Zoë Knowles Simakova

Vice President of Government Relations @EllisDon • @CreateStreets Fellow • @PricedOutUK Advisory Board Member • All housing is beautiful 👷‍♀️ 🏘️ 🎾 ⛷️💙

[Zoë Knowles Simakova @theZoeKnowles]

I’m excited to announce that I am joining @EllisDon as their first Vice President of Government Relations!

As we confront existential threats to 🇨🇦 economy & sovereignty, there is only one solution: Build a Stronger Canada.

[Zoë Knowles Simakova @theZoeKnowles]

@mattgurney This is why I stick with Civ V 🏰

[Zoë Knowles Simakova @theZoeKnowles]

@EricDLombardi @build_toronto @build_canada Congratulations! The right person for the job — Excited to build a better, stronger future for Toronto 🏠🧱🏗️🏢

[Zoë Knowles Simakova @theZoeKnowles]

@yuanyi_z Congratulations!!! 🥂

[John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath]

Absolutely brutal numbers in @mikepmoffatt's latest. https://t.co/4HADxJKxZQ

[Zoë Knowles Simakova @theZoeKnowles]

Through to our strong presence in Northern ON, @EllisDon is honoured to support @PrabSarkaria, @OntNorthland & @ONgov to build the new Timmins-Porcupine Station 🚆

This is a major milestone for restoring Northlander, connecting Ontario, and driving Northern economic development

[Prabmeet Sarkaria @PrabSarkaria]

🚆 Big news for Northern Ontario!

We’re getting shovels in the ground on the new Timmins-Porcupine Station — a major milestone as we restore Northlander passenger rail service between Timmins and Toronto.

Our government is protecting #Ontario by connecting more people to jobs, health care and opportunities, while supporting northern industries, tourism, and economic growth in the face of rising U.S. tariffs.

[Zoë Knowles Simakova @theZoeKnowles]

Thank you Minister @Sflecce for a productive discussion with @EllisDon on how ON can continue to attract world-class advanced digital infrastructure, while enabling proactive, industry-led “Bring Your Own Power” (BYOP) solutions to expand our power grid⚡️

It’s time to build 🇨🇦

[Stephen Lecce @Sflecce]

Productive meeting today with @EllisDon — one of Canada’s leaders in building infrastructure. We talked about how we can position Ontario to lead the AI economy with clean, reliable, made-in-Ontario energy.

By building the right infrastructure and unlocking private investment, we can attract global data centres, protect our grid, and power the next generation of jobs right here at home.

[Alex Simakov @Alexei_Simakov]

A sensible measure under the current system planning regime

Facing rapid electricity demand growth, @ONenergy & @IESO_Tweets need to explore “Bring Your Own Power” (BYOP) solutions for data centre proponents to privately develop their generation & capacity needs

[Hon. Lisa MacCormack Raitt P.C. @lraitt]

From the Hon. Marc Garneau’s Public Policy Forum’s Honours Award acceptance speech in April 2024. He was a wonderful Canadian and will be missed and remembered for his extraordinary service to our country. My condolences to his family and loved ones.

[Rob Flack @RobFlackEML]

🏗️ It takes too long and costs too much to build homes.

🏡 Under @fordnation, we’re bringing the dream of homeownership within reach.

🛡️We will Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter.

#ProtectOntario #onpoli #buildingfaster #Ontario #buildingsmarter

[Ben Woodfinden @BenWoodfinden]

Decline is a choice. And on April 28, we all have a choice to make.

In 2014, the New York Times called Canada the “home of the world’s most affluent middle class.” No longer is that the case.

One measure of this is per-capita GDP. “Canadians are effectively no better off today than they were in 2015, with only a cumulative 2 percent increase since 2015 compared to 17 percent in the United States.” $460 billion in investment has fled south of the border – that is $11,500 for every Canadian.

This sounds abstract, but it matters. And in blunt terms, what it means is that while Americans and other countries get richer, we fall behind. We get poorer. Our living standards stagnate and decline.

The Lost Liberal Decade gave Canada the worst per capita growth among its economic peers. And this won’t change unless we change. The OECD forecasts that Canada will have the worst GDP per capita growth among all OECD countries through 2060.

And to quote Brad Epperly, “we haven’t just experienced economic stagnation. It’s that we’ve matched flat-lining (or even declining) living standards with skyrocketing housing prices. The interrelationship between the two makes the Canadian experience unique, and the need for policy change so imperative.”

In the last decade, housing costs have doubled, rising faster in Canada than in any other G7 country. In 2015, it took roughly 39% of median pre-tax household income to afford a home, while today it takes nearly 60%. In Vancouver, you now need to earn $243,300 just to qualify for a mortgage on the average home, while in Toronto, that number is nearly $223,290. And that's on top of saving for the down payment itself. We build fewer homes today than we did in the 1970s, when our population was half the size. We have the fewest homes per capita in the G7.

The result? A generation that has been locked out of home ownership. It’s hard to describe how radicalizing and alienating this is to younger Canadians.

And just as housing costs have skyrocketed, and wages have stagnated, the government taxes us even higher. The average Canadian family is now paying $10,000 more in taxes than they were a decade ago, and 86% of the middle-class Canadians are paying more in taxes than they did before the Liberals took power.

