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Timely communication. Here is Carney telling Canadians that his government’s ONLY response to productivity and cost of living is for the PM to order a 15-year study. Must be why he’s so far behind PP in the polls / end sarcasm

The State of the Union was a zoo – and Team USA the monkeys It was only as they filed into the chamber inside Washington’s Capitol building on Tuesday night – surrounded by hooting politicians – that it seemed to occur to Team USA what they had gotten themselves into. This was a zoo. They were the monkeys. In fairness, that is kind of what they do for a living, but that’s on their own terms, and for money. They are the stars of that show. On Tuesday, they were props for the actual star and got nothing for it but grief. The ones headed back to Canadian teams – Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck and Toronto’s Auston Matthews, in particular – will never live it down. U.S. men’s hockey team feted at Trump’s State of the Union address Matthews made things worse by showing up at the White House during the day, but skipping the State of the Union address at night. It shows that he got how it looked, and tried to finesse his way through it. Sadly for many NHLers, they don’t teach finessing in high school. If you watch the video carefully – around the time the players are being encouraged to pump their fists and chant ‘U-S-A’ – you can see recognition dawning on a few faces. That whatever this is, it is not aggrandizing. It was a terrible idea. The whole thing. They could’ve just gone to a night club for three days and had everyone’s phone confiscated at the door, but ooohhhh no, someone had to get ambitious. Ambition is at the core of this. In American pro terms, hockey is a third-class endeavour. This was Team USA’s big chance to move to the front of the culture. They weren’t ready for it. I think it was the sweaters. Going around in public dressed up like an early middle-aged Glee Club is not very Michael Jordan. It was the sweaters, with a side of sycophancy. The USA players could have played this straight down the middle. Been modest and self-effacing after their victory. Kept the politics to one side. But where’s the fun in that? How do you mine aura out of humility? They could not risk going in too hard on Canada. They all play with Canadians, many of whom have more juice than they do at work. No one who takes shots at Sidney Crosby is going to survive long in today’s NHL. U.S. women’s ice hockey team decline invite to Trump’s State of the Union address Evidently, their big idea was to lean hard into the red, white and blue. Instead of sticking it to Canada, they’d stick it to the Libs. For 72 hours, it would be frat house rules. That’s how you end up beer bongin’ with the director of the FBI and going into hysterics when the President invites you over to his place. Some people were appalled. ‘Twenty-something professional hockey players? Drawn to power? Unaware of the troubles of their fellow citizens?’ To which I would say, are you serious? What do you think these people talk about when they’re alone? Book clubbing The Wretched of the Earth? They talk about sea-doos, watches and stick tape. A lot of them went to college, but none of them actually went to college. They went to hockey. I’d be shocked if more than a handful of them had ever read a book that wasn’t Harry Potter. Members of the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, top, are recognized by Trump as he gestures to them during his State of the Union address.ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images Try to remember that these men were not raised to be independent thinkers. That would be antithetical to getting where they’ve gotten. They are designed from childhood to live in packs. Whenever a new alpha – like the current U.S. President – wanders into their midst, even telephonically, their instinct is to roll over and start chittering. Hence, the idi*tic guffawing after Trump called them up right after they’d won gold and made a ‘girls have cooties’ joke about the USA women’s team. If he’d dared them to strip naked and go streaking on the ice, many of them would have done it. That’s what being a hockey player is. A few U.S. team members are being singled out as heroes for resisting the Trump allure, but those few have different hierarchies to worry about. Kyle Connor didn’t show up. Maybe he disagrees with current U.S. policy. Maybe he had an engagement party to attend. Maybe he gets that he has to go to work in Manitoba, and isn’t an indispensable superstar like Hellebuyck. Colorado’s Brock Nelson didn’t go. Maybe it’s the politics. Or maybe he didn’t like the idea of being seen to put himself above his social betters – Avalanche teammates Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar and Devon Toews – all of whom had reported back for duty. Going to the White House and then being stood up as props for the big show doesn’t make Team USA suddenly bad. I’m pretty sure most of them didn’t have a serious think about what it meant, and will never do so. To them, it’s viral content and a great picture for the hero wall at home. If the U.S. were to elect a Communist, they’d have shown up to his party, too. The only political bone in any of their bodies is the tax bone. Why do you think every hockey player loves Florida, but no one wants to go to California? Because they love swamps? It doesn’t make them bad. Rather, it makes them not particularly smart, or savvy. They were that way before they won anything. So what have we learned from this nonsense? Only one important thing – that pro athletes aren’t your friends. With some exceptions, they don’t think like you think. They don’t share your priorities, or views, or understanding of how to be in the world, because they live in a very different one. If they were to get the unfiltered truth of what a typical pro thinks about how things work, most work-a-day people would probably be somewhere between put off and repulsed. That doesn’t mean you can’t like the NHL. It means that liking it doesn’t entail kidding yourself that everyone playing in it is a saint and a deep thinker. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/article-state-of-the-union-nhl-mens-team-usa-hockey-players/?login=true

