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LPC leadership race - 2025

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David Staples: All the reasons why we can't trust Mark Carney to put Canada first

Peter Foster, a Cambridge-educated economist, wrote in 2020, Carney's focus is radical change of the business and material world.
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If you’re looking for a leader who will put Canada first, Mark Carney is not your guy. I say this even as Carney is many things that Justin Trudeau is not — brainy, experienced in business, and from Western Canada.
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In his stump speech, Carney talked of the importance of building and working together as a community, then listed his communities: “Laurier Heights. The west end. Edmonton. Alberta. Canada.”

That’s a fine list for a prospective prime minister. But he missed a few key communities, right?

For instance, he left out Ottawa and London, where he was governor of the respective national banks. He missed New York City, where he’s both the United Nations special envoy on climate action and finance and chair of the board of the huge international corporation Bloomberg. He also missed his community in Davos, Switzerland, where he and fellow Europeans (he also has U.K. and Irish citizenship) make up the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, and Toronto, where he’s chair of the Canadian multi-national Brookfield Asset Management, with its US$900 billion in assets. Carney has also said he sees himself he’s a member of the same social movement as radical climate activist Greta Thunberg.

Carney has become a key player at the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, Brookfield and Bloomberg because he’s brilliant at one thing — getting governments and private businesses to fall in line with Thunberg’s climate change agenda. As Steve Koonin, the under secretary for science at the Department of Energy in the Obama administration noted in his book on climate change, Carney “is probably the single most influential figure in driving investors and financial institutions around the world to focus on changes in climate and human influences upon it.”

And as Peter Foster, a Cambridge-educated economist and former senior editor of the Financial Post, wrote in 2020, Carney’s focus is radical change of the business and material world. “Carney’s plan is to control the global economy by seizing the commanding heights of finance, not by nationalization but by exerting non-democratic pressure to divest from, and stop funding, fossil fuels. The private sector is to become a partner in imposing its own bondage. This will be do-it-yourself totalitarianism.”
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One more Carney community? Since 2020 he’s been a close adviser of Trudeau, first informally, then last September as the special adviser and chair of a Liberal party task force on economic growth.

His conflicted interests have brought him some trouble, such as in 2021 when now Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre ripped into Carney, then vice-chair of Brookfield, during his testimony at a House of Commons committee. “Mr. Carney, you stand to profit from these policies, and yet you are regularly intervening and influencing the decisions of ministers and deputy ministers,” Poilievre said, then asked him eight times if he’d registered with the lobbying commissioner.

“I represent the United Nations. I represent the U.K. government,” Carney said. “I don’t lobby, period.”

When Poilievre dug into the cancellation of the Energy East pipeline, Carney said the decision to scrap it wasn’t his but was sensible.

Poilievre then pointed out Carney’s own supposedly net zero company Brookfield had bought pipelines in Brazil and the United Arab Emirates.

Carney argued that the circumstances were different in those countries. “Different jurisdictions and different geography matter. This is a fundamental point.”

Shot back Poilievre, “You make billions of dollars off foreign pipelines and you shut them down here at home, putting our people out of work.”
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Carney built his career in a world that is now rapidly disappearing, blown up by working people sick of energy scarcity, painful inflation, industrial decline, and the reduced prosperity that comes with the world that Carney and his social movement have fought so hard to radically alter, reset and build back better.

It’s now clear that China puts China first, as does India for India, the Middle East, Africa and, most of all, Donald Trump’s United States. These countries either sneeringly reject or pay lip service to Trudeau and Carney’s climate agenda. Sensing change, even major financial institutions are cutting their posh climate club memberships.

Will Carney also pull away from his plans? No doubt he’ll rework and rebrand Trudeau’s now hated carbon tax scheme. But I can think of 100 trillion reasons why Carney will continue to push.

In a 2020 speech, Carney said it would take $100 trillion over three decades to secure a clean energy future.

One hundred trillion? That’s a lot of money. That’s a lot of contracts. That’s untold profit for green energy investors like Brookfield and Bloomberg.

And that’s got to be enough to turn the head of any man, even Mark from Fort Smith, right?

In the end, we can trust Carney to keep pushing his failing Davos agenda and to bitterly attack populist pushback. We can’t trust him to put our own community first.
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Mark Carney - a major reason why Danielle Smith doesn't trust Trudeau and Guilbeault to look after Alberta's interests and prefers to speak on her own behalf.
 