The basics cost more than ever, and we’re taxed even more. Canadians are spending more on taxes than on the basic necessities of life like food, shelter, and clothing combined. For the average family, it consumes almost half of their income.

Our economic decline is real. But the decline in the Lost Liberal Decade is not just economic. You see it in our streets. In the last decade, violent crime has skyrocketed by 50 percent, while gun crime is up 116 percent. Gang homicides have soared by 78 percent, and extortion and auto theft are up 357 percent and 46 percent, respectively.

Across Canada, tent cities have taken over once safe and family-friendly public spaces. These encampments have become centers for crime, drug abuse, and violence. After the Lost Liberal decade, there are an estimated 1,400 encampments in Ontario alone. Since 2018, homelessness has surged 20%, and chronic homelessness has jumped by 38%.

In Toronto, the number of encampments grew from 82 in early 2023 to over 200 in less than a year. And more than 50,000 people have lost their lives to fentanyl since 2015—more Canadians than died in the Second World War.

I could go on. But this is the record of a Lost Liberal Decade. It can’t go on like this. We need change, and this is the choice we must make.

What another Liberal term would mean is managed decline and continued stagnation. Mark Carney is not offering change. He is the heir to Trudeau. He wants to continue Trudeau's record. He would not reverse our decline; he would manage it.

In a sometimes misunderstood (and condensed) passage from Reflections on the Revolution in France, Burke said that society is “a partnership between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.” It’s up to all of us to build and preserve the legacy we inherit, and it’s our responsibility to continue this partnership and leave it better for those who come after us. For our children and grandchildren, long after we are all gone.

This is the choice we must make. Not managed decline, but a future that unleashes Canada’s enormous potential and restores the great Canadian promise.

A new Conservative government would bring the change that we desperately need.

What would Conservatives do? Go to https://t.co/vi7Y6XVPUj for a full look. It’s a plan to make life affordable, build homes, make streets safe again, and unleash the Canadian economy.

The Conservative plan will build 2.3 million homes over the next five years. It will bring back billions in investment and revenue by unleashing our natural resources so that we can get our clean resources to the rest of the world to help fight climate change and to bring back jobs. It will get immigration back under control. It will reverse disastrous Liberal policies that have made our streets less safe and toughen laws and sentencing to keep the most dangerous criminals behind bars and not quickly out on bail. It will cut taxes so that Canadians keep more money in their pockets.

I’m a first-generation Canadian. I wasn’t born here, but I was lucky enough to end up here. I love Canada. I want to see it thrive; I want to make it better; I want to build a country where my children can have a better life than I do. I want to restore Canada’s promise.

Canada must be a country where ambition is rewarded and where hard work pays off. A country that builds. A country that rewards risk-takers and innovators. A country that encourages and nurtures strivers. A country where dynamism isn’t stifled and where sclerotic stagnation is not allowed to continue.

Vote Conservative. Vote for a better future. Vote for change.

[Zoë Knowles Simakova @theZoeKnowles]

@TristinHopper Everything Bagel Liberalism in action

[Zoë Coombes @ZoeCoombes]

One of the best memos by @build_canada yet.

Follow it up with @ChrisSpoke and @MattSpoke's talk with @Alexei_Simakov the other day on Hogtown, which was fascinating- esp. for those with abundance interests. Link in thread.

[Ginny Roth @GinnyRothTO]

"Some people have said I should stop talking about the doubling of housing costs that have denied an entire generation the chance to own a home after the lost Liberal decade. They say we shouldn't be debating why single moms are lined up at food banks in record numbers," Poilievre said.

He said he will stand up for the millennial women "whose biological clock is running out faster than they can afford to buy a home and have kids."

"They suggest that we shouldn't debate why 50,000 of our citizens have lost their lives to drug overdoses under the radical Liberal drug policies," he continued.

"My purpose in politics is to restore Canada's promise," he said. "So we will continue, despite calls to the contrary, to talk about those things even if I am the only leader in the country that offers any change."

LFG

https://t.co/Cr4XKdFdJ8

[Alex Simakov @Alexei_Simakov]

Big thanks to @ChrisSpoke & @MattSpoke
for having me on the Hogtown podcast

Great to dive into batteries, nuclear, electrification and everything happening w/ Canada's pursuit of energy #abundance ⚡️

Links below

[Zoë Knowles Simakova @theZoeKnowles]

There's never been greater urgency to build ambitious projects: homes, hospitals, clean energy, transportation & infrastructure in every corner of our country that create jobs & make Canadians richer.

We're building a freer Canada, a resilient Canada, an abundant Canada.

[Zoë Knowles Simakova @theZoeKnowles]

I’m excited to announce that I am joining @EllisDon as their first Vice President of Government Relations!

As we confront existential threats to 🇨🇦 economy & sovereignty, there is only one solution: Build a Stronger Canada.

[Doug Ford @fordnation]

President Trump launched an unprovoked trade and tariff war with America’s closest friend and ally. Until the threat of tariffs is gone for good, we won’t back down.

[Toronto Maple Leafs @MapleLeafs]

canada pics that go hard

[Michael Levitt 🇨🇦🎗️ @LevittMichael]

Today we mourn, but we must never, ever forget them. Please say their names; Shiri, Ariel and Kfir. 🧡

May their memory forever be a blessing. #BibasFamily