DBouchard

I Views are my are my own | Born and raised Alberta girl |

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

Taxing Calgarians out of their homes. #yyccc

[DBouchard @Dbmbouchard]

@lucemsequimur1 @KybrdWrrr 💯. Between sky rocketing city property taxes and crazy insurance, it’s insane.

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Managers have spent $1.6 million advertising regional high speed rail service that doesn’t exist.
@altotrain now has 13 vice presidents.
“We are so proud.”
— @stevenmackinnon
https://t.co/4PqmjGDTto
#cdnpoli

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

This is the Liberal cycle in one picture:

1. Make groceries unaffordable.
2. Tax, borrow, regulate, and inflate the cost of living.
3. Hand people a government benefit.
4. Call it compassion.

A grocery benefit is not proof the policy is working. It is proof too many people now need help buying basics in one of the richest countries on earth.

Before 2015, feeding your family was normal life. Now Ottawa acts like helping people cover “essentials” is some grand achievement.

That is not economic strength.
That is managed decline with a press release.

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

This ⬇️

[KybrdWrrr @KybrdWrrr]

In 2010, AHS replaced its president & CEO 5 days after he refused to talk to reporters about Alberta’s ER crisis because he was too busy eating a cookie.

In 2024 & 2025, Calgary’s water infrastructure suffered two catastrophic failures - & no senior Admin was fired.

/2

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

The October referendum should not be reduced to party labels, personalities, or political theatre.

It should be about a practical and serious question: do Albertans have sufficient say over the decisions that affect our jobs, homes, housing, services, and future prosperity?

In 2021, 61.7% of Albertans voted to remove equalization from the Constitution. Premier Kenney asked Ottawa and the other premiers to act. They did not. Nothing changed.

Albertans should understand the difference between symbolic consultation and real leverage. The other referendum questions may express Alberta’s frustration, but they do not create any binding obligation on Ottawa to act. None.

An independence referendum is different. It compels Canada to confront Alberta’s unfair treatment in a way that cannot simply be ignored.

Get informed. Compare the claims. Understand what is actually on the ballot. Then vote.

[Paul Saladino, MD @paulsaladinomd]

Stop using ziplock bags…

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

This is central to CUSMA negotiations.

“Canada’s border isn’t just broken by federal incompetence at managing vast obvious fraud - it’s become a global magnet for the worst criminal and terror syndicates in the world now.

Canada is now the #1 source nation - over 80pc - of all terrorists interdicted at US borders.”

[DBouchard @Dbmbouchard]

“The Liberal approach is insane: leave Canadian wealth in the ground, import moral lectures from Europe, then wonder why productivity is weak, investment is fleeing, and Canadians feel poorer.”

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Canada is producing a lot of oil. That is not the scandal. The scandal is that we should be producing, exporting, upgrading, transporting, and profiting from far more, while Ottawa spent a decade treating one of our greatest national assets like an embarrassing skin condition.

Under Trudeau, Canada did not lack oil. Canada lacked permission. Carney is continuing this.

We had the reserves.
We had the workers.
We had the engineering.
We had global demand.
We had allies who would gladly buy from a stable democratic country instead of dictatorships.

And what did Ottawa do?

It cancelled Northern Gateway. It buried Energy East under regulatory fog. Keystone XL died in the U.S., but Canada’s weak energy posture did not help. Only Trans Mountain finally got finished, late and wildly expensive, after Ottawa turned a private-sector project into a government rescue mission. Reuters notes that in the past decade, several major Canadian pipeline projects were proposed, but only the Trans Mountain expansion was completed.

That is not an energy strategy. That is self-sabotage with a briefing binder.

Yes, Canadian crude output hit records in 2024. Statistics Canada said crude oil and equivalent production reached a fourth straight annual record, up 4.3% in 2024. The Canada Energy Regulator also reported average crude and equivalent production of 5.13 million barrels per day in 2024, rising again in the first half of 2025.

But that actually makes the Liberal failure look worse.

Because the industry succeeded despite Ottawa, not because of it. Like a farmer getting a crop off after the government spent ten years throwing rocks in the combine.

The real damage was not “zero production.” It was strangled potential: less investment, fewer pipelines, weaker market access, bigger discounts, more uncertainty, and fewer nation-building projects. Statistics Canada reported that oil and gas capital outlays fell 55% from 2014 to 2019, then another 36% in 2020. That is what policy hostility does. Capital does not hold a press conference. It just leaves.

