John Leckie

[John Leckie @johnleckie4]

@jaycurrie @t7_linda @CPC_HQ @PierrePoilievre I’m not saying he had the answer . But he identified the problem . The book is really a Eulogy on Canada

As Lester Pearson would say :
“ It’th a problem “

[John Leckie @johnleckie4]

@jaycurrie @t7_linda @CPC_HQ @PierrePoilievre Plus ca change since the warning of
Lament for a Nation 1965

[John Leckie @johnleckie4]

@pmcdunnough Very interesting. Fathoming faith or infinity with finite tools is like dividing by zero…..it breaks the system, and shows the limits of our finite view of reality …. I recall my math teacher calling it “a peculiar difficulty”

[John Leckie @johnleckie4]

@pmcdunnough @jaycurrie “ I like to watch “ Chancy

[John Leckie @johnleckie4]

Haha
“I like to watch”- Chancy

Yup , many are actors .
Walter Kirn - “Simply actors. The kind who barely know what they're saying as they say it.
It took far too long for me to realize this. I had to sit close to them as they performed. Saw it, felt it, knew it, can't forget it.”

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

Carney spent months attacking Pierre Poilievre’s entire message — build from within, fix Canada first, stop relying on everyone else to save us.

Now look at him.

After Trump shut down the trade talks, Carney suddenly discovered the magic of “building from within” and started shopping for new friends in Asia.

Here’s the part they won’t say out loud:

No country in Asia can replace the United States as Canada’s customer. The U.S. still takes roughly three-quarters of everything we export. They’re not just our biggest market… they’re the closest, the most integrated, and the one that actually shows up when we need supply chains to work.

You don’t spend half a year picking fights with your largest trading partner, then expect to just flip a switch and replace them with a few handshakes in Asia. That’s not strategy. That’s desperation dressed up as vision.

The same guy who told us the relationship with America was “over” is now scrambling because reality hit harder than the slogans.

This is what happens when you put someone in charge who treats Canada like a globalist project instead of a country that needs to stand on its own two feet first.

Pierre said fix the foundation.
Carney is only saying it now because the old plan collapsed.

How’s that working out for us?

#cdnpoli #CarneyFail #CanadaFirst #Trade

[John Leckie @johnleckie4]

But re the NDP the Liberals have let the nutbars into the tent. It’s like letting Mamdani into the tent. The “confidence and supply” deal didn’t quarantine the radicals….it gave them a direct pipeline on mass migration, on housing, dental, pharmacare, net zero zealotry killing investment. Now the Liberals own the results.

[Eamon Hoey @EamonHoey]

Carney will be judged on 3 factors:
1. Did he maintain national unity;
2. How well did he manage the economy;
3. How well did he manage our relations with the USA, particularly our trade relationship.

The relationship with Alberta and the growing support for separatism is not going well. Then there is the expectation the QC Separatists will
Overwelmingly win the QC October election. The relationships with the Provinces has not been a high mark of his administration.

56% of CDNs think we are in a recession. His technical recession argument did not hold water with voters.

His management of our trade relationship with the USA as evidence shows CDN has not been at the table since last October. He has poorly managed the relationship. CDNs can't blame Trump as every consequential world trade entity has done a deal with Trump except China and Canada.

Carney has to date failed to meet the test on the 3 main critical criteria.

[John Leckie @johnleckie4]

Agree . Canada lacks a robust domestic investor class; we are undervaluing risk capital and relying heavily on government subsidies and cronyism. This vulnerability has led to fiscal colonization over the past 150 years—initially by British capital, followed by post-WWII U.S. dominance. As a result, we’ve become a branch-plant economy, with key decisions made abroad. Compounded by EU-style, BLOB , bureaucratic overreach and internal Provincial divisions…..our national independence is steadily slipping away, as warned by George Grant in Lament for a Nation (1965).

[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

OPEC just released its World Oil Outlook 2050. Key takeaways:
1⃣ Population ⬆️ by 1.7 billion. Demand for all energy types ⬆️ by 23%.
2⃣ 19 million more barrels per day growth. There is no peak demand.
3⃣ Primary drivers are non-OECD countries, mainly Asia & Africa.
4⃣ Autos will increase from 1.7 billion to 3.0 billion in 2050. 73% will still have internal combustion engines.
5⃣ $17.7 TRILLION of investment is required to meet oil demand over the next 25 years.
🇨🇦 sits on the world’s 4th largest oil reserves. The obstructionist regulatory, taxation & approval environment Mark Carney & the Liberals continue to foist on our oil sector is not only economic malpractice, it is denying cheap, abundant, reliable energy to the world’s poor & keeping them from thriving. This is the cost of net zero.
@ExnerPirot @ikwilson

[Eyes On - Unacceptable @jaycurrie]

The Prime Minister of all the Canadas thinks a mosaic is, somehow, self supporting, each tile holding up its neighbours. Proving that central bankers know very little about how things are actually made. Without a base there is no mosaic, just a pile of bright rubble. 22/22

[TheLastRefuge @TheLastRefuge2]

Need I remind people, Japan already told PM Carney, and Toyota already told Premier Ford, that without the USMCA Japanese manufacturers and corporations will exit Canada permanently.

