For my Canadian friends
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Shiftless2
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In reality Pierre Poilievre (aka PP) lost two elections - he blew a twenty point lead going into the Federal election and then he lost his own seat when his constituents showed him the door.
But the party parachuted him into what had to be the safest riding in the country - if you'd painted a rock blue it would have won. And Rigby's quote doesn't mention that the party asked the sitting MP (Damien Kurek) to resign so PP could run in his place.
Fact is, PP has never held a job outside of Parliament but he's somehow managed to convince the party to support him.
Shiftless2
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You hate Mark Carney because he's a Liberal. Cool. I don't care, I'm non-partisan. But I keep hearing "he's done nothing" from people who can't name a single policy he's passed. So I'm going to list some of what the man has actually done in 12 months, just to clear a few things up.
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1) He killed the carbon tax.
Gone. Day one. The thing you've been posting about for five years. He ended it. You're welcome.
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2) He scrapped the EV mandate.
No more government forcing you to buy an electric car. Replaced it with a $5,000 rebate if you want one. Your choice.
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3) He reversed the capital gains tax hike.
The one that had every doctor, investor, and small business owner looking at the exit door. Reversed.
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4) He passed the One Canadian Economy Act.
Tore down interprovincial trade barriers that have been strangling this country since Confederation. Passed with Conservative support by the way. Nobody talks about that part. CMHC says this alone could unlock 30,000 new housing starts a year.
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5) He launched Build Canada Homes.
Not a press conference. An actual federal agency building 45,000+ homes on government land across six cities.
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6) He dropped $51 billion on real infrastructure.
The Build Communities Strong Fund. Hospitals. Bridges. Water systems. Transit. Universities. Stuff you can walk into and touch.
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7) He cut 40,000 government jobs.
Trimmed the federal machine and committed to balancing operational spending by 2029. With a plan. On paper.
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8 ) He slashed temporary resident admissions.
From 673,000 down to 385,000. Because he understood what the last government refused to accept: you can't add people without adding capacity.
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9) He hit the NATO 2% defense target.
Something every PM has dodged for decades. Canada just made the biggest defense spending jump in generations. Over $63 billion. Then at the NATO summit he committed to 3.5% of GDP by 2035. The Americans aren't laughing anymore.
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10) He flew to the UAE and came back with $70 billion.
A $70 billion investment pledge into Canadian infrastructure. Not a handshake. A signed agreement.
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11) He went to China and played hardball.
Got tariffs on Canadian canola dropped from 85% to 15%. Cut EV tariffs from 100% to 6.1%. That's not weakness. That's someone who knows what leverage looks like.
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12) He signed Canada's first bilateral free trade deal with an ASEAN country.
Indonesia. New market. New money. New doors.
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He's made 26 international trips in one year.
Building trade relationships, signing deals, and putting Canada back in rooms we got quietly removed from (yes by Trudeau ... enough about Trudeau, he is NOT Trudeau).
Read that list again.
Carbon tax gone. EV mandate gone. Capital gains hike gone. Immigration reduced. Defense spending up. Government jobs cut. Trade barriers removed. Foreign investment pouring in.
Again, not Trudeau, enough about Trudeau, he is not Trudeau, he is Mark Carney after barely a year leading our country!
A Liberal made all these things actually happen.
And that's what's really eating some people alive. It's not that they disagree with the results. It's that the wrong team delivered them. So instead of saying "good, keep going" they say "he's done nothing" because their brain won't let them give credit to someone wearing the wrong jersey.
That's not politics. That's a personality disorder.
You don't have to like Carney. You don't have to vote for him. But if you're going to yell he's done nothing after reading that list, just say what you actually mean:
"I don't care what he does. I decided I was against him before he started."
At least that would be honest.
SOURCE with comments
I also did not like the carbon tax or EV mandate, so he sounds great.
Shiftless2
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It's TACO time ....
"Asked about the Belarus proposal at the United Nations on Tuesday, Trump said the U.S. would continue purchasing Canadian potash, while acknowledging that Belarus wants to sell it at a lower price.
The important word here is continue."
Well, that changed quickly. Just one day after Donald Trump announced that the United States was pursuing a “massive” potash deal with Belarus at prices supposedly far below Canada’s, he is now saying America will “continue to go with Canada.”
That matters, because this is not some insignificant Canadian export.
Asked about the Belarus proposal at the United Nations on Tuesday, Trump said the U.S. would continue purchasing Canadian potash, while acknowledging that Belarus wants to sell it at a lower price.
