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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦

@doctrott.bsky.social

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🗒️Chair of Euphrosine Foundation, chair of @patmillscanada.bsky.social , co-founder of @wecobien.bsky.social, Board of Trottier Family Foundation 📚 Co-owner of @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social 📢 Views are my own

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · Feb 8

My oped in @thestar.com today:

Do we want a Canada where tech billionaires sell out their country for a tax break, or one where our government fights back against the oligarchy with creative ideas to tax extreme wealth?

www.thestar.com/business/opi...

Trump’s love of ‘broligarchs’ is seeping into Canada. Do our leaders have the courage to take on the ultra-rich?

Delay in capital gains tax reform is a capitulation to the wealthy, writes Claire Trottier. Do we really want to live in a country where the monied get preferential treatment

www.thestar.com

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 6h

I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet....

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy

Today’s uber-rich have converted their obscene wealth into outsize power, wielded in the name of bizarre millenarian ideologies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, NOPE 💕

Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 2d

No❤️

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 2d

Right now, while Canadians who actually work for a living are paying taxes on 100% of their paycheck, rich Canadians who make their money via a few clicks in their brokerage account are only paying taxes on half the profits. That has to change.

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 2d

Terence actually makes this point for us not one paragraph later! But pardon us if we’re not holding our breath for the benevolence of billionaires.

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · 2d

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 2d

Sending money voluntarily does not solve the problem! Taxes should require those who have profited the most from investments in education, infrastructure, healthcare, etc. to reinvest back into the economy and ensure those services stay well funded.

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure what to say about this other than thanks for the amplification!

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · 2d

A must read thread responding to the most bizarre “critique” I’ve ever seen of wealth taxes. The article reads pretty much like a verbatim copy of @patmillscanada.bsky.social ‘s central messaging, while telling us to cut a check to the government and to shut up 🤷🏼

Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 2d

Wow! Someone's cranky!

While we appreciate the free press from Terence, let's see if we can improve his mood point by point.

financialpost.com/opinion/tere...

Terence Corcoran: Help! I’m rich, so tax me more. Pretty please…

Here’s a message for socialist millionaires: send in the money voluntarily, or shut up. Read more from Terence Corcoran

financialpost.com

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · 2d

Wishing you a prompt and full recovery 💜

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 7d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 7d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Jack Todd @jacktodd.bsky.social · 8d

My column as we look forward to the most anticipated season in decades.

Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social · 8d

Todd: Anticipation soars as window opens for deep, talented Canadiens

Home ice in first round and a chance to progress in playoffs are within reach, and you know they're the last team the Leafs want to meet.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 10d

Solidarity, now and forever.

“This is the most frightening moment of my life,” she added. "The only thing that has ever worked...is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another.”

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group started by her father during the McCarthy era

In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

www.theguardian.com

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · 10d

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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 10d

Clearly true.

You wouldn't know this is clearly true if you followed our legacy media and spokespeople for corporate Canada, claiming massive tax cuts will cure what ails us.

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

Canada's exploding wealth inequality requires tax changes

Our current tax code is not asking the wealthy to reinvest in our economy, and that failure is weakening services and programs working Canadians may use to get ahead.

www.hilltimes.com

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · 10d

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Gravy Crockett @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 10d

This article by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on how monopolized corporate control of news content, social media algorithms, the internet, and information itself has enabled the destruction of civic culture is a must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

At the very least, read her closing argument:

So by all means, celebrate a burst of collective action that reinstated a TV show host and vote the bums out if you get the chance. But voting won’t be enough, just as canceling the Disney app won’t be enough. When I look at the consumer response to Disney censoring Kimmel, I don’t see an allegory for America’s salvation. I see a threat — that we will see ourselves as the authoritarians see us, users whose only power is in our pocketbook.

We can’t just reject the threat. We have to reject the idea that our only, best power is our pocketbooks. That’s a desecration of civics, as corrosive as the idea that debate is the pinnacle of civil discourse. It cheapens our actions by degrading what we believe is possible. Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us.

