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#BREAKING During today's press conference during the Liberal cabinet "Retreat" in PEI, when PM Trudeau was questioned about Pierre Poilievre's accusations regarding the government's role in Canadians' hardships, every single minister in the gallery responded with laughter. They LAUGHED at your struggles. The sheer arrogance on display is astounding. #cdnpoli

#BREAKING During today's press conference during the Liberal cabinet "Retreat" in PEI, when PM Trudeau was questioned about Pierre Poilievre's accusations regarding the government's role in Canadians' hardships, every single minister in the gallery responded with laughter. They LAUGHED at your struggles. The sheer arrogance on display is astounding. #cdnpoli

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#BREAKING PMJT assures a reporter that Chinese interference did not disrupt the 2021 election because there's an expert panel and that the leaks reported to the The Globe and Mail by the CSIS whistle-blower are 'inaccurate' #cdnpolitics

#BREAKING PMJT assures a reporter that Chinese interference did not disrupt the 2021 election because there's an expert panel and that the leaks reported to the The Globe and Mail by the CSIS whistle-blower are 'inaccurate' #cdnpolitics

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BREAKING: Alberta makes it official that they will not participate with Justin Trudeau's federal government in the enforcement of gun ban C-21 #Cdnpoli

BREAKING: Alberta makes it official that they will not participate with Justin Trudeau's federal government in the enforcement of gun ban C-21 #Cdnpoli

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Last night, in a massive warehouse just outside Edmonton, something extraordinary happened. Fifteen thousand Canadians showed up—not for a concert, not for a protest, but for a political rally. For one reason: to hear Pierre Poilievre speak. But the real shock? The man who introduced him. Stephen Harper—the most successful Conservative prime minister in a generation—took the stage to deliver a blistering endorsement of Poilievre, and a scathing indictment of the Liberal regime. He didn’t mince words. Harper said what every Canadian knows but no one in the press gallery will admit: this country needs change—desperately. And he didn’t hedge. He didn’t qualify. He didn’t say “both parties have made mistakes.” No. Harper made it clear: this crisis—soaring costs, collapsing standards, vanishing jobs, growing division—it wasn’t created by Donald Trump. It was made right here. In Ottawa. By three terms of Liberal government and the Prime Minister who wants a fourth. “These were not created by Donald Trump… They were created by the policies of three Liberal terms—policies the present Prime Minister supported.” That’s as blunt as Harper gets. And it should be a headline on every newspaper in the country. But it won’t be. Because it hits too close to home for the elite class that’s spent nearly a decade covering for Trudeau’s failures. Harper pointed out that the Liberals and their media allies are now trying to blame everything on geopolitics. Blame Trump. Blame supply chains. Blame COVID. Blame war. Blame anything but themselves. Because the truth? They can’t run on their record—so they’re running from it. What is that record? Exploding debt Collapsing GDP per capita A federal bureaucracy that punishes work and rewards compliance A housing market that’s locked out an entire generation And an energy sector that’s been handed over to the Americans while Canadians sit unemployed on world-class resources And now, as Mark Carney floats in with his $180 million CBC top-up and another round of green buzzwords, Harper reminded everyone: they’ve had their shot. Three terms. And they blew it. He warned Canadians not to fall for the same routine again. Not to fall for the same slogans. Not to fall for the polished elites promising “solutions” to the very problems they created. He reminded Canadians that while the Liberals talk about “fighting Trump,” they’re really just using the U.S. as a scapegoat for their own failures. And what did Harper offer instead? A rallying cry to seize this moment—not as an excuse—but as an opportunity to rebuild a truly independent Canada. “The challenge from the United States… should not be another excuse for Liberal failure. It should be a historic opportunity.” But the line that hit hardest? It was personal. Harper reminded everyone that he’s the only person alive who actually led Canada through the global financial crisis. That little swipe at Mark Carney—you could feel the building rumble. Carney wants credit for crisis leadership? Harper was running the country when the global economy was imploding. He knows what real leadership looks like—and he said flatly that Pierre Poilievre is the only one on the stage today who’s shown it. Stephen Harper stood up and told the country what it needs to hear: Pierre Poilievre is ready to lead. Not because of branding. Not because he’s a “fresh face.” Not because some elite committee in Ottawa thinks it’s his turn. No—because he earned it. Harper laid it out plainly. Poilievre started in the back row. He built his career not on media hype or party privilege, but on policy work, persistence, and a rock-solid conservative vision. He wasn’t parachuted in. He wasn’t picked by insiders. He clawed his way up with substance. “Pierre is not new to this. He’s been on the national scene for more than two decades. He has been in cabinet. He has been in opposition. He’s a serious policy-maker. A leader who has grown through experience.” That’s what Stephen Harper said. And you could hear the crowd erupt when he said it. Because Canadians are desperate—desperate—for someone who doesn’t just play politics, but actually understands the fight. Someone who knows how Parliament works. Someone who has taken on the gatekeepers—and won. And Harper wasn’t just praising Poilievre’s résumé. He called him what the man actually is: an ideas-driven, battle-tested leader who has spent his entire career pushing back against the smug, bloated, bureaucratic class that now defines Ottawa. “Pierre has always been guided by conservative values… smaller government, fiscal responsibility, and making this country work for those who do the work.” Imagine that. A politician who talks about work—and means it. Harper could’ve stayed silent. He’s done the job. He’s earned his peace. But he stepped into that warehouse in Nisku for one reason: to make it clear that this is Pierre’s moment—and Canada can’t afford to miss it. “He is our leader. And he is the next Prime Minister of Canada.” That wasn’t hyperbole. That was a warning shot to the Liberal machine. A message to the Laurentian elite, the smug consultants, the CBC newsrooms, and every Davos-friendly banker currently circling Ottawa like vultures: your time is up. Stephen Harper didn’t back Pierre out of nostalgia. He backed him because he sees a real, competent, fearless leader—someone who knows that you don’t fix this country by managing the decline. You stop the decline. Pierre Poilievre isn’t Trudeau with a different haircut. He’s the anti-Trudeau. He’s not trying to be liked by the press gallery. He’s trying to restore the country. And if you want a Prime Minister who understands the value of work, who believes in the dignity of the individual, who will cut the red tape, slash the taxes, fire the gatekeepers, and take Canada back from the bureaucratic swamp—Harper made it clear: There is only one choice. Pierre Poilievre.

