darron

Albertan by choice. Staff SRE. Previously @dapperlabs @salesforce Hyperforce and IoT, @datadoghq. Hacks with Golang, loves scuba and 3 gun. Tweets are my own.

[darron @darron]

Dear @JustinTrudeau

In 2020 you prohibited my big game rifle, some small game rifles and my competition rifles.

I replaced them, but today you prohibited every last replacement.

I no longer have any legal hunting or competition rifles.

I have no firearms that are useful as predator protection in the wilderness.

I will take solace in the fact that I will keep them until you're all removed from office.

And then I'll get them back and will continue the fight to enshrine property rights for all 🇨🇦.

I will never forget that you have repeatedly used the threat of jail and death to steal my property, in order to prop up your failing @liberal_party.

You've been playing politics with public safety for far too long - the game is up.

Nobody believes anything you say, you're going to get crushed with a historic wipeout.

#cdnpoli #ccfr

[Build Canada @build_canada]

We’re not helpless to this problem. The reforms exist.

From @scheschuk - Capital Where it Counts: https://t.co/7RrPCSa1I0

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record.

In Canada, It Matters How the Economy Dies.

The Canadian economy is dead. It just didn’t die with a crash big enough to satisfy the models. No Lehman moment, no Covid‑style cliff, just two negative quarters of GDP, years of falling output per person, negative productivity, and a private sector slowly strangled by rates and regulation while the establishment insists the patient is “resting.”

On the facts, this isn’t ambiguous. Real GDP has contracted for two consecutive quarters on an annualized basis. Labour productivity has been flat or negative since 2021. Real GDP per capita is below its pre‑pandemic level. Ontario has logged its worst non‑pandemic quarterly job losses since the mid‑1970s. The only consistent growth is in government payrolls and compliance, not in private enterprise and investment. If that isn’t recessionary, the word is meaningless.

And yes Macklem threatens rate hikes through all of this insanity.

Yet Canada’s official guardians insist nothing fundamental has broken. The C.D. Howe recession‑dating committee says the downturn is not “pronounced, persistent, and pervasive” enough. The central bank warns against overreacting to “technical” weakness. Bay Street talks about “soft landings” and “resilience.” In some quarters, the answer to this slow‑motion collapse is not relief, but further rate hikes. Ignore the body on the table, we are told, the vital signs aren’t quite bad enough yet to fill out the certificate.

Their rulebook was built for heart attacks, not cancers. It excels at spotting sudden collapses in aggregate GDP and jobs. It barely registers slow organ failure: a few tenths off real GDP per capita each year, productivity edging down, ugly quarters for private‑sector employment and capex offset by public hiring. None of that triggers the old alarms until the damage is permanent.

Meanwhile, Canada has been busy throwing away the advantages that once justified its prosperity. Energy and resource projects are stalled or strangled. Business investment per worker trails peers. A country rich in capital, talent, and geography behaves as if it can live forever off inherited endowments while making it harder to build anything new. That is not “resilience.” It is delusion.
Canada’s economic establishment needs to wake up.

Two negative quarters of GDP, negative productivity, falling GDP per person, historic job losses in the core province, a suffocated private sector and calls for more tightening on top, are not signs of an economy “cooling toward trend.” They are signs of an economy that has already crossed the line from stagnation into decay.

The Canadian economy is dead in the way that matters: as an engine of rising living standards and a place where private capital is rewarded for building the future. It just didn’t die loudly enough for the old definitions. The real question now is not what we call it, but how long our institutions will keep pretending the corpse is “resilient.”

[tobi lutke @tobi]

C-22 is a mistake. Not one part of it, the entire direction. ( Same for C-9 )

https://t.co/D5apl9nwvF

[Terry Glavin 格立文 @TerryGlavin]

I am so done with these people. The harm they've done to genuine abuse victims, to my country, to reconciliation, is incalculable. All to protect themselves from accountability for the lies they've been telling. https://t.co/8sLvdtPEEV

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

I will take absolutely no lectures about "divisiveness" from the people who gave us two-tier policing, racial hiring quotas and endless race-baiting.

Unlike you, we do not kneel.

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

In December 2023, I appeared before the CRTC on the Online Streaming Act and emphasized need to focus on risks of reduced competition and higher consumer costs. It did not go well. Today, the government ordered it to do just that.
https://t.co/XwDbwIYkpv
https://t.co/k7PeayASoA

[Build Canada @build_canada]

In 2018, Australia passed the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment. The bill bears strong similarities to C-22. 🇦🇺

What happened after?
- 22% of firms cut R&D investment
- 36% of firms reported TOLA made their global risk environment worse
- Australian firms lost contracts. Big ones.

The problem is, 🇨🇦 is much more exposed than Australia ever could be.

