Flavio Volpe, C.M.
@FlavioVolpe1
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President @APMACanada | Member of the Order of Canada 🇨🇦
Toronto, Canada
Joined October 2013
Today the Governor General appointed me as a Member of the Order of Canada. It is the honour of a lifetime.
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Good Morning to the 10,000 ACTUAL truckers who just picked up $100M in auto parts & hit the road to 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 car plants this morning. We appreciate you. Drive carefully.
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Since some “truckers” started “protesting” vaccine mandates in 🇨🇦 last week, thousands of WORKING TRUCKERS have delivered $50M of auto parts from 🇨🇦 factories to customers in the 🇺🇸 EVERY SINGLE DAY. That’s about $500M so far, $1B including the other way. But you keep honking.
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A reminder that today REAL 🇨🇦 freedom fighters are in Latvia training soldiers to defend 🇺🇦 against an ACTUAL dictator threatening their way of life. This is also the CORRECT use of OUR flag.
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Maybe a unpopular position these days but I think 🇨🇦 is fantastic & the greatest country in the world in which to raise my kids.
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I have a different standard for 🇨🇦 hero than ruining our reputation around the world while getting my neighbours laid off. Maybe I’m old school.
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Too bad the Convoy Donor list does not have a "Collected CERB: Y/N" column. I think we'd all like to know.
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So. you’re suggesting using a National Security regulation to charge $8B in tariffs to *American* consumers who buy 1 million cars made by American automakers, containing 60% American parts content, because of the price of milk in Windsor?. Where do I start?
Based on Justin’s false statements at his news conference, and the fact that Canada is charging massive Tariffs to our U.S. farmers, workers and companies, I have instructed our U.S. Reps not to endorse the Communique as we look at Tariffs on automobiles flooding the U.S. Market!.
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“I love my country” vs “you’re not the boss of me.”
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Thank You to the thousands of 🇨🇦 WORKING TRUCKERS who woke up at 3am to haul $50M in auto parts to 🇺🇸 car factories today. And to those 🇺🇸 truckers bringing $50M into 🇨🇦 auto factories too. You’re an integral part of our working economy. 100k auto parts workers depend on you.👊🏻.
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Those that would purposefully put their own children in harm’s way lose all right to moralize about human rights. Ever.
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SHARE PLS:. By the end of the week, working w/ gov’t, we will have arranged the largest build-orders of ventilators, masks, face shields & gowns in Canadian history. All local. Its the biggest ever peacetime mobilization of 🇨🇦s industrial capacity. Tell your friends. #StepUp.
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Toronto let 100 Hamas-supporters shouting for an “intifada” cancel an event between Two G7 Leaders tonight. For law enforcement to get outmaneuvered by the same people shouting hate every week begs so many questions. Tonight it’s an international Embarrassment on this city.
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In 🇺🇦, soldier Vitaly Shakun sacrificed his life to blow up the Henichesky Bridge to stop a murderous 🇷🇺 tank column to protect his homeland. In 🇨🇦, a mob used children to help block the Ambassador Bridge to stop fresh 🇺🇸 groceries & car parts to spite their homeland. Freedom.
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So many freedom rallies across 🇨🇦 for 🇺🇦 today. No swastikas. No hot tubs. No one spit on a reporter. 👏.
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Good morning & thank you to all the 🇨🇦s who:. - aren’t trying to lay siege to the capital,.- didn’t use their kids as human shields, .- know you can vote for anyone they want,.- who understand and respect the law and 🇨🇦 democracy. There will be much work to do when this is over.
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In 🇺🇦, an actual invading DICTATOR & his barbaric army continue to MURDER free people at every pass. Its HORRIFIC to watch. In 🇨🇦, a PM who gave people $2K a month so they could stay home safe is called a DICTATOR by politicians trolling for “freedom” votes. Just embarrassing.
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Those that would flout* the rule of law in order to purposefully hurt 🇨🇦 & its people should know that they face the inexhaustible* resolve of those would defend 🇨🇦 & its democracy. With vigour.
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Blocking the Ambassador Bridge could CREATE a daily SHORTAGE of about $300M goods & RAISE prices on both sides of the 🇨🇦🇺🇸border. Brain dead move. Thank you to 🇨🇦 WORKERS for your PATIENCE & understanding if you get temporarily laid off while we wait for PROTESTERS to grow up.
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You can go f*ck right off now. Rejected by your own country, now cow-towing to losers. Go drive a boat.
