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Don Taylor retweeted
Grocery stores make about $1 in profit for every $30 of goods sold. So if this person walked out carrying about $75 in groceries, that instantly erases the profit from $2250 in sales. Something to consider as you complain about grocery prices.
Don Taylor retweeted
List of attendees at a Carney Liberal leadership campaign fundraiser at a private residence in Ottawa.
#99.
Richard Wagner.
Was is SCoC Chief Justice Richard Wagner?
Pereceived bias at the Supreme Court
How can Chief Justice Richard Wagner be objective about whether the govt's use of the Emergencies Act was constitutional, when he's already used the same rhetoric condemning the trucker protests as the government did?
torontosun.com/opinion/edito…
Don Taylor retweeted
McGill’s law school receives roughly 1,500 applications for just 180 spots.
It gave one of those spots to a convicted murderer in his mid-60s, who will never pass the good character requirements to practice, and who violated his parole multiple times.
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
Don Taylor retweeted
Dr. Trevor Tombe of the University of Calgary delivers a lesson on the uselessness of the 🇨🇦 counter-tariffs.
1⃣ They’re costing 🇨🇦 consumers $100M PER WEEK (nearly $1B to date). The 2025 counter-tariffs cost $4B.
2⃣ The counter-tariffs have not only had no impact on the 🇺🇸 economically, they’ve actually raised tariffs on 🇨🇦.
3⃣ The impact on the most heavily affected 🇺🇸 states is negligible. “These are within the margin of error of our ability to even calculate them.”
4⃣ The 🇺🇸 has higher tariffs on 93 countries than on 🇨🇦. “This may be less of a trade war with 🇨🇦 than a fundamental change in how the 🇺🇸 runs its economy.”
5⃣ Carney’s “dollar for dollar” retaliation claim is untrue. It’s about 60 cents on the dollar.
Don Taylor retweeted
What fascinates me about the immigration debate in Canada is the lack of outrage from the 'Left'. The results are in; the evidence is clear. The policy was extremely regressive.
Corporations Won; Workers Lost.
Unions, Academics, Students, Commies. Where are you? Are you not vexed that this government is set to put Workers through the meat grinder again?
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"
Don Taylor retweeted
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"
Don Taylor retweeted
I'm old enough to remember Ukraine before February 2022. Before the great PR makeover. Before billions in British public money started flowing. Before the swastikas were quietly airbrushed out of the picture and yesterday's neo-Nazi problem became today's inconvenient history.
Back in January 2015, Ross Kemp travelled to Ukraine for his Extreme World documentary series, investigating the rise of the far right and the Azov Battalion, including its neo-Nazi elements and symbolism.
This was British mainstream television, not Russian propaganda.
Funny how quickly history gets rewritten when the geopolitical interests change and the public chequebook comes out.
Of course, Ukraine's corruption, extremist movements and internal divisions didn't magically disappear in February 2022. But suddenly, mentioning what British journalists had openly reported for years was enough to get you branded a Kremlin sympathiser.
Well, here's Ross Kemp reporting from Ukraine in 2015, long before the political rebranding.
No Russian bots. No Kremlin script. Just the history they would rather you didn't remember.
Don Taylor retweeted
Pat Buchanan, 1999:
“By moving NATO onto Russia’s front porch, we have scheduled a twenty-first century confrontation. … America will face a hellish dilemma: risk confrontation with a nuclear-armed Russia determined to recreate its old sphere of influence, or renege on solemn commitments and see NATO collapse.”
Therefore, he said, “Offering NATO memberships to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and, as some urge, Ukraine is rashness bordering on madness.” Referring to maps the Clinton team must have ignored, Buchanan warned, “This would put the Russian base at Kaliningrad behind NATO lines and bring into a U.S.-led alliance three nations with huge Russian minorities.” Foreseeing future conflict, he observed that “Latvia is almost half Russian; eastern Ukraine, almost entirely Russian. America could neither defend nor liberate these nations without the risk of nuclear war.”
Pat Buchanan, A Republic, Not an Empire: Reclaiming America’s Destiny (New York: Regnery, 1999), 17–18, 22.
Don Taylor retweeted
February 2014. Maidan Square, Kyiv. John McCain filming the protests, standing shoulder to shoulder with US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt, while Victoria Nuland stands just behind them.
A striking snapshot of Washington’s direct involvement in Ukraine’s political upheaval.
The same officials who spoke so confidently about democracy were right there amid the turmoil surrounding the removal of a democratically elected president.
This raises an uncomfortable question: was this truly about defending Ukrainian democracy, or about Washington advancing its own geopolitical agenda at Ukraine’s expense?
Don Taylor retweeted
As chair of Brookfield and acting as an economic advisor to Justin Trudeau, Carney secured a $276,000,000 loan for Brookfield from the state-owned Bank of China
Last week Carney announced a $2,000,000,000 subsidy fund for heat pumps, immensely benefiting Enercare — Enercare was acquired by Brookfield in 2018
Don Taylor retweeted
Eighty-three per cent of donations to Trudeau’s Papineau riding in 2016 came from outside of Quebec. Two thirds came from around 50 Chinese donors and were given in the span of 48 hours between July 6-7th.
Elections Canada shows three donations received on July 6, 2016 from Rongxiang “Tiger” Yuan, totalling $4,299.30 - reportedly a former high-ranking officer in the CCP’s People’s Liberation Army.
