🧵 Don’t tell me
@JustinTrudeau
has caused division over vaccines.
When we were kids, we all just lined up and got our shots. There was social unity, despite political differences.
We beat polio, whooping cough, smallpox, diphtheria and all kinds of other diseases that way. …
So the alleged dictator
@JustinTrudeau
presents voluntarily to be examined and cross examined on TV by a room full of lawyers on his declaration of a days long national emergency.
Meanwhile every Conservative Premier and leader has gone into hiding.
🍁🤷🙄🤷🍁
#POECommission
🧵To a lawyer, the Emergencies Act Inquiry is fun to watch just to see counsel working with the witnesses using different styles.
But stepping back as a Canadian, one has to wonder what kind of dictatorship declares an emergency, kills no one, injures almost no one, revokes it …
year, tinpot American governors are intimidating voters, mullahs are killing young women over a head dress, and swamp-dwelling “Canadians” have the gall to gabble on and on about “tyranny” at home?
Give your heads a shake, folks.
🍁🙄🍁
#cdnpoli
#EmergenciesActInquiry
Lemme see now.
At last count
@JustinTrudeau
controls the media, the oil companies, the grocery chains, the Bank of Canada, Toronto street gangs, the rates of inflation around the world, the virus, the vaccine companies, the WHO, the WEF, the UN, the climate, the weather..
🤷😳🤷
So, Toronto and Ontario, how did we manage to elect, from the very same family, mind, the worst Mayor and worst Premier in our history?
#topoli
#onpoli
Short🧵
It’s a good time to recall that universal health care was first established nationally in 🍁Canada by a minority Liberal government under Lester Pearson with the support of the NDP under Tommy Douglas.
Same with the Canada Pension Plan.
And Canada Student Loans.
#cdnpoli
🧵 If the Ford/Lecce regime has $1 billion to give to Highway 407 in forgiven penalties, and $1 billion to give to drivers in forgiven licence fees, and $100s of millions to give in pre-election voter bribes and $100s of millions to give in bribes to parents, it sure has …
Chatting with an old Bay Street law colleague just now who’d seen my tweets from Friday’s protest at Queen’s Park.
Turns out he was there too.
His comment: ‘I’m wondering who’s behind Doug Ford calling the shots, because he sure doesn’t have two neurons to rub together.’
🍁😉🍁
So, anyone find it remarkable that the spouse of the Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in Canada posts on Twitter suggesting that the Prime Minister consorts with pedophiles?
With the media uttering nary a peep?
@AnaPoilievre
@PierrePoilievre
@CPC_HQ
#cdnpoli
I’m a Dad of two beautiful girls and Grandaddy to four beautiful grandchildren, and I’d like to say I drink lattes but I don’t, and I do think
@PierrePoilievre
’s florid support for the
#KuKluxKonvoy
marks him as an extremist who should never be allowed near the reins of power.😉
The
@globeandmail
continues to expose Doug Ford’s Greenbelt ‘swap’ for the fraud it is.
Nothing to do with affordable housing.
Everything to do with rewarding his developer cronies.
🙄🙄🙄
@fordnation
@OntarioPCParty
#onpoli
🇨🇦Canada under a PM
@PierrePoilievre
:
▪️No $10/day childcare
▪️No denticare for the needy
▪️No pharmacare
▪️No CPP at 65
▪️No CBC
▪️No media except Postmedia and Rebel “News”
▪️No more vaccines
▪️No Bank of Canada
▪️No action on climate change
▪️No UN membership
▪️No Ukraine aid
🧵So you know how the right wing idjits like to say Canada has no stature on the world’s stage?
Well, here we are at the 120th Anniversary Reunion of the Rhodes Scholarships, and here’s our Deputy PMs portrait at Rhodes House, alongside Mandela, Clinton, Hawke et al.
Meanwhile …
Our intrepid
#cdnmedia
can track down the Prime Minister taking part of a day off at Tofino when they felt he should be elsewhere, but they can’t find Ontario’s Minister of Education, absent for weeks, as kids are about to die from infections contracted in his schools?
🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
In the New York Times today:
“If the public wants factual news briefings, they need to tune in to those who are giving them: Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany.”
#cdnpoli
The Prime Minister of Finland went to a party and danced.
The Prime Minister of Canada took a couple of hours off official duties and sang along around a piano. In a T shirt.
They both have to be removed from office right now:
@acoyne
It’s the season of giving, and that’s what brought my special helper and me to Toy Mountain in Oakville today. There’s still time to help families in need – so please pitch in, if you can, and let’s make this mountain of toys the biggest one yet!
Breaking:
The Prime Minister and others sang a song around a piano being played by a musical artist who was also invited to the Queen’s funeral.
