Tim Pettit
@Tim_Pettit_
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Husband. Father. Trial Lawyer. Lover of the outdoors: it needs to be protected. Animal lover. Epictetus lover. Rude people blocked. Neutral good 🇨🇦🇨🇦
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My MP is a Liberal. I have scheduled a telephone call on Friday to share my displeasure with the invocation of the Emergencies Act. It’s too much. It is playing with fire. I encourage others to talk to their Liberal MPs.
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Really Canadian labour legislation needs to be amended to reign in unions like this.
The role of a union is to represent its workers in respect to their employment. It is not to assume grandiose and frankly naïve political views that have nothing to do with its members. It
In response to backlash over a message of solidarity with Palestinians, the Executive of CUPE Local 3906 stands united against colonial occupation and state violence and has developed the following statement with profound care. Read in full here:
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There is this trending:
#PierrePoilievreTheCoward
. Which is weird, as I don't recall
@PierrePoilievre
hiding in a cottage while the rest of us kept working during the Pandemic. So who's the coward, really?
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Opinion: The most important source of Canada’s inflation: The government borrowed more than $700-billion - The Globe and Mail ^^ Its the borrowing…
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My sense is that Trudeau's political and philosophical views were formed, like many of us, when he came of age in early university.
I suspect he gravitated towards a grab bag of views drawn from post-modernism, critical theory, wokism, etc... not as a result of any deep
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@DrJacobsRad
So spitting on people is battery under law and thus illegal. Aside from being simply inappropriate.
But wow. Raises the question: education or indoctrination?
I suspect our academics are failing Canada. Learning has given way to activism..,
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I’m 55, blessed to be married to an amazing woman, have 2 great kids, 2 dogs, and a kitten. I’m a trial lawyer who owns a small firm, work a lot, pay my taxes, help people, love the law, the outdoors, animals and history but
@JustinTrudeau
thinks I’m an extremist.
#TrudeauMustGo
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Bank governor: Carbon tax boosts inflation rate by nearly half-a-point - National |
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Canada has never had slavery.
Canada was created in 1867 and slavery had been abolished in the British Empire in 1833.
There has been slavery since time immemorial in the geographical area that ultimately has now become Canada. Slavery was present long before the arrival of
At the reopening of Sir John A. MacDonald’s Belleville House Saturday historian Channon Oyeniran talked of Canada’s past as being “steeped” in racism and white supremacy
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David Johnston may be an honourable man but he had no business accepting the Rapporteur position. He was in numerous conflicts from moment one. Reasonable people across the political spectrum told him so. He did not listen. He persisted.
He then published a 55 page report
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Some comments about loyalty to Canada.
An entire generation of Canadians left the United States and settled what would become Canada simply out of loyalty to the British Empire. They were called United Empire Loyalists.
Another generation of Canadians defended what would become
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So Tucker Carlson comes to Canada and gives a speech.
And then the next morning, this. Why do they care so much? What is the big deal?
Meanwhile we have had weeks of protesters calling for genocide and we did not see this reaction...
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I had a very interesting chat with my taxi driver. He was born in Iran but has lived in Canada for the past 40 plus years.
We chatted about Iranian regime presence in Canada. His experience was interesting. He spoke of significant IRGC presence in Canada with significant
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@marcomendicino
So, basically, since taking power in 2015, your government has managed to put 11 million Canadians in a position where they need food subsidies?
What happened to building a strong middle class?
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@GoldbergPrime
@airuyi
People are getting lost in the analogy and missing the point which is it’s wrong to shout down opposing view points. Argue, discuss, debate, persuade but don’t deplatform.
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@bruceanderson
There’s no revelling. Did you care to comment on the look of paying out bonuses while firing people?
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Wow indeed. What is very interesting is that BOTH Liberals and NDP are falling.
This is not a transfer of the progressive vote from one progressive party to another. Rather, centrist voters are seemingly fleeing both parties to lean towards the Conservatives.
I suspect that
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@theJagmeetSingh
You do realize that we have over a trillion in debt. There are limits to what we can do.
Is it not cruel to the next generation of Canadians to saddle them with the debt including the debt of foreign proxy wars?
