Category: Insufferable Twits

Groupthink Now!

So Ottawa is worried that Canadians have a lot of different opinions. In reality, they’re worried that many of these opinions don’t conform to the dominant collectivist narratives.

The presentation called on session participants to come up with ideas to make Canadian society more cohesive by reversing the trend toward polarization, building trust in government agencies and fighting the swelling tide of misinformation and disinformation.

Still, the document says officials at the November meeting planned to talk about how to ramp up efforts to “engage and ‘bring back’ groups veering away from democratic norms.”

Kory The Red Tory

After this outburst, why anyone would term Doug Ford a conservative is beyond me. Did he make a deal with Carney and is doubling down now that the Liberals’ lead seems to be evaporating? What’s notable is that while Ford and Teneycke are happy to sling mud at Poilievre, their prescription would make Trump the only substantive issue in the campaign while the Liberals’ record is conveniently ignored.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford fired off another salvo in the on-again, off-again battle between his provincial Progressive Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative party, saying his own campaign manager would have avoided the federal party’s current election woes.

Coulda’ Had A Pipeline

National Post- Two cross-country pipelines could’ve diverted $38.4 billion from the U.S., new study finds

The tariff war with the United States could have been very different if Canada had decided to build the Energy East and LNG Quebec pipelines over the past decade, according to a new study by the Montreal Economic Institute.

In 2023, Canada exported 97 per cent of its crude oil to the United States.

Have Another Drink, Dougie

In the same breath as Ford blasts Trump for his tariffs on Canadian electricity, he proposes, in response, to effectively double them.

Ontario will charge 25 per cent more for electricity shipped to 1.5 million Americans starting Monday in response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs, Premier Doug Ford said Thursday.

The policy raises some questions. Since hydro contracts are long term with already agreed upon pricing, how does Ford propose to make the American utilities pay the extra charges? He can send as many invoices as he wants to US customers, but there’s no way a US court would rule in favor of Ontario and they would be free to ignore them.

The other problem is that by shrinking the differential between American and Canadian electricity prices by 50%, you have incentivized American utilities to build their own generating capacity. Has Ford not considered that angle? Oh wait, don’t answer that….

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