The fusion of corporate control and government power that empowered this administration will need to be unmade. Courts will need to be reconfigured. Market power will need to be subsumed to electoral power. Bureaucratic legitimacy will need to be restored. Information will need to be competitive and available.

To achieve any of those goals, we will have to become far less complacent and far less scared. We also will have to organize. Because no citizen who simply settles for being a consumer of democracy should expect to have a real democracy ever again.

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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 10d

You can’t fix inequality with vibes. Starmer should try tax policies instead.

A #WealthTax won’t fix all the UK’s problems, but it would be a start.

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · 10d

A classic from baroness von sketch on white wine with ice share.google/LoLBhWYdT7s0...

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 11d

"We're seeing lots of threats to democracy around the world... with converging crises coming at us, I think we're in for a period of massive instability. My belief is that a lot of that is driven by inequality." [email protected]

patrioticmillionaires.ca/media/taxing...

Taxing the Super Wealthy- With Claire Trottier — Patriotic Millionaires CA

Patriotic Millionaires Canada Chair Claire Trottier joins the Clearing the Benches Podcast to discuss how the Canadian tax code favors the uber-rich, and why it’s a problem. Listen on Spotify Li...

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Natalie Brender @nataliebrender.bsky.social · 11d

"It’s not enough to slowly amplify the voices of civility. If you want to push extremist leaders out of power, you need to engage in the arenas of power."
A much-needed critical consideration of whether civil dialogue initiatives, appealing as they are, have a real prospect of significant impact.

Building Bridges Is Good. Building the Power to Counter Extremists Is Better

There's a lot to like about philanthropy's investments to reduce toxic polarization. What's also needed, though, are near-term efforts to counter extremists in key arenas of power.

www.insidephilanthropy.com

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Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social · 11d

Our Board Chair @doctrott.bsky.social joined @berkshire.bsky.social and @davekaufman.bsky.social on Clearing the Benches to talk extreme wealth inequality and how the tax code is fueling it.

patrioticmillionaires.ca/media/taxing...

Taxing the Super Wealthy- With Claire Trottier — Patriotic Millionaires CA

Patriotic Millionaires Canada Chair Claire Trottier joins the Clearing the Benches Podcast to discuss how the Canadian tax code favors the uber-rich, and why it’s a problem. Listen on Spotify Li...

patrioticmillionaires.ca

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 12d

"The villains in this narrative—and it’s essential to have villains—are the elites at the top of a broken system."

The economy is rigged for billionaires. We need leaders who will tax the rich, raise wages, & build an economy that works for everyone. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Opinion | Democrats Are in Crisis. Eat-the-Rich Populism Is the Only Answer.

www.nytimes.com

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Dave Kaufman @davekaufman.bsky.social · 12d

I really enjoyed our chat with @doctrott.bsky.social from Patriotic Millionaires Canada @patmillscanada.bsky.social and I think you will too!

Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 12d

Available shortly: Did you know there's an organization of millionaires dedicated to taxing the rich more? @davekaufman.bsky.social & I spoke to @doctrott.bsky.social about the biggest issue in our society

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5CNfnD5...

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Claire Trottier to Clearing the Benches on the need for a wealth tax, and for the wealthy to do their part.

“Even for those who self-identify as conservative over 50% are in favour of a wealth tax.” -Dr. Claire Trottier

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Claire Trottier 🇨🇦 @doctrott.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks!!

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 13d

Speak truth to power, and other thoughts about a difficult week in the US (from Friday, Sept. 19)
(Audio)
snyder.substack.com/p/speak-trut...

Speak truth to power

And other thoughts about a difficult week in the US

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Patriotic Millionaires @patrioticmillionaires.org · 15d

When billionaires own our media, it’s easier for authoritarians like Trump to silence voices they don’t like.

This week’s Closer Look dives deeper into how concentrated wealth and media power threaten free speech our democracy.
patrioticmillionaires.org/perspectives...

The real culprit behind the Jimmy Kimmel fiasco is extreme inequality

patrioticmillionaires.org

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