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I'm no fan of Trump or his movement. But it's very easy to understand where the sentiment comes from. Especially as we see the backlash to immigration in our own country. Elites shipped jobs overseas and destroyed communities in the name of globalization. And then allowed both legal and...

The biggest beneficiaries of immigration are corporations that get cheaper and more competitive labour. And nobody feels that competition more acutely than recent immigrants. Which is exactly why they are most willing to vote against a government that they perceive as holding them back...

The bizarre thing for me is how slowly the LPC is moving on this when they have the perfect opportunity here to reveal the premiers (mostly conservative) for the cynical charlatans they are. Ford is balancing the budget in Ontario thanks to those students paying for colleges. Same in Nova...

There's also a bunch of people that won't get their pension till next October. Do they hold out that long or screw those people for personal political interests after the big wigs have qualified. The pension thing (while perhaps a back of the mind motivation) is particularly silly for...

Should we have nuclear submarines? Yes. Should we have amphibious carriers? Yes. Should we have high speed rail? Yes. These would seem odd to group together. But I think it's revealing that we're one of only two countries in the G7 without a flat top (the other is Germany and they have a...

I have made this point before about military families having major challenges. Good to see it getting press. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadas-military-families-are-reaching-their-breaking-point I will add too that even in the military there's gigantic generational differences...

Big news for my navy friends. The patrol submarine RFI is out. https://canadiandefencereview.com/dnd-releases-rfi-for-canadian-patrol-submarine-project-cpsp-with-responses-due-by-november-18th/ This one is looking like the Koreans might take it.

You mean the part that is genuinely important to our economy and covers a lot of critical next generation technologies? It's unfortunate that even a lot of military folks (unless they work at the strategic level or in policy) get this. AUKUS II is more important to Canada than AUKUS I...

I can see some value in that. But I can also see how easily that can be gamed. Just like LMIA today. These people will pay "consultants" the wages they need to qualify. Consultant will arrange some employer to pay them the wages they need. I want to see the minimum education requirement...

Is cutting back on student and TFW numbers to 2015 levels that hard? None of this is rocket science. Given multi-year work permits to students completing 1 yr at a strip mall college was also a terrible idea. Very easy for any government to stop. And for all the talk about being beholden to...

Deliciously hilarious. But also sad that this is what politics in the greatest democracy has been reduced to.

If Trump doesn't have consequences and if there's no justice, this will never end. It'll just be a different face.

I listened to the Herle Burly podcast today with Prof. Mike Moffat (housing policy expert and advocate) and Ron Butler (mortgage broker and housing advocate). They pointed all the policy failures that have led to the current situation and suggested we could be heading for Japan or Italy levels...

Telegram is now getting filled up with stories. Easy clue is when their kids stop answering the phones (which are taken away before they deploy). I'd say this news appears to have rattled Russians much more than the Ukraine invasion. Mostly because those dying in Ukraine were mostly seen as...

First choice for me. I don't want to endorse the climate change derniers. But I also don't want to endorse the lot that wants to employ mass immigration as a culture war wedge to help make Galen Weston and Tim Hortons owners richer. Nor do I want to endorse the supposedly socialist party...

There's a lot of terrible policies from the CPC. Like scrapping the CBC. And axing climate policy. On the other hand, they might return sanity to immigration policy. And that will at least take some pressure off housing and social services. On the other hand, the Bank of Canada just...

Lots of pro-Kremlin talking points there. Destroying a ton of infrastructure in Kursk is useful. As is the ability to flank behind Russia's Eastern Grouping. Lastly, it's more than just embarrassing for Putin. Russia is sending literal teenagers (conscripts) to fight the Ukrainians and...

This party is much more likely to take votes from the CPC than the LPC. It's why the CPC has come out so forcefully against it. But also screw the guilting. I don't see the LPC with its insane wage suppression as substantially more virtuous than the CPC. And voting LPC to stop the CPC seems...

A lack of action is also a choice. They kept denying this was even a problem right until they really tanked in the polls. And even now their cuts don't even take them back to pre-Covid and will still need years to pan out. All policy choices they made.

Indian birthrate is already close to replacement. India has a large demographic bulge of young people that is why this government wants to take advantage of it. And despite this, we're seeing immigrant quality declining. This bulge will be less attractive in a decade or two. Africa will be...