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I think I'm the only one here who watches committee meetings so I'll comment on what will happen with committees now that the Liberals have a majority. McKinnon just announced, as expected, that they will repopulate committees now to have a majority of Liberal members. Don't underestimate the importance of committees. Contrary to what Liberal pom-pom wavers believe, this is where the real work of government takes place. Not on CBC nightly news. It was in committees that all of the Liberal scandals from the last 10 years were revealed. SNC Lavelin, WE Charity, ArriveScam, etc. It is in committees that the Opposition can demand documentation from the government. It's in committees that Bills are debated. Committees are where the sitting government is held to account. During the years that Liberals had a majority via NDP support, committees were often stalled and when documentation was demanded, the Liberals prorogued Parliament to avoid coughing them up. They very often de-railed meetings by banding together and presenting motions to switch the topic, such as the time they de-railed the Women's Committee about the 75% increase in women killings and why Bill C-75 was letting domestic abusers who had nearly killed their partners out on the street, to switch the topic to abortion. One or more of them will suddenly have issues with the translation earpieces every time a Conservative starts to speak, although no one else in the room will be experiencing issues. In the last year, the Liberals also paid money to consultants to teach them how to NOT answer questions in committee - and it showed. Ministers suddenly did not know a thing about their own portfolios. Liberals, with the majority in committee meetings, can accept or deny expert witnesses. Liberals tend to only call experts whom they have paid to create glowing reports about Liberals, or ones who agree with them. They can out-vote demands to produce documents, deny experts or witnesses they don't like, and vote together to bring an end to any investigative questioning. It's going to be much harder to hold the Liberals to account through committee meetings. McKinnon said, correctly, that it is tradition that committees reflect the seats in the house, so if Libs are the majority, they get the most seats in committee. My caveat to that is that they did not get a majority by election, so having a majority of seats in committee does not reflect the will of the people. My last concern is speculative but based on past & current Liberal activities. Past - just before Trudeau resigned, several times in committee meetings, the Liberals wanted the Chair to ban Conservatives from sharing clips from the meetings on social media. The claim was that it put their lives in danger. Liberals also clip-farm the meetings and post snippets from them, too, but they only wanted Conservatives banned from doing this. Currently - The Liberals just passed 5 censorship bills. Censorship has been their main focus for the last year. I don't believe they did this for shits & giggles. They intend to use them. And I speculate that they will be used to keep Canadians in the dark as to what's going on by deeming any negative postings as "hate speech".

LOL So you know it was under the Liberals that we lost $1 trillion in investment and that they mismanaged the country for 10 years......and you voted for them anyways? So......you ignored the decline then and did nothing and you're just going to ignore it now and do nothing about it. Brilliant. You're just.....brilliant. What a winning strategy. Didn't someone just tell the country that "Hope is not a strategy"? Who said that? I can't remember.......

Carney started up 12 new bureaucracies, however many advisory councils, and increased Trudeau's consulting costs by $7 billion dollars. We're basically paying for 2 governments. Why? I suspect it's because Carney is too busy private jetting around the world making deals for Brookfield and has no time to actually run Canada. Carney will blame this council when CUSMA falls off a cliff. Liberal pom-pom wavers will blame O'Toole, as he's one of the few Conservatives on it.

Do you need a cookie? Or a diaper change?

LinktheDink has cognitive issues, so he seldom understands your point, then argues for pages & pages on something you didn't say or some point that is so obvious it didn't need to be said. He admitted he's only here to lash out like a tantrum-y 3-year-old because he needs an emotional outlet.

My thought, too. I thought this guy was a world-famous, expert economist. I don't think this committee (or council or whatever you want to argue the name of it is, I don't care) gets paid other than per diems maybe and expenses for meetings, but Carney has blown Trudeau's massive consulting costs out of the water. I think it went from $19 billion under Trudeau to $26 billion under Carney. Why does this expert need so many people to advise and consult with?

I'll let you two battle this out since it doesn't really matter to me whether it's new or old.

