Richard Lazowski

Proud Canadian; retired, supporter of Alberta, Pro Business, Oil & Gas, scientific fundamentals, sound engineering and responsible resource management.

[Adaugo Aguiyi @AdaugoAguiyi]

Amen 🙏

[The Buck You Will @TheBuckYouWill]

I DON’T KNOW WHO NEEDS TO HEAR THIS…

…but any government that puts it’s citizens last…

…IS NO LONGER YOUR GOVERNMENT.

(It’s as fucking simple as that.)

[CCMBC 2021 @2021Ccmbc]

🏁 You can't regulate your way to prosperity, and you can't tax your way to competitiveness.

And you certainly can't subsidize your way out of an #economy that keeps driving #investment elsewhere. 🤷🏼‍♂️

David Leis hosts #CatherineSwift as she explains why #Canada is falling behind... and what it will take to reverse course while we still can! ↩️

🎥 Watch now.
#cdnpoli #Jobs #Economy #Business @WorkingCdns

[CCMBC 2021 @2021Ccmbc]

Canadians are saying they're overtaxed, underwhelmed, and tired of subsidizing political experiments. 🧪

The response? 📣

Borrow another $25 billion for a "sovereign wealth fund" that isn't funded by sovereign wealth. 🤦🏼‍♂️

It's almost impressive how often #Ottawa mistakes #taxpayers for an unlimited line of credit. 💳

#cdnpoli #TaxpayerFirst #Canada @WorkingCdns @FP_Champagne @tax

[Richard Lazowski @RLazowski]

MACLEOD: The ‘Forever Canada’ case is running out of arguments https://t.co/U5Fpiefg7l

[Richard Lazowski @RLazowski]

EYRE: Time for courage — out-of-control government spending must stop https://t.co/wRAFgPkXaU

[God and Grind. @realmantalk3]

Amen.

[Godly Nation @GodlyNations]

He died for us.
He was buried.
On the third day, He rose again! ✝️

If you believe in the crucifixion, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, say AMEN 🙏

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

The Senate Finally Found the Bottom of the Barrel... Then Grabbed a Shovel.

Senator Charles Adler, and to every member of the Senate of Canada... I have to admit, I genuinely thought senators were supposed to be better than this. Silly me. Apparently I’ve been carrying around an outdated owner’s manual for public office.

I spent an evening going through Senator Charles Adler’s X feed myself. Not because I was looking for something to be offended by. Social media manufactures enough outrage to keep the internet employed for another century without my help. I looked because the screenshots making the rounds over the past week seemed almost too convenient. I wanted the whole story before opening my mouth.
I wish I could tell you everyone was exaggerating, but alas, they weren’t.

What I found wasn’t one bad afternoon or one regrettable lapse in judgment. It wasn’t a senator having a rough day and hitting “Post” when he should have hit “Delete.” It was a pattern. The names changed, the targets changed and the insults evolved. But the tone? The tone never did. It was almost as though someone had mistaken the Senate’s role of “sober second thought” for “sober second insult.”

On May 29 Senator Adler accused Pierre Poilievre of “sadism” for criticizing the economy. Weeks later he called him “the worst bullshitter on the planet.” Then came Conservative voters, who, according to Senator Adler, are “dumber than a bag of Fritos.” I have to admit, that last one made me pause. Not because it was offensive. I’ve heard far worse in construction yards and school bus garages. It made me pause because this wasn’t coming from an anonymous account with a cartoon profile picture and fourteen followers. It was coming from a senator. Although I will concede, comparing millions of Canadians to snack food must have required at least a brief brainstorming session of the lowest order. Perhaps there was a shortage of cranial bandwidth available that day?

Senator Adler, this really isn’t about whether I agree with your politics. Canadians disagree about politics every day, and that’s exactly how a democracy is supposed to work. It isn’t even about whether I like you personally. It’s about whether the office you accepted still means what Canadians were told it means. Right now, that answer seems about as clear as a government expense report after three rounds of redactions and one filibustered committee meeting.

And to any and every senator who may be reading this, whether you sit with the Liberals, Conservatives, Independents, or whichever alphabet soup of Senate groups currently occupies the chamber, this stopped being about Charles Adler quite a while ago.

Today it’s his social media account.
Tomorrow it could just as easily be yours.
The standard you excuse today becomes the standard that protects you tomorrow. That’s how institutions slowly drift. Not with fireworks. Not with constitutional crises. Just one shrugged shoulder at a time.

But here’s the part I genuinely can’t wrap my head around. If senators aren’t expected to conduct themselves any differently than the average political account on X, then why appoint them at all? Why not elect them like everyone else in Parliament? Why preserve the elaborate fictional facade that the Senate exists because it offers superior judgment and sober reflection if that judgment can’t tell the difference between Parliament’s Upper Chamber and the peanut gallery comments underneath a Facebook post?

Because according to the Senate’s own Ethics and Conflict of Interest Code, senators are expected to uphold “the highest standards of dignity inherent to the position of senator.”

Not respectable standards, not reasonable standards, and not standards that are marginally better than whatever is trending on social media this week either.

The highest.

Where I come from, that means it is resolute. And those are not my words, dear Senators, they’re yours. The Code also requires senators to conduct themselves in a way that doesn’t reflect adversely on either their office or the institution itself. One can only assume that particular section is read during orientation, applauded politely, filed neatly into a binder and then left to gather dust beside every New Year’s resolution ever abandoned by February.

The Senate’s own Ethics Officer made the point even more clearly in 2019. Writing in an unrelated ethics inquiry, Pierre Legault reminded senators that “the minimum standard of conduct tolerated in the community is not necessarily the same standard of behaviour that a senator must adhere to.”

