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Mar 26, 2022 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
In 2013, I had enough $ to put down for a #vanre detached home. Had I done that, I'd be able to cash out around $1.2M tax free and retire.
Instead, I launched a start up, created a bunch of jobs, paid taxes, and contributed to the economy.
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#cdnpoli#vanre
While many companies imported cheap labour or offshored work, I hired and trained kids straight out of universities and colleges. I gave many their first job, and many have gone on to do great things. I'm incredibly proud of that.
But what has been my reward?
Mar 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"Canadians were more likely to have a positive outlook on Canada's prospects for immigrants than the immigrants themselves."
If I, as an immigrant, raise concerns about Canada's ill-treatment of immigrants, I get called anti-immigrant.
Corporate dentistry. It's as horrible as it sounds. Hedge funds have been buying up dental practices looking for a 15% RoI.
For example, Dental Corporation of Canada owns 350 clinics Canada-wide.
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#cdnpoli#UniversalDentalCare#LibNDP
The private dental insurance providers also make massive profits because of the private dental care model. One such provider is CanadaLife owned by the all powerful Power Corporation.
1. Tony Blair dodged taxes using offshore corps 2. Blair's name appears in Jeffry Epstein's Little Black Book 3. Blair advised the Kazakh dictator who's massacring unarmed protesters 4. Blair took UK to war in Iraq based on lies
Mobility pricing is in Metro Vancouver, where workers have been forced out to the valley by #vanre greed with very limited public transit options, has 2 aims:
1. Keep the riffraff off the roads so the rich can enjoy a smooth ride from their suburban mansions to the core #vanpoli2. Turn roads from public infrastructure to a "transport market" that can then be easily privatized for profit.
But to sell their project, the neoliberals will argue that congestion pricing is the only solution to funding better transit.
PM @JustinTrudeau's proposed changes to Canadian Human Rights Act will effectively end free expression in Canada.
The Orwellian bill defines “hate speech” as communication that expresses *detestation or vilification* identifiable groups.
Why is this scary? Read on.
#cdnpoli@JustinTrudeau@scoopercooper revealed that Chinese Communist Party agents soaked up Canada's PPE supply and sent it to China at the beginning of the pandemic. A group working out of Minister @JoyceMurray's office launched a campaign to silence Cooper claiming Cooper vilified Chinese Canadians.
Apr 4, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Temporary foreign workers are exempt from hotel quarantine.
Imagine a disease that wrecks every organ in your body from the brain to the kidneys after reducing your lungs to shards of glass. Such a diseases exists. It's called #COVID19.
“Its ferocity is breathtaking and humbling.”
science.sciencemag.org/content/368/64…
Not only does #COVID19 attack every organ in your body, it attacks the blood itself. These blood clots can end up blocking arteries in the lungs, killing the patient. They can end up in the brain, causing a stroke.
Apr 21, 2020 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
1. Why did Canada buy TransMountain pipeline? 2. Why can't we ban Huawei? 3. Why does Canada need to compensate Chinese companies for #COVID19 losses?
Answer to all 3 questions: #FIPA, the trade agreement with China that @stephenharper signed.
thinkpol.ca/2020/04/20/can…
FIPA, ratified in 2014, was negotiated by Harper government. It was passed without a vote in Parliament. Fipa, which remains in place until 2045, was signed to ensure that China got a pipeline built from Alberta to BC, among other benefits.