Losing the last election may turn out to have been a lucky break for Poilievre and the Conservatives. Carney's getting stuck grappling with the economic mess after Trudeau's decade in power. He's fairly competent, so it's likely he'll make some headway on the clean-up. However, he's also not going to get to do the fun, flashy stuff that typically earns politicians votes and probably will have to make some hard decisions that also won't be popular.
If the Conservatives succeed in winning the next election, the result will be that they won't be left holding the bag for the failings of the Trudeau era while the Liberals take easy (but hypocritical) shots at them for having to do the unpleasant work of fixing them. Having to clean up a Liberal mess hobbled Diefenbaker, Clark, and Mulroney.
The federalists will eventually come around and realize the only solution is closer economic integration with the US. Dr. Carney can fly to Europe all he likes, but GB, France and Germany are drowning under the weight of their green transition, thanks in no small part to Dr. Carney, and will be useless economic partners.
The Yanks have always said they don't need to invade, they will just buy us out.
Exactly. The problem with getting bought out is that you do not get the American passport, you just stay as you are. Not practical for many of Canucks for work.
Very doubtful on federalists realizing anything, besides, too many of the are well off, have at least one passport, and by and large do not give an eff abut the real well-being of Canada. Like Carney. To him, this is just a playtime.
That's the thing about Canada's elite types. Many if not most have another passport or a plan to leave. They aren't invested in Canada the way America's elite are and it shows.
Carney is competent in self-dealing. He will not do any clean-up after Turdeau, because HE WAS TURDEAU'S FINANCIAL ADVISOR. Doing any clean-up would impede his goal to "greenify" Canadain economy to the point of suffocation.
Considering the way that the Liberal leadership and the Prime Ministership that accompanied it was handed to Carney on a silver platter, I won't lose much sleep over the Category 5 Hurricane political climate that he finds himself in.
Carney was imbedded in the Trudeau power structure in an advisory capacity, true extent unknown because he was working as a Liberal partisan, not as a government official. Nonetheless, it seems fitting that he is the one charged with the task for his beloved Liberal Party to refute all the economic stifling legislation and regulations of the Trudeau era. Equally fitting is the responsibility to navigate through the fractured international relationships that were created by an image focused Liberal Leader who was famous for admonishing others while failing to deliver for foreign countries or his own people.
It's time to wear the Big Boy pants and get back to the basics of good government. The era of division and redistribution of wealth is sooo 2015.
I could not care a less about Chinese EVs. They will be as plentiful as Chinese scooters, just keep them out of underground parkades and passenger ships. They wild rival the Hyundai pony, a crappy , cheap , car that you cannot work on. Like other EVs, the novelty will wear off but the canola will be traded. Let us talk about the formula milk plant in Ontario which is owned by the PRC and which sends all its products to the PRC. Stop this nonsense!
I've wondered if the Liberals winning the election wasn't the best thing for the Conservatives. Whoever won the election was going to have to deal with the crap hand they've been dealt. This is also known as taking the blame for an unhappy electorate once real decisions have to be made.
**George Skinner's comment only appeared on my screen after I posted**
With a looming $100B deficit there is really no sign that Carney and his tired team of re-treads is doing anything substantial to deal with the mess we're in. Just like Trudeau, Carney seems obsessed with the limelight, flitting around the world from one photo op to the next, blathering platitudes into the nearest microphone, all while running up the debt.
I give the writer a big fat "Fail" for saying that Carney won his PM job fairly. No, ho did not win it fairly. You have erased from your memory the unclean, undemocratic sequence of events.
Prorogation of Parliament for months on end and installation of a new leader in a totally messed up and unprecedented way, not allowing the opposition to vote down the government, calling an election in the middle of a polling bump and (mostly manufactured) international crisis. Trudeau egging Trump into his whole "51st state" tirade and "accidentally" letting slip on a "hot mike" that "oh he really means it". Media going along with the whole thing like it's acceptable and normal and not the most self-serving asinine shitstorm imaginable. Media spending the whole election talking about Trump rather than real issues. How's that US annexation going anyway? Anyone talk about that recently?
Like a bill of rights that isn’t a totally neutered pale imitation (a Canadian codpiece as it were) of the US bill of rights with Liberal lipstick on the pig.
Took a peek at polling today, particularly the most recent Abacus (the pollster most resistant to Carney hype numbers during the election). All the indicators are going in the predictable direction. Liberals and Carney's favourability trending slowly but steadily down. Give it about a year and we will be back to 2024. Can we please just speed-run the inevitable and let everyone figure out they've been had?
I can’t even think what he will do with the EV vs Canola issue. Not good. As is everything about Trump’s actions. Ultimately no matter what we do, Trump holds the cards. (Geez I hate saying that — but…)
“Every tool in our tool box!” I just want to drop 24” pipe wrench on the next politician who says that. I’ve noticed there are 2 types of people in this Country,talkers and builders. It’s like hearing how we need to “have a conversation.”
