🚨 This one is too important to let it fade.
Renee Merrifield former BC MLA and CEO of Troika Group —> just laid out the truth most politicians and media refuse to say out loud:
Canada has been on a **managed decline** for over a decade.
Not because of Trump.
Not because of some external boogeyman.
Because we pulled our own poker chips off the table.
We sidelined our natural resource sector, the very thing that made this country wealthy and gave us one of the highest standards of living in the world. We blocked pipelines, delayed LNG projects, and turned our back on becoming the energy superpower we were born to be.
Meanwhile, our dollar buys less every year. Young professionals are packing up and leaving (she cited 155,000 educated Canadians already gone). People are showing up at doors irate because their hard-earned money doesn’t stretch anymore. And we’re told it’s all someone else’s fault.
She’s right.
Energy **is** prosperity. Cheap, abundant energy is the greatest gift a country can give its citizens. We have the resources, the know-how, and the people to be a global energy leader, done cleaner and more humanely than almost anywhere on earth.
Instead we’ve chosen decline, higher costs, and watching our next generation ask: “How do I get out of Canada?”
This isn’t a technical recession.
This is a self-inflicted one.
We are the solution. We have the resources. We just need the political will to stop apologizing for our own success and start building again.
Every Canadian who still believes this country can be great again needs to hear this.
Are done watching our politicians blame everyone but themselves?
#cdnpoli #CanadaFirst #EnergySuperpower #LiberalFail #ResourceSector #BringBackProsperity
Dear teachers everywhere, please stop terrifying students by telling them that the world is coming to an end through global warming. At least let them know there are thousands of scientists who don’t agree with that. There is a future.
All the government needs to do is get out of the damn way.
But it won't.
Instead, it takes our tax dollars to fight itself over a pipeline that will probably never get built.
Because the damn government won't get out of the way.
🚨 On this day last year, Conservative MP Mike Dawson nailed it.
He stood in the House and said what millions of Canadians already knew:
“This prime minister didn’t kill the carbon tax… he replaced it with something even worse — a carbon ban.”
Dawson wasn’t talking about some abstract policy. He was talking about real life in places like Miramichi–Grand Lake and Plaster Rock, New Brunswick.
Where a truck isn’t a toy…. it’s how you haul lumber, tow the boat, plow the driveway, and get your kids to hockey in -30° weather.
He called out the insanity of forcing a single mom in Blackville to buy a $70,000 EV she can’t charge and doesn’t want. Of shutting down dealerships and mechanics. Of replacing real progress with Toronto latte fantasies.
And remember — during the election, the Liberals told Canadians they were going to “axe the carbon tax.”
What they didn’t say was they were planning to replace it with a full-on ban on the vehicles most Canadians actually need.
This isn’t progress. It’s punishment dressed up as virtue.
Canadians in rural and working communities have had enough of being told their way of life is the problem.
Are you tired of being lectured by people who’ve never had to rely on a truck to survive a Canadian winter.
#cdnpoli #EVBan #CarbonTax #MikeDawson #CanadaFirst #RuralCanada
This speech from Adam Derges is one every Albertan should hear.
It’s not angry. It’s not reckless. It’s honest.
He lays out why leaving Canada is no longer about frustration. It’s about protecting our kids, our future, and the part of this country that still works.
Canada is broken. Alberta is not.
Watch the full speech ⬇️
You don’t have to know where you stand on Alberta’s future today.
But I do think we owe it to ourselves, and to the next generation, to ask the right questions before deciding.
Here are five that challenged me.
#LetAlbertaDecide#Alberta
🚨 This is what happens when the “stolen land” narrative gets hit with actual history.
Native guy starts in on white people being on “stolen” land…
Then this Native woman shuts it down with facts:
- Native Americans weren’t here “from the beginning.” Their ancestors crossed the Bering Land Bridge from Siberia 15,000–20,000 years ago.
- Once they got here, tribes conquered, displaced, and built empires over each other (Comanches pushed out the Apache and built the Comancheria — sound familiar?).
- Every single piece of land on earth has changed hands through conquest. That’s how human history works.
