The “rules-based international order” was always pish-posh that had very little to do with international law and boiled down to Washington making up the rules and giving the rest of us our orders. Which, it must be acknowledged, for the most part we cheerfully obeyed.
But I’ll tell ya, one thing that wasn’t on my bingo card for 2026, or any other year for that matter, was a Canadian prime minister getting up on his hind legs in public and bluntly stating the obvious.
So here’s to Mark Carney for having the intestinal fortitude to state the obvious so clearly – and at the annual World Economic Forum plutocrats’ beanfest in Davos, Switzerland, no less!
We always knew, Mr. Carney told his influential audience on Tuesday, that “the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically.”
It was a useful fiction, though, he pointed out without quite filling in the blanks, because it worked for us. Us, in this case, being The West, the principal beneficiaries of the post-World-War-II American Imperium.
But that was then and this is now, thanks to Donald Trump, who Mr. Carney prudently never mentioned by name. “This bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”
That was the brave part, which you, my patient readers, have no doubt been reading in a multitude of other places all day yesterday. For this reason, I won’t be quoting our prime minister at great length. Nevertheless, that short passage was obviously the reason Mr. Carney’s words flew around our interconnected world so swiftly and were greeted with such instant reverence.
After all, he has just said what everyone was thinking but was afraid to say!
In other words, Mr. Carney’s elementary deduction was a true emperor-has-no-clothes moment – although I apologize for using a metaphor that many of you will have trouble unseeing once you’ve thought about it for a moment.
Whether Mr. Carney’s Rupture Address goes down as one of the great orations of history, like the 272 words of the greatest American president’s Gettysburg Address, remains to be seen. It was a historic speech by any standard, though – even that of The New York Times, the Great Bothsideser of modern journalism. Mr. Carney is said to have written it himself.
Now, let us pause for an important word of caution. Just because Mr. Carney said “you cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination,” doesn’t mean he thinks we should throw the internationalist baby out with the imperialist bathwater.
“The middle powers must act together,” he said, “because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.” (Emphasis added.) As for the lesser powers, though, presumably we’ll let the Devil take the hindmost.
Still, the PM made a good point about how to deal with a more powerful adversary, true even when it’s not a bully superpower run by a lunatic, a description that could probably be applied to more than one of the great powers at this unexpected moment in history.
Middle powers need to take some inspiration from the trade union movement, Mr. Carney said without quite saying it: “When we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what’s offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating.
“This is not sovereignty,” he added, accurately. “It’s the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.”
So this reminds me of the question posed by that old song, composed just after the turn of the last century, that many readers of this blog will have heard before, even if, like most of the leaders of the labour movement whose anthem it is supposed to be, we can’t quite remember the words. “What force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one?”
Mr. Carney went on: “In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice – compete with each other for favour, or to combine to create a third path with impact.”
Or, as the song quoted above more succinctly puts this point: “But the union makes us strong! Solidarity Forever!”
Rather than re-reading the rest of Mr. Carney’s Rupture Address, the limited meaning of which is clear enough, I would refer readers to the sound if no longer politically practical analysis of economic relationships in the famous song that seems unexpectedly to have inspired the prime minister.
Astonishingly, the gathered plutocrats gave him a standing ovation. That wasn’t on my bingo card either.
IMHO… the comparison between the two speeches was glaring, and it left alot of people here with a thankful , pride filled moment.
So of course the Cons had to send out a voice to say it’s not a rupture, it’s just a ripple, and he’s not doing the job he was voted in to do….he’s supposed to signing a deal with the us….(p&p)
Imo– if this is any indication of the “under new management” tactics, they are going need more than a new riding for the leader of their party, because it seems pretty obvious which way that wind is blowing.
The issue is not what the Prime Minister says, it is what he does that matters. In fact, he is doing the bidding of American and other foreign big businesses right now by cutting funding for our agricultural research stations. Over the past 160 years these are the facilities and their staff that have developed the genetics for pretty much every crop that grows in Canada today. These cuts mean the crops I grow in the future, and the food you will eat, will be developed by the Agro-chemical-seed companies in the interests of their profits, rather than in the public interest of Canadians.
The Harper government burnt most of our Agricultural Research libraries. Now the Carney government looks like it is finishing the job by firing staff and closing research farms across Canada. Even the low input and organic research at Swift Current is being cut. Deeply important conventional research programs across Saskatchewan, in Quebec City, at Guelph, the Indian Head Research Station in Sk and the Lacombe Research Farm in Alberta are also being cut.
