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Fiscal responsibility

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@ronmortgageguy A Liberal telling the truth? When pigs fly… he probably got shut out of the back room deal to be an investor.., 🤔

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@ronmortgageguy Well, his next dumbest thing will be:

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@ronmortgageguy What do you make of Carney’s latest $2.7Billion for rentals in Toronto? Is he just bailing out the developers of the “dog crates”? And making the Federal government a new landlord? 🤔

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@MarkJCarney The ONLY reason for the surplus is because Alberta and the price of Oil. Remove that from the Trade and suddenly the Surplus disappears. #SmokeAndMirrors @liberal_party has done nothing to improve Canada. @CPC_HQ is the only party that has our back! @PierrePoilievre

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@MarkJCarney How much will Green Eggs and Ham cost next year? 🤔

[Melanie In Saskatchewan @saskatchewan_in]

To Mark Carney & Those Applauding Him:

I am a Canadian paying for a country that doesn’t include me.

I live in the part of the country your map forgets.
About 2,600 kilometres from the nearest stop on your proposed $90 billion train.

I am an overtaxed, under-served Canadian.

I heat my home with rising costs.
I fill my vehicle at almost $2 a litre, depending on the day and my luck.
I watch a country with 163 billion barrels of oil behave like it’s on a meagre allowance.

And you want me to pay for a train I will never use.

How thoughtful.

I am a hard-working, falling-behind Canadian funding infrastructure I will never touch.

It runs roughly 800 to 900 kilometres, depending on how creatively it detours around reality, from Toronto to Quebec City.

Seven stops.
All neatly contained within Ontario and Quebec.
Top speed, 300 km/h.
National reach? Let’s just call it selective.

I am a Canadian treated like a revenue stream, invited only by invoice.
Roughly $90 billion. About $8,000 per household.
For a ticket I will never hold.

From where I sit in Saskatchewan, your high-speed rail corridor might as well be interstellar travel.
Two thousand plus kilometres away circling the station, and still billing me.

I am a Canadian bereft of a stop on this train.
Close enough to fund it. Far enough to never use it.

I am an overextended, nickel-and-dimed Canadian.

I am fixing my own road access.
Paying more for groceries.
Driving farther for basic services.
And now funding new infrastructure for people who already have airports, highways, and existing rail.

At this point, I would settle for a train that delivers affordable groceries.
No need for 300 km/h. Just cost-saving reliability.

I am a Canadian squeezed by government-made inflation, where every errand costs more than it did last week and every explanation from you sounds rehearsed.

I am a Canadian quietly recalculating the future, trying not to downgrade my retirement to a leaky camper on wheels, while the country accumulates debt it cannot repay and prints money to pretend it can.

I am a rural Canadian watching how this works.
Not on my land. Not this time.
But close enough to understand the mechanism.

Because an 800 plus kilometre corridor does not meander politely.
It cuts. Straight. Fast. With purpose.
Through farmland. Through properties. Through communities.

I am a watchful Canadian taking note of precedent.
Survey stakes. Expropriation powers. “Public interest” to be explained after.

It is not my yard today.
But it is someone’s.
And tomorrow, it will be called "necessary" for something larger.
Something urgent. Something climate-related. Something that cannot wait.

I am a wary Canadian noticing how easily "necessity" is declared to match your agenda.
And how quickly my rights become flexible once it is declared.

I am an observant Canadian with a long memory for names.
And somehow, the same SNC-Lavalin lineage Canadians were told to forget is back, rebranded as AtkinsRéalis, positioning itself for one of the largest public contracts in Canadian history.

A remarkable comeback. Truly.
No apology tour. Just a new logo and a larger taxpayer subsidized opportunity.
Seems history doesn’t repeat. It follows a predictable pattern.

I am an unimpressed Canadian watching familiar #Lavscam players return under reimagined branding.
The script is the same. Only the cover has changed.

I am an exasperated Canadian you included in your sales pitch.
I am told it will create 50,000 jobs.
I am told it will add $35 billion to GDP.

And I am sure it will.

In the corridor.
Where the stations are.
Where the density is.
Where the benefit is.

I am a shunned Canadian excluded from the outcome.
Included in all the arithmetic. Excluded from all the access.

I am a cynical Canadian being told this is nation-building. Though the nation appears to exist along a very specific set of coordinates.

