Michael Campbell's MoneyTalks

13/08/2025

Mike on the consequences of emotional immaturity in response to the trade talks. Listen to Mike's Comment now.

13/08/2025

Screwing Young Cdns - pt 36
Ottawa’s approach to migration is setting young people up not only for early job disappointment but long-term stagnant wages.
- David Williams, head of policy for the Business Council of B.C.

See Mike's Comment here -

Our Kids Deserve Better Than This Broken System

13/08/2025

A total 132,160 landed immigrants arrived in Canada from January 1 to April 30 - well above promised Fed Gov cap.

IMPORTANT NOTE: during Jan 1- Apr 30 there were no net private sector jobs created to absorb the influx -
public sector jobs - net of short term hires for the election- was flat
Q: Where are they going to work?

13/08/2025

"it's pretty scary"
"Guess what the biggest driver of this stock market rally has been? Leverage. For the first time ever, margin debt has topped $1 trillion and has ballooned +25% over the past year. Fully one-fifth of all the leverage supporting the stock market has been built up just in the past year alone; almost half of the outstanding margin debt has come in the past five years alone."
- David Rosenberg, Rosenberg Research

13/08/2025

China levies 75.8% tariff on Cdn canola and fish exports in direct response to the federal government levying 100% tariff on Chinese electric vehicles and 25% on steel and aluminum exports.
Sakatchewan Premier Scott Moe responds: "The canola industry generates more than $40 billion annually and employs 200,000 people - bigger than the steel, aluminum and auto industry combined...they deserve the same attention by our federal government and our prime minister as we are seeing in other industries." All to protect a non-existent Canadian EV industry and curry favour with the US

13/08/2025

Ottawa pressed to factor in 500k undocumented residents in immigration targets
"A necessary condition for immigration, housing or economic policy is knowing exactly how many people reside in Canada at any point in time...that is not the case now.”
Globe and Mail

13/08/2025

Prime Minister's talking point on economic growth meets reality

On August 7, 2025, Marten Falls First Nation, located 400 kms northeast of Thunder Bay, announced its unwavering opposition to mining in Ontario's mineral rich Ring of Fire through a legal challenge seeking interim and permanent injunctions to prevent Ontario and Canada from funding or participating in mining-related activities in the region.

Note: The Ring of Fire holds significant deposits of critical minerals like nickel, copper, platinum, chromite, cobalt, and gold, valued at $60–$90 billion and rising.

Q: Will anyone in the media ask the Prime Minister about this?

13/08/2025

Angus Reid poll found that over 30% of Cdn under 35 yrs are considering leaving Canada.
Reflects a significant government failure on housing, cost of living and jobs -
eg- in July 34,000 jobs lost for workers 15-24
Youth unemployment 14.6% - highest since Sept 2010 (ex pandemic).
17.5% unemployment rate for students returning to school (15 to 24 yrs )
31% unemployment for 15-16yr olds, high school students

As public trust erodes and costs soar, families are packing up and heading south. The silent exodus has already begun. Read more.

13/08/2025

A total 132,160 landed immigrants arrived in Canada from January 1 to April 30. The number if maintained would set the pace for 396,480 this year. Far higher than the Liberal's promised cap.
Blacklock's Reporter

13/08/2025

"If there ever will be a Palestinian State, the silver platter on which it is delivered will be the atrocities of Hamas on October7. When western powers like FR, UK, CA and AUS, “recognize Palestine” as we are fighting Hamas, the only winners are the terrorists."
- Jonathan Conricus, The Foundation for Defense of Democracies

13/08/2025

Many argue that Alberta’s separation would spell economic disaster for the province.
While success would hinge on quickly securing trade & transportation agreements and resolving numerous logistical and political challenges, it’s equally true that Alberta could boom by designing a tax and regulatory framework capable of attracting capital investment from across the continent.

13/08/2025

Public safety is always the rationale for government to restrict individual freedom.

Canada's record from wartime internments to pandemic restrictions to freezing bank accounts of people NOT charged with a crime to censorship demonstrate that public safety has repeatedly been used as a rationale to limit fundamental freedoms.
What began as a targeted fire-prevention strategy morphed into a blanket prohibition that impacts low-risk, everyday activities.

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms promptly issued a legal warning arguing that prohibiting hiking, cycling, or walking—especially when these pose negligible fire risk—is “overbroad, arbitrary, and grossly disproportionate”, infringing on the Charter-protected right to liberty under Section 7.