About your final paragraph vis a vis Trudeau…don’t forget Trump likes to divide and conquer. So Mexico getting a deal and perhaps not Canada may have nothing to do with how good Canada is able to deal with the current crisis.
I would have agreed with you this morning. But not after Poilievre’s speech today. According to Poilievre we should cave to Trump’s demand and send troops to the border to appease Trump and get a deal like Mexico. Doesn’t Poilievre not understand that one month from now Mexico will be in the same situation again with another nonsense demand by Trump?
I would propose exactly the opposite. Poilievre cannot be trusted to be on Team Canada. Not because he might have gotten some help from Modi in his leadership campaign, no, because he actively supports surrendering to president who has been clear his goal is for Canada to be the 51st state.
Trump doesn't want Mexico : it's full of brown people. He wants Canada because he thinks wer're all straight white folk. Wiat till he finds out Greenland has a bunch of those Inuit.
Mexico getting a deal is far easier than Canada resisting takeover.
1000% agreed that Carney should evoke every ounce of patriotism that exists in this country and that Trump should be the foil... but he shouldn't do so as an attack specifically on Poilievre. Rather, outflank him on nationalism and Canadian pride. PP currently has loyalty from a huge base of Conservatives that are outwardly pro-American or anti-Canadian, largely due to Trudeau Derangement, but also just general "freedom" loving libertarians. Without making that connection directly, force PP to have to take strong, firm stances on what the country means to him, without just sidestepping by attacking the current government or using policy platitudes like removing inter-provincial trade barriers.
Lump in the Kevin O'Leary's and David Staples' of the country that are openly treasonous in alliance with Trump, and put Poilievre in a position where he has to pick a side there. Bonus points if he can tie in a point from your previous article - as a high level hockey player, nothing incites more national pride than watching our professional athletes compete, especially against Americans. Like 2002, 2010, 2014 and the upcoming 4 Nations, we will win against the US again, rah rah rah, blah blah blah.
Sidenote on Sheinbaum - it's infuriating beyond belief, but also somewhat a positive sign than an effective, strong left leaning leader can actually work with the Trump admin. Probably doesn't bode well for the Liberals, at all, though.
"Feeling" is the key word there though, emotion being the driving feature of algorithms;
hence "Trudeau derangement syndrome," i.e. belittling and insulting the PM at EVERY SINGLE turn, while blaming him for EVERYTHING, despite how weirdly avid and irrational that is.
Conservatives always go WAY too far, are graceless even in victory.
They're THE worst people to EVER sit in parliament, just a bunch of low-life juvenile louts for the most part, with shit for brains.
And because all this casual, jeering nastiness is so obviously about unseating the guy in hopes of attaining his position yourself, it's denigrated our government like never before.
I see what you are getting at here, but Carney's major weakness is coming across like an arrogant condescending opportunist. I would be very cautious about insulting PP or even giving him attention. The counter-attack can be devastating: "Oh, did the rich international banker finally decide to chime in on the country's politics when it suited him personally? PP has been fighting for Canadians for years, not just when he can win a cynically manipulated leadership race to become PM without even holding an elected seat in the commons."
Fair or not, I have spoken to many people who find the idea that Carney could become PM though this farcical leadership process extremely offensive.
That Carney didn't set out to be a professional politician and was actually doing other important work may actually be helpful. That Polievre will use any opportunity to show off his pugilistic skills is a given.
Because of the considerable age difference and the VAST gap in life experience, not to mention world-class accomplishment, AND after we've all lived through the disastrous effects of "dumbing down" for WAY too long, I'd say Carney should pull rank on that whiny little shit regularly.
What a treat to have that imperious, nasal monotone interrupted by a Rhodes scholar who ALSO started out in Alberduh.
And why exactly is the leadership process FARCICAL? Because it's the libtards doing it? Have you ever considered the possibility that YOU have alsobeen unwittingly "algorithmed?"
About your final paragraph vis a vis Trudeau…don’t forget Trump likes to divide and conquer. So Mexico getting a deal and perhaps not Canada may have nothing to do with how good Canada is able to deal with the current crisis.
