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More time abroad than Trudeau, and the taxpayer picks up the tab. Work hard. Carney spends. ⬇️⬇️
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Replying to @glennbeck
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Canada is doomed. Six of the largest banks have announced they’re building digital tokens so your money can move between accounts instantly, calling them "programmable payments." Basically, the banks, oh, and that little thing called THE GOVERNMENT, can attach rules directly to anyone's money. They get to decide the exact conditions for when, where, and if your money is valid. You pay a contractor? That money only becomes valid in his account after an inspector approves the job. But hey, I’m sure everything will be just fine. There’s no way they’d ever use that to freeze anyone’s money. Just ask the Freedom Convoy truckers.
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I can throw money in the ocean too
PM Carney announces $1.2 billion for oceans ahead of expected pipeline decision ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
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So prove it Carney. Show us the text of the “deal”. All we have now is your word, & we all know what that’s worth. 🙄
"They offered too little. We couldn't accept it. They asked too much. We wouldn't give it." — Carney on walking away from US talks
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Replying to @MBrant75
easily expandable to China, Japan - big steel exporters. Meet @MarkJCarney 's Carbon Tariff [Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism CBAM] 100% & 400% on **all** US goods coming to Canada. Canada in for a real rough ride. CarbonTax Carney bigger danger to Canada than Trump
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Absurd! @cityofcalgary needs to be charged for the felony that this is
🚨 CAUGHT IN THE ACT: The City of Calgary has been caught ILLEGALLY removing a Let Alberta Decide referendum sign. Even more damning: LAD says multiple signs were removed while adjacent federalist “No to the Nine” signs were left untouched. The city has some explaining to do.
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They told you Donald Trump was a Russian asset. They told you he was a Nazi. They told you, for years, in every major media outlet in America, that the man was an existential threat to democracy itself. Once you've told a country that, you have justified nearly anything. So the apparatus went to work. Surveillance warrants on a campaign. A dossier funded by his opponent, laundered into intelligence channels. A special counsel, years of it, and a collusion case that never materialized. Note the sequence. The threat justified the measures. The threat turned out to be fake but the measures stayed. Now he's back as president, and this time he came prepared. The corrupt agencies are being cleaned out. The pathway that they used last time has been closed. So here is the question the Canadian press gallery will not ask. When the people are willing to do that to their own president lose the ability to do it from the inside, do they simply stop? Or do they find a new position outside his reach? Because there is an obvious one. A G7 country. With the longest undefended border on earth. Buried deep in his supply chains. Holding a veto over the industrial states that decide elections. And are entirely beyond the jurisdiction of every agency he just took back. Why capture an agency when you can capture a country? But a country is not an agency. You cannot subpoena it or leak to it. To turn one against him you would need the right man at the top, and the specification is brutally narrow. He could not be bought. A bought man leaves a trail. You would need the perfect Manchurian candidate. Not a man who knows what he is. A man so thoroughly conditioned by a lifetime inside the old order that he cannot see it. No handler. No instruction. Ask him and he would deny it sincerely, because to him it was never betrayal. It was maturity. The adult position. Sacrificing the smaller thing for the greater good, and never once noticing that the smaller thing was his own country. He would need to be formed in the institutions that built that order. Central banking. Global finance. The summit circuit. A career teaching him that the nation state is an administrative unit and that real authority sits above it. He would need to be a technician. Someone who can move a state without appearing to move it. He would need standing on both sides of the border, so that divided loyalty reads as a résumé. And he would need to arrive clean. No riding to nurse. No faction that made him. No debts to anyone in the party he was about to lead, and therefore no one inside it with the standing to stop him. Not a politician. An operator. That man is almost impossible to find. And yet Canada made him Prime Minister in March. He took over the Liberal leadership at the worst possible moment for anyone who actually wanted a political career. He captured a radioactive brand at the worst time in its political cycle. He jumped anyway. When a man accepts a terrible deal, you should stop asking what it cost him and start asking what he was seeking to gain. Three days before he announced, he was not in Edmonton. He was on American television, in full campaign register, aimed at the wrong country. Why would a Canadian