Carney’s assertion at Davos that “A country that can’t feed itself, . . . has few options” looks fatuous and bombastic in light of his sabotage of Canada’s ability to continue feeding the world. In spite of what the good banker may say, these cuts are not nation-building.
Donald Trump is creating chaos. Giving him another chance was a very big mistake. Danielle Smith admires him, as does her MLAs. The UCP are finished. In the United States, they will get rid of Donald Trump. Voters will vote in someone else, because they are sick of him.
Mr. Carney kicked ass! Now tear up the F35 deal and sign with SAAB.
Yes, tear up the F35 deal and sign with Sweden. We can not trust the U.S.A. as long as trump and his gang are running the show. The U.S.A. is not our friend. You don’t purchase important military equipment from some one we can’t trust and trump and his gang can’t be trusted any further than you can throw them. trump is too fat to be picked up
@e.a.Foster
Never mind the F35s we *paid for already* while they keep adding more to that bill in cost over-runs and we still don’t have them TEN YEARS LATER. By the time we get them they’ll be so outdated the new SAABs will be out and China will just send space shuttles wherever they need to go.
… and I don’t know if you’ve noticed but with all their projection about “CHYNAH” I would bet good money they’re able to brick every single one of those fighters remotely if they think for a second you’re not playing ball with the hegemon.
Do I have any evidence ? No, but it is an idea they’re OBSESSED with so I would say it’s got a 95% chance of being true
They don’t have to outright brick them.
Just like your computer’s operating system, they just stop sending updates or load in a virus and since they own all the IP, we can’t get them or program them, ourselves.
Within hours/days/weeks every jet would be inoperable.
Give the F-35’s to Ukraine (significant aid) and start building SAAB in Canada right now.
Funny thing: in a CBC news story on last night’s The National, about the US’s latest sabre-rattling over Iran, there was a very brief glimpse of a US aircraft carrier in the region — it may have been the USS Abraham Lincoln. The ship’s flight deck was crammed with combat aircraft, but one of them were F-35s: they were all F/A-18 Hornets.
(Actually, they were most likely the newer and more capable F/A-18E or F Super Hornets, not the older F/A-18 A/B Hornets flown by our RCAF).
So even in what could become a theatre of was in the next few days, the US Navy is not deploying F-35s, but the somewhat older and less gee-whiz technically advanced F/A-18. What does that say about their own confidence in that platform?
The Eurofighter gets no love and is by any and all measures superior to the SAAB or any other non USA manufactured fighter.
@Arly
Serious questions. How good are they in arctic and how easy are they to hide without a princess hangar? How far behind is their production? Links if you have them, please.
Because that’s where we are, now.
Wouldn’t be just so much fun if Mark Carney got a Nobel peace prize and Donald Trump gets snubbed again and again?
That would be a definite Kodak moment. LOL
I would love to see the orange human filth live long enough to see that happen.
Giving Mark Carney a standing ovation was an easy, and unanimous, way for other world leaders to vent the frustration they have with Donald Trump without worrying about incurring the wrath of Agent Orange.
Carney has offered to give tRump his standing ovation in order to patch things up. 😉
We hear comments from former prime ministers Jean Chretien and Justin Trudeau. Unless you Albertans say otherwise, former PM and Calgary resident Stephen Harper has been as quiet as a lonely Conservative MP perched high in the bleachers. Nothing on his website either.
What about Harper’s real job of running the retrograde and barbaric International Democracy Union? I wonder what their oppressive and violent members are saying? It takes a special kind of mind to equate authoritarianism with democracy.
Harper, like all the Cons, is riding the gravy train.
The banker Carny is going to Make Canada Great again by forming an alliance with middle powers that is going to withstand the hegemon? It must be Buy-one-get-three PhD week at Klown Kollege. The finance sector that owns the world is fully integrated and nation states are subordinate to it. The military and intelligence apparatus is likewise supranational. The notion that a Canadian state is going to pursue economic goals, which cannot be separated from national security goals, outside of this structure is infantile and silly.
Infantile and silly is using words like “Klown Kollege” as if they have some kind of special import.
