Blair Gamble

Proud Canadian father of two, local comes first, water guy, hotelier. Once told I was right.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

A quarter of a million English girls were allowed to be kidnapped, raped, tortured, and trafficked over 50 years by gangs of foreign monsters because no one in the UK wanted to be called racist.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The ban on social media for children under 16 is an idea that has merits. But the way it is being done is simply a way to force everyone, including adults, to identify themselves online, creating the most powerful surveillance and censorship architecture in human history.

[Herb Powell @Humanlty1o1]

To the parents thanking the gvmt for banning kids from the internet,

Every person using the internet does not need to be tracked or use digital ID because you don't know the word no.

Stopping kids from using social media isn't new, you could have done it all along, yourself.

The government is not your nanny just because you're too lazy or scared to parent.

I should not need to prove my identity everywhere I go online because you're afraid to prove to your kids that you have authority.

Stop enabling and encouraging the government to control more of our lives, simply because you have no control of your own.

Sincerely,
Everyone with a goddamn brain

[Watcher @WatcherAfar]

Not a hot take: The UK, Canadian, etc "social media bans" that we *all* know are really just a backdoor to Internet ID and censorship, are dead on arrival:
The Americans who run these platforms will just flip the bird and laugh while Trump swing the tariffhammer.

The Europeans, contrary to the bloviations of the usual statist elite, controls nothing - not even themselves.

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

Tonight in the House of Commons: The government shuts down debate on Bill C-9, a censorship bill, using censorship.

C-9 is hollow symbolism. It does nothing about the real, documented rise in hate crimes this Liberal government has let fester and embolden.

You don’t fix broken policing with speech policing.

And you sure as heck don’t silence the debate on it.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🚨🇨🇦 “Dangerous and divided” has become the opening line of every globalist speech.

The world is always on the brink.

Democracy is always under threat.

The crisis is always urgent.

And somehow the solution is always more power for governments, more bureaucracy, and less accountability.

Canadians aren’t worried about a photo op in France.

They’re worried about housing, affordability, productivity, and whether their kids will have a better life than they did.

🇨🇦

[Jamil Jivani @jamiljivani]

Mark Carney is destroying meritocracy in Canada.

The federal government just admitted to me, in writing, that the public service in Ottawa does not hire based on "most qualified candidate."

That's.... racist.

[CPAC @CPAC_TV]

In Ottawa, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre announces his party’s bill to remove the sales tax on used cars. “The principle is that the GST should only apply once,” he says. “Once at the final sale, and never again.”

#cdnpoli

[Blair Gamble @b16gamble]

This asshole has so much disdain for the Canadian public it’s sickening.

[Tokyo Rosie @RosieRocks28]

Marc Miller says the government needs to protect children from harm on the internet. Of course, the harm children are exposed to from trans activist teachers in the classroom is totally fine.

[Kate Harrison @KatlynHarrison]

Give this a listen. "Realpolitik" is not speaking out of both sides of your mouth, depending on which country you're in. It's doing hard things even when unpopular. Our country needs consistent, active leadership that advances Canada's interests, not European cosplay. #cdnpoli

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

Thank you for summing up why people hate successful people: you think you're a loser because someone else made you a loser. The reason you believe this is that it's a lot more comforting than the truth: you're a loser despite the fact that amazing business leaders like Elon created hundreds of thousands of jobs and paid billions upon billions in taxes. In other words, the reason you're a loser is you, your shitty, envious attitude and the fact that you don't understand that the way to achieve what you want is to provide something other people want so they're willing to pay you for it.

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

Globe & Mail reporter Chris Gay told Canadian readers ‘how to properly hate’ @elonmusk for becoming a trillionaire via SpaceX.

Here’s an idea:

- Maybe Mr Gay could explain to readers why Canadas fed govt lost $50bn betting against Tesla on EVs - and is in the process of losing billions more backing no-launch capacity Telesat to compete with StarLink - SpaceX.

Our federal govt is lighting on fire billions we don’t have betting against a guy changing the lives of millions with reusable rockets, global internet, EVs, nueralink, boring company etc.

Capitalism creates wealth as markets embrace life-improving goods and services. Which is why our teachers will get an $11bn windfall via their pension betting with Musk.

Socialism destroys it through the politics of envy and statist central planning and loss-making ‘investments’ which is why this federal govt is so awful at capital allocation.

@globeandmail - pls tell the whole story.

[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.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good.

The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX.

And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen.

Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

[Richard Dias @RichardDias_CFA]

These people just don’t get it and never will. Canada’s affordability problem is really a productivity problem.

[Blair Gamble @b16gamble]

“More control.”
Well, at least you’re up front about that part.

We’re trundling towards state run food - historically, that’s worked out well. 🤡

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Canada is one of the world’s great food producers, but our grocery prices don’t show it.

Canada’s new National Food Security Strategy will ensure more food is grown and processed here, and create more competition for retailers — so your grocery bills come down.

More control. More choice. More Canada.

[Blair Gamble @b16gamble]

@kinsellawarren I’ll guess the lead - weather and/or Trump.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

$1 Billion dollars over a decade to improve food security.

$100 million a year...

And we just spent $14 Billion to send out cheques, helping folks with food insecurity, but it won't fix anything.

Got it.

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

Here is a list of powers Liberal Bill C34 proposes to give to cabinet and a new regulator over what content Canadians can see and interact with online.

Cabinet will be able to designate new categories of regulated online services without Parliamentary debate.

(Source @mgeist)

[Mr Singh 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @ElectMrSingh]

@MarkJCarney This is the weirdest way to make children watch the @CBC that I've ever seen.