Chris Mason

Roughrider, Oiler & Raider fan; golf, football and hockey nut; fishing and hunting

[John Brassard @JohnBrassardCPC]

Watch: In October, the Prime Minister told Canadian families, seniors, and youth they would have to make sacrifices. This week, it came to light the Liberal Prime Minister spent $200,000 on food on three recent trips. This is what his sacrifices cost:

$17,623 on salmon (more than the average family will spend on food this year).
$835 on orange juice
$3861 on veal (Rome)
$4213 on creme brulee (Rome)
$3800 on chocolate mousse (Rome)
$593 on Luxury Normandy Butter Cups (Brussels)

They tried to justify these expenses by pointing out the opposition leaders budget that includes staff and rental space etc and is $246 Million less than the Prime Minister’s and Privy Council budget. #cdnpoli

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

BREAKING: Carney blows through his deficit numbers again, says his Parliamentary Budget Officer today.

He’s on track to add $23 billion more to the deficit than he projected a month ago in his spring update.

No wonder Canada is the only G20 country in recession. He’s the banker who can’t budget.

[Blacklock's Reporter @mindingottawa]

.@SenateCa by 41-32 vote kills bill to criminalize Indian Residential School "denialism" under threat of 2 yrs jailing: "Senators may have already noticed the online backlash." 
https://t.co/uQIfddETpl @GCIndigenous @LeahGazan @pierremmoreau @Aaronpete_

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

The bread price-fixing scandal cost Canadians an estimated $5 billion. Most of us are receiving about $50, at most. If that $5 billion were distributed evenly across Canada's population, the amount would be roughly $125 per Canadian.

Apparently, somewhere along the way, about $75 per person went missing.

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I'm prepared to go to jail over this.

My grandmother Rita Pete went to St. Mary's Indian Residential School. She experienced terrible abuse. As a consequence, she struggled with alcohol use most of her life.

My mother was born with FASD as a consequence of her using alcohol to cope with her trauma.

I am Chief of my community Chawathil First Nation. I am working to address the longstanding impacts of these past policies through renovating homes, building new homes, creating childcare, and growing businesses through economic development.

I have interviewed people who went to Indian Residential Schools. I have interviewed people who believe Indian Residential Schools were awful, horrible schools, meant to remove the Indian from the child.

I've also interviewed people who believe they were well intended, generous investments by Canadian taxpayers meant to assimilate a society and had shortcomings.

Like with many things, the history is dark, complicated, and with any policy that existed for a long time, across a whole country - there were different experiences.

No one story tells us everything. No report shares the full experience of the individuals who went. No commentator today can disprove someone's lived experience with statistics.

The path forward is not to criminalize speech, questions, or debate.

The path forward is empathy for past attendees.
The path forward is truth based on facts.
The path forward is real conversations.
The path forward is to lean into complexity.

If the government criminalizes this, then I will be a criminal for having these conversations.

If I am a criminal by the laws definition, then I am committed to going to jail over this.

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

.@SenateCA human rights committee votes 7 to 1 to criminalize Indian Residential School “denialism.”
Public statements intended to promote hatred by downplaying impacts of Residential Schools would be outlawed under threat of 2 years in jail.
https://t.co/rrIp37JzBY
#cdnpoli @TerryGlavin @jonkay

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Federal managers testify they never authorized $10 million charge by Indigenous Languages Commissioner Ronald Ignace to host 4-day conference in Ottawa.
AUDIT is underway.
https://t.co/4AOAodssXd
@CdnHeritage @Will_Stevenson @GDeltellCAQ #cdnpoli

[Saskatchewan Roughriders @sskroughriders]

The 112th Grey Cup championship was won in much the same way our province is built, through commitment, sacrifice and resilience.

Every step of the way, this team did whatever it took to be great.

And now, with these rings, we have a forever reminder: It’s Our Time.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

"Want to avoid the "R" word? Fine. But whether we call it a recession or not, the economy is shrinking. Canada's economy is now smaller than it was when Mark Carney took office. At some point, the debate over labels becomes less important than the reality Canadians are living."

