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"Affordability is the best it's been in a decade." ~ Liberals

I like how the Carney Liberals passed a bill so their emails are automatically deleted after 15 days and Ford (who we all know is a Liberal) just passed a bill in the Ontario legislature that exempts themselves, their office staff and parliamentary assistants from FOI requests.....and the pom-pom wavers are still talking about Poilievre's loss in the last election.

"Honey, I re-named all our credit card debt 'capital investment'. Problem solved!"

Spring economic update comes out next week. Real fiscal responsibility isn’t complicated. It’s what every sound-money, small-government era in history has proven works: Stop the "citizens-last" insanity. End the flow of billions in CCB and benefits to temporary residents and non-citizens while legacy Canadians wait in ERs. Unleash Canadian energy instead of suppressing it. Approve pipelines on day one, kill the industrial carbon tax, and use our resources as leverage instead of calling our biggest customer “weak.” Balance the operating budget with actual cuts, not slower deficit growth. Slash foreign aid, NGO grants, and the bureaucratic bloat that now costs more in debt interest than entire provincial budgets. Prioritize the people who built the country: Lower taxes, reduce regulation, let markets set prices instead of central planners. The Carney Liberals will never do any of this, because their entire project depends on big government, endless spending, and blaming everyone else for the failures. The Spring Economic Update on Tuesday will be more of the same: pretty charts, big words, and zero accountability. This isn’t leadership. And the only way we get it is by refusing to swallow the narrative that inflation, debt, and stagnation are someone else’s fault. They’re Liberal policy choices – and history is littered with the corpses of exactly where those choices lead.

I feel like this is the biggest impediment to Canada succeeding. The Liberal party and their pom-pom wavers NEVER, EVER, EVER hear from the "other side." So they never, ever get the "whole story" or any perspective on a given issue. In fact they literally refuse. It's a deliberate sticking their fingers in their ears and chanting Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, I can't hear you. No problem ever gets solved when one side refuses to consider the other or make any compromises or concessions.

Not enough. The US still feels Canada is not abiding by the spirit of the agreement. I just saw it discussed extensively in the US hearings. It's still a major irritant. Look, as I said in the initial post - the US is not innocent with regard to CUSMA. All I'm saying is that your preferred narrative that Canada is being picked on for no reason at all, is false. We've done our fair share of breaking CUSMA for years. Why can't you admit that?

I wonder when all these "lone wolves" start becoming a pack?

Read it before you comment, please. I'll even make it super easy for you. 2026 NTE Report _ Final.pdf The Online Streaming Act and DST are discussed on pages 65-67. Of note to Canadians (the ones who actually care what's going on) on page 62 and as discussed in the recent US committee meetings: Canada has been restricting bulk imports of US fruits and vegetables. And on page 63, Canadian provinces banning US liquor is discussed.

I'm definitely following this guy from now on.

This is EXACTLY what talking to Liberals is like 🤣

Yes, it is. I think it's why Carney caved on the DST so fast. Because he knew it was violating CUSMA. He knew all along, even when he was advising Trudeau, but the US was letting it slide. Until they weren't.

20 years ago you were expected to have a house, maybe a family by the age of 30. Today that's not even financially possible for the average 30 year old. Yet Liberal supporters blame today's youth. They tell them, "You're not good enough. You didn't plan. You don't know how to work hard. You don't deserve to have what we got." But listen to me. That is NOT the truth of who you are. It’s not your fault You are NOT lazy. You are NOT a failure. The system you put your trust in turned against you. That confusion around how the world is supposed to work? It’s by design. Let’s go back to 2009. The year the financial crisis began. The year your Prime Minister became Governor of the Bank of Canada. He was the man who decided what the interest rates would be for all Canadian Banks. He decided to slash them. 4.25% → 0.25%. For the first time in Canadian history, the rates were held at 1% or lower for nearly a decade. That means that everyone who HAD money to borrow against, paid basically nothing for a loan. Or a mortgage. That's what caused housing prices DOUBLE, and in some markets, even TRIPLE. And what ultimately led to Canadian banks taking $114 BILLION in government support. That year, the federal budget went from a surplus to a $56 BILLION deficit — the worst in Canadian history at the time. TD bank received $26 BILLION in government support. That year, the CEO got a $4M raise. TD posted a record $4.7 BILLION in profit. And sitting as Deputy Chair was a man named Frank McKenna. The next year, Frank McKenna became Chair of Brookfield Asset Management. He held both positions simultaneously. The same Brookfield that was chaired by Carney until he became Prime Minister of Canada. And it gets worse — In Brookfield's own SEC filings, they called 2009 "a year of outstanding opportunity." Carney built the near-zero interest environment that Brookfield used to acquire distressed assets all over the world. While ordinary Canadians tightened their belts. Brookfield bought the world. And to top it all off — In 2020, Carney started advising Trudeau financially. That year, TD Asset Management was hired to run the Bank of Canada's bond-buying program. That program bought Brookfield bonds. Brookfield got a $1 BILLION credit facility in the same window. Today, TD Asset Management holds $1.68 BILLION in Brookfield stock. One of Brookfield's top 10 institutional shareholders. This isn't a coincidence. It's a closed loop. A closed loop that Carney created to benefit Brookfield. And it's been closed around us for 17 years. We were told it was complicated. It's not. It's just that it was not built for any of us.

