Matt Ryan
mattryanfad.bsky.social
Matt Ryan
@mattryanfad.bsky.social
Canadian Designer/Maker and partner in FAD Architects 🇨🇦
Anyone thinking Carneys deal with China will flood the market with cheap Chinese cars should know that last year total sales of vehicles in Canada was 1.9M . This deal allows 49,000 Chinese Evs or 2.5% of total sales.
January 16, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Trump was never looking for a deal with Canada, he wanted capitulation.
January 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I was wrong, he’s just keeping the money
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.

“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:20 AM
Trump will tell Denmark and the EU to give him Greenland or he will pull out of NATO.
January 9, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Trumps plan to pay off the debt is to steal from other countries.
January 3, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Make it make sense.
Ready to go to war with Venezuela for “ drug trafficking”.
Tariffs on Canada because of “fentanyl” and yet
pardoning an actual drug trafficker..

www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...
Trump says he will pardon former Honduran president serving sentence in drug-trafficking case | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction ...
www.cnn.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Both Venezuela and Nigeria have significant oil reserves.
November 3, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Tariffs on Norway to be announced later today…
October 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Reposted by Matt Ryan
More “war-ravaged” Portland 🤷🏽‍♂️

We control our narrative.

We control our reality.
September 27, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The deprogramming of the U.S. is going to take years.
September 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Trump is like the captain of the titanic insisting the band keep playing as if everything is fine.
August 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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June 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Those riots in LA are getting out of hand..
June 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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It's time for Canada to be bold. It's time to build an all-Canadian technologically advanced car. We have the talent. We have the raw materials. We have a willing Government.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/09/a...
Arrow reborn: an all-Canadian EV aims to revolutionize industry
Innovative electric vehicle built using only domestically-produced next-generation automotive technologies moves into '2.0' model as sector battles through transition away from gas-fuelled designs.
www.nationalobserver.com
May 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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We should have a national ambition to do great things after all this.

I believe that includes a 🇨🇦 car company. We have some of the best innovators in the world. We should unleash them.

That’s not meant to be Project Arrow, but we built 🇨🇦’s lighthouse & I’m damned proud of it.
May 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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“Be calm, be cool.”

If we have the leverage we think we have, let it play out.

Go Team 🇨🇦.

/1
May 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The tunnel under the 401 plan is just dumb.
May 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
@slateauto.bsky.social I would buy one even with tariffs🇨🇦🇺🇸
May 1, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I mean I don’t think this needs saying but Judges aren’t part of the “deep state”
April 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Trump starting to do his slow walk back of China Tariffs as he realizes he doesn’t hold the cards he thought he did..
April 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Canada News🇨🇦🇨🇦👍:
Lots of posts about Brookfield using the Bahamas for certain funds .. hers how that works

And Harper (chairman of Aimco - Alberta pension funds) uses the Bahamas too

It’s not a way to avoid Canadian tax .. that’s a lie
April 14, 2025 at 3:39 AM