PeterD

Retired professional engineer and advocate of critical thinking.

[Greg Brady @gregbradyx]

Rush legend & Toronto native Geddy Lee endorses Brad Bradford to be Toronto’s next Mayor - this is a very notable call-out of Olivia Chow, & as a Jewish man with deep roots in the city & a truly progressive track record re: environmentalism & anti-poverty - it’s a huge statement about the antisemitism that has grown & been festering under Mayor Chow. I’m totally amazed & impressed. We need more great humans like Geddy Lee to say the real things.
https://t.co/lSpevOalSU

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

Your thoughts ??

Who agrees ?

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

Carney was the guy who was instrumental in getting the UK and European Union to legislate partial biofuel replacement of jet fuel. The law was passed in Europe in 2025. Carney later went on to boast that Brookfield, while he was chairman of the Board, made a lot of money by buying a biofuel producer in Texas in 2024. An example of the Bureaucracy of Parasites.

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

So adroitly stated !!

[Julian Assange @ImJulianAssange]

Argentina president Javier Milei calls Mark Carney part of a Bureaucracy of "Parasites" Javier Milei stated that the United Nations exists mainly to support a "caste of fatally arrogant parasites masquerading as well-intentioned bureaucrats".
https://t.co/VpzrnnfQ5F

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

Classic good cop bad cop schtick. Carney (bad cop) is all elbows up, trade war, irrevocably broken relationship, prepare for war. McKenna (good cop) it’s ok, just a blip, militaries are connected at the hip. Carney appeals to the Canadian loons and McKenna appeals to the squishy middle. Target 33% of popular vote stay in power and get rich off of Canadian taxpayers.

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

CBC again platforms Frank McKenna as just “former ambassador.” Same omission. Same pattern

Rosemary Barton Live today's introduction: former ambassador to the United States, former premier of New Brunswick. That is all

No mention that McKenna has been a Brookfield director since 2006 and Chair of Brookfield Corporation since August 2010. No mention that he brought Mark Carney onto the Brookfield board. No mention that he endorsed Carney for Liberal leadership and remains a committed Carney supporter. No Brookfield. No Carney tie. CBC has done this repeatedly. Selective disclosure is always the point

Then listen to what McKenna actually said. It is not Carney’s message

Carney and the government have framed a “trade war,” extreme tail-risk language about possible U.S. military action, and urgency around diversification because the relationship is supposedly broken. McKenna walked most of that back

* On Carney’s New York Times comments about an “extreme tail end risk” of U.S. military action against Canada: McKenna called it banker jargon. He said the two countries are “joined at the hip” on military exercises, NORAD, and intelligence (including personnel embedded in each other’s embassies). Beneath the rhetoric, he said, be realistic — which to him means optimistic

* On trade: “Over 90% of our trade, probably 95% of our trade goes across the border without tariffs.” He repeated that the two countries are each other’s extremely large partners and “it all works.” Rhetoric at the top, “trash talking,” but “life goes on.” He predicted people will eventually laugh about the current tone. That is not a trade-war frame

* On a deal: He said talks are happening, including almost daily communication at the prime minister–president level. A deal is a “logical imperative.” He even flipped USTR Greer’s “no urgency” line: midterms and affordability could mean there is urgency. Get a deal. The pendulum will swing

* On the new U.S. bans taking effect (alcohol, motorcycles, whey, molasses, non-alcoholic beer, etc.): “Reasonably minor.” Parties have “downed their weapons.” Canada probably will not retaliate. Tensions are in a “steady state” and will “escalate downward.” He called that good news

On deepening ties with the EU after it provoked Trump: He supported it as Reagan-style “trust but diversify,” leverage so Canada can approach the U.S. as more of an equal, plus the investment summit catalyzing growth. Functional relationship, not legal entanglement. Prudential. Still: the U.S. will always be the major partner. Keep your eye on that basket.

* McKenna is a Carney man. He is also the Brookfield chair who helped put Carney on that board and who took the public-facing continuity role after Carney left for politics. CBC never says any of that. It gives him the soft “former ambassador” label, lets him soothe the relationship Carney has spent months describing as crisis, and moves on

If the guest is only a retired diplomat offering independent analysis, disclose nothing extra. If he is the long-time Brookfield chair, Carney recruiter, and political ally whose optimistic “get a deal / most trade is already tariff-free / this is not a war” line undercuts the government’s own messaging, say so on air. CBC never does! @brodiefenlon @RosieBarton

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

CTV, “Under Trudeau, the government insisted a business case for those exports to Europe didn’t exist. The government led by Prime Minister Mark Carney says the opposite.” Correction, under Trudeau and following the advice of Mark Carney, special economic advisor, the Liberals falsely claimed there was no business case for selling LNG. Now a cynical Mark Carney hides from this fact and claims to be a “new” government in favour of selling LNG. When will Canadian boomers wake up?

[CTV News @CTVNews]

‘Of course’: German foreign minister says his country wants more Canadian LNG https://t.co/kjxYMC8jLw

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

Where does Bobby Fife’s “Pierre Poilievre is a dick” comment fit in this Canadian journalists’ bias against Conservatives discourse?