For those who keep saying Danielle Smith is perfectly happy with the MOU and super ecstatic about Carney:

For the AI lovers: Is Canada actually a top economic performer in the G7, or are we just inflating the numbers with population growth? Short answer. Answer: **Short answer:** Mostly population-driven. Per latest IMF April 2026 data, Canada is #2 in G7 total real GDP growth for 2026 at 1.5% (behind US 2.3%, ahead of France 0.9%, UK/Germany 0.8%, etc.). But per-capita growth has been the G7’s weakest for a decade—rapid immigration inflated headline GDP while living standards lagged. So if Canada’s growth is mostly population-driven, is it fair to say the average Canadian isn’t actually benefiting? Short answer. Answer: **Short answer:** Yes. Canada’s total GDP has grown from population surges, but real GDP per capita—the best measure of average living standards—has been the G7’s weakest for a decade. The average Canadian’s slice of the pie hasn’t grown; it’s shrunk relative to peers. What’s the biggest reason Canada’s per capita growth has lagged the G7 for so long? Low productivity, policy choices or something else? Short answer. Answer: **Short answer:** Low productivity. It’s the core driver—Canada’s lagged G7 peers for decades due to weak business investment in capital and tech, heavy regulation, tax disincentives, and immigration policies that flooded the labor market with lower-skilled workers. This let firms substitute cheap labor for productivity-boosting tools instead of innovating. If low productivity is the issue, what specific policy is holding Canada back the most? Short answer. Answer: **Short answer:** Heavy regulation and tax disincentives on business investment. These make capital equipment and tech upgrades expensive, so firms hire cheap labor instead of innovating—Canada’s core productivity trap for decades. Interprovincial barriers add another layer by limiting competition. If heavy regulation and tax disincentives are the problem, what’s the one policy change that would make the biggest difference for Canada’s productivity? Short answer. Answer: **Short answer:** Comprehensive “Big Bang” tax reform to slash marginal rates on new investment, modernize corporate taxation, and remove disincentives for capital formation. This would directly reverse the lock-in effect and regulatory drag, spurring business spending on machinery, tech, and expansion far more than piecemeal tweaks—exactly what recent C.D. Howe and expert analyses flag as the highest-impact lever for breaking Canada’s productivity trap.

There is a long list of Canada's violations, but as examples - The DST, the Online Streaming Act, the diary cartel.....these were all violations of CUSMA. The Dispute resolution panel also determined that they were violations, but Canada went full-steam ahead with them anyways and refused to revoke them. This was all long before Trump. He's just refusing to let Canada get away with violations any longer.

Canada has been violating it for 5 years, long before Trump came along. The US releases a formal list of trade irritants with CUSMA every year and Canada has always ignored it. Under Biden, the US took Canada to CUSMA dispute resolution many times and lost every time and then refused the recommendations to resolve. Biden did nothing about this and just kept letting Canada off the hook. Trump came along and now Canada is not being let off the hook anymore and imposed counter tariffs. I'm not saying this is ALL Canada's fault, but your narrative that this is ALL the US's fault is CBC propaganda. I think the Liberals, continuing under Carney who is clearly stalling CUSMA talks, are still thinking that the US will continue to do nothing. I don't think that's going to happen this time.

