"We are alienated in Washington, ignored by Europe when it counts, and still involved in trade wars with China and to a degree India." But the Boomers who pushed Carney to the position he occupies now will simply blame Donald Trump. This won't be an easy problem to solve.
As I have pointed to problems and offered constructive criticism over the past several months, it is almost always met with something akin to, "We can't roll over to Trump!" even if that is not what has been suggested.
Boomers I overhear often misrepresent issues to themselves and each other in order to blame Trump. It has the added benefit that they need not even KNOW much about the issue at hand.
There is a serious attempt in the national chattering classes and pollster punditry to shape a "patience" narrative to Canadians to compensate for the underperformance of the Carney government against their election campaign hype. Canadians aren't being "fair" to Carney we are being told, and he deserves space to navigate a complex political situation. Wait and see...
Meanwhile, life goes on for world leaders who have significant skin in some nasty problems and are meeting in Washington to talk about them. A quick look at the guest list is affirmation of what these world leaders think about Canada and what role we are playing these days: nothing. These leaders are not giving Carney and his government any attention, let alone "time" to get our act together.
Regarding Dief and Mulroney being snubbed, I would expect nothing less. The Laurentian Elites hated Dief for being an effective politician from outside of their ranks (same as they hated Harper) and they hated Mulroney for being an apostate... one of their own gone over to the conservative side...
It hurts to admit it, but when the Liberal Party is in power 90% of the time, the entire political ecosystem becomes a branch plant of Liberal partisanship. (See: PCO apparatchiks and other high level civil servants who seamlessly float back and forth between civil service impartiality and partisan Liberal politics.) The ecosystem becomes purpose built to embellish the achievements of Liberal Party Prime Ministers and ignore the rest, who happen to be Conservatives.
Jean Chretien enjoys significant popularity ratings long after leaving office, in part because of his financial stewardship through some rocky years. Liberals like to gloss over the table that was set by Mulroney, who did the heavy lifting of tax reform which leveraged a significant stream of GST revenue at a time that it was desperately needed to pay bills. Chretien campaigned against the GST, but once in office the revenue was too good to pass up and it didn't cost him a cent of political capital.
The tentacles move in every direction. Justin Trudeau's "Independent Senator Approval Process" has a lateral spot on the flow chart to the Order of Canada crowd. The ecosystem gets all of the players sidled up together to build this great nation in their image.
Canada is a future strip miner’s dream, and Carney and Ford are just here to mind the store while the powers that be decide how they want to proceed. The phrase “we’re all treaty people now” was just a test marketing slogan: we really are all treaty people now and the parties on the other side of the treaty have decided that treaty needs to be broken and we’re all in the way.
How much tax payer money has gone into the laundering machine in Ukraine?
We aren’t considered a serious country, a serious member of NATO or serious in geo-political terms.
We’re largely a self-delusional, smug, arrogant and over educated people who don’t appreciate or respect the privileged economic and social position we’ve enjoyed being neighbours of the U.S. . A tremendous sense of entitlement.
Only reason the Euro clowns are going is because Zelensky was allowed by Trump to bring some “guests “. Trump did not invite the Euros individually- they jumped on the Zelensky wagon to try to make themselves relevant. Funny how a few world leaders can change their schedules in a heartbeat.
Wake up Canada! We have been excluded from discussions, meaning that they do not believe that Mr. Carney has anything worth contributing. President Trump made certain that Pierre Poilievre lost the last election thereby inserting Mark Carney into power. He obviously has no respect for him and has used him to render Canada powerless.
it appears that the other countries know something that the elbows up Canadians missed. Carney is a fraud on multiple levels.
He and Feckless Ford are meeting to compare toys in the their tiny and insignificant sandbox.
"We are alienated in Washington, ignored by Europe when it counts, and still involved in trade wars with China and to a degree India." But the Boomers who pushed Carney to the position he occupies now will simply blame Donald Trump. This won't be an easy problem to solve.
Sadly this is true.
As I have pointed to problems and offered constructive criticism over the past several months, it is almost always met with something akin to, "We can't roll over to Trump!" even if that is not what has been suggested.