Remius said:
And she previously resigned under various accusations about her personal dealings. She’s probably angling for another run at a seat and wants the free $350,000 exposure.
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TFTFY
 
Quirky said:
She'll do well talking to Trump. :ROFLMAO:
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She did well enough last time.

Apparently CUSMA, the best deal in history for Trump is not the best deal in history after all for him. So either she got the best deal or Trump effed up.
 
Remius said:
She did well enough last time.
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People keep saying that, but where are the facts to support that?

Canadian state media even notes we got shellacked by USMCA-1:

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For those who were ‘surprised’ by Trump 47’s tariffs and why they’re happening, on need only dust off the Lessons Learned notes from last time…NO ONE should be surprised…at all…

National security tariffs​

National security was the catalyst of the all-out tariff battle this summer, and it looks like that could continue.

Canada was scrambling to secure an exemption from steel and aluminum tariffs, but it became clear the Trump administration wasn't budging easily.

"There isn't any agreement on that at this point. There's been talk about potential discussions there but that's on a completely separate track," a senior U.S. official told reporters Sunday night.

A source with knowledge of the negotiations said Canada hopes the duties will be gone by the time a deal is signed.

Initially Canadian officials were treating the Section 232 duties — the part of the Trade Expansion Act which allow the U.S. administration to charge import fees on grounds of national security without consulting Congress — as a separate issue from the NAFTA talks. As time went on, it became clear that wasn't a sustainable strategy.

During the summer, Trump's announcement that Canada would be subject to tariffs on steel and aluminum drew gasps from the halls of Parliament Hill. Canada quickly punched back with equal $16.6-billion dollar counter tariffs on a plethora of carefully chosen U.S. products, including bourbon, household appliances, playing cards and sailboats.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland repeatedly said the tariffs were "illegal," but Trump remained unfazed. So much so that a former senior economist with the Bush administration said it indicated the president was seeing how far Canada could be pushed.

"I think the case with steel and aluminum was the test case," Phil Levy told CBC Radio's The House.

He explained Trump was likely trying to measure potential backlash from consumers and industries before the Trump administration decided whether to impose auto tariffs.
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About the only item in USMCA-1 that seems like a ‘win’ for Canada was retaining the Chapter 19 Dispute Resolution clause, very other section Canada made concessions.


Remius said:
Apparently CUSMA, the best deal in history for Trump is not the best deal in history after all for him. So either she got the best deal or Trump effed up.
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No, he’s just refreshing things. Remember that part in Army planning conducting an Estimate? ‘Has the situation changed?’ Well the answer is, yes, and the Estimate and Plan are being updated…get on board, or stay behind on the platform.
 
Halifax Tar said:
I think she was just getting overwhelmed with the reporter scrum.
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Yeah, no kidding, there were a few dozen people yelling at her in two languages, plus a forest of cameras and mics of various sizes while standing in the hallway. Also from a low angle with unflattering lighting, on possibly a bit of a fish eye lens effect.

There are literally probably hundreds of hours of her looking composed in similar situations, so wouldn't hang my hat on a 10 second clip, especially in the context of she very recently dropped a polite 'F U' resignation letter very publically that probably tipped over the entire apple cart and is now running for leader of the government that is likely to almost immediately fall.

You'd have to be either a complete idiot or a total sociopath to not be nervous in that scenario, and she's neither.
 
Good2Golf said:
People keep saying that, but where are the facts to support that?

Canadian state media even notes we got shellacked by USMCA-1:

And

For those who were ‘surprised’ by Trump 47’s tariffs and why they’re happening, on need only dust off the Lessons Learned notes from last time…NO ONE should be surprised…at all…



About the only item in USMCA-1 that seems like a ‘win’ for Canada was retaining the Chapter 19 Dispute Resolution clause, very other section Canada made concessions.




No, he’s just refreshing things. Remember that part in Army planning conducting an Estimate? ‘Has the situation changed?’ Well the answer is, yes, and the Estimate and Plan are being updated…get on board, or stay behind on the platform.
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The look on Freelands face when the US and Mexican trade reps made an announcement tells me that was a surprise and the first she heard of it. It was reported that Canada was told get on board or go it alone.

Yeah she did awesome! 🤣
 
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