She nails it:
“What you call stolen, I call conquered.”
Then she drops the line that actually matters:
America 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 took it, kept it, defended it, and built the greatest Countries the world has ever seen — with more freedom, opportunity, and prosperity than any of those tribal empires ever dreamed of.
On the 4th of July she’s celebrating 250 years of that progress… not raiding villages and scalping people.
This is the response every “land acknowledgment” warrior needs to hear.
Who’s sick of the selective history?!??
#StolenLandMyth #4thOfJuly #AmericanHistory #FactsOverFeelings #CanadaFirst
I don’t understand the manufactured outrage over @jamiljivani calling out degeneracy. 🤷♀️
By definition, a degenerate is someone whose behaviour deviates from what is socially and morally acceptable.
Canada’s Criminal Code is CLEAR: public nudity and indecency are not acceptable, especially anywhere near children.
👉 The REAL ISSUE here is two-tier justice. We have laws on the books, yet they’re enforced selectively.
Why do certain groups enjoy de facto immunity while others face the full weight of the law?
I’m just sick of the double standards.
U.S. Ambassador @PeteHoekstra gives @EzraLevant a message for Canada: “If you pick a path that aligns with the United States, you're very, very welcome. We look forward to that partnership… If you decide to go in a different direction, we wish you all of the best. That's not where we want you to go, but… we recognize that that's a decision that you can make.”
Why is Mark Carney bailing out billionaires?
Does he really think using taxpayer money to buy 2,200 condos is a good idea?
Or is this all about making sure someone is getting paid?
On Canada Day, I posted a link to my website and a video explaining what was happening with CUSMA.
Based on the comments here, plenty of people didn't watch it but have thoughts on the deal based on things that just aren't true.
So, here is the video for you to watch here.
President Trump’s speech tonight was brilliant.
“Our American ancestors did not shed their blood just so that a band of thieves, radicals, and lunatics could come in loot, pillage our nation.”
Exactly.
When you brag about subsidizing people with their own tax money to ease the financial suffering caused by failed government policies you might be a liberal.
The average Canadian family earned $166,790 last year and handed $72,539 of it to the government.
That is 43.5% of everything it earned.
At what percentage does a free man stop being free?
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For weeks, we’ve been told the United States is in decline. Reading @kinsellawarren latest column, you’d think America is on the verge of collapse. Yet I’m writing this from the U.S. during its 250th anniversary celebrations, and that simply isn’t what I’m seeing.
What I see are communities full of families celebrating Independence Day. Parks are packed. Main streets are busy. Flags are everywhere. Small businesses are thriving with holiday traffic. Restaurants are full. People are optimistic about their country, even if they disagree politically. That’s an important distinction.
America has plenty of problems. It wrestles with political polarization, crime in some cities, rising debt and affordability challenges. No serious observer would deny that. But to paint the entire country as some kind of failing experiment ignores the reality on the ground.
The United States remains the world’s largest economy. It continues to attract investment, talent and entrepreneurs from around the globe. Its technology sector leads the world. Its energy production is the envy of many countries. Its military remains unmatched. Millions of people still dream of building a life there because opportunity continues to exist.
Contrast that with Canada’s current mood. Too often, we’ve become comfortable measuring ourselves by convincing ourselves someone else is doing worse. That’s not a growth strategy. Canadians should spend less time cheering for American failure and more time asking why our productivity is falling, why investment is leaving, why young families struggle to buy homes and why governments at every level continue making life more expensive.
The America I’m experiencing isn’t perfect. No country is. But neither is it the dystopian picture often presented by commentators viewing it through a political lens.
Perhaps that’s the real lesson. Before declaring an entire nation to be in decline, spend some time there. Talk to people. Walk through their neighbourhoods. Visit their businesses. Attend a community celebration.
You may still come away with criticisms. I certainly have a few. But you’ll probably also discover something that’s becoming increasingly rare in Canada today: a country that, despite its flaws, still believes in itself.
And watching Americans celebrate 250 years of nationhood, it’s hard not to notice that confidence. Whether you agree with their politics or not, that’s something worth paying attention to.