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Rob Aitken retweeted
Replying to @ambermac
Canadians and their freedoms are like the frog in the warming pot of water. Taking away the freedoms a little at a time until it becomes uncomfortable and people complain. Wait a while til the complaining goes away and heat the water more. That’s what the Liberal gov’t is doing.
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Rob Aitken retweeted
We're giving free hotel rooms to every fraudulent "refugee" who steps off a plane. Canadian homeless people get to stay in tents in parks.
Durham Region is closing a homeless shelter in Ajax despite record-high homelessness, which has risen by 77% over the past eight months. Just a month ago , the region purchased a hotel in Pickering to house 250 asylum claimants.
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Rob Aitken retweeted
Fact: Ireland as % of Canada’s total Exports = 0.2%
Aujourd’hui à Westport, comté de Mayo, la présidente Connolly et moi avons parlé de la relation florissante du Canada et de l’Irlande.   L’an prochain marquera 180 ans depuis l’arrivée massive d’Irlandais au Canada – une communauté d’environ 5 millions de personnes maintenant.
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Rob Aitken retweeted
The previous PM is in America, cheering on America, with his American girlfriend, drinking from a plastic straw. While the current PM, just landed in Europe, & said “it’s good to be home,” while nearly all his assets & family are in America. Anyone else seeing this? 😭
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Rob Aitken retweeted
If this man is the PhD in economics we understand him to be, there is no way he actually believes any of this. The 21st century will be a rugby match between the U.S. and China. Europe will be watching from the stands. Geography will determine what side Canada will be on.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canadians will be forced to be part of "the next world order" that will emerge from Europe. This will be a unilateral decision that will not ask Canadians for their input. "Canada will be part of that effort."
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Banger observation! 🇨🇦 Liberals are livid when they see Trump self-serving, but blind to Carneys obvious priority to Brookfield over Canadians’ best interests. It’s so obvious, but most people don’t care, or have been manipulated by media, lies, and misplaced priorities.
If you really need to hate rich people, if that’s your jam….. Go for it. But at least be consistent. I don’t hear a PEEP from Canadians who tweet about Elon complain about Mark Carney. A man who’s using your tax dollars and your old age funds to personally enrich himself at Brookfield. He’s using Canada’s money to make himself a billionaire while more Canadians than ever are using food banks and can’t buy a home. If you’re going to rip on Elon, then you should be LIVID about your prime minister. At least Elon uses his own money.
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Why is it that so many people on the political left never seem interested in questioning the size and scope of government itself? Why is the answer always more government, more bureaucracy, more regulation, more spending, more taxation, and more programs administered by people who are increasingly disconnected from the lives of ordinary citizens? Why is there so little discussion about empowering individuals, families, communities, entrepreneurs, churches, charities, and local organizations to solve problems for themselves instead of outsourcing every challenge to a centralized authority? Why does nobody seem interested in asking whether we are actually getting good value for the enormous amount of money being extracted from taxpayers every year? We pay more taxes than ever. Governments are larger than ever. Public spending continues to climb. Yet housing is less affordable, healthcare is harder to access, productivity is stagnating, debt is exploding, and more people feel dependent on the very systems that are supposedly helping them. At what point do we stop measuring success by how much money is spent and start measuring success by outcomes? The bigger government becomes, the more power it accumulates, the more dependent citizens become, and the less accountability seems to exist when things fail. This is what I struggle to understand. We have centuries of evidence showing that centralized control and wealth redistribution do not create prosperous, resilient societies. Strong societies are built by people who have ownership, responsibility, freedom, and the ability to make decisions for themselves. Personal agency creates capable citizens. Personal responsibility creates strong families. Decentralization creates resilience. Free enterprise creates prosperity. Why are so many people unwilling to even question whether we’ve been moving in the wrong direction for a very long time?
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Rob Aitken retweeted
More like real life autistic Tony Stark but ok
Elon Musk is a real-life Bond villain ft.trib.al/zAOuVKk
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The @FoodProfessor is the most sane guest on @cbc.

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Rob Aitken retweeted
Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day. 400 of them are now worth over $100 million. These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries. Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000. Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous." The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before. Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.
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You don’t have to love Elon Musk to recognize what this headline says about us. A country that spends more time criticizing wealth creation than encouraging it sends a clear message to builders: your success is tolerated, not celebrated. Canada should be the best place in the world to build ambitious companies. Headlines like this make us look like we’re not quite ready for that.
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Rob Aitken retweeted
"Food security cannot be purchased through government spending alone. It is earned through investment, innovation, productivity, and competitiveness." Link to full article below.
