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rustle retweeted
Le preguntaron a Bukele en Argentina cómo sacaron a los jóvenes del modelo del narco: la casa grande, el coche caro el smartphone… cuando trabajar honesto tarda años. Su respuesta duele porque es verdad
"El gobierno llega tarde si espera reinsertar al que ya violó, ya mató y ya cortó cabezas. A un niño de 6 u 8 años sí se le puede cambiar la vida. Al que ya eligió el mal... el joven que vende tomates en el mercado, suda, carga, gana $5… y en la esquina el pandillero se los quita. ¿Qué incentivo gana? ¿Vender tomates o ser el que cobra? Por eso nunca se gana la guerra de incentivos si el criminal sigue en la calle.
Porque el Estado no puede pagarle triple salario mínimo para que deje el crimen. Eso no es gobierno, sino ingenuidad cara. Un organismo me dijo: «no puedes acabar el crimen de un golpe, son 70 mil empleos, esa plata llega a los hogares y se gasta legal». Lo que ellos insinuaban era que dejara vivir al cáncer para no lastimar la economía. Bukele les respondió con otra analogía: si tengo cáncer con metástasis y me ofrecen cirugía, quimio y quedar débil… pero vivo, me opero. No me quedo así nomás esperando que el tumor sea educado."
Le dijeron que el PIB podía caer hasta 10% por sacar esa economía sucia. No cayó. Subió. Porque el miedo también es un impuesto. Y ese sí lo pagábamos todos los días. Sacaron al pandillero de la ecuación y no sólo para castigarlo, sino para que el muchacho que todavía no entra en ese mundo vea otro menú. Ya no es: «me hago pandillero y gano». Ahora es: «me hago pandillero y pierdo mi libertad». Eso no es odio, es orden. Es proteger a la familia que sí trabaja, a la que manda la remesa, a la que nunca tuvo casa grande porque no cobraba renta de sangre. 30 años de discursos. 7 años de resultados. El resto es teoría para intelectuales.
Tal vez necesitamos un Bukele en España. Y en el mundo.
rustle retweeted
CBC quoted Lowan’s speech right up to the line that reveals the ideology—and then stopped
In their election-night write-up, CBC reported: “We may have a small caucus, but tonight we have inherited an enormous responsibility, and that is to hold a majority Conservative government to account.”
What she said next, according to the full transcript (and the video CBC itself posted):“We are the only party who is equipped to stand against the Conservatives and their existence.”
That is not “holding a government to account.” That is declaring the victorious party’s existence illegitimate. It is the language of elimination, not opposition
If a BC Conservative candidate had said the NDP or Greens needed to be opposed “and their existence,” it would have led every newscast, every panel, and every CBC segment for days. Instead, the line was edited out of the written coverage while the surrounding sentences were used to portray her as a responsible voice of accountability
This is not an oversight. CBC has the full speech on their website. They chose which sentences to quote and which to bury. Meanwhile, hosts and panels continue to treat the BC Conservatives as uniquely dangerous while soft-pedaling a 26-year-old party leader who just framed an entire party’s existence as the problem to be solved
Age is not a shield. “Movement building” is not a euphemism that erases the actual words. Selective quotation that stops one sentence before the most revealing line is not journalism—it is CBC narrative management
The video is on CBC’s own site. The transcript is public. The CBC omission is the story @brodiefenlon
rustle retweeted
We don’t face a binary choice of absurd infills or urban sprawl. Time in Vancouver has offered me an opportunity for reflection. , I offer the following for your consideration:
➡️Increased supply is the key to making housing more affordable. Policies that boost demand—such as interest rate relief—are misguided. It is critical to make housing affordable while minimizing the need to extend services to new areas. So increased density is smart.
➡️Infill as currently occurring in YEG will not create the density needed to significantly increase supply. We don’t need to turn one house into six units; we need to convert four or five houses into 100+ units.
➡️Too often, infill creates neighborhood issues, such as boxing in houses and causing parking problems. Given its limited impact on supply, the costs outweigh the benefits.
➡️Smart planning prioritizes large developments on main streets near LRT stations and, where smaller developments are allowed, places them on corners rather than in the middle of a block and ensures the character of the neighborhood’s are preserved to appropriate measure.
