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Ken Schultz's avatar

I do like the taxpayer acknowledgement! Thank you for sharing it with us Brian.

Karen Benz's avatar

That acknowledgement was priceless!!!

John Powell's avatar

Really ? The rubbish from

Carney at Davos playing to his fellow the elitist friends?

There is a profound distaste among Canadians for the WEF.

I didn’t share it because I regarded it as a country club of wannabe sycophants.

In fact Carneys speech is clear. Canadians mean nothing to him. We are just serfs, vassals to his “ new world order “.

It’s a diktat. Standing ovation from his fellow courtiers.

The fawning of MSM ( even the sun , read Eddie Chau tonight) illustrate just how far off the rails Carney has gone and how far the propaganda machine has evolved.

And of course among other things ? One trillion dollars in spending outside parliamentary process.

Oh and one more thing: no reduction in canola tarrifs from China.

Wait three months you say?

Sure.

Trish's avatar

Canada is weak and Carney is full of it

Scott Newell's avatar

That guy should be Mayor

Thorne Sutherland's avatar

I must say that Mark Carney really showed us he was the only one who could deal with Trump.

Karen Benz's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Angelo Gallo's avatar

Now that’s what I call an acknowledgement:

Give credit where credit is due!!

To the citizens that pay the taxes in order for some assholes sitting in those chairs in City Hall and pay their salaries.

Acknowledgement that our taxes pay for everything that the indigenous community has.

Merla Parker's avatar

Well done!. Seems the City councillors did not like this version.

Lenore Goodwin's avatar

Let the Greenlanders work it with Trump along with NATO without extraneous comments from all and sundry

Tim McCloskey's avatar

Nicely put. Thank you.

Johnny Lade's avatar

Carney made a speech that all his friends liked but without any diplomacy or tact towards his allies. He must be comfortable with his friends to take that kind of views. I researched people who take shots and they are called gas lighters, bullying, antagonizing, provoking, pushing buttons, messing with someone's head. They are not very good virtues for a prime minister who thinks he is all that.

Dave C.'s avatar

What happens when Carney gets too cozy with Russia and China? What happens when, in the eyes of America, we go from ally to threat? What happens when we become an extension of the evil empire and an opponent of NATO? I have seen the newsreels of this path and it isn't good. We may have only a very narrow window in which to remove Carney and turn Canada back to democracy and freedom.

YMS's avatar

Maybe Carney is just setting up the upcoming spring election as yet another “Elbows Up” election. The fearful elbows up brigade needs to be reminded of the threat posed by big bad orange man… just a thought!

James Greenlaw's avatar

When your right about the tax-payer you are right. Where was Mayor Olivia Chow when he was speaking the truth?

Lenore Goodwin's avatar

Secretary General of NATO said Trump is right about US defending Greenland—and Canada and the western hemisphere

Robert Leonard's avatar

I'm a Tory through and through and I watched Carneys speech and was pleased and sad. Pleased because Canada has to stand up to the bully, sad because it didn't come from a conservative Prime Minister. ( no fault of Pierre). We are not forsaking America, we are only hedging our bets. Diversifying is the only option for middle powers. America cannot replace our trade easily or at all but they can hurt us so we must be flexible. Kissing Trumps arse is not the answer but being firm is, just like you do to any bully.

KZwick's avatar

Canada is in no place to stand up to anyone right now. The choice is clear. It either wants to speak English or Chinese. That's it.

Robert Leonard's avatar

If that is true it's because of 12 years of Liberal mismanagement. I listened to Carneys' speech in Davos and as much as I dislike the man and all he stands for, I heard nothing that alarmed me. In fact quite the opposite, it's been a long time since a Canadian prime minister made me proud on the world stage. "English or Chinese", ha it's a lot more complicated than that.

As for the US comments on Greenland, they're ignorant of the facts and backtracking on everything. Ports, roads and infrastructure, ha ha, Greenland doesn't have any of that, especially any real ports.These Americans are fools who know nothing and the Europeans know this and since Carneys' speech are growing a spine about it.

KZwick's avatar

It is more complicated than which language we choose to speak, however you have to keep it simple for low frequency thinkers. Interestingly, it appears now that America will expand its influence to Greenland, at no initial cost. Next will be another Communist Regime takeover. Either Cuba or Kanadastan.

Robert Leonard's avatar

Keeping it simple for low frequency thinkers, let me enlighten you. America has had all the influence it needs in Greenland and has had it since 1952. Any further needs would have easily been granted, all they had to do was ask. This whole exercise has been either the result of a stupid senile mind or a simple distraction for the populous. What it has been is a gift to our enemies and the destruction of eighty years of careful building of friendship and alliances for America.

KZwick's avatar

Ok. It would appear NATO feels differently now. Kanadastan is preparing for an invasion now though. Hope you didn't turn in your guns.

Robert Leonard's avatar

I don't have a gun, I'll just trade some poutine for one with an American.

K Brooker's avatar

We are so lucky to be next to the most powerful and democratic country in the world! We owe our continued sovereignty to them because if our neighbor was Russia we would already be a part of the new USSR. We owe our economic prosperity to them because they are 75% of our economy. We should not push them too far. We desperately need them.

Robert Leonard's avatar

Yeah, when you sleep with a colossus beware when they roll over.We are a trading nation and there is a big ol' world out there to trade with. They are 75% of of our economy because we complacently let that occur. Time to change that to something more realistic in todays world.

They need us much more than we need them, who else will supply them with all the raw materials that we can at our prices? Nobody, and nobody wants to deal with them anymore anyway.

Grow up and smell the roses, the world is not black and white and it's changing. Time for us to change with it.