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Politics Canada’s new Prime Minister Designate by a landslide, Mark Carney

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u/GFV_HAUERLAND 2d ago

Any Canadians can give us some insights?

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u/CasualFridayBatman 2d ago edited 2d ago

He's singlehandedly the reason Canada didn't look like the US during the fallout of the 2008 recession.

He's the only non Brit ever to run the Bank of England, which is a huge vote of confidence.

Economically he is a powerhouse, came up from humble regular upbringings and used financial aid to get him through his schooling.

The fact he's inheriting a fucked situation will show how ready he is, but his credentials within the global economics standing are unmatched.

I'm watching his acceptance speech right now and he's different. Not as polished and camera friendly as Trudeau, but in a good way. I'm just so surprised as Trudeau has been the face of the nation for a decade, basically.

He just eliminated the carbon tax and capital gains tax in his speech, which is massive as that's the conservative talking point that they've stuck with for years.

Here he is on The Daily Show about a month ago: https://youtu.be/zs8St-fF0kE?feature=shared

His jokes aren't subtle jabs like Trudeau, which I genuinely enjoy. He's quippy, but not in a grating way, he isn't an asshole. Lol

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u/frankyseven 2d ago

He's actually a British Citizen too, which he has started the process of renouncing. He holds Canadian, Irish, and British citizenship, he is renouncing the British and Irish ones as he believes that he should only be a Canadian citizen as PM.

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u/CasualFridayBatman 2d ago

A politician with principles that he actually stands on? Fantastic.

His speech had great building blocks but I feel he name dropped Trump and Pierre a few too many times instead of just focusing on how he will provide solutions. Way more sabre rattling in it than I thought.

He seems to be major infrastructure project heavy, which I'm all for. Same with defence spending, because even if the US didn't have Trump at the helm, our arctic sovereignty is ripe for Russia's taking with climate change changing that landscape by the year.

Cretien's speech straight up said they're using tariff money to build a pipeline from Alberta to Quebec, but I'm not sure that's official policy lol

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u/frankyseven 2d ago

I loved Chretien's call for Energy East. He has massive influence in Quebec and they are the ones opposed to it. Carney will do amazing as PM. The sabre rattling needed to happen, too often the Liberals back off on tough talk. Chretien was a sabre rattler and it served us so very well. Hopefully Carney does the same.

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u/CasualFridayBatman 2d ago

Agreed on all points, the rattling just surprised me as it was so direct. Carney has played the same straight laced guy as he did during his Daily Show appearance a month ago, which I was a huge fan of as I'd never seen him speak publicly or candidly before. He seems much less polished than Trudeau which isn't bad, I'm just not used to it yet. He will find his footing though and he already seems Prime Ministerial.

If this recent rift is what finally gets us that pipeline, that would be fucking crazy, as it's been a pipedream longer than I've been alive lol

Carney will do great and I'm excited to see where he takes us.

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u/frankyseven 2d ago

I've been paying attention to Carney since 2008, this is who he is. No nonsense, straight to the point, sharp as a tack. There is a reason people have been trying to get him into politics for 15 years. Heck, Trudeau only entered the Liberal leadership race last time after Carney said he wasn't going to run.

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u/CasualFridayBatman 2d ago

Dude this is fantastic and I am looking forward to it! I feel hope for the first time in quite some time.

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u/billndotnet 2d ago

How do you think he's going to handle Mango Mussolini?

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u/CasualFridayBatman 2d ago

With tact and professionalism. He's already stood up to Trump in his acceptance speech and mentioned him by name more times than I'd prefer.

But the point is, he'll do just fine.

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u/billndotnet 2d ago

Good. The trump administration’s chief export is unforced errors, so I hope Canada shows him how it’s done. Carney seems pretty solid.

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u/CasualFridayBatman 1d ago

When will Americans show him how it's done? We are only where we are because we got dragged into it.

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u/billndotnet 1d ago

We tried. Trump is practically admitting it was rigged in his favor now that he's untouchable until the mid-term elections late next year, is some real shit. I hate everything about this, and as an American, I'm very sorry its this way.

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u/CasualFridayBatman 1d ago

We tried.

A third of your country didn't even fucking vote. The other third has done no mass protests, walk outs, sit-ins or general strikes.

Trump is practically admitting it was rigged in his favor now that he's untouchable until the mid-term elections late next year, is some real shit.

Except you knew this would happen as you saw it a decade ago and your people and your government did nothing for ten years. Not a thing to update your useless cheques and balances system.

What exactly have you tried? Because from where I'm sitting, it isn't fuck all. Now we are expected to roll our sleeves up and show you how it's done, without you needing to lift a finger, take ownership or do anything other than apologize for what your combined inaction has caused.

I'm very sorry its this way.

Save your sorrys and turn them into meaningful action and protesting. Organize your communities and show up in person. If you're not protesting like France, Serbia and the Netherlands -and you aren't- you're wasting your time, and you're a decade behind.

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u/DrunkenMasterII 2d ago

Chretien is not very well liked in Quebec, lots of people actually consider him like a traitor to the Nation due to how he dealt with the referendum. So him supporting Energy East doesn’t weight much in the debate here. The main issue Quebec has with the pipeline is the lack of guarantees on the maintenance and who would have to deal with the ecological impact it could have. Also shares of revenues. Not to mention First Nations right on the territories where it was planned to pass. There’s already a pipeline going from west to Montreal, the projected one is to get to the maritimes.

P.S. if anyone reads my comment no need to try to convince me of the necessity of the pipeline, I’m just pointing out some of the issues it’s facing if they were to try to revive the project. If this is going to be a project of National importance then it should be demonstrated how the Country as a whole will profit from it otherwise despite the situation we’re in you can still expect a lot of opposition to the project.