Kelson ⚡⛳

Canadian living in Mexico, free market enthusiast.

[Kevin Vuong 🇨🇦 @KevinVuongxMP]

I hope these criminal gun-toting extortionists have their gun licenses and had passed the Canadian Firearms Safety Course, passed a rigorous background check, and submitted an application to the RCMP.

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

Pranks can be fun (even if this one was a humiliating failure). what ppl are angry at is that this was done with govt cash, both from CBC & Cdn heritage dept.

I.e. it wasn’t a subversive mischievous prank. It was a govt-approved propaganda gambit to attack ideological heretics

[Kelson ⚡⛳ @Kelson1968]

Well said.

[Tristin Hopper @TristinHopper]

If I had bottomless contempt for the intelligence of the Canadian voter, I would probably promise them a high-speed train and a sovereign wealth fund.

[Shaughn.SGT(ret) @PrairieVeteran]

People are fucking STUPID if they think our economy is Trump's fault.

Trump hasn't been in power for the last 12 years.
Liberals have.

Total
Fucking
Idiots

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Serious problem. Canadian have to learn from US negotiators what is being negotiated on trade

Canadian media has stopped pressing Carney and LeBlanc on the lack of trade negotiations

"We've worked really closely with the Mexicans over the past year. They resolved a lot of issues."

"The Canadians, we have some issues with them that haven't been resolved yet." -Jamieson Greer speaking at the Hudson Institute on Tuesday, April 7, 2026

[Dimitris Soudas 🇨🇦⚜️🇬🇷☦️ 13.12.1943 @DimitrisSoudas]

Let me get this straight.

You’ve been in power for ten years. You’ve doubled the debt. You’ve weakened the economy. And now, your answer is to trap young Canadians?

On stage, the Liberal Party of Canada brings out Patrick Pichette, a former senior executive at Google, who now lives in Europe, to suggest that Canadians who want to pursue opportunities in the United States should face an exit tax of $500,000.

Half a million dollars to leave your own country.

This, from someone who once left Canada himself to build a career in the U.S. and paid virtually nothing to do so.

So let’s be honest about what this is.

It is not economic policy. It is not nation building. It is control.

A government that has mismanaged the economy now wants to limit your ability to seek opportunity elsewhere. Instead of creating reasons to stay, they are looking for ways to make it harder to leave.

You do not grow a country by locking people in. You grow it by giving them a reason to believe in it.

[Liam Out Loud @liam_out_loud]

Canada IS NOT a democracy.

Explained in under three minutes with receipts 👇

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

It's also who Prime Minister Carney really is

He never served in Parliament

It means nothing to him

Democracy doesn't mean much either

He sends his people out to buy other party's MPs with shitty little bribes

It's just a transaction to him

We're all just a transaction

[Greg Brady @gregbradyx]

I come across SO many people. They're in my inner circle, semi-inner circle, outer circle, at the gym, fellow parents, people who text the show - I've never had one interaction, let alone conversation (not one - not this year, not last year, not at thousands of Ajax doors), where someone even mildly opined "Canada should join the European Union". Not the most sane person, not the most loony person, not the person that is indifferent to Trump, not the person who despises Trump & can't focus on a single other important thing.

I've not had one 10 second convo w/ anyone about Canada joining the EU. So I have no idea who these people are.....deadly serious.

[Kelson ⚡⛳ @Kelson1968]

You stumped me there.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine_]

Tell me something funnier than the Prime Minister saying “we must deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be”… and then using tax payer money to fund the projects he wants for the world as he wants it to be.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

"The revelations of a particular Canadian officer with direct insight into these cases are urgent and shocking. They told me that in general, in relation to significant cross-border cases like Project Cobra, police are told by Canadian prosecutors that they simply cannot manage significant organized crime investigations and cases in court.

“The police should stop doing these complex organized crime files,” the source, who cannot be named due to the sensitivities of their position, told me in an interview.

