51 Replies to “Canada Unthrives”

  1. Carney’s Davos speech was for the domestic audience back home.
    He’s telling us Canada has never been a rules based country. Those with power have no respect for the taxpaying citizen. They don’t care about rules such as the Nuremberg code. They call in the SS to shoot and trample those who protest according to the rules.

    On the world stage Canada is a bigger hypocrite than any.

    1. Yup, I agree, Carney’s Davos speech was for the domestic audience back home. And I would wager that’s what he explained to Trump.

      Election coming?

  2. Beware, Carney lies like a rug. And as a central banker, he has always been a lying bootlicker, the windvane of economic policy.

    1. FILTHY LIBERALS
      Eternally beta.
      FILTHY LIBERALS need a Reckoning but instead our ELBOWSUP BOOMER RETARDS rewarded CRIMINAL Activity.

      Stick a Halal Pitchfork into Canada….

  4. “Globalist agenda” says it all.
    The Americans know what Carney is.
    And they’re actually far too polite when they speak about him.
    Carney is a two-faced sack o shit and a bona fide coward.
    But he’s a Liberal and those are prerequisites to Party acceptance.

    2. You might like or dislike, love or hate, Carney, but if you think he lacks intelligence then you haven’t been paying attention.

      1. Faking your way through life isn’t a sign of intelligence. Cunning, maybe, but it requires the help of equally stupid people to move it along.

      2. So what, what good is intelligence if you don’t have a soul?
        You know the answer .
        Nothing , just like what this country is becoming .
        Again you make a point that’s moot.

      3. It’s funny how Trump is stupid and Carney is intelligent. Someone on here said to pay attention to what Scott Bessent is saying. Well he is saying that Carney is saying one thing to the people of Davos and another thing entirely to Trump (aka “aggressively walking ack his comments made at Davos”). Which brings up the question of who is being deceptive and why.

        1. I never said Trump was stupid. Decades ago he was highly articulate. I will say he seems to be suffering for senility, and possibly something more serious. His January 22 press briefing was painful to listen to.

      4. “You might like or dislike, love or hate, Carney, but if you think he lacks intelligence then you haven’t been paying attention.”

        Just like with you and Donald Trump, then.

      5. The LIBERAL FANRAT speaks. Surprise, he’s a Carney admirer.
        “Conservative”, just like Allan.

        1. Admitting that the former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England is intelligent hardly makes someone an admirer. It’s facing up to the blindingly obvious. Only a fool would deny it, no matter what their politics.

          Harper entrusted the Canadian financial system to Carney’s hands, and between them, Canada navigated the 2008 financial crisis better than almost any western country.

          And you haven’t the slightest idea what a conservative is, ByTheSea. You’re a far-right populist who puts tribalism before all.

          1. Carney’s intelligent?
            Ok, but man he lacks any common sense.
            Trudeau would do the exact same thing: say one thing publicly here and another thing publicly there.
            Intelligent people who lack common sense are the most dangerous and are often sociopaths.

          2. Don’t tell me. Tell MikeT.

            So far common sense, I think he’s handling Trump about the only way you can. I don’t think he’s handling other files as well

  6. I don’t know how even the Liberal base will see this as strength. It’s been clear for almost a year that Carney has no interest in securing a deal with his long time business associate, Donald Trump. But these deliberate tweeks to pump up the Orange Man Bad narrative can only work if Carney looks strong. Now he looks pathetic. The CPC will have a field day running clips during the upcoming campaign; unfortunately reminding the world how unreliable Canada is as a trading partner. Even if Carney wins a second term (never underestimate the stupidity of the average voter), he’ll have a hell of a time negotiating Brookfield friendly contracts.

    1. In the last decade, the Lieberals created the best attack ad material one could ever hope for. Did the CPC ever take advantage of it? Don’t expect anything to change.

      1. And why would. They don’t want to govern, they just want to sit back, throw the odd stone and collect their political welfare.

    2. ” But these deliberate tweeks to pump up the Orange Man Bad narrative can only work if Carney looks strong.”

      And Carney can never look strong because he has nothing to back up his bluster. Words can only take you so far, and Canada has neither the military nor the economic might to take on the United States. We might be able to intimidate Equador, or Moldavia, or Ghana with Carney’s tough talk if they were major trading partners, but they are not. Carney tries to rally the ‘middle powers’ to Canada’s side to confront the United States, while totally forgetting why the European Union itself was formed.

      Now he has once again embarrassed himself (and our nation) on the world stage and seeks a way out. That’s easy, Mr. Carney: resign. You have bungled *every aspect* of this job right since you first got it, with your arrogance and self-righteousness leading you to make one stupid decision after another for the sole purpose of ‘fighting’ President Donald Trump.

      You could have ‘made nice’ with Trump. You could have done the three things he requested us to do, and at very little cost to us. But no, you had to be confrontational and act the tough guy. Now you reap the reward for that, and Canada suffers for what you have done.

      1. Fred, he did “reap the reward” which is power. These globalists are a combination of nihilist and Malthusian, they see a depopulated world with themselves as feudal lords. You think that sociopath gives a rat’s ass about millions of Canadians suffering and dying? That’s the plan.

