Ivan Brickwallski

The Moisturizer: Liberal tears, crushed icedreams, AB vodka, CO2 infused water, shaken and stirred, with a slice of bitter lime peel.. served moistly

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

In the past 5 years the Canadian dollar has lost 1/4 of its value against the Mexican Peso.

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

It is with great concern for some of my fellow countrymen, inching precariously toward the edge of utter lunacy, that I write this post.

Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, in an interview with the New York Times, went on record saying it would be “irresponsible” not to plan for the possible contingency of a military invasion of Canada by the United States. Unfortunately, Mr. Carney didn’t misspeak or fall victim to a cherry-picked quote taken out of context. His concern was later reiterated by Defence Minister David McGuinty and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Soloman.

We all know that Donald Trump has a colourful history of spouting off some truly outrageous whoppers from time to time, but even he has never disseminated something as fatuous, dangerous or dishonest as this. And while he seldom backs down from his outrageous claims, whenever he pushes the envelope too far, at least his entourage goes on damage control to walk back some of his excesses – Carney’s guys are doubling down.

Despite these idiotic statements, these are intelligent men. The odds that all three of them would simultaneously become afflicted by the same psychotic delusion is infinitesimally small. The only rational conclusion, therefore, is that they believe, or rather their polling data shows, that enough Canadians are so possessed by Trump Derangement that engaging in such asinine demagoguery is politically expedient.

Sadly, they may be right. The vast coalition of useful idiots and true believers after effectively having their intelligences insulted by their dear leader, are coming out of the woodwork to express gratitude online for the Prime Minister’s caution in preparing for all, including the most remote, contingencies. Others are retreating slightly to hold the line at the fall-back position articulated by Minister McGuinty that, this kind of paranoid delusion is perfectly normal and, “all militaries in the world spend time analyzing risk scenarios.”

I assure you, this is not normal.

Back on planet Earth, the situation is tense and acrimonious (and there is plenty of blame to go around for that), but this is not the more than two centuries of peace along the 49th parallel that followed the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1815 drawing to an end. Trump has imposed tariffs on $20 billion (or 2% of the $400 billion per year) of Canadian exports to the US. In other words, amid this unnecessary, escalatory, and foolish trade dispute, the United States will still purchase 200% more Canadian goods and services this year than the rest of the world combined. This situation is like a restaurant’s picky regular customer complaining about an overcooked steak to a prideful chef who, fortified in his own mind by the knowledge he cooked the steak perfectly, refuses to comp the entree. This is not the start of World War III. We are so far removed from a military incursion at our southern border that we may as well be strategizing the response to the equally plausible threat of Santa Claus leading an invasion of elves from the north.

If we woke up tomorrow in some parallel reality where the United States actually was contemplating a full-scale military campaign against Canada, with all due respect to our brave men and women in uniform, the only preparations to be made would be negotiating the terms of our unconditional surrender. Some brave and patriotic Canadians may refuse to submit and instead choose to conduct, as a matter of principle, a brutal and bloody guerilla warfare campaign against the strongest conventional and nuclear military force in the history of the world. Unfortunately, they would be in the precarious position of having to rely on our miserly European allies, or countries like Russia or China, whose recent actions have been significantly more hostile and provocative challenges to our sovereignty than the US tariffs, to supply us with weapons, and they would not remotely be adequate. It’s all so desperately preposterous.

But for the sake of argument, let’s suppose that Donald Trump was indeed the terrifying bogeyman haunting the dreams of the most extreme and hopeless sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome and its frightful sister affliction, Andrew Coyneism, a rare and especially acute form of tweet-induced psychotic maladjustment. Even in this scenario, why would Trump use the military to annex Canada? All he would have to do is offer Alberta statehood, liberation from transfer payments, excessive regulation and carbon taxes, carte blanche to exploit its natural resources, a generous welcome bonus in the form of a $100,000 tax credit to every adult Albertan and replace their Canadian dollars with equal amounts of US currency. They would effectively be acquiring Alberta for the knock-down bargain price of roughly 1x annual GDP.

Simultaneously, the US (including the newly acquired Alberta) would immediately cut off all trade with the rest of Canada. The net impact to Canada of this manoeuvre would be a cataclysmic economic collapse, while the newly composed United States would take a net GDP hit (loss of all trade with Canada, mostly offset by the acquisition of Alberta) of 0.8%. Next would come a full package of sanctions, a naval blockade, and when the rest of Canada became desperate enough, a Chinese belt-and-road style offtake of all of Canada’s resources at bargain prices, which by then, the Canadians would be desperate for. In the meantime, the US would revamp its immigration policy to recreate the brain-drain of the 1990s on steroids, welcoming the top 20% most productive Canadians to flee what had overnight become the third world. Harvard Alumnus Mark Carney might well be among those at the front of the line seeking this emigration opportunity, rejoining 91 percent of his own investments already located there.

There would, no doubt, be a fearsome contingent of Canadians refusing to bend or break in the face of American tyranny, and elbows would be flying up to vertiginous heights with such vigour that the Canadian healthcare system would be overwhelmed by millions of spontaneous emergency room visits of patriotic patients with dislocated shoulders.