➡️It also ensures space for commercial development to support shops and restaurants catering to high-density areas—see Fraser Street near 29th in Vancouver, where apartments and condos have commercial spaces on the ground floor. You can walk to excellent Thai, Vietnamese, Greek, and other restaurants, as well as unique shops.
➡️Liberal infill rules result in developers outbidding typical families, driving up prices in some areas. That is counter productive.
➡️YEG's current approach to infill is a fad, and in time the cool kids sitting on #YEGCC will admit it was a mistake. In time we will follow the path of places like Europe and Singapore: large complexes strategically placed supported by mandatory commecercial space to create walkable neighborhoods and support mass transit.
If you want to maintain support for the worthwhile goal of making housing more affordable, you have to do it far smarter than this:
"Taxpayers can't afford for us to keep sprawling — every new suburb needs new roads, pipes, firehalls and bus routes — that lands on your tax bill forever," Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack said Thursday. #yegcc #ableg
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rustle retweeted
I would like to remind Spencer that the U.S. isn't the country that ran unofficial police stations in Canadian cities, interfered in two of our federal elections, and sanctioned a sitting Canadian MP for criticizing them.
The lack of proper equivalence is frankly staggering.
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To @VotetoStayAB and @jkenney — humour me for a second, will you?
Suppose the east keeps voting the way they do—is there any amount of fiscal irresponsibility and political malfeasance in Ottawa that makes you open to independence?
Where’s your line?
Do you have one?
Or are you sinking Alberta with the rest of Canada no matter what Ottawa decides?
Good read from the @stalbertgazette👇
If you believe Alberta should stay in Canada – and don’t want to break up our country or gamble with our prosperity – don’t assume this vote is already decided.
Order your special ballot today. Vote early. Talk to your friends and family about voting also.
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Foreign actors trying to manipulate Canadian politics should concern everyone.
But treating Alberta separatism as something manufactured by Russian bots gets the history backwards.
The debate over Alberta's place in Confederation, control of our resources and treatment by Ottawa stretches back generations. Organized independence campaigns surged during the NEP era—before social media existed.
Today's Albertans don't need foreigners to tell them what to think. We can look at taxes, affordability, federal energy and economic policies, and the declining opportunities available to our children and decide whether Confederation is working for Alberta.
Foreign actors did not invent dissatisfaction with the status quo. On Oct. 19 Albertans will get to send the message to Ottawa that Alberta can do better. LetAlbertaDecide.com
New data from Canadian researchers shows how Russian, U.S. interests are targeting Alberta separatist debate theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
rustle retweeted
If Conservatives want to be credible when criticizing immigration policy, it means being honest about the fact that our problems did not really begin in 2015.
They started with Mulroney in the late 80s early 90s and continued throughout Harper’s years in office as well.
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What Theo's cartoon really tells us is that, in Canada, the government control of the media is so secure that they don't even feel the need to hide it anymore.
The opposition will face the full weight of the Canadian subsidized media in every election, and Canadian voters will always be subject to a propaganda blitz if the polling numbers aren't going the government's way.
If the government fails at anything, you won't hear about it. If the government isn't doing what they said they'd do, expect a campaign of deflection. If the opposition is right about anything, expect a smear campaign and hit pieces using every tool at the media's disposal.
This puts the Canadian media in a position to fight democracy, not to support it.
Ask yourself how we got here.
#cdnpoli #cdnmedia
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Who painted Canadian conservatives as Trump? MAGA?—liberals
Now they have a new brilliant strategy… demand they remove the label that was never based in reality to begin with.
The best part? They can’t show a single actual problem to fix. No policy. No vote. No comparison. Just a label they invented to win an election—paired with “you’re not a patriot” unless you disprove a smear they made up in the first place.
P.s conservatives have been team canada since before it was trending on your feed. They just want you to forget that it was the liberals who called anyone waving a Canadian flag a radical up until a year ago. They want you to forget that it was the liberals who declared Canada a post national state. And now, they want you to forget who our real enemies are.
Friendly reminder: 85% of trade is tariff free. 96% of the 42% of businesses who want to leave Canada because of liberal policies have tariff free trade. 80-90% of manufacturers say a U.S trade deal is the most important thing for the Canadian economy.
Liberals are incredibly good at redefining things to suit their narrative. Like how they now redefine criticizing the government as “Trumpian” or “anti-Canada”.
Don’t you dare let them redefine what it means to be a patriot.
