Wow! Whoda thunk it? A liberal who talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. Who only makes vapid promises he has no intention of fulfilling. When's the last time we saw that...? Won't matter. Libs vote lib because they will not vote conservative. Ever. Not even once. They'd rather see us become Eritrea than conservative.
I don't agree with you that Carney's policy choices are based on keeping his electoral coalition together. The Liberals have always been about power, getting it and keeping it at all costs. If Carney was a real leader he could take the party in whatever direction he wanted, as long as electoral success went with it. I see two alternatives. Either he really believes what he is selling or he knows it is all a bunch of fairy tales, but that he craves the attention and adoration that he gets from the Davos crowd and Juno attendees that he would have to give up lead the country in the right direction and make the changes necessary to make Canada successful.
So take your pick: stupid or evil.
As for why a large portion of the Canada voters are falling for it. I am stumped.
He can't bite the hand that feeds him. He is trying to sometimes cater to groups with opposite interests, exactly like he did on Israel, he comes out pro strike against Iran and then proceeds to contradict himself, he figures votes are that clueless that they won't notice. He's probably right. Everything is about electoral gain, but he still has a base.
Just like with Justin, the announcement IS the policy. I note that every foreign trip Carney takes, it seems like he’s either a day or two ahead of Brookfield or a few days after Brookfield visited the same leaders. Surely just a coincidence.
You beat me to the Brookfield angle. I was also going to mention that. So I guess if he is stupid AND evil that would mean that he really believes that the world is just waiting for some country to offer carbon-neutral oil AND he and Brookfield can make a lot of money by fleecing Canadians.
My recent work provides a structural explanation for why the reforms you describe often struggle to take hold. I have developed a theoretical framework called "Institutional Closure." In my research, I demonstrate that modern institutions—including universities and health agencies—have developed a "bureaucratic immune system." This system allows them to perform the rituals of reform while remaining unable to correct their errors internally. I call this the "Silent Drift." I have recently completed a trilogy of essays that move from a specific case study (academic exclusion at Université Laval) to a general theory on how Western institutions neutralize dissent through procedural density and "administrative ghosting."
You're asking a tanker ship to be turned around like a speed boat.
Patience (the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious:) is not only a virtue in today's world..... it has become a necessity
14 months. Nothing. The regulatory burden for a new pipeline is higher than before. Experts, far more informed than I, say he has had time to start major projects, but he doesn’t want to as he is still captive to an environmental base. In a year you will be saying patience. And after his term is up it will be “he has had not had enough time, give him another term.”
14 months. .....26 trips abroad to 25 countries to discuss new trade agreements, while never closing the door on Trump......EXHAUSTING The goals he's outlined are not just about pipelines..
Huge investments in Northern Canada and the Arctic, not overnight builds but crucial for the protection and expanded development of Canada. I could go on and on but all this info is easy to source online.
You don’t understand - he is signing MOU s not agreements , and trade happens from the private sector, it is mostly theatre. Look at the actual numbers of trade.
Wow! Whoda thunk it? A liberal who talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. Who only makes vapid promises he has no intention of fulfilling. When's the last time we saw that...? Won't matter. Libs vote lib because they will not vote conservative. Ever. Not even once. They'd rather see us become Eritrea than conservative.
"Fourteen months have already passed. There is no evidence, yet, that the next fourteen will be any different." Too true.
I don't agree with you that Carney's policy choices are based on keeping his electoral coalition together. The Liberals have always been about power, getting it and keeping it at all costs. If Carney was a real leader he could take the party in whatever direction he wanted, as long as electoral success went with it. I see two alternatives. Either he really believes what he is selling or he knows it is all a bunch of fairy tales, but that he craves the attention and adoration that he gets from the Davos crowd and Juno attendees that he would have to give up lead the country in the right direction and make the changes necessary to make Canada successful.
So take your pick: stupid or evil.
As for why a large portion of the Canada voters are falling for it. I am stumped.
He can't bite the hand that feeds him. He is trying to sometimes cater to groups with opposite interests, exactly like he did on Israel, he comes out pro strike against Iran and then proceeds to contradict himself, he figures votes are that clueless that they won't notice. He's probably right. Everything is about electoral gain, but he still has a base.
Stupid or evil? Why not both?
Just like with Justin, the announcement IS the policy. I note that every foreign trip Carney takes, it seems like he’s either a day or two ahead of Brookfield or a few days after Brookfield visited the same leaders. Surely just a coincidence.
You beat me to the Brookfield angle. I was also going to mention that. So I guess if he is stupid AND evil that would mean that he really believes that the world is just waiting for some country to offer carbon-neutral oil AND he and Brookfield can make a lot of money by fleecing Canadians.
I dumped my Brookfield stock on principle
So did I
My recent work provides a structural explanation for why the reforms you describe often struggle to take hold. I have developed a theoretical framework called "Institutional Closure." In my research, I demonstrate that modern institutions—including universities and health agencies—have developed a "bureaucratic immune system." This system allows them to perform the rituals of reform while remaining unable to correct their errors internally. I call this the "Silent Drift." I have recently completed a trilogy of essays that move from a specific case study (academic exclusion at Université Laval) to a general theory on how Western institutions neutralize dissent through procedural density and "administrative ghosting."
https://indepnews.org/en/academic-dissent-at-universite-laval-during-covid/
https://indepnews.org/en/why-canada-cannot-handle-dissent/
https://indepnews.org/en/what-the-laval-case-shows-about-academic-freedom/
https://indepnews.org/en/restoring-the-democratic-pulse/
https://unbekoming.substack.com/p/tyranny-without-fear
https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/when-collegiality-becomes-censorship
https://x.com/LMucchielli/status/2032426999835148793
You're asking a tanker ship to be turned around like a speed boat.
Patience (the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious:) is not only a virtue in today's world..... it has become a necessity
14 months. Nothing. The regulatory burden for a new pipeline is higher than before. Experts, far more informed than I, say he has had time to start major projects, but he doesn’t want to as he is still captive to an environmental base. In a year you will be saying patience. And after his term is up it will be “he has had not had enough time, give him another term.”
14 months. .....26 trips abroad to 25 countries to discuss new trade agreements, while never closing the door on Trump......EXHAUSTING The goals he's outlined are not just about pipelines..
Huge investments in Northern Canada and the Arctic, not overnight builds but crucial for the protection and expanded development of Canada. I could go on and on but all this info is easy to source online.
You don’t understand - he is signing MOU s not agreements , and trade happens from the private sector, it is mostly theatre. Look at the actual numbers of trade.
Thanks for clarifying my inadequacy.
Yours appears to be a lack of Patience so I revert back to my initial point.
I might be wrong. We will see. Hence your point. :)