Mark Carney is either a fraud or a buffoon. I don’t think anyone thinks he’s a buffoon.
I think everyone expects him to pay lip service to the climate while boosting oil and gas.
But he is an econ guy remember. So surely he will attack Canada’s terrible productivity problem right?
Explain to me how subjecting government workers to two hours of sitting in their car each day makes them more productive. How does clogging the roads with traffic help businesses complete deliveries in a timely matter. Does it shrink spending on emergency services, and road maintenance or increase it? How about income from tourists? Who needs tourists bringing money into the local economy spending money at local businesses when they can idle their cars in traffic.
Apparently Canada needs to build data centres for data sovereignty, yet he is handing over all Canadian data to Palantir and paying for the privilege. He has not even made any lip service about getting the government off of American software. Meanwhile Europe is rapidly building and implementing its own search engines, software and moving things over to FOSS and Linux.
You don’t understand what productivity refers to. It refers to development of technology to industry, not having an economy tied to bullshit government jobs that produce nothing but paper. No one in Ottawa is “productive”, it’s all bloated overhead.
Like it or not, Canada is a resources based economy. We consistently fail at development of new technologies, i.e. Nortel, RIM/Blackberry. RIM should be as big as Apple but they blew it.
How about construction workers, truck drivers carrying goods to the border for export, business people hoping to board planes to make international deals?
They don’t produce anything? A plumber that does three house calls in a day and has to cancel his fourth call of the day (yours) as they don’t have time to complete it because of traffic slowing their travel time is no problem for you? 3 jobs in a day instead of 4 isn’t less productive?
You were supposed to be a liberal.
Liberal doesn’t mean jack anymore. He’s a centrist banker, always was. He’s leagues better than PP, but he’s no friend of the left.
I really hope the NDP can get their shit together. Canada is looking like US politics v0.5 right now.
Carney would be a Conservative PM if the party hadn’t recruited Alberta nutjobs and chose Poilievre as their loser.
Centrist? He is a conservative. And no, I am going to say he is no much better than PP. PP would have done much of the same, but he would have been making a fool of himself and the process and failing harder at it.
Carney is doing it in a bland manner and that is what makes him scary.
Yeah, I would agree that the overton window has shifted and the centre in Canada today would be considered the conservatives of the past.
I also agree that many of the policies Carney’s implementing could have been put forth under a PP lead Conservative Party, but I think the damage would have been worse. As many others have pointed out, Canada takes cues from US politics and Trump style “leadership” is horribly toxic to our democracy. We have to fight to push away the idea that PP is even a viable candidate, because as soon as we do, if he wins, then that Pandora’s box will have been opened.
Right now I feel as if we’re peeking inside it. Ford and Smith are both populist weasels and are showing that diluted Trumpian playbooks can be successful here. I fear it’s only a matter of time before we fling it open and then there’s no going back. Right now we have the choice between the lesser of two conservative governments. Let Trump politics take hold and we’ll be choosing between a stable conservative government and a wrecking ball, and then we can kiss any chance of leftist politics goodbye as people scramble to just maintain order.
Canada has always followed the US just a few years behind.
The whole country chronically elects MAGA premieres.
People quickly forget Doug Ford’s ass kissing of Trump, or Smith waiting outside in a cold parking lot waiting to kiss the ring last year.
Yes, that’s mostly true. It was before I was born, but it seems like Canada had it’s own identity forged after the fighting of WWII, but that has been eroding ever since. Good ideas like CanCon tried to maintain this, but it seems largely futile against the behemoth that is the US media/economy.
We’re now in this delayed lock step with the US, but I don’t see why that trend has to continue. There were of course people opposed to free trade, offshoring and neoliberalism when the US took that path, but those took decades to show their full effect. The US healthcare and political system, however, are currently recognised as dysfunctional, yet we’re trying to adopt them? Why?
We now have access to more data than ever before, instantly at our fingertips that shows these are bad paths to go down, but people are overloaded and don’t seem to want to think long term anymore. We got a lot of traction with elbows up, and we need to find a way to keep that Canadian identity alive, otherwise everything that differentiates is from the US will continue to erode.
Yeah same here. That’s who I would like to see in power.
Trudeau was a liberal? There is no fundamental difference between these parties.
What a dick
Remember this outside of the wildfire season.
BuT yOu VoTeD fOr HiM
– Conservatives who don’t believe in climate change to begin with.
I swear, we live in the twilight zone. This is hilarious.
Y’all seriously thought Carney’s government would bring a socialist environmental lesbian green fantasia? This is not the NDP.
This is we get some things that are progresssive and some that are not. With Tiny PP Bring It Home we get to be a US territory.
The options are all bleak but I’m better with Carney than I would be with the Tiny PP show.
I don’t think the national NDP appeals to nearly enough people to be viable at this point
