401_da_sarpanch on X - "#REPORT: Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Appointed By Carney Estimates The Liberal GST Handout Will Cost Taxpayers $12.4 Billion Over The Next 6 Years — $3.1 Billion In The First Year Alone.π¨ The PBO Was Not Offered A Full-Time Position Because PM Carney Wants Someone With "Tact" And "Discretion," Must Communicate In A "Neutral Way." In Other Words He Exposes To Much.π¨π¦"
401_da_sarpanch on X - "#REPORT: Liberals Vote 164-153 To Block Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) Jason Jacques As Permanent Watchdog, Despite Being Ranked The World’s Best. π¨π¦ Handing PM Mark Carney’s Oxford Classmate Annette Ryan The PBO Position. This Comes After Jacques Raised Alarms On Soaring Deficits And Shady Financial Reporting Changes.π¨- @mindingottawa"
TrendingPolitics.ca on X - "NEW: Sources confirm Liberal government expected to nominate FinTRAC deputy director Annette Ryan as next Parliamentary Budget Officer, rejecting calls to keep interim PBO Jason Jacques, who earned OECD praise as world's best — The Globe and Mail READ MORE:"
Watcher on X - "Notice to reader: Canada has a huge money laundering problem. https://t.co/K4pcdC1Tie Appointing someone from FinTRAC - the agency responsible for tracking money laundering - does not bode well for the integrity of the PBO."
The Free People Of Canada | Facebook - "Canada is not a conservative country. That’s not just about voting preferences — it’s cultural. Where American conservatism celebrates individualism and personal responsibility, Canada worships collectivism, politeness, and the idea of being seen as good. You see it everywhere: the pride in “free” healthcare, the religious devotion to climate change, the refusal to assign blame to individuals. Conservatism doesn’t just lose in Canada because of policy — it loses because it fundamentally clashes with the national identity. Modern conservatism believes people are responsible for their own actions. Canadian liberalism says society is to blame. Crime? It’s not a choice — it’s the fault of poverty or socio-economic environment, especially if the criminal is a racial minority. The disaster on First Nations reserves? That’s not about corrupt or incompetent leadership — it’s all the fault of colonialism. There’s always an excuse. This is why the Liberal Party fits so perfectly. Their values — compassionate, welcoming, polite, environmentally friendly, cosmopolitan — are exactly how Canadians see themselves. The Liberals don’t have to persuade people of anything. They just mirror back the story Canadians already believe about who they are. Even when their policies are useless or damaging, they still feel like the good guys — and in this country, that’s what matters. But this didn’t start with Trudeau. "Toronto the Good" was around long before the Charter. The real roots of Canadian liberalism go back to the Protestant foundations of the country — the Puritans, Quakers, Methodists, Presbyterians. The moralizing, rule-enforcing, purity-obsessed spirit of mainline Protestantism never went away. It just evolved. Curtis Yarvin talks about this — how progressivism is just the next version of that same religion, minus God. Once you take God out of it, all you have left is a moral structure enforced by social pressure and state power. And that’s exactly what Canada is now. Not Christian, but not secular either. It’s religious about being “good.” But this kind of goodness isn’t biblical — it’s legalistic. Orthodox Christianity says nobody is good apart from grace. Canadian goodness is earned through compliance. Follow the rules. Say the right things. Pay your taxes. Be nice. Don’t judge. Don’t speak too strongly. Just obey, smile, and recycle. Look at the evidence. Canadians talk like they have moral superiority over Americans because of our “free” healthcare system — even though it’s falling apart. They pay carbon taxes, separate their recycling, drive electric cars— even though it changes nothing. But it’s not about results. It’s about looking virtuous. They believe in the climate cult, in multiculturalism, in every progressive cause that makes them feel morally superior to Americans. It’s not logic — it’s ritual. This is Canada. A country built on unearned moral superiority. A culture that confuses politeness with virtue. A people that care more about being seen as good than actually doing good. Until conservatives understand they aren’t just up against liberal policy — they’re up against an entire worldview, a national religion — they’ll keep losing."
