PROUD πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ | GenX | A guy with an opinion that uses FACTS. I write the take.

Ontario, Canada
Joined November 2018
This meme is 100% accurate and it’s embarrassing as hell. Canada πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ 41 million people 🀬 getting absolutely hammered with a carbon tax that drives up the cost of gas, food, heating, and everything else we need to survive. USA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ 340+ million people YET no carbon tax. Mexico πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ 130+ million people YET no carbon tax. And our brilliant leaders are still sitting there like Ralph Wiggum yelling β€œI’m helping!” while they deliberately make life more expensive for regular Canadians. This isn’t climate policy. This is economic self-sabotage. We’re one of the lowest emitters in the G7 and we’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 β€œrupture” our relationship with the United States β€” our biggest trading partner β€” while they punish us at home with this stupid tax. It’s delusional. We’re not saving the planet. We’re just screwing over our own people so the elite can virtue signal. Drop a πŸ”₯ if you’re sick of paying the price for their stupidity. #cdnpoli #CarbonTax #Carney #LiberalFail #CanadaFirst
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Turns out "Elbows up" was never aimed at Trump. πŸ₯Š It was aimed at YOU. Starting Nov. 3, a job offer can help someone get permanent residency without the employer proving no Canadian could do the job. And the high-paying ones, engineers, electricians, now earn extra points. 110,000 Canadians lost their jobs in August and September. Straight into the chin of Canadians. πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Keep your guard up, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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More than half of Canadian workers are living paycheque to paycheque. 56%. 😳 And of Canadians working TWO jobs, nearly half say it's just to cover the basics. Two jobs. Rent, groceries, gas. Nothing left. That used to be the rough patch. Now it's the plan. When did "just getting by" become the goal? πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Time for a raise, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ brokencountry.com
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"Girl, you're not the Governor of Canada anymore, so it doesn't matter what you say" - @elonmusk THAT is the BEST OWN of @JustinTrudeau EVER! Still makes me laugh. πŸ˜‚ Jan. 2025, Trudeau: not a "snowball's chance in hell" Canada becomes the 51st state. But nearly two years later, per the PBO: πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ U.S. growth in 2026: 2.2% πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Canada: 0.9% 110,000 jobs gone in August and September. We don't need to join them. We just need to stop falling behind them. πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Snowball's chance, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Canada vs. the U.S. in 2026, per Parliament's own budget watchdog (PBO, Oct. 20): πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ U.S. economy: +2.2% πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Canada: +0.9% Less than HALF. In June, the PBO had us at 1.1%. Now it's 0.9%. Going the wrong way. Jobs? August: 42,000 GONE ❌ September: 68,000 MORE ❌ 110,000 GONE IN 2 MONTHS! ❌ Unemployment was 6.4% this summer. The PBO sees 6.7% by year end. Remember the 3.3% headline in August? One good quarter. The full-year forecast is still 0.9%. Carney ran as the guy who could handle Trump. πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Budget drops Nov. 5. Watch the spin. Elbows up, growth down, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Toronto just re-elected Olivia Chow. πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ The campaign promise: a "modest" tax increase. 2024: 9.5%. Biggest since 1998. 2025: another 6.9%. 2026: 2.2%. Funny how that works in an election year. Stacked: about 19.6% on the city's tax rate in three years. Plus a snow cleanup she called "unacceptable"… and "56 metres" of snow. Here's the highlight reel. πŸ‘‡ Four more years of receipts, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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A year of barking Chihuahua! Zero bites. πŸ• Oct. 2025: Stellantis moves Jeep production from Brampton to Illinois. Joly threatens "all options, including legal." No lawsuit. Brampton still has no vehicle to build. Oct. 2026: Stelco's U.S. owner lays off Hamilton steelworkers. Joly: "full force of the law." A letter. Another letter. A 15-day deadline. Lawsuits filed so far: ZERO. Like a chihuahua at the window. Loud, nonstop, and nobody's scared. Meanwhile on tariffs, she says Ottawa is being "wise and strategic to put political pressure" on U.S. states. Talks collapsed. 50% tariffs on about $20B of our goods. 68,000 jobs gone in September. Political pressure for who, exactly? πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ All bark, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Carney and Champagne say they "found" $60 billion in savings πŸ” The budget watchdog went looking πŸ‘€ Departmental spending is still rising, and deficits are projected to stay above $63B every year through 2031. So where'd it go? Found it... then spent it? πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ What you can count on: it WON'T shrink the deficit or make life cheaper. 11 years of Liberal government: β€’ Promised a balanced budget by 2019. Not one since β€’ Federal debt: $612B in 2015 β†’ $1.27 trillion in 2025 Check the receipt, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
PM Carney and his Finance Minister Champagne have repeatedly claimed this year they found $60 Billion in taxpayer savings. But, the Parliamentary Budget Officer says she CAN’T find it! I ask Carney’s #SenCA Leader: Where are these cutbacks? Is this another Carney Contortion?
