Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP

Everywhere Alberta - Oilers -49er’s - Craft Beer Maker - Politically Lost

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@CTVNews Remember when Trump told Germany how vulnerable they were and they scoffed at him? Remember that time that Justin Trudeau and Singh said there was no business case for LNG then Trump made a Trillion dollar LNG deal…….

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

CBC again platforms Frank McKenna as just “former ambassador.” Same omission. Same pattern

Rosemary Barton Live today's introduction: former ambassador to the United States, former premier of New Brunswick. That is all

No mention that McKenna has been a Brookfield director since 2006 and Chair of Brookfield Corporation since August 2010. No mention that he brought Mark Carney onto the Brookfield board. No mention that he endorsed Carney for Liberal leadership and remains a committed Carney supporter. No Brookfield. No Carney tie. CBC has done this repeatedly. Selective disclosure is always the point

Then listen to what McKenna actually said. It is not Carney’s message

Carney and the government have framed a “trade war,” extreme tail-risk language about possible U.S. military action, and urgency around diversification because the relationship is supposedly broken. McKenna walked most of that back

* On Carney’s New York Times comments about an “extreme tail end risk” of U.S. military action against Canada: McKenna called it banker jargon. He said the two countries are “joined at the hip” on military exercises, NORAD, and intelligence (including personnel embedded in each other’s embassies). Beneath the rhetoric, he said, be realistic — which to him means optimistic

* On trade: “Over 90% of our trade, probably 95% of our trade goes across the border without tariffs.” He repeated that the two countries are each other’s extremely large partners and “it all works.” Rhetoric at the top, “trash talking,” but “life goes on.” He predicted people will eventually laugh about the current tone. That is not a trade-war frame

* On a deal: He said talks are happening, including almost daily communication at the prime minister–president level. A deal is a “logical imperative.” He even flipped USTR Greer’s “no urgency” line: midterms and affordability could mean there is urgency. Get a deal. The pendulum will swing

* On the new U.S. bans taking effect (alcohol, motorcycles, whey, molasses, non-alcoholic beer, etc.): “Reasonably minor.” Parties have “downed their weapons.” Canada probably will not retaliate. Tensions are in a “steady state” and will “escalate downward.” He called that good news

On deepening ties with the EU after it provoked Trump: He supported it as Reagan-style “trust but diversify,” leverage so Canada can approach the U.S. as more of an equal, plus the investment summit catalyzing growth. Functional relationship, not legal entanglement. Prudential. Still: the U.S. will always be the major partner. Keep your eye on that basket.

* McKenna is a Carney man. He is also the Brookfield chair who helped put Carney on that board and who took the public-facing continuity role after Carney left for politics. CBC never says any of that. It gives him the soft “former ambassador” label, lets him soothe the relationship Carney has spent months describing as crisis, and moves on

If the guest is only a retired diplomat offering independent analysis, disclose nothing extra. If he is the long-time Brookfield chair, Carney recruiter, and political ally whose optimistic “get a deal / most trade is already tariff-free / this is not a war” line undercuts the government’s own messaging, say so on air. CBC never does! @brodiefenlon @RosieBarton

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@yonkojohn @dkreative1 12 years and counting with 6 of those years without Trump.

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@vinnigan @jkenney Is it…
Would you support independence if you lost your Canada Pension Plan?
Would you support Independence if AB lost access to healthcare?
Would you support independence if it meant losing your citizenship.

Leading
Selective framing:
Question order:
Missing context:

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@acoyne Leave it to Coyne to blame Trump on this instead of both Trudeau’s and basically everything wrong PM in between.
It isn’t about the USA or Trump & Coyne knows that, he’s a coward for not admitting that.
FYI - The Independence movement started before Trump.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

What does “Vote to Stay” actually mean?

Voting Option 1 is voting for the status quo. It means:

- STAY with the current tax burden.
- STAY with the current regulatory structure.
- STAY with today’s affordability pressures.
- STAY with the existing relationship with Ottawa.

Option 2 means Albertans want something different.
We can do better. Vote Option 2.

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@edmontonjournal The federal government slammed Canada with immigrants to hide the actual GDP.
That caused Canadian infrastructure, social programs, healthcare and housing crisis.
Literally everything wrong with Canada can be traced back to poor liberal choices.
Alberta can’t handle the influx.

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@DrJaredWesley It targets unskilled immigrants who add stress to our infrastructure, our social programs and our healthcare.
Walk into any ER and have a look for yourself.
I do on a daily basis.

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@DuaneBratt Independence voters are still going to vote conservative dummy.
This isn’t about who runs Alberta, this is about where Alberta is going to end up.
Huge difference.

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@ABDanielleSmith This is what happens when you give control to leftist.
Property is yours! Not the government’s

[kitty kaun @KittyKaun]

@ABDanielleSmith BAN IT. We paid top dollar for our lots, built our homes, landscaped and maintained them for decades only to have globalist left NDP politicians destroy all of it so were forced to live next door to the third world?
HELL NO. leave our established communities ALONE!
#NOINFILLS

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@Bratt_world Ummmm, the deal helps the USA businesses and farmers, Chinese cars won’t stop at 49,000 the deal includes upwards of 75,000 units and that puts Canadian auto workers out of a job.
Tell me your not this fucking dumb!

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@jkenney China is tariffing Canola dumbass!

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@CanadaGoose911 B.C is fucked.
Kelowna is ranked the most dangerous city, Surrey is the third most dangerous city.
Investment is gone because nobody knows who owns the properties.
Banks are unwilling to give business loans and the province is being sued by Indigenous groups, investors and banks

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Vote carefully Albertans. Remember the National Energy Program.

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@Bratt_world lol, this is tin foil hat talk…….pure nonsensical bullshit.

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@MarkJCarney Ask this guy to release the CUSMA deal and show you how bad the economy is.
His excuse for the last 12 years will be “it’s Trumps fault”
It’s not….

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@Dave_Eby Your policies made it harder, then you went and were responsible for around 8000 opioids deaths..
NEVER FORGET what harmful policies this guy brought in

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@vinnigan @jkenney No they don’t.
I go to rural Alberta & ask a specific question, then went into the heart of old Strathcona & asked a specific question, then I went to Nose Hill in Calgary & asked a specific question the answers will slant & benefit my opinion.
That’s 3 opposing opinions

[Thomas Shelby OBE - DCM -MM - MP @Gronk9911]

@Dave_Eby So more restrictions and bureaucracy.
That’s the opposite of getting shit done in a province where you need every indigenous community’s approval.

Seriously…….Good luck with that..