Rob Vanden Heuvel

Full-time business development professional. Part-time wise ass. Or maybe the other way around.

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

@aaronstratton8 @saskatchewan_in If debt had doubled in 75 years that would be just fine.

But the debt RATIO? That's a whole other story!

You might want to think about this a little longer. Maybe dust off a math textbook.

[Royce Koop 🇨🇦 @RoyceKoop]

NEW COLUMN: Carney is gutting Canadian democracy

Voters handed Carney a minority. He flipped it to a majority by poaching five opposition MPs, then set about dismantling the checks meant to hold him accountable.

Committees got stacked and dragged behind closed doors. Bills got rammed through with debate cut off.

And Question Period? He's skipped 100 of them.

Usually when he chickens out of attending QP, Carney is chilling out in his office instead of facing the heat in the House of Commons.

A hot mic even caught what he thinks of his own MPs: "useful for votes."

Accountability, it seems, is now optional. The bill will come due.

https://t.co/WCXhIXVPwt

#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

@ArtsyTECH @wealthmoose What a ridiculous comment. Please tell the class how alleviating this alleged congestion will lead to an economic boom that will generate an exciting ROI on the taxpayer's $90B plus interest plus operating costs. Dream on, pal. We're getting hosed.

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

@wealthmoose *corruption problem

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

The crony capitalism and corruption is blatant. The Liberals don't care though because they own the media.

A minority of Canadians are reasonably informed. Others are so brainwashed they think Elon Musk is a Nazi... and are ashamed of the Teslas they bought 5 years ago. NPCs.

[Lisa @YoungStreete]

It has been revealed that the Vancouver condo king, Bernie Rennie, held fundraisers for Mark Carney and now we’re learning he did the same for Gregor Robertson, Carney’s Housing Minister.

Obvious ethics breach. This is pay for play BS.

Taxpayers shouldn’t be paying to keep Rennie from losing money on overpriced, unsold condos.

Let supply and demand determine pricing.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Calling out the developers bailout by Mark Carney as it is.

Pierre Poilievre:

"What Mark Carney and the Liberals have done is they’ve inflated a housing bubble with too much money printing and immigration driving up demand.

Having created the housing bubble, and now bursting that bubble, now they want to come and bail out the bankers and developers who profited from it.
This is another example of a tiny club of Liberal elites, billionaires, and insiders getting rich by making hardworking Canadians poor."

🔥

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

I am a Free Canadian.

For now.

I grew up believing freedom was the default setting. Canadians didn't need permission to speak their minds. Privacy wasn't something you applied for. Citizens questioned government, not the other way around.

Maybe that sounds old-fashioned now.
I don't care.

I am a Skeptical Canadian.

When politicians tell me a new power is only for my protection, I read the fine print. When they tell me it's for the children, I ask who will inherit the precedent. When they tell me only bad people should worry, I remember that every right we possess was created to protect ordinary people from powerful ones.

My ancestors didn't cross oceans so their descendants could ask permission to speak freely online. Nobody stormed beaches, froze in trenches, or built this country from muskeg and rock so future Canadians could be told which opinions are safe enough to share.

I am a Vigilant Canadian.

I come from the kind of country where neighbours pull strangers out of snowbanks, where farmers stop their tractors to help a motorist change a tire, and where people apologize when someone else bumps into them. Yet somehow we're expected to believe Canadians cannot be trusted with freedom unless somebody in Ottawa supervises it.

I don't want government deciding what ideas deserve promotion. I don't want bureaucrats deciding what opinions require supervision. I don't want privacy traded away one "reasonable" compromise at a time. And I sure as hell don't want my children growing up believing freedom is whatever remains after regulators finish editing it.

I am a Stubborn Canadian.

My country was built by people who crossed oceans, survived winters, broke land, built railways, fought wars, and buried friends. Not so future generations could quietly surrender their liberties because questioning authority became unfashionable or that blind allegiance is normal.

I am an Informed Canadian.

Which means I understand the oldest trick in politics.

Nobody arrives at the front door and announces they are here to take your freedom. They arrive carrying safety, protection, security, and good intentions. Freedom departs, hidden inside the packaging.

No freedom disappears all at once. It vanishes piece by piece. One exception. One permission. One restriction. One "temporary" measure that somehow never leaves.

Until one day people wake up and realize they still have all the responsibilities of free citizens and fewer of the rights.

I am a Free Canadian.

Not because government allows it. Not because a regulator approves it. Not because a bureaucrat signs a form.

I am free because generations before me insisted on it.

And if that little phrase ever disappears from our vocabulary, it will not be because Canadians failed to notice.

It will be because Canadians forgot who they were.

I haven't forgotten. And I have no intention of starting now.

Because the rights I inherited are not mine to surrender.

They are mine to protect.

And someday I intend to hand them, intact, to the Canadians who come after me.

I haven't forgotten.
And neither should you.

Melanie

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

Just so EVERYONE in Canada fully understands this

Under c-22, cell phone service providers are now required to track the location of your phone

for six months, and store it

in case the government or the police ever want it.

The more you know.

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

Canada is following the same playbook

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

UK is a police state

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🚨🇨🇦 The government wants access to your location, your metadata, and your digital footprint.

But when Canadians ask questions about:

💰 Foreign aid spending
🏦 Brookfield discussions
🏛️ Decisions made behind closed doors

The answers are nowhere to be found.

More surveillance.
Less transparency.

More power.
Less accountability.

A healthy democracy scrutinizes government.

Not the other way around.

Should we allow this to happen?🤔

#cdnpoli #Canada #BillC8

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

@st0ckm0nster @mario4thenorth Straight out of Revelation, the final book of the Bible.