I hate how the liberals have successfully boiled down Canadian culture to just being “not American” to their voters : r/CanadianConservative - "Their voters used to say Canada had no culture. Then it became useful for them to say it had a culture, and it’s defined by adherence to left wing politics. It’s all just a game, they rarely believe anything they say they believe. Next election cycle if Trump’s gone they’ll go back to saying Canada has no culture so they can take the stance that conservatives are racists for believing otherwise, to try to win votes from immigrant groups."
"The American and Canadian left has done more to Americanise us then the American right, I'd like to see Mark Carney and Kamala Harris admit to this instead of pinning this shit on Trump"
I hate how the liberals have successfully boiled down Canadian culture to just being “not American” to their voters : r/CanadianConservative - "The Conservatives should just surrender? Because it's the Liberals who brought the culture wars here by importing all the anti-Canadian, anti-Western, anti-Capitalist beliefs and practices of the American progressive Left. I'm tired of people acting like us paying attention and fighting back is about wasting our time on minutia. It was the culture wars that had people tearing down statues of Canada's founders. It's the culture wars that have every left-wing institution mouthing those idiotic land acknowledgements before every meeting, which are designed to reinforce in everyone's minds that we're here illegally, that this isn't a legitimate country, that we're interlopers even after centuries of living here. It's the culture wars that are behind the mass of immigration, and people accusing you of racism or white supremacy if you want to protect Canada's heritage and culture. It's the culture wars behind crime in the streets, as the Left decides anyone without white skin is a helpless victim of oppression and racism, no matter how violent they are, and who keep sending them back out onto the streets to commit more crimes. The culture wars are not just about trans and gender, they're about destroying the foundations of our society, from the family to the legitimacy of the country itself. You can't build up pride in a nation that is on 'stolen' land, illegitimate, genocidal, populated by 'settlers' and 'colonists' who have no right to be here in a country whose every institution, according to our previous prime minister, are systemically racist. You surrender to the Left on the culture wars you can damned well forget about establishing any pride in this country at all."
The only country that left wing Canadians hate more than Canada is the US
Instructor at federally funded Islamic org promotes Islamic caliphate to youth on U.S. podcast - "Taxpayer dollars are funding an Islamic institute in Mississauga where an instructor is openly encouraging young Muslims to dream of a global caliphate and work toward establishing a theoretical Islamic state. Canadian Islamic scholar Ustadh Abu Ibrahim appeared on a U.S. podcast to promote political Islam. In an episode of the Islamic Oasis podcast, Abu Ibrahim stated that Gen X Muslims don’t shy away from shari’a [Islamic law] and that their eyes “light up” when he lectures them about establishing an Islamic caliphate."
FIRST READING: 'Hate speech' to critique child gender transitioning, says Nova Scotia minister - "When floor-crossers began filtering into the Liberal ranks late last year, Prime Minister Mark Carney initially explained the phenomenon as being an organic exodus from the opposition. But this week, Conservative MP Kelly DeRidder outlined what she called a coordinated “pressure” campaign to sway opposition MPs to the Liberals. “These are not rumours … these are conversations taking place behind the scenes, away from public view, away from accountability,” she said. De Ridder added that her own experience was a Liberal Party staffer allegedly threatening to steamroll her in the next election with a star candidate, before hinting there would be fiscal benefits to her riding for defecting. “You know that Kitchener Centre is a technology hub, it would be good for your riding if you were with the government,” was how De Ridder described the pitch."