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So here’s Patty Hajdu, Canada’s Jobs Minister, explaining why it’s totally fine that young Canadians can’t find work. She actually said this: “Temporary foreign workers are about 70% less than a few months ago. Low-wage TFWs are less than 1% of the workforce.” Sounds good, right? But then in the very next breath she admitted the program is still “critical” in areas with low unemployment, the kind of loophole that allows McDonald’s and Tim Hortons to keep importing cheap foreign labor while Canadian kids sit at home without jobs. And when she was pressed on that abuse, she didn’t deny it. She bragged that the process is “onerous.” Employers have to post on the Job Bank for four weeks, pay a fee, do an interview. Then Ottawa “tracks” the applications. In other words, she defended the bureaucracy, not Canadian workers. But the real kicker came when she was asked about youth unemployment. She admitted it’s spiking, but shrugged it off with a metaphor: “Many economists say youth are the canary in the coal mine.” The canary in the coal mine? Imagine being twenty years old, can’t find a job, rent’s through the roof, and your government calls you a canary. So let’s translate this. If you’re a Temporary Foreign Worker, life is good, Ottawa built an entire program to protect your job. If you’re a Liberal insider, life is even better, you get the contracts and the consultants’ fees. But if you’re a young Canadian? You’re the canary in the coal mine. That’s not a jobs plan. That’s contempt.

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Pierre Poilievre asked a devastatingly simple question: why are Canadians starving in one of the richest countries on Earth? He laid it out. Food prices—70 percent higher than the Bank of Canada’s target. Four million food bank visits. A 400 percent increase. Those are breadline numbers. That’s collapse stuff. And then along came François-Philippe Champagne. The Finance Minister. A man who looks like he’s auditioning to be Macron’s understudy. His answer? “We’re spending less so we can invest more.” Only in Ottawa do they call doubling the deficit “spending less.” But it gets worse. Tim Hodgson, the Natural Resources Minister, stood up—finally, an opportunity to address the desperate families who can’t afford milk. What did he say? Not a word about food. Instead, he launched into a press release about an LNG export terminal. He might as well have answered with the weather report. “Oh, you can’t feed your kids? Great news, we’re shipping gas to Asia!” Tone deaf doesn’t even begin to cover it. Then Gregor Robertson, the Housing Minister, piled on. He didn’t talk about groceries either. He boasted about his shiny new $13 billion housing bureaucracy. Pierre tore him apart with the math—$3.2 million per home. You can almost hear the bureaucrats popping champagne bottles while families line up at food banks. So here’s the picture: Pierre Poilievre, asking about dinner tables. Liberals, talking about ribbon cuttings and fantasy budgets. This wasn’t Question Period—it was parody. If these are the answers, then no wonder Canadians are starving.

