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If it is not right, do not do it, if it is untrue, do not say it - Marcus Aurelius…………The medium is the message - Marshall McLuhan

[Jas Johal @JasJohalBC]

Today’s story in the Toronto Star definitely has legs. It’s going to be a very interesting fall I suspect. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

This is what madness looks like. Greed is eating America from the inside out and there’s only one winner, and surprise, surprise, it’s NOT you.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/713nv9rQCL

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Someone please explain phenomenon.

[The Breakdown @TheBreakdownAB]

Oh good.

The same folks who brought the US "Project 2025" are going on about how Alberta Statehood would be just super totes AWESOME for everyone.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

-Annalena Baerbock
President of the United Nations General Assembly:

“If we accept that children can be deported, that women can be raped, that people can be tortured, then we are accepting that the strongest can simply take what they want.
And then the question is: who is next?”
.......

She is great and she is right,
Nothing more to add!
🫡

[Clay Thompson. @harryt59_harry]

Hey @PierrePoilievre &
@CPC_HQ
WTF is Jamil Jivani doing?
This is just weird and creepy. A divorce man trying to lure young men into his Charlie Kirk cult is just spooky.

[Stephano🍁Barberis @HelloStephano]

This is massive. $120 trillion in investments are being talked about. Our economy is $2 trillion.

[🇨🇦 Annie Dufour @anniedufour99]

Le Canada peut-il succomber à un Trump plus facilement que les États-Unis ?

Un autocrate pourrait prendre le contrôle du Canada plus facilement que celui des États-Unis, soutient un article du Globe and Mail
Sur le papier, oui ; dans la pratique, non.
Pourquoi ?

L'éminent professeur a oublié un élément dans son analyse : le tissu social du Canada, très différent de celui des États-Unis.

Une anecdote à Mexico City

Mais commençons par une anecdote...

Étudiante universitaire en échange à México City, je me trouvai dans un cours de relations internationales donné par un professeur (lui aussi en échange) de Yale University.

Il nous fit lire Trust, de Francis Fukuyama, afin que nous comprenions l’impact des mœurs acceptées et acceptables sur le succès démocratique et économique d’un pays. Les Us et coutumes. Le tissu social, quoi.

La classe, majoritairement mexicaine à l’exception de quelques étrangers comme moi d’outre-mer, ne saisissait pas.

Il utilisa cet exemple.

“ Saviez- vous, sourit-il, s’adressant aux Mexicains, que vous aviez une des plus belles constitutions du monde ? Une des plus fortes et des mieux rédigées ? Supérieure à celle des États-Unis ?

La consternation s’abattit sur leur visage, puis vint le déni et les ricanements.

“Como no !” “Qué locura!” “Jajaja”

Le Professeur américain sourit de plus bel.

Une étudiante le confronta :

“Mais c’est impossible, ça ne tient pas ce que vous dites. Le Mexique est rompu par la corruption, les pots-de vins, nous ne pouvons même pas nous fiez à nos juges et nos policiers, encore moins nos politiciens ! Si la constitution est si belle que vous l’affirmez, pourquoi, alors tout, ce gâchis ?”

“Parce que personne ne l’applique.”

Les rires moururent.

“La Constitution ne vit que sur papier, et non pas dans les moeurs du pays. Elle ne vaut donc rien. C’est ça, la leçon de Trust.”

Jamais je n’oubliai cet échange, ce cours, ni ce livre.

Retour à l’article du Globe and Mail

Ainsi, tel que l’explique le professeur, même si, sur papier, et structurellement, les États-Unis disposent d’un système politique de “checks-and-balance" supérieur au Canada prévenant la montée d’un autocrate potentiel, cela n’entraîne pas nécessairement que notre système soit plus poreux.

Au contraire, ce sont les gens, et le tissu organique qui les relie –leurs valeurs, leur moralité, leurs principes- qui servent de rempart aux usurpateurs.

Ce sont eux qui incarnent ou non les mots d’une constitution.

Nous voyons chaque jour l’exemplification du contraire dans ce Congrès américain qui a abdiqué ses fonctions. Renoncé à sa nature.

L’avertissement de Fukuyama

Fukuyama, dans Trust, bien qu’il y eût rangé les États-Unis dans les pays de “high trust society”, (où l’on s’attend à ce que les gens se conduise naturellement de façon honnête et coopérative) n’avait pu s’empêcher d’y voir une faille et de les mettre en garde.

Leur hyper-individualisme leur nuirait.

Ce culte du moi.

Qui les obnubilait

Les faisant revendiquer, à outrance- des droits pour eux-mêmes, en oubliant leurs devoirs envers la société.

Des individus attachés aux privilèges, sans souci de ses responsabilités.

Le résultat qu'il craignait ?

Une population divisée et morcelée, fragmentée. Une foule d'opportunistes isolés, sourds à l'intérêt général, qui se gorgent des ressources et richesses de la communauté au lieu de les consolider.