@acoyne
finds in this yet another threat to the very foundations of civilization as we know it.
Very glad the PM took a well-deserved break at Tofino, starting at some point yesterday - it’s one of the most beautiful, serene places in Canada, perfect for reflection.
Also very glad he kept out of the limelight he inevitably attracts, on a day meant entirely for others.
social fissures like we’ve never seen before in Canada.
I no longer practice law, but I will continue to fight against them here and elsewhere, primarily by making savage fun of them.
And if that hurts their feelings, as we used to say when we were kids, tough nougies.🍁🍁🍁
-30-
Prime Minister Trudeau and former Governor General Johnston made only one mistake in relation to the latter’s appointment as special rapporteur.
They assumed that politics and media in Canada still operate on principles of good faith and civility.
Those days are long gone. 🍁😔🍁
Anyone else get the feeling we actually don’t have a provincial government in Ontario just now? Left to the fed’s and municipalities to sort things out?
@fordnation
#onpoli
#COVID19ON
Very excellent: one of the Coutts thugs, beloved by the piffleswipe
@PierrePoilievre
and the Queen of Stupid
@ABDanielleSmith
, goes to jail after being convicted by a jury of his peers.
🇨🇦👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇨🇦
#KuKluxKonvoy
Tamara Lich: “My perspective on ‘hold the line’ is to be true to your values in the face of diversity.”
Freudian slip for the ages.
🤷😉😕😂😂😉🤷
#EmergenciesActInquiry
So,
@PierrePoilievre
and
@jamiljivani
’s grisly henchmen are trying to victimize a pub for allowing a small party there to meet 🇨🇦Canada’s Prime Minister.
—> I’ll be dropping by the
@BrewersPantry
pub in Bowmanville to indulge in a pint or two.
Please do likewise.
🍁🍁🍁
#Durham
🧵 Here it is folks, the piffleswipe accuses a female journalist of misinformation, claims his Question Period fantasy about a Niagara Falls terrorist attack was based on a
@CTVNews
tweet.
Jeff, the CTV tweet was at 250 pm.
Your fantasy, recorded in Hansard, was at 225 pm …
So you know how 75% of 🍁Canadian journalists, 85% of 🍁Conservatives, 95% of 🍁gun cultists, 100% of
#KuKluxKonvoyers
and every
@PierrePoilievre
wannabe in the country sneer that
@JustinTrudeau
gets no respect on the international stage?
Well …
🇨🇦Canada is indebted to Justice Paul Rouleau for leading an exhaustive, civilized, time-challenged inquiry under a statute that, in its extensive safeguards, is one of which we can all be proud.
Canada is not broken, and Justice Rouleau has just proved that to be so.
🍁🍁🍁
Breaking, from Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada:
Failed local man stalks stratospherically superior woman, bellows profanities at her.
She gets on elevator, doors close.
Man thinks he’s really smart.
🍁🤷🏼🤔🤷🏼🍁
#Elliotmcdavid
I disagree with the Conservative insider quoted in today’s Star saying
@AndrewScheer
is the 21st century’s Joe Clark. Mr. Clark was and is an honest man.
#elxn43
#cdnpoli
@CPC_HQ
The replies to this post about a by-election result in Newfoundland and Labrador suggest Conservative support may be more XTwitterland than real world.
20 year safe blue seat turns red.
🤷🏼🤭🤷🏼
#cdnpoli
days later, and then conducts a minute examination of it, in public and on television, with lawyers for every conceivably affected party allowed to cross-examine all the police leaders engaged in the operation from every conceivable angle, with gazillions of the authorities’ …
It was the anti-vaxxers who came along in about the 1980’s who caused division and undermined our social contract. I saw it at the time, and litigated successfully against them in the courts. Now with the power of social media and orchestrated online campaigns, they’ve created …
It’s obvious that the handful of neofascist members of the European parliament speaking against Prime Minister Trudeau yesterday in Brussels were organized to do so from Canada.
All involved are tools of Putin.
Would that our
#cdnmedia
investigate and report.
IDU?
🍁
🧵One hasn’t watched PowerNPolitics on CBC in ages, but happened on it this evening just in time to see
@acoyne
, bless his heart, and the eminent
@ChantalHbert
absolutely savage the piffleswipe
@PierrePoilievre
.
Coyne: “It used to be people wanted leaders they could look up to…
Here’s the thing about
@PierrePoilievre
.
He’s a man consumed by hatred.
He has no love of country.
Only hatred for those he knows, deep down, to be his betters.
Such a sad life.
Let’s not allow him to make 🇨🇦Canada an equally sad place.
🍁🍁🍁
So, when a gang of street thugs swarm your country’s Prime Minister and the population is outraged by that, and as leader of another major political party you don’t condemn it, could it be that you fear the hiring of the thugs could be traced back to you and your henchmen?
