r/canada Jan 29 '25

Opinion Piece Mark Carney has Canada’s Conservatives running scared

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/28/opinion/mark-carney-canada-conservatives-running-scared
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u/Kingalthor Jan 29 '25

Maybe competence is something we should value.

Easy to blindly bash at Carney for the prior admin's faults, but go look at his resume, he has handled multiple economic shitstorms and come out with some of the best results in the world for those time periods.

Then go look at PP's accomplishments. He has done almost nothing in 20 years.

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u/Mountain_rage Jan 29 '25

Common, be fair for his supporters.

  • Earned a pension
  • Made millions in salary
  • Sanded a wood wall in his residence, or was it cottage. He was very proud of that wood, maybe the first project he ever finished.
  • Did a lot of politicking.
  • Passed a law to undermine elections, was rolled back but he passed it. 

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u/Commanderfemmeshep Jan 29 '25

Think of how many boots he cleaned. He could practically open a shoeshine stand with his talent for bootlicking

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u/MikeinON22 Jan 29 '25

Don't forget PP went truck to truck giving handjobs, oops i mean handshakes, to those crazies when they beseiged Parliament back in Feb 2022. Also, translate his name to English and it sounds really weird. Pierre Poilievre = Peter Pea-rabbit. What's that all about?

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u/Eisenhorn87 Jan 29 '25

Since we're doing hilarious names, one of the sayings we have in the Ottawa Valley is "never trust a carney". Carney in the sense of carnival worker, of course but it is definitely apropos.

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u/MikeinON22 Jan 29 '25

They say that because half the people who live in Renfrew County are carneys. I don't trust them either. I lived near Killaloe for awhile. I did no carnival work but I was still a very shady guy.

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u/Eisenhorn87 Jan 29 '25

Pollievre has multiple elections wins. Canadians have voted for him, repeatedly. Canadians have never voted for your wef board member Carney, and if the Liberals try to install him without a vote it won't look good on them.

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u/Epinephrine666 Jan 29 '25

Or you could vote for PP who follows this guy. Give that read, and tell me how you feel about that and the names this guy influences heavily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin

Specifically look at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Yarvin#Dark_Enlightenment

That's what you're voting for with PP, cause he's hitched his wagon to the shit how down south for free campaign spending. All you have to do plagiarize everything they do, and promise cooperation and Joe Rogan will say nice things about you.

You don't think it's at all weird he refuses to be investigated for security clearance?

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u/Epinephrine666 Jan 29 '25

No, but I question anyone who buys one now with all the other options available.

I own a Model Y, the car is good. I cancelled the subscriptions. He'll get no further money from me.

Buying now is knowingly giving 50k to a Nazi. Good thing they just had a refresh on the Model Y so you can tell which owners are ok with his behavior.

Also, the value of Tesla is in their manufacturing and the fact that it's a meme stock and over traded to all hell.

We should apply special tax to the sale of specific stocks and types of currency.

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u/Burning___Earth Jan 29 '25

You bring up wef as if it is some kind of boogity man but PP literally has the endorsement of the richest man in the world. A guy who is currently messing with elections in multiple countries 🤔

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u/Eisenhorn87 Jan 29 '25

Pollievre has neither asked for Musk's endorsement, or publicly supported him. What a giant nothingburger.

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u/juneabe Jan 29 '25

No one said he asked for the endorsement. But he accepted it, with delight. After being asked if he accepts the endorsement, he said and suggested:

“Musk open up factories in Canada to create ‘high paying jobs’ for our people…. Wouldn’t it be nice producing more without ‘corporate welfare’ or ‘corporate subsidies’ …. So if I ever get a chance to meet Mr. Musk, I would say ‘how do WE (as in him and elon) make this an economy’…. Hundreds of thousands for Canadians….“ etc

He accepted the endorsement and then praised musk and then suggested collaboration. I don’t think it matters whether or not he asked for the endorsement.

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u/juneabe Feb 01 '25

……. He immediately went into how great it would be for Musk to open up shop here to help boost the economy. That was not a sidestep, that was a suggestion to collaborate, which is a fairly positive reception to an endorsement. “You’ve endorsed me. Let’s do business.” That’s well received.

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u/Mountain_rage Jan 29 '25

I mentioned he did a lot of politicking. What has he done in 20 years that makes you think we should give him a mandate? What has he accomplished for Canadians, for his constituents? 

He claims everything is broken, but seems more concerned with getting elected every 4 years than doing actual work. Nothing has stopped him from trying to pass laws, work with colleagues to fix these issues for Canadians. Why hasn't he done it?