Dougrr

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[Dougrr @dougrrr]

So there’s that….

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

The Globe and Mail is reporting that Canada is mounting a "full-court press" for a trade deal ahead of the tariff deadline, but fails to mention that the Prime Minister is on vacation

How is it a "full-court press" when the Prime Minister/player/coach is on vacation in another country?

In what universe is this rational/honest reporting? @AdrianMorrow @MariekeWalsh

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation

Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.

Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.”

For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again.

The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.

To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump!

If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.

[Dougrr @dougrrr]

@danielfoch Too little too late. I hope Dunkin kicks their ass

[Dougrr @dougrrr]

@OzzardHoHD @Ndiayee0 Haha. Noice. Worth the wait 🤣⚽️

[Dougrr @dougrrr]

@TheTorontoSun Yes. People are starting to get it.

[Dougrr @dougrrr]

@ryangerritsen doesn't answer the question, gets called out on it and blows a spaz. pathetic.

[Dougrr @dougrrr]

I wonder how much they paid the PR consultant to tell them to redact the make and model...

[Trevor Halford @TrevHal]

The NDP spent $370,000 on luxury car leases for bureaucrats.
Then redacted the makes and models when asked.

Luxury cars for senior officials that already make six-figure salaries and work from home.

At a time when they're cutting funding for children with autism and forcing British Columbians to tighten their belts, this government should lead by example and scrap these perks.

#bcpoli

[Dougrr @dougrrr]

@Arielle7161 @WSJ @paulvieira Lol

[Dougrr @dougrrr]

@frank_seravalli @ThomasDrance Im not going to say it but we all know what is going to happen… #canucks

[Damien C. Kurek @dckurek]

Seeing the double standard on display...

​Liberals and pundits are calling out @PierrePoilievre for going on @JoeRogan to promote Canadian interests. Meanwhile, @MarkJCarney literally launched his campaign for Prime Minister on @TheDailyShow (a US TV show) and prefers foreign venues like Davos and The Economist for policy discussions.

​Pierre and the CPC are hard at work as part of Team Canada. It's a shame the Liberals only agree with a "Team Canada" approach when it's them.

[Dougrr @dougrrr]

@alanfryermedia

[Dougrr @dougrrr]

@alanfryermedia He is the worst. If this country had a functioning media he would rightly be eviscerated on a daily basis.

[Andy Lee @RealAndyLeeShow]

Many are shocked Mark Carney signed a memorandum of understanding to strengthen cooperation between the RCMP and the Chinese government’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS).

This is an extension of a former agreement - one that had disastrous results.

They never learn.

[Dean Allison @DeanAllisonMP]

Eurasia Group, you ask … what’s happening there?

Over $1.53 MILLION in federal contracts (your tax dollars btw) went to Eurasia Group over 10 years.

Who works there? Mark Carney’s wife, Diana Fox Carney, in a senior role.

Who else? Gerry Butts, also in a senior role. Also a staunch, long time Liberal.

Now Mark Carney is leaning on Eurasia Group "analysis.”

What’s the analysis? (Remember who works there). Analysis to justify distancing Canada from our closest ally & largest trading partner, while moving closer to China, a communist dictatorship which interfered in Canada’s elections.

Does this scream independent analysis to you?

Are Canadians not supposed to notice what’s happening?

[Shuv Majumdar @shuvmajumdar]

BEIJING. DOHA. DAVOS.

In 2026, this is what PM @MarkJCarney prioritizes.

Not you. Not Canada. Not the national interest. Just capitulation at every turn. For what? For himself.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

These are the words of a globalist euro con artist. This is GFANZ Carney using his position of power to make himself and his friends rich. He actually used China as an example? I’m so angry that so many Canadians can’t see through this guy for who he is

[Dan Knight @DanKnightMMA]

Demand MP Michael Ma to Resign - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/T3FpMaljVn via @CdnChange

[Harman Bhangu @HarmanBhanguBC]

I don’t usually weigh in on floor crossings.

MPs are free to make political choices.

But this one has to be said plainly: this move is fraught with illegitimacy.

Markham–Unionville is not a normal riding.

It has been repeatedly flagged for foreign interference. It produced candidates linked to PRC-aligned networks.

And Mark Carney personally backed a Liberal MP who brushed off remarks about handing a Conservative opponent to the CCP as “just joking.”

Now, from that same riding, a post-election floor crossing pushes Carney to the edge of majority power.

Given how shrouded this riding has been, the only legitimate path forward is a by-election.

Not because floor crossings are illegal.

But because democracy requires consent, especially when power shifts without voters being asked.

If Carney wants a majority, he should earn it from Canadians.

Not inherit it through a process already clouded by unanswered questions.

[Kiel Giddens @KielGiddens]

This is a crucial point on DRIPA, as @TristinHopper clarifies in the National Post:

“…it was Eby himself who, as the NDP’s B.C. justice minister in 2021, shepherded through a little-known amendment specifying that B.C.’s adoption of UNDRIP was not merely symbolic.

It was a one-line change to the Interpretation Act, a longstanding piece of B.C. legislation which lays out the basics of how laws should be read and interpreted. The line Eby added was: “Every Act and regulation must be construed as being consistent with the Declaration.””