Dreaming About EV's in Technicolor...Iran...Giving Our Money Back to Us...Poilievre Has To Go...Carney is Losing the Power Play

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When Justin was in power he wanted all Canadian cars electric by 2035. Carney seconded the motion.

We are not quite sure in what city those two live, but where we live in Montreal as well as in Toronto, both heavily populated urban centers, putting out this edict is nothing more than bait for votes from the left of left tree-hugging liberals.

As you can see from the picture above. one has to be living in lala land to think that all of these cars are a) going to have plugs and b) that they will work in such a snowstorm. It ain't happening. Not now, not in 10 years and not in 20 years.

Can we talk about the conservative party for a minute? There is a big elephant in the room and the time to get it into the open is now.

While the conservative party is popular, its leader, Pierre Poilievre is not and numbers don't lie:

As per an Nanos poll taken in January 2026:

Mark Carney: 53% personal approval rating.

Pierre Poilievre: 25 % personal favourable rating

In case you are wondering about the wording of approval vs favourable here's the answer:

For Carney the question is asked this way: Do you approve or disapprove of the performance of Prime Minister Mark Carney as he is the sitting prime minister.

For Poilievre, since he is the opposition leader rather than the one in government, they treat this as a personal favourability metric instead of a performance‑in‑office measure.

As you can see, Poilievre is failing in terms of favourable rating which could very well translate into losing the next election...again.

On Friday, the conservative leadership review will happen where it is expected that Poilievre will win with over 80% of the votes cast. Whoop-ti-do. Those people are preaching to the choir. You can also imagine how happy Mark Carney will be if Poilievre, who grates on many people, wins the leadership race.

It means, in real time, that Carney will be running against a very unpopular leader of the one party that could defeat him.

In the last election, Poilievre's campaign manager bore the brunt of the blame for his loss. We're not so sure about that anymore. Yes, she was unable to pivot but our guess is that neither is Poilievre. To win the next election, he best be changing his tune to appeal to way more than 36% of the population.

Carney's government is giving us a present. Oh wait. We paid for it.

Here ya go, Carney's jargon meant to completely bamboozle you:

...Providing a one-time top-up payment to be paid as early as possible this spring and no later than June 2026 (subject to Royal Assent) equal to a 50% increase in the annual 2025-26 value of the GST Credit.

This would deliver $3.1 billion in immediate assistance to individuals and families who currently get the GST Credit.

In other words you are getting some money before June.

Wait Blanche. Would you look at that, this money is coming to you just before a probable election. Never mind that it's your tax money that he's pretending to 'gift' you.

Honestly, this is the biggest crock around.

What exactly is going on with Hydro Quebec?

Well over 30,000 people lost power on Saturday, the absolute coldest day of the year. It was and still is basically unfixable.

The authorties are saying that the substation where this happened is old and needs to be repaired which will take no less than 3 years.

On what planet to does Hydro quebec live?

3 years? Is the problem no workers? Or stupid workers? Or no parts? Or defective parts? Or are the parts coming from a remote province in China where they never saw winter?

If they know this substation is defective and they know this is a heavily populated area, and we all pay very handsomely for our electricity, then get your act together and fix this within the next 6 months - which is already a long time.

We received a very lengthy treatise on whether or not Iran will be attacked by the US or Israel. We first checked it over with AI to make sure it was legit, which it was. It was quite the eye-opener. We will give you a brief synopsis of what was written:

Much of the discourse on Iran relies on flawed wishful thinking rather than strategy, risking worse outcomes which we now agree with.

The text debunks eight common assumptions:

...No quick military "one-strike" fix due to the regime's resilience

...No ready opposition to replace it (chaos or IRGC more likely);

...Strikes would rally Iranians around the flag;

...Mass security defections are unlikely;

...Killing Khamenei alone won't dismantle the institutional system;

...Ideology won't bend under pressure;

...Iran survives despite military limits;

...Elite rifts aren't deep enough for change.

It calls the regime unpopular and unsustainable long-term but warns against rushed escalation, favoring slow economic pressure instead. True strategic debate should stay substantive, not personal.

The truth is the author (Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz) is sadly probably correct about overthrowing the vast army supporting the khomenei. He is also correct that if you chop off his head, there is someone probably worse waiting in the wings.

As was discussed with a friend who is very political, even though Iran is behind most of the terrorist attacks in the world, the fight to overthrow the government belongs with the people of Iran.

As we have said here before, while we like and strongly support Trump's vision and support of Israel, his behavior and of late and in particular, his ice agents in Minneapolis make him widely unpopular. We are not quite sure what he has in mind there, but he is making it very easy for people to really hate him.

Given all of the above, we were not exactly sure what Carney had in mind when he publicly went after Trump in Davos. We're also not sure what he thought was going to happen after his speech.

Did he think Trump would just walk away when Carney said he's now relying on China - America's nemesis - as a trading partner? Even if it's true, not everything that is true has to be said out loud. Especially not at an international forum.

This game does not only involve Trump and Carney, which it appears Carney and his minions think. It involves the entire population of Canada, who may not want to go down with this sinking economic ship.

Carney's modis operendi is silence. He's smarter than everyone else and as such does not have to share his plans with the plebs he governs. So all we get to see is his immature dealing with Trump because when two big egos go after each other, nothing else matters.

Stay tuned to this story. It is going to be very interesting to watch it play out. Let's hope we all don't become collateral damage.

Maybe somebody with kahoonas should be questioning this: Beginning today, the Liberals will be permanently deleting their private messages after 15 days and emails after 30.

We told you Carney is a control freak and this is a perfect example of that.

And finally, we couldn't resist putting this in:

This morning I broke a shoe lace. Being Canadian, I immediately blamed Trump. But reflecting back I realized it had nothing to do with Trump. It was climate change.

We'll talk...