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It is simply not credible to have sat through Bill C-22 committee hearings where numerous experts expressed concerns about the privacy implications of metadata retention and weakening encryption and say the bill has nothing to do with privacy. Rock bottom. x.com/jacobmantle/status/206…

🚨BREAKING!!!🚨 After repeatedly denying Conservative efforts to invite the Privacy Commissioner to testify about his recommendations on Bill C-22, the Liberals now say the bill “has nothing to do with the privacy of people and their personal information.” 🤯
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Rob Aitken retweeted
Im sure the family appreciates your thoughts and prayers, but this appears to be terrorism related The previous Liberal government flooded the country with unvetted migrants What tangible steps will you take to weed out these terrorists and deport all who have overstayed visas?
This morning, a Toronto Police Officer, Constable Marc Pinizzotto, was killed in the line of duty. This tragedy follows the death of OPP Constable Tarun Bali on Tuesday. Canada mourns the loss of these brave officers who dedicated their lives to protecting their communities. My prayers are with their loved ones, their fellow officers, and their communities in this time of grief.
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Rob Aitken retweeted
These people just don’t get it and never will. Canada’s affordability problem is really a productivity problem.
#BREAKING: PM Carney unveils multibillion-dollar food strategy meant to lower prices ctvnews.ca/politics/article/…
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Rob Aitken retweeted
🚨 Liberal slogans vs Canadian reality 2015-2026 🇨🇦 A decade in review. 🧵👇
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"At times we have treated our energy endowment with contempt as something that we tolerate, constrict, and manage down, versus recognizing it as our largest economic lever, our biggest and most important export, and the largest driver of Canada’s quality of life. And the result has been predictable. Investment has left Canada for other jurisdictions. The jobs that come with investment, together with the taxes and royalties, were never realized. Foreign investors and producers have left and taken with them the benefits they bring. Yet through this, the world has not demanded one less barrel of oil, not one less Mcf [thousand cubic feet] of natural gas. The world just gets it from different jurisdictions like the United States, Russia, and the Middle East." /3
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Rob Aitken retweeted
Wow. I was today years old when I learned from Marc that 32,000 of the “88,000 new jobs” were temporary census workers. And a huge other chunk, were FIFA and seasonal employment. What a joke.
The Liberals keep bragging about 88,000 jobs. Here's the part they don't want you looking at. Statistics Canada hired roughly 32,000 temporary census workers. Public sector employment jumped. Infrastructure spending funded by taxpayers boosted construction hiring. FIFA-related activity boosted temporary employment. Temporary jobs increased nearly 3x faster than permanent jobs. In other words, the headline says "88,000 jobs." The fine print says "temporary, taxpayer-funded, and seasonal." There's nothing wrong with temporary work. But when temporary jobs become the main engine of growth, that's not an economic boom. That's economic life support.
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Rob Aitken retweeted
NO Just NO. Otherwise are we going to have Uganda heritage month? Papua New Guinea heritage month? How about New Zealand heritage month? Luxembourg heritage month? On top of this an entire month? We don't even have an entire month for Canadian veterans.
🇨🇦🇸🇴 Today, I introduced a private member’s bill that would declare July of every year in Canada as Somali Heritage Month! I’d like to thank MP @HonAhmedHussen for co-sponsoring this bill with me and for his counsel. I hope that all MPs will support this legislation. Canada is home to many Canadians of Somali heritage. Canadians of Somali descent have left and continue to leave a historic mark on Canada, with contributions that span communities across the country and are reflected in Canada’s economic, political, social and cultural life. If passed, Somali heritage month would give us an opportunity to celebrate that heritage, the role that Canada has played in supporting Somali Canadians and their contributions to Canada.
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Rob Aitken retweeted
LMAO No bro. No. No more "months." No more celebration of other countries. No more pandering. We are all equal. We are all Canadian. Stop the madness.
🇨🇦🇸🇴 Today, I introduced a private member’s bill that would declare July of every year in Canada as Somali Heritage Month! I’d like to thank MP @HonAhmedHussen for co-sponsoring this bill with me and for his counsel. I hope that all MPs will support this legislation. Canada is home to many Canadians of Somali heritage. Canadians of Somali descent have left and continue to leave a historic mark on Canada, with contributions that span communities across the country and are reflected in Canada’s economic, political, social and cultural life. If passed, Somali heritage month would give us an opportunity to celebrate that heritage, the role that Canada has played in supporting Somali Canadians and their contributions to Canada.
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