Poutine Policy

We need to start pushing back respectfully against our MPs. Public debate on X or twitter doesn't create change, it just amplifies the noise. Here's an AI prompt you can use (Google Gemini is great) to quickly summarize an email that highlights concerns around proposed bill or…

Welcome to the LPC Canada: From 2010 to 2023, median after-tax income for Canadian households increased roughly 15–20% compared to the 41.4% growth in income taxes. This means taxes have grown about twice as fast as household incomes.

How do you listen to your constituents with your replies off. This post is a direct admission that your liberal policy has failed and you don’t want to discuss it. Demand side economics, which you continue to support, will only devalue our dollar further and continue to…

The Cost of Complacency The global economy is not merely shifting, it’s coming apart at its seams, a structural schism that demands proactive statecraft. Yet, as the tectonic plates of trade and geopolitics split, Ottawa’s response has been one of glacial reaction, not…

Canada’s Addiction to Cheap Labour is Erasing Opportunity We are witnessing a collision of two policy disasters that is fundamentally rewriting the social contract for young Canadians. The headlines will tell you about a "cooling economy." Do not be gaslit. What we are…

In a country as wealthy as ours, this is a policy failure. The underlying reality is that our current economic and social policies are creating poverty at an unprecedented rate. What does the government's current path truly provide? Not stability, but managed decline. We are…

Over 35,000 families fled the GTA last year, because they can’t afford a home. The industrial carbon tax increases the cost of all building materials. So why do the Liberals make housing even more expensive, by increasing the industrial carbon tax?

Algoma Steel is a failure of Canadian Industrial Strategy. $500M in government loans, followed by 1,000 workers laid off, accelerating the shift to Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF) a year early. The Macroeconomic Reality: We are witnessing the direct, predictable consequences of a…

If we went back a year ago, and I told you gold would be up 60% & silver 90%, what would you say is going on in the world? Inflation ramping above 5%? Bitcoin $500k? Some new war? Aliens? Stocks down 30%? Doubt most would say: "Inflation mellow, stocks up 17%, two major…

This talk of Critical Minerals and "moving forward" is classic policy signaling over actual execution. Canada is rich in words, but poor in action and the world is not waiting. • The Reality Gap: We've had years to address the core bottlenecks: 10+ year permitting timelines…

How Immigration Became Canada's Fiscal Crutch We need to explore the true purpose of the recent, unprecedented spike in permanent and temporary residents since 2015. It's less about growth and more about fiscal triage. Before the immigration floodgates opened, Canada was…

Forget the Bank of Canada's next rate decision. That’s noise. The true crisis, the one actively dismantling your standard of living, is structural, terminal, and self-inflicted. We are witnessing the slow-motion transformation of Canada from a G7 economic core into a mere…

The quiet erosion of the Canadian dollar (CAD) over the last decade is a silent but seismic shift. For the Canadians who believes that a $100,000 salary is a sturdy shield, let me tell you, the Canadian macro currents are eroding it away. This isn’t just a currency story, it's…

Yesterday’s headline screamed macro-opium: Canada's economy grew at a blistering 2.6% annualized rate in Q3 2025. The relief headlines were palpable, but as any true analyst of macro knows, the headline is just the veil. Peel back the layers, and you find the structural decay…

Mortgage arrears in Canada for September were higher than any other month in over 8 years, outside of the start of the scamdemic. This is either a slow motion train wreck or a funeral procession, I can't decide.

More and more of Canada's youth are falling out of the labour force.

Really soft 🇨🇦 payroll employment data this morning...-58k m/m Wild divergence between Canada's two main employment surveys. Payrolls now flat y/y...something that never happens outside of recessions. Private sector employment down 0.3% y/y

Household consumption in Canada fell 0.4% in Q3, its worst quarterly performance since the pandemic.

To suggest that Mark Carney is 'not a politician' and therefore superior is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of modern governance. A technocrat, by definition, views the political sphere as merely an implementation problem, a series of levers to be pulled and managed…

The political class, seemingly detached from the fundamental engine of economic growth—private investment and demand-side reality—is once again chasing a phantom. Premier Eby's rhetoric against an "unfunded" pipeline, while seemingly pragmatic, risks becoming a smokescreen that…