Dave Williamson 🇨🇦

Music, wine, food and coffee snob, world traveller and passionate Canadian. Showing folks the wine wonders of PEC as my retirement hobby

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

I expect this from other CPC MPs. Not from Chong. What could ever bring you to a point of believing anything that came out of Bessent’s mouth?

[Michael Chong 🇨🇦 @MichaelChongMP]

After the Prime Minister’s recent speech at Davos announcing a new vision for Canada's place in the world, US Treasury Secretary Bessent now claims the PM walked back his comments in a call with President Trump yesterday. The Prime Minister says he told President Trump he meant what he said.

The PM must clarify what is going on. Canadians have a right to know. To date, there has been no PMO statement or readout of the phone call with President Trump.

In the last federal election campaign, Mr. Carney claimed he would impose dollar for dollar tariffs on the US while he was quietly removing them. He told President Trump his elbows up rhetoric was just a campaign tactic. He claimed that the President in another phone call stopped calling Canada the 51st state. Later he was forced to admit that was false.

Canadians deserve the truth. Many of these questions would be answered if the Prime Minister simply adopted the longstanding convention held by previous Prime Ministers that when two world leaders talk, they publicly release a readout of that conversation.

It is unacceptable that Canadians and journalists learned of this recent call from American media.

In these challenging times, the public interest is best served by accurate, forthright information from government.

#cdnpoli

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

💯if the CPC and Poilievre think defending and echoing Trump and his sycophants at this moment is a winning strategy they aren’t very good at reading the room. I’ve never seen such absolute unity about the US across people around me as I do right now

[Ben O'Hara-Byrne @Ben_oharabyrne]

This is precisely what Carney said in Davos. Listen, I get that the opposition needs to oppose and there are real issues to criticize the PM about, but carrying water for Trump and defending his constant attacks and lies just comes off as bitter, knee-jerk, and self-defeating

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

@MichelleRempel @PierrePoilievre So let me get this straight. You’re believing a guy who has lied repeatedly and also encouraged the separatists in Alberta? And speaking on Fox no less? That really your take? You’re both Alberta MPs and no reaction to his other nonsense? Right on script.

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

I have lost all respect for anyone promoting any sort of claim that Canada is the provocateur. I think we all have ample evidence at this point that we are dealing with a mentally unstable deranged lunatic

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

USMCA is toast this June. Carney just pissed off our largest trading partner ahead of negotiations. Let’s hope he gets his majority soon so he can back off.

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

@MacLeodLisa That’s your take? A total lunatic in the White House and you’re blaming our PM because the lunatic is behaving like a deranged petulant child?

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

💯as much loyalty to his Alberta constituents as there was to his Ottawa constituents. This guy isn’t a mystery. The guy in the mirror has been the only one that ever mattered. The rest is a sideshow

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

This is just despicable by the CPC.

After losing his riding and the election, Pierre Poilievre parachuted himself into an Alberta riding of Battle River Crowfoot, which is the most conservative riding in Canada.

Damien Kurek who resigned from the riding so Pierre can have a job, will run in the riding again as Pierre wants to run somewhere else.

What an absolute disrespect to the people of the riding and to Alberta.
Pierre just used Albertans for self preservation and leaving the first chance he has.

How are conservatives ok with this??

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

@PierrePoilievre Uh no. It is the cost of 3 corporations controlling the vast majority of food retail in this country. But one of your core advisors and your last campaign manager lobbies on behalf of one of those corporations. Correct?

[Clinton Desveaux @ClintonDesveaux]

PM Mark Carney has abolished ALL federal interprovincial trade barriers.

To every Premier & provincial Opposition leader: Trump & Vance are threatening to rip up CUSMA.

Have you eliminated 100% of YOUR provincial barriers yet?
Why not? When? Act now to strengthen Canada's internal market!

We can't afford provincial protectionism with CUSMA on the line.

@Dave_Eby (BC)
@ABDanielleSmith (AB)
@PremierScottMoe (SK)
@WabKinew (MB)
@fordnation (ON)
@francoislegault (QC)
@susanholt (NB)
@TimHoustonNS (NS)
@dennyking (PEI)

@MaritStiles (ON NDP) @Nenshi (AB NDP) @JohnRustad4BC (BC Conservatives) @CarlaBeckSK (SK NDP)

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

@JakobSkouboe @acoyne Perhaps. But just as likely some of the rich and famous attending Davos pulled him into a back room and ripped him a new one based on what was going down on the stock and bond markets

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

Accurate. Non partisan centrist voter here. Have voted both red and blue in the past. But the more the CPC goes down whatever rat hole Poilievre seems to be pulling it, the more they ensure my next vote is red. They need a serious shake up at the core and a very different leader

[Andrea Micieli @AndreaMicieli]

A lot of people are not going to like me saying this but I’m not known to mince words.

If the conservative (official and activist infrastructure) response to Carney’s speech at Davos is to talk about food prices or inflation, Conservatives will lose the next election.

We live in a moment of great international upheaval. Some parts good, some parts bad. We can’t meet that moment if the conservative reflex is to turn insular, provincial, and small. Canadians - and specifically Canadians open to voting Conservative - want to know how this country fits into the re-organization that’s happening between power brokers in the world. Carney’s speech addressed that, and there were flaws within that speech, but instead of confidently presenting an alternate vision there are conservatives talking about … food prices?

