Mike Kennedy

Cape Breton born. Tweets are my own.

[Russell Brand @rustyrockets]

TRUDEAU: "We're probably gonna keep boo'ing the American anthem."

What a joke, mate.

[Kris Eriksen @KEriksenV2]

So with China imposing new tariffs on Canada, will Canadians stop buying Chinese made goods and boo China publicly?

[Bruce Pardy @PardyBruce]

Canadian hand-wringing about how tariffs hurt both sides is pretty rich coming from a country that has tariff-like trade restrictions between its own provinces.

[Mike Kennedy @michaelmkennedy]

@novascexit @TimHoustonNS Even retaliation is a bad idea, but a preemptive strike? This same lack of judgment we saw with your auditor general proposal. Backpeddle asap #nspoli

[Nova Scexit @novascexit]

@TimHoustonNS So in an effort to fight protectionism, you're going to preemptively impose protectionism on the Americans?

[Randy Hillier @randyhillier]

TRUDEAU ANNOUNCES-Donald- Tariffs are really dumb!
And in response I will also be dumb and add tariffs!

Tariffs only hurt the host country as it increases costs to their own businesses and consumers.

When your competitor does something dumb you should sit back and watch them harm themselves. Improve your own productivity and seek new customers.

You should never retailiate by doing the same dumb things. This is how America actually wins, when Canadians do stupid things.

[Mike Kennedy @michaelmkennedy]

@JJ_McCullough The best path is for each province to vote on statehood.

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

Since Canada and the US share a common continental culture shaped in large part by innovations originating from the US, you simply cannot have a “resurgence in Canadian pride” that is also anti-American. All you can have is a resurgence in anti-Americanism, which is different.

[Mike Kennedy @michaelmkennedy]

Sorry to break it to @MarkJCarney but Americans have nothing to envy about our healthcare system, which kills more Canadians from lack of access than the American system does #cdnpoli https://t.co/PlOLpCHZTC

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

I notice a lot of editorials in the Canadian papers praising this country for being so patriotic and “finding its resolve” yadda yadda, as if hating and fearing America wasn’t something this country does constantly, all the time, in vastly less confrontational contexts.

[Randy Hillier @randyhillier]

Trump is laying out his plans! Are we going to act like mature reasonable statesmen, or are we going to keep donning our Red & White capes, and sputter rhetoric?

[Mike Kennedy @michaelmkennedy]

How many Canadians are telling us to boycott American products on their iPhones? #cdnpoli

[Free the World 🇺🇲🌏🦅 @PatriotVerity]

We can't know if Canadians want to be the 51st state, but there will be signs. 🤭

November 18, 2014: Toronto Maple Leaf fans took over singing the U.S. national anthem after the original singer experienced technical difficulties and her mic cut off.
🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸

[Mike Kennedy @michaelmkennedy]

Canada's been here for merger for a decade at least #cdnpoli #nspoli

[Free the World 🇺🇲🌏🦅 @PatriotVerity]

We can't know if Canadians want to be the 51st state, but there will be signs. 🤭

November 18, 2014: Toronto Maple Leaf fans took over singing the U.S. national anthem after the original singer experienced technical difficulties and her mic cut off.
🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸

[Randy Hillier @randyhillier]

CONSIDER THIS: tariffs on our export commodities (we don't know which ones) pose a great danger to Canada's economy and people well-being.
THE TEAM CANADA SOLUTION:
@fordnation & @JustinTrudeau will place additional tariffs on even more of our export commodities, likely oil & gas.

You are likely brain dead if you support a solution that can only compound the problem.

[Floyd Marinescu 🔰 @floydmarinescu]

The Globe & Mail speaks the inconvenient truth that politicians won't: homes can't both be good investments and affordable.

"Making homes more affordable, for instance, means bringing down the prices of existing homes – something homeowners who are sitting on big capital gains on their primary residences aren’t eager to contemplate." Bullseye 💯

Virtually every housing policy and pundit dances around this point, when our entire political economic system is aligned towards raising land prices — regardless of which party's in power.

"He [JT] kept saying he wanted to make homes affordable for young buyers while simultaneously insisting that home prices had to remain high to ensure the net worth of older Canadians wasn’t hurt."

The public is gaslit into believing we can blow and suck at the same time, making homes affordable without lower prices. By definition that's not possible.

"No astute politician is rushing to antagonize the two-thirds of Canadians who already own a home by engineering a big decline in house prices. So we remain stuck. No matter how much our leaders talk up the need to make homes more affordable, the political calculations lean entirely in the other direction."

Maybe Canadians aren't willing to make the hard choices because no one is presenting them with a real choice. Compare the housing plans of the 3 major parties — in mechanism, scale, and ambition they can barely be differentiated when contrasted against the scope of the problem.

We will not crack the housing problem without tough choices: make land (what makes RE appreciate) a less attractive long-term investment. Shifting taxes from income to land value will lower its returns as an asset and therefore price, while better rewarding work and productivity.

Any politician or policy silent on this is simply ignoring the real problem.

[Nova Scexit @novascexit]

@SecondStreetOrg Wow! More Canadians die waiting for healthcare (1 in 2,300) than Americans die from not having insurance (1 in 70,000) https://t.co/yy1nrXKZme #cdnpoli #cdnhealth #nspoli #cbpoli

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

You can find Kevin O’Leary obnoxious and self-aggrandizing, but at least he’s thinking big about the future of US-Canada relations. Are any of our premiers making positive, proactive proposals like this to Trump? Or just meekly telling him what they DON’T want?

[Nova Scexit @novascexit]

@CTVNews Raising stamp prices on the eve of a national unity crisis? Bold move from a Canadian crown corporation: https://t.co/wPKfi0vV7d #cdnpoli #nspoli #cbpoli #novascexit #USA

[LuceAndFrens @luceandnfrens]

@ContrarianTribe @PierrePoilievre According to polls, only around 12% of Canadians want it. However, demographically, 40% of Canadians age 18-34 support it, 27% between 35-55, and 10% 55 and older. The youth are open to it.