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@ONT_Dad
For sure. That must be it.
Wouldn’t be toxic debt, wedge politics, invocation of EA, pst nation state philosophy, ethical beaches, the SNC scandal, the Me to We scandal, reckless spending, diminished independence of the press, reckless immigration policy, gaslighting, virtue
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@KenHardie
Ken, if you love Canada, you face it’s problems honestly. You don’t pretend there are no problems because it’s inconvenient to to Trudeau.
If you love Canada, you don’t vilify your fellow Canadians for making true statements.
Our children can’t afford to buy homes in their
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@charlesadler
Charles, instead of histrionics, why not be a Canadian journalist and ask serious questions about foreign interference?
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@AngusReid
My ancestor Thomas Pettit settled in Plymouth Rock in 1630. 13 generations and nearly 400 years later, I do not consider myself a 'settler' on 'Turtle Island'.
The woke are just silly.
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Tecumseh. Shawnee Chief and hero of Canada. His heroism in defending Canada during the War of 1812 is one of the reasons there is a Canada. Canada’s history.
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@maxfawcett
I suppose the fact that he is wearing a suit, lives in North America and eats food is also 'inescapably Trumpist'.
Max, seriously, there are likely more similarities between Trudeau and Trump than Poilievre and Trump.
But smearing any Canadian Conservative leader as
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@melaniejoly
Sorry, you are suggesting that keeping Canadians safe is your government's 'top' priority?
And yet you were indifferent to massive interference by the PRC when it happened and then sought to obstruct efforts to properly investigate it thereafter?
Was that keeping Canadians
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I am voting Conservative because I don't believe in toxic debt nor do I believe in saddling future generations with my generation's frivolous spending. Also, I believe in a strong Canadian economy - only the Cons can deliver that.../1
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@telfordk
Nothing. They have nothing against Ukraine.
One can gave both no ill will against another country but also question sending hundreds of millions to it.
That’s not a difficult concept.
There is presently a war in the Sudan. Do we send hundreds of millions to one of the sides
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@DNSWilson
It will take progressives waking up to realize what a mess they are making of Canada followed by constitutional change.
Absent that, we have significant challenges and may find ourselves absorbed by more powerful neighbours.
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@PremierScottMoe
I think we are now at a point where cancelling transfer payments is reasonable.
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@MarcMillerVM
Marc, here is some advice.
Instead of taking in uncounted tens of thousands of migrants through unchecked border crossings, why not not do that.
Instead, institute proper border controls. Screen for legitimate refugees and economic migrants. Put resources in place for quick
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@NewWorldHominin
@Laurier
2. Do not discuss the case publicly until you have advice from said lawyer above
3. Do discuss with said lawyer various legal mechanisms for extricating yourself from the third party role in the litigation /2
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@MarcMillerVM
Marc, sorry, but this is wrong. Citizenship is citizenship. It is not a gym club membership. It comes with rights and obligations which are to be shared equally by
Canadians.
It should not be held by people with no real connection to Canada.
Canada is not a post nation
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@giantcheetoAB
Poilievre was not born into privilege. I think that is a significant difference
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@MarcMillerVM
Marc, why did you not simply negotiate a term of the subsidy deal that NextStar had to employ Canadians? Would have been simple.
Honestly, its 2023. Harper had nothing to do with your government giving $10 billion in subsidies to a corporation on the backs of Canadian tax
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@acoyne
As a general comment, I think the emerging problem in terms of experts is the growing phenomenon of the activist expert who sacrifices objectivity to pushing agenda
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@JustinTrudeau
I honestly don't think JT gets it: when the government spends money, it both increases inflation and taxes. It makes life less affordable for all but the recipients of the offered government benefit.
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@liberal_party
If you live beyond your means, eventually you have you have to cut back your spending.
Surely everyone understands this. 🤷♂️
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@cbcwatcher
David Cochrane sure does a lot of defending whilst saying he is not defending...
Not sure why he is taking the position that he does...
