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MJ Pon retweeted
C’est désormais officiel !
Au Canada, le concept juridique qui constitue le fondement de la civilisation occidentale, l’égalité devant la loi, selon lequel les lois doivent s’appliquer de manière égale à tous, ne s’applique plus.
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The long days of summer are nice, yes. But trying to evade the fact that we have winter by shifting the clocks an hour ahead and making kids and working adults wake up in the dark for months on end is ridiculous. #DitchDST
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We’re running deficits to fund bigger economies.
India has the fourth-largest economy on earth, nearly double the size of Canada’s.
In 2024 Canada sent it about $46 million in aid, according to OECD data.
Total Canadian aid that year: $13.36 billion.
India is poorer per person.
It also landed on the moon in 2023.
We’re still sending it cheques.
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Rape, murder, heinous violence was the hidden result of the War on Drugs started in 1969 by Richard Nixon.
So many hundreds of thousands were arrested in short order that prisons grew overcrowded fast.
So by the late 70’s to the 90’s states granted 80% of violent inmates parole including at least 70+ on Death Row.
This released thousands of inmates who went on to rape, kill or injure in their first nine years of release.
Those convicted of possession, trafficking, smuggling, & production were most often denied parole, unlike parole applicants who were convicted of aggravated violence, rape, assault, murder.
MJ Pon retweeted
It’s now official!
In Canada, the legal concept that forms the foundation of Western civilization, equality before the law, which holds that laws must apply equally to everyone, no longer applies.
MJ Pon retweeted
Wow, traitor's lies through Collectivist criminality support the British Empire controlling Canada as a colony of peasants, again.
Aren't you tired of Collectivist parasites feeding off of ALberta?
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They called Canada the world’s first post national state with no core identity.
They trampled their own citizens with horses and debanked them for protesting their draconian “health” policies.
Then they illegally used the emergencies act to crush them.
They have gradually shut down our resource based economy and made life unaffordable for vast swaths of the population.
They have driven food bank use through the roof with their inflationary monetary policies.
They flooded our country with millions of immigrants (many of whom dislike the native population) and drove the price of housing sky high.
They allowed Chinese police stations to operate within our borders.
They allowed Chinese political actors to intimidate our citizens and meddle in our elections. And now they want a “trade deal” that brings us even closer to an adversary we can’t defend ourselves against.
They neutered our military, put tampons in the men’s room and put a woman in charge who cries publicly about how terrible we are.
Now they want to disarm us and throw us in jail for quoting scripture.
But they “Choose Canada”.
The truth is the Liberals abandoned Canada and its citizens long ago.
Their patriotism is fake and based on nothing more than a fear of orange man bad. The moment Trump is gone they’ll simply finish the job they started ten years ago.
They hate Canada. And they hate you. Only a brainwashed moron would believe otherwise.
MJ Pon retweeted
It’s difficult for mostly eastern Canadians in places like Ontario and the maritimes to understand but vast swaths of the Canadian population have no connection to the monarchy or their loyalist roots. See Quebec and probably the majority of western Canada that was settled at the turn of the last century by Americans (about 25%), Eastern Europeans and more recently people of Asian descent.
For many of us the monarchy is an antiquated and frankly authoritarian form of government (constitutional or not).
It puts one man politically above another based on nothing more than his bloodline. Not merit. Genetics.
You’ll never rally us against America because of your loyalist roots. We have no connection to them and frankly find the idea of bending a knee to a human king abhorrent.
Sorry not sorry.
MJ Pon retweeted
Mississippi is now richer than us.
The World Bank puts Canada’s 2025 GDP per person at US$55,698. Mississippi, the poorest state in America, sits around US$55,877.
That puts us below all 50 states.
In 2014 the New York Times found Canada’s middle class had caught up to America’s. A year later the liberals took over.
Ten years of liberals. Fifty states ahead of us.
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And how much of that is due to government mandates, regulations, subsidies, and general interference in the free market?
Reminds me of solar and wind: most of those wouldn’t exist without the State bullying its citizens.
Plus, there is a significant difference between hybrid and fully electric vehicles.
