Eric Buratynski

A Naturally blurry, Sasquatch in training, you can catch me playing gamez @ and my photographic adventures on IG @burtskeets

[Dr. Doug Eyolfson @DougEyolfson]

Great piece from MP Mark Garretsen

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

New: the Ford government has voted against an NDP bill to remove HST on food products & non-alcoholic beverages.

[Gator⚡Gum @gator_gum]

Absolutely amazing.

My Liberal government has reduced the gas tax.

My Conservative Premier? He has refused.

My Conservative Premier has now refused to reduce taxation on certain food products as well.

They sure talk a big game about taxes and affordability but their actions don't match.

Conservatives aren't fiscally responsible. They're not for lower taxes. They're not for affordability.

[Stephanie Bowman @stephaniebowman]

It pays to be a friend of Premier Ford.

Just ask Mr. Nigro (who sat at the Premier's table at a Ford daughter's wedding).

Mr. Nigro sued Metrolinx for $500 million (they settled out-of-court) AND was reappointed to the board of the LCBO.

All on the taxpayer's dime.

#onpoli

[alex huot @alexhuot]

Show us the phone, Doug.
🎵 FOI FOI

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Wild story by the great Canadian Broadcasting Company: A network of about 20 YouTube channels pushing Alberta separatism was actually run by a small group in the Netherlands. They used hired actors and “faceless” videos to make it look real.

And these weren’t small and meaningless channels, they got millions of views in total.

So what seemed like an organic grassroots movement was in reality cheap, mass-produced content farm to earn money, and push a political agenda on the side.

It's worth noting that both the US and Russia have been active in the Alberta separatist movement, and the key figures of the organization even met with Trump officials recently.

[Daniel Foch @danielfoch]

Most people say they want affordable housing.

What they usually mean is:

“I want my kids to be able to buy a house, but I also want my house to go up 8% a year forever, and I definitely do not want a fourplex near me.”

That is the Canadian housing crisis in one sentence.

[Flavio E. @FlavioEvan]

@PierrePoilievre The video you picked to prove he's hiding shows him stopping to answer journalists about Question Period. Bold strategy 😅. Except you cut the rest where he explains further.

[Flavio E. @FlavioEvan]

Crossing the floor is a fundamental feature of the Westminster parliamentary system. We elect individual representatives. The House of Commons manual explicitly states that members can change party allegiance without resigning. Entitlement to sit is not contingent on political affiliation.

Regarding Trump, he has explicitly stated his desire to annex Canada multiple times. He will fail, of course.

Now, could you provide your evidence for these "backroom deals"? You are making severe accusations that need proof.

[Flavio E. @FlavioEvan]

@PierrePoilievre, you wrote, "Don't believe me, listen for yourself." I took your advice. Your post uses manipulative red text overlays to force an interpretation. The actual video subtitles document his real statements.

The red labels dictate a political narrative, but right in your own clip, the captions show Ebel stating the process is "tied up in the MOU and discussions." He also states, "I think the view is changed these days." Ebel is explicitly describing collaborative negotiations.

In the unedited broadcast and recent investor calls, Ebel refers directly to the Memorandum of Understanding signed by Prime Minister @MarkJCarney and Premier @ABDanielleSmith. Ebel called this MOU "promising" and stated that a new pipeline's fate is directly tied to the success of these federal and provincial negotiations. The edited clip hides this constructive process.
The "five things" Ebel actually lists in his open letters are five specific regulatory barriers: the northern coast oil tanker ban, the emissions cap, the industrial carbon levy, the Impact Assessment Act, and slow approval timelines. He explicitly targets these legacy policies.

❌ Claiming Enbridge is the "only" company capable of building a Pacific pipeline ignores Canadian corporate history. TC Energy, one of Enbridge's major competitors, completed the 670 kilometer Coastal GasLink pipeline to the Pacific coast in Kitimat in late 2023.
Furthermore, Kinder Morgan initiated the Trans Mountain expansion. The Canadian government (the Liberals as you like to say) purchased the project in 2018 and successfully completed it.

You also know that consortiums exist, right? Major infrastructure projects frequently use joint venture models where multiple investment groups reunite to fund and build capacity. Canada has multiple operators and financial models capable of coastal expansion.

The public record shows Ebel actively supports the current administration's energy approach. Ebel publicly "applauded Prime Minister Mark Carney’s early and stated ambition to make Canada an energy superpower" and embraced the Prime Minister's "Build, baby, build" mandate for national projects.

If you tell people to "listen for yourself," you need to provide the tape without manipulative graphics. Policy debates require unedited facts.

Sources:

Bloomberg TV (March 24, 2026)

Enbridge "Build Canada Now" Open Letters

Reuters (Trans Mountain purchase records, 2018)

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The odds of parachuting down and being attacked by kangaroo is very low, but never zero.

[Flavio E. @FlavioEvan]

It's getting kind of hard to keep up with fact-checking you, Mr. Poilievre.
Your latest post compares Canada to the US since Q4 2022 and at first glance it looks like a disaster. But if you actually look at the math, you’re choosing which hand the audience watches while the other one hides the truth.

