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Renee Merrifield nails it.
Canada’s political class, media, and too many voters have spent years blaming Trump for problems that were already here.
Housing didn’t break because of Trump.
Productivity didn’t collapse because of Trump.
Debt didn’t explode because of Trump.
Investment didn’t flee because of Trump.
He became the convenient scapegoat for a decade of Canadian decline.
The hard truth?
Canada’s problems were made in Canada. 🇨🇦📉 #Cdnpoli
Video : @ryangerritsen
So if you are a family that can’t afford your mortgage because of a job loss, you are forced to sell at the current market price
But if you are a developer that built product that no one wanted, you get a taxpayer funded bailout
The stupidity is amazing 🤦♂️
So, I've slept on it, and I am still incensed about this condo bailout.
Mining and Oil & Gas companies have to beg, BEG, to sell our natural resources, which pay Canadians billions in taxes and royalties.
And then the Feds give that money to condo developers who "don't want to sell at a loss".
Are you effing kidding me?
Anyway, let the BOC know I've solved the mystery of Canada's weak productivity!
🚨 CANADA’S INDUSTRIAL COLLAPSE under @MarkJCarney
— With receipts 🧾
📍 Honda Alliston, ON → Cancelled— $15 Billion
📍 Stellantis Brampton, ON → Moved to Illinois — $500 Million in aid pocketed
📍 Stellantis Windsor Battery Plant → Sold stake for — $100
📍 GM CAMI Ingersoll, ON → PERMANENTLY CLOSED — $2 Billion retool gone
📍 GM Oshawa, ON → Production moved to Indiana — $280 Million lost
📍 Ford Oakville, ON → EV production moved to USA — $2.3 Billion gone
📍 Northvolt Quebec → BANKRUPT — $7 Billion evaporated
📍 Invista Kingston, ON → Moving to Texas — 500 jobs gone
📍 Umicore Ontario → Shifting to Poland & South Korea — $260 Million gone
🇨🇦 TOTAL INVESTMENT LOST:
💰Over $50 Billion
Ottawa’s response?
Press releases. Photo ops.
A delusional PM who thinks your gas is cheap.
“We are a Energy Superpower 🇨🇦
Clean Energy is needed to build a Sustainable Prosperous Economy ?🤔🙇🏻🚨
This is managed decline with a price tag. 🇨🇦
RT until every Canadian sees this 👇
#CdnPoli #AutoIndustry #Honda #GM #Ford #Stellantis #Ontario #Canada
Dear Canada: we aren’t being held back by America. We’re being held back by Canadians who got very comfortable telling us we’re being held back by America.
Our own Prime Minister proudly went up on stage calling us a ‘middle power.’ Canada…the second largest country on earth. Third largest oil reserves. Largest freshwater supply in the world. Arctic sovereignty over territory the entire world is about to want desperately. G7 economy. Educated. Neighbours with the largest economy on earth…
And Canadians clapped. They clapped like he’d said something inspiring.
We have every ingredient to be ungovernable in the best possible way. To be the country the world needs. To be the partner America respects, Europe envies, and China can’t afford to cross.
Instead we’re clapping for middle.
Until Canadians get half as angry about being sold small as they get about a Trump post, nothing changes.
Stop clapping for people who don’t believe in your potential. Who stifle your growth, and who don’t want you to figure out what we could be if they actually tried.
If you think the government's push for "lawful access" is just about fighting crime, you are missing the entire plot.
This is about total narrative and behavioural enclosure...
Connect the dots between Bill C-11 and Bill C-22: Bill C-11 (Input Control): They manipulated the algorithms. The state now dictates what political, cultural, and independent media you are allowed to see.
Bill C-22 (Output Control): They are coming for encryption. The state wants to shatter private spaces so they can track the texts, data, and dissent, leaving your home.
The most probable endgame?: Corporate-state censorship. If you cannot consume independent media, thought, or even conversations, contrary to the regime narrative your tax dollars fund the messaging of (C-11), and you cannot securely communicate anonymously and privately (C-22), effective political opposition is neutralized.
