parallel permanent residency system.

At the same time, we should reward people who follow the rules. If someone came legally, worked or studied honestly, avoided welfare, and left when required, they should receive a meaningful advantage if they later apply to immigrate permanently.

And finally, we need to remember what immigration policy is for.

It is not primarily a humanitarian program. It is a civilization-building and economy-building program.

Ontario and Canada should prioritize immigrants with the skills, education, economic potential, and cultural compatibility to help build a prosperous, cohesive, high-trust society.

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@mattgurney Reason #429 why we shouldn't have completely blown our wad on coldvid

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@GeoffRuss3 "Stop the steal!"

- Nate Erskine-Smith

[Stephen Punwasi 🏚️📉🐈☃️ @StephenPunwasi]

🇨🇦's "sovereign wealth fund" isn't a fund but "another borrowing vehicle" for fiscal plans.

This isn't an investment in our future. They're hiding a larger deficit spending.

This is financial engineering one would expect from a penny stock fraud, not gov.

via BMO.

[Adam Poot @adampoot]

@mike10101013 @akarlin @TristinHopper Interesting, states dont exist to support their populations. Is it the other way around? Sounds like something a certain mid-century italian character would say