Brilliant work by Scott Reid. Essentially: "If Trump loses - and loses badly - he might start treating us better. Then again, he might go scorched earth on us." Gee, thanks! That kind of analysis I can get by flipping a coin. Plus James Moore, chronic TDS sufferer. IOW, more balanced reporting and analysis from CTV.

A series of debates and a vote. Really. On what? Will we get to see all the details or will they be kept secret like the CUSMA details? Like the fact that he was arranging this deal? Like what he's doing with China? It's clear he doesn't think enough of the peasantry to consult with them and now that he has manufactured a majority he's probably right. Congratulations, Elboners. You got your Dear Leader who can do as he pleases. What he does to you now is on you.

Many Canadians, it seems, have found their Messiah in Mark Carney and are eager to follow him into the pits of Hell. Which is convenient, because that's where he's sending them.

While I appreciate your contributions to the College of Online Amateur Psychology, as a long-standing member of the League of Internet Denizens I feel it's my duty to point out that if you're proposing a more balanced, less polarized discourse here on the Interwebz, you're dreaming in Technicolor. Sure, there are sensible, rational, reasonable people on social media, but our research suggests they constitute just 1.3% of the contributions to most discussions. On contentious, important topics - sex, race, religion, politics, LEGO trade disputes and cat fashion - that share drops to 0.04%. I understand your hope for a more productive discourse. Really I do. This just isn't the venue. Social media isn't a think tank, a debate club, or a Hall of Reason. It's an electronic Thunderdome. It's the shallow end of the gene pool. It's proof that while Darwin might not have been wrong, he was clearly overly optimistic. Will it ever improve? Hope springs eternal. It'll need to: it may very well be an eternity before sanity prevails or the signal-to-noise ratio improves. Meanwhile, my goofing-off time is short and I've considered your advice. I won't turn this workstation off, but will return to more productive research and worthwhile pursuits. (Unbeknownst to many, computers are really quite useful for such things.) And before the day is out, I'll be sure to touch grass and hug my wife. I may even make some crème brûlée.

Imagine 11 years of Conservative government instead of Liberal wreckage. 🇨🇦 Energy East built. Ontario not one Michigan court or Trump tweet away from a frozen winter. ❄️ Pipelines to tidewater. Trade deals from strength. Actual ships, jets and readiness. Controlled borders. Safer streets. Homes people can afford. Instead we got cancelled nation-building, open-border chaos, military decay… and Ford threatening to unplug the U.S. while we sit hostage to Line 5. That’s the Liberal decade. Never forget it. Trudeau screwed us. #cdnpoli

You thought Elbows up was cringe?

What you repeatedly tolerate, your rulers will eventually treat as consent. Why I think the federal Carney Liberals, the NDP in BC/Manitoba and Doug Ford’s Liberal-lite government are disasters They count on political exhaustion. Most Canadians are not stupid. They are busy earning a living, raising families, paying mortgages and trying to keep ahead of rising costs. They do not have time to study every budget, regulation, backroom agreement or government contradiction. Politicians understand this. They rarely impose the full damage at once. They add another tax, another fee, another subsidy, another restriction and another layer of debt. Services weaken. Costs rise. Accountability disappears. Each individual change seems tolerable, but the combined result is national decline. The federal Liberals govern through spending, secrecy and carefully packaged excuses. The NDP keeps them politically respectable by demanding even more government control and spending. Doug Ford talks like a conservative at election time, then governs like a Liberal whenever spending restraint, institutional reform or political courage is required. Different elbow-zo slogans. Similar habits: More government. More debt. More corporate welfare. More bureaucracy. Less transparency. Less personal responsibility. Less respect for taxpayers. The boiled-frog comparison fits because decline becomes normal when it happens slowly. Canadians adjust to higher food prices, longer medical waits, worsening productivity, weaker public safety and governments that refuse to release the details of their own agreements. We should not become bitter or contemptuous. Anger without discipline achieves nothing. Our duty is to pay attention, examine incentives, demand evidence and judge politicians by the consequences of their decisions, not the intentions they advertise. Pierre has been pointing out that Government failure survives on public distraction. It ends when enough citizens stop accepting each new loss as the unavoidable price of living in Canada.

Well said. Let's set the antics aside and focus on the problem.

I love how the Elboners rage about the cost of Stornoway, which is somewhere between $70k and $90k annually. Carney can blow through twice that in in-flight catering in a week and they don't bat an eye. And let's not even start on the combined cost of 24 Sussex ($150k/year), Rideau Cottage ($5 million in renovations and $630k/year) and Harrington Lake ($10 million in renovations and $250k/year).

Only thing stupider than the original incident is the continued harping on it. You don't need a knife at a workout. We don't care why you think you do. Leave it at home or GTFO. TFE.

What in the wide wild world of Trailer Park Boys meet Die Antwoord IS that thing?

Liberal partisans always screech "Why are you complaining when this is what you wanted?" First, because this is what we've been saying for years. Second, because the harms that led to this change of heart - harms that were predicted - could have been prevented. Third, because it's more likely to be lip service than a real correction. Handing in other people's homework is not the win they make it out to be.

🚨 BREAKING: Mark Carney just handed day-to-day control of the PMO to an American Democrat operative. Maia Johnson, a Hillary Clinton campaign strategist with climate finance ties is now Chief Operating Officer of the Prime Minister’s Office. First time this role has ever existed in Canada. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 She was already fined by the Ethics Commissioner for missing disclosures. ⚖️ Carney was supposedly elected to stand up to Trump… and he gives the most sensitive U.S. file + operational control of his office to a foreign U.S. Democrat? This isn’t leadership. This is surrender. Canada First means Canadians running Canada, not unelected Americans. RT if you’re sick of this. 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli #Carney #PMO #CanadaFirst #Sovereignty

I keep posting this because it's so fucking true... We can’t hate these cunts enough!

Oh, for FFS. So now we're against fixing 24 Sussex? We Conservatives spent years criticizing Trudeau for letting it rot. Now Carney proposes doing something about it and suddenly that's the outrage? For the record: I'm no Carney supporter. I think his crowdfunding idea is ridiculous. But the Prime Minister should have an official residence that actually meets the needs of the office. The question of what to do now has nothing to do with how we got here. My preference? Sell 24 Sussex to Heritage Canada for a loonie and turn it into a museum. Then build a modern official residence with proper security, communications, office and meeting space, reception and press facilities, and accommodation for staff and security. Pay for it by cancelling the next cheque for Lesbian Dance Therapy in Sierra Leone. Instead, we've spent another news cycle playing partisan gotcha over a building everyone agrees is unusable. It's exactly this reflexive opposition—if they propose it, we must oppose it—that has kept this white elephant in limbo for years. Meanwhile, there are far more important issues demanding Parliament's attention.

CUSMA -3 and suddenly the legacy and social media are on FIRE for Poilievre. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.

When this is the response we get to legitimate criticisms, THAT's what undermine's confidence. It's essentially a statement that the peasantry should respect the judgement of their betters. Quietly. Reverently. Just like every other body the Liberals have reshaped over the last decade.

EVERYTHING is an afterthought with these clowns. Every problem they solve creates two more. Every crisis they rush to protect us from is one they've created. Because every initiative has an ulterior motive and all are led by midwits like the three in this picture.

'Still projected' is right. All we've heard for the last ten years is positive predictions. All we've seen is a slow slide into the basement. And you're still 'projecting' that you can turn it around by doing more of what brought us to the brink. Your 'New' is just the same-old.