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Michael Mann retweeted
The head of Mark Carney’s Investment Agency suddenly resigns days before hosting a supposedly massive Investment Summit.
Carney installs the very powerbroker whose company broke rules to take $200 million in taxpayers money and “supercharged” the opioid crisis that killed 50,000 Canadians.
The guy was the architect of the Century Initiative, which pushed for mass immigration that drove wages down, rent up, and corporate profits through the roof.
When will the media ask some serious questions about what the hell is going on here?
Michael Mann retweeted
Strange how the voices in a woman's head never seem to say, do the dishes, give your husband a blow job.
It's always, 'kill the kids'.
So strange.
Michael Mann retweeted
One reason the Canada-US trade deal collapsed:
Canada could not promise / would not stop Chinese steel being transshipped into auto parts & then into the U.S. market.
The U.S. requires a strict “melt and pour” rule. Steel must be melted and poured in North America to qualify for preferential treatment.
This stops Chinese steel from entering Canada, getting light processing, and crossing the border as “North American” content to evade tariffs.
Recall The Canadian Steel Producers Association and Aluminium Association of Canada have both publicly confirmed Chinese dumping is happening, warning Canada risks becoming a dumping ground for China’s excess steel and aluminum.
A recent White House report on the “transshipment scam” also listed Canada as a problem country in China’s shadow network for evading U.S. tariffs.
Canada failed to deliver enforceable guarantees. Mexico accepted the melt-and-pour requirements, raised tariffs on Chinese steel and auto parts, and closed the back door.
Canada left it open and the deal fell apart.
whitehouse.gov/releases/2026…
Michael Mann retweeted
⚠️ I’ve been sitting with everything that happened in the Canada-U.S. trade talks, and the more I look at it, the more concerned I become.
For days, we were told Canada and the United States were getting close to a deal and Then the talks collapsed.
Now we have the American version of what happened. Washington says Canada was offered significant tariff reductions on steel, aluminum, autos and lumber, along with a broader economic and national security partnership involving critical minerals, supply chains, digital trade, export controls and formal USMCA negotiations.
Carney says the Americans changed the terms at the last minute and made demands that were “unfair and uneconomic.” I don't think Canadians should blindly accept either version.
What was offered?
What did Canada offer?
What had already been agreed to?
What changed?
Because there is something much bigger at stake here than who wins the political argument between Trump and Carney and Canada is the more exposed economy.
The United States is our largest trading partner by a massive margin. Our auto plants, forestry companies, manufacturers, farmers, energy producers and countless small businesses are tied directly into the American economy. And businesses don't wait around forever for governments to figure things out.
They move, They build the next plant somewhere else, They put the next billion dollars into a different country and They restructure their supply chains.
Stellantis is already shifting major investment toward the United States. Forestry communities across Canada are watching mills curtail and close. Resource projects are struggling to attract capital and The biggest economic loss isn't necessarily the factory that closes tomorrow, It's the factory that never gets built here.
That's what worries me.
If companies start believing that Canada is no longer a reliable or competitive place to invest, getting that investment back is going to be incredibly difficult.
And now Canada has another problem, We need to diversify our trade; Absolutely But there is a huge difference between diversifying our markets and becoming desperate for new buyers and investors because our relationship with our largest trading partner has deteriorated and Other countries will see that vulnerability.
China will see it.
India will see it.
Europe will see it.
Countries in the Middle East will see it.
They aren't going to come rushing in because they feel sorry for Canada, They'll come looking for opportunities And when you're negotiating from weakness, the other side knows it.
That's why I keep coming back to the same question.
⁉️ What actually happened in that room?
Was Carney offered a deal that would have protected Canadian industries and he walked away?
Did Trump move the goalposts at the last minute and demand terms Canada couldn't accept?
Was there a better deal available earlier?
Did Canada move too slowly?
Did we misunderstand how much leverage the United States had?
I don't know the complete answer yet, But I know Canadians deserve to know Because this isn't about Trump versus Carney anymore, It's about Canadian workers, Canadian businesses, Canadian investment, Canadian resources And Canada's place in the world.
Five years from now, nobody is going to care who won the press conference, They're going to care whether the next factory was built in Canada or Michigan.