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Europe just got tougher on people with no right to stay πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί New EU return rules took effect Oct. 16. The European Parliament passed them 418 to 218. Faster removals. Detention up to 24 months. Return hubs outside the EU. Why? The EU admits only about 20% of people ordered to leave actually go. Here at home, CBSA can't find 34,319 people who skipped their removal. Another 52,457 removals are still "in progress." Carney keeps pulling Canada closer to the EU. Maybe copy the part that WORKS? πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Enforce the law, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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"A more dangerous and divided world" 🌍 Carney has said it, or a version of it, nearly 100 times in 16 months. Speeches, press releases, X posts, even his mandate letter. Election night he promised to "put an end to the division and anger of the past." Since then: β€’ U.S. trade talks collapsed Aug. 21. 50% tariffs hit about $20B of our goods β€’ Deficit went from $36.3B to $72B in one year, per the budget watchdog β€’ 68,000 jobs gone in September. Youth unemployment at 13% β€’ Groceries up 33% since 2020 He keeps warning us about the world. Maybe the problem is closer to HOME? πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Repeat it till everyone Repeats it, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Carney keeps pulling Canada closer to the EU πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί Meanwhile in Strasbourg, Ursula von der Leyen gets up and walks out while a Slovak MEP is talking about protests across Europe over housing, prices and energy bills. That's the club Carney thinks is BEST for Canada? Over the neighbour we share an 8,900 km border with, and sell the MAJORITY of our Exports to? πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Look at a map, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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🚨 Ottawa's own visa manual expected the fraud 🚨 Internal IRCC procedures for the New Delhi visa office, released through Access to Information, tell officers: β€’ Truck driver permits: if the LMIA number doesn't show up in the system, "it is fake." β€’ "The main concern in this category is that the job offer may not be genuine." β€’ Students using marriages of convenience, where the "spouse essentially will pay for the studies of the student for this 'service'." β€’ Don't bother asking for proof of relationship, because "applicants will give you everything you ask for... these items may or may not be genuine." And fraud notes get stamped "DO NOT DISCLOSE." They wrote the fraud into the training manual. Then kept the doors wide open for years πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Read the fine print, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
πŸ’₯EXPLOSIVE ATIP: Immigration Canada knew Indian agents were running MASSIVE FRAUD in the trucking industry and the student visa program as early as 2017 β€” and stamped the evidence "DO NOT DISCLOSE." According to records released under the Access to Information Act, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) maintained an internal procedures manual for its New Delhi visa office documenting systemic fraud across the student visa and temporary foreign worker streams. The manual instructs officers to treat fraud as anticipated rather than exceptional The most damning thing about this scandal is not the fraud β€” it's that the government predicted it, kept it running, and then stamped the file "DO NOT DISCLOSE." Canada didn't lose control of its immigration systemβ€”they monetized it.
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🚨 Two budget watchdogs. Same warning. Part 2 🚨 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 πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Ottawa math, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Receipts 🧾 Jacques, Sept 2025 committee: ourcommons.ca/documentviewer… PBO review of Carney's first budget: pbo-dpb.ca/en/news-releases-… Jacques at finance committee, Nov 2025: openparliament.ca/committees… PBO outlook, Oct 2026: pbo-dpb.ca/en/publications/R… Ryan on CTV Question Period: ctvnews.ca/video/2026/10/25/… Just bringing the receipts πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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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 πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Check the blueprints, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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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." πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ 8 days earlier, police raided Halk TV, one of the last opposition channels, cut the live feed and put a government trustee in charge. Erdoğan'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 Erdoğan 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? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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19 months of Carney. I printed the receipt. 🧾 $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 πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Check the receipt, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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Trump says we're "getting close to a deal." πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Heard that before πŸ™„ 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. I’m sure Mark Carney will just walk away again, fixing Canada isn’t on his Bingo Card
Donald Trump says he is getting close to a deal with Canada πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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ARE CANADIANS WAKING UP?? B.C. just elected its first Conservative government since 1928. πŸ—³οΈ 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. πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ At this rate we'll need a new flag. πŸπŸ’™ Pay attention, eh? πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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