KLEIN: Government announcements fail to convince Canadians - "The latest Probe Research poll from April should put an end to the illusion that governments across this country are building anything of consequence. The numbers do not show confidence, they show uncertainty. They do not reflect momentum, they reveal hesitation. Most importantly, they confirm what many Canadians already suspect: these so-called “major projects” exist far more in announcements than in reality. Six flagship initiatives are being promoted as evidence of economic leadership. High-speed rail, LNG development, carbon capture, small modular nuclear reactors, offshore wind, and the expansion of the Port of Churchill. On paper, it reads like a serious national strategy. In practice, it is a collection of ideas still waiting for proof that they will ever be delivered. The polling data strips away the messaging. While small majorities express support for some projects, that support is shallow and fragmented. Large portions of Canadians admit they have never even heard of most of these initiatives. In some cases, nearly forty per cent of respondents cannot form an opinion at all. That is not an endorsement. That is a public being asked to react to something it does not understand because it has not yet seen it. This is the central problem. Governments continue to treat announcements as achievements. A press conference is framed as progress. A funding promise is presented as an action. A partnership agreement is marketed for execution. None of those things builds a rail line, produces energy, or moves goods through a port. Until construction begins and measurable progress is visible, these projects remain concepts, not contributions to the economy. The regional breakdown in the poll reinforces this point. Support aligns with geography rather than a coherent national vision... The most telling detail in the poll is the admission that opinions remain volatile. That is not a minor footnote. It is a warning. It means support is conditional and can disappear quickly once projects move beyond the abstract stage and into real-world consequences. When costs become clear, when delays emerge, and when taxpayers are asked to fund overruns, public patience tends to evaporate. Canadians have seen this pattern too often. Projects are announced with confidence and optimism, only to stall under regulatory delays, shifting political priorities, or rising costs. Timelines stretch, budgets grow, and accountability fades. Eventually, attention shifts to the next announcement while the previous one remains unfinished. This cycle has created a credibility problem that no amount of messaging can fix. The private sector operates under a different standard. Businesses cannot rely on announcements to generate returns. They must execute, deliver, and produce results within defined timelines and budgets. If they fail, they lose investor confidence and market share. Governments should be held to a similar standard when they commit public dollars to major infrastructure and energy projects. There is a straightforward path forward, but it requires discipline and a willingness to change how success is measured. Governments must begin by setting clear, public timelines for each project and reporting progress against those benchmarks. Delays should be explained, not buried. Cost estimates should be realistic from the outset, not adjusted repeatedly after the fact. Equally important is the need to streamline the regulatory environment. Lengthy approval processes create uncertainty that discourages investment and slows progress. Businesses can manage risk, but they cannot plan around indefinite timelines. If Canada is serious about competing globally, it must be able to move projects from approval to construction without years of delay. Capital commitment is another critical factor. Early tangible investment signals that a project is moving forward. Feasibility studies and consultations have their place, but they cannot become substitutes for action. At some point, decisions must be made, and work must begin. Finally, governments must prioritize"
Too bad left wingers think announcements are the same as achievements
The upside-down world of Liberal budgets - The Globe and Mail - "In the upside-down land of the Liberals, a spending spree is a spending cut, blowing a windfall of billions of dollars is prudent and failing to prepare for a fiscal storm is, well, just good management... the government’s much ballyhooed expenditure review does not cut spending, despite much hand-wringing to the contrary. The last fiscal document from the Trudeau government, the December, 2024 fall fiscal update, forecast spending for the current fiscal year at $568.1-billion. In the fall budget, the Carney government upped that total to $588.5-billion. And on Tuesday, it boosted spending even more, to $594.9-billion. At the risk of pointing out the obvious, a spending increase of $26.8-billion is not a spending cut. Ah, but the Liberals have promised, as Mr. Champagne points out, to increase spending on productive investment while throttling back on more consumption-focused expenditures. Surely that must explain the rise in spending? Quite the contrary. The government’s “capital investments,” an admittedly fluid category, are now projected to be $1.8-billion lower this year, even as overall spending jumps. Some of that drop is owing to unexpectedly slow uptake on clean-economy tax credits and some is due to recategorizing some expenditures. Still according to its own logic, the government is spending more, but investing less, again the opposite of what the finance minister claims. Mr. Champagne portrays a picture of a government as a “prudent fiscal manager” that is whittling down the federal deficit. And that is his biggest misstatement. It is true that the deficit for the 2026 fiscal year that ended on March 31 is $11.5-billion lower than was forecast in November. But that is largely because the government’s revenues surged by $7-billion. After that, the projected deficits from fiscal 2027 through to fiscal 2030s are only marginally lower than in the November fiscal framework, despite a $42.6-billion surge in revenue over that time. Of that, just $1.1-billion goes to deficit reduction. Or look at it this way: For every $100 in new revenue, the Liberals spend $97.40 and save just $2.60. Even Justin Trudeau would have difficulties in matching that performance. Despite Mr. Champagne’s rhetoric and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s promises, it’s clear that the Liberals have no intention of changing their high-spending ways. Any faint hope that the Liberals would use their newly acquired majority to do so vanished on Tuesday. Instead, it’s more of what Canadians have become resigned to from the past decade of Liberal budgets. Every new dollar of revenue is just another opportunity to spend. Today’s lack of fiscal discipline is enough of a worry on its own. But compounding that concern is the failure to take action to head off the future fiscal crunch. The budget projects a slowdown in labour productivity growth by the end of the decade, a decline from an annual increase of 1.3 per cent to 0.9 per cent. (That latter number might prove to be optimistic since the average increase in labour productivity from 2015 to 2025 is much lower, at 0.2 per cent.) Economists have sounded the alarm that, absent aggressive measures to boost productivity, the federal and provincial governments face a future where debt loads relative to the economy inexorably creep higher, eventually to a crisis point. (The fiscal update has a much cheerier view, showing a steady decline in the ratio of long-term debt to gross domestic product.) Such aggressive action is nowhere to be found in Tuesday’s update; no commitment to deep deregulation, no effort at broad tax reform, no dismantling of the protectionist barriers that coddle Canadian industry. Instead, there is a pablum-esque statement on a “Whole-of Government Competition Plan.” Mr. Champagne, in his speech, urged Canadians to be ambitious. He should take his own advice to heart, and come up with a reality-based plan to stabilize federal finances."
