Kevin Vickers
@KVickers
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Former Leader of the New Brunswick Liberal Party. Former Ambassador of Canada to Ireland
Trout Brook, New Brunswick
Joined January 2015
David Johnston knows the issues of Conflict of Interest as well as any learned Judge. David Johnson is his own man and would never allow anyone including JT to « put » him in any position. Honour, Honesty, Integrity, Values trump Perception and this red herring.
It’s @JustinTrudeau who should be ashamed to have put an honourable man in this position. He knew Johnston was conflicted, from his friendship with his family to his past support of #confuciusinstitutes He professes outrage while using the man as political cover. Appalling.
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Memo to Yellen and Powell (why didn’t he waive the blackout period???): To stem a crisis like this, you find buyers, not depositors. First Republic needs a real capital injection. Stop the game of playing small-ball already and start taking this seriously.
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Reposol has come to the same eco mic conclusion for East Coast LNG port as Arthur Irving did on east coast oil pipeline years ago. Not economically viable. Unfortunate for New Brunswickers to have been so misled on this issue.
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Lagarde must believe that making the same policy mistake Trichet did in the summer of '08 is a wise thing to do. If Powell thinks this is the right course at the next FOMC meeting, the only trade is into long bonds because the recession is going to come into even fuller view.
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Totally disagree with @acoyne and his Tweets. I know David Johnston. He is the essence of honesty and integrity. If Trudeau has down wrong, hiding information, took advantage of the situation, Johnston will kick his arse. Not a question in my mind.
Yes. We also need someone without personal or professional connection to the Prime Minister, and with a track record of getting to the bottom of things. On either score there are questions.
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This is pretty appalling. The process is flawed - we don’t know the mandate or the powers of the role. But David Johnston deserves better than these as hominem attacks from people with less credibility than him.
Another random Liberal tasked by Trudeau to support his corruption and scandals. Nothing to see here folks they say.
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But we are going to fire our Governor of the Bank of Canada right?
I’m looking at Canada, the 51st state with good manners and great donuts, and the ex-shelter core CPI was 0.0% in January and running at an oh-so-scary +1.9% annual rate over the past three months. No wonder the BoC moved to the sidelines! StatsCan should give the BLS a lesson.
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Governor General Mary Simon being supported by RCMP Veteran Women’s Council
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IEA: “World oil supply should comfortably exceed demand in the first half of the year… Much of the supply overhang reflects ample Russian barrels racing to re-route to new destinations” — despite warnings it would buckle under international sanctions.
bloomberg.com
Global oil markets are contending with a surplus as Russian production defies predictions of a slump while fuel demand slowly picks up, the International Energy Agency said.
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Indian refiners who are obtaining discounted Russian crude oil, rejected by the EU and other Western powers are filling this gap by using the same Russian barrels. Basically, Russian crude oil is reaching the EU markets via India. Read more at:
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"About 75 percent of the trade of Russian seaborne oil occurs outside of the [G7] price cap," says @AsstSecEcon
#OOTT #Russia
home.treasury.gov
As Prepared for Delivery Assessing the Twin Goals of the Price Cap A year ago, Russia illegally invaded Ukraine and roiled energy markets. With higher energy prices, Russia was profiting from and...
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Canada’s national police force, renowned around the world, cut of the finest cloth. First questioned asked by other Ambassadors to me as Ambassador in Ireland was what was it like to be a Mountie.
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“A recent report on green-technology incentives … provides an idea of how much it would cost to compete with U.S. incentives for two EV battery plants: roughly $40-billion." How much is Canada willing to pay for a battery plant in the Great Subsidy War? https://t.co/xMJ6ZPIPDY
theglobeandmail.com
Canada wants to keep active in the auto industry. But competing with U.S. incentives for just two EV battery plants could cost roughly $40-billion, according to a recent report
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There is a smarter way of doing this, Ireland by way of little to no corporate tax. This is a great win for Canada, and peanuts compared to the subsidies being given out by US in it’s Inflation Reduction Act to lure companies. We need to be in the game.
"In due course."
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Biden admin authorizes $8 billion ConocoPhillips oil project in northwest Alaska, which is projected to eventually yield 180,000 daily barrels of crude. https://t.co/WQY9LxAip6
bloomberg.com
President Joe Biden authorized a giant ConocoPhillips oil project in northwest Alaska that environmentalists argue has no place in a warming world, even as he sought to bar future drilling across US...
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🐴 Meet Noble: a gift from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to The King. The seven year-old mare - who stands at 16.2 hands high - is currently settling into life at The Royal Mews in Windsor.
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Is what is happening in Alberta representative of rural Canada in general? Thought Justice Rouleau really captured the essence of this, populism, well in his report. https://t.co/rAOolJLOs6
calgaryherald.com
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Always frustrated by the focus of media on calling out RCMP for systemic discrimination which is much deserved but never a beep on Members of Parliament, Judges, Crowns, lawyers and academic community where as can be seen it is as equally pervasive.
Not sure who gets the biggest 👎 this week. This guy or Cooper? Birds of a feather fly together.
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