I dunno, to me it reads more like that supranational business class realizing the worm has turned. I’m sure carney, with his own international bonafides isn’t exactly groping about in the dark. How long does Trump expect the formerly most-powerful-people to take the stick for ? All this shitgibbon has done for the first year of his presidency is savage his allies and heap praise on his adversaries. How long are his own oligarchs going to continue to support him ?
As far as your claim that finance capital has made every state subservient to its power, that’s obviously not true. Do they control Iran? Venezuela ? Saudi Arabia ? China ? North Korea? Afghanistan ?
These are rhetorical questions…. I’m sure elite bankers and capitalists would LIKE to run the world, but that’s a reading that is almost cartoonish in comparison to reality.
The Western media AGAIN deliberately lost the plot on Carney’s speech.
It wasn’t directed at Trump. Trump is just the naked face of what’s been going on since WWII. Everyone in the global south, China, Russia, Asia, Africa, Middle East–everyone outside of Europe and many inside it have been shouting from the rooftops since the invention of the UN/NATO that it serves only American interests. That justice was meted out harshly to small countries while America and Israel committed atrocities with impunity as Europe nodded along lest the eye of Sauron light upon them. That this alliance shoved guns in the faces of other nations and told them, “get on your knees”, economically broke them until they complied then agreed to be robbed through the IMF and subjugated.
It took a banker and an insider to tell this to them, straight to their faces at the Rich People’s Club–even though others have been saying it for decades. Forget America, the cowering hypocrites at the EU will be worse.
Buckle up Canada. Our PM just ripped the mask off the American Imperialist Empire with its collaborators (including us) and it’s a world-shattering moment.
Until the mainstream media starts shoving propaganda Valium down everyone’s throats.
Even so, it can’t be undone.
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Honestly? I wept. All of us who’ve been shouting this at those singing the chorus of “But America created the Marshall Plan! America moved civilisation forward! America is a Beacon Of Hope” and every other self-serving inanity…welp…
… Mark Carney just called it and try as they might, ain’t nobody fitting those crushed crackers back in the cellophane packet.
Somebody had to tell them!
Or . . .
“This fiction [ the story of the international rules-based ] was useful [for maintaining hegemonic global dominance, privilege, and exploitation by utilizing “the three grand imperatives of imperial geo-strategy”] . . . So, we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals. And largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality [until both our own self interests and our very existence as a vassal state were both implicitly and explicitly threatened].”
These “fictions” or myths are the silent weapons in those quiet wars that are regularly employed to shape the attitudes and beliefs of the empire’s subjects and constituents. In this instance these fictions or myths maintain the power and dominance of the hegemonic political status quo and only retain their power for as long as they are believed in and/or are held to be in the interest of and have utilitarian value for both the ruling entity and its vassals.
The reasons for employing such controlling narratives has both a long and deep historical precedent. See for example:
“The rulers then of the city may, if anybody, rightly lie to and about enemies or citizens for the benefit of the state; no others may have anything to do with it, but for a layman to lie to rulers we shall affirm to be as great a sin, even greater than it is for a patient not to tell physician or an athlete his trainer the truth about his bodily condition, or for a man to deceive the captain about the ship and the sailors as to the real condition of himself or a fellow-sailor, and how they fare.”
Looks to me like Prime Minister Carney is starting to channel another prime minister, name of Churchill.
Pre-WW2, Canada’s economic “direction” if you will was UK oriented, ie. not American. Carney is trying to take us to version of that era, one that has us trading with “ABA” (Anyone But America).
As for the Donald … I have multiple family members with bipolar disorder. His behaviour is reminding me more and more of them at their worst. His disconnect with reality is accelerating. I am honestly wondering if a 25th Amendment application awaits him?
Finally an adult at the helm of our Nation. As an Independent voter, I ask, how did we put up with the virtue signalling former PM for so long. I am elated that we have a Liberal PM who actually approaches policy in a conservative well thought out manner. We were lost in the wilderness for ten years as our economy stagnated ( though the GDP was juiced through population increases not productivity). Now it is time for the country to roll up its collective sleeves and rebuild the economy. No one is going to help us but ourselves.
We put up with Trudeau for so long because everyone remembers Stephen Harper (a) and (b) the conservatives have yet to find a leader in the space between the end of “the Harper government” and the entirety of Trudeau being in office. This is largely because Harper rebuilt the CPC in his own image, drove out everyone but sycophants and useful idiots and still is likely pulling the strings (badly) from his post in the IDU.
Canada hates and mistrusts the CPC. I don’t know how many more times people need to hear it.