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine]

On July 20th, 2026: political journalist Robert Fife shares in an interview with @Aaronpete_ that there has long been a bias against Conservatives in reporting.

On September 24th, 2026: Robert Fife shares with the National Broadcaster @CBCNews on Power & Politics, that mainstream media is NOT bias towards Conservatives…

So… which one is it?

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

🚨 THIS IS WHAT REAL LEADERSHIP SOUNDS LIKE.

Dallas Brodie’s message is simple:

Watch what politicians do with THEIR money.

If they tell you to sacrifice while insulating themselves from the consequences…

That tells you everything.

Leaders should take the hit WITH the people they serve.

That’s why this clip matters. @DavidKrayden @Dallas_Brodie

[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.

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

It happened at Metrolinx with this same Board Chairman when he was Chairman of Metrolinx when the Liberals were in government in Ontario. Torys also got a lot Metrolinx legal work.

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

The Chairman Of The Board Of Alto - The Completely Stupid Canadian Bullet Train Company Appoints His Own Law Firm To Act On An Infinite Budget

How the Fuck is this allowed to happen?

We know how

Because this is what ALWAYS happens in Canada

It's a BIG CLUB & we aren't in it

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

What a clown. Trump ultimately got a win-win deal with Greenland; yes Greenland now as a territory of Denmark, and in the future with Greenland as an independent country, which definitely will happen. Two facts that will never belong in the same discussion. Trump has the nuclear codes and Trump wants a better trade deal with Canada. When the order comes for the US bombs to starting flying will the Canadian soldiers who sometimes have their fingers on the buttons carry out the order? What a f**king clown.

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

@TheLeadCNN Jake Trapper “reports”. 😱😂😂😂😂😂

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

File this under Trump pondering running for a third term as president. Quite the lead into TDS.

[John Ivison @IvisonJ]

Does anybody think it is beyond this President to declare a national security emergency to cancel or manipulate the mid-term elections, rather than face humiliating defeat?

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

The first salvo in the up coming Canada-US war may be the US military staff stealing the Canadian military staff’s lunch from the shared fridge in NORAD’s headquarters. This will be recorded in the annals of history as the lunch sandwich heard around the world.

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

I wonder if the general population of Canada is aware that MPs for all intents and purposes can straight out lie in the House of Commons with impunity. On top of this, an MP cannot say another MP is lying.

[Dan McTeague @GasPriceWizard]

Hodgson is duo of hops. Pickering didn’t hire 30,000 and Darlington didn’t hire 18,000.

They throw around numbers suggesting their announcement spree is creating jobs and spurring private investment.

It is not. And our pathetically weak Loonie proves it

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

Have you seen the polls lately? Not that I believe the polls to be accurate. They likely overstate Liberal support, but Liberals with anywhere close to 33% of the popular vote would win a majority government given the efficiency of their vote.

[Randy Prichter @RPrichter69]

@Peter_DiLullo55 @CTVNews Explain how a snap fed election would help the Libs with a majority government?

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

The first salvo in the US-Canada war will be the US military staff stealing the Canadian military staff’s lunch in the shared fridge in the lunchroom.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

I hope every single outlet that ran and posted with great elbows up excitement that Carney said he believed the U.S. was going to invade Canada asks him the question if he actually believed it over and over again.
I want to see this man squirm.

And the opposition Party better be all over this in the HOC.

Anyone with just an ounce of logic never believed for a second the U.S. would invade Canada.
Carney, if that is what he was implying is either using that as a distraction or using it to get his supporters even more against the U.S.
Because if he actually felt the U.S. was going to invade, the Canadian military would have been put on notice to start preparing at the very least. Where is that report?
Carney is nothing but a fear mongering fraud if this is the case.
Him psychologically abusing Canadians needs to be called out.

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

More proof of CTV’s role as state propagandist. What Carnage actually said to the NYT was that the US invasion of Canada was in his view an “extreme tail risk”. Ignoring for the moment that “extreme” tail risk is a redundant term; and the pretentious world banker speak, the point Carnage was ostensibly making is that the risk of US invasion is extremely low. The real reason for his inflammatory statement is to rile up his base and feed into Canadians’ mass TDS in preparation for a snap federal election. The federal Liberals have no shame. They will appoint anyone leader. Even one who would destroy Canada to rule over the ashes.

[Northern Perspective @NorthrnPrspectv]

🚨INSTANT REGRET🚨

A liberal went on to CTV News with Vassy Kapelos to defend their new labour law changes, only to flail all over the place when confronted with something very basic: facts.

And she had no idea how to recover.

[PeterD @Peter_DiLullo55]

To say something is an “extreme” tail risk is redundant. It sounds smart, but in reality it’s just word salad.

[Matina Stevis-Gridneff @MatinaStevis]

@nytimes * We asked PM Carney if he'd ever considered there was a chance of US military action against Canada. After a long pause, told us he'd considered this an "extreme tail risk." "That's risk management. That's not a base case, but it would be irresponsible not to," he said.