I suspect many of you reading this are thinking to yourself that this is so completely far-fetched and absurd that, if serious, I must have lost my mind. Allow me to reassure you that while this is all bunk, it remains at least ten times more likely than the United States military executing a boots-on-the-ground invasion of Canada. Anyone who spends more than one second worrying about such an outcome should immediately proceed to the nearest sink to splash some cold water in their face and pull themselves together.

[Ben Bankas @BenBankas]

Coming from the guy who never worked for Canadians.

[Gracie Casey @tonka023]

@ctvottawa They could call it:

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Crown corporation @altotrain attempting to build $90 billion regional high speed railway won’t comment on why it hired chairman of the board’s law firm as legal counsel. Robert Prichard is also chair of @TorysLLP, a Toronto firm awarded an “open ended contract”
https://t.co/UJnZAuG9IN
#cdnpoli @FPChampagne

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Paid MSM still has not published a single critical piece on the appointment of Diana Fox Carney as “Ocean Envoy”

CBC, Globe, Star, CTV and Global ran the press release: unpaid, economist, climate credentials, Halifax 2027. That was it

No questions about a brand-new title invented last week, handed to the PM’s wife by his own minister, then name-checked by him at the UN while Ottawa commits tens of millions to the same file

Most of them also skipped her ongoing role as senior adviser at Ian Bremmer’s Eurasia Group — the same shop that employs Gerald Butts and formerly Evan Solomon. CBC tucked it in a bio line. Almost nobody else treated it as relevant

It’s almost as if you pay half the MSM’s salary and you get to skip nepotistic scrutiny

The all printed “unpaid” and called it journalism

[Ivan Brickwallski @MPNSKI]

@TheoFleury14 @acoyne Dude is next level on disturbing thoughts. This is Canadian political discourse, according to approved government-owned media. I think I've read some books about where we are and going...

[Ivan Brickwallski @MPNSKI]

@acoyne You and Clowney speak the same language and have the same thoughts. That's disturbing, for anyone with a brain that works. Another glass of Chardonnay?

[Ivan Brickwallski @MPNSKI]

@RenzTom @hodgetwins Good

[Ivan Brickwallski @MPNSKI]

@hodgetwins Good

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Justin Trudeau’s visa policy on Mexico was subject of CBSA intelligence warning about allowing cartel members to infiltrate; Trudeau policies on student visas enabled Bishnoi transnational gang to penetrate; Indian transnational trucking mafias went wild under Trudeau while RCMP stonewalled DEA. All solid reporting from The Bureau. David Eby actually is a smart person and knows his province is a global outlier for all of these transnational crime issues, in addition to the fentanyl labs and money laundering and Chinese gangs on the northern border consecutive US Administrations have been concerned with, since 2017 as I know, and reported in Wilful Blindness. Reporters should ask him what he is doing about the above problems when he talks about Trump. Trump didn’t make those problems.

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

https://t.co/CsPoyaTvII Former Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart said Eby is aware of an @rcmpgrcpolice investigation ‘Into B.C. Cabinet Minister Over Alleged Chinese Government Collaboration’ @csiscanada

[Graeme Menzies @GraemeMenzies]

PM Mark Carney’s brother Sean Carney, Chief Operating Officer (COO) for the Household of the Prince and Princess of Wales, arranged a phone call with his boss.

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

“Ultimately, this is the government, funded by taxpayers, using public money to fight taxpayers,” Chipiuk told Juno News. “Nearly $4 million in legal costs is impossible to justify.”

She questioned whether Canadians challenging government actions should receive funding when Ottawa can draw on substantially greater public resources.

“When the government disregards the public interest and relies on its virtually unlimited resources, it is not a fair fight, and the promise of government accountability becomes meaningless,” Chipiuk said.

[Regina Watteel @ReginaWatteel]

No, Bruce. Your paper’s 2021 front page: "Let them die."

Your columns: mandate them—they are prolonging the pandemic.

You sold a political narrative as fact. Calling an injury-inquiry column "disgraceful" in 2026 shows how little you’ve learned
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[Ivan Brickwallski @MPNSKI]

@LongTplexTrader She'll grow out of it or he will grow out of her... and have some fun, no doubt

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

🚨If Bill Gates was exerting pressure on Germany’s public-health response, what are the chances he was doing the same in Canada?

This is deeply concerning and demands answers about who was influencing public-health policy.

Why do we have public-health agencies if unelected billionaires pursuing their own agendas were able to influence decisions that upended our lives?

And if public-health decisions were being shaped behind closed doors by powerful private interests, how can we believe anything these institutions told us, and continue to tell us, without full transparency and accountability?

In any event it is becoming increasingly clear that this was never about our health and safety. It was about power, control and money.

[Ivan Brickwallski @MPNSKI]

@Martyupnorth 20

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

Also, it's funny that we are supposedly in this moment of great Canadian nationalism, and yet so many of the Elbows-up crowd are like "oh boy I hope this lets me move to Europe!"

[Ivan Brickwallski @MPNSKI]

@MAAWLAW @RioTinto Psychopathic tells