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The current vogue now is to blame all our troubles, here in Canada, on Trump.
I saw this on the Canada Campaign site and have copied it. Originally written by someone called Andrew Laturnus. I have added a few to the original post:
-Trump didn't stop our export pipelines from being built.
-Trump didn't drive half a trillion dollars of capital investments out of Canada.
-Trump didn't stall the growth of our GDP/capita for the last ten years.
-Trump didn't flood our country with millions of migrants.
-Trump didn't throw away hundreds of billions of our dollars on "green" energy.
-Trump didn't cause our housing costs to skyrocket.
-Trump didn't make the Canadian government borrow $600 billon. -Trump didn't legalize hard drugs.
-Trump didn't create our healthcare crisis.
-Trump didn't cause 1/3 of Canadians to go hungry, and food bank usage to more than double.
-Trump didn't turn our dollar into monopoly money.
-Trump didn't push DEI in our country which caused many to be hired -not for ...
Danielle Smith
@ABDanielleSmith
Canadians overwhelmingly agree we need to build new oil and gas pipelines from east to west and to the North, so we aren’t forced to rely on a single customer. Canada needs to become stronger and more independent. Let’s get started!
Read article: https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/column
https://x.com/ABDanielleSmith/status/1887556844023107869
