Dougald Lamont
@dougaldlamont.bsky.social
Recovering politician, writer, editor. Orwell-Keynesian. Read my stuff here: https://dougaldlamont.substack.com
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Chinese Heritage Month Petition In Canada
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The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock is about to Get Real. Governments need to stop hoping for the best and start preparing for the worst. corporateknights.com/perspectives...
Why Canada needs to declare a critical supply emergency now
OPINION | Oil executives and experts say the price of oil could skyrocket again soon. Canada needs to act to shield residents from supply shocks.
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This report was originally intended to be the answer to three simple questions: – How many children were in provincial child welfare care in Canada, each year, from 2001 to today? - How many of those children were Indigenous? And - How many of them died? dougaldlamont.substack.com/p/children-o...
Children of the State: Why Don't Canada's Governments Track Numbers or Deaths of Children in Their Own Care?
Since 2001, how many children per year were in provincial child welfare in Canada, how many were Indigenous, and how many died? No one can tell you.
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the “Free Alberta Strategy” document that is considered the intellectual basis for Separation leaves out 75% of the economy and 94%of the workforce.
The "Free Alberta Strategy" Leaves out 75% of Alberta's GDP and 94% of Its Workers
Rob Anderson, Barry Cooper and Derek From's Document is Being Used to Justify Alberta Separation. Not One of its Conclusions is Supported by Any Evidence.
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I’ve written an evidence-based report that explores the claims being made in the Free Alberta report, and found that none of the report’s conclusions are justified by the facts they present. The report is essentially non sequitur after non sequitur #alberta #Canada
All Hat, No Cattle: Breaking Down the Free Alberta Strategy's Baseless Case for Separation
Across the board, the report by Prof Barry Cooper, Rob Anderson and Derek From Jumps to Conclusions Its Own Data Doesn't Support
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Mark Carney’s Confidence Fairy Won’t Help the Canadian Economy: Here’s What Will Confidence was never the missing ingredient. What's missing from all these models are energy, land, private debt, and real estate. When you do include Energy, Private Debt, and Real Estate, the picture changes entirely.
Mark Carney’s Confidence Fairy Won’t Help the Canadian Economy: Here’s What Will
Canada Can Afford to Be Bold. In the The question is not “Can we afford a wartime-level mobilization?” it is “Why haven’t we already started?”
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The C.D. Howe Institute’s “Big Bang” for Taxes Went Off 30 Years Ago. It Was a Bust. If, in Canada, your economic models don’t include oil, energy, finance, insurance or real estate, what do you even have left to describe?
The C.D. Howe Institute’s “Big Bang” for Taxes Went Off 30 Years Ago. It Was a Bust.
The recommendations to slash taxes don't add up, because the authors leave most of the actual economy out of their models. When taxes are the only problem your model allows, that's what you'll get.
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Everything Pierre Poilievre Gets Wrong About Housing: Everything #Canada #housing #realestate #economics
Everything Pierre Poilievre Gets Wrong About Housing: Everything
"Housing Hell" was a coherent, confident, well-produced explanation of the housing crisis that gets everything wrong from beginning to end.
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I've argued this for more than a year, but a new paper from the IMF confirms what I've been saying - the benefits are baked into the math being used - because real data is not being measured at all. #economy #canada #freetrade
The Promised $200-billion+ Benefits from "Free Trade in Canada" Is Based on Barriers that Do Not Exist
The promised gains aren't based on real inputs: They were generated by numbers from inside the economic formulas themselves - not the Canadian economy.
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Canada Is Heading for an Economic Crash. Here's How Carney, the Premiers and the Bank of Canada Are Making It Worse.
Canada Is Heading for an Economic Crash. Here's How Carney, the Premiers and the Bank of Canada Are Making It Worse.
The crash isn't coming because of one bad decision. It's coming because everyone with power is making the same mistake at the same time — and we have seen this exact movie before.
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“There is no legitimate case for Alberta separation: the reason this is happening is that there is genuine economic suffering that has been ignored, and that by ideology, the Alberta government is opposed to addressing.@
Canadian authorities are predicting that Canada will be fine, because the massive profits will be a net gain for the economy. The oil industry's gains will not make up for Canadians' real losses - and the shocks to systems that can break them. #canada #150bbloil #elbowsup
Oil is Going to Hit $150/Barrel Next Month. Here's a List of What Can Go Wrong in Canada. It's a Lot.
Ask your provincial and federal representatives what they're doing to get ready. Because they should have started yesterday.
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In 2014, Saudi Arabia started a price war that dropped oil by 70%. In 2022, Canada's oil industry had record profits - with fewer workers because of automation. These were both "historic" events. Albertans have been hurt, but it wasn't other Canadians who did it. It was OPEC.
The Entire Debate Fuelling Alberta Separatism is Based on a Decade of Made-Up Conservative Talking Points
In 2014, Saudi Arabia dropped the price of oil in the sharpest and fastest drop in history. In 2022, Alberta had the highest oil profits in history. Why isn't anyone pointing out these basic truths?
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it is very simple folks. "unqualified DEI hire" is when you're not a white male, "merit-based promotion" is when you are a white male and also pete hegseth's personal assistant. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...
There are massive shortages of doctors, nurses and health professionals because the provinces won’t pay to train them or hire them. It doesn’t take AI to figure that out.
