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. @grok provide a list of all of the Canadian Liberal governments scandals from the past 11 years in chronological order.
"Elbows up" is somehow managing to cut off oxygen or blood flow to Canadian brains.
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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This is probably the best answer I've ever heard to the question, "Why did God create evil?"
A professor at the university asked his students the following question:
“Everything that exists was created by God?”
One student bravely answered:
“Yes, it was created by God.”
The professor asked :
“If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.”
The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
“Can I ask you a question, professor?”
"Of course," replied the professor.
“Professor, is cold a thing?”
“What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?”
Students laughed at the young man's question.
The young man answered:
“Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.
Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.”
The student continued:
“Professor, does darkness exist?”
“Of course it exists.” said the professor.
“You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness. We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.”
In the end, the young man asked the professor:
“Sir, does evil exist?”
This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:
“Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.”
To this, the student answered:
“Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It’s the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there’s no light.”
🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
Bob Mitchell retweeted
Behold, Alberta's future. Janis Irwin and Marie Renaud, both NDP MLAs, proudly posing in a classroom draped in a massive trans pride flag, surrounded by rainbow everything and 'love is love' propaganda.
Does anyone really think this is normal and productive?
This is exactly why we need Bill 25 - "An Act to Remove Politics and Ideology from Classrooms and Amend the Education Act, 2026"
These folks turned schools into ideological theme parks, pushing personal activism over reading, writing, and math.
Bill 25 is about reminding everyone that classrooms are for education, not rainbow indoctrination sessions and flag worship.
If only NDP MLAs spent half as much energy on actual learning instead of turning kids into props for their cause. We've allowed radicals to infiltrate all our institutions, and it's time to take them back.
Keep ideology out of the classroom.
Bob Mitchell retweeted
WHO BENEFITS FROM ANGERING TRUMP?
Ok Mr. Carney. I see what you're up to.
Canadians are watching how you are handling Donald Trump, and it does not resemble diplomacy, or any of the things you promised Canadians in exchange for their vote. It resembles provocation.
After your government announced a new China trade arrangement, President Trump responded in the most predictable way possible. He warned that if Canada becomes a “drop off port” for Chinese goods into the United States, he would impose 100 percent tariffs on Canadian exports. He framed it as enforcement, not ideology. Canada, he said, would not be used as a back door for Chinese manufacturing to evade American tariffs.
That concern did not come from nowhere. China has a long history of dumping surplus, state subsidized goods into foreign markets when domestic demand slows. Steel. Aluminum. EVs. Solar panels. Consumer electronics. Low prices. Flood the market. Crush competitors. Americans hate this because it guts their factories and wages. Canadians should hate it because it turns our economy into a clearance aisle for products nobody else wants.
So when your government announces closer economic ties with China with no visible safeguards, no transshipment controls, no inspection regime, no penalty structure, and no serious coordination with Washington, Trump does what Trump always does. He escalates. Loudly. Publicly. With tariffs.
Let's be honest about what that means.
A 100 percent tariff is not a warning. It doubles the price of Canadian goods crossing the border. Auto parts. Vehicles. Steel. Aluminum. Machinery. Lumber. Agricultural exports. That is not leverage. That is a shutdown switch. It makes Canadian products uncompetitive overnight and sends buyers elsewhere.
Workers lose hours. Plants idle. Investment freezes. The dollar weakens. Household costs rise. That is how tariffs work.
Yet instead of moving urgently to defuse this, your government appears almost comfortable letting it grow.
Which leads to an uncomfortable conclusion.
You are behaving like someone who cannot get what he wants directly, so he provokes the reaction he needs instead.
This is the classic manipulation pattern of a child who wants attention or power. He does not negotiate. He pokes. He triggers an outburst. Then he points to the explosion and says, look what they did to me.
That is what this looks like.
You are not calming Trump. You are daring him. You are not stabilizing the relationship. You are agitating it. You are not preventing retaliation. You are inviting it.
And that only makes sense if the retaliation serves your purpose.
You govern as a minority. That means restraint. That means cooperation. That means limits. You have never looked comfortable with that. Your ambitions go far beyond climate policy. You have made it clear you want to reshape Canada’s entire economic system to mirror your own ideological model. Carbon markets. Industrial controls. Financial rulemaking. Trade realignment designed to satisfy global institutions rather than protect Canadian households.
That kind of transformation requires power without obstruction.
And power without obstruction requires a crisis.
Trump is useful to you because he is reactive. When you poke him, he roars. When he roars, you get a villain. When you get a villain, you get a narrative. And when you get a narrative, you get the excuse for a snap election framed as national defense rather than political ambition.
Stand up to Trump.
Defend Canada.
Protect sovereignty.
It is a clean script.
You will say Trump is unreasonable. What you will not say is that you knew exactly how he would respond. You knew that announcing closer ties with China without visible guardrails would trigger American fears of transshipment. You knew the phrase “drop off port for Chinese goods” would dominate US politics. You knew a tariff threat would follow. You lit the match and waited for the fire.
Perhaps you will claim this is strategy. That provocation forces engagement. That escalation creates leverage. If that is the case, it is reckless. You do not gamble auto plants, farms, steel mills, and trucking routes on personality management. You do not risk tariff walls so you can manufacture urgency. You do not treat the largest export relationship Canada has as a stage for domestic ambition.
And if this is not strategy but politics, then Canadians are not being governed. We are being maneuvered.