The source said that rules like the Jordan rule — which imposes strict time limits on complex cases — and the extensive disclosure obligations of Stinchcombe are major impediments, but the problems go deeper. There are a handful of incredibly talented and forceful prosecutors in Canada who have the will and ability to tackle these cases — but they are few and far between, burned out and underpaid. It is much easier to make a good living defending the narcos in Canada." @dasher8090

[Carson Jerema @CarsonJerema]

If writing accurately about what the courts are doing risks undermining confidence in the judiciary, the problem just might be the judges, not the people who are reporting what the judges are doing ...

[Domenic Cinalli - (Antonio Farese) @DomenicCinalli]

The BC Legislature has become a circus of wasted time and taxpayer dollars. Symbolic motions affirming support for the existing Human Rights Code? Pure grandstanding. They change zero laws, solve zero problems, yet eat up hours of debate while real issues like housing costs, healthcare wait times, and affordability crush families in ridings like Prince George.

These feel-good votes are nothing but performative politics. MLAs burn public money to signal virtue on an already-in-place Code instead of tackling policies that actually help all British Columbians. It’s appalling. It’s disrespectful to taxpayers footing the bill for this nonsense.

Worse, the chamber is no longer a place of honor. It’s a schoolyard filled with grown adults bullying, name-calling, and shouting each other down. Party politics force representatives to parrot caucus lines and ideological pet projects, usually centered on social justice theater and victimhood narratives, rather than practical laws benefiting everyone. Constituents get ignored while MLAs chase headlines and tribal points.

The system is broken. Strict party discipline kills true representation.

We need independents who answer to their ridings, not party whips or feverish ideologies. Adults should govern for all people: show up, debate respectfully, focus on results, and cut the bullying and smears.

No more wasting time on symbolic fluff. No more toxic attacks in chambers. No more divide-and-conquer games. British Columbians deserve real governance, not this childish spectacle.

Time for change, End party dominance. Bring in independents. Restore respect and focus on what matters. Taxpayers are watching, and we’re fed up.

#BCLegislatureReform #StopTheGrandstanding #TaxpayerWaste #EndTheBullying

[Shooter McGavin @ShooterMcGavin]

When your playing partner goes on a rant about the course layout but they just suck at golf

[Kelson ⚡⛳ @Kelson1968]

Nailed it. Unfortunately, our government is run by children so they'll just continue to throw hissy fits and blame everyone but themselves.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine_]

I’m Canadian. I vote in Canada. I don’t get a ballot in the U.S.

Whether you love Trump or hate him is irrelevant to this point: our economic problems existed long before tariffs. That should be the only thing dominating headlines.

Housing didn’t collapse because of Trump. Productivity didn’t stall because of Trump. Per-capita GDP didn’t weaken because of Trump. Capital wasn’t initially fleeing because of Trump. Justin Trudeau didn’t step down over tariffs—he stepped down because Canadians no longer believed he could fix what was already broken. Tariffs didn’t create our vulnerabilities… they highlighted policy failure that was previously masked.

If one trade shock rattles your economy, the structure was already fragile.

So why are we gossiping about Trump’s personality instead of dissecting our own numbers? Why are we speculating about American politics instead of talking about Canada’s declining productivity, stalled investment, rising debt, and capital flight?

75%-85% of our exports are covered under USMCA. Yet tariffs are still the convenient villain—because it’s easier to blame an American president than to reform tax policy, reduce regulatory drag, attract investment, and grow productivity.

Talking about Trump every day doesn’t fix Canada. But reading our own economic data just might. Canada doesn’t need an American scapegoat… It needs structural reform. And until we address taxation, regulation, capital formation, and productivity, we’ll keep treating symptoms with rebates and headlines while the underlying problem gets worse.

It’s been a year.

At this point, obsessing over Trump isn’t analysis… It’s continuing to avoid and hold the government accountable.