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

Canada is sitting on one of the greatest natural resource endowments on the planet.

We rank:
🥇 #1 in uranium
🥇 #1 in potash
🥈 #2 in nickel
🥉 Top 3–4 in oil reserves globally
🏅 Top 5 in gold
💧 #1 in freshwater

Countries literally fight wars over far less.

Yet here we are — told we’re “too broke” to cut taxes, “too poor” to build homes fast, and that we need to throttle our own energy sector to save the planet.

We have the resources. We have the workforce. We have the demand.

What we don’t have is a government willing to let Canada actually win.

Instead we get carbon taxes that punish production, endless regulations that block pipelines and mines, capital flight, and a Prime Minister who feels more at home in Ireland than in the country he’s supposed to be leading.

This isn’t bad luck.
This is managed decline dressed up as virtue.

Imagine what Canada could be if the people in charge actually wanted us to succeed.

#cdnpoli #CarneyFail #CanadaFirst #ResourceRichPoorPolicy

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🇨🇦 Canada

📌 #1 in potash — globally

📌 #2 in uranium — 14,309 tonnes produced in 2024. Rising fast.

📌 #3 in palladium

📌 #4 in gold — 202 tonnes in 2024. Top producer in the Americas.

📌 Top 5 in nickel, cobalt, diamonds, niobium, platinum, titanium

📌 3rd largest oil reserves on earth — $622 billion in crude bitumen alone

📌 #1 in freshwater reserves globally
📌 #1 in forest coverage per capita
📌 Total natural resource wealth:

$1.36 trillion. Officially measured. Likely far higher.

Countries have started wars for a fraction of this.

Canada is not a poor country.

Canada is a rich country run by people who govern like it’s poor.

In 2024 Canada exported $153 billion in minerals and metals alone — 21% of all merchandise exports.

And yet:

📌 4.5 million Canadians below the poverty line

📌 $78.3 billion deficit this year

📌 $53 billion in annual interest payments

📌 712,000 children at food banks monthly

📌 $673,000 average home price

📌 Dead last in OECD GDP per capita growth projections

This is not a resource problem.
This is not a geography problem.
This is not a population problem.
This is a governance problem.

It took a specific set of ideological choices — carbon taxes on producers, pipeline cancellations, regulatory paralysis, 10 consecutive deficit budgets — to bury a country this blessed.

Norway found oil in 1969.
Built a $1.7 trillion sovereign wealth fund.

Canada found oil before Norway.
Built a $78 billion deficit instead.
Same resource.
Different government.
Different result.

Imagine where Canada would be if we were actually allowed to win. 🇨🇦

Tag a Canadian who thinks we can’t afford to cut taxes. 👇

🔁 Repost if every Canadian deserves to know what we’re sitting on.

🇨🇦💀 #CdnPoli #Canada #NaturalResources #Carney

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

To Canada's leaders who keep calling for "national unity" (i.e. Pierre Poilievre)

Unity isn't something you demand. It's something you earn.

If you're serious about keeping Canada together, put your money where your mouth is. Address the concerns that millions of Albertans have been raising for decades:

• End equalization wealth redistribution
• Give Alberta fair representation in the House of Commons
• Reform the Senate and make it elected
• Respect provincial jurisdiction over health care, resources, and taxation
• Give provinces greater control over immigration

A stronger Canada is built on fairness, respect, and autonomy... not on expecting one region to simply accept the status quo.

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

@wealthmoose Carney understands, like anyone with a brain, that China is a threat to Canadians and their way of life.

What if he doesn't care about those things though? What if he only cares about money and power? How would he behave?

Kind of like he's behaving?

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

@KirkLubimov I see it too and it's getting worse. Not just Boomers either.

I'll post stats about Carney's poor economic performance and it'll get shared to some Liberals hive mind or other. What follows are vile and hateful attacks and ad hominems.

Barely a critical thought to be found.

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

Meanwhile, there's an endless pit of money for Ukraine, net zero fantasies, and millions of immigrants who have never paid into the system. The plundering of Canada and its dystopian transformation into a colony of cheap labour controlled by "champagne socialists" continues.

[The Real Mr Bench @therealmrbench]

The Globe and Mail is now running opinion pieces about cutting elderly benefits because Canada faces “crippling debt.”

Perfect.

Not cut bureaucracy.

Not cut consultants.

Not cut foreign aid.

Not cut corporate welfare.

Not cut the Liberal spending machine.

Not cut the political class that created the debt bomb.

No.

Cut grandma.

That is how this always works.

Trudeau, Freeland, Carney, and the Liberal Party help bury Canada under debt.

Then the establishment media starts preparing Canadians for the “unpopular” solution.

The people who built the mess never pay.

The elderly get handed the invoice.

Canada was robbed by incompetence.

Now seniors are being told to sacrifice.

Brilliant system.

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

@k2pointO @PierrePoilievre I forgot about this gem. My goodness, what absolute ideological idiots we have in our halls of power.

[Rob Vanden Heuvel @robvh2]

The Liberals are not to be trusted. We have 11 years of proof. When will their supporters learn? They vote for a train headed for a cliff because they happen to be in a cozy dining car and can't see straight ahead.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

‼️NEW - Carney government now says the RCMP was WRONG

when they said they would not release their MOU with Chinese Police without Beijing's permission

NOW they claim it is CARNEY'S government who is refusing to release the document‼️

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Canada has some of dumbest financially illiterate journalists trying to carry water for Mark Carney.

Watch as Pierre Poilievre puts one in his place:

"There have been 4 quarters since Mark Carney became a Prime Minister, the economy shrunk in 3 of these quarters."

Absolute beat down.