I know I may take some heat for saying this, but I believe that Mark Carney is the most Conservative Liberal Prime Minister since Paul Martin. I listened to his speech again this morning and what struck me was not the statesman like tone, but that he sound like the Central Banker that he was.
“Whether Mr. Carney’s Rupture Address goes down as one of the great orations of history, like the 272 words of the greatest American president’s Gettysburg Address, remains to be seen.”
Carney: “We are calibrating our relationships so their depth reflects our values. And we’re prioritizing broad engagement to maximize our influence, given the fluidity of the world order, the risks that this poses, and the stakes for what comes next.”
Calibrating our relationships?
A lot of horsefeathers!
Don’t mistake neoliberal bureaucratese and bankster doubletalk for eloquence.
Orwell would have a field day with Carney’s speech. “Politics and the English Language” should be required reading once a year.
Geoffrey Pounder, it must be really hard for you diehard Reformers to hear an intelligent speech for a change isn’t it? All the conservatives in my world are sick and tired of the stupidity you Reform Party fools have brought to the table and why wouldn’t we be when you have literally helped these Reformers destroy our children and grandchildren’s financial future?
Can you please explain where you are going to find the funds to pay the $90Billion debt , the $260 Billion oil well cleanup mess, and provide $30 billion to fix roads, bridges and build 60new schools we need, because we can’t? We see Carney as another Lougheed interested in helping all Canadians with a better life and not another damn Reformer helping the rich steal our oil ad and corporate tax wealth like they have. It’s a well fact that we lost $1.2 trillion because of them.
Can you see any reason why we shouldn’t start some class action lawsuits against you Reformers like lawyers have suggested, would you like to try?
Alan: Whatever way Geoffrey leans politically, I’m pretty sure he’s not a Reformer. DJC
David, Unfortunately I was going by other comments I have seem him write over the years and haven’t yet truly figured out what he is. While the lefties in my world were like me and praising Carney it looked to me like he was making fun of him, silly me.
No worries, Alan. I just like everyone to know I’m paying attention to their comments. DJC
Never having met Mr Pounder, I can only speculate, but from what I can infer from his frequent past contributions to this blog, there is no way he is even remotely aligned with the Reform/Alliance/CPC parties. In fact, while I rarely agree with him, and often think what he should be pounding is sand, I would never accuse him of anything so odious.
No, my guess is that Mr Pounder is one of those ultra-greenie types that are so far out on the BC NDP’s left flank, they think Avi Lewis is too moderate for them.
Anti-development, anti-jobs, BANANAs (“build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything”) that are the reason ordinary unionized workers with families to feed have fled from the federal NDP to embrace the Poilièvre-led Conservative party.
I for one want to bring those workers back to their natural political home, and part of that must include building stuff that puts them to work. Address climate change, sure, but not by putting the people that do stuff and build stuff out of work.
There is a needle that can be threaded, and I think New Democrats are smart enough to thread it. As long as the world wants our fossil fuels, let’s sell them to them — while at the same time looking at how we can reduce our emissions in a way that doesn’t take food off of people’s plates. The Notley government tried to do this, and had they not been unseated by Jason Kenney’s “frankenparty”, aided and abetted by the “make perfect the enemy of good” crowd (like Mr Pounder), we might actually be making some progress there.
@Alan, if I recall, Geoffrey is a lefty.
He has a valid critique here and many have made it before him. Carney spoke as if he’s speaking to a room full of insider bankers (which he was) rather than a room full of regular people. It wasn’t on the “I Have A Dream” or “Put Your Body On The Machine” level, for sure.
I think we’re all just kinda gobsmacked that a politician stated what’s been glaringly obvious to many of the rest of us for quite some time now.
We could really use some regular people-speak right now addressed to the nation because it’s getting scary here on the outside.
B , I never saw it that way but then I was a member of the Royal Bank for 32 years, working in 16 different branches throughout the province and the manager of 7 of them.
I certainly agree with you that most of us have known it and it shouldn’t have been a surprised, but then why are these gullible fellow seniors so naive that they refuse to understand the truth but believe every lie that these Reformers feed them? My conservative friends and I find that mind boggling, don’t you?
What upsets us the most is their lack of concern for the financial disaster they are helping these Reformers create for our children and grandchildren’s future and we can’t figure out how they are going to get out of this horrible financial mess and every lawyer, accountant, economist, oilmen, fellow banker and former MLA we talk to agrees with us. These Reformers have literally put us in a bankruptcy situation and Separation will finish us off.
