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Lawyer and Community activist located in Nepean in the westend of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Joined April 2009
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Rod Vanier retweeted
Dear Quebec you were not slighted. Your Premier was offered a place of honour at the Head table with the opportunity to establish relationships with the President of the EU and other head table guests. He rejected the opportunity.
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In QP today Pierre actually said, " PM Carney has achieved nothing in the real world " Shocking coming from a career politician who has achieved nothing in 22 years, Pierre has never even held a real job in the real world. PM Carney's accomplishments are vast, Pierre is jealous !
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The rate hikes are the result of inflationary pressures brought upon us by rising gasoline prices, thanks to Trump's war against Iran, not "Liberal deficits and taxes on fuel". Go read the MPR. We need a serious Conservative opposition in this country, one that can read.
BREAKING: the Bank of Canada is raising interest rates, hitting Canadians with higher mortgage and borrowing costs. Mark Carney’s growing Liberal deficits and taxes on fuel only feed the inflationary fire and force these rate hikes. We must control spending and cut taxes to bring down inflation and interest rates, so we can leave more money in Canadians' pockets: conservative.ca/cpc/save-you…
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Pierre Poilievre has started saying "debt is out of control". Governments do need to be careful about the debt they bring on. But here's some important context as Canada diversifies trade, builds big and supports affordability.
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Rod Vanier retweeted
Things the premier of Quebec is responsible for: hospitals, roads, electricity, education, natural resources, language, police. Things the premier of Quebec is not responsible for: international relations.
J’ai pris note aujourd’hui de la nouvelle offre de Mark Carney d’obtenir le droit de m’assoir à sa table d’honneur à titre de spectateur, sans droit de parole ni droit de négocier au nom du Québec. Cette proposition revient à demander au Québec de rentrer dans les rangs, avec la vassalisation et l’invisibilisation du Québec que cela implique, en échange d’obtenir de meilleurs sièges de spectateurs pour regarder la partie. Comme premier ministre, je refuserai toujours que le Québec soit réduit au rôle de spectateur lorsqu’il s’agit de représenter et protéger les intérêts économiques et politiques des Québécois. La réalité est que nous sommes devant une stratégie de marginalisation du Québec sur la scène internationale et de subordination des champs de compétence du Québec à la volonté du fédéral. Je note à cet effet que tous les chefs de partis de l’Assemblée nationale ont indiqué hier que s’ils étaient dans la position de premier ministre et devant un tel sommet sur le territoire du Québec, ils s’attendraient à prendre la parole et à participer à part entière. À Ottawa, le chef de l'opposition officielle ainsi que le chef du Bloc Québécois ont également appuyé notre demande. J’ai donc pris la plume et j’ai écrit aux représentants de l’Union européenne pour leur rappeler que des ententes qui impliquent l’Europe et le Québec doivent forcément passer par le gouvernement du Québec, et à plus forte raison si le sommet se tient sur notre territoire. Le refus de nous donner la parole à titre d’hôte pour souhaiter la bienvenue à nos invités y est également mentionné. Je lance donc l’invitation pour une discussion bilatérale dans un meilleur contexte qui permettrait au Québec de ne pas être exclu. À ce titre, j’enverrai le diplomate en chef du Québec, Pascal Paradis, pour ouvrir ces canaux de discussion pour la suite.
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There is no "Associate Membership" being discussed. You should update your rant with flecks of truth!
#NEWS: Canada has officially begun talks with the EU about becoming its first associate member. 🇨🇦🇪🇺
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Pierre Poilievre on QP today! It's Carney's fault that the interest rate is going up.😂 TRUTH: It was the inflation on energy that caused interest rates to go up caused by the Iran war! PIERRE POILIEVRE THINKS CANADIANS ARE STUPID.🙄
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More lies from your favourite truth twister. It also include landing fees, fueling fees, and many other sundries, in addition to catering.
Carney and entourage drop $175,000 on airplane food during one international trip. Carney has spent about $1 million on airplane food since becoming prime minister. They live the high life. You pay the tab.
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This is absolutely untrue!
Canada could be selling 250,000 barrels of oil per day. At a premium price into Asian markets. Without costing taxpayers a cent. But Carney’s ban on shipping means we are selling our oil at a discount to the U.S. costing Canadians billions every year. It makes no sense. Repeal the ban!
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How is getting closer to Europe a humiliation? This is what the majority of Canadians want...
Total humiliation for Canada. Bad news for Carney’s supporters in the media here.
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Andrew: You are such a jerk! The BoC stipulated that it was the price of gasoline that was behind the inflation, not your dumb theory of deficits!
The verdict is in. Mark Carney's massive inflationary deficits are forcing higher interest rates on hard-working Canadian families like yours. Every dollar you owe on your mortgage, line of credit, or small business loan will now cost you even more. Only Conservatives can stop the inflationary deficit spending and restore financial sanity.
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You are far from rational...
Most rational people in Canada would see this as a positive move.
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In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump and his family have lost surprise elections, thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.
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And Liberal Majority
(Models Available For Subscribers) Federal Polling: LPC: 47% (+3) CPC: 28% (-13) NDP: 13% (+7) BQ: 8% (+2) GPC: 2% (+1) PPC: 2% (+1) Nanos / October 23, 2026 / n=1000 / MOE 3.1% / Telephone/Online (% Change w 2025 Federal Election) Visit @338canada for polling details: 338canada.com
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Rod Vanier retweeted
How can anyone look at what conservatives have done to Alberta, Ontario and the United States and think voting conservative is a good idea?
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It has to go through Parliament first. It is the Executive function to negotiate the terms and the Parliamentary function to approve/disapprove/amend...
Carney is framing a Canada -EU alliance in Montreal with: No vote No debate No referendum Before the deal is struck with no Canadian vote! Question Canadians get a vote first ??
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Interesting how he forgets the corporations in his calculus!!
🇨🇦💳📈😲 : Pierre Poilievre says Canadians will assume another $730 billion in new Federal debt, in just five years. Which works out to $40K worth of new debt, for every single Canadian. Canadians are watching more and more of their taxes go to pay interest on debt, at the expense of government services. We are becoming slaves to debt. It's that simple. I warned on Friday the government seeks out crisis after crisis, so they can borrow endlessly, with almost no accountability over how the money is wasted. There is a very real cost to assuming all this new debt. Especially at a time when the Canadian economy and wages are not catching up to the inflation rate. Most Canadians are getting poorer compared to our friends and families in the USA. It's very noticeable and if left unchecked, we can expect soon to see the same levels of chaotic unrest and riots, that are seen in Europe.
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Our biggest customer is putting up tariff walls, so the only intelligent response is to look for other markets and PMMC is doing a very good job of that!
This is a memo to all the people out there suffering from TDS
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Yes!
Would you support Prime Minister of Canada 🇨🇦 Mark Carney? A) Yes 🟢 B) No 🔴
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