Familier, non ?
#polqc #polcan

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is what a real Data Center looks like and it doesn’t use excessive amounts of our water and electricity. It also doesn’t pollute our environment and emit horrible sounds 24/7.

[unseen1 @unseen1_unseen]

Communists/marxists always turn the children against the adults and the young against the old.

That is what the whole "boomers are evil" narrative is about.

Instead of the message "Honor your father and your mother."

The communists/marxists bring "hate your father and mother and blame your grandparents for all your ills."

[🍁Bernard Roulinski 🍁 @roulinski]

Doug Ford claims to defend Ontario, but actions speak louder than photo ops. Over $31 billion surrendered to the Trump regime, thousands of jobs wiped out, and zero accountability. If this is how "Captain Canada" fights for us, Ontario can't afford his patriotism.
@fordnation

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Charlie Angus reads the petition calling on the House of Commons to stop funding Stornoway as a private residence for the leader of the opposition

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

As Russia tries to undermine NATO & provides targeting data to help Iran attack US troops, a new report reveals that the FBI has been quietly sharing intel & working behind the scenes w/ Russia for the past 15 months. This is why Kash Patel is going to Moscow.

My latest. Link👇

[Sisu van Hellberta @sisuvanhell]

La Crete bridge project: $121 million - $200 million from the UCP.
La Crete birthing centre construction, with ambulance bays: $86 million from the UCP.
La Crete lodge expansion: $23.4 million from the UCP.
$230.4 - 309.4 MILLION for 4000 Mennonites in remote northern Alberta.

[Right Wing, Shoots Left 🇨🇦🏒🥅 @HILITINGHOCKEY]

@davidallenwest Weird.

Alberta's GDP per capita was higher under the NDP than it is now under shitty Smitty and the dysfunctional UCP.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Wolfers: "What we see is the US has had very weak job growth since Jan. 2025, the beginning of the Trump administration. Job growth actually to the north, despite all the difficulties that they've faced in Canada, has been substantially faster. In fact, job growth in Canada is quadruple the rate that it is in the US."

[MondoAB @MondoABx]

The UCP is about to spread some serious lies through a series of town halls on AI data centres.

Use this AI misinformation cheat sheet to call the UCP out on each of their talking points!

https://t.co/r2CU9nlZoy

[Charles Prepolec 🇨🇦 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @sherlockeditor]

Danielle Smith's UCP government handed $4.5 million of our Alberta tax dollars to this private school in 2025 while underfunding public schools. "Parents want answers after mass staff exodus at Calgary private school" https://t.co/Tc7tWnXq17

[Eliot Pence @EliotPence]

Some of you have asked me "Why are you moving back to Canada, tell me what I dont see...".

As I have said before on @BetaKit, I think we are telling ourselves the wrong story about Canada. The prevailing narrative is that Canada doesn't build anymore. That capital and talent leave. That we're too dependent on the United States.

The data is telling a different story.

Canada created more than 100,000 jobs in May and June. We're creating jobs at twice the U.S. rate. We lead the G7 in foreign direct investment per capita. Business investment in machinery and equipment grew 10% (annualized).

And we're beginning to sell somewhere other than south. Excluding gold, non-U.S. exports are running roughly $50 billion (or 32%) above pre-tariff levels. There are now 26 nation-building initiatives representing nearly $200 billion in investment and more than 337,000 jobs.

The TSX gained nearly 30% last year versus half of that on the S&P 500. Corporate profits are growing. Canadian companies attracted $1b across 100 venture deals in Q1 2026, with the average deal size up 6%.

And we're doing it intelligently: Canada has the lowest net debt-to-GDP in the G7, the second-lowest deficit, the lowest long-term interest rates and AAA ratings from S&P and Moody's.

Clearly, this is a different story.

For the first time in a long time, Canada is starting to bet on itself again. And increasingly, growth is coming from the things we actually want it to come from: private investment, exports, productivity and innovation, not simply population growth and government spending.

But this only really works if the next bet is on the people building the next generation of Canadian companies.

@DominionDynamic is one example. In barely a year, we've raised C$169 million, including the second largest defence Series A in history (globally). We're on track to roughly triple our workforce (we are hiring more people faster than all but two companies on LinkedIn -- globally). Ottawa is to communications what Silicon Valley is to software, or what Tel Aviv is to cyber.

There are founders across Canada doing incredible things. @Wealthsimple @Waabi_ai @cohere @NV_Dynamics @neofinancial @1Password @XanaduAI @turbopuffer @Tailscale Companies that raise here, hire here, own their IP here and build here.

That, to me, is what betting on ourselves actually means. Not protectionism. Not pretending the rest of the world doesn't exist. Quite the opposite.

Build Canadian companies that are good enough to win everywhere. Then make sure Canada is willing to be their first believer, their first customer and the place they want to keep building. Be our best customer. Again. And again. And again.

We have spent a lot of time talking about everything Canada can't do. Lets spend some time thinking about what we actually have done and what we will do.

We will win.