Clearly, Donald Trump is to blame!
National Post on X - "Applications to Canada's armed forces surged 12.9% in the past eight months, says national defence minister"
Lee Humphrey on X - "When I joined in 82 it was also amongst a surge that grew even larger when the Liberal gov gave us a 12% pay raise & created a youth employment program called YTEP. The economy at the time was in the dumpster, unemployment was at or near double digits & no one joining cared if we had crap equipment & had to yell bullets because the Army couldn’t afford to buy blank ammunition for training. We had jobs that paid $208 twice a month after we paid for rations & accommodating. Millions of CDN’s were drowning, we weren’t. Sound familiar? The Libs just followed the PET model but put it on steroids. They handed out 20% raises for privates, lowered medical standards, lowered dress standards, lowered fitness standards & eliminated the need for a background check before showing up for basic training so yeah, there’s a recruiting surge but retention among high tech trades is still staggering & now you have months long remedial fitness training (while we’re paying these folks) just so they can meet the pitiful standards expected at the beginning of basic training & we’re taking on medical liabilities that will limit deployability & wasting months of salary & training on an unknown number of people that may well not be capable of passing a basic background check! Is this making the CAF more lethal or capable? The hard answer is no!!"
Holly Doan on X - "“News subsidies are paid without restrictions on use of aid. The insolvent @SaltWireNews of Halifax used $5,174,847 in aid to pay delinquent taxes while laying off employees. @thediscourse of Sun Peaks, B.C. used its subsidy to hire foreign workers and was fined $10,000 for breaching federal labour laws. @WinnipegNews on receiving aid closed its Parliament Hill Bureau after 149 years.”"
David Clement π on X: "No, Canada Is Not Doing Great" / X - "There is a generational divide in Canada. On one end of the spectrum you have younger Canadians who feel irritated at the current state of affairs. On the other, however, are older Canadians who, like clockwork, think that Canada is doing just fine. Or, even that Canada is “doing great”. The dichotomy between these two groups reared its ugly head again with the recent jobs figures, where Canada posted its worst numbers in 4 years. Unemployment rose to 6.7%, with youth unemployment more than double that at 14%. 84,000 jobs vanished in February, and to make matters worse most of those losses were in the private sector. So when older Canadians say Canada is doing great, my response is that it's not. Canada is not doing great. And I'm tired, actually exhausted, of watching people nod along with this comforting lie. What about our cherished universal healthcare? Fine. We have universal healthcare — where the median wait time to see a specialist and receive treatment is 30 weeks . Thirty weeks. We have physicians retiring in record numbers and we're importing doctors because we decided, thirty years ago, that training too many doctors would cost too much. Now more than 6.5 million Canadians don't have a family doctor , more than the entire population of British Columbia. What about housing? Please. A detached house in Toronto has a benchmark price well over a million dollars. A nurse, a teacher, a cop (people we spent two years calling heroes) can't afford to live within an hour of where they work. We did that. We chose that. We kept strict zoning, we stalled permitting, we coddled NIMBYs at every level of government for forty years, and now we act baffled that young people are either leaving or quietly giving up on the idea of ever owning anything. You want to talk about productivity? Canada's labour productivity was the worst in the G7 in 2023 . The value we produce per hour worked was 17 per cent below the G7 average . We dig things out of the ground and we ship them somewhere else to be made into things. That's it. That's the economy. We have coasted on commodities and the American economy, and now we are scrambling because we never built the east-west infrastructure, never built the refining capacity, never built the trade corridors because it was always easier to just send