Whether the next mine was developed here or somewhere else
Whether another forestry mill survived
Whether Canadian workers had good-paying jobs
Whether investors believed Canada was worth betting on
That's the real measure of leadership. And that's why I think Canadians need to stop arguing about which politician had the better soundbite and start demanding the receipts.
What do you think? Did Canada just stand up for its interests, or did we miss an opportunity that could leave us economically weaker and more vulnerable to everyone else who wants access to our markets and resources?
Tonight, Canada declined to finalize the trade deal under the terms agreed earlier this week.
Despite the U.S. offer to Canada to receive the best treatment of any major exporter to our market, new demands and walk backs of other commitments by Canada have upended the careful balance reached in the past days. In addition, Canada is continuing to maintain its prolonged retaliation against the United States, including, among other things, flat-out prohibitions on certain American goods and services.
For decades, Canada has enjoyed the most favorable access to the U.S. market of any country. And from the beginning of President Trump’s trade program, Canada has continued to enjoy the best treatment in the world, even after – like China – retaliating against the United States. This week, the United States agreed to provide even better treatment to Canada, offering significant tariff reductions on steel, aluminum, autos, and lumber.
The U.S. offer was also forward looking, and included a historic economic and national security partnership to cooperate on export controls, combat transshipment, enhance digital trade, and align certain external tariffs. The offer would have led to supply chain coordination on aerospace, complementary actions to address unfair trade practices, critical minerals cooperation, increased enforcement against imports produced with forced labor, and the announcement of formal U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) negotiations.
This is a missed opportunity for Canada to partner with the United States, which is the fastest growing economy in the G7.
Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary 13 years. Your voice counts. Say what you think. Say what you feel.
Michael Mann retweeted
Prime Minister,
You said: “Any sharing of the toll revenue won't happen until all the debt, all of the debt, is repaid."
Yet we learned last night that you had signed a deal that gives the U.S. “50% of net bridge and crossing related revenues for the first 15 fiscal years of bridge operations.” Before debt repayment. Just profit sharing on a bridge 100% built with our tax dollars.
The opposite of what you said.
How do we trust anything else you say about dealing with the U.S.?
Michael Mann retweeted
Canada is no longer a Free Market Economy, Mark Carney’s economic strategy is a shift from traditional free-market principles toward "economic nationalism" and state-directed capitalism. Corporatism is deeply associated with fascism, serving as the core economic and political framework for fascist regimes. Canada is fast becoming a Fascist Regime.
USAID funding was central to the creation of COVID-19
USAID funneled $53 million to EcoHealth Alliance, which funded coronavirus gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
That research likely created COVID-19.
Millions died.
Trillions were lost.
Lives were destroyed.
USAID has a history of being a CIA-front organization.
Former USAID Director John Gilligan admitted the agency was "infiltrated from top to bottom with CIA people," explaining that operatives were embedded throughout USAID's overseas activities.
In 2013, a State Department cable published by WikiLeaks described USAID's strategy in Venezuela as "penetrating Chavez's political base," "dividing Chavismo," and "isolating Chavez internationally."
In 2014, the Associated Press revealed that USAID secretly funded a Twitter-like platform in Cuba designed to build political opposition.
From 2009 to 2019, USAID partnered with EcoHealth Alliance on the PREDICT program, identifying 1,200 new viruses, training 5,000 people, and expanding dozens of research laboratories worldwide.
Then COVID emerged at one of those labs.
In 2022, former EcoHealth Alliance Vice President Andrew Huff alleged that Peter Daszak had ties to the CIA.
In 2023, a CIA whistleblower alleged that agency officials offered incentives to analysts to support a natural-origin assessment and downplay evidence pointing to a lab leak.
The CIA covered up the lab origin of COVID-19 because USAID funding was central to the creation of COVID-19.
Michael Mann retweeted
His partnership is not with Europe, but with the political gangsters who have hijacked Europe and are trying to destroy it by flooding it with the violent scum of the earth.
The EU is a transnational dictatorship and a model for Carney’s new world order, a global dictatorship.