[CCFR/CCDAF @CCFR_CCDAF]

💥 BOOM: @Sauve_Brian, representing 20,000 federal RCMP officers, DROPS A BOMB 💣 on the Liberals gun grab, telling @PatKelly_MP going after licensed gun owners:
✅ isn't backed by ANY statistics
✅ is a "complicated/expensive" waste of $$
✅ will take police away from REAL crime

[John Dunn @SkaraBraeRanch]

For the benefit of non-Albertans struggling to understand Alberta separatism: this sentiment did not emerge overnight, nor is it confined to the fringe. It is the cumulative product of years of political, economic, & cultural alienation.

Six key developments, had they unfolded differently, may well have diffused the current predicament.
1) The reelection of the Liberal government in 2025, despite overwhelming opposition in Alberta, reinforced the belief that Alberta’s democratic preferences are irrelevant within Confederation.
2) A decade of Trudeau-era federal policies widely viewed in Alberta as hostile to its primary industry ... including Bill C-69, the tanker ban (Bill C-48), the emissions cap, the carbon tax regime, and a regulatory framework seen as deliberately constraining hydrocarbon development.
3) Continued opposition from the B.C. NDP to pipeline expansion and Alberta’s efforts to secure reliable access to tidewater.
4) The cancellation, obstruction, or collapse of major energy projects — including Northern Gateway, Energy East, and Keystone XL ... reinforcing the perception that Canada’s political and regulatory systems are incapable of supporting Alberta’s economy.
5) Deepening resentment over equalization & fiscal transfers, with many Albertans believing the province contributes disproportionately to Confederation while receiving little political consideration in return.
6) A widening cultural divide between Alberta and the political elites of central Canada, accompanied by a growing sense that Alberta’s industries, values, & prosperity are treated with contempt or moral suspicion by national institutions & media.

Whether one agrees with separatism or not (I do not), dismissing these grievances as irrational misses the point entirely. A significant number of Albertans may ultimately support a referendum not out of a desire to leave Canada, but as an expression of profound frustration with a Confederation they increasingly believe no longer treats Alberta with fairness, reciprocity, or respect.

[TheGunBlog.ca @TheGunBlog]

Quick Test to Identify Citizens Vs. Subjects and Slaves

Ask: Are you allowed to own and carry weapons?

✅ If YES
- Probably a citizen.

❌ If NO
- Probably a subject or a slave.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

BC Hydro Turns Back to Natural Gas to Help Fill Electricity Gap

https://t.co/S9SkgQ98UB

[darron @darron]

@DolioJ Oh FFS.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

We should be honest about how much more Albertans could have built over the past 11 years if Ottawa had not imposed policies and laws that restricted our economy.

The jobs, investment, public revenue for schools and hospitals, and prosperity that were lost are real.

And the problem is not over. Those same barriers remain in place, while Ottawa continues to cling to a Net Zero agenda even as much of the world is recognizing the economic harm it causes.

Why must Alberta as the most resource-rich, entrepreneurial, young and educated places on earth keep asking Ottawa for permission to grow—and then send billions back when we do?

[darron @darron]

@NemoHoeHoeHoe @junonewscom None of this will be a fairy tale.

There isn’t a single healthcare system that works in the entire country. It’s not an Alberta problem.

That’s a profoundly 🇨🇦 problem.

It’s fixable - but not when Ottawa pulls the strings.

Repeal the Canada Health Act and it can be fixed.

[darron @darron]

@junonewscom 5. We can fix bail and keep violent offenders in jail where they belong.
6. Properly and permanently deal with child rapists.
7. Get control of policing - no more Ottawa.

There’s endless things to fix from broken 🇨🇦.

[darron @darron]

@junonewscom So less than the cost of staying in confederation and:

1. Our votes actually count.
2. We can get rid of all the bloat.
3. We can vote out those who don’t do as they’re supposed to.
4. Less of our own money funding warfare against us.

How is this a bad thing in any way?

[darron @darron]

@DimitrisSoudas LOL.

You just referred to the Charter and the SCC as backstop.

The Charter isn’t worth paper it’s printed on - that was made clear during COVID.

We don’t want those broken institutions - we want actual rights that you can’t infringe on a whim without penalty.

[Michael Thomlinson @miket136]

On point - here's @jkenney encouraging Easterners to read a piece by an Ottawa journalist explaining western alienation.

No Jason, as a strong advocate for Alberta's Independence I don't give a shit whether Eastern Canadians respect us.

I want the east out of my pocket and off my back. I want rid of their pernicious authority, their attacks on our prosperity and their insufferable incompetence.

We're not campaigning for respect. We're campaigning for sovereignty. The fact that you still don't get that explains a lot.

[Tactical Wisdom @DolioJ]

https://t.co/S9VjGa8exp

[Daniel Bordman @DanielBordmanOG]

Ah yes “International Law” section 2 paragraph 8:

You must lick the man with Ebola or else you are guilty of racism…