soft launch their Canadian political career on an American television show? Then the pattern fills in. He creates a Chief Operating Officer of the Prime Minister's Office, a position that has never existed in the history of this country, and fills it with a former Hillary Clinton American Democratic operative. The same Hillary Clinton whose campaign paid for the dossier. The one that laundered a foreign spy's gossip into an instrument of the American state. Carney closes a Washington-cohosted summit in Toronto with the Canadian press kept outside the room. His portfolio is ninety-one percent American. And in August, the trade talks collapsed. Here is where an honest writer stops and tells you what he does not know. Nobody outside that room knows what Washington actually demanded. It’s never been publicly released. Carney says the Americans asked too much and offered too little. Washington says that is false. Two accounts that are clearly contradictory, and there is no transcript. We are in the fog of war, and we will stay there until the documents surface a decade from now, if they ever do. What we can look at is the convenience of the timing. But lets set aside the disputed part and look only at what nobody denies. Carney suspended the talks. Carney recalled the negotiators. And when the retaliation came, Canada did not simply mirror the American tariffs. It selected. Over seven hundred products, and the pain was directed at Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, weeks before the midterm elections. What do we call a foreign government inflicting targeted economic pain on specific electorates immediately before an election? In any other decade we had a phrase for that. And what did Canada get? Elbows up. That was the war cry. So where are the spoils of war? Where is the reindustrialization of Canada’s industrial base? Where is the diversified market access that was supposed to free us from the Americans? Where is the pipelines to tidewater, the expanded ports, the LNG plants? Groceries are not cheaper. Rent is not cheaper. The tariffs still sit on our backs. A full year of the loudest confrontation with our largest trading partner in living memory has bought this country nothing you can point to, photograph, or carry home. Look closer, though, and we will find that the benefits of the last year do exist, its just that they have accrued in someone else's name. Every dollar of that confrontation flowed one way. The rhetoric ran north, warm and patriotic, elbows up for the cameras. The structure ran south. A Prime Minister whose portfolio is overwhelmingly American, whose closest operator is an American Democratic strategist, whose summits are convened by Washington, spent a year manufacturing a crisis whose targeted casualties landed in precisely the American swing states that decide who governs from that same city. We paid the tariffs. His faction across the border collected the political dividend. Ask who this actually served and the flag on the podium stops matching the balance sheet behind it. Set every fact down on its own and each one has an innocent face. The portfolio is just a retirement account from a long career. The progressive American political operator is just a hire. The timing is just the calendar. The targeting of the swing states with tariffs are just how trade math works. That is exactly why it holds. A single coincidence is invisible. It is only when you lay them end to end, all of them pointing the same direction, all of them costing Canada and paying his American allies. The ambition was never to be our Prime Minister. The office was the means. A credential that let him capture Canada and turn it into a forward operating base, a country pointed south and spent against Donald Trump in an American civil war that has cost the Canadian people dearly and bought them nothing. You have to ask the question eventually. How many coincidences, at this altitude, in this direction, before you stop calling them coincidences? He is not governing this country. He is occupying it. Stop thinking of the United States as a foreign country and start thinking of it as what it actually is, a global American empire that governs through markets, currency, media and defence rather than through legions, and whose provinces keep their own flags and anthems as a courtesy. On that map Canada is not a neighbour. We are the richest province in the system, wired directly into the metropole. So when Caesar took Rome, Pompey did not surrender. He crossed to Greece and kept the war going from the provinces, because a faction that loses the capital does not stop fighting. It relocates. They lost Washington. They went to the most valuable province they had, the one that was already theirs, and they garrisoned it with a man of their own class who needed no persuading at all. He did not have to be recruited. He was already one of them, and the province came with the office. Which is why the whole performance has been aimed south. The elbows, the flags, the defiance. It was never Canadian politics. It was American theatre, staged here, for them. Canada is not being governed. It is being occupied, a province held by the losing faction in the global American empire's civil war. Now on substack (Link in next post)
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THE MOST BRUTAL RATIO EVER IN BC POLITICS. This is similar to Justin Trudeau just days before he RESIGNED.
