Jeff Penney

Dedicated husband and father. Die hard Habs fan. My tweets are my own.

[Joseph Steinberg @jbsteinberg]

I get that this elbows-up crap plays well politically within Canada, but as @Afinetheorem said, it's "economic malpractice." Our physical proximity to the US isn't a weakness---it's one of our most valuable endowments.

The Canada-US border is totally unique. Geographically and topographically speaking, there's nothing else like it in the world. It's far cheaper technologically for Ontario & Quebec to trade with the midwest & east coast than with BC & the prairie provinces. And vice versa: getting stuff from New York City to Los Angeles is technologically more expensive than getting that same stuff to Toronto.

Regardless of what political leaders on both sides of the border say and do, Americans and Canadians will want to trade intensively with each other. Whether we have a free trade agreement or 25% tariffs, that's still going to happen (a 25% tariff is still much lower than non-tariff cost of moving stuff to Europe or Asia). Donald Trump can't change that, and neither can Mark Carney.

Frankly, Carney's single most important job is to manage our relationship with the US so that we can get as much economic value out of it as possible. Trying to design policies to redirect economic activity away from the US is just going to make Canada poorer, and it's going to be counterproductive, anyway---again, the geographic and topographic realities are simply too strong.

(By the way, the fact that we've somehow gotten poorer than a geographically isolated, but otherwise fairly similar, country like Australia is shocking. But it's totally wrong to expect that making ourselves more effectively isolated is what's going to somehow make us richer.)

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

@DownGoesBrown @DownGoesBrown "Nothing will ever touch the Zamboni game". And after reading that statement the Hockey Gods say to themselves - Challenge Accepted!

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

#BellLetsTalk

[National Post @nationalpost]

For years, oil ensured Canada's healthy trade balance. Now that's changing — with major consequences https://t.co/eITTgP8Ijk

[Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey @CornellMHockey]

The Cornell Hockey family would like to welcome forward Kyle Penney #NewBigRed

🔴Full season with the Chilliwack Chiefs out of the BCHL.
⚪️Former Captain at Kimball Union Academy.
🐻What excites you most about Cornell?- “Being involved in the team culture”.

#YellCornell

[John Moore @rinkrant]

Cole Harbour's Kyle Penney is preparing for his freshman season with @CUBigRedHockey despite the uncertainty to season due to #COVID19. Full feature to come. @Chiefs_Hockey

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

@Gerry_Byrne @FLR_GovNL I'd love to. But only if you revise or remove the idiotic guide restrictions. I have a valid 2020 NL Guides Licence. The only person I cannot legally guide is myself. I do not need or want a guide to fish rivers I grew up on. Make it easier for ex-pats to support the economy.

[Blair King @BlairKing_ca]

In support of a fallacious declaration that "oil is dead" Ms. May cites an error-filled article that coincidentally she wrote herself.

It is a self-referencing cycle of wrongness #cdnpoli #bcpoli #abpoli

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

@PresTrent If only there was a more direct mode of transportation? I'm sure there are some smart people somewhere who could devise a device to move oil from Western Canada to Eastern Canada........

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

Here's the latest report from the "You can't make this stuff up" files: "Irving applies to use foreign oil tankers to ship Canadian crude to Saint John" https://t.co/aSOiA5lgp5

[Melanie Walsh @_melaniewalsh]

Was wondering when someone would create this graphic. This was the last thing we needed. Praying for Fort McMurray #ymmflood #ymmstrong

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

@nationalpost Thanks Captain Obvious......

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

Lots of ink being spilled today related to Teck's decision to pull the pin. The question people should be asking is, now that lobbyists have successfully managed to clear the field of major project applications, how long until they come after the ones that are already operating?

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

@DownGoesBrown Horn of Doom in Tampa!

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

So in Nov the US creates 266K jobs and lowers unemployment rate to 3.6%. In same month CAN loses 72,000 jobs and unemployment rate jumps .4 to 5.9%. The largest driver of the CAN economy is the US economy so why the disconnect? More importantly, what happens when the US cools?

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

An absolute must read. If we are going to solve issues related to climate change the rhetoric needs to pull back from the irrational extremes. "Apocalyptic Claims About Climate Change Are Wrong" via @forbes https://t.co/cVDYxyqf0P

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

@MarkMorrissey3 Missed this episode. But be sure to message me again the next time it happens. Should only have to wait 4 or 5 years......

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

Hey @Sportsnet.Whomever came up with the idea to have @RonMacLeanHTH interview the GM of the @MapleLeafs during the intermission of the @CanadiensMTL game needs better tactics in how to maintain an audience.That loud noise you heard was thousands of Habs fans changing the channel

[Jeff Penney @Jeff_Penney]

Yes sir! Not to shabby Mr. Price. Three straight stops in the shootout on $33 million worth of Leafs! #GOHABSGO

[Darrell Bricker @darrellbricker]

Biggest problem with blackface issue is it has completely derailed LPC election strategy. Entire effort was demonizing Tories, marginalizing NDP. Difficult to demonize now, and door wide open for Singh and NDP to walk through. 1/n