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Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
NEW:
The MANDATORY Canada Pension Plan
and Brookfield Asset Management have just announced a $50B joint venture called the "Maple Fund"
where CPP provides capital and Brookfield handles project origination and management.
Canada, we are being pillaged.
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Anyone who is not in business has NO CLUE how hard it is to pivot to Europe.
Its basically impossible for most SMEs.
One example? ... you now need to market and serve customers in 4-5 languages, in a time zone 6 hours off, with EU regulations, with no physical footprint.
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Canada running into the arms of European Union is one of the stupidest economic policies imaginable. Europe is a dying continent.
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.
No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.
This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.
Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.
What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.
The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Something Americans likely don't know is that Canada sprays its forests with glyphosate, making them more flammable.
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Forest fires are destroying Northern Ontario forests after our government spent all spring spraying the forests with glyphosate. When will this practice end? Its does nothing but cause damage to our forests and its wildlife habitats.
Glyphosate is also extremely flammable. Almost like they are purposely sabotaging our forests!
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Le problème n'a JAMAIS été qu'il existe des gens riches. La richesse des uns n'a appauvri personne — un euro gagné en créant de la valeur n'est pas un euro volé à quelqu'un d'autre, c'est un euro qui n'existait pas avant. Le vrai problème, c'est un État qui te prend la moitié de tout ce que tu produis pour le cramer dans une machine qui ne fonctionne pas, puis qui vient te dire que ton sentiment d'injustice, c'est la faute du type d'en face.
Hier j'ai fait un post pour expliquer comment j'en suis arrivé à écrire sur la French Theory — ce post qui m'a valu un follow d'Elon Musk et de Javier Milei, et qui a fait 80 millions de vues.
Mais la French Theory n'était que la conséquence. La cause première, celle qui m'a poussé à creuser tous ces sujets aussi profondément, c'est l'économie.
Et quand je vois Lecornu déclarer qu'« il y avait un sentiment d'inégalité dans la répartition de la richesse, et que ça, il faut bien le traiter », je me dis qu'on tient là, en une phrase, tout ce qui ne tourne pas rond dans ce pays.
Parce que ça fait 50, 60, 70 ans qu'on SAIT. On sait exactement ce qu'il faut faire pour générer de la prospérité et rendre un pays fonctionnel. Ce n'est pas un mystère, ce n'est pas une opinion de comptoir, c'est démontré empiriquement sur tous les continents et à toutes les époques : libéraliser à fond, baisser les impôts au maximum, réduire le poids de l'État partout où c'est possible.
Pourquoi réduire l'État ? Pas par idéologie. Par mécanique pure.
Un bureaucrate est structurellement incapable d'allouer du capital efficacement. Ce n'est pas une question de méchanceté ni d'incompétence individuelle — c'est mathématique. Il n'a pas les signaux de prix, il n'a pas le retour du réel, il n'a pas de skin in the game. Il dépense l'argent des autres, pour des gens qu'il ne connaît pas, sans jamais payer le prix de ses erreurs. Hayek et Mises avaient tout expliqué il y a un siècle : sans marché, tu es aveugle. Tu ne peux pas calculer. Tu ne peux qu'improviser à l'échelle de 68 millions de personnes.
Résultat : des services publics qui s'effondrent, un pays qui décroche, des gens qui galèrent pour de vrai. Et devant ce désastre, on leur explique que le coupable, c'est le voisin qui a réussi. Que si l'hôpital ferme, si l'école ne forme plus, si tu n'arrives plus à te loger, c'est parce qu'il existe des gens riches.
C'est faux. Radicalement faux.
Le problème n'a JAMAIS été qu'il existe des gens riches. La richesse des uns n'a appauvri personne — un euro gagné en créant de la valeur n'est pas un euro volé à quelqu'un d'autre, c'est un euro qui n'existait pas avant. Le vrai problème, c'est un État qui te prend la moitié de tout ce que tu produis pour le cramer dans une machine qui ne fonctionne pas, puis qui vient te dire que ton sentiment d'injustice, c'est la faute du type d'en face.
Taxer davantage, ce n'est pas « traiter le sentiment d'inégalité ». C'est nourrir la bête qui l'a créé.
Le sentiment d'injustice est réel. Mais il ne vient pas de ceux qui créent la richesse. Il vient de ceux qui la confisquent pour la gaspiller — et qui ont besoin que tu regardes ailleurs pendant qu'ils le font.
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation
Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.
Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.”
For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again.
The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.
To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump!
If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.
Just how much trouble is Canada's economy in? bbc.in/3StE8RD
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
You've likely seen the headlines from bills C-34, C-36, and C-22 in the media.
Each may sound reasonable on their own: protect kids online, modernize privacy, help police catch criminals.
But buried within is an emerging Digital Regulatory Superpower unlike anything Canadians have ever seen.
These bills hand one unelected commission power over what Canadians can say, what stays private, and who the state can watch.
As of today, the Federal Government is rushing to enact massive Internet Surveillance Reform into law without proper debate.
You have to read Bill C-34 on The Commission to believe it. It sets the rules on age verification, social media bans, and content removals while serving as combined regulator, investigator and advocate. At the start, Chair alone can be the full Commission.