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It is with great concern for some of my fellow countrymen, inching precariously toward the edge of utter lunacy, that I write this post. Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, in an interview with the New York Times, went on record saying it would be “irresponsible” not to plan for the possible contingency of a military invasion of Canada by the United States. Unfortunately, Mr. Carney didn’t misspeak or fall victim to a cherry-picked quote taken out of context. His concern was later reiterated by Defence Minister David McGuinty and Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Soloman. We all know that Donald Trump has a colourful history of spouting off some truly outrageous whoppers from time to time, but even he has never disseminated something as fatuous, dangerous or dishonest as this. And while he seldom backs down from his outrageous claims, whenever he pushes the envelope too far, at least his entourage goes on damage control to walk back some of his excesses – Carney’s guys are doubling down. Despite these idiotic statements, these are intelligent men. The odds that all three of them would simultaneously become afflicted by the same psychotic delusion is infinitesimally small. The only rational conclusion, therefore, is that they believe, or rather their polling data shows, that enough Canadians are so possessed by Trump Derangement that engaging in such asinine demagoguery is politically expedient. Sadly, they may be right. The vast coalition of useful idiots and true believers after effectively having their intelligences insulted by their dear leader, are coming out of the woodwork to express gratitude online for the Prime Minister’s caution in preparing for all, including the most remote, contingencies. Others are retreating slightly to hold the line at the fall-back position articulated by Minister McGuinty that, this kind of paranoid delusion is perfectly normal and, “all militaries in the world spend time analyzing risk scenarios.” I assure you, this is not normal. Back on planet Earth, the situation is tense and acrimonious (and there is plenty of blame to go around for that), but this is not the more than two centuries of peace along the 49th parallel that followed the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1815 drawing to an end. Trump has imposed tariffs on $20 billion (or 2% of the $400 billion per year) of Canadian exports to the US. In other words, amid this unnecessary, escalatory, and foolish trade dispute, the United States will still purchase 200% more Canadian goods and services this year than the rest of the world combined. This situation is like a restaurant’s picky regular customer complaining about an overcooked steak to a prideful chef who, fortified in his own mind by the knowledge he cooked the steak perfectly, refuses to comp the entree. This is not the start of World War III. We are so far removed from a military incursion at our southern border that we may as well be strategizing the response to the equally plausible threat of Santa Claus leading an invasion of elves from the north. If we woke up tomorrow in some parallel reality where the United States actually was contemplating a full-scale military campaign against Canada, with all due respect to our brave men and women in uniform, the only preparations to be made would be negotiating the terms of our unconditional surrender. Some brave and patriotic Canadians may refuse to submit and instead choose to conduct, as a matter of principle, a brutal and bloody guerilla warfare campaign against the strongest conventional and nuclear military force in the history of the world. Unfortunately, they would be in the precarious position of having to rely on our miserly European allies, or countries like Russia or China, whose recent actions have been significantly more hostile and provocative challenges to our sovereignty than the US tariffs, to supply us with weapons, and they would not remotely be adequate. It’s all so desperately preposterous. But for the sake of argument, let’s suppose that Donald Trump was indeed the terrifying bogeyman haunting the dreams of the most extreme and hopeless sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome and its frightful sister affliction, Andrew Coyneism, a rare and especially acute form of tweet-induced psychotic maladjustment. Even in this scenario, why would Trump use the military to annex Canada? All he would have to do is offer Alberta statehood, liberation from transfer payments, excessive regulation and carbon taxes, carte blanche to exploit its natural resources, a generous welcome bonus in the form of a $100,000 tax credit to every adult Albertan and replace their Canadian dollars with equal amounts of US currency. They would effectively be acquiring Alberta for the knock-down bargain price of roughly 1x annual GDP. Simultaneously, the US (including the newly acquired Alberta) would immediately cut off all trade with the rest of Canada. The net impact to Canada of this manoeuvre would be a cataclysmic economic collapse, while the newly composed United States would take a net GDP hit (loss of all trade with Canada, mostly offset by the acquisition of Alberta) of 0.8%. Next would come a full package of sanctions, a naval blockade, and when the rest of Canada became desperate enough, a Chinese belt-and-road style offtake of all of Canada’s resources at bargain prices, which by then, the Canadians would be desperate for. In the meantime, the US would revamp its immigration policy to recreate the brain-drain of the 1990s on steroids, welcoming the top 20% most productive Canadians to flee what had overnight become the third world. Harvard Alumnus Mark Carney might well be among those at the front of the line seeking this emigration opportunity, rejoining 91 percent of his own investments already located there. There would, no doubt, be a fearsome contingent of Canadians refusing to bend or break in the face of American tyranny, and elbows would be flying up to vertiginous heights with such vigour that the Canadian healthcare system would be overwhelmed by millions of spontaneous emergency room visits of patriotic patients with dislocated shoulders. I suspect many of you reading this are thinking to yourself that this is so completely far-fetched and absurd that, if serious, I must have lost my mind. Allow me to reassure you that while this is all bunk, it remains at least ten times more likely than the United States military executing a boots-on-the-ground invasion of Canada. Anyone who spends more than one second worrying about such an outcome should immediately proceed to the nearest sink to splash some cold water in their face and pull themselves together.