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Equivalent of a tenth of Greater Toronto Area residents now eat at a food bank, says @DailyBreadTO.
“Last year visits to food banks in Toronto reached a record of 4.1 million visits.” — CEO Neil Hetheringon
https://t.co/9ppN0Ons89
#cdnpoli #onpoli

[Conservative Party @CPC_HQ]

Three of Mark Carney’s flight catering bills could feed a family for a decade.

This Liberal Prime Minister spent $524,000 in taxpayer money on airplane food since last year.

Call for this costly spending to end: https://t.co/rTSx5U04VJ

[Franco Terrazzano @franco_nomics]

Carney spent $93,000 on airplane food during his 2025 Italy trip.

Trudeau spent $43,000 on airplane food during his 2024 Italy trip.

The guy who promises to spend less outspent the guy who is famous for spending too much.

https://t.co/hEYhUN4nwY

[Blacklock's Reporter @mindingottawa]

.@SenateCA hides 200,000 postcards mailed in opposition to Bill #C9. Committee chair @TonyLoffreda denies trickery ahead of final vote: "This decision was not made to silence anyone." 
https://t.co/84qwJz4gAY #cdnpoli @DeniseBatters

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

Minister @FPChampagne says #Ford Model T was start-up failure, proving success with cabinet’s #EV policy will take time. @FinanceCanada spokesperson John Fragos later explained Champagne was tired and meant #Tesla Model S, not bestselling Model T.
https://t.co/GXmhxmJAzR
#cdnpoli

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Steven Guilbeault is leaving federal politics, and not a moment too soon.

He may go down as one of the ministers who most aggressively weaponized science, funding questionable research groups like the Canadian Climate Institute and other pet projects to reinforce a single “climate crisis” narrative.

Anyone claiming Guilbeault truly believed in science is fooling themselves. He treated science like a buffet — picking only what supported his agenda. That’s not science.

He even misquoted me in the House of Commons, attributing claims to me that I have never said or published. That alone tells you everything you need to know about how evidence and dissent were handled under his watch.

Good riddance.

[Juno News @junonewscom]

Conservative MP @AaronGunn called out the CBC for using fake companies, aliases, and fabricated stories to trick ordinary Canadians for taxpayer-funded political propaganda.

"They targeted ordinary citizens who had concerns about land claims and private property rights."

[Holly Doan @hollyanndoan]

.@bankofcanada exec blames #immigration in part for high youth unemployment rates.
“Young people are over-represented in the ranks of the unemployed, they also make up almost a quarter of the long-term unemployed, a share that has more than doubled since 2022.”
— Nicolas Vincent
https://t.co/nNCRcWmsuq
@JustinTrudeau @SeanFraserMP @MarcMillerVM @LenaMetlegeDiab
@CitImmCanada @ESDC_GC #cdnpoli

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

74,000 bogus asylum claimants are getting benefits like vision care while millions of Canadians don't have a family doctor.

This is unfair.

Restrict health benefits for failed asylum claimants to emergency lifesaving care.

Deport those with no legal reason to be in Canada.

[Aaron Gunn @AaronGunn]

Wow. Shocked today to watch the Liberals and NDP vote against protecting the private property rights of Canadian homeowners.

When a citizen pays their taxes, follows the law, maintains their property and still cannot be certain that they own their own home, something has gone profoundly wrong.

Private property rights are not a luxury, nor an appendage to our system of government.

They are not some kind of optional add-on to our society or to our democracy.

They are quite literally the foundation on which Western civilization, capitalism and our economy are built.

For me, the defence of private property is and always will be a red line.

It is in every way a fundamental human right, and we must never submit to trade it away in the name of political convenience.

Every citizen deserves to know that their government will do whatever it takes to ensure that Canadians can trust that what they own is truly theirs.

Without exception.

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

You can only abuse people for so long, until they decide to fight back.

An apology is owed.

And for Albertans, an apology will not be enough.

For starters, they need to fix the seats issue, among many many other things

I hope they do not leave.

But I do not blame my friends.