PROUD ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ | GenX | A guy with an opinion that uses FACTS. I write the take.

Ontario, Canada
Joined November 2018
This meme is 100% accurate and itโ€™s embarrassing as hell. Canada ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ 41 million people ๐Ÿคฌ getting absolutely hammered with a carbon tax that drives up the cost of gas, food, heating, and everything else we need to survive. USA ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ 340+ million people YET no carbon tax. Mexico ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ 130+ million people YET no carbon tax. And our brilliant leaders are still sitting there like Ralph Wiggum yelling โ€œIโ€™m helping!โ€ while they deliberately make life more expensive for regular Canadians. This isnโ€™t climate policy. This is economic self-sabotage. Weโ€™re one of the lowest emitters in the G7 and weโ€™re taxing ourselves into the ground so a bunch of globalist politicians can feel morally superior at conferences. Meanwhile China and India are laughing all the way to the bank. Carney and the Liberals keep telling us we have to โ€œruptureโ€ our relationship with the United States โ€” our biggest trading partner โ€” while they punish us at home with this stupid tax. Itโ€™s delusional. Weโ€™re not saving the planet. Weโ€™re just screwing over our own people so the elite can virtue signal. Drop a ๐Ÿ”ฅ if youโ€™re sick of paying the price for their stupidity. #cdnpoli #CarbonTax #Carney #LiberalFail #CanadaFirst
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๐Ÿšจ Two budget watchdogs. Same warning. Part 2 ๐Ÿšจ Sept 2025. Interim PBO Jason Jacques at committee: "If you don't change, this is done." Then came Carney's first budget. Jacques' verdict: "The Government's new anchor is unlikely to hold." The odds it holds? 7.5%. He found $94 billion counted as "investment" that doesn't meet the PBO's own definition. He called it "a made-in-Ottawa definition of capital." And the debt anchor Carney confirmed in September? "Abandoned six weeks later." His term ran out. Annette Ryan got the permanent job. Oct 2026. New watchdog. Same story. Interest on the debt: about $25B a year five years ago. $59B now. More than the Canada Health Transfer for the first time. Headed to $83B. "The fastest growing piece of government spending right now." $333B in new deficits over five years. $733B in new borrowing. $400B going to Crown corps, loans and special funds "just a step removed from parliamentary oversight." And those fiscal anchors? "More like traffic lights." Two watchdogs. Two years. Same message. Stop spending like the bill never comes ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Ottawa math, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Receipts ๐Ÿงพ Jacques, Sept 2025 committee: ourcommons.ca/documentviewerโ€ฆ PBO review of Carney's first budget: pbo-dpb.ca/en/news-releases-โ€ฆ Jacques at finance committee, Nov 2025: openparliament.ca/committeesโ€ฆ PBO outlook, Oct 2026: pbo-dpb.ca/en/publications/Rโ€ฆ Ryan on CTV Question Period: ctvnews.ca/video/2026/10/25/โ€ฆ Just bringing the receipts ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Carney promised to double homebuilding to almost 500,000 a year. September's pace? Half, maybe.. Actual starts down 11% from last year. Toronto down 61%. 3,678 homes started last September. 1,440 this year. And his own housing agency? About 2,000 actually being built. Your kids are still in the basement ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Check the blueprints, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Carney flew to Ankara and signed a statement saying Canada and Turkey share "human rights, individual liberties, democracy and the rule of law." ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ 8 days earlier, police raided Halk TV, one of the last opposition channels, cut the live feed and put a government trustee in charge. ErdoฤŸan's main rival, Istanbul's mayor, has been in jail since March 2025. 27 journalists locked up or awaiting trial. A comedian got almost 19 months for calling ErdoฤŸan a "shy dictator." Over 100 people arrested in September raids on LGBT groups. Osman Kavala, 8+ years in prison, despite Europe's own human rights court ordering him freed. Asked if he raised any of it, Carney said those talks work better "not reported out in detail." Trade with them if you want. Just don't pretend they share our values. Values matter, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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19 months of Carney. I printed the receipt. ๐Ÿงพ $63.3B deficit. More on interest than on health care. Promised 500,000 homes a year. His own housing agency is building about 2,000. 110,000 jobs gone in two months, while he brags we're creating jobs at twice the U.S. rate. The receipt says different ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Check the receipt, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Trump says we're "getting close to a deal." ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Heard that before ๐Ÿ™„ Talks collapsed in August. The 50% tariffs are still on. Last week he just reshuffled which Canadian products get hit. Steel, aluminum and trucking towns are still eating it while Carney jets from Turkey to an EU summit. I'll believe it when it's signed. Iโ€™m sure Mark Carney will just walk away again, fixing Canada isnโ€™t on his Bingo Card
Donald Trump says he is getting close to a deal with Canada ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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ARE CANADIANS WAKING UP?? B.C. just elected its first Conservative government since 1928. ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ Add it up. Seven of 10 provinces now have conservative or centre-right governments, home to roughly 72% of Canadians. Newfoundland flipped last fall after a decade of Liberal rule. Quebec wiped the CAQ out completely and sent 19 Conservatives to the National Assembly. Nearly 11 years of Liberal Ottawa, and the map keeps turning blue. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ At this rate we'll need a new flag. ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ’™ Pay attention, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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๐ŸšจTwo budget watchdogs. Same warning. ๐Ÿšจ Sept 2025, interim PBO Jason Jacques: "If you don't change, this is done." His term ran out. Carney's government picked Annette Ryan for the permanent job. Now she's on TV saying the Liberal fiscal anchors work "more like traffic lights" and $733 BILLION in new borrowing over five years is "something to worry about for sure." Swap the messenger all you want. The math doesn't change. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Do the math, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Canada's largest employer of veterans just lost a CRA security contract over an $80,000 gap. ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ John Brassard had a fix. Skip the nearly $160K in plane food on the PM's next trip. Chilean sea bass. "Death by chocolate." ๐Ÿซ About $2,850 a passenger for one week of flights. Carney left it to his Secretary of State, who dodged the catering part entirely. Veterans lose their jobs. The dessert cart stays. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Check the menu, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Canada just set a record nobody wanted. ๐Ÿ“ˆ The Canadian Dream has become The Canadian NIGHTMARE! 2.36 million food bank visits in ONE month. March 2026. More than double 2019. In Ontario, 1 in 4 people in those lines has a job. The lowest-income families spend about 60% of what they take home just on housing. Groceries ๐Ÿ›’? Whatever's left ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Carney keeps spending like the money's endless. Families are rationing peanut butter. Ottawa math, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
โ€œ59% of food bank users have a post-secondary education. 50% have full-time employmentโ€ฆ The social contract has been broken.โ€ Millions of Canadians were lied to. They went to college, played by the rules, found full-time jobs only to discover that a paycheck no longer guarantees food on the table or a roof over their heads. A warning here for Americans as well. What happens to a country when doing everything โ€œrightโ€ is no longer enough to build a decent life? That is a Broken Country... Broken Country is a new documentary examining how Canada went from one of the safest and most prosperous countries in the world to a nation struggling with an affordability crisis, homelessness, public disorder and a growing loss of faith in its institutions. Follow @BrokenCountry_
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IMO BIG CHANGES are coming to B.C. ! Looks like Alberta has competition on the Top Provinces to live in I can tell ya, Onterrible ISNโ€™T on that List Thanks to Liberal Doug Ford!
Conservative Premier Designate Lorne Doerkson's victory in BC is a political earthquake.
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Carney says his government has "taken back control of immigration." ๐ŸŽค Let's check the receipt. ๐Ÿงพ Over 720,000 work permits took effect from January to August. Up about 39% on last year. September? Canada lost 68,300 jobs. And starting Nov 3, Express Entry job offers no longer need an LMIA. That's the test proving an employer tried to hire a Canadian first. Fewer jobs. More permits. Less checking. Some control. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Do the math, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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๐Ÿ‘ David Eby has started his New Career! Much more suiting!
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Even the White House noticed B.C. ๐Ÿ‘€ 64 of 93 seats. Nine years of NDP rule, gone in one night. Lorne Doerkson took over weeks before the campaign and promised to cut red tape, get natural gas moving and tackle the cost of living. Funny how that sells when people can't afford groceries. ๐Ÿ›’ Meanwhile Ottawa is still running Carney's playbook from Eby's old script. Big deficits. Slow approvals. Pipelines stuck on paper. B.C. just showed the rest of Canada what happens next. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Canada, eh ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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David Eby already had a majority. Two years left on the clock. He called a snap election nobody asked for, chasing an even bigger one. ๐ŸŽฒ A month later? NDP went from 47 seats to 27. B.C. Conservatives form government for the first time since 1928. ๐Ÿ’™ A $13.8 BILLION deficit. Property owners spooked by land title rulings. Housing out of reach. Turns out voters were paying attention. "I accept full responsibility." Yeah, you do. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Basic math, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Carney heads to Montreal this week to sign onto an EU "associate membership." ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ A status that appears in no EU treaty. The terms? To be "defined" in 2027. Germany, France and at least six other EU countries want the label scrapped. Meanwhile 10 EU countries still haven't ratified the trade deal that took effect in 2017. ๐Ÿ“œ So what exactly is Canada signing up for? ๐Ÿค” And who's it really for, us or somebody's rรฉsumรฉ? ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ
What if becoming Prime Minister of Canada was just a stepping stone to Mark Carneyโ€™s NEXT job? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Could Canadaโ€™s sudden EU pivot have implications beyond trade and Donald Trump? And what exactly would this unprecedented partnership allow? While thereโ€™s no evidence Carney is seeking Ursulaโ€™s position, the timing and many coincidences certainly raise some fascinating questions.
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Carney says Ottawa has "retaken control" of immigration ๐Ÿคฅ 58% of new permanent residents this year were already living here. Switch someone from temporary to permanent and the temporary count drops. The population doesn't. ๐Ÿ“‹ On top of that, up to 148,000 extra PR spots through one-time programs, "in addition to" the official targets. And the minister says levels go UP in November's new plan. Reshuffling the paperwork isn't the same as getting control. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Bait and switch routine Basic facts, eh? ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
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Quebec's new premier skipped the oath to the King. ๐Ÿ‘‘ Then told his cabinet it's time to stop "suffering the decline" inside Canada. He's already named a minister in charge of independence. Elected with 28% of the vote. Minority government. Ottawa's response? A shrug. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ "We will let Quebec make its own decisions." โ€“ Mรฉlanie Joly When the country feels this broken, separatists barely have to campaign. Somebody in Ottawa should be paying attention. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ
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