Think about that for a second. The Senate itself acknowledged that senators voluntarily accepted a higher standard than the rest of us. That wasn’t some lofty aspiration, that was the deal.

So here’s where this becomes very simple:

If Senator Adler’s public conduct meets that standard, then say so. Defend it, or at least stand behind it. Tell Canadians that repeatedly calling political opponents “the worst bullshitter on the planet” and dismissing millions of voters as “dumber than a bag of Fritos” is entirely consistent with the highest standards of dignity your institution promises Canadians.

But if it doesn’t...

Then surely the Ethics Code is more than decorative wallpaper? Surely it exists for moments exactly like this? Which brings me to my final question. Not for Senator Adler, but rather, for the Senate of Canada.

You wrote the rules. You promised Canadians that senators would uphold “the highest standards of dignity inherent to the position of senator.” Those weren’t my words. They’re yours. Now Canadians have watched one of your own colleagues test those words in full public view.

So what happens next? Do the standards printed in your rule book actually mean something? Or are they simply there to impress visitors until the first inconvenient test arrives? Canadians deserve an answer as to why we are funding such vulgar content from the Senate

Because if the highest standard of dignity looks like this, perhaps it's time the Senate stopped describing itself as Canada's chamber of sober second thought... and started calling itself what it increasingly resembles: the country's most expensive comment section.

Respectfully... and I use that word in its most optimistic sense...

Melanie

(The Substack article has screenshots of his tweets)
🔗 https://t.co/IjCyYFE7S8

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

The crew has been here replacing our sewer line.
The trench is about 10 feet deep, or about a grand a foot and goes roughly 50 feet long.

I see an expensive repair.

My 11-year-old looked at it for five seconds and announced:
"They should leave it. We could turn it into a moat."

Some kids dream about ponies.
Mine is apparently preparing to defend the family kingdom. 🏰😂

[Daniel Titus (The Preacher) @realdanieltitus]

AMEN

[CCMBC 2021 @2021Ccmbc]

When politicians say they "feel your pain"...
it's apparently over a plate of beef tenderloin with pepper sauce, followed by tiramisu and Death by Chocolate. 🥩

✈️ $160,000 for airplane catering on a single trip!

The menu may have been first class.
The optics certainly aren't!

#cdnpoli #Taxpayers #GovernmentSpending #Canada #CostOfLiving @WorkingCdns @franco_nomics @taxpayerDOTcom

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

Someone check whether Carney grew up watching Pinky and the Brain.

One spent every episode trying to take over the world.
The other seems determined to try it in real life.

The success rate appears... remarkably consistent.
🤔😂

#cdnpoli

[CCMBC 2021 @2021Ccmbc]

Here's an economic strategy you don't see taught very often:

💰 Make it more expensive to build things.
🫢 Act surprised when fewer things get built.
🫵 Blame everyone else.

An #industrial carbon tax doesn't stay at the factory gate. It works its way into supply chains, prices, investment decisions and, eventually, your wallet.

Politicians can spin the narrative all they like. Investors, manufacturers and employers still have the final vote. They cast it with their cheque books, and moving vans.

@WorkingCdns @juliedabrusin @timhodgsonmt
#cdnpoli #Manufacturing #Industry #CarbonTax #Jobs

[CCMBC 2021 @2021Ccmbc]

📣 Ottawa: "Let's deepen ties with China."

🙅‍♂️ Canadians: "Actually... we'd rather not."

A federally commissioned survey found 66% of #Canadians consider #China a major threat to Canada's interests, while concerns about foreign interference remain high.

Governments don't have to agree with public opinion.

But pretending it doesn't exist has become a curious governing philosophy.

#cdnpoli @WorkingCdns @MichaelChongMP @emb #ForeignInterference #NationalSecurity #Canada

[Richard Lazowski @RLazowski]

STIRLING: The ‘settled science’ on climate and renewables has fallen apart — carbon markets must collapse with it https://t.co/BnPTOaX8p7

[Richard Lazowski @RLazowski]

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. ambassador pressed on Nijjar reversal, Trump fentanyl claims, and Alberta independence https://t.co/TGCLrpvSU4

[CCMBC 2021 @2021Ccmbc]

🚨 Remember when a weak dollar was supposed to make Canadian exports more competitive? Apparently nobody sent the memo to the factories that closed.

Since January, Canada has lost 75,700 goods-producing jobs, including almost 61,000 #manufacturing jobs. 👩‍🏭

A 71¢ dollar should be attracting investment. Instead we're exporting the investment itself.

It's difficult to celebrate being "competitive" when government keeps finding new ways to make producing here less competitive.

The numbers don't care about political branding.
They just keep adding up.

#cdnpoli @WorkingCdns #Jobs #Economy #Canada

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

True story. A 6th grade teacher asked her students. "How many of you are Mark Carney fans? "

Wanting to be liked and appreciated by their teacher, all the kids raised their hand except for Little Johnny. The teacher asked Little Johnny.

"How come you didn't raise your hand? "

Little Johnny answered "Because I'm NOT a Carney fan "

The teachers said "Why not? "

Little Johnny answered "Because I'm a Conservative"

So the teacher asked "Why are you a Conservative? "

To which Little Johnny answered "Because my dad is a Conservative and so is my mom. I'm just like them."

By now the teacher was becoming annoyed at Little Johnny's non-compliance to her indoctrination, so she asked.....

"If your mom was an idiot and your dad was a retard, what would that make you? "

With a great big smile Little Johnny answered....

"That would make me a Liberal and a Carney fan"