The last 10 years have left Canada in such dire financial straits, we’re now unable to weather any storm. The cupboards are bare and the world is getting more unpredictable and nasty by the minute. Carney, smart as he may be is completely ill suited to steer the ship and his crew incapable, inept, unprepared and just plain not smart enough to rise to the occasion. The job ahead is akin to transforming Noah’s ark into a 5 star modern cruise ship… good luck with that one! It’s time to get off the ideological perch and put those damned elbows to work otherwise our ship will sink and leave no trace behind.
You've never heard of Katy Perry? I mean her star has been hanging a bit low for the last decade but before that she was pretty huge. I kind of envy your social media bubble in that case...
She and Trudeau are weirdly perfect for one another. Vapid has-been stars from a totally different easy-mode era, good at looking pretty, making empty and cringey virtue signals, and light on actual competence (Katy has trouble singing many of her own songs live, Trudeau's record speaks for itself). I am sure she would have ruled Canada almost identically in his place.
I’m starting to lose hope. After 58 years of being Canadian, I have never felt so disillusioned. Another Liberal government. Yet more incompetence. But then I read “…fart catcher…” and all is well.
Excellent line of events in this article. Alot of people actually realized past 4 years of Trudeau destruction of a once proud Canada and incompetence of his socalled faithful ministers. Many still there, still unchanged as we drift off into the Wild Blue Yonder.
So pathetic, as China and USA both pick away at the carcass.
Meanwhile the NDP picks it's leader to give Canada directions.
Haha
Why isn't our big media's tv and print calling out Trudeau's failed woke, gender, DEI politics???
Losing the last election may turn out to have been a lucky break for Poilievre and the Conservatives. Carney's getting stuck grappling with the economic mess after Trudeau's decade in power. He's fairly competent, so it's likely he'll make some headway on the clean-up. However, he's also not going to get to do the fun, flashy stuff that typically earns politicians votes and probably will have to make some hard decisions that also won't be popular.
If the Conservatives succeed in winning the next election, the result will be that they won't be left holding the bag for the failings of the Trudeau era while the Liberals take easy (but hypocritical) shots at them for having to do the unpleasant work of fixing them. Having to clean up a Liberal mess hobbled Diefenbaker, Clark, and Mulroney.
The federalists will eventually come around and realize the only solution is closer economic integration with the US. Dr. Carney can fly to Europe all he likes, but GB, France and Germany are drowning under the weight of their green transition, thanks in no small part to Dr. Carney, and will be useless economic partners.
The Yanks have always said they don't need to invade, they will just buy us out.
Exactly. The problem with getting bought out is that you do not get the American passport, you just stay as you are. Not practical for many of Canucks for work.
Very doubtful on federalists realizing anything, besides, too many of the are well off, have at least one passport, and by and large do not give an eff abut the real well-being of Canada. Like Carney. To him, this is just a playtime.
That's the thing about Canada's elite types. Many if not most have another passport or a plan to leave. They aren't invested in Canada the way America's elite are and it shows.
And the US is gone. If they buy us out, so it goes. But I'd far prefer to make the effort, because they're also going bankrupt.
"... they're also going bankrupt."
But America will go bankrupt well after Canada ends up in that condition.
We'll see. Is our current government really trying to destroy our economy?
Carney is competent in self-dealing. He will not do any clean-up after Turdeau, because HE WAS TURDEAU'S FINANCIAL ADVISOR. Doing any clean-up would impede his goal to "greenify" Canadain economy to the point of suffocation.
Your last list of Conservative PMs could have included RB Bennett… although the Great Depression wasn’t entirely Mackenzie King’s fault.
He may have caught the bus but Canadians are firmly under its wheels.
WE ARE ALL GETTING SQUISHED FINANCIALLY.
Considering the way that the Liberal leadership and the Prime Ministership that accompanied it was handed to Carney on a silver platter, I won't lose much sleep over the Category 5 Hurricane political climate that he finds himself in.
Carney was imbedded in the Trudeau power structure in an advisory capacity, true extent unknown because he was working as a Liberal partisan, not as a government official. Nonetheless, it seems fitting that he is the one charged with the task for his beloved Liberal Party to refute all the economic stifling legislation and regulations of the Trudeau era. Equally fitting is the responsibility to navigate through the fractured international relationships that were created by an image focused Liberal Leader who was famous for admonishing others while failing to deliver for foreign countries or his own people.
It's time to wear the Big Boy pants and get back to the basics of good government. The era of division and redistribution of wealth is sooo 2015.
I could not care a less about Chinese EVs. They will be as plentiful as Chinese scooters, just keep them out of underground parkades and passenger ships. They wild rival the Hyundai pony, a crappy , cheap , car that you cannot work on. Like other EVs, the novelty will wear off but the canola will be traded. Let us talk about the formula milk plant in Ontario which is owned by the PRC and which sends all its products to the PRC. Stop this nonsense!
I concur. Sell the canola.
