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Landon OGX retweeted
Has anyone in government considered growing the population by making it affordable for Canadians to have babies? Or has everyone just given up on that idea?
The biggest unreported story from yesterday: Carney snuck into the budget a massive immigration increase with the LARGEST NUMBER OF NEW PERMANENT RESIDENTS EVER next year.
Nearly 200,000 more than Trudeau’s highest-ever number year. When we have a shortage of jobs, homes, and health care.
Now we know why Carney snuck his immigration plan into a budget when everyone was distracted by the midterms and right before Parliament shuts for 10 days.
Unacceptable. This needs a real debate.
Honestly wtf are we doing? Sandbagging wages for Canadians with a very apparent K shaped recovery*- not building out services or infrastructure to handle all the people we have had for many years - now adding more?!
*if the K shaped recovery keeps going, it's going to implode, strong economies depend on a strong middle class with purchasing power - aka the free market economy
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Someone show me the economic case here - inflated housing that critical?? We need to keep inflating our markets with global people for retirees?? We Definitely must address prosperity and quality of life for the Canadians that live here now (full spectrum ages 0-100) ! But apparently we don't want to make life affordable for all Canadians?!
Yes the premiers are right to push back - lucky for Quebec they set their own immigration targets, maybe every other province should too?!
FWIW. I'm very for Federal authority on immigration, but this is ridiculous!!
The biggest unreported story from yesterday: Carney snuck into the budget a massive immigration increase with the LARGEST NUMBER OF NEW PERMANENT RESIDENTS EVER next year.
Nearly 200,000 more than Trudeau’s highest-ever number year. When we have a shortage of jobs, homes, and health care.
Now we know why Carney snuck his immigration plan into a budget when everyone was distracted by the midterms and right before Parliament shuts for 10 days.
Unacceptable. This needs a real debate.
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Timely - less red tape for Canadians = more business and prosperity
The future of money is here, Canadians are ready to get moving already aren’t we?! 🍁✊
See my op-ed in today’s @globeandmail on why Canada needs to move faster on crypto regulation.
We still rely on staff notices and case-by-case exemptions, while the EU and UK give industry clarity. With 1/4 Canadians owning digital assets, it's time to catch up.
Read the full op-ed here: theglobeandmail.com/business…
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Heck of a Buildathon for the city of Toronto!
Thanks @lewski__ and @makersloungeto for a great weekend - great to be at @theTBDC to be thinking about what innovation in city building - honestly in the age of AI, super impressive what we can do with a computer, some digging and 24 hours with other bright minds!
Voting Day Toronto now go vote!
TORONTO, THE FUTURE IS BEING BUILT RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW! 🇨🇦
Innovation isn't just happening in the private sector!
This weekend, we teamed up with @makersloungeto
to tackle real Toronto challenges and wow - impressive work in just 24 hours!
The Better Toronto Buildathon with special guests
@BradMBradford (Councillor Brad Bradford)
@diiorioanthony (Ethereum Co-Founder)
@therealandreip (Founder of Coinberry and APX Lending) just wrapped up!
📷 Real solutions for a better city.
We're spotlighting 8 incredible teams proving that a brighter Toronto starts with each of us, and our natural creativity and enthusiasm, involved in building our city better.
What a day - more of this! Big thanks to @Shopify
cc: @tobi Scott and Builders Sundays for having us for final presentations today!
cc: @buildcanada @build_toronto @cityoftoronto
Shoutout to @lewski__ for helping bring the Better Toronto Buildathon together! 📷
PS. The momentum continues on the 'Road to Toronto Blockchain Week' - see you then! (Nov 24–25) BlockchainWeek.TO
👇 NOW CHECK OUT THE BUILDERS!
Landon OGX retweeted
powerful words from Jason Kenney here: "I ask people as they're considering voting, put their minds forward to November 11th [and] the sacrifices of Albertans who lie below gravestones with the maple leaf on them. We do not have the right to rupture what they built and what they sacrificed for."
This retweet is a hot take, but don’t we have a problem keeping talent from leaving Canada?