[Ken LaCorte @KenLaCorte]

What happened to the news?

How did we go from Walter Cronkite to the crazily partisan press we have today? (Hint: it has more to do with tech and money than politics.)

I researched heavily, and here's what I discovered ...

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction
1:33 - The Myth of Objectivity
5:02 - News As A Commodity
9:10 - The Monopoly Era
13:24 - The Monopoly Breaks
17:29 - The Internet Era
21:20 - Conclusion

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Canadian Dollar looks sick.

Canada’s currency is sending a signal policymakers appear unwilling to hear.

The recent softness in the Canadian dollar is not a transient fluctuation driven by cyclical noise. It reflects a deeper reassessment by global capital markets of Canada’s structural trajectory—one increasingly defined by weak productivity, regulatory overreach, and a persistent misallocation of capital away from its core competitive strengths.

For much of the past two decades, Canada benefited from a favorable external environment: rising commodity demand, proximity to the world’s largest consumer market, and a stable financial system. That foundation has been gradually eroded. Productivity growth has stagnated to near-zero levels, business investment has lagged OECD peers, and regulatory burdens, particularly in energy and infrastructure, have constrained the very sectors where Canada retains a natural advantage.

Instead of addressing these structural deficiencies early, policy discourse has largely normalized them. Two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth are framed as manageable. Declining output per worker is treated as an abstract statistic rather than a direct threat to living standards.

Meanwhile, the public sector has crowded out the private sector for over a decade. Yet Bay St and the BOC say it’s but a flesh wound.

Currency markets are less forgiving.
They function as a real-time referendum on policy credibility and long-term growth expectations. The Canadian dollar’s weakness is not merely a reflection of interest rate differentials; it is a signal that global investors are demanding a higher risk premium for exposure to an economy with deterioratin fundamentals.

Compounding this dynamic is an extraordinary degree of home bias among domestic investors. Canadian portfolios remain heavily concentrated in domestic equities and real estate despite clear evidence of underperformance relative to global benchmarks. This insularity amplifies vulnerability: when domestic fundamentals weaken, both the currency and asset prices adjust simultaneously.

The core issue is strategic drift. Canada possesses abundant natural resources, a highly educated population, and geographic advantages that should position it as a leading beneficiary of global energy transition and supply chain realignment.

Yet policy choices for decades have systematically undermined these advantages, favoring redistribution and regulation over growth and competitiveness.

Absent a meaningful shift, toward investment, productivity, and resource development, the message from currency markets is unlikely to change. Exchange rates do not move on rhetoric. They move on relative performance.

And on that measure, Canada is falling behind.

[Charles Lammam @CharlesLammam]

The federal government boasts that 2025 FDI inflows to 🇨🇦 hit a nominal record since 2007.

But our economy has doubled in size since then.

At 2.9% of GDP, the FDI inflow in 2025 is less than half the 8% in 2007.

Details in my @iedm_montreal report:

https://t.co/XZt95IIakV

[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

@CTVNews https://t.co/T1CSmuVGzl

[RMC86 @RMC19861987]

@johnleckie4 That was the apology in the video. Joly blew up the deal by increasing US auto tariffs. The Ford ad was a cover.
https://t.co/PzlvDdxXKr

[John Leckie @johnleckie4]

@RMC19861987 Left out the $75 M Reagan ads last Oct that wrongly said he would never use Tarrifs … without Reagan tariffs we would not have had Japanese plants etc set up in North America .
Those ads blew up a deal that was almost completed

[John Leckie @johnleckie4]

@WayneMathison @gator_gum This is a needless , self inflicted recession ideologically driven

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

BREAKING: Mark Carney is the ONLY leader in the G7 to lead his economy into a RECESSION. All other G7 countries face the same tariff and global problems, yet none are in a recession.

Excuses, speeches, buzzwords, and signing ceremonies do not grow the economy.

Canada is the only G7 country in recession because of Carney Liberals hiking industrial carbon taxes, kept anti-development laws, and doubling Trudeau’s deficit.