I've wondered if the Liberals winning the election wasn't the best thing for the Conservatives. Whoever won the election was going to have to deal with the crap hand they've been dealt. This is also known as taking the blame for an unhappy electorate once real decisions have to be made.
**George Skinner's comment only appeared on my screen after I posted**
With a looming $100B deficit there is really no sign that Carney and his tired team of re-treads is doing anything substantial to deal with the mess we're in. Just like Trudeau, Carney seems obsessed with the limelight, flitting around the world from one photo op to the next, blathering platitudes into the nearest microphone, all while running up the debt.
New boss, same as the old boss.
The use of "fart catcher" gets an automatic ❤️ from me.
I give the writer a big fat "Fail" for saying that Carney won his PM job fairly. No, ho did not win it fairly. You have erased from your memory the unclean, undemocratic sequence of events.
What are you talking about?
Prorogation of Parliament for months on end and installation of a new leader in a totally messed up and unprecedented way, not allowing the opposition to vote down the government, calling an election in the middle of a polling bump and (mostly manufactured) international crisis. Trudeau egging Trump into his whole "51st state" tirade and "accidentally" letting slip on a "hot mike" that "oh he really means it". Media going along with the whole thing like it's acceptable and normal and not the most self-serving asinine shitstorm imaginable. Media spending the whole election talking about Trump rather than real issues. How's that US annexation going anyway? Anyone talk about that recently?
Thank you.
Wonder how many Canadians are finally realizing that they have voted in another stupid corrupt piece of shit.
Apropos, as the post-nation state circles the celestial toilet.
Yeah, a breakup of this country could actually create some opportunities for correction.
Like a bill of rights that isn’t a totally neutered pale imitation (a Canadian codpiece as it were) of the US bill of rights with Liberal lipstick on the pig.
Like a Constitution rewrite not written by a Trudeau?!
Yes, definitely one of the opportunities.
Took a peek at polling today, particularly the most recent Abacus (the pollster most resistant to Carney hype numbers during the election). All the indicators are going in the predictable direction. Liberals and Carney's favourability trending slowly but steadily down. Give it about a year and we will be back to 2024. Can we please just speed-run the inevitable and let everyone figure out they've been had?
A rough road ahead for Canadians. Is hope a strategy?
No. Neither is abundant willful stupidity. The road Canadians made.
I can’t even think what he will do with the EV vs Canola issue. Not good. As is everything about Trump’s actions. Ultimately no matter what we do, Trump holds the cards. (Geez I hate saying that — but…)
Grube, do you really think that canola is more than a moment's fleeting notion on Carney's EV worshipping mind?
If so, you are in a minority.
“Every tool in our tool box!” I just want to drop 24” pipe wrench on the next politician who says that. I’ve noticed there are 2 types of people in this Country,talkers and builders. It’s like hearing how we need to “have a conversation.”
The last 10 years have left Canada in such dire financial straits, we’re now unable to weather any storm. The cupboards are bare and the world is getting more unpredictable and nasty by the minute. Carney, smart as he may be is completely ill suited to steer the ship and his crew incapable, inept, unprepared and just plain not smart enough to rise to the occasion. The job ahead is akin to transforming Noah’s ark into a 5 star modern cruise ship… good luck with that one! It’s time to get off the ideological perch and put those damned elbows to work otherwise our ship will sink and leave no trace behind.
Minor note: How smart can Carney be when he believes in the power of pixie dust ????
He will NOT get off the ideological perch. Not good for his investments.
Carney is smart, just not the kind of smart needed to handle the country’s economy.
As they used to say, book smart but not street smart.
Good points.
True, but very unfair to Katy Perry.
Never heard of her until ToL had a picture of them snogging. I have blocked her on my YouTube account as a consequence.
You've never heard of Katy Perry? I mean her star has been hanging a bit low for the last decade but before that she was pretty huge. I kind of envy your social media bubble in that case...
She and Trudeau are weirdly perfect for one another. Vapid has-been stars from a totally different easy-mode era, good at looking pretty, making empty and cringey virtue signals, and light on actual competence (Katy has trouble singing many of her own songs live, Trudeau's record speaks for itself). I am sure she would have ruled Canada almost identically in his place.
Useless with celebs and no social media (does this count?). Liked whats'er in "10", but the Bolero stole the show.
Did you see the "Beaverton's" take?
I’m starting to lose hope. After 58 years of being Canadian, I have never felt so disillusioned. Another Liberal government. Yet more incompetence. But then I read “…fart catcher…” and all is well.
Excellent line of events in this article. Alot of people actually realized past 4 years of Trudeau destruction of a once proud Canada and incompetence of his socalled faithful ministers. Many still there, still unchanged as we drift off into the Wild Blue Yonder.
So pathetic, as China and USA both pick away at the carcass.
Meanwhile the NDP picks it's leader to give Canada directions.
Haha
Why isn't our big media's tv and print calling out Trudeau's failed woke, gender, DEI politics???
I like The Line.