Kirk A. West

Entrepreneur. The world's most correct political analyst. Author of The Invoice.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@wealthmoose @grok Actually my research shows a higher number. By the time you account for the broader public sector the number is closer to 30%. It’s part of the reason I think Canada will never suffer more than a mild recession if one hits.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@AlienKeebler @RonDeSantis Remember the cardboard cutout fans in the seats when games got televised. I just couldn’t watch. It was ridiculous.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@TristinHopper Well the trend lines in ‘freedoms’ and ‘free speech’ are definitely going in the wrong direction. So can’t say I agree.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@CoryBMorgan Like I said several times, ‘they threatened our sovereignty’ plays a hell of a lot better than nationally than ‘we pulled out because of truck tariffs’

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

Told you the truck story would matter

[Élie Cantin-Nantel @elie_mcn]

"One Canadian official told me: 'We really pulled out because Ford was not on board.'"

"Ford and Carney are both enjoying substantial polling bumps after walking away from a deal. Liaison’s latest poll has Ford’s PCs up four points on the Ontario Liberals."

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@MelissaMbarki Yes you can if you’re Ottawa. No you can’t if you’re anyone else.

[Jon du Toit @jondutoit]

God gave modern Canadians the opportunity to play life on easy mode.

A massive, gorgeous country stuffed to the gills with valuable resources.

A small, highly educated population.

A heritage of Christian values and a liberty oriented political system.

A compatible neighbor who also happens to be the global superpower to protect you and trade goods with.

Literally the easiest layup of all time.

So they took that liberty and squandered it in a way that would make even the prodigal son blush.

Truly staggering when you think about it.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@goldseek We’ve been watching this movie in slow mo for decades. Governments have been warned of the inevitable fiscal cliff should they continue to deficit spend endlessly. Yet here we are. How stupid we are, and predictable.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

Do you think Doug ford’s wooden Lake Ontario sign ‘trumps’ all the digital maps?

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

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[Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 @ezralevant]

When police pressure private businesses to cancel lawful events it's not just inducing breach of contract. It's an act of intimidation. Police have a monopoly of violence in society; what will happen to small businesses who don't comply? There's an implied "or else". When the mafia does it, it's called intimidation and extortion. Many hotels and conference facilities are run by people who recently immigrated from authoritarian regimes. They have a very clear idea of what it means to have corrupt police make a demand.

The police chief should retract this outrageous and illegal threat, clarify that the department is apolitical and reeducate its members about the Charter of Rights.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

Ford is behaving like a petulant child who had his favourite toy taken away. Contrast this to the reasoned approach of Danielle smith, who seems to be the only sane politician in Canada right now.

Calling people ‘traitors’ is not a thinking persons response. Ask yourself why albertans feel the way they do after decades of pledging their success to the rest of Canada and getting nothing in return but regulation, and no voice in Ottawa.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@wealthmoose If I was an American, I’d call that election interference, wouldn’t you?

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@policy_mag @RobertFife @Counselpa @JohnDelacourt Great, more propaganda. Government manufactured propaganda is the worst kind of propaganda.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@terrynewman Im other words, you’re right. Forgot to mention that.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

This was about trucks and Ontario.

But carney can’t say that so he framed this as an ‘attack on our sovereignty’.

With federal by-elections upcoming, a Quebec provincial election with a separatist party leading in the polls, and the October referendum in Alberta, Carney needed to run his election playbook as Capt. Canada.

It worked before and he’s running the play again. Mark my words. This was about trucks.

Notice how specific he was about the trucks? He mention the plants specifically, he mentioned the truck models specifically. He mentioned the tariff rates specifically.

His sovereignty comments were vague and off hand.

Making trucks uneconomical would hurt Ontario. 600,000 jobs. Ontario is the wall that keeps the liberals in power.

This wasn’t about Canada. This was about liberal fortunes. Listen to Lutnick again.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@FBIDirectorKash The @CBC does not speak for Canadians. They are a government funded state media. On behalf of my family, I offer our sincerest condolences on the loss on 9/11. We grieve with you. God bless America.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@TomTSEC @GasPriceWizard It defies common sense.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

The government administers both its cruelty and generosity on the basis of political risk/gain.

Right and wrong don’t enter into it.

If you judge the government based on that principle alone, their actions begin to make sense.

I’m not saying that’s the way it should be, but that’s the way it is.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

It was never about French language, that’s a Canadian government framing, now denied by three separate sources: Trump on truth social, Greer, and Lutnick. Even Carney’s own comments on this point are mostly vague and non specific.

What we do have, however, is mounting evidence that this was about trucks. Carney was very specific in his announcement. He named plants, he named truck models, he named tariff rates.

But telling Canada we walked away from a deal over trucks will not play well in either Alberta or Quebec.

We have three elections coming up, federal by-elections, a provincial election in Quebec where the sovereignty party is leading, and a referendum in Alberta.

You said it yourself, we’re afraid of Quebec

But the liberals NEED Ontario.

This was about Ontario and trucks, but saying we walked away from a trade deal over trucks won’t play as well as ‘they threatened our sovereignty’.

[Kirk A. West @kirkwest_]

@jengerson Correction, the federal government fears Quebec. The people don’t.