The important word here is continue.
Canada is the world’s largest potash exporter. In 2024, it shipped a record 22.9 million tonnes, representing almost 39% of global exports. The United States alone received about 53% of those Canadian exports.
And the business is worth serious money.
Canadian potash exports were worth about $9 billion in 2025, up 13% from the previous year. Roughly $4.2 billion worth went to the United States.
That makes this particularly important for Saskatchewan, where potash is a major source of investment, employment, exports and provincial revenue.
Belarus is certainly a major competitor. It was the world’s fourth largest potash producer in 2024, accounting for about 10.7% of global production.
But price is not the only consideration.
The United States and Canada already have deeply integrated rail infrastructure and supply chains. Moving large volumes of Belarusian potash into the American agricultural market would involve very different logistics, particularly while European sanctions and restrictions surrounding Belarus remain an issue.
Reuters also reported that analysts questioned how much immediate impact a Belarus deal could have because of those logistical constraints.
And this is where the economic story gets bigger.
American farmers need reliable fertilizer supplies. Potash is essential for crop yields and food production. If fertilizer costs rise, some of those costs can eventually work their way through agricultural supply chains.
So Washington has an incentive to find cheaper supply.
But it also has an incentive to maintain reliable supply.
Canada has scale, proximity, established transportation infrastructure and decades of integration with the American agricultural economy.
Trump’s latest statement does not mean the Belarus proposal has disappeared. The U.S. could still diversify some purchases, and additional competition could put pressure on Canadian producers.
But it does clarify something important.
For all the political tension between Washington and Ottawa, replacing deeply integrated Canadian supply chains is not always as simple as finding another country willing to quote a lower price.
Sometimes geography, infrastructure and reliability matter just as much as the price on the invoice.
Source: Reuters, Natural Resources Canada, U.S. Geological Survey, September 22, 2026.
SOURCE with comments
"Asked about the Belarus proposal at the United Nations on Tuesday, Trump said the U.S. would continue purchasing Canadian potash, while acknowledging that Belarus wants to sell it at a lower price.
The important word here is continue."
Well, that changed quickly. Just one day after Donald Trump announced that the United States was pursuing a “massive” potash deal with Belarus at prices supposedly far below Canada’s, he is now saying America will “continue to go with Canada.”
That matters, because this is not some insignificant Canadian export.
Asked about the Belarus proposal at the United Nations on Tuesday, Trump said the U.S. would continue purchasing Canadian potash, while acknowledging that Belarus wants to sell it at a lower price.
The important word here is continue.
Canada is the world’s largest potash exporter. In 2024, it shipped a record 22.9 million tonnes, representing almost 39% of global exports. The United States alone received about 53% of those Canadian exports.
And the business is worth serious money.
Canadian potash exports were worth about $9 billion in 2025, up 13% from the previous year. Roughly $4.2 billion worth went to the United States.
That makes this particularly important for Saskatchewan, where potash is a major source of investment, employment, exports and provincial revenue.
Belarus is certainly a major competitor. It was the world’s fourth largest potash producer in 2024, accounting for about 10.7% of global production.
But price is not the only consideration.
The United States and Canada already have deeply integrated rail infrastructure and supply chains. Moving large volumes of Belarusian potash into the American agricultural market would involve very different logistics, particularly while European sanctions and restrictions surrounding Belarus remain an issue.
Reuters also reported that analysts questioned how much immediate impact a Belarus deal could have because of those logistical constraints.
And this is where the economic story gets bigger.
American farmers need reliable fertilizer supplies. Potash is essential for crop yields and food production. If fertilizer costs rise, some of those costs can eventually work their way through agricultural supply chains.
So Washington has an incentive to find cheaper supply.
But it also has an incentive to maintain reliable supply.
Canada has scale, proximity, established transportation infrastructure and decades of integration with the American agricultural economy.
Trump’s latest statement does not mean the Belarus proposal has disappeared. The U.S. could still diversify some purchases, and additional competition could put pressure on Canadian producers.
But it does clarify something important.
For all the political tension between Washington and Ottawa, replacing deeply integrated Canadian supply chains is not always as simple as finding another country willing to quote a lower price.
Sometimes geography, infrastructure and reliability matter just as much as the price on the invoice.
Source: Reuters, Natural Resources Canada, U.S. Geological Survey, September 22, 2026.
SOURCE with comments
I have no idea why a president would have anything to do with a private potash business deal, but I suspect he is getting involved in order to get illegal kickbacks.