Boomers I overhear often misrepresent issues to themselves and each other in order to blame Trump. It has the added benefit that they need not even KNOW much about the issue at hand.
There is a serious attempt in the national chattering classes and pollster punditry to shape a "patience" narrative to Canadians to compensate for the underperformance of the Carney government against their election campaign hype. Canadians aren't being "fair" to Carney we are being told, and he deserves space to navigate a complex political situation. Wait and see...
Meanwhile, life goes on for world leaders who have significant skin in some nasty problems and are meeting in Washington to talk about them. A quick look at the guest list is affirmation of what these world leaders think about Canada and what role we are playing these days: nothing. These leaders are not giving Carney and his government any attention, let alone "time" to get our act together.
Regarding Dief and Mulroney being snubbed, I would expect nothing less. The Laurentian Elites hated Dief for being an effective politician from outside of their ranks (same as they hated Harper) and they hated Mulroney for being an apostate... one of their own gone over to the conservative side...
It hurts to admit it, but when the Liberal Party is in power 90% of the time, the entire political ecosystem becomes a branch plant of Liberal partisanship. (See: PCO apparatchiks and other high level civil servants who seamlessly float back and forth between civil service impartiality and partisan Liberal politics.) The ecosystem becomes purpose built to embellish the achievements of Liberal Party Prime Ministers and ignore the rest, who happen to be Conservatives.
Jean Chretien enjoys significant popularity ratings long after leaving office, in part because of his financial stewardship through some rocky years. Liberals like to gloss over the table that was set by Mulroney, who did the heavy lifting of tax reform which leveraged a significant stream of GST revenue at a time that it was desperately needed to pay bills. Chretien campaigned against the GST, but once in office the revenue was too good to pass up and it didn't cost him a cent of political capital.
Spot on. This is why the "Order of Canada" might better be called the "Participation Ribbon Order of the Liberal Party."
Public sector unions are complicit despite pretending to be non-partisan.
The tentacles move in every direction. Justin Trudeau's "Independent Senator Approval Process" has a lateral spot on the flow chart to the Order of Canada crowd. The ecosystem gets all of the players sidled up together to build this great nation in their image.
Also the liberal play book of keeping Canadians angry at each other to stay in power? As follows:
Go back to work x 2
41 dead kids graves fiction redux
Pride flag in the PMO
Dead trade
Profligate spending
Etc
Canada is a future strip miner’s dream, and Carney and Ford are just here to mind the store while the powers that be decide how they want to proceed. The phrase “we’re all treaty people now” was just a test marketing slogan: we really are all treaty people now and the parties on the other side of the treaty have decided that treaty needs to be broken and we’re all in the way.
FUTURE!! its been happening since the HBC EIC set up shop
Rome is burning while Ceaser & Nero fiddle.
How much tax payer money has gone into the laundering machine in Ukraine?
We aren’t considered a serious country, a serious member of NATO or serious in geo-political terms.
We’re largely a self-delusional, smug, arrogant and over educated people who don’t appreciate or respect the privileged economic and social position we’ve enjoyed being neighbours of the U.S. . A tremendous sense of entitlement.
Only reason the Euro clowns are going is because Zelensky was allowed by Trump to bring some “guests “. Trump did not invite the Euros individually- they jumped on the Zelensky wagon to try to make themselves relevant. Funny how a few world leaders can change their schedules in a heartbeat.
Well Carney is probably at a WEF board meeting! 😂
All but Trump are WEF members ‼️ What is President Trump plan?
He's gonna read them the Riot Act. Don't be surprised if Zelenskis plane leaves for somewhere else besides Kiev, for good.
Well you know Liberal good, Conservative bad. Why would you want to recognize a Conservative PM for any wonderful contributions they made? Shameful.
He’s a Proud Globalist, just as the fad seems to be ending, profiting off his renewable energy companies.
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Wake up Canada! We have been excluded from discussions, meaning that they do not believe that Mr. Carney has anything worth contributing. President Trump made certain that Pierre Poilievre lost the last election thereby inserting Mark Carney into power. He obviously has no respect for him and has used him to render Canada powerless.
Canada never should have been involved with the Nazis of Ukraine in the first place.
Or the WEF 😬