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@kathleenmonk
@CTV_PowerPlay
@psac_afpc
One might argue that an over large, overly expensive and inefficient public sector is one of the reasons Canadians are feeling pinched. Imagine being a single mother working as a administrative assistant with no pension subsidizing the pension of a bureaucrat who makes twice what
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@CoryBMorgan
When you come to Canada, you leave the troubles of the old country behind you. Canada is not a base of operations for settling old scores back home.
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@GadSaad
My ancestors come from many nations and my study of history makes it clear that each of those nations had their heroes and villains.
People are people.
Imagine that.
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@Heidi__Matthews
Imagine thinking that a foreign war means that normal kindness no longer applies here in Canada
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@bruceanderson
The problem Bruce is that there are too many legitimate moments where this is true. Trudeau has been a grand failure. Voting for Trudeau a mistake.
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@GadSaad
It’s a scary repeat of the escalation of antisemitism that swept Germany and Europe in the 1930s. We say never again and yet here we are.
I’m Canadian so I can really only seek to influence what goes on here. But in Canada, we do not discriminate on the basis of faith or
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@MrDash109
@liberal_party
I’m unclear as to the relationship between wildfires and Canadian carbon taxes.
Whether I pay some, none or a lot of carbon taxes will have no impact on global emissions and thus climate change. It will have no impact on Canadian wildfires.
Meanwhile there are a host of
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@cafreeland
Super confused. Is the Bank of Canada independent or not? Because it sounds like you are taking credit for the effect of BOC interest rate hikes which are the main driver on lowering inflation. Which of your policies otherwise lowered inflation? None: because your government is
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@TurnbullWhitby
So its the federal Conservatives who are the villains?
How generous of the Liberal government to try to protect these Conservative villains by obstructing Conservative calls to investigate foreign interference.
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@HedyFry
Imagine how rich Alberta would be if it was not forced to share Alberta oil revenues and Albertans' tax revenues with the rest of Canada?
Now imagine how much poorer Norway would be if its oil revenues and related tax revenues had to be shared with 9 Canadian provinces?
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@theJagmeetSingh
Grocery prices shot up because of inane progressive policies: carbon taxes and overspending. You are propping up the government that did this. What’s curious is that you don’t seem to understand this. Your political choices are making it harder for Canadians to afford food.
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@jmbprime
Looking forward to a Poilievre government. Fiscally responsible, non woke, effective, ethical. Everything Trudeau/Singh coalition is not.
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So the Liberal government took tax payer money to pay social media influencers to tell Canadians how great a job the Liberal government was doing without admitting that they were being paid to do so...
And we wonder why we are $1.2 t in debt...
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@Martyupnorth_2
The Daisy 1.0 Security System. 24/7 and never fails. You will know if a squirrel even looks at your property.
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@DeputyChow
Howard, this is a bad take and I suspect not supported by any policing model in Canada. Your main job in society is to prevent violence. Period.
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This article is ill conceived.
The media gave Trudeau a seemingly endless honeymoon. Some continue to do so.
The media gave no honeymoon at all to Poilievre. Rather, the opposite. It is probably hard for the media to hear this, but they generally come across as partisan in
Pierre Poilievre is pretending he doesn’t know how his job works because it makes it easier
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@AnitaAnandMP
@karinagould
Until the Emergencies Act is invoked or a Quebec company needs special treatment on a prosecution or the province of Quebec wants to discriminate against minorities or it’s convenient politically to treat some Canadians differently from others.
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CBC ordered to pay $1.7 million in damages over dishonest coverage – Toronto 99
#defundcbc
before it refunds itself
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@scottsantens
@LeftismForU
So if everyone refuses to work and everyone goes on the universal basic income, who does the work that pays for everyone’s UBI? Next: if I work, why am I sharing my earnings with someone who chooses not to?
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@theJagmeetSingh
Well, so, first, what is the benefit being offered: how much care and under what circumstances?
Second, what is the cost to the taxpayer? Did you find savings somewhere else in the budget so this is net zero OR simply spend yet more money?
Instead of slogans, why don't you
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@marcomendicino
Super confused. How are the Cons the issue here? They haven’t formed a government since 2015.