The 2022 Trap
You picked Q4 2022 as your starting point for a very specific reason. That was exactly when the Bank of Canada slammed on the brakes with massive interest rate hikes to kill inflation. We were doing the hard work of sobering up. At that same moment, the US was doing the opposite. They were injecting $1.2 trillion in stimulus through the IRA and CHIPS Act. Comparing a country trying to pay its bills to one on a debt-fueled bender isn’t an analysis. It’s a parlor trick.

The Credit Card Growth
The US is "outperforming" because they are spending money they don’t have. It’s like a neighbor who buys a Ferrari on a maxed-out credit card while you’re paying off your mortgage. The US federal deficit is sitting around 6.4% of their GDP. Ours is just 1.25%. Every American is carrying about $106,000 in federal debt, while every Canadian carries about $34,000. If fiscal responsibility is the goal, we aren’t falling behind. We’re the only ones staying solvent.

The "Shrinking" Sleight of Hand
The post screams about a "shrinking economy," but that’s half-true math used to tell a full-scale lie. Canada’s total GDP actually grew 2.6% in Q4 2024, which was one of our strongest runs in years. The "per person" number looks lower because we added over a million people in a year. There is a natural lag between a new neighbor moving in and that neighbor getting a job and contributing to the economy. You can’t demand we cut the workforce and then complain that the workforce isn't growing the "per person" math fast enough. You’re arguing with your own calculator.

The "Anti-Development" Myth
You talk about removing "anti-development laws" and getting "shovels in the ground," but that work is already done. The Impact Assessment Act was rewritten in 2024 to fix the Supreme Court’s concerns. On top of that, the new Major Projects Office has been streamlining approvals with a "One Project, One Review" system for over a year. Promising to fix a regulatory system that was already overhauled in 2025 is like promising to change a tire that’s already brand new.

Fighting Ghosts
You’re still campaigning on "Scrapping the Tax." But here in 2026, the consumer Carbon Tax was set to zero back in April 2025. Any checks people see today are just catch-ups (retroactive payments for the 2021-2024 tax years for those who filed late). Promising to "scrap" it now isn't a plan for the future—it's an attempt to stir up anger over a policy that doesn't even exist anymore. That’s not a policy. It’s a party still fighting last year’s war.

The Bottom Line
Promising to rebuild a G7 economy from scratch in just twelve months is essentially political fiction. If you think you can overhaul the structural foundation of a multi-trillion dollar nation in a single year, you’re not running a government, you’re running a fantasy. Canada is playing the long game. The US is playing the "spend now, pray later" game. We aren't losing the race. We're the only ones running it without a backpack full of debt.
2025-2026 G7 Annualized GDP Growth:
* 🇺🇸 USA: 2.2% (2025) / 2.1% (2026)
* 🇨🇦 Canada: 1.2% (2025) / 1.5% (2026)
* 🇬🇧 UK: 1.3% (2025) / 1.3% (2026)
* 🇫🇷 France: 0.7% (2025) / 0.9% (2026)
* 🇩🇪 Germany: 0.2% (2025) / 0.9% (2026)

Sources:
* IMF World Economic Outlook: G7 Deficit & Debt Projections.
* Statistics Canada: Quarterly GDP Reports (Q4 2024 growth verified at 2.6% annualized).
* U.S. Treasury: Monthly Treasury Statement & National Debt Clock.
* Impact Assessment Agency of Canada: 2024/25 Regulatory Amendments.
* Major Projects Office: National Interest

[Theo Moudakis @TheoMoudakis]

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's @TorontoStar

[Millennial Moron @Mill_Moron]

Ben Mulroney acting like his career path has nothing to do with his father being PM is pretty funny.

I suppose we think Justin Trudeau managed the snowboard instructor >> teacher >> Prime Minister career path through sheer grit and hard work too, eh?

[Michael de Adder @deAdder]

https://t.co/lGg3hrfV8z

[Ross Hull @Ross_Hull]

Environment Canada confirms that the 46 cm at YYZ is highest daily snowfall on record and Jan. 2026 snowfall total of 88.2 cm is snowiest January and snowiest month since records began in 1937!
Snow amount in cm:
Toronto City Centre 56
Toronto Pearson Airport 46
#ONStorm

[Barney Panofsky's Best Intentions @mynamesnotgordy]

I'm old enough to remember when the leader of Canada's official opposition party congratulated Trump for invading a country last week.

[David Brown 🇨🇦💪 @OrbitStudios]

Carney put you in the penalty box over the Reagan ads you ran that derailed talks with the US.

You’ll be updated on a need-to-know basis, Mayor McCheese.

Let the adults run things.

[Tom Whittaker @whittakertp]

So Doug Ford is now a champion of EV manufacturing. Reminder - not only did he cancel the rebate program, he scrapped cap and trade (that helped fund it), and ripped out charging stations. This led to plumetting EV sales in Ontario, far behind Que and BC. https://t.co/57ybDwJ3ma

[Theresa 🇨🇦 @TheresaLubowitz]

Canada's 🚗 auto sector would already have a competitive advantage if Doug Ford hadn't spent years:

💲Canceling EV purchase incentives
🔌Ripping out charging stations
🏡Deleting EV chargers from the building code
⛏️Failing to get a single shovel in the ground in the Ring of Fire