Ian Tootill

Free enterprise, capitalism, & free speech enthusiast.

[Ian Tootill @itootill]

@PBakhmut @jasonjamesbnn Nobody should have to ask for permission. It's public property.

[Ian Tootill @itootill]

@caroltreardon @Adam_Stirling Isn't anyone tired of being obtuse? We have always been on a replacement plus immigration growth trajectory. Are "right wing" people really the only ones able to see the difference, nothwithstanding devasting impact (social and economic), between 250/yr and 1.5m?

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@dianesbaker1 @caroltreardon @Adam_Stirling @JustinTrudeau Who hurt you Granny?

[Ian Tootill @itootill]

@Jimnelson806 @davidicke Public property is public property. We all have the right to move about freely. I have no idea why some would voluntarily give it up. Feel free to do so if you want... but leave me out of it.

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@peter_schu66842 @jimmyjoemc @jasonjamesbnn Exactly.

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@wgw_art @jasonjamesbnn They are not. They are enforcing a law. Never impose a law unless you plan to enforce it, and you have the ability to enforce it. The law is the ass.

[Ian Tootill @itootill]

@jeremytipper14 @jasonjamesbnn Why is "safety first and foremost"?

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@PBakhmut @jasonjamesbnn It's near and yet so far. That's why it's special.

[Ian Tootill @itootill]

@jasonjamesbnn I know this beach well also. We train binge drinking in Canada with too many rules. Nobody should normalize any kind of martial law on public property. https://t.co/2hp5DHoq6n

[Ian Tootill @itootill]

@TruthWorksLoops @604RAW Dude rides on a trail, with his dog ahead; deviates for mere seconds possibly to protect his owner, who knows. Dude calls the dog and he obeys instantly. And you want a fine? Jesus Christ, (some) people in this province are just miserable control freaks.

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@604RAW Good dog.

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@Robert_JR__ @JakeOfLA3 @davidicke @Martyupnorth Great. You do you, and they can do them then.

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@MeCatsand82759 @davidicke Could be anywhere. So, what are you saying? That anywhere we want to go, that presents a challenge for emergency response, gets a curfew? Really?

[Ian Tootill @itootill]

@davidicke Penned 12 years ago: Why is it acceptable to have an enforced CURFEW on Wreck every night at sunset, for that matter, on any beach, in a first world, supposedly free country? https://t.co/FCtw9M86o9

[Ian Tootill @itootill]

@Jimnelson806 @davidicke People in Canada are trained with insane alcohol consumption laws to be binge drinkers. You are trying to normalize a piece of martial law. This is our country and doesn’t belong to police and rule makers. You are looking at this all wrong.

[Ian Tootill @itootill]

@davidicke Looks like Wreck Beach. It’s a park. This curfew at sunset rule has been around for as long as I can remember. I agree in a free country, it is unacceptable.

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@mario4thenorth I am actually very happy they are doing this as it will backfire on them magnificently. They're already getting ratio'd on these posts.

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Look how the @bcndp and their loons are getting ratio’d. This will backfire magnificently.

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@bcndp Haha keep it up. I predict this shit will backfire magnificently! 👍🤡

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This is so well said 👇

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record.

In Canada, It Matters How the Economy Dies.

The Canadian economy is dead. It just didn’t die with a crash big enough to satisfy the models. No Lehman moment, no Covid‑style cliff, just two negative quarters of GDP, years of falling output per person, negative productivity, and a private sector slowly strangled by rates and regulation while the establishment insists the patient is “resting.”

On the facts, this isn’t ambiguous. Real GDP has contracted for two consecutive quarters on an annualized basis. Labour productivity has been flat or negative since 2021. Real GDP per capita is below its pre‑pandemic level. Ontario has logged its worst non‑pandemic quarterly job losses since the mid‑1970s. The only consistent growth is in government payrolls and compliance, not in private enterprise and investment. If that isn’t recessionary, the word is meaningless.

And yes Macklem threatens rate hikes through all of this insanity.

Yet Canada’s official guardians insist nothing fundamental has broken. The C.D. Howe recession‑dating committee says the downturn is not “pronounced, persistent, and pervasive” enough. The central bank warns against overreacting to “technical” weakness. Bay Street talks about “soft landings” and “resilience.” In some quarters, the answer to this slow‑motion collapse is not relief, but further rate hikes. Ignore the body on the table, we are told, the vital signs aren’t quite bad enough yet to fill out the certificate.

Their rulebook was built for heart attacks, not cancers. It excels at spotting sudden collapses in aggregate GDP and jobs. It barely registers slow organ failure: a few tenths off real GDP per capita each year, productivity edging down, ugly quarters for private‑sector employment and capex offset by public hiring. None of that triggers the old alarms until the damage is permanent.

Meanwhile, Canada has been busy throwing away the advantages that once justified its prosperity. Energy and resource projects are stalled or strangled. Business investment per worker trails peers. A country rich in capital, talent, and geography behaves as if it can live forever off inherited endowments while making it harder to build anything new. That is not “resilience.” It is delusion.
Canada’s economic establishment needs to wake up.

Two negative quarters of GDP, negative productivity, falling GDP per person, historic job losses in the core province, a suffocated private sector and calls for more tightening on top, are not signs of an economy “cooling toward trend.” They are signs of an economy that has already crossed the line from stagnation into decay.

The Canadian economy is dead in the way that matters: as an engine of rising living standards and a place where private capital is rewarded for building the future. It just didn’t die loudly enough for the old definitions. The real question now is not what we call it, but how long our institutions will keep pretending the corpse is “resilient.”