Donovan Durksen

Sales Consultant for Mazergroup Moosomin

[bu/ac @buperac]

Pipeline companies should be announcing new pipelines and routes, not the government of Canada.

Data center companies should be announcing new data centers, not the government of Canada.

Oil Export terminal companies should be announcing new export terminals, not the government of Canada.

If you haven’t just noticed, every single part of our industry is held hostage by the government of Canada.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Birmingham Police are now asking us all to stop sharing this video. Oops.

[Matt Couch @RealMattCouch]

This is how you handle getting pull over… any questions?

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Europe's situation explained in a video. You only need a few seconds to get it.

[Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 @TRobinsonNewEra]

The same police force who handcuffed Henry Nowak and called him a liar as he died, did this to the people protesting it.

Nobody can say there's no two tier policing and judiciary in the UK.

The whole world sees it.

[Donovan Durksen @donomadness]

@DudespostingWs @adamcarolla

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) has over 2,000 employees.

Top 5 managers, make more than $5 million per year.

They have never beaten the market.

Nevada has 1 guy. Who invests in ETFs.

Does nothing. All day.

And he outperforms the CPP.

Consistently.

For further context, if CPP invested in QQQ, for the last 10 years, instead of $800 billion in assets, we would have $2.4 Trillion.

VOO would put it at $1.6 trillion.

Lesson: The government will never outperform the market.

So don’t think the Sovereign Debt Fund will be any different.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

When the floor crossers happened.

Everyone attacked Pierre.

Gladu, just admitted that the Liberals offer money to Liberal ridings,

IF THEY CROSS THE FLOOR.

Unconstitutional madness.

And yet, they still attacked Pierre’s leadership.

Fast forward to today:

14 cowardly Liberal MPs, sign a letter against Carney,

The media protects them,

No names.

One MP, quits as a minister.

And now, he may leave the Liberal caucus altogether.

So my question is:

WHEN WILL MEDIA ATTACK CARNEY’S LEADERSHIP?

14 unhappy MPs.

One quitting.

A province that wants to separate.

It’s a disaster.

[Braeden @BraedenSorbo]

I have not seen anybody talking about what’s going on in Canada right now.

This man was pulled over and told by police that he had to come with them because a psychiatrist labeled him “certifiable.”

No paperwork, no rule of law, just a doctor saying that if he didn’t come with him right then and there that he would be arrested.

The fact that a government could do this is terrifying.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

Canada manufactures plastic straws and cups

and exports them, so Katy and Justin can use them at Coachella

but does not allow their own citizens to buy them.

Canada is not a serious country.

[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

I realize I’m repeating myself, but I am genuinely confused how an actual terrorist is granted a jail pass and permission to leave the country to go find himself a wife (lucky lady, no? 😳) and I had to explain to my 3 year old grandson this week why I can’t take him to the water park a block from our house until next summer. 🤷‍♀️

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

This floor crossing BS is out of control. If MPs in this country can just change parties whenever they want, then voters truly have no control over who becomes prime minister and runs our government. The whole Canadian system is based on the premise that parties MATTER.

[Jack @FFS_WhatNow]

"Hitler was a failed art student and a vegan who blamed all his problems on rich people and the Jews.

"If he was around today, he'd be attending the Green Party conference'

Superb @LeoKearse 👏👏👏

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

You ever notice how “the market is sophisticated” suddenly becomes the adult in the room whenever someone suggests building something in Canada?

Corey’s argument sounds smart. Import terminal. Global market. Swaps. Napkin math. Five cents per MMBtu per 1,000 km. A dollar end to end. Very tidy.

But tidy isn’t the same as complete.

First, yes, it’s an import terminal. Designed to import. That’s the point. We built infrastructure to bring in foreign gas while sitting on one of the largest natural gas reserves on the planet. That’s not market sophistication. That’s structural failure.

Second, the “global market” argument. Of course energy is traded globally. No one serious is arguing we shut the border and live on maple syrup and patriotism. The issue is vulnerability.

If one shock, one policy change, one geopolitical flare-up can spike prices in Atlantic Canada because we didn’t build east-west capacity, that’s not free-market genius. That’s fragility.

Third, the napkin math.

Five cents per MMBtu per 1,000 km assumes stable global pricing, stable shipping lanes, stable currency, stable geopolitics. It ignores basis differentials, liquefaction costs, regasification costs, and the fact that LNG pricing often tracks international benchmarks, not Canadian supply costs.

Western Canadian gas has historically traded at a discount to Henry Hub. Sometimes a painful discount. The idea that importing LNG from overseas is roughly equivalent to moving Canadian gas east is a modelling exercise, not lived pricing history.

And here’s the big sleight of hand.

“Buy Canadian on non-market terms” equals National Energy Program?

That’s a category error.

The National Energy Program wasn’t about building infrastructure to move Canadian product to Canadians. It was about price controls, federal revenue grabs, and distortionary redistribution.

Building pipelines is not the NEP.
Letting Canadian gas compete in Canadian markets is not the NEP.
Removing regulatory barriers so private capital can actually build east-west infrastructure is not the NEP.

That’s the opposite of central planning. That’s clearing the runway.

Free markets don’t mean passive markets. They require infrastructure. And infrastructure requires political permission. We’ve spent a decade blocking pipelines, cancelling projects, and then acting shocked that imports fill the gap.

Markets optimize within constraints. Governments set the constraints.

Corey is right about one thing: we need serious conversations.

So here’s the serious version.

Do we want:

1.Canadian gas moving east through Canadian infrastructure?

2.Or LNG tankers docking at Canadian ports because we failed to connect our own country?

Both involve markets. Only one strengthens internal resilience.

Self-reliance doesn’t mean autarky. It means reducing self-inflicted dependence.

If pointing that out now counts as resurrecting 1980, then we’ve officially confused policy reform with nostalgia.

Serious times. Yes.

So let’s be serious.

Build the pipes.
Let the market work.
Stop pretending imports are proof of sophistication when they’re often proof of political paralysis.

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

🚨MEDIA ADMITS THEY HAVE MARK CARNEY’S BACK!

I'm sitting here editing a piece I'm posting shortly. I have CPAC on.
There is a "Media Summit" right now in Ottawa. (Canadian media producers association)
Listen to what they said as they introduce Mark Carney👇🏻
(Of course Carney had to get the whole "we live in an increasingly dangerous, divided and intolerant world" spiel in. Pundits today and yesterday say Pierre is the negative one and Carney offers hope🤦🏼‍♀️)
#cdnpoli @PierrePoilievre @CPC_HQ

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

THIS

Is the guy that Canada fired in 2015

To bring in "grow the economy from heart outwards" Justin Trudeau

We deserve everything we got.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Mark Warner on yesterday's CBC panel on what he hopes to hear from Carney coming out of his China trip "I'm getting a bit tired of the high level hortatory statements."

"So, yes, I see the prime minister say, oh, we can do something with China. But he says he can do things as long as they don't have national security implications."

"Well, Donald Trump thinks everything has a national security implication."

"...So I think it's time that the prime minister, at least for me, I need to hear specifics." @MAAWLAW

[Donovan Durksen @donomadness]

@vesperdigital Not a bot

[QuickDickMcDick 🇨🇦 @QuickDickMcDick]

What a great time to switch to an EV because your federal government banned the sale of ICE vehicles, eh?

#ElbowsUp

[Tracey Wilson @TWilsonOttawa]

Backbencher: $211,000
Minister: $311,500
Secretary of State: $284,500
PM: $419,600

And this is their 2025 work calendar.

You’re simply not angry enough yet. 🇨🇦