D'Arcy E. Barker

D'Arcy Barker is a Chartered Financial Planner and Registered Employee Benefits Consultant licensed in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

“Someday this war’s gonna end.”
—Apocalypse Now

Pollster David Coletto just said the quiet part: much of the Carney government’s goodwill “is driven by” how people judge its handling of the US fight. Canadians who like that file are “almost six times more likely” to like the government overall. As long as all eyes stay on Washington, it lifts Liberal support

The vulnerability is obvious. When the trade war ends, affordability, housing, and health care come back into view—the files where the public is “not as convinced” the government has done a good job. Comes the realization that they have been played

Carney has been PM for 1 year, 5 months and 17 days and the honeymoon is over. He campaigned of getting a deal, then in the House a better deal: documented. Result: no signed comprehensive deal; talks repeatedly collapsed.

Carney's claim of having already “dealt with Trump” in a personal, proven-negotiator sense before 2025: not supported by anything in the public record

Regime pollsters, state media, Liberal pundits, and paid spinmeisters all know it. Trump didn’t build most of the wreckage, Liberals did... many of whom continue to stand around Carney. The alibi only works while the war is on

It's almost like a deal is the last thing Carney and the Liberals need politically @DavidColetto

[Jinglai He 🇨🇦 @JinglaiHe]

Pierre Poilievre calls on Mark Carney to RELEASE the full text of the deal that his government rejected so that Canadians can judge for themselves.

Millions of Canadians are paying the price for Mark Carney's failure to secure a deal with the US and deserve answers.

[Stephen Taylor @stephen_taylor]

Pierre Poilievre says "Google made a mistake. Google is wrong. Google should restore the name to what it always was and always will be: it is 'Lake Ontario'. It is 'Lake Ontario' today and it'll be 'Lake Ontario' always"

Do you support Pierre?

[Damien C. Kurek @dckurek]

Don't panic, Vote for Stephen Curran TODAY if you live in North Vancouver-Capilano.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Listen 🔊to this exchange last evening on CBC Cross Country Checkup. David Herle's performative shock about Liberal tactics

All she said was the obvious: if the PM had signed off on more U.S. dairy access into Quebec ten days before a Saguenay by-election, it would have been a talking point. That's not conspiracy. That's politics 101

The sequence is not subtle but CBC always fails to make note:
Carney removes a Conservative MP — a local hockey personality who won the riding far more than the party did — and parks him in the Senate. Instant vacancy in a three-way toss-up that last time finished 34-31-31. Then the Liberals drop a former president of Quebec's dairy producers as their candidate while supply management is the live wire in the trade talks. Convenient timing is not a crime. Pretending it is unmentionable is the tell

Herle's "outrageous and offensive" routine is the classic overcorrection. The dude doth protest too much. When a Liberal strategist treats a mundane observation about electoral coincidence as a moral atrocity, it usually means the coincidence is doing exactly what it was designed to do

Kate didn't invent the Senate appointment resulting in the Liberal dairy candidate. She just noticed him. Herle's faux outrage is over the top buffoonery @KatlynHarrison @TheHerleBurly

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

David is a former MP under Harper.

Dorothy Dobbie is a former MP, who is the recipient of the Order of Canada.

You have no idea how many Conservative politicians share the same view of Kory.

You know what Kory once told me?

That it’s rare to near-impossible to have an Ontario Conservative Premier and Conservative Prime Minister in Canada.

It has happened ZERO times in 40 years. Since 1986, not a single year of overlap where you have a Conservative Premier & Conservative Prime Minister.

There’s a tendency for Ontario voters to split their provincial and federal choices.

I’m honestly believe he’s either a Liberal plant or simply trying to keep his grift alive with Ford by keeping Pierre out as PM.

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

Carney doesn’t like tough questions, ESPECIALLY from Women!

Watch this exchange on CTV’s Power Play. Vassy Kapelos points out the obvious — that a lot of the “fresh faces” in his cabinet are actually the same people who were at the forefront of Trudeau’s failures.

François-Philippe Champagne, Dominic LeBlanc, Mélanie Joly… these aren’t new. These are the exact people who helped drive the last 11 years of decline.

Carney’s response? He gets defensive, dodges, and tries to pivot to “I’m the new Prime Minister” and “I’m going to results.”

Canadians didn’t vote for continuity. They voted for change.

Instead, we got the same recycled cabinet, the same failed policies, and a Prime Minister who clearly doesn’t enjoy being challenged on it.

This is what “change” looks like under Mark Carney.

Same swamp. Different suit.

#cdnpoli #Carney #TrudeauFail #Accountability

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

You’ve heard the hype.

Now the reality: Carney delivered the worst first-year of growth of any PM since we started keeping records 63 years ago.

[Andrew Scheer @AndrewScheer]

CBC refused to include a comment from Pierre Poilievre to balance their coverage of Carney’s press conference.

Pierre spoke and took questions for 56 minutes. (Video below)

The CBC included 0% of it.

The CBC is the state broadcaster and only exists because Canadians are forced to pay for it through their taxes.

The very least it can do is cover all sides of the issues.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Prime Minister, this is the misery people face after a year of your costly illusions.

Canadian seniors are living in Tim Hortons and tents because they cannot afford a roof over their heads, and shelters are filled with drugs and danger.

We must restore a Canada that is worthy of the people who built it.

[Juno News @junonewscom]

Poilievre says 14 Liberal MPs signed an April letter urging Mark Carney to keep resource restrictions and higher industry taxes.

He cites Carney's book "Values," which advocates leaving oil in the ground and expanding carbon taxes.

[Ben Mulroney @BenMulroney]

A 🧵: My dad used to say that a Prime Minister’s most important job is maintaining the support of his caucus. Today we learned that there is descent within the government caucus. It is the responsibility of the Prime Minister to deal with these issues….

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Justin Ling on the lack of a Liberal BC pipeline advocate: "I'm told that Gregor Robertson joined a caucus call this week, basically made clear he was extremely unhappy with the final deal with Danielle Smith ... he was notoriously missing from a big LNG announcement on the West Coast."

[Anaida Poilievre @AnaPoilievre]

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[Michael Chong 🇨🇦 @MichaelChongMP]

Canada is an independent, sovereign country. We do not take direction from foreign governments on where MPs can travel internationally.

Taiwan is a democracy on the front line of threats coming from authoritarian states.

My statement on my visit to Taiwan.

#cdnpoli

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

In 2015, under the last Conservative government, Canada had a balanced budget, a billion dollar surplus, the strongest economy in the G7, with the largest and most prosperous middle class in the world. Then the Liberals were elected. 11 years later, Canada now has the highest household debt, the most unaffordable housing, the lowest investment per worker, the second worst productivity, and the second highest unemployment in the G7. The direct result of a decade of Liberal policies.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Pierre this morning in Toronto gets asked his thoughts on Carney saying he isn’t going to use our energy or critical minerals as leverage in trade negotiations.
Pierre - if he doesn’t want use energy or critical minerals in these negotiations, what leverage does he have?
What don’t think of his response here?

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

After a year promising to build at "speeds not seen in generations," Mark Carney gives us the dithering dribble about maybe, possibly, probably, but not certainly allowing a pipeline.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine]

“That is a dangerous place to be in a democratic society” Kate Harrison absolutely nails it, when questioned about the media being out to get Pierre Poilievre.

Full interview on Juno News

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Mark Carney says trade with the U.S. is a weakness. He says there's a rupture between our countries.

Four days later, he says Canada and U.S. are “stronger together.”

He can’t keep his story straight. How can he negotiate our interests?