John Ham

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[John Ham @johnhammerstix]

@FP_Champagne You make me not want to be Canadian

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@PeterHRatcliffe @mkav20 Sound like a bot that was programmed to be specifically retarded

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@AlexpiersonAMP Or he just hasn't been told how he feels about that topic yet

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@FP_Champagne You are a complete and utter fraud.

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@funtomvids Tom masturbates to photos of Trudeau for sure, I just wonder if it's natural ones or blackface.

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@ExnerPirot Most Canadians truly believe in an alternate reality

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@KirkLubimov If you adjust for the overwhelming intellectual retardation Canada is actually ahead of the curve on a per capita basis

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@wealthmoose Dare I say, he has ulterior motives.......

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@DonWalk41134664 @MarkJCarney Right there with you, Don. Leaning heavily lately on the reality that's all a clown show and the only real prosperity has to come from within.

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@MarkJCarney If a piece of shit were a person, it would most closely resemble you, or Trump. I can't quite decide yet....

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@MarcNixon24 Have you had Normandy butter though?

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@bruce_arthur I'd probably move there. A nod to the industrious founding travelers who were in search for something better.

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@k1rallik they get lazier everyday, and we just let them

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@DissidentWire Face punch, either way. Big win for the world.

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@ChantalHbert this slaps in the prairies

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@HettrickMichael Referring to it as a “technical” recession is a fast way to identify yourself as intellectually stunted

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"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..." self-destructively

[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.”

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@RichardDias_CFA So, they’ve been propping up the economy with undervetted (unskilled) immigrants for years and years with no real process or track to progress.

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@gator_gum They finally found the business case. Only 4 years of economic benefit lost

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@cathmckenna Not enough characters available to adequately dismantle this incredibly misinformed point of view.