Colin MacDonald

Managing Principal @navltd Board Chair @stellasplaceca. Things I find interesting that you might too.

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

For a guy who used to try and project strength, Pierre has really moved onto the greatest hits of weakness in politics. Nothing's fair, everything is rigged, nobody likes me... https://t.co/FMVuJ31DGQ

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

These zombie Harper commercials are a true downer during otherwise entertaining hockey games. Reminder - he diagnosed the 2008 financial crisis as a “buying opportunity”.

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

Poilievre’s performance is weak and scripted. He’s running on the fumes of his overly-scripted, failing campaign.

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

Poilievre promises to take foreign interference seriously, while still refusing to get security clearance? He’s about as unserious as it gets. https://t.co/3wxVdGz2ir

[Paranoid Humanoid @DRodbone]

Breaking: Mark Carney pulled an illegal u-turn in 2002.

[Liberal Party @liberal_party]

Dr. Margaret Meyer, Mark Carney’s doctoral supervisor, is unequivocal: there is no evidence of plagiarism in his PhD thesis.

Despite this, the American-owned National Post ignored this evidence and ran a story based on the “analysis” of a Conservative donor and activist.

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

Pierre is actively choosing to leave his own party at risk to protect his narrow political interest. Canadians can't be expected to believe he'll behave differently to protect our country.

[Globe Politics @globepolitics]

Poilievre says he won leadership without Indian interference, defends not taking security clearance https://t.co/O2sGyFImQg

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

Elbows up

[CANMNT @CANMNT_Official]

We take down the U.S. and secure our spot on the podium in the Concacaf Nations League!

Nous avons battu les Etats-Unis et assuré notre place sur le podium de la Ligue des Nations de la Concacaf !

#CANMNT

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

Nope. That’s the wrong analysis.
Carney has been nothing close to “nice” to Trump, the Liberals have been nothing close to “nice” to Trump. Only Pierre has been paralyzed by his inability to figure out the next move.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

And with that, Donald Trump endorses Mark Carney because Pierre Poilievre isn’t nice enough to him.

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

Imagine being this out of moves this early? Sometimes the guy who thinks he’s playing chess is the only person who doesn’t realize he’s playing checkers.

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

Pierre Poilievre won’t invite media on campaign plane in coming election https://t.co/ks0BLeRjTt

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

CPC manufactured dismay over a pointed response to media is hilarious hypocrisy.
A bad faith approach to media has been their bread and butter for years and only today, on the day axe the tax 2.0 bombed spectacularly, are they suddenly defenders of the Gallery.

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

Remember, you’re not not allowed to ask the Prime Minister who ran Brookfield, which invests in energy, mining, real estate, infrastructure & lots of other things about his conflicts.

If you dare ask him what is in his blind trust or the conflicts of interest that arise from the assets in that trust managed by someone — somewhere — that he knew about 5 days ago — he snaps at you. Tells you to “look inside yourself”. 👀👀

I’m sure, he’ll tell you after the election.

This is totally the behaviour of someone who isn’t hiding anything. Trust him. 🙄

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

This is what happens when you’ve only drawn paycheques from Parliament and they don’t teach something in the pages of Ayn Rand.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Pierre Poilievre’s disdain for big business is creating an uneasy relationship with corporate Canada
https://t.co/IwMeIceQSm

[Greg MacEachern @gmacofglebe]

Wait to Canadian conservative columnists find out he’s criticizi—

Oh. It’s okay. It’s an American Senator not Canadian.

Oh, it’s a Republican American Senator.

Is that criticism okay? Looking at you Toronto Sun.

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

Correction - this is exactly what people voted for.
None of this was secret. Trump’s reckless authoritarianism, wacky economics, compulsive lying and wilful criminality were on full display. Giving people an out now may make them feel good, but it doesn’t change their choices.

[Andy Beshear @AndyBeshearKY]

The tariffs implemented last night will make the lives of Americans more expensive.

Prices on gas, groceries and homes will go up. This isn't what anyone voted for. You deserve better.

[Brian Platt @btaplatt]

Justin Trudeau is holding a news conference in Ottawa. Begins by slamming Donald Trump for starting a trade war with Canada while playing nice with Russia. “Make that make sense,” Trudeau says

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

This is an embarrassment from a Trump apologist.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

A month ago, I called for the government to immediately take actions before tariffs hit to make Canada less dependent on the U.S.

Liberals have done exactly nothing since then. And now, the tariffs hit—and they’ve left us helpless.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Apparently it is once again time to bring back the lesson on tariffs from Ferris Bueller

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

The United States is barrelling towards being a failed state with an autocrat for a president. Who had that on their 2025 bingo card?

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

With today’s extraordinary, televised fight between Trump and Zelensky, we all saw clearly something that has been unfolding over the past couple of weeks: the U.S. has switched sides in the war between Russia and Ukraine, @sbg1 writes. https://t.co/3ShT5YRTgW

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

Sitting in a bar ahead of Canada v USA and the people all around me aren’t talking hockey, but about tariffs and natural resources… something real has very much shifted.

[Colin MacDonald @colinmacdo]

“He lives in a completely different world. He doesn’t buy groceries in tough neighbourhoods or take public transit,” Conservative House Leader Andrew Scheer told reporters.
Sounds like Andrew Scheer describing Pierre. He must think he’s unfit for leader. https://t.co/tI7aEudYOf