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Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
Back in 2024, when Justin Trudeau resigned, these were the key concerns of Canadians:
🔴 Cost of living/food costs
🔴 Housing costs and lack of affordable housing
🔴 immigration levels and pressure on public services.
🔴 Rising concerns about crime and public safety
🔴 Government spending and debt
Mark Carney, the world-class banker and economist, was the man to fix it all and restore confidence in the Canadian economy.
So explain to me why after 20 months of Mark Carney, Canada has:
Lost Jobs
Higher prices
Still no homes.
Rise in crime
Foreign workers
Return to immigration
Along with:
More spending
More borrowing
More debt
More interest payment
No growth
Canadians didn’t elect Mark Carney to make what Justin Trudeau did to Canada even worse.
He was elected to fix it.
Question Canadians should be ask is does Carney even know how to fix it because his latest budget and the Canadian economy say NO.
Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
We are witnessing a greasy salesman pushing the globalist agenda.
Him claiming that joining the EU makes us more independent & more prosperous is laughable. Unfortunately what’s very real is the amount of people falling for this.
Europe is in decline because of the very people he’s in bed with. Ask yourself, why would you want to be associated with individuals who are destroying western civilization?
More fear mongering BS from CBC. Whatever happened to "keep your friends close and your enemies closer"?
Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
A post you should read.
It's a post that others like Coyne and the hallelujah chorus in the media will not, or they will read it and then ignore it.
The empirical data backs up that high immigration had an impact on housing costs.
Some want to dismiss that or call it racist.
The Canadian government's mass immigration policies of the last 10 years were highly regressive. Having seemingly learned nothing, they are dead set on turning back on the taps rather than letting the country heal.
On cue, the media has begun parroting the government's narrative and gaslighting anyone who disagrees. This suggests that they remain blissfully unaware that the Bank of Canada has written extensively about how (mass) immigration has negatively affected housing, rents, inflation, labour supply, wages, and productivity. So I've compiled an inexhaustive list to help these folks.
🏘️- Monetary Policy Report, October 2023
🔗bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/u…
▶️"The strength in rent and other housing costs is partly due to strong housing demand, which is supported by rapid population growth, and a structural lack of housing supply"
🏘️- Staff Analytical Note, December 2023
🔗bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/u…
▶️"The rise in immigration is nonetheless contributing to pressures in inflation components linked to house prices, given that it is adding more to housing demand than to housing supply in the context of structural imbalances in the Canadian housing market."
🏘️ - Speech by Toni Gravelle, December 2023
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2023/12/econ…
▶️"When a country’s population is growing quickly, the supply of housing also needs to increase to avoid a worsening in affordability. Shortly after immigration began ramping up in 2015, Canada’s vacancy rate—a measure of how many apartments and houses there are available to rent or buy—started to fall."
🏘️ - Monetary Policy Report, January 2024
🔗bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/u…
▶️"A larger increase in newcomers than in the past is adding pressure to the structural supply constraint in housing. This has helped to push the overall housing vacancy rate to record lows, which has underpinned house prices and led to higher rents (Chart 3-A)."
🏘️ - Staff Analytical Note, April 2024
🔗 bankofcanada.ca/2024/04/staf…
▶️"Meanwhile, the composition of immigrants coming to Canada has changed considerably since 2015. Historically, growth of the immigrant population in Canada came mostly from permanent residents....While the wages of the earlier immigrants are closer to those of Canadian-born workers and have been increasing over time, those of non-permanent residents are much lower and have fallen over this period. Because real hourly wages are typically correlated with labour productivity, this piece of evidence is consistent with non-permanent residents working in less productive occupations."
🏘️ - Monetary Policy Report, July 2024
🔗bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/u…
▶️"The increase in housing demand from newcomers is being felt across all types of housing, but the largest initial impact tends to be in rental markets. This is because most newcomers start out as renters."
👨🌾 - Staff Analytical Note, May 2025
🔗bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/u…
▶️"if newcomers’ conditional wages reflect their labour productivity, the productive capacity of the Canadian economy grew less than it would have if recent newcomers had the same socio-economic characteristics as in the past."
▶️"However, this gain has been particularly acute for certain industries such as accommodation and food services, business, building and other support services, and retail trade. Labour productivity in these industries—which are comprised of a sizable share of lower-skilled occupations—is lower than the average in the business sector."
👨🌾 - Staff Analytical Note, May 2025
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2025/06/staf…
▶️"Youth—individuals 15–24 years of age—represent a significant portion of the overall increase in unemployment since the start of 2023. This is a larger share than during other periods of rising unemployment (Chart 5). This is partly due to the high number of immigrants, who are generally younger than the rest of the population."
