We should be repairing our relationship with the United States, not growing closer to communist China.
Liberals and many in the media discourage having this discussion, but this is a debate that needs to be had.
@jengerson He absolutely said that we can do what we want.
I think getting in bed with the communist tyranny of China is a better fit for Canada now anyways.
I don't know Jason. Does this ๐ make you proud?
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐๐'๐ ๐ญ๐ญ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ:
๐ด 11 straight years without a balanced federal budget. Not one!
(Finance Canada)
๐ด The 2025-26 deficit: $67 billion. The biggest deficit in dollar terms Canada has ever run outside COVID.
(Spring Economic Update 2026)
๐ด Interest on the debt cost $55.6 billion this fiscal year, more than the $54.7 billion Ottawa sent the provinces for health care. We paid bondholders more than we paid for hospitals.
(Finance Canada, FY 2025-26)
๐ด Every child born in Canada today inherits over $33,000 in federal debt before their first breath.
(PBO)
๐ด GDP per person fell 2% from 2020 to 2024, the deepest five-year drop since the Great Depression. The headline economy "grew" only because population growth papered over the shrinking.
(Statistics Canada)
๐ด Federal debt per Canadian is heading from $32,138 today to $38,943 by 2031, on the government's own projections.
(PBO, June 2026)
๐ด The federal debt-to-GDP ratio keeps rising until the early 2030s. Their own plan says so.
(Spring Economic Update 2026)
๐ด The Parliamentary Budget Officer puts the odds of the government keeping its own promise of a declining deficit every year at less than 1%.
(PBO, June 2026)
๐ด Households owe $1.77 for every dollar of take-home pay. Highest household debt in the G7. $3.2 trillion total.
(Statistics Canada, Q4 2025)
๐ด A national survey found 43% of Canadians within $200 a month of not covering their bills.
(MNP Consumer Debt Index)
๐ด Insolvencies are at their highest level since 2009. (Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy)
๐ด Roughly 1.15 million families renew their mortgages this year at payment jumps of 15 to 20%.
(CMHC, Bank of Canada)
๐ด Grocery bills are up around 30% in four years. Wages grew 2% last year while food inflation ran 4.1%. (Statistics Canada)
๐ด Shelter now eats more than half of median household income in major cities.
(Statistics Canada, OECD)
๐ด Canada's banking regulator named mortgage risk the number one threat to the financial system and expects defaults to rise for the next two years.
(OSFI Annual Risk Outlook 2026)
๐ด Households, corporations and government owe 377% of GDP combined. We are the fourth most indebted country in the OECD.
(OECD)
๐ด An $11.7 billion rebranded GST credit, borrowed money to cover the cost of living their own economic record created.
(Finance Canada, January 2026)
@mulliganmt@mario4thenorth You seem to forget that our oil only has one customer (USA ) because we donโt have enough fucking pipelines to sell it to other countries! Typical Liberal ! ๐
@mario4thenorth We knew Trump likes being "rubbed the right way" but we thought rubbing the wrong way would be a success.
Remember that party where Trudeau talked ๐ฉabout Trump w/ other world leaders? I bet Trump does.