Why not make it better for Canadians to live and thrive and a good education system providing for Canadian jobs?
Some UN committee (due to climate refugees among other issues) wants Canada to be 100m person country.
I’m not saying we should or shouldn’t do that, but if we want to increase our immigration (we’ve done this for a long time) we do need affordable housing, transport that works, healthcare that works and education that works .. etc…
Because who are we importing jobs for? For better communities? Or for the corporate owners who don’t want to pay Canadians to work? (Less supply of labour means higher wages)
Rather than twitter grift we need some alternative immigration systems, also super BS that Quebec is the only province that gets to keep immigration low to allow for the most affordable housing and cost of living.
Regardless of how you feel about immigration, something isn't adding up.
Canada has massive true unemployment. Poverty is rising. Healthcare is dying. The people being brought in are disproportionately not doctors and engineers (I fully support importing qualified talent). Voters don't want this.
There's an underlying problem here no one is willing to talk about. Our country is built as a Ponzi scheme. The government must import new people to pay into the scam so that they can pay out the old investors so that the whole thing doesn't come crashing down.
The problem is that every Ponzi scheme crashes eventually. And the longer it goes on, the worse the crash is going to be.
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See you soon in Toronto!!
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This has lived rent-free in my head for 2 days. That this is out there - who are you building with, are you building together (same wavelength) is it an environment that supports you, are you growing together, are you lifting others up? Psychological safety while innovating is not talked about enough! That someone put this into words and put it online - love it (thanks @tokifyi ), there are spaces all over the world that are building this and on the cutting edge - looking to keep being a part of them, and a HUGE opportunity for Canada. I can't highlight this enough - arguably our biggest opportunity is building more spaces like this, looking to be a part of more of this change in the world and across Canada - culture of innovation, culture of trade, culture of community building (and not in a culty way, but genuine awesome community!) 🍁🍁🍁
one of the coolest things you can do while building startups is surround yourself w people who are optimistic and genuinely rooting for each other
it’s already so hard to build something and i can’t be happier seeing people around me building things and taking bets on themselves
always trying my best to support in whatever way i can, just wanna see everyone win
Love these! Nothing is more Quintessential Canadian than Quebec Folk. Growing up in french class we sang the most culturally Canadian french songs, we also had East Coast songs that were very Canadian too, where are the Ontarian songs? anyone got Ontario folk over the centuries? Just english folk? Western Canadian folk? Arctic/Inuit Folk? (I don't know the rest of Canada!)
❤️Quebecois Folk
Québécois call and response folk singing has been all over my social media. I see this guy on instagram all the time. It’s fucking awesome. Vive le Québec fr
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also have spirit of the west from Vancouver, getting older, these guys are from the 80s, Western Canada epics!
youtube.com/watch?v=crIk87-m…
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Peak first nations from a decade ago ' Electric Pow Wow ' - not folk, but epic first nations in Canada!
youtube.com/watch?v=pOlxcpXW…
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Other than my strong dislike for the term 'friendshoring' (will it grow on me?) this is good. Because it plainly explains what is happening globally - and sprinkles in some basic history, and provides a view of where we could be going for a better world, or specifically where 'middle powers' can focus, or where the 'modern west' is going
@cafreeland
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
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If we want to be a world class city, maybe we urban and bike like world class cities?! #to
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com economist.com/international/…
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Would love to see the removal of interprovincial trade barriers. What’s the hold up Canada?!
Let’s see.. federal government trade and commerce clause and peace order and good governance .. let’s get it done!! @MarkJCarney
Texas produces more with fewer people due to higher productivity (~$90k GDP per capita vs Canada's ~$56k). Key drivers: no state income tax, lighter regulation, energy/manufacturing strength, ports, and policies that attract capital and talent.
Canada could close the gap by:
1. Eliminating interprovincial trade barriers.
2. Cutting taxes and regulations on business/investment.
3. Fast-tracking energy projects and exports.
4. Boosting capital investment incentives.
5. Prioritizing high-skill immigration and workforce training.
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