Minister MacKinnon announces sovereign space launch capabilities through the Canadian Space Launch Act - Canada.ca I feel like this is up there with that time Ottawa bureaucrats thought solar power in the high arctic was a great idea even though the sun is below the horizon for 6 months of the year and it's cloudy for the other 6. Or that time Gerald Butts introduced the Green Energy & Economy Act in Ontario and Liberal insiders got millions and Ontarians got energy poverty. I suspect it's not about the results, though. It's about the slush fund opportunities. I mean, it's $40 billion for Liberal insider pockets. They'll launch a model rocket, cancel the project and *poof* the money will disappear. But the photo ops can be endless: Carney will find an Isaac Newton figurine and claim he "developed" the Law of Gravity just to jumpstart Canada's space program. I was reading a Major General in the Airforce one time and he said we should just put a geo-stationary satellite over the North Pole. Oh, this is Canada's spaceport. For $200 million.

Via Melanie in Saskatchewan: Dear Mark Carney, Now who's sharing misinformation and clickbait?!? I see we’ve moved from careful economic messaging to full-blown headline cosplay, and I have to admit, it’s quite the production. That Bloomberg graphic making the rounds, the one declaring Canada’s fiscal position the “strongest in the G7,” looks polished enough to pass for fact at a glance. Clean typography, confident tone, and just enough authority baked into it to ensure it gets shared by people who don’t have time to dig any deeper. Fair enough. Most people are busy. They see “IMF says,” they assume it’s settled, and they move on. Some of us don’t have that luxury. Some of us sit at the kitchen table at night, scrolling through this stuff while trying to figure out how the numbers in our banking app don’t line up with the story being told on TV. Groceries are up, fuel is up, housing is out of reach, and then we’re told we’re “strongest in the G7.” It doesn’t land the way you think it does. It lands like something isn’t adding up. So we go looking. And here’s what turns up. That line you and your cabinet are leaning on does not exist in the IMF report in the way it’s being presented. Not as a conclusion. Not as a formal finding. What it actually comes from is a single IMF official saying Canada is “probably in the strongest position fiscally” among the G7. PROBABLY... That word is doing more work than the data you’re quoting trying to pass off as concrete fact. Because “probably” is a hedge. It’s uncertainty. It’s someone speaking carefully in an interview, not issuing a definitive statement. Somewhere between that comment and your talking points, that qualifier vanished, and suddenly Canadians are being told this is a confirmed fact. It isn’t. For anyone who wants to see it for themselves, here’s the actual IMF report you’re referencing: https://imf.org/en/publications/cr/issues/2026/01/21/canada-2025-article-iv-consultation-press-release-and-staff-report-573340 Now read it. Not the headline version. Not the clipped quote. The actual report. Because the same section you’re pulling from also says, in plain language, that elevated trade uncertainty is weighing on exports, investment, and confidence, and that Canada has long-standing weaknesses in productivity and competitiveness. It goes on to say growth is expected to remain moderate, with risks tilted to the downside. That’s the full picture. That’s the part that never makes it into the talking points. What you’ve done is take the one line that sounds good, pull it out of the paragraph, and present it like the paragraph doesn’t exist. That’s not context. That’s editing. And it matters, because “strongest fiscal position” doesn’t mean what you’re letting people think it means. It doesn’t mean people are better off. It doesn’t mean wages are rising or that life is getting easier. It means, relatively speaking, Canada has more room to borrow compared to other countries that are also struggling. That’s it. That’s the entire claim, once you strip away the packaging. But that’s not how it’s being sold. It’s being sold like a report card after the fact. Like the IMF came in, audited Canada, and declared everything is going great. That’s not what this is. It’s a forward-looking assessment with built-in uncertainty, paired with a list of structural problems that need fixing. And then there’s the part that’s hard to ignore. Yesterday in Question Period, Liberals were lecturing Conservatives about clickbait, about proper sourcing, about not relying on what you consider the wrong media. The implication being that information must be complete, accurate, and responsibly presented. That Canadians deserve the full story. Agreed. So apply that standard here. Because what’s happening right now is a hedged remark being presented as certainty, a relative comparison being framed as absolute strength, and a report full of warnings being reduced to a couple of flattering lines. If anyone else did that, you’d call it misinformation. You’d question their credibility. You’d suggest Canadians shouldn’t trust it. But when it’s your own messaging, it’s suddenly fine. That’s a tough sell. Especially to people who are living the gap between what’s being said and what’s actually happening. People who don’t need an IMF report to tell them something feels off, but will absolutely check one when they’re told everything is “strong.” Because when “probably” turns into “definitely,” and when half a paragraph gets presented as the whole truth, it stops looking like a misunderstanding. It starts looking like a choice. And Canadians are getting better at spotting the difference.