  7. Wonder if some of the waffling by your PM has something to do with Canadian funding of what’s happening in MN?
    That could get very uncomfortable I should think.

    1. US donors faced reprisals from Trudeau for contributions to the Trucker Convoy. The reprisals included public dixxing, media scrutiny and political pressure. It was all part of Trudeau’s strategy to limit the impact of the convoy.
      My thanks to Data republican for the list of foreign individuals and groups funding the Anti-ICE protests in MN and elsewhere.

      1. Not just funding either; looks like some were down here helping out and providing safe houses in Canada for ‘protesters’ on the run.
        Turn around is fair play isn’t it?
        It would be terribly discomfiting if there was some connection to Canadian public/private groups — like a union or something. Very discomfiting indeed.

  8. Like his predecessors Carney is a liar and a thief. I hope he wins the next election. That should put a final nail in the coffin of what used to be an upstanding country.
    Liar thief. The two lowest lifeforms on the planet.

  9. Instead of TACO ( Trump always chickens out), we should change it to CUCO (Carney Usually Chickens out). You get the point.

  10. Without independent verification of that improbable event, we must file Bessent’s claim under “Very likely bullshit.”

    2. Without independent verification of that improbable event, we must file Carney’s claim under “Very likely bullshit.”

    1. I love how Americans kick Canada in the face with trade restrictions despite free-trade deals, and then mock Canadians when they try to divert their trade to nations who actually want to do business with them.

      Classy.

      1. Cry harder.

        Classy? Was there ever in all of history anything classy about politics?
        I tire of hearing about “decorum” and “rules” when it comes to politics…it’s a load of trash and insisting that it didn’t or shouldn’t is just so much equivocating.

        1. “Cry harder.”

          Picturing KM dissolving in a teary-eyed, blubbering mess is about the only thing enjoyable about his trolling. Poor little guy…he’s The Little Engine That Couldn’t…

      2. Please DO all the business you want with Mumbai and Brussels. Knock yourself out. I don’t knock or kick people who are in denial. I recognize it as a serious medical malady. I wish you the best in getting over it.

        1. Thank you. I believe Canada will take you up on the offer, not that we need an Americans’ permission.

  12. 25% aluminum tarrifs (with the threat of 100%) are becoming a huge own goal for Americans.

    Canada is one of the biggest and lowest-cost aluminum producers in the world. Such dependable access to this critical metal is a massive boon to American industries. In response to tariffs, Quebec producers are now diverting their trade to Europe, which seems keen to buy Canadian:

    https://www.mining.com/web/canada-aluminum-hub-diverts-exports-to-europe-as-us-tariffs-bite/

    The result is spiraling aluminum prices in the US since last spring:

    https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/aluminum-price

    This makes American-produced goods costlier, and thus less competitive.

    The longer the tariffs remain in place, the more this European trade will solidify into long-term deals. The US will become increasingly dependent on overseas supply at greater transportation costs. The US might build more aluminum smelters, but that will take a decade or more, and they will never be able to match Quebec’s low costs.

    1. Well KM, the US trade deficit is down by 40%, and their economy is growing at 5%, can’t say the same about Canada. we have, and have had no growth for years, except in food bank lines and homeless, and doctorless, and dying on waitlists, etc.

      1. 5% is the nominal growth rate. The real growth rate (that is, after inflation) was around 2.5%. That’s still solid, but it’s not 5%.

        The prices of both steel and alumimun rose sharply after March (Liberation Day). This is almost certainly due to tariffs, as other countries did not see the same magnitude of growth in prices. As an example, the price of aluminum is now about 30% higher in the US than in Canada. With free trade, that can’t happen.

        https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/hrc-steel

        The US cannot sustain that degree of price increase and expect growth to continue. It puts them at a cost disadvantage compared to other countries, and it fuels domestic inflation, leaving consumers with less to spend.

    2. I’ll buy my Coca-Cola in plastic litre bottles instead of aluminum cans. Problem solved. For all your self-proclaimed economic ‘genius’ … you seem to believe that consumers are captives to some external authority … incapable of making nimble marketplace choices.

      1. That’s your solution? Buy pop in plastic containers?

        The base model of a Ford F-150 has at least 500 lbs of aluminum in it. Most of their pickups have far more. Are you going to replace that with plastic as well?

  13. Carney’s response to Bessent’s statement: “I meant what I said.”
    Left unsaid: “Oh, you said that to President Trump?” Umm “Well, no, I’m saying it to you now.”
    Who has more credibility?

    1. “I wonder how Mike Myers’ elbows are feeling these days.”

      I particularly enjoyed it when a reporter asked one of the old woman doing the Chicken Dance what ‘elbows up’ actually meant. She had no idea.

  15. If Mr. Bessent is being truthful, I imagine there will be a release of the transcript. If not, The Greatest Economist Ever (TM) will have been found to be telling the truth. We, as observers, can only wait in great anticipation.

    Given Mr. Carney’s estrangement from the truth (many examples, most glaring the BAM move to New York) and his “elbow dropping,” I am guessing that his tough talk was, as others have noted above, strictly for the morons that continue to support him and his sycophantic press.

    As the President says; “we will see”

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