PM Mark Carney's Canada

[Monarch Butterfly]

Canada Expands Beyond the U.S. — Hoekstra’s Outburst Says Everything​

 

[adma]

If you have a library card, download the Press Reader app, and you can read the print editions of the Toronto Star, NVT, WSJ, Foreign Affairs, Economist, Canadian History, and magazines on every topic for free. It's not theft either, as the library pays the publisher for every download. Best of all, you can download what you want to your device and read it later offline, such as when traveling.

Yeah, but if I may speak from a hypothetical young person's POV, that's like, *effort*, maaan. (And moreover, the will to seek it out has to be "seeded"--and for all too many young people, the seeding never took place.)

 

[afransen]

I won't be handing out flowers here but he's not totally wrong - much of Canada's neoliberal existence, including our underspending on military, is thanks to the US being world police and the major geopolitical force for the 20th century. Outside of a few select points (Iraq, as one) we broadly side with the US on most points, or did until this year. Aren't we still supplying the IDF with arms? Our Venezuela statement was weak. Carney's done well in the last week and I expect to see more action from him to divest us away from the US but we obviously need to tread carefully.

Everything else he said was wrong, obviously. Broken clock and such things.

Trump and Carney agree on that point. Canada (and others) went along with the polite fiction of the 'US-led rules based order' in exchange for the public goods provided by the US to ensure global security and trade. Trump is withdrawing the public goods, so Canada is similarly withdrawing from our role in legitimizing the US. We have to pay more for defense and suffer the vicissitudes of US power, but we won't be as ready to fall in line behind the US in their policy agenda and will have to pursue our own narrower interests.