Agreed.
I would have agreed with you this morning. But not after Poilievre’s speech today. According to Poilievre we should cave to Trump’s demand and send troops to the border to appease Trump and get a deal like Mexico. Doesn’t Poilievre not understand that one month from now Mexico will be in the same situation again with another nonsense demand by Trump?
I would propose exactly the opposite. Poilievre cannot be trusted to be on Team Canada. Not because he might have gotten some help from Modi in his leadership campaign, no, because he actively supports surrendering to president who has been clear his goal is for Canada to be the 51st state.
Trump doesn't want Mexico : it's full of brown people. He wants Canada because he thinks wer're all straight white folk. Wiat till he finds out Greenland has a bunch of those Inuit.
Mexico getting a deal is far easier than Canada resisting takeover.
1000% agreed that Carney should evoke every ounce of patriotism that exists in this country and that Trump should be the foil... but he shouldn't do so as an attack specifically on Poilievre. Rather, outflank him on nationalism and Canadian pride. PP currently has loyalty from a huge base of Conservatives that are outwardly pro-American or anti-Canadian, largely due to Trudeau Derangement, but also just general "freedom" loving libertarians. Without making that connection directly, force PP to have to take strong, firm stances on what the country means to him, without just sidestepping by attacking the current government or using policy platitudes like removing inter-provincial trade barriers.
Lump in the Kevin O'Leary's and David Staples' of the country that are openly treasonous in alliance with Trump, and put Poilievre in a position where he has to pick a side there. Bonus points if he can tie in a point from your previous article - as a high level hockey player, nothing incites more national pride than watching our professional athletes compete, especially against Americans. Like 2002, 2010, 2014 and the upcoming 4 Nations, we will win against the US again, rah rah rah, blah blah blah.
Sidenote on Sheinbaum - it's infuriating beyond belief, but also somewhat a positive sign than an effective, strong left leaning leader can actually work with the Trump admin. Probably doesn't bode well for the Liberals, at all, though.
A side note to your main point:
"because disagreement on policy must not mean undercutting or betraying your country"
Out here in the boonies of Alberta, we have had 9+ years of feeling that this is exactly what our prime minister and his party was doing.
Feelings aside, how has the PM and the Liberal party betrayed the country? What laws have the passed that betray the country?
"Feeling" is the key word there though, emotion being the driving feature of algorithms;
hence "Trudeau derangement syndrome," i.e. belittling and insulting the PM at EVERY SINGLE turn, while blaming him for EVERYTHING, despite how weirdly avid and irrational that is.
Conservatives always go WAY too far, are graceless even in victory.
They're THE worst people to EVER sit in parliament, just a bunch of low-life juvenile louts for the most part, with shit for brains.
And because all this casual, jeering nastiness is so obviously about unseating the guy in hopes of attaining his position yourself, it's denigrated our government like never before.
I see what you are getting at here, but Carney's major weakness is coming across like an arrogant condescending opportunist. I would be very cautious about insulting PP or even giving him attention. The counter-attack can be devastating: "Oh, did the rich international banker finally decide to chime in on the country's politics when it suited him personally? PP has been fighting for Canadians for years, not just when he can win a cynically manipulated leadership race to become PM without even holding an elected seat in the commons."
Fair or not, I have spoken to many people who find the idea that Carney could become PM though this farcical leadership process extremely offensive.
That Carney didn't set out to be a professional politician and was actually doing other important work may actually be helpful. That Polievre will use any opportunity to show off his pugilistic skills is a given.
Because of the considerable age difference and the VAST gap in life experience, not to mention world-class accomplishment, AND after we've all lived through the disastrous effects of "dumbing down" for WAY too long, I'd say Carney should pull rank on that whiny little shit regularly.
What a treat to have that imperious, nasal monotone interrupted by a Rhodes scholar who ALSO started out in Alberduh.
And why exactly is the leadership process FARCICAL? Because it's the libtards doing it? Have you ever considered the possibility that YOU have alsobeen unwittingly "algorithmed?"