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Would you vote for this? Imagine Parliament voted on one bill instead of six. It would look something like this. Bill C-XX An Act to enact the Digital Integrity, Public Safety and Lawful Access Act Part 1 — Platforms A Digital Safety Commission regulates major social media and certain AI services. They must mitigate “harmful content,” verify or estimate users’ ages, keep under-16s off accounts except as prescribed, promote Canadian content, and face fines large enough to force over-removal. Part 2 — Speech A hate-motivated offence can raise the penalty for another crime to life. Advocating genocide also carries life. A judge can impose a peace bond on someone feared likely to commit a future hate offence, with conditions on speech and association. Buffer-zone offences protect worship sites and schools. Human-rights complaints for online hate speech return. Part 3 — Surveillance Providers retain metadata for months. Police can get subscriber and transmission data on a “reasonable suspicion” standard. The public-safety minister can secretly order companies to build access capabilities. Data can be shared with foreign partners without dual criminality. Part 4 — Property and status Handgun transfers stay frozen; prescribed rifles stay prohibited. The minister can cancel immigration documents by class in the “public interest.” Emergency financial freezes remain available under the Emergencies Act. Regulations (think Bureaucrats) fill in the real definitions later. That is the composite civil-liberties groups describe when they stack C-11, C-18, the dead C-63, the passed C-9, the pending C-34, C-22, C-21, C-12, and the 2022 emergency measures. Not every clause is in force. Not every clause is equally broad. Together they are a system: regulators set what platforms must police, criminal law raises the cost of certain speech, preventive orders act before a completed crime, and access-to-data rules get easier. They were not introduced that way. C-63 died. Partly resurrected as C-9 and C-34. Surveillance powers inside C-2 were carved out as C-22. C-11. C-18. C-21. The list goes on... That is how you keep the full package off the floor. A single bill would force one vote on content regulation plus life-maximum hate enhancements plus pre-crime bonds plus metadata retention plus compelled technical access. Split bills let the government campaign on children, hate, borders, and lawful policing—one sympathetic purpose at a time—while the operational details migrate into regulations and a new commission. Opposition and civil-liberties groups then have to fight five smaller wars instead of one visible statute. It is why the stacked effect is easy to miss until you put the parts back together.
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What a clown show... the cone of silence.

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Selling Canada by the pound... breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys-…
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The monarchy died with Queen Elizabeth II. Apple died with Steve Jobs. Canada died with the election of Justin Trudeau.
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Meanwhile in Canada 🇨🇦
Carney warns Canadians that there will be tough times ahead so with that statement alone Carney should not be allowed to add to our tough times by giving away any money to other countries and rein in all government spending.
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Coyne is such a disgusting and vile individual. What does it tell you about organizations like CBC & the Globe and Mail who employ a man who openly mocks permanently disabled men and women and calls their personal stories horseshit?
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Ottawa to shift nearly $1-billion from public-service pension fund to general revenues /via @globeandmail It's an old story, but it's still timely. theglobeandmail.com/politics…
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