Someone tell @environmentca that when you issue 17 Tornado warnings people will just ignore them after the second one
Michael Mann retweeted
Remembering Alex Zanardi.
@GanassiChip | @CGRTeams
Michael Mann retweeted
🚨 Read this slowly.
• Wife lives in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Four kids live & study in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• ~91% of his portfolio in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Home in the U.S. 🇺🇸
• Brookfield moved HQ to the U.S. 📍
Yet he tells Canadians: 🇨🇦
“We can’t depend on America.” 🇺🇸
Do you see the contradiction?
#cdnpoli #Canada #US #Reality
Michael Mann retweeted
Mark Carney is seizing a costly Liberal majority that voters denied him, and doing so through backroom deals.
In January, MP Gladu said that floor crossers should face voters in a byelection to give voters the final say. I could not agree more.
She should do so. The people in her community voted for our Conservative vision of a Canada that is affordable, safe, and strong at home, not for the costly Liberal government she has now joined.
She should honour her word and let voters decide.
Michael Mann retweeted
François-Philippe Champagne @FP_Champagne “Mr Pocket Pool” is a vile, contemptible figure whose career in Canadian politics is a grotesque parade of corruption, ineptitude, and betrayal, a loser so steeped in failure that his very name evokes disgust. Begin with the Sustainable Development Technology Canada scandal, the Green Slush Fund, a rancid cesspool he lorded over as Innovation Minister. The Auditor General’s 2024 report ripped it open: 186 conflicts of interest, $390 million of taxpayer money sluiced into the slimy paws of Liberal cronies and sham projects, all while Champagne sat there, a spineless overseer too cowardly to stop the rot. Whistleblowers have sworn he doctored reports and lied to Parliament, a sniveling, deceitful act that lays bare his allegiance to corrupt insiders over the people he swore to serve. This is not some trifling error, it is a calculated stab in the back, a festering blight on Canada’s treasury inflicted by a man whose moral compass is broken beyond repair.
Next, consider his nauseating Bank of China scandal, a stain so deep and dark it should have ended him years ago. In 2020, as Foreign Affairs Minister, this cretin owed $1.2 million to a state-owned Chinese bank, a glaring red flag of compromise flapping over Canada’s dealings with a predatory regime. Critics bellowed at the danger, but he sneered, tossing out Ethics Commissioner filings like a cheap alibi. Even after refinancing in June 2020, the filth stuck to him, his judgment laid bare as a reckless, traitorous mess. This is a man who dared to speak for Canada on the global stage while his leash was held by Beijing, a walking embarrassment whose presence in cabinet shames the nation to its core.
His electric vehicle obsession is a towering testament to his idiocy, a financial catastrophe only a fool like Champagne could birth. Over $100 billion committed, $52.5 billion in public funds poured into a bottomless pit, and what does he have to show? A crumbling, laughable boondoggle, teetering as EV sales limp along. The Parliamentary Budget Officer’s figures damn him, yet he clings to this wreckage, a deluded gambler burning through taxpayer cash for a hollow fantasy of greatness. This is not vision, it is a brainless, ruinous folly, a burden he gleefully dumps on Canadians, proving his talent lies only in squandering wealth and trust with staggering arrogance.
The grocery price debacle is another nail in his coffin of incompetence, a hollow man who struts and promises but collapses under scrutiny. In 2023, he vowed to curb soaring food costs, pressuring grocers and dangling the lure of competition. The result? Dead silence, as Global News noted in January 2025, while inflation ravages households. He is too weak to act, too craven to deliver, leaving Canadians to choke on his empty bluster. This is not leadership, it is a pitiful, gutless surrender, a minister so useless he cannot even pretend to fight for those he has abandoned.
His political cowardice is the rancid capstone to this mountain of disgrace. In January 2025, he slithered away from the Liberal leadership race, bowing to Mark Carney like a groveling toady desperate for favor. He swore to run as an MP only if Carney won, a sniveling retreat from any shred of independence. Five cabinet roles in six years show not skill, but a shallow drifter leaving chaos in his wake. As Finance Minister since March 2025, he flounders, unable to explain a $62 billion deficit, muttering drivel as U.S. tariffs threaten. Champagne is a leech, a wretched, shameful blight whose every scandal and flop strangles Canada with humiliation and despair.
