Aaron Wudrick 🇨🇦

[Matthew Antonitti @matt_antonitti]

Yesterday we celebrated @ihctodd, our outgoing Chief of Staff, as he retires after more than 50 years of dedicated frontline service to the Conservative movement in Canada — including four years serving as Chief of Staff to @PierrePoilievre.

For over five decades, Ian has been a pillar of integrity, wisdom, and quiet strength. He has stood up for everyday Canadians, advancing economic growth, good jobs, freer markets, and safer streets. As Chief of Staff, he has been the steady hand guiding our team with professionalism and calm leadership.

While stepping away from this role, his commitment to our movement and to Pierre Poilievre’s leadership remains as strong as ever.

Ian, thank you for pouring your heart into this work for half a century. Your retirement is richly deserved. We will miss your guidance every day, but your legacy will continue to inspire us.

Wishing you health, joy, and a wonderful new adventure ahead.

[Sean Speer @Sean_Speer]

Between a new round of helicopter money, a subsidies-first AI strategy, $600M in more cultural subsidies, and media reports that the government is delaying regulatory reform this week alone, Carneynomics is proving to look a lot like Trudeaunomics.

[Aaron Wudrick 🇨🇦 @awudrick]

@CarsonJerema Gary is gonna Gary!

[Kitchener Rangers @OHLRangers]

THE CUP IS COMING HOME. 🏆

2026 MEMORIAL CUP CHAMPIONS. YOUR KITCHENER RANGERS.

#BattleBuilt | #MemorialCup

[Aaron Wudrick 🇨🇦 @awudrick]

Fun fact: @OHLRangers have been in the Memorial Cup tournament 7 times, and all 7 times they've made it to the final.

[TSN @TSN_Sports]

THE RANGERS ARE GOING TO THE #MemorialCup FINAL 🏆

[Kate Harrison @KatlynHarrison]

Deeper integration, but also, more reliance is a weakness. That said, we need a new security and economic partnership, yet, we need to look to middle powers and China for the new world order. Keeping in mind, the United States is our most important ally, at the same time, they're a hegemonic power who doesn't share our values. Albeit, we have the best trade deal already, however, Trump will ignore any deal so getting one doesn't matter so much.

I do hope that clarifies things. #cdnpoli

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

PM Carney: "As the US changes dramatically its policies, and that's the right of the US, many of our former strengths have become our vulnerabilities ... Canada, like Mexico, remains open to deeper integration in selected sectors. And to be clear, those offers are on the table. But if that route is not ultimately possible, we will invest heavily in new markets and products."

[Adam Chambers @adamchamb]

Was there a federal role in this deal? If not, shouldn't we celebrate that two private companies can make a deal without the need for any government involvement?

By inserting itself in announcements it feeds a narrative that the feds must be involved in every major transaction in the economy.

That is not a healthy economy.

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Since it’s his birthday, I’ll repost this incredible take from Marx’s mom

[Aaron Wudrick 🇨🇦 @awudrick]

@Anthony__Koch ain't just young politicos, either...

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Kelly, I could not be more proud of you.

Going from sleeping on a park bench to sitting in Parliament, from homeless to the House, is a journey that inspires everyone to overcome.

You’ve been a professor, project manager, and parliamentarian.

Scars are the trophies of our survival, and triumph over adversity is a superpower. Nothing can stop you now.

[Aaron Wudrick 🇨🇦 @awudrick]

@ddufort When I read Willis' argument, I almost fell out of my chair. If the Caisse model was such a slam-dunk winner, why has no other province attempted to copy it?

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

PM Mark Carney announces Canada's first national sovereign wealth fund, the Canada Strong Fund: "This will be a Government of Canada fund, but more importantly, this will be a people's fund. It will be your fund."

[Royce Koop 🇨🇦 @RoyceKoop]

This is an outrageous misrepresentation of how parliamentary committees are formed.

Committees should be constructed to reflect the composition of the House of Commons as determined by Canadians. The voters spoke in the last election and gave the Liberals a minority.

Canada is still a democracy.

We have never seen a government transform a minority into a majority via enticing opposition members to cross the floor. MacKinnon's "long-standing principle" is one day old, invented post-hoc to justify the Liberals' power grab.

I have never seen a government do more damage to our parliamentary institutions than this one.

#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics

[Chris Selley @cselley]

"You don't know how good you have it" should be the title of the next Liberal platform.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

A lot of people misunderstand how wealth is built. They think it works like this: you get money, you already have wealth, and then you just turn it into more money—and that’s the whole explanation.

But if that were true, it raises an obvious question:

Why aren't humans still living in caves?

Where did the initial wealth come from? If you need wealth to create more wealth, then why didn’t humans just stay stuck living in caves, scraping by forever? At some point, something changed. We went from barely surviving to building systems, institutions, and societies that can generate ongoing prosperity—at least in some places.

This gets at a classic point from Thomas Sowell: the real question isn’t why some societies are poor, but why some are rich. That’s the harder question, and the more interesting one.

And I think people miss this. Wealth isn’t just about having money. It requires work, discipline, the right mindset, and the kinds of social and economic conditions that allow it to grow in the first place.

[Graeme Menzies @GraemeMenzies]

Yeah but The Davos Speech😍

[Howard Anglin @howardanglin]

So, kind of a blackish white or a coldish hot, then?

You can tell Carney and everyone he has surrounded himself with spent way, way too long in the jargon-drunk finance industry.

Empty sloganeering designed to sound smart from people who know deep down that they have no ideas of their own and that without the Eurasia Group newsletter, they would have no ideas at all.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Thank you Katy for your creativity, smarts, energy, and work ethic.

It has been an honour to work with you.

Our movement and country are blessed to have you.

[Katy Merrifield 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @katy_merrifield]

So Long, Farewell :)