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@DrJacobsRad
@Royal_College
@fordnation
Medical competence is so yesterday. So conservative. I think we need to decolonize medicine and get back to herbalism. 🤷♂️
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@TurnbullWhitby
Ryan, this is a curious tweet.
Your government receives active assistance from the PRC in a significant attack on our democratic institutions and your government's response is to obstruct opposition party initiatives to investigate and stop same.
But, yet, you jump all over
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@DeputyChow
Best time to investigate a crime and arrest violent criminals is when it happens in front of your police officers. Not later. Violence can escalate to deadly force within seconds. We just saw that on Granville Street sadly. You have to de-escalate violence not stand by and do
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@nspector4
Liberals: “Where’s the evidence of interference?”
Liberals meanwhile delay gathering of evidence.
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@scoopercooper
Fair. Maybe this is what is needed to motivate our borderline disloyal federal government. Perhaps the US could identify the 11 or so MPs of questionable loyalties
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@marcomendicino
Follow up. How is protecting Canadian democracy your top priority when foreign interference has been a significant growing problem since 2015?
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@TurnbullWhitby
Oh my... your government is 'on it' when it comes to Russian interference but obstructing investigation on the much greater threat of Chinese interference...
The latter, of course, helps you in elections...
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@AshleyBurkeCBC
Why (tf) are we footing the bill for a crisis company hired by someone who would not need a crisis company if he simply had done the obvious and turned down the job in the first place.
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@theJagmeetSingh
Recall that a non-confidence vote is one of your tools... Using all of the tools in Parliament includes bringing down this government.
If you don't do that, you are complicit.
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@abc123jjj
You have to have great respect for those who came out in the 60s to 90s. Lot harder to come out then. Society was not as supportive. But you guys fought for your rights and won them for everyone who followed. Huge respect. 🙏
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@stephen_taylor
It’s not even the offensive part of his speech. Cut forward to where he calls the man a Canadian hero and thanks him for his service. That’s offensive.
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Based on the latest poll showing a Con surge, then, a Con majority according to Canada338:
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@KevinFalcon
It may be time for B.C. United to step aside for the good of the Province. BC Liberal mismanagement of government got us an NDP government. Frankly a fairly reasonable one. Sadly now that NDP government is emboldened and is veering hard left. Time for change, both away from an
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Mark has turned off replies for obvious reasons. Mark, as a lawyer, if I’m in a conflict of interest, I stop acting on the matter. If a judge is in a conflict of interest, they recuse themselves. Please be serious. 🤦♂️
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@AndrewLawton
I’d prefer my Department of National Defence focus on building strong military capability
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@KenHardie
Respectfully Ken your government literally funds journalists and activists to disparage conservatives. Cicero would be ashamed of your government.
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@pablorodriguez
No it’s a lot more than .13%. It’s all sorts of middle class families. Pretty much any Canadian family with a vacation property.
Basically you want families to lose their cottages because you guys can’t manage a budget.
Bravo.
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@MarcMillerVM
But apparently when Harper wanted to revoke citizenship, it was basically racist...
Your government takes gas lighting to 'next level'.
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@TurnbullWhitby
Good for the Cons. That was a tax on the middle class. You basically said to middle class Canadians that they can’t pass cottages onto their kids.
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Given that the Liberals could only do this with NDP support, if your MP is NDP, you should write them as well. They are frankly just as responsible.
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@miket136
@TariqElnaga
@GinettePT
@JustinTrudeau
Agreed. It’s discriminatory. Plus, with the internet, the world is moving towards English.
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The first loyalty of a Canadian PM is to Canadians. Not himself. Not his friends. Not his party.
The first loyalty of a Canadian political party is to Canadians. Not itself. Not their members. Not their friends. Not their allies outside Canada.
Why does this even need be said
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@MelissaMbarki
@Hannah_Bananaz
Apparently, Toronto streets will magically become safer if my legal ownership of guns in rural BC is restricted.
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@MarcMillerVM
Marc, your government has made antisemitism in Canada worse.
Stop rushing to judgment. Don't insinuate that Israel bombed a hospital when it did not. Don't carelessly fan the flames of antisemitism.
Stop hate and bigotry. Your government went absolutely histrionic and over
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