Interesting timing.
Credit: Bob Mackin
thebreaker.news/business/tru…
Don Taylor retweeted
If you were wondering why Canada isn't a world leader in AI... Today @YorkUniversity posted a job opening for a tenured professor of Artificial Intelligence:
"...this position is open only to qualified researchers who self-identify as women or gender non-conforming (e.g., genderfluid, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, trans man, trans woman)."
Don Taylor retweeted
Today, Mark flew his jet to Sherbrooke and back, to make an announcement about heat pumps.
Heat pumps. To save the environment.
To fly there and spend a few minutes in front of the cameras, Mark burned 1,800L of jet fuel and emitted over 4,500kg of CO2.
Don Taylor retweeted
“Affordability is the best it’s been in over a decade” -@MarkJCarney
Don Taylor retweeted
I'm a broken record here, but Mark Carney decided this needed to be rewarded with $600 million in taxpayer money, statehood recognition and expedited status for thousands of unvetted Gazans to live among us. I'm not sure how you expect him to run Canada functionally.
TERRORIST: “Hello, dad! Dad, I am inside Mefalsim [Israel]—open your WhatsApp right now, and see all the killed. Look at how many I killed with my own hands! Your son killed Jews!”
FATHER: “Allahu Akhbar, Allahu Akhbar! May God protect you.”
TERRORIST: “This is inside Mefalsim, father. I am talking to you from the phone of a Jew—I killed her and her husband—I killed ten with my own hands.”
“Open your phone and see how many I killed, father. Open your phone, I am calling you on WhatsApp.”
FATHER: Crying (unintelligible).
TERRORIST: “I am in Meflasim, father. I killed ten! Ten! Ten, with my own bare hands! Their blood is on my hands! Let me talk to Mom—”
MOTHER: “Oh, my son, may God protect you!”
TERRORIST: “I killed ten all by myself, mother!”
FATHER: “May God bring you home safely.”
TERRORIST: “Father, go back to WhatsApp! I want to call you live from Mefalsim!”
MOTHER: “I wish I was there with you!”
TERRORIST: “Mother, your son is a hero. I was the first to enter under the guidance and with the help of Allah. Father, lift your head—lift your head!”
(Talking to terrorists on the scene: “Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill them! Inside, inside, into the city!”)
BROTHER: “Mahmoud, Mahmoud. Come back [to Gaza]—that's enough, return.”
TERRORIST: “Return? There is no return—it is victory or martyrdom. My mother gave birth to me for Islam, Alaa. Are you serious? How will I return? Look at WhatsApp—look at your phone—look at all the dead.”
Don Taylor retweeted
Bruce Pardy just described something Canadians have been living through so gradually that many have stopped noticing how extraordinary it is.
Government now has a say in virtually everything. We are taxed at work, at the store, at the pump and at home. Property increasingly feels less like something you own and more like something you’re permitted to keep—provided you continue paying for the privilege.
Then Pardy says it plainly:
“Canada has become a grift.”
Listen to his argument and then look around. How many layers of government, regulation, taxation, licensing and protected interests now stand between Canadians and the simple business of living their own lives?
At what point did we become so accustomed to it that we stopped asking where legitimate government ends and our individual liberty begins?
We still call ourselves free. Perhaps it’s worth occasionally taking inventory of how much freedom still belongs to us without permission, a licence, a tax, a fee or the government’s approval.
Perhaps the most unsettling thing about Bruce Pardy’s speech isn’t how radical it sounds.
It’s how familiar it feels.
@PardyBruce
Canada in 2026: a managerial society where government has a say in everything. Property is a privilege, taxes are inescapable, and personal choices are dictated. StateOfOurNation.ca Gala 2026, Burlington, ON #Canada #StateOfOurNation #Gala2026
Don Taylor retweeted
It has come to my attention that I have been denounced by @Advocates_Soc for criticizing judicial decisions — and yes, individual judges.
Here's the thing. When someone, for example, spends her lawyerly career writing op-eds in favour of migration and calling herself an activist, and then becomes a federal judge, and from that seat allows all sorts of undesirables to remain in Canada on weak grounds, people are free to draw a connection from A to B.
When a judge, for example, spends his lawyer years advocating fiercely for more race-based law, and then later throws out gun charges of black men on his (unsupported) assertion that police were racist during their arrests, people are free to question whether he's really a fair adjudicator.
When a judge, for example, says that a ban on drug trafficking is unconstitutional, and then *applauds* vigilante drug dealers for their self-proclaimed safe supply program — applauds them for supporting the business of organized crime and feeding the addictions of street people — that's beyond the pale. You're worried about democracy being poisoned? Worry about the judge who threw out Parliament's law against selling heroin because she felt it was "common sense" that it was supported by science.
I agree that it's not right to criticize a judge personally for impartially applying the law and coming to an unpopular decision (which they may even privately disagree with). But when their professional history, or their conduct in court, suggests allegiance to a cause that they happen to be ruling softly on, it will get noticed.
Bringing the administration of justice into disrepute is a two-way street, you know.
Don Taylor retweeted
Canada has been in a technical recession since late 2025/early 2026 and suffering a severe contraction in Real GDP per capita. The leadership is inept.
We're Getting Poorer: GDP per Capita in Canada
fraserinstitute.org/studies/…