I am the depleted Canadian who:

Reads grocery receipts like an audit.
Choreographs fuel stops around paydays not plans.
Measures distance in cost, not kilometres.

I am an overburdened, last-in-line Canadian.
Essential when it is time to pay. Optional when it is time to benefit.

I am an impoverished Canadian whose citizenship now resembles a pre-authorized debit agreement.
The withdrawals are national. The benefits are regional.

I am an exhausted, overlooked Canadian.

You’re not building this for me or my family.
You're just sending me the bill.

Signed,

Your most reluctantly reliable revenue stream,
Melanie in Saskatchewan

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@Doubletapp187 @ABDanielleSmith @grok @grok now tells why Daylight savings time is the most beneficial fo Albertans and humans in general. Give the benefits of Permanent Daylight savings time.

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@Thebestfigen Hey @grok, is this video real or AI generated?

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

It’s sad to see @westjet failing to provide the great customer service they once had. Cramming people in like cattle, all to make more money. @AirCanada looks like it’s going to get my business from now on. #cramped #greedy

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@DianaSteele This is what the citizens of Edmonton voted for. They have no one to blame but themselves for continuing to vote in a woke city council with no concept of fiscal responsibility. Wasted Millions on bike lanes 🙄

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@calgaryherald

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@mario4thenorth If the Flight attendants are being taken advantage of, and I believe they are. Anyone working as a flight attendant should be paid for ALL their time in the provision of providing flight attendant services from the moment they show up for work. Arbitration should not be feared.

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@sarbjitkaur1 @MarkJCarney The 80’s called, they want their cheque back… come on figure it out. Your ineptness at setting up auto deposit is a YOU problem…🙄 #FigureItOut

[Rich Toronto @rich_toronto]

For everyone criticizing Israel’s decision on the next steps in Gaza, fuck you.

No. Seriously. Fuck you.

Hamas raped, massacred and kidnapped Israelis on Oct 7, and you supported Hamas.

Fuck you.

Hamas strangled a 4-year old and 9-month old with their bare hands, and you supported Hamas.

Fuck you.

Hamas continues to hold hostages, and you yell at Israel to “ceasefire” to protect Hamas.

Fuck you.

Hamas has been attacking Israel and trying to kill Israelis since its inception, and you want to reward them with a state.

Fuck you.

Hamas has walked away from every deal Israel has attempted to make to return the hostages and end the war, and you blame Israel.

Fuck you.

Hamas prevents aid that Israel sends k to Gaza from getting to the people of Gaza, killing them when they try, and you blame Israel.

Fuck you.

Hamas is an Islamic terrorist group, and no matter what they do, you find a way to twist it and turn it so they’re the good guys and Israel is the evil. It doesn’t matter what Israel does, you’re going to blame Israel anyway. So Israel is finally not giving a shit what you think, and is finally doing what needs to be done to ensure peace for Israelis, for the people of Gaza, and for the world.

And if you don’t like it? Fuck you.

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@nogulagsagain Small generator for running a tail light and/or headlights on your bicycle.

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@ErichVajda @ABDanielleSmith Can you tell us WHY you don’t want it? Why you wouldn’t want to pay less into your pension plan? Or alternatively, pay the same, but get a much greater pension upon retirement? Or are you just pushing the NDP narrative that this is bad because the UCP is proposing it? WHY not?

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@MichelleLA1981 You’re full of shit! Post your pay stub this week and last.

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@wexit2usa @JayDeeAlberta Don’t be a fucktard, nobody in Alberta wants to be part of the USA… 🙄

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

@piceaglauca Foundation? Get real, these are part time positions. They are not meant to be paid “Full time” pay for “part-time” work. Get an education and BECOME a teacher, the REAL foundation!

[wskypapa @wskypapa]

I’m sickened by your incompetence and narcissistic, “I know best” attitude You’ve driven Canada to be the laughing stock of the world. #Resign #SilverSpoon #LiberalCorruption

@PierrePoilievre and the @CPC_HQ have their work cut out to dig us out of this hole #cdnpoli

[Justin Trudeau @JustinTrudeau]

I’m sickened by reports of shots fired at a Jewish elementary school in North York. This is a hateful, antisemitic attack on Toronto’s Jewish community.

Law enforcement is investigating to bring the perpetrators to justice. Anyone with information about this crime, please contact Toronto Police.