Brad Sparrow

[Shane Wenzel @ShaneWenzel]

There is a letter from the federal housing minister to Mayor Farkas that I think more Calgarians should read, and I have highlighted the part that matters.

Ottawa approved our third Housing Accelerator payment and then attached conditions to the final one, which is worth roughly $65 million, and to collect it council has to allow four units on a significant majority of lots across the city before October 27. Council already spent eight days in public hearings this spring and voted twelve to three the other way, with the repeal taking effect on August 4.

I build homes for a living, so I am not arguing against density or against building more, but the shape of this deal bothers me, because money that came out of Calgarians' pockets is being offered back on the condition that Calgary reverses a decision Calgarians turned up to make.

Would you take the money?

[Martin Pelletier @MPelletierCIO]

Outstanding piece. Highly recommend reading. Summarizes everything I’ve been saying for years. https://t.co/NfPGBkelJ4

[Peter Menzies @Pagmenzies]

Pay attention

[David Knight Legg @KnightLegg]

Corey Hogan is a Liberal MP from Calgary. He wants to push back against separatism to fight for Canada.

Three tips on that from someone who debated the separatist idea last year in Red Deer in front of 1200 Albertans:

1. Skip the soft-light “here to help” desk/flag schtick.
- Albertans want a representative with the courage to take hard messages back to Ottawa, not a therapist delivering soft messages the other way.

2. Secure a policy win for Alberta this summer/fall:
- work hard to reverse C48 - the one-way tanker ban preventing Alberta energy from getting to Asia (while the govt permits Saudi tankers to enter the other way). If you aren’t doing that, explain why not. Nationally self-defeating policies like that are why people think Canada is broken.

3. Answer the other 9 referendum questions:
- Describe your response to the other 9 referendum questions defining federal/provincial powers on the use of schools, hospitals and social services by non-permanent residents, residual provincial/federal powers and judges etc.

Being elected as a Liberal MP in Calgary is no small thing. You deserve credit for that. You’re the only one, and that speaks to who you are as an individual and your political skills.

But that makes your task harder. Ottawa has created an environment where a third of Alberta thinks the country is broken enough to warrant going independent. A third thinks that’s crazy. And another third are willing - under the right circumstances - to let it go to a vote.

Thats dangerous territory.

To change those numbers, Ottawa has to reverse C48 and other obvious attacks on Alberta energy. Absent real change, more Albertans will decide to build their future on new terms. And they’ll use direct democracy to do that - over MP trustees who are scared to tell Ottawa what has to change.

@coreyhoganyyc
@MichelleRempel
@shuvmajumdar
@GregMcLeanYYC

[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

Boom! John Ibbitson "Well, they are an angry people and they have every reason to be angry."

"From the time the provinces were founded, when Albertans, Saskatchewan, were not given the natural resources powers that other provinces had, to the latest regulation from Ottawa limiting the development of the oil sands for environmental or other reasons, Albertans have been put upon by a central Canadian elite, looks at them as something of a colony."

"And the result of that indifference and condescension from central Canada is this referendum on a referendum. We're responsible for that here in the center." @JohnIbbitson

[Eric Paquet @EricPaquet_]

Our globalist ideologue Prime Minister, with his endless word salads and empty slogans:

“So when we’re building physically, we are building inclusively and sustainably in solidarity… these same values must hold when we build virtually.”

The reality:

• Honda’s $15 billion Ontario EV and battery plant is now frozen amid slowing EV demand and market reality.

• Stellantis’ NextStar battery mega-project in Windsor has been mired in construction chaos and subsidy fights — despite billions in taxpayer handouts.

• EV supply-chain projects tied to GM, Ford, Umicore, and others have delivered delays, layoffs, restructuring, and scaled-back ambitions after massive public subsidies.

• More than a dozen major Canadian energy projects — worth an estimated $176 billion — have been cancelled or paralysed by crushing regulations, endless permitting delays, carbon taxes, and open political hostility toward the sector.