Whether we want to believe it or not Ottawa poured billions of dollars into this province and helped save us from what these Reformers were doing to us.
The Alberta oil industry is thrilled with Trudeau for saving thousands of jobs by buying us a $35 billion pipeline and thanking them for doing so with the threat of Separation proves how stupid Albertans are, doesn’t it?
@Alan
Even as a hard lefty I had a facebook page for a long time where we had Red Tories, Tea Partyers, Libertarians, Communists, Socialists, First Nations and Libs. So speaking to people who don’t share my views isn’t a new experience.
Letting stupid people run politics, is.
That’s what we’re facing, here. Contrary to popular opinion, it isn’t mainly the oldsters who are following the present trend towards oligarchical tyranny.
It’s the younger generations. They don’t have unions, they can’t buy a house, they can’t afford the rent without piling on top of each other or living in mom’s basement, they’re up to their eyeballs in student debt after we yelled at them to “get an education for a good job”. We let this happen.
They aren’t thinking, “How can I pressure the government to fix this problem?” because in the USA, whose influencers they follow–sold the American citizens out to the oligarchs, decades ago. We’re guilty of this to some degree but there’s still manoeuvring room.
So, they’re chucking bricks through the windows because we’ve never taught them what power they *could* have, by pressuring the government we *do* have.
We taught them to pass tests and conform to business demands in college/university.
Not how think creatively and stand up for their future.
If you haven’t read PM Carney’s “rupture address,” it’s well worth it and you don’t have to devote an hour and twelve minutes to get through it. He tied his rhetoric together neatly. No wonder he got a standing ovation.
Thanks David for the link.
Bravo! We picked the right prime minister for the worst of times.
Middle powers need to act quickly in unison. Look at what Garfield the orange tabby dragged in:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2026/01/22/trump-launches-his-board-of-peace-says-group-will-work-with-the-un/
Dictator in perpetuity? Work “with” the UN that he has undermined? Sounds like an alternate IDU set to form one world government. Gasp — isn’t that a conspiracy theory come true? Will they work “with” the IDU and Stephen Harper, too?
Canada is still very much on the menu. One comedian has already mocked Trump’s warning to PM Mark Carney: sleep with one eye open. We all will, as if we haven’t been doing that since the US started threatening us with the “51st state”.
Looks like Richard Rohmer was right after all. Globe and Mail headline:
“Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion”
“Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion
Armed Forces envision insurgency tactics like those used by Afghan mujahedeen, sources say. But officials and experts stress a U.S. operation is unlikely, and the scenarios are conceptual”
globalism – the late 20th century fad frequently pushed by the political industrial complex and their paymasters that operate davos – was a major ingredient in the environment described by the pm.
we’ve all read the copy and heard the content from thousands of speeches over the past 50 years asserting globalisation was a force that would encourage and stimulate democracy, reduce poverty, and grow competition.
the 5% now possess 60% of the planet’s wealth. the worlds 73 autocratic regimes outnumber the 63 democracies. the power of cartels, the totalitarian states, and oligarchs is almost beyond containment. the “middle powers” comprise all of the 63 democracies.
of course the newest fad being pushed by the elites – AI – is going to finish the job started by globalisation and all the past institutional reforms sold for the past half century. if it continues to roll out unhindered it won’t matter what the middle powers do over the next 10 years.
Carney’s stand is hardly principled.
While the old rules-based order under U.S. imperium was highly flawed — arbitrary, one-sided, oppressive, exploitative, unfair, immoral, violent, murderous, and unjust — Carney has upheld, extolled, and served that system throughout his career. No matter the cost to smaller, weaker nations. Because we and he stood to benefit. We served our own convenience.
Carney rejects the system only now because middle powers and U.S. allies, like Canada and Western Europe, are coming under threat. Once the benefits disappear, the protection racket is no longer tenable.
Under Trump, the U.S. is weaponizing the post-war alliance and economic integration against its allies. Trump has turned around the umbrella of U.S. protection — with the pointy end aimed at us!
The time to speak truth to power was before we became its victims.
This is a fair point. Still, we have to engage with things are they are, not as we wish them to be. Allons-y!