There's 41 million Canadians sitting on the world's largest amounts of all resources, including the most important, energy and water. Canadians over the holidays have been talking about this. They want to hear more. What this could be is the beginning of an economic union. Think
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I did 22 media interviews today, 8 in the 🇺🇸, re the Ambassador Bridge debacle. These “protestors” had better get some better advice & really soon. What’s becoming clear to me is that 🇨🇦’s are not onside with people who act lawlessly in their selfish interests. We never have.
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The Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service testified under oath at the Public Order Emergency Commission that he advised the Prime Minister of Canada to invoke the Emergencies Act in February 2022 in order to end the illegal blockade of the Capital. The End.
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How do you reconcile “Canada is broken, he’s a dictator” rhetoric with “the PM is appearing at a public inquiry, under oath, being crossed by a lawyer described as ‘an idiot’ in the same day’s newspaper headline.”. Global standard of accessible transparency from where I sit.
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It’s amazing how long a body can live after it’s brain dies.
Joe Rogan speaks the TRUTH about Canada 🇨🇦 and how we’re in the middle of a full blown TRUDEAU communist takeover. Kindness doesn’t always win 😒.
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Not to put too fine a point on this, but credit for the 🇺🇸 Democrat reversal on EV tax policy that would have crippled 🇨🇦 auto goes to @JustinTrudeau. His elevation of the issue to @JoeBiden & the coordination of 🇨🇦🇺🇸 bilateral work by @cafreeland & @mary_ng was the difference.
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If you don’t see antisemitism in the campus encampment activity, you’ll probably find it more easily in the mirror.
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In 🇺🇦, people are dying because free people scare dictators. In 🇨🇦, people are complaining because needles scare free people.
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I met Nelson Mandela when he came to Toronto in 1990, just after his release. My dad took me to see him and I got to meet him and say welcome. My dad said “this man will be remembered forever.”. That’s how yesterday felt with Zelenskyy. This man has met the weight of the moment.
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We have been granted an injunction to clear the barricade at the Ambassador Bridge. I take no comfort in this. It has caused potentially irreparable harm to 🇨🇦's reputation as a reliable trading partner. Thank you @gpvescio for your dedicated service to 🇨🇦 workers & companies.
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Absolutely NEVER forget the politicians who encouraged lawless mobs to terrorize 🇨🇦s & our economy while they split hairs & raised money. They used our decency against us. NEVER again. Never.
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Let me simplify this for everyone:. If you can rally to the capital unimpeded to YELL threateningly at law enforcement, recite baseless globalist CONSPIRACIES, consort publicly with Holocaust DENIERS while waving OTHER countries’ flags…. You ALREADY have freedom. This is 🇨🇦.
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I wish @PierrePoilievre would go to Wellington Street in Ottawa, tell his followers to go home safely & that they’ve been heard. For law enforcement officers, for the kids on the front lines, for the country. Like a leader that wants to be PM of 🇨🇦.
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The last couple months has unmasked a lot of people across 🇨🇦 for who they really are. A consolation is that they can’t hide who they are anymore.
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What a great country we live in. The PM’s defence of 🇺🇦 makes me proud to be 🇨🇦.
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Today 10,000+ real truck drivers are using their freedom to transport auto parts made by 🇨🇦 workers to customers all over the continent. None are cosplaying outside an Ottawa court cheering on people who proposed *taking over the government* & replacing it with a Pat King.
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How close are we to a live streamed incident of political violence in this country?. That is a Quebec MP running to defend a candidate for leader & PM. The law needs to be enforced. It’s gone WAY past the point of ok. MPs from all parties are speaking to this rising threat.
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🇨🇦s need to get really serious, very quickly. 🇺🇸 has re-elected a president does not care for its traditional place in this world. Who are we without that shield?. An isolationist.🇺🇸 could expose us to threats we’ve never seen before. 🇨🇦, grow up fast. It’s a new world today.
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Now do one about how 30 morons with pickups put 100,000 🇨🇦 autoworkers on temporary layoff.
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Good Morning to the 12,000 ACTUAL 🇺🇦 truckers who picked up THOUSANDS of refugees & hit the road to 🇵🇱 & came back with CRITICAL goods this morning. We are worried for you. Drive carefully.
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BREAKING:. The Emergencies Act inquiry report absolving the Feds is not accepted by the people who caused the emergency.
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I can not wait for the inquiry into the Emergencies Act use to end the illegal & dangerous blockades. The Ambassador Bridge blockade alone cost $1B to 🇨🇦 auto & we had to take extraordinary measures to end it. I will not couch my words if asked to testify. Not single one.
