PM Mark Carney's Canada

[Monarch Butterfly]

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

 

[adma]

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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.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-bites-back-at-trump-s-canada-lives-because-of-u-s-remarks-at-cabinet-meeting-9.7056224

Carney bites back at Trump's 'Canada lives because of' U.S. remarks at cabinet meeting​

Canada's 'values must be fought for' in a moment of democratic decline, says prime minister​

For the second time this week Prime Minister Mark Carney took aim at Donald Trump — this time directly biting back at the U.S. president's "Canada lives because of the United States" comments.

On Wednesday Trump addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he complained that Carney should be grateful because "Canada lives because of the United States."

At the end of a nearly 30-minute speech Thursday kicking off the the Liberal cabinet meeting in Quebec City, Carney addressed the president's comments.

"Canada and the United States have built a remarkable partnership. In the economy, in security and in rich cultural exchange. But Canada doesn't live because of the United States," Carney said

"Canada thrives because we are Canadian."

The lines were added to his address and not part of his prepared remarks, said an official with his office.

'Canada thrives because we are Canadian'​

Carney's pre-cabinet speech had the hallmarks of an election campaign speech. After addressing an international audience at Davos the day before Trump, Carney's address from the site of the cabinet meeting took a more domestic turn.

"There are long periods of history when these values can prosper unchallenged. Ours is not one of them," said Carney, speaking from prepared remarks. He did not take reporters' questions.

Carney argued that "Canada must be a beacon — an example to a world at sea."

"In a time of democratic decline, we can show how rights can be protected, and equal freedoms endure," he said.

"In a time of rising walls and thickening borders, we can demonstrate how a country can be both open and secure, welcoming and strong, principled and powerful."

His address kicks off two days of meetings with his front benches. The cabinet will be holed up for two days behind the stone walls of the Citadelle, a storied military base and the Governor General's secondary residence that looms over the Quebec capital.

It was fortified in the 19th century in an effort to secure the city against a potential American attack, and in 1943 was the site of the Quebec Conference when Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt met secretly to plot a strategy for the Second World War.

Carney turned to some of that history in his address, praising the cooperation that came out of the the decisive battle at the nearby Plains of Abraham when the British, French and First Nations collided.

"The answer that emerged — slowly, imperfectly, not without struggle, but unmistakably— co-operation," he said. "That response was not inevitable. It was chosen."

Echoing the Liberal platform promises, Carney laid out his priorities for the coming Parliamentary session including better economic co-operation with the provinces and territories, widening the net for international trade deals, reforming the criminal justice system, fostering artificial intelligence and making massive investments in defence.

"Now we need to execute. Fairly. And Fast," said Carney, likely a nod critics who have argued he needs to back up grand, sweeping comment

Carney also promised to protect services like child care, dental care and pharmacare, and stand up for the vulnerable "whether they are a newcomer, a person with a disability or a member of the 2SLGBTQI+ community."

"Our values must be fought for. That’s what we’re doing, and Canadians are up for it," he said.

 

[thettctransitfanatic]

Crossposted from the Trump thread but Trump has revoked the PM from joining his ''Board of Peace'''