Battle of the political videos...

Pierre Poilievre responds and Doug Ford defends his plane purchase even as he moves ahead to sell the jet.

Pierre Poilievre said Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Sunday address recycled the same old rhetoric, was a distraction and brought nothing new to the table. The Conservative leader didn’t just criticize Carney’s speech though, he once again laid out his positive vision for how to fix Canada’s economy.

Not that you will hear much about that in the mainstream media which will mostly push his valid criticisms such as this.

“We do not need more costly illusions from Mr. Carney. We need real world results at your grocery store, your gas pump and in your bank account,” he said. “We must be affordable at home, safe at home and strong at home, so that we can have unbreakable leverage abroad.”

Here’s a lengthy passage from Poilievre’s speech where he lays out what Canada could be doing now, without having to turn to, rely on or negotiate with Donald Trump.

“We cannot control what the US does to be fair, but we can control what we do to make Canada affordable and autonomous here at home. Our conservative plan for affordable energy will unlock our potential.

We will eliminate all carbon taxes, hidden visible. We would end all gas and diesel taxes for the rest of the year. We would permit rapid oil and gas and electricity projects to boost our dollar and its purchasing power.

We would cancel EV rebates and mandates that largely subsidize foreign automobiles. And instead, let’s take the sales tax off vehicles made here in Canada. We must unblock the most tariff industry of all, home building, by cutting red tape and taxes on construction that will create tariff proof jobs and restore home ownership to our youth.

The federal government should also grant six-month approval times, repeal anti-development laws like C69 and 48, and adopt a one project, one approval rule, as did Prime Minister Harper during the global financial crisis.”

Poilievre also went on to say that under his plan, Canada would use the oil and gas beneath our feet as well as the critical minerals we have as leverage to secure a tariff free deal with the Americans.

For some reason, the Liberals portray Poilievre’s position as a negative one, capitulating to Trump and much of the media goes along with that.

Is Carney trying to set the stage for CUSMA to fail…

I’ve written about Carney’s video here and here.

In the video below I detail how Carney, a man who is warning us about the Americans is fully invested in the United States and how it appears he is using his own video to set us up to accept CUSMA’s failure.

We could sum up what I want from Carney by quoting an Elvis song - a little less conversation and a little more action.

Yes, I’m still defending Doug Ford on the plane issue…

My position on Doug Ford and the Challenger jet he bought and is now selling isn’t a popular one, but it is the right one because I’m dealing in facts and not emotion.

I know I’m supposed to join everyone in being angry and should be screaming about this being a waste of money.

Sorry, won’t do it.

And I’ll guarantee you this, if Kathleen Wynne had bought this plane or any future Liberal buys this plane, I’d have the same argument. Read my column in the Sun, listen to the facts in the video below.

The price of this plane, $28.9 million is just one tenth of one percentage point of the provincial budget of more than $244 billion. Health spending is up $10 billion to more than $101 billion over the past two years and education spending is up $2.5 billion in that same time.

Nothing is being cut to fund this plane.

The great saying that facts don’t care about your feelings doesn’t just apply when arguing with liberals.

The facts back buying the plane even if Ford has reversed his decision.