Yes, Carney spoke some surprising truths to the gathered plutocrats struggling to understand the emerging new order. Namely, the old “rules based order” is over and actually it wasn’t always so great anyways, but provided a nice fascade for the powerful who often ignored or rewrote the rules for their own convenience. Indeed, I feel this sanctimonious and somewhat hypocritical phrase actually energized the populists who saw it for what it was.
However despite the great speech the question of what is next is not fully answered yet. It is possible the middle powers could collectively go on strike until the great powers reign in their excess bad behavior in which, like capitalist robber barons, they seem to be now trying to outdo each other. Imagine if Canada stopped selling its resources to the US and Australia to China.
I doubt it will quite come to that, but perhaps collectively we have more power than we thought before and we are now beginning to realize it. So if this speech helps restore some balance to the currently unbalanced power of the world, this would be a good thing.
This just clearly shows the state of the world. When someone with a certain amount of access to power tells the truth. I applaud Mark Carney for having done that but I also ask – why this took so long? What are we afraid of? Is telling the truth an act of heroism now?
Also I will not get fireworks as of yet because I want to see more than rhetoric. I think, we are very tired of a world controlled by force and greed.
While I get critized for calling our fellow seniors stupid who do we see signing these petitions to separate? Seniors of course.
It isn’t surprising that young Albertans have begun pointing out that they have become so fed up with the seniors in their families for believing every lie these Reformers feed them that have told them that they are no longer welcome at their family gatherings and banned them from Christmas and recent Birthdays that’s how bad it’s become.
Alan K. Spiller: I have seen photos of those standing in line at places to sign the separation petition. A lot of them are seniors, but not all of them are. Either way, they have no understanding of what they are getting themselves into, and Danielle Smith enables them at every opportunity.
Anonymous, you can bet seniors have convinced the younger ones to vote like them, they are playing right into the hands of these Reformers, this is exactly what they have wanted since the Reformers were formed. This lie that we will be a lot better off is a joke. There is no way $5 million people can provide what 40 million can. A perfect example of that is Trudeau saved us thousands of jobs for our oil industry by buying them a $35 billion pipeline and you can bet these Reformers couldn’t have done it with a $90 billion debt and billions of dollars in oil well cleanup mess stopping them. My American Relatives warn senior couples can expect to pay at least $24,000. per year for their healthcare, on average families of 4 are paying $43,000. per year, kicking out the RCMP, like it will do ,will likely add $400. per month to their property taxes, and as lawyers warn, when Smith gets control of our Canada Pension Plans, like she will, there would be nothing stopping her from eliminating plans for seniors who have gotten a lot more than what they paid into them, like most of us have. Do you trust her not to?
“Middle powers need to take some inspiration from the trade union movement,…” said Carney. That’s a great frame David..thank you.
If he hadn’t bragged about reducing taxes / capital gains etc. I would have been encouraged by his fine speech..your labour solidarity frame restored y faith.
Rodger: To be fair (to me) I’m not suggesting that Mr. Carney is a secret trade unionist. I’m suggesting that what’s good for the goose oughtta be good for the gander. DJC
Mr Carney is hard core neo-liberal; his education, work experience as a central banker, investment banker etc makes this crystal clear to the point that he cannot comprehend any other solutions than the “market”.
If the ganders do not find solidarity, we will indeed be excluded from the table and find ourselves (remaining) on the menu.
Thx again for your excellent work, I rely on it for news of my old home province.
Carney’s address is a catalyst moment in many ways.
For one thing, it has angered the Mango Mussolini. So much so, Carney’s invitation to join Trump’s special club was withdrawn in a hissy fit. No matter. $1 billion not spent is a $1 billion earned, right?
But there is so much more potential in Carney’s address, apart from establishing him as the most literate and thoughtful mind on the state of geopolitics, at the moment. It had also caused a number to Trumpets to start spewing their special vitriol for Canada as a whole. Why does this weird country even exist? It doesn’t make any sense, but America will right this wrong by destroying Canada. It’s at this point that the grifters among the Alberta seperatists can finally put their mouths where their money is and start being the loudest morons on the planet. Waving their FreeDUMB flags will just make them bigger targets.
Carney’s decade or so in Europe has likely brought him into contact with some unsavour characters. You know the type, thuggish Britons, French, and Dutch assasins who like to push certain people of windows for fun and profit. Make a few Alberta seperatists noticibly absent and the message will be received.