What the CPC must now do is ensure that Trumpism is pushed out of the party entirely, and ensure that the patriotic, pro-Canada perspective decisively wins within the party. It must cut ties with the pro-Trump influencers entirely. It must call out the Trump Administration, following the example of leaders like Stephen Harper, Doug Ford, and Jason Kenney. It must work at the grassroots level to ensure Trumpism does not embed itself in local party organizations, and it must ensure that pro-Trump candidates do not win local nominations.
This will take real work and real effort. In the short run, it will plunge the party into conflict. But that is already happening anyway, as the influencers try to purge those who question their dangerous and destructive hold over the party. Far better for the pro-Canada majority within the CPC to acknowledge that the fight is occurring and show the determination necessary to win it.
rustle 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.
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In case you didn't know.
After getting 61.7% support on the 2021 referendum for removing equalization from the constitution, this is what Premier Jason Kenney did.
First, he wrote a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking for a meeting about the results.
The response was "No."
Next, he wrote a letter to the First Ministers asking for a meeting about the results.
The response was "No."
Finally, Kenney gave up.
This is the leadership that Kenney offered to Albertans who trusted him.
Now he's asking us to "Lead, not Leave" when the truth is Albertans cannot fix the Canadian system. We have tried. It's time we "Lead, and Leave."
rustle retweeted
I respectfully disagree. First, a real example of bad faith was the Prime Minister granting an unconstitutional pipeline veto to Eby and 1st Nations right after signing the MOU.
Second, the MOU is not a complete answer to Alberta’s grievances. At best, it purports to address one narrow problem—energy market access—and even there it offers no real constitutional fix.
It does not fix Alberta’s lack of democratic weight in Ottawa, the annual $20B+ fiscal drain of equalization, federal attacks on energy, carbon/net-zero policy, firearms laws, censorship, deficit spending, pension risk, health-transfer strings, or Ottawa’s habit of imposing policies on Albertans without meaningful representation.
So no, it is not “bad faith” for the Smith government to sign the MOU and still let Albertans vote on independence. Signing a narrow, uncertain deal does not erase the larger question: should Albertans control their own future? @nspector4
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Let's say that the notion of Alberta Separation or Independence is exactly what some are saying it is. Foolish. Wrong-headed. Traitorous.
What are you going to do with all the God-fearing business and family men in the movement?
I am reminded here of a quote by CS Lewis.
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”
The way that most Canadians are handling this Movement speaks of hard days for every Canadian.
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This is a disingenuous claim. None of the people who say that puberty blockers don't cause sterility, like Shelley here, would ever agree that a "trans child" should stop blockers and go on to resume their natural puberty and develop their natural fertility. The next step is hormones. And so on and so on. And you end up with sterility. The fact that they won't simply own that "gender affirming care," when started young, will absolutely destroy sexual function and fertility shows you that they know the truth is horrible and that they are trying to hide it. They claim it is abusive to suggest that a "trans kid" go through the natural puberty that would develop their fertility so *of course* they support the sterilization pathway.
It is important for the medical community to call out misinformation. This is a false statement (puberty blockers do NOT cause permanent sterility) from someone with no medical training. @Albertadoctors @CaulfieldTim @CMA_Docs
rustle retweeted
I awake to much confusion. First I learn it’s outrageous to suggest politicians can direct police and then I learn the Prime Minister said he would have Israel’s PM arrested should he visit Canada
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A Rebuttal:
You're take on what Pierre said needs an update from a fellow Montreal Conservative. Your post is a touching eulogy Dimitris for a Conservative Party that exists more in nostalgia than in reality. You speak of history, principle, and purpose, while scolding Pierre Poilievre for having the temerity to apply those very principles to a Prime Minister who treats the law as a suggestion box.
Let’s be clear: your argument isn’t that Poilievre is wrong on the facts. It’s that his tone is impolite. How very Canadian to suggest that pointing out a Prime Minister’s alleged criminality is a greater offence than the criminality itself.
You claim that in a “rule-of-law democracy, no opposition leader should ever call for a Prime Minister to be jailed.” What breathtakingly selective principle. A rule-of-law democracy ceases to be one when its highest official is seen to be above the law. The real recklessness isn't in calling it out; it's in the silent acquiescence to a two-tiered justice system.