And many car manufacturers lost their shirts on electric vehicles and have discontinued them.
Full context paints a different picture.
It usually does…
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When politicians agree on protecting their system, you should start asking who that system actually serves.
For years, we’ve watched them campaign on promises, ask for our trust, then explain why they can’t deliver once they’re elected.
There’s money for commitments overseas. There’s another announcement, another expensive plan, another promise that things will get better.
Meanwhile, you’re standing in the grocery aisle doing math. You’re working overtime to cover bills. You’re wondering what kind of future your kids will have.
And somehow, we’re always expected to be patient.
My opinion? We’re reaching a turning point. People are tired of paying for a political system that seems far better at protecting the people running it than helping the people funding it.
Look at these six. Different parties. Different careers. I don’t believe they agree on everything. But I believe protecting the existing system matters more to them than they’re willing to admit.
I’m tired of being told that wanting something better for Alberta makes me the problem.
I’m a husband, a dad and a grandfather. I want my family to have a future they can afford. I want politicians held to their promises. And I want taxpayers treated like people whose work matters.
They aren’t entitled to our votes, our trust or another chance.
They have to earn them.
When did demanding better become more controversial than failing to deliver?
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If you understand anything about economics, you know that no group can possibly manage all the necessary factors to create a better result than the free market. All outcomes from centralized control are a disaster in the making. Every tweak will have unintended consequences.
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“Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic.”
— Thomas Sowell
MJ Pon retweeted
I was born in Calgary. I've spent my whole life in Toronto.
Over the past two years, filming the documentary Broken Country, I've spent more time in Alberta than I have since I moved east. And I've come away seeing the separation debate very differently than I did going in.
I met a lot of separatists. Almost none of them were who I expected. They weren't angry cranks with a flag. They were farmers, nurses, oil workers, small-business owners, grandparents. And the thing that surprised me most: most of them want nothing more than to remain in Canada. They just can't see another choice.
Think about what they've lived through. The National Energy Program. Pipelines approved, then cancelled, then litigated into the ground. A tanker ban on one coast. Hundreds of billions sent east through equalization, returned as lectures about how the industry that pays for Canada's infrastructure and provincial shortfalls is something to be ashamed of. A federal government that has gone to court to argue Alberta's own resources aren't Alberta's business. And through all of it, a Parliament where their votes are a rounding error.
You can disagree with every policy position Albertans hold and still see the pattern: a province that built one of the most productive economies on Earth, asked over and over to apologize for it.
The people pushing for a referendum aren't traitors. They're patriots. They are standing up for what they believe in and fighting for a better future for their kids, a future their own federal government keeps telling them they don't deserve. That's not a tantrum. That's what citizens are supposed to do when nobody in power is listening.
I'll say it plainly: I want nothing more than for Alberta to stay in Canada. This country is not whole without it. If Alberta leaves the country I love and am fighting for will cease to exist.
But maybe a referendum vote is exactly the wake-up call the rest of us need. Not because Alberta should leave, but because the rest of Canada has to finally decide whether it wants to be a partner or a landlord.
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Get reaedy for Marxist Carney to bring in another million illegal, and probably Muslim, parasites. If they are so good why aren't they making their countries as good as ours? This is an invasion of stupidity and insanity, Globalism is a Collectivist. Wake UP!
This makes no sense. The Indian High Commissioner says Canada needs 15 MILLION new immigrants over the next decade to meet growing job demand 👀
What job demand EXACTLY? Canada has the 2nd highest unemployment in the G7, more business EXITS than openings, Canada just lost over 100K jobs in 2 months, Labour force participation rate dropped down to 64.8%, its lowest baseline level since 1997 (outside of COVID), 55% of small to medium enterprise owners would NOT recommend starting a business in Canada today, ONLY 27% of Canadian CEOs expecting positive domestic growth, Layoff intentions outpace hiring plans, Canadian capital investment has steadily declined relative to its peers, Canada’s output per hour worked has fallen DRASTICALLY behind international standards, to name a FEW 🇨🇦
What am I missing here?