Honestly, the angrier Donnie gets, the better. FWIW one of the things professional fighters work hardest at is controlling their anger. In a fight, the first one to lose control of their anger is usually the one who loses: people who get angry lose their rationality, they lash out, they forget their training, they make foolish mistakes and they pay dearly for them. The longer TACO trump can be kept tilting at windmills the less he’s going to be able to accomplish, and the better it will be for everyone. Plus there is always the added potential bonus of his rage addled brain stroking out just like his hero, Ronnie Raygun. Rage away Donnie, you’re singing the song of a loser.
Why does all this matter?
A coup is on in the US and here we are talking about ????
WOW we are always late.
The January 6th follow up is on full view and we are talking about middle powers.
This Trump guy is giving me fits. Either it’s all an act and he’s playing 5D chess or he really is suffering from the onset of dementia and he’s reverting to his 5 year-old self. He wakes up one morning wanting a Nobel Peace Prize, Greenland, Venezuelan oil, Canada etc. Now he’s come up with something called the “Board of Peace” to which Carney is not invited. Lucky us, it has a $1 billion price tag to join. Ronald Reagan was suffering from Alzheimer’s during his second term so there’s a precedent.
He’s going senile but not enough to counter his criminal viciousness yet. So innocent Americans are being murdered by his thugs.
Someone clever on youtube called the Board of Peace another Trump golf club.
Hello DJC and fellow commenters,
Thanks to Caron for pointing out the disaster of cutting agricultural research in Canada. I remember red fife wheat when I was growing up. It has now been “rediscovered” and is again grown on more Canadian farms and used in many kitchens cross the country for its taste and especially for its bread- making qualities. Red fife played a role in development of Marquis wheat by Canadian agricultural researchers, and Marquis wheat has been important in the development of many strains of wheat widely grown in Canada. (See Canadian Encyclopedia, for example, for more information.)
As Caron points out, “Carney’s assertion at Davos that ‘A country that can’t feed itself, . . . has few options’ looks fatuous and bombastic in light of his sabotage of Canada’s ability to continue feeding the world. In spite of what the good banker may say, these cuts are not nation-building.”
In addition to its importance in agricultural research, experimental farms teach urban children about agriculture. I will always remember visiting the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa as I was growing up, and gaining respect for agriculture and the crucial role of farmers in our life. When I visited the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa with our children, they too were fascinated with agriculture. Agricultural research must be a priority for the federal government in conjunction with provinces and universities. Turning it over to corporations will result in the same issues urgently protested by farmers in India. Farmers were pushed into buying seed, fertilizer and pesticides from for-profit corporations which have been permitted to patent seeds. (We all know who the big corporations are in this scenario.) With the increasing cost of these inputs and the diminishing financial returns, farmers in India are despairing and committing suicide at an alarming rate. Canadian farmers, especially those owning smaller family farms, are having a difficult time continuing to farm. Additional corporatization of farming inputs is a disaster. Encouraging government “partnerships” with more corporate research which is driven only by profits and grabbing of “intellectual property” to be sold at high prices is the wrong direction. Canada should not be only a “partner” in corporate profits.. Canadian scientists working for government on both pure research and more specific research are fundamental to Canadian food security. It is essential that all of us write to the Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture, The Honourable Heath McDonald, to let them know that they must increase funding for the Experimental Farms and the Research Stations in various parts of Canada. More funding is essential to increasing food security in Canada. Additional agricultural research will also enable Canadian farmers to continue to be important in the global food system and to increase Canada’s ability to diversify trade abroad.
Agreed. The UCP also cut ag research in 2020 and remember Harper trashing research libraries? Which is no excuse for the Carney gov’t to do the same. Why cut any research when we probably need more of it?
Jeet Heer thinks Carney is too Conservative
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/mark-carney-davos-speech-aftermath
I feel bad for you people that think Carney is not part of the Deep state. Why would a person like Carney who has extreme wealth take a job at 400k a year to run a country like Canada? This man was placed by the deep state to strip Canada’s assets and to impoverish it citizens except for the 1%. He advised Trudeau of how to bankrupt the country for the last 10 years. This is not a left vs right anymore. Follow the path. Create financial hardship, allow mass immigration to create chaos and then introduce control and censorship to bring in digital idea. Make people totally reliant of government with high unemployment, UBI and massive subsides. Create a rhetoric against the organizations that go against the NWO such as USA and now you have Canada part of the New World Order.