@toronto_morning $3.2bn over 10 years. Last time I checked, Liberals gave $26bn away to Ukraine in the last few years alone... and you tell me you have Canadians in mind? Whoever believe the Liberal Lies are just fools.
I have to say, I was looking forward to today's announced National Food Security Strategy but so disappointed with the final result.
$3.2B over 10 years isn't taking the issue seriously, it's bureaucracy funding.
We have record food unaffordability so much so that the Liberals handed out a little bit of cash to 1/3 of Canada and yet still substantial investment and action isn't taken.
We have sent tens of billions overseas in the last couple years and barely investing a fraction of that to make food cheaper for ourselves.
@Gina_T1@grok This is managed collapse. Its just simple as that. You think Carney doesn't know what hes doing? He's smarter than most think. He wants to break Canada into pieces. Thats why he's talking about selling Ports and Airports.
Canadian Dollar looks sick.
Canada’s currency is sending a signal policymakers appear unwilling to hear.
The recent softness in the Canadian dollar is not a transient fluctuation driven by cyclical noise. It reflects a deeper reassessment by global capital markets of Canada’s structural trajectory—one increasingly defined by weak productivity, regulatory overreach, and a persistent misallocation of capital away from its core competitive strengths.
For much of the past two decades, Canada benefited from a favorable external environment: rising commodity demand, proximity to the world’s largest consumer market, and a stable financial system. That foundation has been gradually eroded. Productivity growth has stagnated to near-zero levels, business investment has lagged OECD peers, and regulatory burdens, particularly in energy and infrastructure, have constrained the very sectors where Canada retains a natural advantage.
Instead of addressing these structural deficiencies early, policy discourse has largely normalized them. Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth are framed as manageable. Declining output per worker is treated as an abstract statistic rather than a direct threat to living standards.
Meanwhile, the public sector has crowded out the private sector for over a decade. Yet Bay St and the BOC say it’s but a flesh wound.
Currency markets are less forgiving.
They function as a real-time referendum on policy credibility and long-term growth expectations. The Canadian dollar’s weakness is not merely a reflection of interest rate differentials; it is a signal that global investors are demanding a higher risk premium for exposure to an economy with deterioratin fundamentals.
Compounding this dynamic is an extraordinary degree of home bias among domestic investors. Canadian portfolios remain heavily concentrated in domestic equities and real estate despite clear evidence of underperformance relative to global benchmarks. This insularity amplifies vulnerability: when domestic fundamentals weaken, both the currency and asset prices adjust simultaneously.
The core issue is strategic drift. Canada possesses abundant natural resources, a highly educated population, and geographic advantages that should position it as a leading beneficiary of global energy transition and supply chain realignment.
Yet policy choices for decades have systematically undermined these advantages, favoring redistribution and regulation over growth and competitiveness.
Absent a meaningful shift, toward investment, productivity, and resource development, the message from currency markets is unlikely to change. Exchange rates do not move on rhetoric. They move on relative performance.
And on that measure, Canada is falling behind.
After watching Pierre Poilievre’s press conference, this is my take:
Canada is not in trouble because of bad luck. We are in trouble because of bad policy.
The Liberals want to call this a “technical recession,” as if families pay “technical rent” and buy “technical groceries.” People live in the real economy: layoffs, insolvencies, food banks, rent, debt, and businesses afraid to invest.
Poilievre is right. You cannot punish energy, bury projects in regulation, tax work and investment, spend like drunken sailors, and then act shocked when capital leaves and jobs disappear.
Canada has oil, gas, uranium, hydro, minerals, forests, farmland, ports, talent, and direct access to the U.S. market. We should be one of the richest, most productive countries on earth.
Instead, we have a government that treats production like a problem and bureaucracy like a solution.
The AI economy, manufacturing, mining, farming, transportation, housing, and trade all need affordable energy and investment. No energy, no growth. No growth, no prosperity.
This is not just a recession. It is the bill coming due after years of Liberal economic vandalism.
Pierre is right to call it what it is. Canada is not poor.
Canada is being restrained.
Ukraine is not in recession.
Canada is.
Read that again.
Ukraine is fighting missiles, blackouts, energy strikes, transport disruption, and a full-scale war.
Canada is fighting Trudeau, Freeland, Carney, and the Liberal Party.
Ukraine took a war-hit Q1 and is still forecast to grow in 2026.
Canada had GDP drop in Q4, flatline in Q1, and business investment fall for 5 straight quarters.
No missiles.
No bombed-out power grid.
No front line.
Just Liberal economics doing what Liberal economics does.
Ukraine has war.
Canada has Liberals.
That is the embarrassment.