Michael Mann retweeted
I always get asked about Jack Layton and find it fascinating how Jack lived a lie and his dark side has been so successfully protected from the public! It's fascinating.
Michael Mann retweeted
Pierre Poilievre opposing the $90 billion Liberal high-speed rail project has caused quite the controversy.
Likely because the Laurentian Elite who loot Canadian taxpayers stand to gain BILLIONS and they want major backlash against anyone who threatens their impending goldmine of corruption.
Let's do the math they don't want you to see....
The Base Cost:
According to Joe Carson's "Diagnosis Red Tape," for every dollar paid in federal taxes, 26.72% never re-enters the private economy. It's consumed by bureaucracy.
That means a $90B public project carries roughly $24B in administrative overhead.
True taxpayer burden: ~$114B.
There are roughly 20 million taxpayers in Canada.
That's ~$5,700 per taxpayer, so that 12 million people in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal corridor can have access to rail.
EXCEPT THINGS NEVER GO ACCORDING TO PLAN
Bent Flyvbjerg's database of 16,000+ megaprojects across 136 countries finds that 91.5% go over budget, over schedule, or both.
The mean cost overrun is 62%.
Rail projects specifically (according to Liberal friends McKinsey & Company) go over budget by an average of 44.7%, and their demand is overestimated by 51.4%.
Applied to Alto:
$114B × 1.447 = ~$165B.
That's ~$8,250 per taxpayer.
Meanwhile, the Liberals' projected $35B yearly GDP increase? If demand is overestimated by half, that's closer to $17B.
Now, consider the recent Eglinton subway line in Toronto.
The Eglinton Crosstown LRT was originally projected at ~$5B.
Final cost: $13B and it took 15 years.
The Eglinton Crosstown is 19km long.
Alto is ~1,000km. That's 53× longer.
The Eglinton Crosstown cost $684M per kilometre.
If Alto hit a similar per-km cost, you'd be looking at $684B.
That's obviously absurd but the point stands: Canada just proved it cannot build 19km of light rail on time or on budget.
The answer is to build 1,000km of high-speed rail?
The Eglinton's cost multiplied by 2.6×.
Apply that same factor to Alto:
$114B × 2.6 = ~$296B.
That's ~$14,800 per taxpayer.
But it gets EVEN WORSE.
Now add corruption...
The Charbonneau Commission established that mafia-linked cartels inflated Montreal public contract prices by up to 30%.
A whistleblower told the Globe and Mail in 2009 that the Mafia controlled roughly 80% of road contracts, with prices inflated up to 35%.
Then there's the "Green Slush Fund" scandal: the Auditor General found 186 conflicts of interest at SDTC, with an estimated $150-390M in misappropriated funds.
That's roughly 17-45% of the fund's total approvals funnelled to insiders.
Applied to Alto's $90B base: $15-40B in corruption.
Applied to the Eglinton-style $296B scenario: $50-133B in corruption.
Let's summarize, shall we?
Best case (on budget, on time... which never happens): ~$114B total. ~$5,700 per taxpayer.
Realistic case (Flyvbjerg's average rail overrun):
~$165B total. ~$8,250 per taxpayer.
With half the promised GDP benefit.
Eglinton case (2.6× cost escalation):
~$296B total. ~$14,800 per taxpayer.
With corruption layered on top: $15-133B more (depending on the scenario) vanishing into the pockets of the politically connected.
Also, don't forget: VIA Rail, the organization that would operate this system, currently can't run its existing trains on time.
And that, my friends, is how you market corruption and economic insanity as "infrastructure investment."
Michael Mann retweeted
Dear Elbows Up idiots,
The crisis that Canada is facing isn’t Donald Trump.
It’s not tariffs.
And it’s not climate change.
I know you want it to be - but it isn’t.
The crisis Canada is facing, is you.
You are the ones who decided to vote for someone you knew nothing about.
You are the ones who voted for someone who couldn’t care less about Canada.
You are the ones who voted for a complete moron who has destroyed international relationships - specifically with the US - because “no deal is better than a bad deal.”