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So here’s what Mark Carney said in Mississauga. “We will soon also release our Climate Competitiveness Strategy to position Canada as a leader in decarbonization… We’ll look at the interaction between the EV mandate, our clean fuel standards, our investment tax credits, our trade policy—all of those elements. Because what this government is focused on is absolutely results. Not saying something’s going to happen at a certain time, but giving workers and businesses the tools to make it happen.” Sounds impressive, doesn’t it? A “Climate Competitiveness Strategy.” But stop and think about it for more than five seconds. Competitive with who? With China? A country that builds two coal plants a week and couldn’t care less about “decarbonization.” They flood the world with cheap steel, fertilizer, solar panels, and EV batteries—all made with coal power. We shut down our industries in the name of carbon, then buy it all back from Beijing. With India? They’ve made it clear they’re not going to sacrifice growth for carbon targets. They’re building, expanding, modernizing—while Canada is drowning in permits, studies, and red tape. In this country it literally costs a million dollars to move an anthill if you want to build a mine. In India they’d just build the mine. So again—competitive with who? With Europe? We do maybe 7% of our trade with Europe. The real markets are the United States and Asia. And both are playing by completely different rules. Europe’s collapsing under its own green policies; their energy prices are through the roof, their industries are fleeing. And Carney wants to copy that model here. #SMH