👨🌾 - Speech by Nicolas Vincent, May 2026
🔗bankofcanada.ca/wp-content/u…
▶️“The labour market is particularly challenging for young people”: The 2022–24 influx of young newcomers “intensified competition in Canada for lower-skill and entry-level jobs”. Youth unemployment has risen above 14%, and he expects it may normalize now that immigration has been cut.
🏘️ - Staff Article, September 2026
🔗bankofcanada.ca/2026/09/spar…
▶️"Strong population growth drove asking rents higher in recent years"
Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
Mark Carney keeps telling us we live in a “dangerous and divided world” without acknowledging how we got here. Because if he did, fingers would be pointing right back at him.
Leading the Bank of Canada under Harper. Leading the Bank of England. Advising Trudeau. Working in the very circles that helped shape the world he is now warning us about.
You would think there would be a little humility. Perhaps even some embarrassment before asking citizens to trust him with more power.
If these “leaders” are so capable, why do their warnings keep getting darker while our lives get harder? Where are the results of all this supposed expertise? We are told to trust their leadership, yet somehow never to question where it has brought us.
I have come to the harsh conclusion that we keep expecting better outcomes from people whose priority is protecting their own positions and interests. Helping citizens become strong, free and prosperous is clearly not the priority. Instead, we are left paying more for public services that fail to serve the public, while those responsible expect our trust and treat us as the problem when we question their failures.
So what can you do in this “dangerous and divided world”? Stop assuming the government will take care of you. Judge its competence by its record, not its promises.
Take care of yourself, your family and your community. Ask questions. Think independently. Do not hand over your judgment simply because someone in power tells you to be afraid.
Look around and ask yourself. Are our streets safer? Are hospital waits shorter? Are classrooms less crowded? Is housing more affordable? Are groceries cheaper? Are you keeping more of what you earn? Are repeat violent offenders being kept off our streets? Is public money being spent responsibly? Are those in power answering your questions or dismissing you for asking?
Then ask yourself whether you want more of the same and why those failing us every day should be trusted with even more power.
Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
Europe is the warning.
Is Carney paying attention?
Are Canadians paying attention?
France
Italy
Now UK.
Every European country that opened its doors to Islam is done.
I have two questions for Carney supporters:
1️⃣ Can you defend the past 12 years of Liberal immigration polices and the consequences Canadians are living with today?
2️⃣ Can you explain why Carney is moving ahead with closer EU ties, through his associate membership, when he hasn’t told Canadians the full details of what this membership will entail?
What’s happening in Europe should be an enormous warning to Canadians. Not a blueprint of what will happen to Canada, just a few years from now.
Right now, with what we’re seeing, taking place in Europe, Canada needs to reassess its immigration policies and the EU associate membership needs to be shelved.
Steps need to be taken to protect Canadians.
#HAPPENING NOW 🚨 THOUSANDS of Muslims are chanting “Allah Akbar” while searching for White British Patriots
Pray for the UK, this is what open borders does to your cities. The #UK has officially fallen
Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
Wondering what "globalize the Intifada" meant?
This is what it always fucking meant.
WAKE UP.
Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
Le Pen can't lose, now. cnn.com/2026/10/17/europe/ha…
Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
This government did everything possible to keep our oil in the ground. Apparently, there was no business case for it.
Meanwhile, the Liberals backed themselves into a corner, bought TM and created a boondoggle of overruns that boggles the mind.
Now, they're perplexed that no one will come forward, which means government money has to build it. Our money. And given their track record with TM, it won't go well for Albertans.
This Pacific Link announcement isn't a win. It's a disgrace.
Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
Canada’s problem is not that America is about to conquer it. Canada’s problem is a Liberal government that would rather manage a phantom war than fix debt, productivity, and a country that no longer feels it can stand on its own without a crisis story. Fear is not a foreign policy. It is an excuse.
Moore cowardly accused me of being MAGA and blocked me. And he's got this wrong too. This was way after US/Can talks broke down. And trade talks are always about more than Trade. The US asked Canada not to trade with a country that threatened US security. Totally fair.
Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
🇨🇦♥️🇺🇸 Riddle me this: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wants us to "diversify away" from the US.
And yet, 91% of his own investment portfolio is invested in American companies.
Why is it diversification for thee, but America for me?
Lol...Bruce Anderson got up out of his chair at CBC long enough to block me for pointing out his bias. Just wanted everyone to know what a cowardly hack he is. Please retweet and repost to spread the word. Hey...that's 2 in two weeks. James Moore showed his true colors last week.
Steve Jones🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 retweeted
Do yourself and the country a favour Pierre, ignore all other noise and focus relentlessly on the deal Carney rejected. That's all you have to do.