Meanwhile back in the real world… Liberals ascend to 13-point lead in vote intention as Canadians continue to demand hard line on U.S. trade Overall, two-thirds (64%) say Carney has done a good or great job handling the Canada–U.S. relationship so far — nearly identical to the proportion (63%) who approve of his overall performance as prime minister. That approval appears to be translating into improved electoral prospects for the Liberals. Currently, 45 per cent say they would vote for the LPC in a future federal election, compared to 32 per cent who prefer the Conservative Party. The resulting 13-point lead marks a 10-point increase in the Liberals’ advantage compared to last month’s tracking. https://angusreid.org/liberals-ascend-to-13-point-lead-in-vote-intention-as-canadians-continue-to-demand-hard-line-on-u-s-trade/

LOL It was more than “a few fringe people on the right” and Trump’s people especially Pam Bondi fanned the flames. And reversing their promise to release the files, lying about Trump’s associations with Epstein and attacking anyone who called that out is a self-fanning flame. The Epstein controversy is an Epic Republican own-goal with Democrats eating popcorn from the stands

Well evidently he did pick up a gun didn’t he?

And then in the end it went back down to 10 after all that.

Not misrepresenting anything.FACT : She was asking for more immigrants. Now she’s holding a referendum on curbing immigration and stirring controversy on there being more immigrants.

Nope he was a former Trump supporter who went off the rails over the Epstein, a conspiracy originally started by the right.

GDP is primarily corporate profits not wages. That’s why impoverished shit holes in the US like Mississippi have high gdp per capita despite millions living in squalor with lower average household income than in Canada, it’s because have Corporations park their money while people there earn squat. Unlike USA inflation in Canada has remained within targets although there are still hotspots in certain sectors and wage growth outpaced inflation in 2024 and 2025 and in every month that Carney has been PM You are lying. It’s not the only thing this government is doing. The cancer hospital is waiting for you to show up and claim that they’re waiting 15 years to treat people. You don’t know what you’re talking about. All you bogus claims have no evidence to support them you don’t know what the stats are now or what they were when conservatives were in power or what good stats are compared to bad ones. You just copy-paste the same unsupported nonsense whenever your party is not in power.

