@Saliqbal2016@CanadaGoose911 Do not vote for Carney then. Whole family lives and works in USA, moved Brookfield to USA. Trudeau now in USA cheering for USA soccer.
This is one of the most bittersweet moments of our lives.
Our son-in-law was laid off in Winnipeg a few weeks ago, his company closed down in Canada. He is 33, a software engineer, and he and our daughter have a new baby.
Now Roblox has recruited him to Silicon Valley. Our daughter will be able to stay at home with our granddaughter, which she would not have been able to do in Winnipeg, like most working parents we know. A huge plus, considering the woke goofball education systems everywhere in the West.
We are proud of him. He earned this. It is an extraordinary opportunity for their young family.
But my wife and I are crushed.
We spent our lives building in Manitoba. My wife ran a Lab and Imaging Unit. I ran businesses, farmed through brutal weather, survived terrible government policy, cared for aging parents, raised our family and contributed to our community. Farming was not merely hard. It was years of risk, sacrifice and uncertainty, with governments constantly making life more difficult for the people who actually produced something.
Now Canada is losing another highly skilled young worker because the opportunities are better somewhere else.
Mark Carney and Wab Kinew can talk all they want about growth, innovation and compassion. People live with the results, not the speeches. Winnipeg cannot compete for talent when taxes are high, productivity is weak, investment leaves, wages lag and essential services fail.
COVID was already more than I can forgive. Families were divided, businesses were damaged, children lost years, peaceful protesters were treated like enemies, and the politicians responsible still speak as though they acted with perfect wisdom.
Then there is healthcare.
My wife had a stroke. It took three years to find out what had happened. Vision problems. Three years of waiting, confusion, worsening symptoms and watching someone you love struggle while a supposedly world-class public system, that she worked hard in for 40 years, moved at a crawl.
That is not compassion. It is institutional failure.
So yes, this move is bittersweet. I am proud of our children and angry at the country they feel they must leave. They are going where talent is valued, work is rewarded and healthcare is part of the employment package.
Carney and Kinew should be ashamed of the country and province they are helping to govern. Their policies have consequences. Families pay them. Patients pay them. Workers pay them. Grandparents pay them.
We moved to Winnipeg from rural Manitoba to be closer to our daughters. A plane trip to our olderst daughter in BC and a walk down the street to our youngest daughters home.
We are allowed to grieve this. We’ll miss birthdays, spontaneous visits, and having our grandchild just down the road. At the same time, this move will give our daughter and grandson financial security that lasts for decades.
My wife and I spent much of our lives trying to give the next generation better choices than we had. Ironically, that success will mean watching them build their future somewhere else. We will miss our daughter, son-in-law and grandchild terribly, we could just walk down the street to see them… now it will be more flights.
And I will never forgive the people who helped make leaving Canada the only sensible choice.
@acoyne The lockdowns were insidious. The truth came out. Florida proved them all correct. Ironic that the green light given to the BLM riots exposed it. Fauci's diaries were the cherry on top,
@jkenney We have to drive to Buffalo to buy Chobani Yogurt.
The inventors tried to build a factory in Kingston, even agreed to only use Canadian milk. Our cartel saw it as a threat.
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Megan Rapinoe, now safely retired from US Soccer, wants men who identify as women allowed onto women’s teams.
If that standard applied, the entire US women’s team could be replaced overnight by a couple dozen biological males. Rapinoe knows first-hand there is no equality between men and women in soccer:
- In 2017, her own team USA (then ranked #2 in the world) lost 5-2 to the FC Dallas U-15 boys academy team.
- In 2021, Brazil’s Olympic women’s team (with Marta) lost 6-0 to Grêmio’s U-16 boys.
- In 2025, Switzerland’s senior women’s team lost 7-1 to an under-15 boys side.
Alisha Lehmann played in that game. Lehmann, like Rapinoe, has loudly demanded “equal pay for the same job.” Question for Megan and Alisha: when 14-year-old boys do a better job than the senior women’s teams they beat, should those boys get ‘equal pay’?
No.
Because biological reality is not about how you ‘identify’. Male puberty confers permanent advantages in size, strength, speed, and power that remain in spite of gender declarations or hormones.
Rapinoe could never have made a men’s Division I college roster, let alone a mens pro team. Yet dozens of average adult males who identify as women could walk onto the US women’s national team today.
Telling men who identify as women they can’t do that isn’t bigotry - it’s biology. Women’s sports exist precisely because normal people recognize male and female categories are not interchangeable.
In soccer, pretending otherwise doesnt create fairness — it erases it.