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True North Eager Beaver Media (he/him/Mr Beaver)
@TrueEager
Now in Season 5!!! Incisive (centrist/progressive) commentary on 🇨🇦 Canadian politics and culture with a focus on media and political literacy. Facts First.
Jul 12 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
1. This is nuclear grade copium

Some people must fabricate realities in which to exist, because they simply do not have the skills or fortitude to live in the world as it is.

Let's explore why this tweet is pure bovine fecal matter and fantasy.

🧵 Image 2. Based on this account's history, the opening statement about PM Carney is merely that which its account holder needs/wants/wishes to be true for their existence online to have worth and be consistent with its previous statements, in the eyes of the audience it has cultivated.
Apr 6 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
1. Finally getting around to watching Cinq chefs, une election.

Have heard Carney and I'm partway through Poilièvre, and here's the truth about their French: Though Carney's is worse, he actually answered the questions asked as though he understood them, unlike Pierre. 2. Though it is true the journalists were patient and understanding of the fact Carney is making a very credible effort, at some point (about 4 or 5 questions in) Pierre's unwillingness to answer a question head on had them slowing down and simplifying for him too.
Mar 2 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
1. First impression of Pierre's press conference.

Either he spent the whole night awake or he hit the bottle super hard last night.

Listening to his diatribe in French and he has said nothing new other than accusing the Liberals of having done nothing to fight tariffs. 2. Of course, he claims everybody else agrees with his ideas on how to fight tariffs, even though he was the last to reveal his plan, and when he did, it was a collage of things everybody else had already said (and the already consensus agreed upon course of action).
Jan 31 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
1. Mr. Singh's position here makes no sense, and he is attempting to look tough from a point of weakness.

The government has no reason whatsoever to not call his bluff.

ipolitics.ca/news/ndp-leade… 2. If #TheFelonPresident imposes tariffs anytime prior to the end of March, it's not like the pain Canadians will suffer (and their need for relief), will be less, the longer this goes on.

Mr. Singh won't be less willing to pass aid at the end of March than he is today.
Jan 16 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Coming in late to watch Pierre Poilièvre's sputtering, and without hearing a word, it looks like it's going to be another train wreck, because it seems his version of pivoting means talking about an alleged different tax to axe, but not Trump, not tariffs, and not Harper's swipe. Image 2. Starts with a big lie, trying to claim that Carney was somehow in power over the last decade.

The Liberal record is now Freeland and Carney's record.

He's a fast talker and he's trying to rebrand, but there's no substance.
Jan 11 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1. At first blush, this looks like a totally innocent and inclusive tweet, but...

2. Watch just how good our PM is at the subtle get-right-under-your-skin troll.

[If you don't see it yet, scroll up and look at the prime minister's tweet]

We know exactly who the Prime Minister is trolling here...

Just as Pierre is leaning in to that person's endorsement. Image
Jan 11 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1. The first part of this segment is an interview with wannabe Liberal Party of Canada leader, and former leader of the now-no-longer-existent BC Liberal Party during which she tells an easily debunkable lie, that should sink her candidacy

2. Pretty much instantaneously, everyone was calling for the paddles and yelling "CLEAR!!", because Ms. Clark had inexplicably (and needlessly) landed on her bid a self-inflicted near fatal blow.

Jan 9 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
1. OMG!

He is fucking awful in this.

And he said some things that could get him in trouble.

youtube.com/live/be5Dau8BN… 2. This guy is terrified of the upcoming foreign interference report.

In this, he calls on the Prime Minister to step aside and trigger an election immediately, even before a Liberal leadership vote.
Dec 5, 2024 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Patrick Brown is about to testify at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

cpac.ca/in-committee-f… RE: CPC MP Raquel Dancho asks how the whole brouhaha after the allegations against India were made public by the PM has had on the Sikh community RATHER than asking how the alleged India-sponsored criminal behaviour has affected it.

Very telling.
Nov 26, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
1. Doug Ford and Danielle Smith were first to rush into the arena, chin up/ass out to portray the PM as so incompetent that they felt the need to do his job for him, leading a charge to cut México out of the NAFTA2/CUSMA deal and go one-on-one in a bilateral arrangement. Image 2. Then, yesterday, Xheetolini announced he "might" put a 25% tariff on EVERYTHING (no stated exceptions for Canadian oil, our #1 export to the US) entering the US via México and Canada.

cbc.ca/news/world/tru…
Oct 15, 2024 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
1. Jagmeet Singh -- LIVE

Started a few minutes ago.

youtube.com/watch?v=1sW917… x.com/TrueEager/stat… 2. Well, it starts off in word and in tone almost exactly as did his presser after he read the NSICOP report.

As I recall, that was a bit of a disaster moment for him, ultimately.