They are turning private global tech platforms into an automated domestic surveillance apparatus—all to protect the ruling establishment from public accountability. Don't let them label privacy as a crime... Don't let them scam you out of your freedom.
Wake up, Canada.
🚨 SAY IT LOUDER BEN MULRONEY!!! 🔥
Ben Mulroney just eviscerated Ottawa’s disgusting waste:
Ottawa blew $19 BILLION on contractors in 2024-25… and it’s projected to skyrocket to $26.6 BILLION next year — even after they promised a pathetic 20% cut.
Meanwhile, the public service has ballooned by 101,000 new bureaucrats since 2015. That’s a 39% explosion.
Yet they still don’t have the in-house expertise and have to hire outside consultants for billions more?
Ben called it exactly what it is:
“This is disrespect to the taxpayer of the highest order.” “Rotten to its core.”
Pick one: ✅ 100,000 new government workers OR ✅ $26.6 BILLION in outside “experts”
They chose BOTH.
This isn’t mismanagement — it’s taxpayer abuse on steroids.
Canadians are paying for this circus while services get worse.
Trudeau & Carney’s Ottawa is completely broken!
RT if you’re done subsidizing the bloat.
#cdnpoli #TrudeauMustGo #TaxpayerAbuse #GovernmentWaste
(Video attached — watch @BenMulroney call it out!)
🚨🇨🇦 This is what 10 years of Liberal government looks like.
With receipts. 🧾
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💥 BANKRUPTCIES
——————————————
📍 143,483 insolvencies filed in 2024
Highest in 15 years
📍 Business insolvencies up 28.6%
Highest since the 2008 Great Recession
📍 10 straight quarters
of double digit increases
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💥 HOUSEHOLD DEBT
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📍 $3.07 Trillion in household debt
$1.75 owed for every $1 earned
📍 #1 in G7 for household debt
103% of GDP — worst in the G7
📍 USA household debt: 75% of GDP
Canada: 103% of GDP
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💥 FOOD BANKS
——————————————
📍 2.2 million Canadians visited
food banks in March 2025 alone
Highest number ever recorded
📍 Food bank usage has
DOUBLED since 2019
📍 1 in 5 food bank users
are employed Canadians
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💥 GROCERIES
——————————————
📍 Grocery prices up 22% since 2022
Food inflation hit 5% in December 2025
📍 Shelter costs up 26%
Food up 25%
Transport up 20%
Since 2021
📍 Lowest income Canadians now spend
over 120% of disposable income
on basic essentials
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💥 HOUSING
——————————————
📍 Average home 2015: $434,000
Average home 2025: $716,000
Up 65% under the Liberals
📍 60% of all Canadian mortgages
renewing by end of 2026
at 15–20% higher payments
——————————————
💥 INVESTMENT & ENERGY
——————————————
📍 $1 Trillion in investment
left Canada 2015–2024
Largest exodus in Canadian history
Source: RBC
📍 Canada ranks DEAD LAST
in G7 for machinery
& equipment investment
📍 Carbon tax rising to
$130/tonne by 2040
USA carbon tax: $0
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And the Liberal response?
📸 Photo ops.
🎤 Press releases.
🤝 Secret deals with Beijing.
🇺🇸 USA is the problem
💰 A PM worth $20 Million+ telling you gas is cheap.
Stop voting Liberal. 🇨🇦
Share this until every Canadian sees it. 👇
Sources:
🔗 RBC Report
🔗 Food Banks Canada HungerCount 2025
🔗 Office of Superintendent of Bankruptcy
🔗 Statistics Canada
🔗 Bank of Canada
#CdnPoli #Canada #LiberalFailure
#MarkCarney #Affordability
🚨 CANADA’S INDUSTRIAL COLLAPSE under @MarkJCarney
— With receipts 🧾
📍 Honda Alliston, ON → Cancelled— $15 Billion
📍 Stellantis Brampton, ON → Moved to Illinois — $500 Million in aid pocketed
📍 Stellantis Windsor Battery Plant → Sold stake for — $100
📍 GM CAMI Ingersoll, ON → PERMANENTLY CLOSED — $2 Billion retool gone
📍 GM Oshawa, ON → Production moved to Indiana — $280 Million lost
📍 Ford Oakville, ON → EV production moved to USA — $2.3 Billion gone
📍 Northvolt Quebec → BANKRUPT — $7 Billion evaporated
📍 Invista Kingston, ON → Moving to Texas — 500 jobs gone
📍 Umicore Ontario → Shifting to Poland & South Korea — $260 Million gone
🇨🇦 TOTAL INVESTMENT LOST:
💰Over $50 Billion
Ottawa’s response?