And now Carney comes along with the same net-zero priesthood, but with better shoes and central banker vocabulary. He talks about investment, transition, climate finance, and “values,” but the machinery underneath is familiar: regulate, cap, tax, delay, subsidize preferred industries, and pretend prosperity can be spreadsheeted into existence by people who have never had to make payroll in a resource town.

Canada should be an energy superpower. Not as a slogan. As a fact.

We should be building pipelines to tidewater.

We should be expanding LNG.

We should be upgrading more oil here.

We should be supplying allies.

We should be using natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and oil as strategic national strengths.

We should stop apologizing for having what the world needs.

The Liberal approach is insane: leave Canadian wealth in the ground, import moral lectures from Europe, then wonder why productivity is weak, investment is fleeing, and Canadians feel poorer.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

Mark Carney went to Oxford

and we buy him $200,000 worth of airplane food every year

so he can rename the "GST/HST credit" to the "groceries and essentials benefit".... and they announced it like it was new.

Im not even kidding, thats what they did.

[Kevin Pacitti 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇬🇧 @kpac_15]

Imagine going on social media and bragging about how many of your constituents don’t earn enough so they need government handouts!? 🤦🏻‍♂️
Canada is a race to the bottom at this point.

[DBouchard @Dbmbouchard]

Excuse me?!.☝️

[Andrew Lawton @AndrewLawton]

BOMBSHELL

One of Mark Carney's official Senate representatives says she only rejected C-9 amendment criminalizing residential school "denialism" because it doesn't go far enough.

She admits Liberals are working with Leah Gazan on her bill which makes it easier to lay charges.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Carney’s net-zero crap is central planning in a green suit.

Nobody is against cleaner technology. The problem is forcing the whole economy through elite climate accounting while Canadians pay more for power, food, housing, transportation, and everything else.

Canada does not need more climate sermons from bankers. We need productivity, investment, cheap reliable energy, nuclear, hydro, natural gas, pipelines, mines, ports, and actual wealth creation.

Net zero is easy when someone else pays the bill.

And that is always the trick with Liberals: they sell virtue at retail and dump the cost wholesale on working Canadians.

[Elliot Daigneault @hrh_elliot]

Here is a MINDBOGGLING revelation for Canadians:

It’s YOUR MONEY, just given back to you LOL.

Yeah… its a credit on the GST collected by the government on expenses you incurred

But here is where DUMB government logic comes into play

First they have to collect it – which puts a compliance and administrative burden on private enterprise to manage these tax collection and remittance back to the government

Then CRA has to process it, which means massive bureaucratic costs

Then CRA has to remit it back to you… again incurring bureaucratic costs

Plus associated banking fees

Isn’t it just a thing of BEAUTY?

How to lose millions of dollars, the government way

Instead of just… Cutting taxes and thus alleviating all this administrative mess in the first place for the exact same result

Only drawback for the government?

They don’t get to run a massive PR campaign patting themselves on the back for giving you your own money back .

[DBouchard @Dbmbouchard]

A good read.

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

https://t.co/UBGMDxFTBR

[DBouchard @Dbmbouchard]

🎯🎯

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Carney gets elected to make a deal with the promise he could get a deal done with Trump

He doesn’t & proceeds to purposely make our relationship worse - his supporters cheer

Carney repeatedly said not only that our economy was doing great but that he was “making Canada strong” & that our economy was in fact growing.

It wasn’t, we had two quarters of negative growth & statistics Canada told Canadians were were in a recession - his supporters once again use insane rationalizations & come to Carney’s defense, denying there is a problem with our economy.

Carney said that he would make life more affordable for Canadians and that Canadians would judge him by the prices at the grocery store.

Canada over the last year has had the highest food inflation out of every G7 Country. To highlight that failure Carney had to give Canadians a renamed GST credit of our own money to help Canadians pay for groceries. What do his supporters do? They cheer with excitement & think he helped make life more affordable.

We don’t just have a Government who poorly manages our Country & lies to its citizens problem, we have a Liberal supporter problem. No Government will ever change its ways or improve if their base continues to not only grow but also support or deny their failures.

[DBouchard @Dbmbouchard]

@WayneMathison @MarcMillerVM Indeed. Manufacture the crisis.

[Dean Allison @DeanAllisonMP]

The COVID-19 vaccine injuries website, my office phones, and emails have been inundated with Canadians sharing their stories

[Kris Sims @kris_sims]

⁉️Government Grocery Stores ⁉️

Think about all the stuff in a grocery store

Fresh, frozen & cooked food, workers, scanners, cart returns, trucking docks, etc

Government can’t fix its *payroll software* without wasting BILLIONS!

This would NOT make groceries more affordable!