Scott Hughes

Hard working business owner, biker, dad, husband and patriot. My family is Scottish but I am a proud 1st Gen Canadian. I'm also deaf but that doesnt stop me.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@goru5ff5 @mario4thenorth You're effing disgusting.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@annamariejanz @mario4thenorth fact, he legally immigrated here when he was a child.
fact, he started several businesses employing other Canadians.

Instead of sprouting bullshit, check your facts

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@goru5ff5 @mario4thenorth Baldy has several businesses that he owns. Is that not a real job?

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@gator_gum Again, you missed the point. But thats ok, not everyone understands how a country makes it's money or makes a trade surplus.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@gator_gum What you're missing is, only two countries buy far more Canadian products than we buy from them. Thats what creates the trade surplus. Guess which 2 countries they are.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

I’ve been quiet the past 3 weeks, been in Scotland having some very real conversations.

What I heard was striking: strong criticism of Mark Carney’s time at the Bank of England, with many tying his policies to rising costs and pressure on business. The same people were also critical of Trump.

But this went deeper. Concerns about centralized decision-making, immigration, economic sustainability and a growing belief that younger generations are being taught to value social systems without equal focus on how capitalism creates jobs, opportunity, and prosperity.

Right or wrong, these perspectives are out there and they’re not isolated.

Worth paying attention.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

Bill C‑22 isn’t about “catching criminals.” It’s about normalizing surveillance of ordinary Canadians.

It forces telecoms and major platforms to store detailed metadata on all of us, who we contact, when, from where, even if we’re not suspected of anything. That turns your daily digital life into a standing data trail the government can tap later.

Layer that onto “online harms” and speech‑control efforts plus a media sector increasingly reliant on federal subsidies, and you get a dangerous mix: more state power to watch, more leverage to shape speech, fewer truly independent voices.

That’s not the direction a healthy democracy should be going.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@timamoune0011 @jambuki888 @gator_gum when the diary controls were put into place there was over 100,000 diary farmers, today theres a handful getting rich on those quotas, the small diary farmers get nothing but are often forced to dump the milk.

It takes 5 mins to do some basic research, I suggest you read up

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@DerekSc55318066 @K_M_9_3_ @Dawn_OHugh @gator_gum Theres far more out there. Ignorance on your part is NOT an excuse.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

"There are no fentanyl labs in Canada" is pure fantasy. RCMP and Public Safety briefing notes say Canadian law enforcement has dismantled around 40 sites with evidence of illegal fentanyl production since 2018, including a massive ‘super lab’ in B.C. that could pump out tens of millions of lethal doses. If you’re still insisting this is a myth, your problem isn’t with me, it’s with the RCMP and your own Liberal government’s documents.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

Sure, call it fascism, mental decline, illegal tariffs, whatever lets you feel morally superior. But when the dust settles, Canadian paycheques, factories, and provincial budgets still rise and fall with U.S. policy. You can either deal with that reality or keep shaking your fist at the neighbour who buys most of what we make. Only one of those protects Canadian workers.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

I’m not defending Trump; I’m explaining the stakes for Canada like an adult.

You don’t have to like the “tariff on, tariff off” circus to understand the reality behind it: Canada’s economy lives or dies on access to the U.S. market. Our leaders had one job in that situation, protect Canadian workers and industries and instead we had a weak, reactive government, advised by Carney, that never built leverage, never fixed our own structural problems, and kept doubling down on debt and empty promises.

Trump is a convicted felon and a chaos machine, fine. He’ll be gone in about 2.5 years. Canada’s exposure to U.S. power and trade will not be. The difference between us is I can separate how I feel about a U.S. president from the cold math of supply chains, exports, and jobs; you’re so locked into hating the man that you can’t see how badly our side has misplayed the hand. That disaster is on Ottawa and Carney’s “management,” not on people who understand the game being played.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@jambuki888 @gator_gum The only abuse is coming from those supporting the Liberals and the Liberals themselves.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@LauraBabcock Yelling ‘pack your bags and leave’ over a data‑breach talking point is authoritarian cosplay. Harper was the one who actually stripped citizenship, Trudeau gave it back even to a terrorist and you think voters should be told to get out for disagreeing with you?

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@sunnydriver1970 @ItsDeanBlundell Canada holding 400 billion of U.S. debt is a drop in the bucket compared to the value our economy gets from access to the U.S. market. That position highlights our dependence, not our dominance.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@RGBAtlantica @ItsDeanBlundell Facts not fearmongering. Do your due diligence

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

@JayLee18707338 @aintscarylarry I have a feeling it was about other situations piling up on them. Unfortunately too many first responders and military commit suicide.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

You’ve got this completely upside down. The people “out of ideas” aren’t the ones questioning polls; they’re the ones so brainwashed by Liberal narratives that they call Canadians “pathetic” instead of admitting their own policies produced debt, housing chaos, and a cost‑of‑living crisis voters now see with their own eyes.

[Scott Hughes @chopperkid1967]

“Carney reduced the federal gas tax” line is just false framing. The feds didn’t suddenly become tax‑cutting heroes; they temporarily tweaked at the margins while keeping the core policy direction the same: higher carbon and energy costs baked into everything. Provinces have their own levers and their own sins, sure, but pretending Ottawa is the good guy on affordability here is laughable.

If you want to talk honestly about why people are getting crushed by energy costs, start with:

years of anti‑development, anti‑pipeline policy,

carbon taxes layered on top of existing fuel taxes,

and a refusal to take energy security seriously until voters started screaming.

That’s not “dishonesty by Poilievre,” that’s reality. The dishonesty is pretending Trudeau/Carney era policy had nothing to do with the bill people are paying at the pump and on their heating.