Jobs become bargaining chips.
Prices become acceptable casualties.
Trade becomes theatre.
If this ends in a snap election triggered by a tariff threat you helped summon, Canadians will be justified in asking whether this crisis was mishandled or deliberately cultivated.
There is a difference between defending Canada and daring another country to punish us so you can campaign on the damage.
So, Mr. Carney and members of your caucus, here is the question you owe answers to for Canadians.
Are you trying to prevent a tariff war, or are you provoking one because it helps you get the power you cannot secure without it. Because provoking economic retaliation to gain political advantage is not diplomacy.
It is manipulation on a national scale.
And Canadians will be the ones paying for the reaction you wanted.
Melanie in Saskatchewan
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If I had thought about it for a month, I probably couldn't have worded this message any better. Wake up people!
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Bob Mitchell retweeted
Never forget. Antifa murdered Charlie Kirk. And the Canadian establishment sided with Antifa.
Never forgive, never forget.
Haven't you learned a damn thing from Europe & what they have done to their electrical grid. Unless you've got your hands in wind industry pocket. WTFU
Today our government announced a major update in our development of offshore wind. This is more than a milestone - it’s a turning point.
Canada’s first offshore wind areas are right here in Nova Scotia. We’re taking action now to build a cleaner, more self-sufficient future and become a clean energy superpower.
Learn more: news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/0…
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There is really nothing more disheartening to me than seeing so many of my fellow Canadians committed to misunderstanding the convoy and celebrating as two of the organizers are unjustly persecuted.
The worst part about it is seeing that their minds are completely made up; they are past the point of listening. They are in the territory of seeking the most excruciating punishment possible for whoever was involved. There is no empathy or mercy, no curiosity or willingness to understand the other side at all… Chilling.
I proudly stand with Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. To all the freedom-loving Canadians who do too, THANK YOU. May today bring us some good news.🙏
Agreed.
Let’s talk about an Alberta Pension Plan for a minute.
With our young Alberta workforce paying billions more into the CPP each year than our seniors get back in benefits, it’s time to ask whether we stay with the status quo or create our own Alberta Pension Plan that would guarantee as good or better benefits for seniors and lower premiums for workers.
I want to hear your perspective on this idea and please check out the video.
Get the facts. Join the conversation. Visit Alberta.ca/next
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I'm going to break my own rule to never start a sentence with, "as a boomer".
But as a boomer, I've done well. Yes, I've worked hard, mostly succeeded at what I wanted to do, had a good and satisfying career and was able to retire fairly comfortably.
But I don't kid myself. I was also blessed, as most of us were, with very good luck to be born when I was. Stuff just worked out for most of us boomers, not because we were special, but because our timing was. And we had SFA to do with the timing. Dumb luck, is all.
The younger generations coming up behind us are the future, not us, and they're every bit as smart as we were - check that, they're way smarter because they've had to deal with and adapt to an unprecedented pace of technological change that we just missed. Good timing again.
But their timing sucks. They were saddled with the effects of COVID and had to live through what is, I believe, accurately described as the lost decade. They had nothing to do with the timing, little say in how the Trudeau Liberals mismanaged the economy, divided us against each other and ended up mortgaging their futures.
It breaks my heart when I read stories about young people still living with their parents because they can't afford rent, let alone a downpayment on a house or a condo. It especially hurts when I hear about young people putting off, or deciding against, starting a family because the can't afford it.
And, yes, I'm pissed off at Trudeau for all that. I'm also pissed off at Trump for disrupting our election with his tariff and 51st state bullshit. He's an old man trapped in a '70s loop and he's driving frightened fellow boomers into Carney's arms at the expense of our children and grandchildren.
So as a boomer, I'm appealing to my generation to think hard before casting their vote. We did okay, our timing was great and take a bow if you must. But for God's sake accept the fact our time has come - it was great while it lasted - and is now fading, as it should.
Don't succumb to the fear of the Orange Man. That's what the Liberals want you to do because they have nothing else on offer. Instead, choose hope for your kids over fear for yourselves. Vote for unity over division. Vote for change or, if you can't, at least get out of the way of it.
Well said by Former LIBERAL Premier of BC...
Gordon Campbell, former BC Liberal Premier, to a scowling Rosie "But I'll tell you, my grandkids deserve to have a government that's thinking about them, not thinking about debt, not thinking about expediently taking care of this group or that group."
"How are we building the future for Canada?"
"That's what I'm voting for. And I think that Mr. Poilievre has the platform that will get us there. Former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell."
Watch the whole thing! (His Op-ed is below 👇)
Agreed
I’m not comfortable with the way @DreaHumphrey was treated and out of respect for country and freedom of the press, she is owed an apology from @CBCNews @adriearsenault @RosieBarton @DavidWCochrane @theJagmeetSingh and others who reportedly heckled her for asking a fair question
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CANADIANS, who do you want as the next Prime Minister of Canada?
88%Pierre-Conservatives
3%Mark-Liberals
1%Jagmeet-NDP
8%OTHER
6,661 votes • Final results Bob Mitchell retweeted
Q: Who will you be voting for to become Canada's next Prime Minister in the Federal election?
Take a minute to vote, then repost to reach a broader demographic group and larger sample size.
If you have the time, leave the reason(s) and rationale for your choice in the comments.
87%Pierre Poilievre
4%Mark Carney
0%Jagmeet Singh
8%Maxime Bernier
33,365 votes • Final results