Let's see if this is better...
Jun 27, 2024 • 16 tweets • 7 min read
1. Who is @FordNation MPP #GoldieGhamari and what is she doing cavorting with VERY well-known international Islamophobe, defender of sex offenders who prey on children, but only if they're White, and guy with a criminal rap sheet as long as an NBA player's arm, #TommyRobinson? Image 2. She took a meeting with him, posted about it on her social media (since deleted), but for some reason, BEFORE agreeing to it, neither she (or her staff) put his name (we are to believe) into the ol' Googler, where there's info about his criminality dating back to 2005!!!
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Jun 13, 2024 • 48 tweets • 7 min read
Jagmeet Singh says that he is more concerned today than he was yesterday after having read the #NSICOP documents. He accuses the Prime Minister of doing nothing once he knew and Pierre Poilievre of not wanting to know.

Accuses both of putting the party ahead of the country.
Jun 9, 2024 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
1. Dear @SarahFischer__ and @PierrePoilievre

When your colleagues dined with Christine Anderson of the AfD, nobody from your party officially denounced it, repudiated it, and there were ZERO consequences for the 3 MPs seemingly devoid of discernment.

2. Nothing appeared on party social media or website, on the Leader's social media or website, there is nothing on party or Leader's letterhead, as well as no audio or video from the party, the leader, Ms. Fischer, the leader's media manager, or any MP, Senator, or official.
Apr 19, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
1. "After 8 years of Justin Trudeau, the debt has doubled" - @pierrepoiLIEvre

"Government debt is measured by economists and federal reserves as % to GDP. Not dollars and cents. Based on the widely accepted measurement by experts." - @PierreIsLying

So let's look at it. 2. When PoiLIEvre/Harper assumed governing office in 2006, the debt-to-GDP ratio was ~43.3%.

When they were given the boot in 2015 -- seven years AFTER the 2008 crash and "Great Recession" -- our debt had RISEN to ~56% (or about a 13% greater share) of GDP.

That's not good.
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Apr 19, 2024 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
"After 8 years of Justin Trudeau, rent has doubled" - @pierrepoiLIEvre

According to the @CMHC, these are avg. rents in Toronto [bachelor, 1 br, 2 br, 3, br, overall average] in Oct. 2015 (avg. $1,208) and Oct. 2023 (avg. $1,830)

That's ⬆️~51.5%, not ⬆️100% as PP claims.

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Image RE: ⬆️FUN FACT, the CPC was government from Feb. 2006–Nov. 2015.

Avg. rent, Oct. 2006: $995.
Avg. rent, Oct. 2023: $1,830

Avg. rent has ⬆️ ~84% since Harper became PM, EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO!

PP wants you to believe it doubled in 8 years when it hasn't even doubled since 2006.
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Jan 25, 2024 • 118 tweets • 41 min read
Reading the full text of the Federal Court decision on invocation of the Emergencies Act and posting interesting nuggets

🧵/2 It would seem that this particular one applicant was grandstanding and tried to make it look like she was speaking for way more people than just herself.

She was quickly and summarily bounced out right on her butt.

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Dec 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
1. NOTE: Top row created by @TrueEager with available data from the article for easier comparison.

Wow!

What a difference a bit more than 2 weeks make.

The kicking the tires phase is over. The PP Honeymoon is over. And the fakeover was a massive failure
Image 2. The last poll, from any company, that had the spread at 10 points or fewer was back in September. Image
Dec 11, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
1. FUN FACTS TO COUNTER CPC / PP BS ON INFLATION

According to Department of Finance Fiscal Reference Tables, in the years before Harper became prime minister, there were nine consecutive years of budgetary surpluses, from 1997 to 2007. 2. During that period, inflation rates during that were 1.62% and 1% in 1997 and 1998, respectively, then ranged from 1.73% to 2.76% in the years during which we paid down the most debt, despite that we recorded a surplus of over $79 billion over 8 of those years.
Nov 15, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
A. Three Truths:

1. Israel has right to defend itself
2. Hamas must be eliminated
3. There are STILL rules to war

#PMJT was tasked with this by a collection of Israel's traditional allies as THE geopolitical risk they wish to avoid is Saudi Arabia flipping back to Iran's camp. B. THE goal is to contain this regionally.

SA realpolitik: There are only so many Palestinian civilian casualties it can look past without having to break ties with Israel to work with Iran. The US (and allies) need to show they can rein #Netanyahu in.

And Bibi's not listening.
Oct 22, 2023 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Realpolitik

1. Given he is the leader of a pluralist nation, the prime minister of Canada has to choose words and a tone that reflect that we have many citizens who identify with either side of the current reality for Palestinian civilians and Israeli civilians, in the region. 2. He not only must be concerned with sending the right message to the world as well as to the most immediate concerned parties, but also with not creating division or increasing tensions domestically.