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https://financialpost.com/news/canada-standard-of-living-faces-worst-decline-40-years Canada's standard of living on track for worst decline in 40 years Slump in GDP per person threatens to be longest and largest since 1985, says study Measure Canada’s gross domestic product by aggregate and it doesn’t look so bad, but measure it by person or per capita and it’s dismal. For example, between 2000 and 2023 Canada had the second highest rate of aggregate GDP growth in the G7, but one of the lowest growth rates per person. With Carney at the helm, it's the same old, same old.

How do we compare to our American friends in per capita GDP? https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ontario-would-be-fifth-poorest-quebec-second-poorest-u-s-state/ Trevor Tombe, an economics professor at the University of Calgary, has written a piece for the Hub about the gap in economic performance between the U.S. and Canada. America’s much-discussed growth slowdown is very real, but the picture north of the border is even worse. “Compared to the same period last year, per capita GDP is now down 2.2 percent. Compared to 2022, it’s down 3.6 percent,” Tombe writes. “As RBC analysts correctly noted, this is a ‘recession-like’ performance.” “A longer historical perspective reveals a striking reality: the gap between the Canadian and American economies has now reached its widest point in nearly a century,” he continues. “The U.S. is on track to produce nearly 50 percent more per person than Canada will.” In a post on X promoting the story, Tombe included a map of U.S. states and Canadian provinces by GDP per capita. The data are measured in U.S. dollars, at purchasing-power parity. It shows that Ontario, home of Canada’s business capital of Toronto, would be the fifth-poorest U.S. state if it joined the union today. Ontario’s GDP per capita is $59,700. Only four states — Alabama ($58,800), Arkansas ($57,400), West Virginia ($56,200), and Mississippi ($49,800) — have lower GDPs per capita. Wow, not so encouraging!

Will you pivot to someone else after Trump finishes his second term? Trump won't be the White House so now we have to focus our hate on the next Republican who may or not be president? I think the decision should be based on the capabilities/suitability of the aircraft itself and not solely on dislike for one individual.

I would say that anyone that is obsessed with things like net-zero and ESG cannot be a closet conservative.

The rest of the NYT story was behind a paywall. Here it is again, even though you will dismiss it as FAKE NEWS etc etc https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/28/us/coronavirus-migrants-testing.html

The first headline was in fact from the New York Times.

A NYT headline: Covid on the Border: Migrants Aren’t Tested on Arrival in U.S. The Border Patrol says it has insufficient time and space to conduct coronavirus testing at crowded processing stations. Officials in border cities fear further spread of the virus. So, some were tested, many were not? https://nypost.com/2021/09/20/wh-defends-not-requiring-neg-covid-test-from-illegal-migrants/

Since when did you guys on the left start loving Goldman Sachs type bankers such as Mark Carney?

I see now that the CBC actually did carry this story, but they still spin it by pointing out how Trump and PP are similar(putting their own countries first). Imagine the horror of a leader wanting to put his or her own country first!🙄

Even during the worst of the Covid outbreak, the Biden/Harris administration was letting enormous numbers of untested people walk across the southern border. How did this make sense?

Is funding things like 'Lesbian Pirates' money well spent in your estimation? Do bankers typically give out loans for this kind of stuff?

I don't know if Trump's statement is going to move the needle or not. Will this statement even get mentioned by the Canadian mainstream media? Progressives do not tend to listen to a variety of news sources.

You're not aware that there were more violent protests coming from one side compared to the other? https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2021/09/09/realclearinvestigations_jan_6-blm_comparison_database_791370.html The summer 2020 riots resulted in some 15 times more injured police officers, 19 times as many arrests, and estimated damages in dollar terms up to 740 times more costly than those of the Capitol riot. Authorities have pursued the largely Trump-supporting Capitol rioters with substantially more vigor than suspected wrongdoers in the earlier two cases, and prosecutors and judges alike have weighed Capitol riot defendants’ political views in adjudicating their cases. Dozens of accused Capitol rioters have been held in pretrial detention for months, where they have allegedly been mistreated. In the summer 2020 riots, the vast majority of charges were dismissed, as they were in the Inauguration 2017 unrest.