it south. And if you don't believe me, ask the OECD. They have projected, not warned or suggested, that Canada will be the worst-performing advanced economy in the world for the next 40 years . Dead last. Not just this decade, but the three decades after that. Young Canadians entering the workforce today are looking at a lifetime of stagnating real incomes. That's not a prediction anymore. That's a trajectory. And we have done almost nothing to change it. We rank near the bottom of G7 in business investment, and Canada and France are the only G7 countries where R&D spending as a share of GDP hasn't increased in twenty years . Our most talented people leave. We celebrate them when they win a Nobel Prize at an American university and then we wonder why they didn't come back. You want to say we're nice? That we're decent? Sure. We're polite. We're good at apologizing. We apologize so well, so reflexively, that we've started confusing the apology with actually fixing anything. I love this country. I genuinely, deeply love it. The land, the idea of it, what it was supposed to be. A place that figured out how to be fair. But we have spent twenty years mistaking the reputation for reality. We kept cashing that reputation cheque, and nobody noticed the account was running low. The first step to fixing something is stopping telling yourself it isn't broken."
Left wingers want to destroy the economy to spite Donald Trump and the US, while believing everything the media, Mark Carney and the Liberal party tell them, so. Patriotism is not always good for the country
Wayne Mathison | Facebook - "Canada has developed a dangerous political habit: explaining everything away.
Radical rhetoric? “Just frustration.”
Censorship? “Safety.”
Ideological hiring? “Equity.”
Falling standards? “Inclusion.”
Economic stagnation? “Transition.”
It’s the national version of hearing grinding noises in the engine and turning the radio up louder. Isaiah Berlin warned about this while writing about pre-revolutionary Russia. Moderates convinced themselves the rising extremism, anti-intellectualism, and political intimidation were only temporary excesses. So they rationalized it. Excused it. Softened the language around it. Until it became the culture.
Canada now risks combining two bad instincts at once:
• activist moral absolutism,
• and technocratic social engineering.
One side governs through emotional pressure. The other through managerial pressure. Ordinary Canadians get squeezed in the middle while being told this is all “progress.” A country does not usually lose itself in one dramatic collapse. It drifts there slowly through fear, excuses, and intelligent people refusing to say what they can plainly see.
The first step back is simple: Stop explaining everything away.""
‘Canadians love Americans,’ says Doug Ford after receiving honorary degree from Michigan university : r/notthebeaverton
Of course, left wingers were very upset. Left wing Canadians like to claim they just hate Trump, but clearly they hate the US too
‘Pearson is a disaster’: Poilievre backs Toronto island airport expansion : r/Toronto_Ontario - "An MP from rural Alberta shouldn't have an opinion on Toronto"
"Should Marit Styles STFU about anything outside her Davenport riding? Because that's basically what you're saying here."
‘Pearson is a disaster’: Poilievre backs Toronto island airport expansion : r/Toronto_Ontario - "He’s the leader of the opposition."
"It's true lol. Redditors will say this about Poilievre (who's doing his job as leader of Opposition) But then post about about the Wab Kinew MP from Manitoba publicly commenting on the Iran war that Canada isn't even involved in and it gets 10k upvotes"
"Exactly. Wouldn't you want the leader of the opposition to have an opinion about this? As in, so you know where I stand if I were to form a government and take action on this matter."
"Truly. Official leader of federal opposition comments that Canada's largest and busiest airport is busy. Hard to disagree with. Encourages push for alternative, which would benefit Toronto but also the rest of Canada Toronto Redditors: sTaY iN yOuR LAnE CONservative LOSER!!!1!!!! Sometimes I wonder if our smugness might limit our progress."
You're only allowed to have an opinion if it pushes the left wing agenda