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July 1st: “the greatest place on earth! 🇨🇦”. July 4th: “everything is broken”. Must have been one crazy long weekend. 🙄
Everything is broken. Including federally-regulated air travel. More delays. More excuses. But don’t worry. Trudeau’s Transport Minister is busy doing media interviews about his sneakers.
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As 🇷🇺s illegal invasion of 🇺🇦 is stalled on the battlefield & they turn to mass murder of undefended civilians, some politicians spent today pretending two 🇨🇦 parties voting together is the real threat to freedom.
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Kevin O’Leary threw his wife in front of a boat not to catch a case. Rejected even by the Conservative Party as too entitled, his political performance was only slightly worse than his Fund’s. He boasts about being a player, he’s done nothing for 🇨🇦 but sh*t on it. Big phoney.
🚨🇺🇸KEVIN O'LEARY: IF KAMALA WINS, SHE'LL TURN THE U.S. INTO CANADA. Shark Tank's Kevin O'Leary:. "I ask everybody to look north to Canada. When a young Justin Trudeau swept in, nobody cared about his executional skills or what he'd ever done or anything. They just thought he
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I shared a vile voicemail I received re my role in ending the ILLEGAL Ambassador Bridge blockade. It is full of a caller’s HARD racism & misogyny & I’ll be taking it down soon. I shared it because we need to talk HONESTLY about the hateful privilege in so much of this 🇨🇦story.
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Well, sometimes history shakes your hand. Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦🇨🇦
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I was part of every single round of 2017-19 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇲🇽 negotiations & had many of my own meetings with the White House. $16B in new auto investment in CANADA since the signing speaks for itself. It’s more than the previous 20 yrs combined. No kidding Jared didn’t like @cafreeland.
Freeland shrugs off criticism in Kushner book, says Canada just responded to a bully
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🇨🇦 is a wonderful country. If you live here & think it could be better, do something about it in real life. If you fantasize about being 🇺🇸, you should go be an 🇺🇸.
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The PM takes a lot of flack from critics with no plan. 🇨🇦landed a plant that will make 1,000,000 $25,000 batteries per year for decades. The investment has a 5 year payback & employs 10s of thousands of people in career-type applied technology jobs. Nothing to talk about.🙌🏻
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The convoy people are EXACTLY who we said they were. Doing EXACTLY what we said they were doing. Take THEIR word for it under oath. Tomorrow is day 2.
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The city of Toronto is completely impassable at anytime during the day. The people responsible for traffic flow & congestion should be embarrassed. It is quite literally the most congested major city in the world with zero accountability. Bike lanes over brains.
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Hospital Row. Bike lane madness, Toronto takes out 2 lanes in the busiest hospital cluster in 🇨🇦. Sick Kids, Mt. Sinai, Princess Margaret, Toronto General. Then they set up curbs with islands to seemingly secure it so … ambulances can wait for that cyclist to … wait, what?
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So many of the people who cosplayed as “real 🇨🇦 patriots” are now falling over themselves pledge allegiance to the 🇺🇸 flag. What was the whole Maple Leaf on a hockey stick on a truck thing about if you’re ready to disrespect the blood spilled by your ancestors for your freedom?.
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I met with the PM’s Canada-US Council today, here are some thoughts:. -🇨🇦 leaders & our government are (almost) all on the same page: Country First. -Their willingness to share intel, feedback & their networks is deeply comforting. -We have a strong plan & the right priorities.
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Toronto has a law enforcement vacuum. Emboldened anarchists pretending to care for the victims of war in the Middle East are over running police in this city. The last three days been a red flag of burning goodwill. This is getting worse every day. This is not protest.
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The crass 🇨🇦 politicians who have successfully encouraged “freedom” lawlessness that shut down the biggest industry in the country & in the Midwest 🇺🇸 should be EMBARRASSED today. Hundreds of thousands of workers can’t work today & it’s cost 🇨🇦 about $500M so far. Shameful.
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I love my country. I’ll never stop hustling for 🇨🇦 or Canadians. It’s worth every minute.
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If you block the 🇺🇸 side of the Ambassador Bridge YOUR actions will result in:. - EMPTY 🇨🇦 shelves & HIGHER 🇨🇦prices.- ACTUAL 🇨🇦 trucker layoffs.- harming 🇨🇦 FARMERS .- costing 🇨🇦 MANUFACTURING & RETAIL jobs. You are CAUSING what you RAIL against. Its COMPLETELY brain dead.