And you’re praising Carney for doing so because you’re all a bunch of ridiculous rejects who watch endless CBC reporters cheer while Carney throws the future of Canada into a ditch because orange man bad.
This is what you voted for because you are all filled with a never-ending amount of blind hatred for a man you used to admire while sitting on the couch watching The Apprentice.
And now Canada is falling to pieces, which doesn’t bother you one bit because you now view failure as success - because it makes it easier for all of you to live with yourselves knowing what you’ve done.
Knowing that you’ve bankrupted your children and your grandchildren; knowing that your grandkids are already tens of thousands of dollars in debt to the government; knowing your adult children will likely never own a home and may never move out of your dreadful basements because they can’t afford to pay rent.
And I guess that’s fine because your kids are so screwed up they don’t even know what bathroom to use.
But that’s ok, because Canada has been flooded with immigrants who bring little to no skill with them while living in hotels paid for by taxpayers which makes you feel good because virtue signalling is the only thing you have left to give.
And then there’s the economy - which is now so bad it’s being considered a “human rights crisis,” which also doesn’t bother you because who cares about human rights when you can’t even define what a woman is.
Overwhelmed food banks? Who cares?
Homeless veterans? Who cares?
Families taxed into poverty? Who cares?
A housing crisis? Who cares?
Drug addicts everywhere? Who cares?
“Who cares?” would be your battle cry if you didn’t already have the stupidest battle cry in history - Elbows Up!
And speaking of Elbows Up…all of you are still pretending to boycott all American products - which is basically impossible - while complaining daily about Trump and the US on this AMERICAN PLATFORM and gushing about how you’ve cancelled your trips to the US and are vacationing in Mexico which now just happens to be the largest trading partner with the US.
And when you’re not “sticking it to Trump” with your ignorant views, you’re complaining about the Alberta Separatist’s movement (a movement which is not new) and pretending we’re traitors for wanting a better life and our own country because you voted repeatedly to destroy Canada.
And you did that because you are the traitors - every last one of you - but you’re too stupid to realize it and you’re so filled with hatred that you can’t see the forest through the trees.
So yeah, it’s you.
It’s all of you.
You’re the crisis.
Michael Mann retweeted
To my X followers,
I’ve worked with the media for nearly 25 years. For most of that time, the relationship was professional and balanced. But in recent years, something has shifted.
I am increasingly concerned about the state of our democracy — particularly how media, in general, are informing Canadians about food policy, food inflation, and economic policy.
I now find myself learning more about Canada’s economy and policy changes from American outlets than from Canadian ones. Much of our national coverage feels reactive, shallow, or overly fixated on partisan narratives rather than substantive policy analysis.
What troubles me most is the lack of scrutiny applied evenly across governments and institutions.
For example, when the Bank of Canada suggested that Ottawa’s counter-tariffs contributed to food inflation, only one major outlet — Bloomberg — gave it meaningful coverage. The grocery benefit program received very little examination regarding how it would be financed. It took days before anyone pressed for clarity.
During the latest spike in food inflation, several outlets turned to the same small circle of commentators who dismissed any potential role of federal policy — carbon pricing, GST holidays, counter-tariffs — despite mounting evidence that policy decisions can and do affect food prices.
Instead of investigating structural drivers of inflation, much of the coverage focuses on fact-checking opposition rhetoric, even though the opposition has not governed since 2015. Scrutiny should be applied equally — not selectively.
Quebec media, while imperfect, appear to have maintained a broader range of debate. In much of the rest of Canada, I see increasing concentration of voices — often from the same region, Ontario, often reflecting similar policy perspectives — and less diversity of thought grounded in empirical research.
This isn’t about partisan politics. It’s about accountability, transparency, and healthy democratic discourse.
Media are under financial pressure — that’s real. But public trust depends on independence and depth. Subsidy structures, incentives, and newsroom economics all matter.
Canada deserves stronger policy journalism — especially on food affordability, supply chains, and economic resilience.
We need more data-driven analysis, more intellectual diversity, and more courage to ask uncomfortable questions — regardless of which party is in power.
Until that happens, Canadians would be wise to diversify their news sources and think critically about what they’re being told — and what they’re not.
