Gladstonian (@Gladstonian1953) profile picture

🇨🇦 🇳🇿 Law, public policy, organizational governance and development. Attempting retirement. Food. Martinis. Wine. Rugby. Indie movies. Proud Ngapuhi.

Kitchissippi, ON
Joined March 2026
Brit does what Brits do well.
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Another badge of honour from a rabid COVID conspiracy nutbar.
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Never interacted with this "CHRIST IS KING" MAGA thingy, but it blocked me for being "overtly stupid and quite ugly." Blocked lots today by MAGA "Christians." Seems to be related to my debunking conspiracies about CFB Wainwright and the fire being caused by Indians or Muslims.
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Strategic editing of the reply. It's called deliberate disinformation.
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Blocked by an overt racist. Another badge of honour.
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Another instant internet military logistics expert 🙄 Municipal airport is unlit. CAF airfield is 24 minutes drive. SAR techs are trained to parachute at night. Next?
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It was only ever involved in the fevered speculation of X "experts."
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So now, gas infrastructure *wasn't* involved in the CFB Wainright explosion? I don't understand :|
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Let's make this suppurating, bottom-dwelling, feces-licking prick famous.
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Another badge of honour from someone who doesn't suffer facts gladly. She hurled a bunch of insults before blocking, of course.
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Replying to @Mill_Moron
That’s a legitimate concern, and I don’t entirely disagree. But I explicitly acknowledged labour-market challenges in point 6 of my thread. Canada’s labour market isn’t homogeneous. Some sectors face saturation, while others experience shortages. Whether these changes address genuine labour-market needs is absolutely worth debating. My point was never that immigration has no economic consequences. It’s that immigration selection isn’t the same as handing someone a job. We can debate the policy’s merits without misrepresenting what it actually does.
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I like this messaging. No more excuses for Carney. He sucks at his job and saying “but Trump” doesn’t work when you only became PM by marketing yourself as the Trump Whisperer. Carney’s entire trade strategy seems to be barely trying to negotiate then walking away to boost his poll numbers. Just dumb Liberal electoral priorities superseding the needs of Canadians.
Trump is tough to deal with. But Mark Carney should have known that when he made a promise in the election to get a good deal with the U.S. He made the promise. He broke that promise. U.S. tariffs have more than doubled and broadened on Canadian business since Carney took office promising he could “handle Trump." Everything is worse. Canadians can’t eat speeches or pay rent with his political theatrics. It is time for results.
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I have always strongly opposed Quebec separatism, or any movement that wants to rip our country apart. But at least they respect democracy, and have repeatedly won democratic mandates to pursue their cause. The opposite is true for Alberta separatists. Quebec separatists have been elected 1015 times to federal and provincial seats (599 for the PQ, 416 for the BQ,) vs 1 time for Alberta separatists (35 years ago.) The PQ has been elected 6 times to form governments, 4 of those with majorities. Alberta separatists have elected 0 governments with a mandate to pursue secession. The PQ has won an average popular vote of 33% since its founding in 1968. Alberta separatists have won an average popular vote of 1% since the founding of the Western Canada Concept party in 1980. There is a clear democratic convention in Quebec that a referendum on secession cannot be held without a Parliamentary mandate obtained in a general election. Alberta is having a referendum on secession despite no MLAs having been elected on a mandate to hold such a divisive and consequential vote. Quebec separatists have built a serious movement that has repeatedly won elections, and been given a democratic mandate to advance their cause (with which I strongly disagree.) After 45 years of failure, Alberta separatists can't get elected dog catcher, so have tried to infiltrate a governing party founded and elected on a commitment to national unity.
Replying to @jkenney
Hey Jason , how come you don’t say all this about Quebec when they vote for seperation? You’re a phoney !!
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And your expertise is? Education and experience? I'll wait ...
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Utterly demented lunatic.
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PUBLIC execution of Major Hasan by firing squad. Just like the SS. Hegseth, gleefully: "We haven't done this since WWII." Maybe they can do it at a Trump rally. Fascist fuckpigs. Please watch the video.
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PQ has been in power for only 19 of the last 50 years. Next? Ignorant clodpole.
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Liar. Again. MAID hasn't been in effect for 11 years. Why do you persist in lying about things that can be fact checked in 15 seconds?
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