Everyone knows taxes and the cost of food is increasing. The fact that the economy is shit is baked into Canadian psychology. Conservatives aren’t going to find more votes pointing that out.

The official conservative messaging must change. We lack a confident foreign policy vision. And that matters. It matters to me, it matters to a lot of voters like me.

With respect: shape up.

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

Carney really needs to ditch this dude in the next shuffle

[François-Philippe Champagne (FPC) 🇨🇦 @FP_Champagne]

Canada is back on the world stage.

The @nytimes just published the full transcript of PM @MarkJCarney speech at #WEF26.

https://t.co/Ng1OGjh8tN

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

Doug Ford kicked this guy out of the Ontario caucus. Then Poilievre took him and lets him be a CPC spokesperson. Just a plain stupid take is this. I think Carney made it very clear yesterday how we need to operate with all superpowers now.

[Roman Baber @Roman_Baber]

Mark Carney realigned Canada toward the recently formed axis of China-Russia-Iran.

Chairman Xi Jinping & Vladimir Putin are laughing themselves silly.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

Technically, it's a new old conservative tax. It's a modified version of the renewable fuels regulations which were introduced in 2010. Remind me, who was in government in 2010?

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

See man who’s salary is paid by Americans that is still pissed for not getting cushy job promised by PP for being his and the CPC propaganda machine.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

That was a truly awful speech in Davos.
https://t.co/QrD1MPh4Ep

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

That’s loser talk. I’ve said this repeatedly over the last few months: there are no medals for "doing your best." Politics is about recognizing the moment you’re in and rising to it. Right now the stakes are far bigger than the usual partisan skirmishes.

Today, Poilievre was still railing about the carbon tax while Trump was sharing a doctored map showing Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela as part of the U.S. Even if you choose to ignore Carney’s speech at Davos, how does the Leader of the Opposition miss that? It took Poilievre two full weeks to issue a strong statement on Greenland, and only after it became clear that most Americans themselves opposed the idea.

He’s still playing by the old playbook, treating Carney as if he were just another version of Trudeau.

He leans on a small circle of braindead online grifters who may excite the base but alienate almost everyone else, people who mock ordinary voters (boomers), sneer at law abiding immigrants, and see every issue as part of some cartoonish global conspiracy. By indulging these morons, he’s pushed away centrists and reasonable voices who might broaden his appeal. Remember, the median voter in Canada is in the centre.

The result is obvious: he can’t seem to unite the country. He’s got the base, but not much beyond it. I understand he may be the best the Conservatives have right now, but how many reinventions does a career politician get? "If only Poilievre did this, if only he said that..blah blah." It's getting old!

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

Unbelievable that he can’t get himself past this. At this point you can only conclude he has nothing else to offer

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Meet the NEW Liberal carbon tax. A lot like the OLD Liberal carbon tax.

Liberals hiked their hidden carbon tax again — up 7¢/L this year, and headed to 17¢/L by 2030.

That means higher gas prices and higher grocery bills.

I will scrap it. So you can afford food, fuel and energy.

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

I’m afraid it’s a little late for a course correction ahead of the next election. When the leader of your party takes the opinions of low IQ influencers more seriously, repeating their idiotic, ill informed talking points and conspiracies, and channelling their anger as if it were representative of the country, than those offering principled, constructive feedback, regardless of where it comes from on the partisan divide, that’s when you know the rot has set in at the top.

The problem isn’t messaging or strategy. I question his judgment. The question for the CPC is: how many makeovers does Poilievre get?

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

💯

[Roman Fisher @RomanFisher__]

I’m sorry guys, but what Poilievre has been putting out there lately won’t match this. Call it situational bad luck or whatever you want, but tinkering with marginal tax rates and criticizing DEI won’t cut it. Us in the CPC ought to realize the fact that Carney could win an upcoming election with a strong majority if we don’t lock in and present a really serious and comprehensive vision for Canada and our place in the world. If Poilievre won’t/can’t do it, we should find someone who will/can.

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

When you’ve won over Rupa…

[Rupa Subramanya @rupasubramanya]

Remarkable speech from @MarkJCarney, urging allies to stop playing along with great-power intimidation. Compliance won’t buy safety, he warns. Stop appeasing bullies. Carney draws applause.

Citing Václav Havel, he says it’s "time for companies and countries to take their signs down." Under communism, ordinary people displayed slogans like "Workers of the world, unite!" even when they didn’t believe them, rituals of compliance meant to avoid trouble. Coercion, Havel argued, wasn’t always enforced through violence, but through quiet, everyday participation in a lie.

Carney receives a standing ovation at the end of his speech.

Extraordinary to see Canada asserting this kind of moral and strategic leadership, something we haven’t witnessed on the world stage in decades, especially at a moment when we have so much to lose if Trump chooses retaliation.

[Dave Williamson 🇨🇦 @davow22]

Perhaps one of the greatest speeches ever given by a Canadian Prime Minister. Proud to be a Canadian after watching this and firmly in the camp that believes we have the best possible leader for the times we are in.

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

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