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Mark Carney, the unelected banker-turned-savior of the Liberal Party, stood on a stage at Durham College on April 19 and did what professional economic grifters do best—he smiled politely, gestured at some numbers, and attempted to sell Canadians on a $130 billion illusion. He called it a “costed platform.” What it really was, was a pitch deck for national decline—a warmed-over slab of recycled Trudeauism, backed by deficit delusion and framed as “bold leadership.” And yes, the numbers are real. Terrifyingly real. The Liberal platform promises $130 billion in new spending over four years, while running deficits of $62.3 billion this year, $59.9 billion next year, and still sitting at $48 billion in the red by 2028. To balance all of this out? A magical $28 billion in “unspecified cuts.” Not outlined. Not itemized. Just floated in the air like a promise from a door-to-door vacuum salesman. Carney, in his perfectly rehearsed banker tone, assures us it’s not spending. No, it’s “investment.” Which is hilarious, because that’s exactly what Justin Trudeau said when he kicked off a decade of reckless spending, capital flight, and housing inflation. Carney has simply pulled off the Liberal magic trick of rebranding debt as growth. But this isn’t just fiscal mismanagement. This is coordinated, high-level dishonesty. Let’s be clear: Mark Carney is not new to any of this. He isn’t some white knight riding in to clean up Trudeau’s mess. He is the mess. He was Trudeau’s economic consigliere. He sat in the backrooms when they passed Bill C-69, which throttled Canada’s energy sector. He championed ESG, oversaw the implosion of GFANZ (his climate finance alliance), and helped drive $500 billion in investment out of this country. Now he’s back—wearing a new title, making the same promises, using the same playbook. Only this time, he’s brought a spreadsheet. In one breath, Carney says we need to “diversify trade.” In the next, he’s counting on $20 billion in one-time countertariff revenues to prop up his platform. In one paragraph, he says Canada will be “fiscally responsible.” In the next, he admits the deficit will nearly double this year. He claims he’ll spend 2% of GDP on defense—but not until 2029, because, of course, there’s no urgency when you’re protected by the American military umbrella you secretly resent. And his housing plan? If you thought things couldn’t get worse than Justin Trudeau’s housing disaster, buckle up. Carney’s solution is modular housing—yes, government-subsidized, prefabricated micro-boxes dropped onto federally controlled land. Mark Carney will never live in modular housing. His children will never live in modular housing. But for you, the taxpayer? That’s the future he envisions—managed housing, managed economy, managed speech, managed life. He’s not here to lift Canadians up. He’s here to lock them down—into a permanent, bureaucratically engineered middle class, dependent on state subsidies and grateful for whatever dignity Ottawa hasn’t yet taxed away. And when asked how he’ll find the $28 billion in cuts needed to make this plan remotely plausible, his answer was priceless: “Technology, attrition, and a review of consultant contracts.” Translation: “We don’t know.” And here’s where the grift goes full throttle—the accounting scam. Carney is trying to redefine the deficit by splitting it into two categories: “operating” and “capital”—a little trick borrowed from UK public finance to confuse voters and dodge political accountability. It’s not something Canada has ever used in federal budget reporting, and there’s a reason for that: it’s misleading by design. Here’s how it works: Carney claims that by 2028, the government will run an “operating surplus.” Sounds responsible, right? Like the books are balanced? Wrong. Because even while he’s claiming an “operating surplus,” the federal government will still be running a $48 billion deficit overall. That’s real debt—borrowed money the country doesn’t have. So how does he square the circle? Simple: he relabels infrastructure and program spending as “capital investment”, pushes it off to the side, and tells you the main budget is in good shape. But guess what? You still owe the money. The debt still grows. And interest payments still stack up. It’s like maxing out your credit card, then saying “no problem—I only overspent on long-term purchases, not day-to-day expenses.” Try that line with your bank. Let me know how it goes. This isn’t honest budgeting. It’s spreadsheet manipulation by a guy who knows how to massage the optics while the house burns down. And let’s not forget who we’re talking about here. This is the man who moved his financial headquarters to New York while lecturing Canadians about economic sovereignty. This is the guy with a Cayman Islands tax haven, who built his fortune offshore and now wants to manage your budget while shielding his own. This is the architect of GFANZ—the so-called climate finance alliance—that imploded under his leadership. The same alliance that saw JPMorgan, Citigroup, and the Big Six Canadian banks bail because Carney couldn’t keep the cartel together without running afoul of antitrust laws. This is the same man mentioned in Marco Mendicino’s Emergencies Act texts—the man who said, Move the tanks on the protesters. That’s right. He wasn’t calling for dialogue. He wasn’t calling for democracy. He was calling for force—on peaceful Canadians exercising their rights. That’s who this is. A man who smiles like a diplomat and governs like a tyrant. So let’s drop the fantasy. Mark Carney isn’t here to save you. He’s not here to build a country. He’s not here to restore prosperity. He’s here to finish what Justin Trudeau started—with less flair and even less accountability. This election is your moment. Not just to vote against failed leadership—but to vote for something better. Vote for Canadian workers. Vote for Canadian resources. Vote for Canadian sovereignty. Vote Canada First.

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OTTAWA — After staging an affordability photo op in a grocery store conveniently missing price tags, Prime Minister Mark Carney finally showed up in Question Period and immediately learned why he’d avoided it. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre opened by accusing the PM of scrubbing prices for the cameras, then reminded Canadians that groceries are rising faster here than anywhere else in the G7. The charge wasn’t subtle: if prices look bad, hide them; if questions look worse, skip Parliament. Carney’s response was familiar and evasive. He didn’t address the price tags. He didn’t address food inflation. He pivoted to meetings, cooperation, and a laundry list of talking points, jobs numbers, wage claims, tax cuts, a school food program, and the GST rebate he announced the day before. It was a recital, not an answer. When Poilievre pressed again, on deficits, fuel taxes on farmers, food bank lines, and a projects office that hasn’t approved a single new project, the Prime Minister countered with more slogans and a warning about Conservative legislation, carefully sidestepping the cost-of-living question he was asked. The exchange said everything. Poilievre stayed locked on prices, costs, and outcomes Canadians recognize at the checkout. Carney stayed locked on optics, process, and applause lines. The grocery store backdrop may have worked for a press conference. Under the lights of Question Period, with no price tags to remove and no script to hide behind, the performance fell apart. #cdnpoli