Trump is America first and I hope PP will put Canada first. Nothing wrong with that. It's certainly preferable to WEF first😉

'Doing-nothing-is-not-trying' So your logic is, if one knows exactly where tren de aragua members are, but you say nothing to ICE agents...that doesn't meet the threshold of trying to keep them in the US? Doesn't qualify as aiding and abetting criminals?

They don't cooperate fully with the feds on immigration law. They can ignore immigration laws they don't like? But I thought 'nobody is above the law'?

A double standard? https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/17/remember-when-biden-bragged-about-defying-scotus-and-corporate-media-shrugged/ Former President Joe Biden openly admitted to defying the Supreme Court multiple times during his administration — and the media barely blinked. But when President Donald Trump challenges a lower court ruling by an activist judge, the media frames it as a “constitutional crisis.” The glaring double standard isn’t accidental; it’s part of a calculated effort by the left-wing corporate media to peddle the phony narrative that Trump is an authoritarian threat. Biden didn’t just defy the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling on student debt — he bragged about it. “I promised to ease student debt for millions of folks. The Supreme Court blocked me, but it didn’t stop me,” Biden posted on X. “The Supreme Court tried to block me from relieving student debt. But they didn’t stop me.” Biden doubled down months later. “I’m going to keep going.” By Biden’s own admission, he was defying the Supreme Court. But the propaganda press’ response was nothing more than a shrug. Axios’ Sareen Habeshian downplayed the Supreme Court’s ruling as a mere “setback,” noting that Biden was able to provide “relief” by “circumventing the need for Congressional or court approval.” CNN’s Katie Lobosco reported how Biden “found ways” to continue canceling “student loan debt despite Supreme Court ruling.”

https://abcnews.go.com/US/immigration-litigation-prepared-advocacy-groups-democratic-leaders/story?id=115915848 Immigration advocacy groups and Democratic leaders are seeking to disrupt President-elect Donald Trump's plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants by pre-drafting lawsuits that could be filed as soon as he takes office. https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/17/protecting-terrorists-is-just-the-latest-of-judge-boasbergs-partisan-activism/ Last year, President Joe Biden’s administration designated Tren de Aragua a transnational criminal organization, meaning this was not just a Trump thing. Everyone agrees, Tren De Aragua are bad hombres. Who could be opposed to removing terrorists from the U.S.? Hardcore Democrats who passed the bar exam and are still hellbent on seeing Trump fail. Even if it means a few more daughters are raped and killed by terrorist gangs. By Saturday, opposition to terrorist deportation surfaced from the anti-American ACLU and the far left lawfare firm, Democracy Forward, led by Marc Elias (he has an entire page at The Federalist). The meddling attorneys whipped up a complaint and went to Old Faithful, Judge Boasberg. They asked for a temporary restraining order to stop the Trump Administration from the deportation. How these people entered the US is in itself an illegal act. Technically, all of them are criminals.

That's a unique way of aiding and abetting lol. I'm sure Tren de aragua members are eternally grateful to the sanctuary city(Democrat) mayors that are trying to keep them in the US.

I am of the opinion that Trump is to blame and that his tariffs are not necessary. Canada has been abiding by the USMCA which came about during Trump's first term. However, I do feel that Carney should consider the tariff war to be his top priority right now.

Didn't these people break a law by entering the country illegally in the first place? Is it a nation of laws when Democrat run cities try to prevent ICE from apprehending illegal aliens? What is the issue here? Obama deported more people than Trump did in his first term. Is the issue of deportation different depending on who is doing it?

No election until the tariff situation is resolved?

You were the one implying his multiple citizenships were an asset. And if a Conservative leader was on record as saying 'I am European, actually...' he would have gotten more pushback.

I seem to recall that a former Conservative leader having dual citizenship was an issue (Canada/US) with some in the media, but apparently Carney having also carrying UK and Irish citizenship is now an asset?