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Maybe an unpopular position today, but I think Canada is best place in the world to raise our children. It’s a work in progress, yes, so let’s work on progress. Today let’s celebrate all the good things about this peaceful, beautiful, prosperous 🇨🇦 promise. Happy Canada Day🎉.
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PLS SHARE. 🇺🇦 refugees who are seeking a new future in 🇨🇦 & would like a career in the auto sector please reach out to @APMACanada directly. We will match qualified candidates with employers. There is a labour shortage here but we have lots of Peace & Hope. info[at]apma[dot]ca.
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I’ve been around almost 50 years and no one has ever told me they had a problem me saying Merry Christmas. In fact, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and all the rest of the people I live around say it to me every year around this time. Where are you all living?.
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When @JustinTrudeau challenged us to imagine a zero emissions future, we launched an all-🇨🇦, lightweight, zero-emissions concept vehicle. Today we put a face on Canada's Vehicle of the Future. @fordnation challenged us to build it. Just watch us.
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If it isn’t clear yet, I love my country. I take inspiration from the quiet, hardworking, loving, hopeful, honest & creative people around me. Let’s repair the harm being done here by trying to be better every day. 🇨🇦.
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Man in hole, keeps digging.
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Let’s put politics aside for the moment. The PM has chosen to lead from the front on auto investment for 🇨🇦 & we’ve had the greatest investment run in our history. Results matter. 100Ks of people have a more secure future & 🇨🇦 auto is globally relevant again because of this.
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🇨🇦’s are about to see what an ACTUAL dictator does to peoples’ freedoms in the Ukraine-Russia war that’s going to drop. Will the 🇨🇦 “freedom” bros roll now on to Moscow? Maybe bring their kids there & demand Putin step down? Will @PierrePoilievre support them?. We’ll see. 🤔.
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On matters of the highest 🇨🇦 national security interests, an aspiring Prime Minister should be willing to submit to a security clearance. At MINIMUM.
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In anticipation of what’s to come this week in Washington, I know one thing for sure. True Canadians will reveal themselves in response. So will the other kind.
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Lots of folks in 🇨🇦 around me getting COVID last week or so. Be careful people. The virus doesn’t know we cancelled it.
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This man is the greatest global salesperson of 🇨🇦s capabilities I have ever met. Congratulations @FP_Champagne for never resting on your laurels. VW is here in large part because of this unrelenting work ethic.
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Show me the 🇨🇦 politicians who encouraged these people again. Didn’t one of them say he was “running to be Prime Minister”?. I’d have died of embarrassment by now.
Toyota will not produce vehicles at their three Ontario plants this week. The Ambassador Bridge is effectively shit down. The Blue Water is slowed. Peace Bridge may shut this weekend. Good jobs may leave Ontario forever. Bad look for those supporting #FreedomConvoy2022.
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History will remember this man as a new beginning. Zelenskyy 🇺🇦 looked into the brink & the brink blinked back. Dignity, courage, thoughtfulness & resolve. An honour to share a moment with a great, great man.
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I mean it’s crazy. Someone asked me if I was there to enjoy my “dinner supporting a genocide”. No actually, I was looking forward to celebrating the sacrifices my parents & grandparents made when they came to 🇨🇦 from 🇮🇹. I was hoping to see my friends in the city I live in.
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It’s amazing how long the body can live on after the brain has died.
Vivek Ramaswamy proposes building a wall along the border with Canada. "So we gotta just skate to where the puck is going, not just where the puck is. Don’t just build the wall, build both walls!"
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Trudeau having a Thanksgiving dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Trump. I’m impressed. The old veteran has a few more passes left in that arm yet.
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We take our peaceful freedoms for granted in 🇨🇦. I wish we could do something more for 🇺🇦 at this moment.
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At the @Empire_Club Chrystia Freeland talks about global inflation dynamics. She lays out 🇨🇦s response 1) switch us all to crypto, 2) fire the Bank of Canada Governor 3) subsidize gas prices. Just kidding. She’s an adult.
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I deleted my retweet of the video of that asshole in Alberta & the two idiots encouraging him. However, some of us have lost our goddam minds. Its disgusting. Toxic bullshit from small men is going to sink this country. You don’t like your government? Vote for another one.
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Team Canada. 🇨🇦 . What we do today will echo for generations. I’m grateful to be part of the national effort to defend and promote Canadian interests.
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The abject disrespect of a sovereign ally that has spilled blood side by side with American troops is hardly a flex.
Many people in Canada LOVE being the 51st State. The United States can no longer suffer the massive Trade Deficits and Subsidies that Canada needs to stay afloat. Justin Trudeau knew this, and resigned. If Canada merged with the U.S., there would be no Tariffs, taxes would go way.