[Kelson ⚡⛳ @Kelson1968]

You don't say...

[Dimpee Brar @isthisdimpeeb]

📖 “Our anti-Americanism has become a narcotic that dulls the pain of our own decline.”

👇Making my debut in @FDRLST:

https://t.co/ovNuI9Hm68

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

Canada Has Worse GDP Per Capita Than Alabama? Lets Stop These Statistical Arguments & Ask The Right Question

Are Canadians better off today than 10 years ago?

I read 200 posts on the Alabama thing

Alot of smart Observations & Analysis

But what is actually important?

2/

[Kelson ⚡⛳ @Kelson1968]

Now what indeed.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

In Canada, citizens don't elect the Senate which has legislative powers. In fact, 100 out 105 senators were appointed by Justin Trudeau.

Members of Parliament have different representation based on where they are with one part of the country gets favoritism.

Only 2 Supreme Court of Canada judges, who interpret laws and constitution, are appointed from the West.

And then MPs can just walk across to another Party against the wishes and votes of majority of the constituents, and there is nothing you can do about it.

None of it will ever change.

To call this system a democracy is an insult, but people still think they can vote their way out.

Now what?

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record:

What has Canada become?

Canada likes to boast about having one of the most educated populations on earth, but when it comes to Trump Derangement Syndrome it behaves like the global capital of political hysteria. What passes for “education” has curdled into progressive indoctrination so deep that basic objectivity and critical thought have become niche pursuits rather than civic norms. Carney’s Davos grandstanding about Canada as a moral superpower is a case study in this self‑congratulatory delusion, all rhetoric and posture, no serious reckoning with power or trade realities.

Common sense of the street suggests that Canada will pay a heavy price for this performance politics, yet now we get Doug Ford charging the hill as the obedient attack dog of the eastern elite, not the defender of Ontario’s real economic interests. It is a breathtakingly stupid strategy while the Ontario economy continues to tank, and instead of course correction we get more theatrical outrage and tribal signalling. Add to that the Bank of Canada, with Macklem dutifully shading monetary and economic rhetoric to fit our own polite, Canadian variant of TDS, and you have institutions reinforcing the same pathology rather than checking it.

What was once an objective citizenry has been reduced to a lap dog culture, yapping on command for the progressive elite and the globalist Davos crowd. Canada’s prosperity still hinges on a hard, unsentimental economic relationship with the United States, yet its political and technocratic class behaves as if hashtags, panels, and summit applause can substitute for leverage, bargaining power, and trade strategy.

Facts, not feelings, will settle this experiment, and on current trajectory Canada will discover that trading sovereignty for moral vanity is a very expensive way to learn basic geopolitical arithmetic. To be clear, Carney is playing a dangerous game.

Canada needs the U.S. far more than the U.S. needs Canada, and indulging TDS as the organizing principle of foreign and industrial policy is not just embarrassing, it is dangerous.

Bessent’s warnings should be taken with utmost seriousness; alas, they are waved away by a political class intoxicated with its own rhetoric. With even a moment’s reflection, one can see the pain of reality that awaits Canada if this trajectory holds. Facts matter, and Carney’s chosen strategy sits squarely on the wrong side of history; one could say he has willingly put Canada on the altar of the progressive, globalist cause and struck the match himself.

One of Confucius’s most enduring observations is that we gain wisdom in three ways: through reflection, which is noblest; through imitation, which is easiest; and through experience, which is the bitterest. Canada once had the confidence and seriousness to choose reflection first. Today, it seems determined to skip both reflection and intelligent imitation and head straight for the bitter lesson of experience. What has Canada become?

[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Why is Canada financing Ukraines war effort with Russia and doing trade deals with the Chinese, when US intelligence assesses that China is supplying Russia with critical components, technology, and dual-use items that directly support Russia's production of weapons systems used on the Ukraine battlefield, seems rather counter productive to me. Isn't that known as Trading with the Enemy?