No that’s what I every time you float lies like claiming Bush Jr balanced the budget or that Carney admitted he was an acquaintance of Epstein or that the mass die off of indigenous people from European diseases had nothing to do with the arrival of Europeans or that the left wing movements and labour unions supported Hitler or that an article titled “baseless 2000 mules video contains no evidence” was actually try to persuade readers that 2000 mules presented compelling evidence, or my personal fave that storing “cans of gasoline” can somehow make pipe-fed natural gas power plants produce more electricity Bullshitting is what you do. Thanks for proving yet again that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Your chart is showing GDP per capita not productivity Here is productivity: Stronger growth in Canada relative to the United States in the mid-1970s and early 1980s was balanced by slower growth in the late 1980s. However, the significant and prolonged gap in labour productivity growth between Canada and the United States after 2001 stands as an unprecedented development compared with the previous four decades. From 2001 to 2021, the United States observed a moderate deceleration in labour productivity to 2.0% per year, while Canada’s growth rate fell to 0.9% per year. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28-0001/2023012/article/00006-eng.htm Here is a related assessment which basically attributes the gap to a higher percentage of small firms in Canada compared to USA as well as greater inefficiency of large Canadian firms due to lack of reinvestment https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/36-28-0001/2025012/article/00002-eng.htm LMAO YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT! What I posted is ESTABLISHED FACT There’s even an entire other thread started just to show the copy-paste from CHAT GPT. Canada in general doesn’t have an economy based on owning IP. Canadian researchers give away IP for free or sell it at a fraction of its full value to US companies. We sell minimally processed raw materials and component parts to US companies, which are low-margin products. We then import back high-margin finished products. Canadian companies don’t expand abroad, we invite foreign companies to move here and buy up Canadian firms. The Canadian economy has one of the highest levels of foreign ownership in the G20 and highest in the G7. Those are all well-reported facts that drag our productivity down. Also here’s an article on your precious conservative site THE HUB written by none other than the very same Trevor Tombe who will also be overseeing this 15 year study you’re baselessly attacking: productivity has always lagged the US and its gotten worse and yes a sudden increase in immigration increases the denominator in this measure but a company doesn’t become less productive just because there are more people in the general population is why its less accurate. https://thehub.ca/2024/09/05/trevor-tombe-the-great-divergence-canadas-economic-gap-with-the-u-s-reaches-a-new-record/ Here’s a way to understand GDP per capita as it relates to productivity: population is generally understood to provide economic potential: the more people you have, the larger the economy more you should be able produce. That’s why the US economy is so much larger than Canada’s So economic output (GDP) divided by available resources (population).But that’s like trying to measure your car’s gas mileage by output (kms actually driven) divided by available gas stored in your shed. Adding or removing gas from the shed doesn’t affect your car’s fuel efficiency, it only shows how far you COULD drive if you make the effort to do so. Only the amount of gas you have to put in the tank measures efficiency, which for productivity means measuring the actual hours of labour (or labour cost) So if you add a lot of people suddenly and they don’t produce as much as everyone else as was the case under Trudeau the last few years, your GDP per capita goes down on paper. In other words you didn’t drive very far despite seemingly having a massive stockpile of gasoline to do so. But that doesn’t explain why your car is getting lousy gas mileage. And in that same way, Canada admitting lots of immigrants doesn’t explain why companies can’t efficiently generate profits Also you should know that the quarterly unemployment rate under Trudeau-Carney in 2024-2025 (ranged between 6.1% and 7.1% and is currently 6.5%) is better than it was under Harper 2014-2015 (ranged between 6.8% and 7.1%). When it was 7.1 % earlier this year you were tearing your chest hairs out screaming that it’s the liberal-caused apocalypse even though that was a common rate under Harper. In fact under Harper unemployment in EVERY quarter since 2009 was equal or worse than ANY quarter under Trudeau -Carney except for a few during early COVID 2020-2021. As recently as Q4 2023 the unemployment rate under Trudeau was 5.4% which was lower than anything under Harper. There was a labour shortage and businesses were begging for immigrants, even Danielle Smith. So save your BS and gaslighting

Not to mention the Canadian captain was out with an injury.

Letter on Alberta website here: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/Premier Smith Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau.pdf As this substack commenter put it: Danielle Smith's 2024 letter to Trudeau: Demanded Ottawa DOUBLE Alberta's immigration spots (20k+ annually) + 10k more for Ukrainians to fix 'critical labour shortages' and grow our economy. 2026 reality: Blames Trudeau's 'open-border disaster' for the exact influx straining services, announces Oct referendum to LIMIT immigration, restrict newcomer access to health/education/social supports. Set-up complete: Lobby for more when Big Oil and the Oligarchy needs workers, then scapegoat Ottawa and immigrants when the bill hits working families. UCP classic—top vs. bottom, not left vs. right. While we're divided, pockets get picked. Albertans: See the pattern? #AlbertaForward

Your lesbos also beat our men’s team today. 2x lucky. Congrats.