Press releases. Photo ops.
A delusional PM who thinks your gas is cheap.
“We are a Energy Superpower 🇨🇦
Clean Energy is needed to build a Sustainable Prosperous Economy ?🤔🙇🏻🚨
This is managed decline with a price tag. 🇨🇦
RT until every Canadian sees this 👇
#CdnPoli #AutoIndustry #Honda #GM #Ford #Stellantis #Ontario #Manufacturing #MarkCarney #Canada
Not a single purchaser of crude oil in the world asks nor cares about the carbon footprint of the barrel, instead is 100% focused on accessibility, affordability, and reliability. I do not see how we overcome this massive misunderstanding which underpins all ongoing negotiations.
Jon McKenzie, CEO of Cenovus, came out swinging on their Q1 conference call today. Great to see CEO's becoming more vocal about our squandered opportunity! To summarize: no other oil producing country is doing this to themselves...time for Canada to wake up!
The one thing that continues to perplex me—and honestly, I don’t understand why more people aren’t questioning it—is this: When it comes to economic growth in Canada, why does every solution from Mark Carney’s government involve more government?
It’s not as though Canada’s industry leaders need mentorship and guidance from the government to succeed… these are grown adults running successful empires.
The lack of growth isn’t due to them suddenly forgetting how to operate with their generated income.
The growth and productivity stalled for reasons that have been screaming at us from all the data and charts for the last several years. But Instead of removing barriers so businesses can actually build, hire, and grow… we get more programs, more bureaucracy, more oversight.
We don’t have a lack of ideas or potential in this country. We have a system that keeps adding bottlenecks instead of removing them. Why, Instead of unlocking opportunity, does the government keeps inserting itself into it?
We don’t need more gatekeepers… we need fewer gates and more freedom to create and produce.
At what point do we ask whether the “solution” is actually the problem?
Holly! Did Jordan Peterson ever had Mark Carney pinned.
Must watch.
"His international career has collapsed in failure. So now where is he? Might as well go to Canada.
You can tell Canadians you are an outsiders and there will be some kind of economic revolution...you can do that while lying about your actual goals; which are net zero."
Absolutely nailed it.
Unfuckingbelievable....
Canada bans bulk imports of US fruits & vegetables, forcing smaller, pricier packs. It's listed as a trade barrier in the official US report, and we're refusing to fix it.
No wonder groceries cost a fortune while the Liberals protect ridiculous, outdated rules.😏
@MarkJCarney You go first. Pull your daughter out of Harvard, sell your house in the USA, sell your stocks in American Companies, and get Brookfield to HQ in Canada again. I’ll take it seriously when you do!
ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH CLIP... Deputy US Trade Representative Rick Switzer on USMCA
"They can have a weak economy that is underperforming and not doing well, and Carney can feel superior."
"Or they can have an economy that participates with as a partner of the U.S. economy."
"And Carney can do what a grownup should do, which is figure out."
"...It's my job as a person who's supposed to protect Canadian jobs and Canadian citizens and the Canadian economy to not let my ego and my feelings dictate what's best for my own economy."
Q "Do you think this will have implications for the USMCA?"
Switzer "Yeah, of course it is..."
"Look, was Ambassador Greer in Canada? Did he meet with Carney? No."
"...The grownups are in the room talking because there's a grown up in the presidency in leadership there, and I would argue there's not a grown up in Canada in charge there."
"You don't go out of your way to antagonize the leader of the country that you are absolutely existentially tied to."
"It's just political malpractice." @markjcarney