• The Liberals’ much-hyped “Build Canada Homes” promise has generated far more press releases than actual homes, while housing affordability keeps getting worse.

Canadians were promised nation-building, green prosperity, affordable housing, and economic renewal.

Instead, we got endless subsidies, bureaucratic chokeholds, ideological lectures, stalled projects, fleeing investment, and falling productivity.

At some point, slogans stop being competence and become a pathetic substitute for results.

But sure “Elbows up”.

“Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.”
✍️ Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States

[Brad Sparrow @sparrow98]

@Tec_Fardin AI

[Hon. Rona Ambrose Veitch @RonaAmbrose]

Well said @ABDanielleSmith let’s get this economy moving.

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

https://t.co/61NXI4IoZp

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

Send this to every Liberal !!

[Hugh McCoy @HughMcCoy10]

So why was Carney busy building pipes elsewhere but not in Canada?
Globalists believe in wealth redistribution and communist style equity.
They think its noble to impoverish Canada while enriching developing nations.

[Chris Pequin @ChrisPequin]

Thanks Grok! Here’s a list of notable scandals associated with the Liberal Party of Canada over the past 10 years These incidents involve allegations of ethical breaches, mismanagement, or corruption tied to the Liberal government.

[Brad Sparrow @sparrow98]

@garry_keller @CPC_HQ Go Garry!

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

Mark Carney soft launching his campaign on The Daily Show is wild. It's the media equivalent of elite Canadians going to private hospitals in the US when they're sick. When push comes to shove, Canadian elites shun the subsidized state-run junk they tell the rest of us to use.

[Sen. Denise Batters @denisebatters]

The Trudeau Govt is pushing a temporary GST holiday on junk food, while also rushing Bill #C252, a Liberal MP’s bill outlawing advertising junk food to kids.

This govt is promoting junk food + condemning it simultaneously.

Trudeau’s temporary tax trick is holiday hypocrisy!

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

You know Trudeau is not worth the crime, cost and corruption when the world’s oldest and best known liberal magazine says this.

[Robert Fife @RobertFife]

The average Canadian family paid more in 2023 on taxes than it did on housing, food and clothing combined
CALGARY—The average Canadian family spent 43.0 per cent of its income on taxes in 2023—more than housing, food and clothing costs combined, finds a new study published by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
“Taxes remain the largest household expense for families in Canada,” said Jake Fuss, director of Fiscal Studies at the Fraser Institute and co-author ofTaxes versus the Necessities of Life: The Canadian Consumer Tax Index 2024 Edition.
In 2023, the average Canadian family earned an income of $109,235 and paid in total taxes equaling $46,988.
In other words, the average Canadian family spent 43.0 per cent of its income on taxes compared to 35.6 per cent on basic necessities.
This is a dramatic shift since 1961 when the average Canadian family spent much less of its income on taxes (33.5 per cent) than the basic necessities (56.5 per cent). Taxes have grown much more rapidly than any other single expenditure for the average Canadian family.
The total tax bill for Canadians includes visible and hidden taxes (paid to the federal, provincial and local governments) including income, payroll, sales, property, carbon, health, fuel and alcohol taxes.
Moreover, since 1961, the average Canadian family’s total tax bill has increased nominally by 2,705 per cent, dwarfing increases in annual housing costs (2,006 per cent), clothing (478 per cent) and food (901 per cent).
“Considering the sheer amount of income that goes towards taxes in this country, Canadians may question whether or not we’re getting good value for our money,” Fuss said.

[Brad Sparrow @sparrow98]

@HarjitSajjan Thank you for doing this four hours after all the fire crews were evacuated from the town of Jasper. Shows the priority and care you place on UNESCO Heritage sites in Alberta.

[Austin Williams @Future_Cities]

For those who think that Just Stop Oil were treated too harshly, read the excellent sentencing summary by the judge.
https://t.co/t8nzCAilk7

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Quebec has more private doctors that any other Canadian province. This doctor explains why
https://t.co/eE3mbh07xx