You accuse Poilievre of “grievance” for stating a grievance that is, according to the evidence, entirely valid. Let’s consult the very source you provided from Democracy Watch. Their request for an independent prosecutor lays out a case that is anything but the fever dream you dismiss it as. To summarize for those who won’t click the link:
• 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞:
The Ethics Commissioner found Trudeau guilty of violating the Conflict of Interest Act in the Aga Khan affair. In the SNC-Lavalin scandal, the Ethics Commissioner found he used his authority to "circumvent, undermine and attempt to undermine" the rule of law.
• 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞:
Democracy Watch points to Section 139 of the Criminal Code, which defines "Obstructing Justice." The evidence of a sustained, coordinated pressure campaign on the Attorney General to stop a criminal prosecution fits this definition to a T.
• 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐂𝐌𝐏'𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:
As Democracy Watch details, the RCMP never even interviewed Justin Trudeau about SNC-Lavalin, despite a mountain of public evidence. Your post defends this as protecting “confidence in our justice system,” but to any objective observer, it looks an awful lot like the “despicable” shielding Poilievre described. If the RCMP won't investigate a sitting Prime Minister with this much evidence, who exactly will they investigate?
You say Poilievre “has not learned the lessons of his electoral defeat.” Perhaps the lesson he learned is that a segment of the electorate is tired of Conservatives who bring a PowerPoint presentation to a knife fight. Canadians saw a Prime Minister who, according to multiple, independent watchdogs, repeatedly violated ethical and potentially criminal standards. What they “needed” was an opposition leader with the courage to name that corruption, not one who wrings his hands over parliamentary decorum while the foundations of accountability are eroded.
The legacy of Macdonald, Diefenbaker, and Harper wasn’t built on politely ignoring brazen abuses of power Dimitris. It was built on conviction. Poilievre’s rhetoric isn’t a distortion of that legacy; it’s a revival of its fighting spirit. The only thing being “rewritten” is the Liberal narrative that their former leader is untouchable.
Αγαπά ο Θεός τον κλέφτη, αγαπά και τον νοικοκύρη.
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The Conservative Party that was shaped by the nation-building of Sir John A. Macdonald, the moral conviction of John Diefenbaker, the bold ambition of Brian Mulroney, and the steady discipline of Stephen Harper is far greater than any one man.
It is a party rooted in history, principle, and purpose, a party built to serve the country, not the ego of a single leader.
No individual, no matter how loud or popular, has the right to rewrite that legacy or distort it into something it was never meant to be.
This week, Poilievre accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of committing what he described as the worst possible offence for a head of government, violating the Criminal Code and escaping justice. He claimed that Trudeau’s free vacation from the Aga Khan was a clear-cut criminal breach and that the RCMP deliberately chose not to lay charges.
Poilievre went further, declaring that Trudeau should have been criminally charged and sent to jail. He went as far as accusing the RCMP leadership of being “despicable” and actively shielding the Liberal government from prosecution.
In a rule-of-law democracy, no opposition leader should ever call for a prime minister or any political rival to be jailed. It undermines confidence in our justice system, our federal police and ultimately the Crown. That kind of rhetoric isn’t strength, it’s recklessness and it shows a leadership approach that remains rooted in grievance rather than governance.
Months after losing the federal election, Poilievre seems not to have learned the lessons of his electoral defeat.
For all the fiery slogans and viral clips, Canadians saw through the performance. What they needed was a prime minister-in-waiting. What they got was a man addicted to opposition, stuck
Months later, there’s little evidence he has reflected, adapted, or grown. If anything, he seems more committed than ever to the very approach that cost him credibility with the voters he most needed to win.
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rustle retweeted
One wonders if the proponents of so-called Team Canada in the context of Trump’s tariffs and Canadian public policy more generally recognize how Central Canadian-centric it is.
It’s an expression of Team Canada to transfer scarce public resources to Central Canadian automakers through large-scale federal subsidies. But it’s not a Team Canada matter to approve a Western Canadian pipeline.
It’s a Team Canada issue to impose tariffs on Chinese auto imports to protect Central Canadian auto jobs. But it’s not if Chinese retaliates by harming canola exports from Western Canada.
You get the sense that for a lot of Team Canada types, their conception of Canada is so wrapped up in the interests of parts of Ontario and Quebec, that they genuinely see the national interests and their interests as synonymous.
One can also understand why Western Canadians find the whole thing a bit rich and ultimately unfair.
