@patgagnon_75 A big thank-you to Trump for making it okay for Canadians to be patriotic again. Before that we were supposed to be ashamed of our colonial past, have constant white guilt and become a post-national state with no shared identity other than "not Americans".
@Bratt_world No matter how bad Trump is - Carney is over 90% invested in US companies. Carney is playing for the other side. The US president could be a bag of rocks and our Prime Minister will still give up our leverage.
@WesternStandard I miss the Chrétien days when even Liberals knew that the budget had to be balanced. Even Liberals knew that more government spending means a higher cost of living. Liberals used to say what Conservatives say now. Same in America.
@joncoopertweets Canada's Prime Minister is a European with his family and over 90% of his business investments in America. Carney makes money by America dominating Canada. Any leverage or bargaining chips Canada has in trade talks Carney will not use.
@aravosis Most Canadians think they pay income and sales taxes and that's it. They don't see the embodied taxes in all goods and services. Canadians who think they pay a 30% tax rate actually pay over 80% of their income in taxes.
@aravosis Where I live in Canada most people do not have a family doctor. The clinics are full. I once went to the doctor with an expired MCP card and I had to pay for the appointment out of pocket.
@AntiLeftMemes Many men have had to deal with overlapping fields of machine gun fire, barbed wire, snipers and pre-sighted artillery barrages to protect the comfortable, safe life that we live today.
@TonyWakehamNL@PCPartyNL Gov't needs to cut spending but it needs to start with the most wasteful and work its way down. The money needs to be cut from the limousine and bonus budget, not the road repair and snowclearing budget.
@bruce_barrett After the last 100+ years of government overspending most of the cost of everything is government. If you buy any product or service more money goes to the government than to the dozens of businesses that brought you that product or service combined... even before sales tax.
@Joanne_NL Most Liberal voters believe that government funding is free but in reality it's the most expensive funding you can possibly get. That's why the last 100 years of government overspending has correlated to the last 100 years of the cost of living rising.
@erik_thorvalds Most of the cost of everything is government. When you buy something you have to pay for the taxes charged to all of the businesses that brought you that product, all the way back to the extraction of the natural resources.