🤷🏼👀🤷🏼
If Doug Ford hadn’t abandoned Kathleen Wynne’s carbon cap and trade system, Ontario would be free and clear of the federal carbon pricing system.
So if you don’t like carbon pricing increases, glare at
@fordnation
, not
@JustinTrudeau
.
And vote
@OntLiberal
.
🍁🍁🍁
#onpoli
🧵Let’s be clear. Ever since the days of Mike Harris, the Conservatives in Ontario have had one ambition: to dismantle the province’s public sector piece by piece.
The Ford/Lecce regime has a singular focus on that now.
Their first objective is to crush the public sector unions..
Well, just watched
@PierrePoilievre
’s presser on CPAC/YouTube - clear he’s afraid of journalists’ questions - hates them in fact, and runs away.
Not a good start.
🤷🏼🤫😉🤷🏼
#cdnpoii
#cdnmedia
@CPC_HQ
Here’s the thing about the Conservatives’ behaviour over the past 72 hours or so.
The government announced a relief programme a number of days ago, without detailing the required legislation.
Then various public servants went to work drafting that legislation, knowing that in a
Good to know that everything Ontario’s government decides to do about COVID from here on in will be based on what Nick Kouvalis says the polls show, what some radiologist in Etobicoke thinks, and what Brian Lilley tells his girlfriend to tell Doug.
🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
#onpoli
@fordnation
PM
@JustinTrudeau
: CONservatives being run by a high priced consultant for loblaws!!
"his top advisor is in the pocket of loblaws, giving him the same talking points as she is giving Galen Weston."
#Cdnpoli
Conservatives are desperately trying to scrub all copies of the Tik Tok video that shows swamp creature
#ElliotMcdavid
offering Little Peter Popinjay some fatherly advice, so if you have it, please save it. It refutes their claim he ‘confronted’ LPP.
@PierrePoilievre
@CPC_HQ
What one most admires about
@JustinTrudeau
and his team in this situation is their ability to ignore the caterwauling peanut gallery and drive ahead with careful, deliberate, science-based measures while continuing to connect with the vast majority of Canadians.
#cdnpoli
Lots of debate just now over 🍁immigration levels.
I’ll take 400,000 hard-working, upward striving, delighted-to-be-here immigrants per annum over this lot 👇🏻 any day of the week.
documentary records produced to all those lawyers in advance. (Not to speak of the Prime Minister and his cabinet members who invoked the emergency and will also testify.)
Meanwhile, war criminal Putin is bombarding Ukraine, China’s viciously persecuting minorities year after …
Odd thing: we don’t hear New Zealanders arguing that they produce only a tiny %g of world greenhouse gas emissions. They just get on with doing their bit. Are you listening,
@AndrewScheer
,
@jkenney
and
@fordnation
?
#cdnpoli
Seems 🇨🇦Canadians have got the point now that fixing health care will not be achieved by giving the Doug Fords of the world “health care funds” only to have them spent on highways through green fields to benefit their billionaire developer pals.
Strings must be attached.
🍁😠🍁
So, dime store cowboy realizes the new makeup has rubbed off on his fancy white shirt collar, sends flunky to Walmart to get what he thought would pass for down home denim, wears it right out of the package.
Yee haw!
🍁🤷🏼🤭😂😂😂🤫🤷🏼🍁
@PierrePoilievre
#cdnpoli
@CPC_HQ
🧵A modest suggestion: the 🍁Conservatives are consciously adopting the technique used by fascists for generations. In Steve Bannon’s phrase, ‘flood the zone’ with negativity and wild allegations, day after day, week after week, year after year. The aim is to exhaust good …
So, people who were told for years that interest rates were artificially low and would inevitably revert to the mean but bought mega houses anyway with gigundo mortgages now say it’s Trudeau’s fault their budgets are stretched and they also can’t get Taylor Swift tickets.
🍁🙄🍁
So,
@PierrePoilievre
, you can lose the glasses, switch to painful contact lenses, wear those contour-enhancing assistive devices, and hang a pair of sunglasses from your recently acquired collarless shirt, but you’re still a liar, and all the world sees you.
Piffleswipe.
🍁😉🍁
BREAKING🔥
Peeved that the Liberals snagged Hillary Clinton to speak at their national convention today,
@PierrePoilievre
announces his own all-star lineup for the Conservatives’ next big meet:
▪️Rudy Giuliani on how to correct an election
…
The occasional emergence of demagogue politicians like
@PierrePoilievre
and his ill-mannered spouse,
@AnaPoilievre
, is one of the best reasons to retain a hereditary constitutional monarchy in Canada🇨🇦.