The Globe and Mail@theglobeandmail.com · 2mo agoThere's an old expression - "Agent provocateur" all in an age when it's people have never been more provokable. These methods are certainly being used in Canada to sow division, outrage and resentment. youtube.com/shorts/Yd6rZ...
Leaked Documents Reveal Russian "Cognitive Strikes" Against Europe
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This is a national emergency that requires an all-of-government response and a plan of action. The Government of Canada needs to Declare a Critical Supply Emergency, now. @mark-carney.bsky.social
Exxon says Oil is going to hit $150/barrel. The Government of Canada Needs to Declare a Critical Supply Emergency Now.
If we wait, until the crisis, the damage will be irreversible, but if we act, we can get $15 back for every $1 we put int.
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The typical household for the majority of Canadians got $37k from pandemic monetary stimulus. The very top 0.01% got $188-million per household. #canada #economics #ElbowsUp
Canada's Pandemic Fiscal Stimulus was about $346-billion. The Bank of Canada's Monetary Stimulus? $2.5-trillion.
We need to stop ignoring monetary policy, debt, banks and the financial sector, and start getting real about "unintended consequences."
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Canadians needs a wartime-level response to this crisis. In addition to the hostility of bad actors from other countries, our former ally the U.S. has turned on us and is effectively using tariffs as sanctions in an act of financial warfare to undermine the Canada’s economy. #elbowsup #canadastrong
CRISIS ECONOMICS: Trump Wants to Crush Canada's Economy. Federal and Provincial Cuts are Doing his Job for Him.
We're in a crisis that requires wartime levels of investment to escape, but no one knows how to do that anymore.
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#Canada is not prepared for the coming oil price shock. We can harden our economy but it will require a wartime-level effort, starting now. @mark-carney.bsky.social Read the report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1q8xQ...
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Natural Gaslighting: the Canada-Alberta Pipeline MOU is Built on a Blatant Pack of Lies
Since 2014, Canada and Alberta together have faced two historic disruptions in oil prices - one low, one high - that were driven entirely by Saudi Arabia and OPEC.
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Canada wastes enormous volumes of methane every year — flaring it at LNG terminals, venting it from landfills, draining it from coal mines, and venting from thousands of inactive wells. This methane could be converted into two high-value products: turquoise hydrogen and solid carbon materials
Spinning Methane into Turquoise Hydrogen + Solid Carbon is a Multibillion dollar Opportunity for Canada & Alberta
Turning Methane from Alberta's orphaned wells and Kitimat's LNG into hydrogen fuel and carbon materials would fight Climate Change while providing a new stream for Critical Minerals - without mining.
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A Carbon-Negative Plan for Manitoba's Land, Air and Water. (And it makes money.) #elbowsup #climatechange #cleanwater
A Carbon-Negative Plan for Manitoba's Land, Air and Water. (And it makes money.)
Manitoba's First Nations are suing the Federal Government, the Manitoba Government and the City of Winnipeg for $5-billion for decades of pollution and mismanagement. There are real solutions
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A Carbon-Negative Plan for Manitoba's Land, Air and Water. (And it makes money.) open.substack.com/pub/dougaldl...
A Carbon-Negative Plan for Manitoba's Land, Air and Water. (And it makes money.)
Manitoba's First Nations are suing the Federal Government, the Manitoba Government and the City of Winnipeg for $5-billion for decades of pollution and mismanagement. There are real solutions
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Canada's healthcare system must prepare for oil shocks and shortages canadahealthwatch.ca/2026/05/05/c... @dougaldlamont.bsky.social ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁
Canada’s healthcare system must prepare for oil shocks and shortages
Canada's drug supply chain is the healthcare system's largest and least understood oil shock vulnerability.
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Yikes. Canada's healthcare system is really vulnerable to high oil prices & shortages. Check out the measures @dougaldlamont.bsky.social states govts & health systems should take to adapt. Makes a lot of sense to me. #CanadaHealthcare -
Renewing Canada’s passenger rail system would do everything the best kinds of government investments achieve: lowering costs for people and business, reducing the impact on the environment, while creating jobs and new opportunities, while govern for the benefit of the whole country.
The (Very Good) Case for Canadian Passenger Rail Revival
While the Federal Government is proposing high-speeed rail from Windsor to Quebec, the rest of Canada gets nothing. At $90/ barrel it pays back, and the faster we do it, the cheaper it will be.
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Manitoba’s food system faces a $600–900M annual cost shock at $200/bbl through fertilizer, diesel for farm equipment, food processing energy, and distribution logistics. Without rapid intervention:
$200/Barrel Oil Will Rock Canada's Food System and Create a Humanitarian Crisis for First Nations
What Governments and Communities Can - and Must - Do Now to Prepare
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Debt on Debt on Debt: How to Address Canada's Private Insolvency Crisis in an Oil Shock in my view Canada - and the world are not in a “global slowdown” but a personal and private debt and bankruptcy crisis, one that will explode as oil prices rise, along with costs. #canada #oilcrisis #elbowsup
Debt on Debt on Debt: How to Address Canada's Private Insolvency Crisis in an Oil Shock
Canada’s Personal Debt Crisis, Who Is Most At Risk, and How Debt Restructuring Could Work
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