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Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
You know you're living in a healthy democracy when everyone has to pay for a VPN to stop the state from spying on them.
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Australia banned X for children but not BlueSky.
Britain is banning X for children but not BlueSky.
This proves one thing.
It's not about protecting children.
It's about censorship and controlling the narrative.
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Bill C-9 = Defines what you can and cannot say, the consequences of hurting people’s feelings
Bill C-22 = Provides the government with the proof (metadata) they need to go after you for hate-speech.
Bill C-8 = Gives the power to our government to cut you off the internet and prohibit Internet Service Providers from selling you services.
Unlike what they want you to believe, these bills are not separate, they are interconnected.
The government wants to put in place the legal framework to spy on us and use AI to keep us in check.
This is not about safety; this is about crushing dissent.
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
I just completed the 2026 census last night and I'm still shaking my head. Of all of the potentially useful questions they could have asked, multiple questions on my gender and what language I speak (at least 4 on that topic) were absolutely baffling.
Not a single question that could actually inform strategy or policy. – at Toronto, Ontario
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Andy gets it. Carney is basically latest in a line of Canada China Business Council leaders, that’s it. That is the way to parse his policies. The eurolove and Trump antidote messaging is just fluff.
Remember when you kicked out journalists to meet with a United Front group that helped Parm Bains defeat Kenny Chiu, which effectively killed foreign agent registry legislation?
I know when you say China is our strategic partner Mark, what you really mean is that it’s yours.
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Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Same month Carney was named as Trudeau economic advisor; October met with Beijing mayor, expressed keen interest in CCP administered investment inside China (per CCP readout); November 2024 secured 276 million loan for Brookfield … Jan 2025 runs for LPC leadership; January 26 strategic PRC partner…
September 2024:
"The creation of a multi-billion-dollar investment fund seeded with federal government money and designed to attract additional investments from Canada’s large pension plans...
...global investment firm Brookfield Corp. pitched the proposal and could be an investor and possibly manage the fund, with hopes that pooled investment dollars would reach $50 billion."
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Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Michael Higgins: The arrogance of Chief Justice Richard Wagner nationalpost.com/opinion/the…
Jeff Donaldson, PhD retweeted
Canada’s Chief Justice Richard Wagner has installed a lifelike bronze bust of himself in our highest court.
It should be called ‘Narcissus Canadiannus”
- There is no precedent for something this vulgar in the history of the Court. It should be taken down. Richard fancies himself.
- Richard also fancies his own opinion on things. He violated legal due process and the Courts reputation by publicly accusing the Convoy - who protested backwards federal Covid policies that were soon dropped of ‘anarchy’ and ‘hostage taking’.
Now that the Convoys freedom of speech, assembly and due process rights have been asserted by lower courts the Supreme Court has to consider the appeal of the federal govt and weigh the rights of citizens against the decision of the federal government to impose the Emergencies Act to suspend those rights.
Wagners lack of judicial discretion in the first instance makes his recusal from such an important rights-defining case important because it signals not just fairness in the content of the decision but in the way the decision gets reached by the highest Court.
He has already shown his bias. Any decision against the convoy poisons the integrity of the Court if he remains present.
But Richard - the man with the bust of himself in our Court - doesn’t imagine himself under the law he imposes on others. He hasn’t completed any graduate work in law or published any academic work in law, philosophy or jurisprudence so it’s hard to know how he justifies himself in these matters.
Ironically, he has a reputation for warning others - including those far more qualified in formal jurisprudence than he is - not to critique Canadian judges like himself or their (increasingly bizarre and politicized) decisions.
But, from the Magna Carta onwards, Richard should know that in law as in politics dissent is democracy.
The dissent of the Convoy and the growing critique of Richards own bizarre behaviour and inability to articulate a judicial philosophy is exactly what’s needed to save Canada - and the Court’s reputation as a place where justice - not the ego of the Justices - is at stake.
Richard should recuse himself. And remove that vulgar bust from the Supreme Court.
#SCC #RuleOfLaw
Chief Justice Richard Wagner is refusing to recuse himself from the Emergencies Act case, despite previously calling the Freedom Convoy the “start of anarchy” and saying protesters “took citizens hostage.”
He has clearly shown his bias.
Now he says there’s “no reasonable apprehension of bias.”
That’s a problem.
You don’t publicly characterize one side in those terms, then turn around and sit in judgment over them. This isn’t about whether he believes he’s impartial, it’s whether a reasonable person would.
Do you or I believe him to be unbiased with everything we currently know? From his comments I don't see him as unbiased on this matter.
When the Chief Justice has already framed the conduct as “anarchy,” the answer isn’t complicated. It's a given.
Even Mahmud Jamal stepped aside in another case to avoid becoming a distraction, not because he had to, but because public confidence matters.
That’s the standard.
This isn’t just about one case, it’s about whether the public believes the process is fair.
Because once that’s gone, the ruling doesn’t matter. No one will believe his "findings." And we currently have a government that are happy to ignore 'bias' in their favour if it adds momentum to their current goals.
#onpoli #cdnpoli
