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April 05, 2025

Canada's aid to the oil & gas sector topped $29.6B in 2024: Environmental Defence

Big-ticket items last year include $21B in financing for the Trans Mountain pipeline project
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/canadas-aid-to-the-oil--gas-sector-topped-296b-in-2024-environmental-defence-142524302.html

Environmental Defence says its $29.6 billion figure spans direct grants, tax breaks, loans, and loan guarantees

Big-ticket items in 2024 include $21 billion in financing for the government-owned Trans Mountain pipeline project, and $7.5 billion in public financing through Export Development Canada.

Figures can't lie, but liars can figure. They make it sound like a grant but loans are just loans.

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November 07, 2026
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BOY does this guy NAIL Carney & Government…..not sure when the Country is going to wake up!

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November 06, 2026

That version of history explains everything.
It explains the housing crisis. It explains the energy restrictions. It explains the immigration pressure. It explains the economic stagnation. It explains why a sitting Deputy Prime Minister stood in front of graduates at an American university and asked, out loud, whether capitalist democracy still works.
None of what is happening to Canada is an accident.

The Present Is the Evidence
To understand how Canada arrived at this moment, you first have to look honestly at what is happening right now.
Across Canadian media and social media, a coordinated narrative has been building around what is being called the problem of empty bedrooms. On the surface it sounds like a housing conversation. Look closer and it is something else entirely. The pressure being applied, particularly on elderly Canadians and grandparents who have lived in their homes for decades, is to downsize. To give up their multi-bedroom homes. To turn their large homes into apartment blocks. ...

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