Greenland says ‘no, thanks’ to Trump’s US hospital boat Leaders of both Denmark and Arctic territory rebuff US president’s claim that islanders are ‘not being taken care of’ Greenland has said it does not need medical assistance from other countries, after Donald Trump said he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory he wants to acquire. … “That will be ‘no thanks’ from us,” Jens-Frederik Nielsen, the Greenlandic prime minister, wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday. “President Trump’s idea to send a US hospital ship here to Greenland has been duly noted. But we have a public health system where care is free for citizens,” he said. … In Greenland, as in Denmark, access to healthcare is free at the point of use and funded by the taxpayer. Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, responded to Trump’s social post by defending her country’s system. Writing on Facebook, Frederiksen said she was “happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to health for all. Where it’s not insurances and wealth that determine whether you get proper treatment.” She added that Greenland had “the same approach” as Denmark. Troels Lund Poulsen, the Danish defence minister, also rejected Trump’s claim that people in Greenland were being denied medical treatment. “The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs,” he told the Danish broadcaster DR. “They receive it either in Greenland, or, if they require specialised treatment, they receive it in Denmark. So it’s not as if there’s a need for a special healthcare initiative in Greenland.” Lund Poulsen added: “Trump is constantly tweeting about Greenland. So this is undoubtedly an expression of the new normal that has taken hold in international politics.” There are six hospitals in Greenland serving a population of fewer than 60,000 people. In early February, the territory’s government signed an agreement with Copenhagen to improve Greenlandic patients’ access to treatment in hospitals in Denmark. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/22/greenland-does-not-need-us-hospital-boat-sent-by-trump-says-denmark …Plus as I mentioned both hospital ships are in dry dock and won’t be out anytime soon.

Nope. You are bullshitter. So you’re saying you’re a bullshitter who makes up false claims that in no way resemble anything I said. Wrong. Wrong. Productivity has been falling for DECADES. In fact since NAFTA it has gotten even worse under EVERY GOVERNMENT. It is because the more we integrate with USA, the more US companies control our economy, buying up our companies, poaching our talent, controlling the high value economic activity and intellectual property and leaving us with the low value grunt work. What Canadians are only now understanding is that for the past 30+ years the most productive economies have been defined by: Companies who OWN the factory not the people who work in them Companies who OWN user data, not those who supply user data for free Companies who OWN technology patents, not those who researched the technology and shared it for free Companies who OWN technology terms of use, not those who forced to accept them on a take-it-or-leave-it basis The people who COLLECT software license and subscription fees, not those who pay them Companies who sell HIGH-MARGIN FINISHED PRODUCTS at PREMIUM prices, not LOW-MARGIN COMMODITIES at WHOLESALE DISCOUNT prices Companies who CONTINUOUSLY GROW their enterprise by reinvesting profits, not companies that deliberately choose to stop growing pay out their profits as dividends The more we integrated with USA, the more US companies and policy shaped us into playing the latter of each of these relationships and our short-sighted business and government leaders went along with it because to do otherwise was considered risky and because they don’t feel the consequences of those decisions directly You know there are long term studies of cancer patients, do you think that means they were commissioned by the PM and that they’re the totality of everything the government is doing to treat cancer and that it’s one and only purpose is to do nothing until the study is complete? Sorry, once again you don’t know what you’re talking about. Like I said you don’t know what you’re talking about. You are dead dumb and blind to reality, you only get your news from conservative sources that ignore politically inconvenient news and amplify / exaggerate convenient news. The economy has improved since Carney took office. Most of our economic woes have been inflicted by Trump. You blame Carney for the results of Trump’s economic attacks and Trump’s refusal to deal even as you know deals with Trump are worthless and those who rushed and made deals with him are now regretting it due to the recent Supreme Court ruling. Oil companies have been given the regulatory regime they wanted on a silver platter, they’re not investing because tar sand crude has limited long-term returns, they want the government to build the infrastructure at taxpayer expense and let them keep the profits. And they want climate denial / zero GHG regulation like they have in their third world operations. Barriers to interprovincial trade have come down massively. All federal barriers have been removed. Ontario has made deals with multiple provinces as have others.