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My first time at Parliament Hill wearing my Order of Canada pin. I grew up visiting my dad at work here. It feels a bit special.
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Honest to god I wish you’d stop.
Canadians will pay for Justin Trudeau’s weakness and failure on NAFTA. He has left Canada out in the cold and put thousands of jobs at risk.
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Blocking the entrances, accosting guests who were all just 🇨🇦s of 🇮🇹 heritage, as we tried to enter. It took 1.5 hrs & a police escort to get in via a side entrance & someone in our party still got assaulted. This is a terrible way to win people to a cause, this is a city lost.
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Shooting a Jewish school in Montreal isn’t a political protest. It’s an indictable offence under s.85 of the Criminal Code with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison.
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CONTEXT:. VW may* get up to $13B in tax benefits if* they employ 7500+ people to produce $200B* of batteries over 10* years. Not a $13B one-time* cheque, like the one that the Harper govt wrote in 2010 to bail out GM & Chrysler. It was a good investment then & a better one now.
VW getting up to $13B in federal money for Ontario battery plant
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Volkswagen & Mercedes will be working DIRECTLY & FORMALLY with the government to source critical EV battery minerals in 🇨🇦. This is an UNPRECENDENTED strategy to secure the future of auto manufacturing in this country. @FP_Champagne leading a full court press for the ages. 👆.
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Great first meeting of the PM’s Council on Canada-US Relations. Go Team 🇨🇦!
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We’ve got to learn how to deal with these tactics. American consumers aren’t going to pay 25% more for Canadian pick-up trucks & oil & gas because of a southern border problem with Mexico. The US military relies on aluminum from Quebec, the west needs BC freshwater. Patience.
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Canada’s critical successes at very tough NAFTA negotiations with the Trump administration were led by a hard-working and strategically-minded Chrystia Freeland. Big loss on our way into round two with a weaker hand. Huge.
See my letter to the Prime Minister below // Veuillez trouver ma lettre au Premier ministre ci-dessous
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Two thoughts in this @cbcnews piece I’m quoted in:. 1 I’m aware that it’s not easy for auto suppliers to switch to ventilators.2 I don’t need to be told while we try to do it. Step up or step out of the way. We’ll take it from here. Please. @APMACanada.
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A reminder that 10,000 ACTUAL truckers were working the day 30 people with pickup* trucks blocked the Ambassador Bridge. Those ‘freedom fighters’ cost REAL drivers 3-5 days wages in 🇨🇦&🇺🇸. There’s no revising history in Windsor & Detroit. Sorry.
Good Morning to the 10,000 ACTUAL truckers who just picked up $100M in auto parts & hit the road to 🇺🇸 & 🇨🇦 car plants this morning. We appreciate you. Drive carefully.
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The @CPC_HQ just named @MarilynGladuSL shadow minister for International Trade & Supply Chains “to proactively work with sectors that affect our economy”. Literally an MP who publicly SUPPORTED blockaders & doing her OWN RESEARCH on vaccines. Is ANYONE in charge over there?. 🤔.
#BREAKING: Candice Bergen has made changes to the Conservative Shadow Cabinet. Notable changes include Ed Fast moving back to the Finance role. Bergen has appointed Dan Albas as Shadow Minister for “Housing Inflation.”. Michael Barrett, Shadow Minister for Health. #cdnpoli
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I’m seeing equivalencies being made between freedom protests in China & the clownvoy blockades in Canada. I’ll wait until Pierre Poilievre flies to Shanghai to hand out donuts before I comment.
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You impugn a former Supreme Court Judge of 🇨🇦 in order to impugn a former Governor General of 🇨🇦 in order to impugn the Prime Minister of 🇨🇦. All in an effort to avoid *getting briefed on the intelligence* you suggested would support your claims of election interference. What?.
David Johnston—from the Trudeau Foundation—wanted to make sure he wasn’t in a conflict of interest in judging the Beijing’s interference in the Trudeau Foundation. So he got an opinion from someone who is part of the Trudeau Foundation.
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I’m old enough to remember when Justin Trudeau was the scary dictator.
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Imagine arguing over who supported illegal blockades by anti-government actors who shut down the capital & major trade routes while “running to be Prime Minister”. They should be Embarrassed.
.@LeslynLewis & @PierrePoilievre clash in a heated exchange over support for the freedom convoys that protested COVID-19 mandates. #cpcldr. Watch more at #ctvpp #cdnpoli
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