we need a flood... on the fringe 🍎

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

EDITORIAL: New Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour's claim Canada is "near perfect" was a smug wink and a nod to the Laurentian Elite class of which she is a charter member, in a Canada that works for them but not for millions of Canadians on the outside looking in.
https://t.co/m0v2ZEgfdr

[Melissa 🇨🇦 @MelissaLMRogers]

Imagine working half the year just to have that money basically STOLEN by the government 🇨🇦 Sometimes more than 50% goes to TAXES, for things I don’t even agree with

Wait, I don’t have to imagine, because I live in Canada 😒 AND, you might not even have a family DR

[we need a flood... on the fringe 🍎 @vanysavy]

@WayneMathison @william62560727 👏👏👏👏

[L. Wayne Mathison @WayneMathison]

Canada is producing a lot of oil. That is not the scandal. The scandal is that we should be producing, exporting, upgrading, transporting, and profiting from far more, while Ottawa spent a decade treating one of our greatest national assets like an embarrassing skin condition.

Under Trudeau, Canada did not lack oil. Canada lacked permission. Carney is continuing this.

We had the reserves.
We had the workers.
We had the engineering.
We had global demand.
We had allies who would gladly buy from a stable democratic country instead of dictatorships.

And what did Ottawa do?

It cancelled Northern Gateway. It buried Energy East under regulatory fog. Keystone XL died in the U.S., but Canada’s weak energy posture did not help. Only Trans Mountain finally got finished, late and wildly expensive, after Ottawa turned a private-sector project into a government rescue mission. Reuters notes that in the past decade, several major Canadian pipeline projects were proposed, but only the Trans Mountain expansion was completed.

That is not an energy strategy. That is self-sabotage with a briefing binder.

Yes, Canadian crude output hit records in 2024. Statistics Canada said crude oil and equivalent production reached a fourth straight annual record, up 4.3% in 2024. The Canada Energy Regulator also reported average crude and equivalent production of 5.13 million barrels per day in 2024, rising again in the first half of 2025.

But that actually makes the Liberal failure look worse.

Because the industry succeeded despite Ottawa, not because of it. Like a farmer getting a crop off after the government spent ten years throwing rocks in the combine.

The real damage was not “zero production.” It was strangled potential: less investment, fewer pipelines, weaker market access, bigger discounts, more uncertainty, and fewer nation-building projects. Statistics Canada reported that oil and gas capital outlays fell 55% from 2014 to 2019, then another 36% in 2020. That is what policy hostility does. Capital does not hold a press conference. It just leaves.

And now Carney comes along with the same net-zero priesthood, but with better shoes and central banker vocabulary. He talks about investment, transition, climate finance, and “values,” but the machinery underneath is familiar: regulate, cap, tax, delay, subsidize preferred industries, and pretend prosperity can be spreadsheeted into existence by people who have never had to make payroll in a resource town.

Canada should be an energy superpower. Not as a slogan. As a fact.

We should be building pipelines to tidewater.

We should be expanding LNG.

We should be upgrading more oil here.

We should be supplying allies.

We should be using natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and oil as strategic national strengths.

We should stop apologizing for having what the world needs.

The Liberal approach is insane: leave Canadian wealth in the ground, import moral lectures from Europe, then wonder why productivity is weak, investment is fleeing, and Canadians feel poorer.

[wealthmoose @wealthmoose]

🚨 Read this slowly.

• Wife lives in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Kids live & study in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• ~91% of his portfolio in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Home in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Brookfield moved HQ to the U.S. 📍

Yet he tells Canadians: 🇨🇦

“We can’t depend on America.” 🇺🇸

Do you see the contradiction?

#cdnpoli #Canada #US #Reality

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

One of the biggest problems with the West is that about 90% of people have no idea what's actually going on and only care about appearing virtuous as a means of deflection from perceived sins.

[MikesMoneyTalks.ca @moneytalkstweet]

Forget the recession talk

Canada's productivity continued to contract in Q4 2025 - down .3% and Q1 2026 - down .5%
Note: productivity is widely considered the most critical driver of long-term wealth and living standards which is why the Bank of Canada has called the stagnation/decline in productivity "an emergency"

[Concerned Canadian @Concern70732755]

The photo-op staging is becoming obnoxious !!

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

How much “deeper” can our ties possibly get at this point? After over a dozen trips in Carney’s first year as prime minister, I think Europe is sufficiently aware of Canada’s existence at this point.

[Jasmin Laine @JasminLaine_]

I’ve never seen a heavier media push for a rebate (of your own money) that’s been around for YEARS (just rebranded) by every liberal minister.

What does this tell us?

[Shane Wenzel @ShaneWenzel]

It is fascinating to watch how the narrative shifts depending on who is in the chair. Back when the Harper government was in office, any dip or fiscal struggle was treated by the commentariat as a fundamental failure of his economic philosophy. Columnists like Andrew Coyne were quick to hold the Conservatives to the fire, criticizing deviations from fiscal discipline as a complete abandonment of their principles.
Fast forward to today, and suddenly the discourse is all about technical this and unforeseen that. We have gone from holding leaders to a high standard of market driven results to giving them a pass on the semantics.

The math of a recession does not change based on the party in power. If it was a crisis back then because of policy choices, why is it just a technical footnote now? We deserve a consistent yardstick. If you are going to be a critic, be one, but stop moving the goalposts depending on who is holding the ball. We are tired of the spin. Lets get back to some real, objective economic reality.

[Terry Newman @terrynewman]

If schools taught kids how much money the government takes off their paycheques — and exactly what it spends that money on — most Canadians would be fiscal conservatives going forward.

[we need a flood... on the fringe 🍎 @vanysavy]

Funny how everything wrong in Canada boils down to two things:
The liberal government and those who keep them in power.

[Brian Lilley @brianlilley]

The grocery rebate program Carney was bragging about today is an admission that the economy is failing.

https://t.co/UGovVWQua9

[MikesMoneyTalks.ca @moneytalkstweet]

Minister MacKinnon also pushed failed billion dollar EV subsidies, the failed Canadian Infrastructure Bank, Firearm Buyback Program which was originally projected to cost taxpayers $200 million but now cost $1 billion, and the cancelled 2 Billion Trees Program after it fell 89% short of its tree-planting target - taxpayer expenses totaled $487.8 million, including $44.6 million entirely lost to administrative costs.

[Kevin Pacitti 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇬🇧 @kpac_15]

Why build your economy and create jobs when you can live off the dole and leach off Alberta.

[Peter McCaffrey @peteremcc]

So "spend less to invest more" just meant "spend more".

Who could have possibly guessed?

[Lee Humphrey @tleehumphrey]

That’s great news!

The bad news is that before June turns into July, every single pipeline capable of carrying oil will be at 100% capacity with no new pipeline capacity coming on line for at least 3-5 years!

If missing the boat was an Olympic sport, Canada would own the podium!

[we need a flood... on the fringe 🍎 @vanysavy]

@JayGenXer @LA_Stoffel 🍗

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

This is what grocery shopping looks like in Canada right now.

Three packs of chicken breasts — but only because they were 30% off.
One pack of butter.
Four ears of corn.

$52.

He says he only buys meat when it’s 30% off or better… because that’s the only way he can afford to put protein on the table.

This isn’t normal.
This is what happens when you hammer farmers with carbon taxes, jack up transportation costs, and run the economy into the ground for over a decade.

Under Harper you could buy chicken without needing a clearance sticker.
Under Carney, even basic groceries require hunting for discounts just to survive.

They broke the country and then told us it’s fine.

Drop a 🍗 if you’re done pretending this is acceptable.