#cdnpoli
So,
#cdnmedia
, good question for Doug Ford and Sylvia Jones:
How many operating rooms in Ontario public hospitals are dark right now due to lack of OR staff (not surgeons, staff), and to what extent is that due to underpaying those positions?
#onpoli
@fordnation
@SylviaJonesMPP
So as we roll into the weekend, 🇨🇦Canada’s very own party of selfishness and cruelty, leading in the polls, is revelling in the fact that Alex Jones, who tortured the parents of slaughtered school children for years, has endorsed their leader. What does that tell us about … 1/2
You know how
@PierrePoilievre
alleges increases in contributions to CPP and EI are “tax” increases?
They’re not.
They’re adjustments to ensure both CPP and EI are properly funded.
You know, fiscal responsibility?
A Prime Minister Poilievre would cancel/cut CPP and EI altogether.
🧵 It’s always amusing to see people like
@anthonyfurey
(Toronto Mayoral candidate) appeal to
@jordanbpeterson
as an authority on anything.
A seldom mentioned fact about Dr. Peterson is that before he became a “public intellectual”, he tried to run a different gig …
🧵 Margaret Atwood, at a recent U of T panel discussion:
“What we have to watch out for is the deliberate creation of chaos, because once you have chaos, everybody looks for a Mister Fix-it to, you know, help make the trains run on time,”…
🧵The key difference between Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre is that JT actually hears valid criticisms and course corrects when warranted, whereas PP, like the reckless captain of the Titanic, will hear the warnings, double down, and cruise right into the iceberg.
🤷🏼🍁🙄🍁🤷🏼
BREAKING:
@PierrePoilievre
announces National Gallery of Canada, Canadian Aviation & Space Museum, Canadian Science & Technology Museum, Canadian War Museum and Canadian Museum of History are all government funded and, because they’re in Ottawa, will all be closed when he’s PM.
There’s something endearing about 🇨🇦Canada as a nation that indulges the kooks, who shut down the seat of government for weeks, with a retrospective, microscopic inquiry, when most countries would have been tear gassing and cracking heads within a day and been done with it.🍁🤷🏼🍁
Good grief: Warren Kinsella, of all people, in the Toronto Sun, of all places, exposing facts showing that the Conservative Party of Canada is now owned, lock, stock and barrel, by the KuKluxKonvoy.
🤷🏼🙄😳🙄🤷🏼
#cdnpoli
@CPC_HQ
#FreedomConvoy
Something deliciously ironic about all the mouth breathers who’ve hated the name Trudeau since forever gabbling away about “muh Charter rights”, not realizing who brought us the Charter in the first place.
🍁🤷🍁
Hey, 🇨🇦Canadian women: the noted pollster
@AngusReid
says that when you’re stalked or harassed or threatened in the street while going about your business, you have to say “quit bothering me” or it’s all your own fault.
Ponder that the next time you see one of his doctored polls.
The video shows a damning picture of police behaviour. Freeland could at least have said something like “ quit bothering me” before the RCMP security guy acted like a thug when he assaulted Menzies. The bald cop and Freeland will wear this a lot longer than the hapless reporter.
Hey, kids of the
#KuKluxKonvoy
!
Have you noticed how
@PierrePoilievre
, who was so vocal in support of you last winter when he was running to lead the Conservative Party, has now gone completely silent on all that as the
#POECommission
grinds along?
Yer on yer own now…
🍁😏🍁
BREAKING:
Tinpot Premiers demand mammoth increases in federal health care funds with no strings attached, saying they need that money for expressways, provincial tax cuts, and cash bribes to voters and drivers.
They’re upset PM says no.🎻🎻🎻
🍁🤷🏼🤔🧐🙄🤷🏼🍁
#cdnpoli
@CanadianPM
🧵 Dinner with a couple of Ottawa residents last night. First time I’d heard a direct description from people who were actually there during the
#KuKluxKonvoy
about seeing occupiers’ feces deposited in every shop doorway along the street, newborns being kept awake all hours …
BREAKING:
@PierrePoilievre
announces that once he’s Prime Minister next week, he will personally decide into which cell in which penitentiary every convicted criminal in Canada will go, and whether or not they can ever be moved. And he will review whether we even need trials. 🙄
The piffleswipe
@PierrePoilievre
’s whining about non-existent media ‘collusion’ is nailed to the wall by Ms Proudfoot in today’s
@globeandmail
.
🍁🤔🧐🙄🍁
Stephen Harper is attending the Danielle Smiths Take Back Alberta conference. Pierre Poilievre is attending the Scott Moe freedom convoy conference. These 4 are working hard at separating Canada. They are the most dangerous politicians in my lifetime. Canadians should be worried.