Canadian Senator for Nova Scotia. Chair of Committee of Selection. Member of Foreign Affairs Committee. Co-Chair of Canada-US Inter-Parliamentary Group.

Nova Scotia, Canada
Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
Mark Carney is driving entrepreneurs out of Canada with taxes, red tape, and inflation, while he gives handouts, bailouts, and carveouts to the club of corporate insiders.
this should be a five alarm fire for policymakers in canada 517 american companies started by canadians. $414 billion raised. almost 9 in 10 of them went to school in canada incredibly, 216 of these founders went to waterloo…. and half of these companies were started in the last 2 years!
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
Le TGV libéral est une dépense inutile de 90 milliards de dollars qui ne profitera qu'aux élites libérales, malgré le fait qu'il soit entièrement financé par les familles québécoises et canadiennes. Les agriculteurs, les propriétaires fonciers et les travailleurs disent NON au TGV. Les conservateurs sont avec eux. Signez si vous êtes d'accord : conservateur.ca/cpc/mettons-…
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
This is why a trillion dollars have left Canada under the Liberals.
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
BREAKING: Carney doubled Trudeau's deficit. It is more costly credit card budgeting. He will further inflate the cost of living for hardworking Canadians. He's just another Liberal.
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
Thank you so much @SenMacDonald for your valuable time🙏. I truly appreciate the insightful discussion. Deep respect and gratitude for your affection for Japan and your contributions to the Canada-Japan Inter-Parliamentary Group. 🇨🇦🇯🇵 - Min. Shugo Tanaka #CDNPoli
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Silencing a free and democratic people like Taiwan is exactly what authoritarian regimes do. Beijing’s coercive effort to limit Taiwan’s international engagement is unacceptable and we must stand firm and speak clearly against it.
The PRC’s conduct is clear: ➡️Economic coercion ➡️Pressure to revoke overflight permits ➡️Obstruction of President Lai’s visit to Eswatini one day before the departure Such malicious suppression will only further unite #Taiwan. We call on partners to stand with us.
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
Canadians carry more debt than what our entire country produces in a year. Nearly half are $200 from insolvency. Working people can't keep up with the cost of Carney's illusions. We must build strength at home by lowering taxes, removing red tape, and green-lighting projects so our people can live affordable lives: conservative.ca/cpc/no-more-…
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
Whether you're in Vancouver, Saskatoon, Timmins, or Halifax, or anywhere in between, you should be able to order any Canadian-made beer, wine, or spirits of your choice. Conservative MP @DanAlbas has introduced Bill C-262 to remove roadblocks and let Canada Post deliver alcohol anywhere in Canada. Sign to help us bring more free trade in 🇨🇦: conservative.ca/cpc/free-tra…
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
70% of our food is made in Canada, but we still face the worst food inflation among G7 countries. It's a made-in-Canada Liberal hunger crisis, with people unable to afford their groceries. To fix it, let's boost competition, eliminate hidden Liberal grocery taxes, and cut inflationary deficits so families can buy affordable food again: conservative.ca/cpc/stop-the…
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
Conservatives condemn the 20-year prison sentence imposed on Jimmy Lai by the PRC and the government of Hong Kong, simply for exercising his freedom of speech, assembly, and association. We stand in solidarity with him and the people of Hong Kong and call for his immediate and unconditional release.
Conservatives call for the immediate release of newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai following Hong Kong’s imposition of an unjust 20-year prison sentence. My statement below. #cdnpoli
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
1/2 A #CEUS led by @SenMacDonald is in Washington for bilateral meetings with its Congressional counterparts. It includes Senator Deacon and MPs @lisahepfner, @RichardBragdon, and @SPSTremblay, joined by Senator @AndrewCardozo5
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
Is this what winning looks like?
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Today, we honour those that served and continue to serve, and remember the sacrifice of the many Canadians who didn’t come home. Lest we forget. #RemembranceDay [Passchendaele, 1917. Canadian War Museum]
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
Today, Canada’s Fallen will be honoured and remembered. Please join us in observing a moment of silence at 11:00 am to mark the sacrifice of the many who have fallen in the service of their country. #RemembranceDay #CanadaRemembers
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Polls, not the national interest, are what’s driving the Carney govt’s trade talks with the US, according to Minister Leblanc’s own words. Public opinion is driven by emotion. A government should be driven by rational decision making.
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
We should be the richest country in the world. But Canada's current standard of living is lower than it was in 2019—while the U.S. saw an 11% increase over the same period. Liberal taxes, inflation and red-tape drive investment and jobs south while crushing the value Canadians paycheques and taking 42% of what's left. Mark Carney's handout & bailout economy is making a small group of elite rich by making everyone else poor. Unlock free enterprise, cut spending & taxes, restore sound money to enrich all our people. fraserinstitute.org/commenta…
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It shouldn’t be this way - Canadian families deserve a government that makes life affordable and secures a better future for our kids.
Canadians are now among the most likely people in the world to think their kids will be worse off than them. A decade of Liberal inflation, stagnation, housing hell, crime, reckless immigration has destroyed the Canadian promise. We must restore it. For our kids.
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
'Replacing Asian coal with Canadian natural gas would dwarf any other decarbonization efforts to date' nationalpost.com/opinion/fir…
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
Updated Canadian Taxes & Social Contributions data: 2024 Federal Govt. Tax take is at a 22-year high. Canada, we are being punked. 🤦‍♀️
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Michael L. MacDonald 🇨🇦 retweeted
The Harper government made a huge effort to diversify Canadian export markets, in part to reduce our over-dependence on the US market. We signed new trade agreements with 39 countries, moving Canada from 6 to 45 free trade agreements between 2006-2015. That included free trade with most of Europe and Asia through CETA and TPP. This helped marginally to diversify our exports away from the US, but then the Liberal government oversaw a huge increase in our dependence on the US during the Lost Decade. While they were busy hammering our resource industries, the “progressive” Liberal trade agenda was focussed on promoting DEI and ESG language in annexes to existing agreements, rather than hard nosed commercial negotiations and market expansion. Now we’re paying the price. The single biggest thing Canada could do to diversify our exports and improve our balance of trade would be to build coastal oil and gas pipelines and LNG terminals, moving our energy to fungible global commodity markets. That would increase our exports to the world by tens of billions of dollars. But instead of doing that hard work, it’s a lot easier to send Ministers to an endless circuit of summits and conferences to virtue signal with cliché talking points about our “progressive” trade agenda. This chart is what that approach has given us: much more dependence on an unreliable, protectionist American market.
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