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Pierre Poilievre said the quiet part out loud: businesses in Canada don’t need Temporary Foreign Workers—they just want them, because they’ll work for less. That’s it. No mystery. No labor shortage. Just greed. And the Liberals, under Mark Carney, are happy to oblige. So here’s the story. Booster Juice—advertises a job paying $36 an hour. Not bad for blending fruit. And who do they say it’s for? A Temporary Foreign Worker. Not a Canadian kid trying to pay tuition. Not a young person stuck at home because rent is unaffordable. Nope. A foreign worker. Are we really supposed to believe no Canadian teenager would pour frozen strawberries into a blender for thirty-six bucks an hour? Please. That’s more than most trades apprentices make. But under Mark Carney’s Liberals, Canadian youth don’t even get the chance. They’re cut out by design. And that’s the point. This isn’t about “labor shortages.” That’s the line the media repeats while nodding obediently. The truth is simpler: corporations don’t want to pay Canadians a fair wage, so the Liberals hand them a pipeline of cheap, desperate labor from abroad. It’s exploitation dressed up as policy. And the Liberal elites love it. Carney, Trudeau’s banker-turned-prime-minister, promised to be different. He’s worse. In just six months, he’s blown past his own cap on TFW permits—105,000 already issued. Keep that up, and Canada will import over 200,000 low-wage workers this year. Meanwhile, youth unemployment is 14.6%—the highest since the late 1990s. If you were trying to design a system to crush Canadian kids, you couldn’t do better. But don’t worry. Carney will tell you this is all very sophisticated. Globalization. Free markets. Necessary labor mobility. The kind of word salad elites recite while your rent doubles and your job disappears. The reality? It’s a scam. A scam for corporations, by corporations, with Liberals in Ottawa playing concierge. Poilievre called it what it is: scrap the program. Canadian jobs for Canadian workers. Period. Because if a Booster Juice gig at $36 an hour is “unfit” for a Canadian student, then nothing is. And the fact they said it out loud tells you everything about the contempt these people have for their own citizens. They don’t even bother to hide it anymore.

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Ottawa — Well, that didn’t take long. In what can only be described as a public humiliation, Conservative MP Frank Caputo (Frank Caputo) dismantled Trudeau’s Public Safety Minister, Gary Anandasangaree, in a fiery parliamentary showdown that laid bare the rot at the heart of the Liberal government’s so-called border and public safety agenda. “The Globe and Mail reported 600 people are missing. You’re the minister. You’re expected to know this. The buck stops with you.” That was Caputo’s opening shot and the Minister never recovered. Now, for context: those 600 people are foreign nationals who were ordered deported from Canada — 70 percent of them violent criminals, including sex offenders. That’s not a rounding error. That’s a national disgrace. So Caputo asked the obvious question: Where are they? What did Minister Anandasangaree say? Nothing. He filibustered. He squirmed. He muttered something about “unprecedented removals.” Caputo cut through it instantly: “Do you know where they are — yes or no?” Still nothing. Then came the TikTok moment... literally. When Caputo pressed the Minister on the 1,000 border agents the Liberals promised but never hired, the Minister sneered, “I’m not here for your TikTok videos.” Excuse me? TikTok! The Chinese spyware app banned on government phones, is now a Liberal talking point? Caputo didn’t blink: “TikTok is banned. I don’t have an account. I’m here for Canadians. I’m here for answers.” It got worse. The Minister admitted, under pressure, that the RCMP haven’t hired a single one of the 1,000 officers they promised, despite a spike in violent crime across the country. Caputo’s response: “Okay, that’s a zero, I take it then.” Then Caputo dropped the hammer. He played the leaked audio... audio where Minister Anandasangaree admits the Liberal gun buyback scheme is a political stunt that won’t work. His words: “Don’t ask me to explain the logic to you. I’m not an expert on this.” And now he wants Canadians to believe the program is going “great” in Cape Breton, where, shocker, a Liberal MP’s brother-in-law just happens to be involved. When Caputo asked if the Minister spoke to that chief directly, Anandasangaree dodged again, reciting talking points from the Mass Casualty Commission like a robot. Caputo wasn’t having it: “He doesn’t get to talk out the clock… He has to speak to the questions he’s given. And I won’t stand for this.” And he didn’t. What happened in that committee room was simple: a government caught lying, stalling, and hiding, and one MP willing to call them out. Caputo exposed the truth: Carneys hand-picked “public safety” minister doesn’t know where violent criminals are, hasn’t hired a single new cop, and is overseeing a disarmament program he doesn’t even believe in — all while claiming it’s for “our safety.” This is the Liberal Party in 2025: globalist talking points, zero accountability, and a minister who can’t answer basic questions. But don’t worry — they’re watching your bank account and planning new laws to censor you online.

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