Carney released his campaign platform on April 19. Poilievre released his on April 22. It was a very fast election. If you want to call 3 days "well in advance" well.....go ahead.

I watched a couple of videos this morning on the state of Canada's economy. Together, there was 7 economists on the panel discussions. One of them went through the actual CUSMA agreement and the documentation list that the US provides every year on trade irritants. Both videos showed parts of the recent US committee on CUSMA and why Canada is refusing to resolve all the trade irritants. Canadians are being told that it was the US that started the trade war, but in reality - Canada has been violating CUSMA for the last 5 years. This was pointed out by the Biden administration, long before Trump came on the scene. In fact, for the last 5 years, the US has initiated several disputes that have been taken to an independent dispute resolution panel, and Canada has lost all the disputes. But still refuses to fix the issues. Biden sort of let it go at that and let Canada off the hook. Then Trump comes along and decides to do something about it. This is why Mexico is so much further along in CUSMA talks. They have acted to resolve the irritants. Canada is still refusing. One panel included a discussion on the state of industry in Canada. Approvals for industrial infrastructure in the US take about 18 months. In Canada, they take 5-6 years. The delay cost to Canadian taxpayer has been about $38 billion under the Liberals. In spite of giving Carney ultimate power to "move at speeds never before seen" by means of Bill C-5, Carney has not used this after another year of Liberal delaying of projects. The 12 new bureaucracies he has set up, have not approved a single project, nor fast-tracked anything. Both panels agreed that the MOU's, the new bureaucracies, the new advisory panel -they will fool a certain percentage of Canadians into thinking something is actually being done. The same percentage of Canadians that keep getting fooled by the Liberals. But all them are just performative, for show. No substance. Both panels agreed that nothing has changed under the "new" liberal government. The 20 MOU agreements signed with other countries are pretty much useless, the 12 new bureaucracies have achieved nothing but suck up more taxpayer dollars and for whatever reason - Carney is stalling CUSMA talks. One panel speculated that Carney thinks the US will give in on the trade irritants, like Biden did and just continue to let Canada violate CUSMA. There is no incentive for this "new" Liberal government to do anything differently than they have always done. By continuing to elect them, Canadians have told them very clearly - "We like the direction you've taken this country and want you to continue down that road." It seems like they have gotten very comfortable in the knowledge that their voter base is loyal to the point of id10cy and will never hold them to account. They are not interested in guiding Canada or Canadians to prosperity. They're only interested in how much they can fill their pockets and keep getting elected so they can keep gorging at the taxpayer money trough. If you look into the "spaceport" - it's clearly been a slush fund for Liberal insiders for years, and Canadians have done nothing about it, so now they're putting more billions into that slush fund. This has been the story of all the "investments" the Liberals have made for over a decade. Canadians have lost billions of dollars on failed investments and gotten absolutely nothing in return, and Liberal politicians have made out like bandits. The new "investments" if you look at them are all following the exact same pattern. I just can't understand why Liberal pom-pom wavers keep supporting this. It's like they just don't care. I mean, I kind of understand "Let's just give them another chance" but.......seriously. It's been over a decade of decline. We're at the "first gradually, then all at once" point now. I don't believe Canada can survive another 4 years of this. We need something drastic to change and we need it NOW. Not 4 years from now. And the saddest part - it won't be just another 4 years added to the last 10 years of decline. The Pom-pom wavers will give them another chance in 4 years. Liberal politicians know this. They count on it. They know their base doesn't care what they do. And again in 8 years. And again in 12. There is absolutely nothing that will ever wake them up at any point. Alberta needs to get out of this insane asylum. He didn't step down. He was voted out. 73-45.

I find it very odd that Libbies are quoting O'Toole as an authority now after years of saying he was exactly like Trump.

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Oh, I see. That must be why people who didn't get the jabs all get covid, but people who got the covid jabs never get it.

Are we back to believing in natural immunity again? That's good. For a few years there, all you "science" people said it didn't exist.

This is what so much of it boils down to - from Big Pharma/covid to electing the Liberal party 4 times. I'm with you. Lie to me continually, scam & fraud multiple times and you lose my trust. Just curious, are you an MD?

No. Those in danger were the very elderly, the very obese and those already dying of something else.