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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 9h

Notice how all the arm chair critics on Carney offer no solutions? "He promised he would" and then when asked what to do different? It's intellectually BORING. #cdnpoli

a bald man wearing glasses and a sweater is standing in front of a door .

ALT: a bald man wearing glasses and a sweater is standing in front of a door .

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 11h

Rarely does a tweet so accurately capture his hypocrisy. Bravo. #cdnpoli

The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 12h

“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

OTTAWA - Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has launched a petition to "end DEI programs and restore merit", just months after losing his own heavily-favoured seat before running in an even more hea...

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 13h

The last thing Canada needs is the odious, hyper partisan asshole, at the helm. #cdnpoli cultmtl.com/2025/10/mark...

Mark Carney seen as calm and rational; Pierre Poilievre as arrogant and hot-tempered

A new study by Spark Insights has found that Mark Carney is seen as the more calm and rational leader, while Pierre Poilievre is seen as more arrogant and hot-tempered.

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 14h

Carney can't stop Trump, from day one every serious person understood the grave consequences for our economy. To sit here now and pretend this was avoidable, or someone else would bring a different result, is fanciful fiction. Buy Canadian, don't travel south and redirect our economy. #cdnpoli

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 1d

Who needs hyperbole when you have quotes? #cdnpoli #uspoli www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 2d

I'd be far more willing to praise Trump, if I wasn't certain his family is making billions off this "peace" he's brought the world. There is no honour here. #cdnpoli #gaza

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 5d

And it's hysterical all this "the west" separation talk, when it's the bloody "west" coast you're saying is thwarting your aspirations. #cdnpoli

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 5d

All this Danielle Smith saber rattling about the federation being on the line, give me a practical break. I can't think of less viable country than Alberta, good fucking luck. We're all stuck together, so let's have conversations without this bullshit about a ruinous separation. #cdnpoli

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 5d

Good article on the real reason we cant find private investment for our "oil". It isn't Liberals. #cdnpoli macleans.ca/economy/why-...

Why Canada’s Oil Sands Aren’t Coming Back - Macleans.ca

I used to be an oil executive. Here’s how market forces, not politics, killed the oil boom—and why new pipelines won't save the country.

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 6d

Ya, for sure, this is the guy who is better equipped to deal with Trump, he could deliver a better deal. All he cares about his personal political ambitions, he will undermine if it meets his end, but he's a JOKE lightweight that isn't a serious person. A smallish ambulance chaser. #cdnpoli

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 7d

Canada has 10% of the auto worker in NA. We have 10% of the population in NA. Why can't we just make our own cars here? Let them "close" plants and we can take them over and build Canadian cars. Why doesn't this math work?? I don't get it as an option, why can't Canada build cars? #cdnpolo

Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 7d

Everywhere I see a Charlie Kirk debate, I just say "how you died doesn't forgive how you lived". And that's that. #uspoli #cdnpoli

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 8d

Well said.

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 8d

It's the smart thing to do, don't be so conveniently naive. Chess not checkers, be better.

Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 8d

Chess over checkers. You engage Trump at every opportunity,stroke his ego and gently push your agenda. Meanwhile, you go about moving our reliance away from America,quietly, expeditiously. There is no "winning" with Trump,simpletons operate within this lens. Carney is playing it perfectly. #cdnpoli

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 8d

Today in irony we wait for "man who's never passed a piece of legislation in over 20 years as an MP" pontificate about the lack of "results" from today's meeting between Carney and the Orange man child. Such is the state of Canadian politics.... #cdnpoli

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A. De Chastelaine 🏴‍☠ @dechastelaine.com · 11d

Who did you vote for again?

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 8d

Given that half of CPC supporters have a positive view of Trump, I'm sure they're over the moon with his effusive praise of Mark Carney today. Must be reassuring that their guy supports Carney. I'm sure the patriots will see the clip on Fox News tonight... #cdnpoli

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 9d

For sure, this is the party I want to take on Donald Trump....#cdnpoli

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 9d

Listening to Sheer on CBC, who couldn't even get his insurance broker license, criticize a world recognized economist, was mind numbing. As Teneycke said, he's still an MP because "he's unhirable" in the private sector.

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 9d

Watching the CPC undermine our gov't in the name of political self interest, during a national generational crisis, is beyond despicable. Trump would walk all over PP, he's a dangerous madman. Instead of circling the wagons, we're ankle biting. Fuck you CPC and your hypocritic "patriots" #cdnpoli

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 9d

You're free to compartmentalize and still travel to America. And I'm free to think less of you. #cdnpoli #uspoli #trump

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 13d

Imagine never having a real world job and thinking you can undermine a former PM (another job he's never had, nor will) with a crack about being a teacher. Poilievre is a fucking loser, he's lived in a subsidized bubble, as Teneycke said, he stays in politics because he's "unhirable". #cdnpoli

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 13d

Science doesn't care about your inane politics and disinformation. Beyond avoidable, borderline criminal. #cdnpoli

Premature baby dies of measles in Alberta outbreak's first death | CBC News

Alberta is reporting its first measles death since outbreaks of the highly contagious illness began in March. The province says a baby, who was born prematurely after the mother became sick, died shor...

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Steve Valeriote @stevev68.bsky.social · 13d

When MAGA tell everyone Trump is the real patriot and the military doesn't understand. #cdnpoli #uspoli #trump

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