I don't know. Everyone else seems to have figured it out. I'm pretty sure he wouldn't recommend destroying our economy, though.

They've been meeting all this time and accomplished nothing???? There's a few Conservatives on there.....would that not be all-party? If the same old-same old, why is Carney calling it "new"? Committee, council.....tomato, tomahto.

Carney tried the fear-mongering "dangerous and divided" Brexit in the UK and they booted him the fck outta there.

“That is why Conservatives are proposing a new, all-party committee, a team, a task force, that will work together, as part of an effort to defend and fight for Canada in the CUSMA review” Pierre Poilievre, February 26, 2026.

My recent favourite is when Canada hitched a ride on the American's new moon rocket and then Carney immediately cried and complained about how our US ties are a weakness. Classic.

Typical Liberal boomer argument. "I'm doing fine so f*ck everyone else." 🙄

The stupidity of people like LinktheDink is really starting to irritate those of us with common sense. And empathy. It's so easy to strike down each increase individually, in what families are facing. "It's just an insurance hike." "It's just a gas hike." It's just a little food inflation." "It's just another $100 billion in deficit." All with no increase in wages. And it adds up.

I'm not going to explain to you that if Toronto experiences an explosion in car theft and insurance fraud (which is what's happening) then a company like Canada Life or The Cooperator's - everyone's insurance goes up. It might have something to do with all the criminals and fraudsters we've brought in through the FEDERAL immigration program. I'm not sure where you got that $15 figure from. Your a$$, I suspect. Also boomers: "Why aren't young people having babies anymore?"

Didn't see the pom-pom wavers cheering this one on: Canada & Luxembourg Another useless MOU. Canada Luxembourg Relations Deepen as Carney Welcomes PM I'm not sure what Luxembourg can do for Canada. They're worse off than we are. (New Liberal campaign slogan can be "At least we're not Luxembourg!") But since Luxembourg is a big money laundering country, I'm sure it will be very useful to Brookfield.

A friend called me this morning, single dad, 2 babies under 3. He said his car insurance went up $188. He asked the insurance place why and they said "car thefts". He said his house insurance nearly doubled this year. No reason. No warning. He said, "I'm so f*cked. I don't know how I'm going to do this. I might have to sell my house." I said, "I know, dude. My car insurance is $600+ more than it was last year. No tickets, no accidents, no claims in decades." But Carney says everything is great and the boomers won't stop voting for Liberals. Somebody has to at least try to get this insanity under control. Or CSIS is right - ordinary people are going to riot.

Everyone can see that I did. FFS. This is exactly what I said! I summarized what the execs said from THE LINKS I POSTED TO THEIR DIRECT TESTIMONY. W T Actual F. This Linkthedink guy is seriously brain damaged.

The pom-pom wavers keep saying "It's better to have no deal than a bad deal" but I think this is starting to show up as a very bad excuse. Right now, ALL industry in Canada needs stability, assurances, some kind of plan so that they know what the situation is and can begin working within its framework. We may not get the "best" deal right now, but that can be re-negotiated with another US president. Or tweaked as we go along. It was announced today that Mexico is nearly done working out the details of their agreement with the US. Carney needs to get to work. Stop the vacations. Work through the summer if necessary. This is now critical.

Plus the links are from one of the MPs X account, who was actually on the committee. LinktheDink won't look at government X accounts or government YouTube accounts or CSPAN accounts and none of this will be on CBC tonight, so.........he's here arguing for pages & pages & pages about something he knows absolutely nothing about beyond "as a child, he lived down the road from a tool & die maker". Like a mental train wreck, you can't look away, it's just stunning in its stupidity.

I posted links to the actual industry execs answering these questions in committee. If you refuse to hear what they said directly, I highly doubt you're going to listen to me summarize what they said.

You said you grew up living down the road from Cavalier and even though that was what......like 70, 80 years ago? You somehow know everything about the industry and that it's only Trump tariffs affecting them. They explicitly stated it's not. Ergo, you said they are lying.