What people? Die from what? You don’t even know what you’re talking about you clown.

They Did Deals With Trump to Get Lower Tariffs. Now They Are Stuck. Countries that under the threat of tariffs made commitments like enormous investment pledges face the reality that they might have been better off waiting. … So far, China has kept Mr. Trump at a standstill in trade negotiations and could end up with a better deal than its neighbors and American allies. Now, after the court decision constraining Mr. Trump’s trade cudgel, countries throughout Asia are left wondering if they made a mistake in quickly finalizing deals with Mr. Trump and whether existing agreements will stand. “Countries which signed deals with the U.S. and agreed to a tariff above 15 percent are now disadvantaged,” said Steven Okun, chief executive of APAC Advisors, a geopolitical consulting firm. …. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/business/trump-tariffs-japan-indonesia.html Canada vindicated again

What I said was 100% accurate. To repeat: Canada dropped most of its counter-tariffs and what few remain are optimized to have minimal impact on Canadians. Besides unlike your idi*tic president our tariffs are not intended to be permanent and are not against the entire world, and we don’t pretend they’re beneficia. They are countwr-tariffs that go away as soon as you stop your stupid trade war. There’s a difference between someone who defends themself and someone who goes around randomly attacking people you understand that eight? You can’t say the person who defends themself from an unprovoked attack is a hypocrite and no different or less violent than the person who is attacking them and others and bragging about it.

You are a gullible clown. Both USN ships are in dry dock and nobody knows what sick people in need Trump is talking about. More of his crazy bullshit and you as usual are the willing dupe. That’s always the way it is under dystopian authoritarian regimes

Nope we dropped most of our tariffs for that reason but ours were already targeted to minimize blowback.

More conservative propaganda. Where did anyone say this one study is our one and only response or even our main response to Canada’s productivity decline? Where does did anyone say that this study came from Carney himself? Where did anyone say long-term studies are bad? Let’s unpack the failed logic here: A Government office is doing a study, therefore: 1) If a government office is doing a study, it must have been ordered by the prime minister himself because IN Canada the PM personally manages the day-to-day decisions of all 367,000+ federal employees 2) If it was ordered by the prime minister, it must be that this is the government’s one and only response to this issue 3) If this study is the only response to this issue, then the study is bad Carney has already done more to reinvent and reinvigorate the Canadian economy than any other PM since the war and he’s only just planted the seeds and laid the groundwork the results will obviously take time. The fact that you find it incompressible that this study might be over and above other major strategic reforms and might have no direct connection to Carney and might be a vital resource for future insights says more about you than it does about Carney.

Bridge Owner Donated $1 Million to MAGA Group Before Trump Blasted Competitor Less than one month before meeting with a top administration official to lobby against a new bridge connecting Michigan with Canada, the billionaire owner of an existing bridge donated $1 million to a super PAC devoted to President Trump. Matthew Moroun, a Detroit-based trucking magnate whose family has operated the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, for decades, made the donation to MAGA Inc. on Jan. 16, according to a campaign finance report filed on Friday evening. On Feb. 9, Mr. Moroun met in Washington with Howard Lutnick, the secretary of commerce, who called Mr. Trump after the meeting, The New York Times reported. Hours after the meeting, Mr. Trump lambasted the competing span.… But corporations and individuals who have donated large sums to MAGA Inc. have been granted audiences with Mr. Trump and his team. Donors have used those meetings to lobby for their interests. The Trump administration has at times taken actions that have advanced donors’ businesses or personal causes, prompting criticism of a pay-to-play system. While Mr. Moroun had donated to Mr. Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, the $1 million to MAGA Inc. is larger than any previous federal political donation on record by the Michigan businessman. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/politics/trump-canada-bridge-maga-inc-donation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share MOST. CORRUPT. PRESIDENT. EVER.