Canada should sell to more customers; Albertans have said so for decades. Closer ties with Europe are welcome. But eight things about the Prime Minister's European turn do not withstand a reading of the record.
“The regulatory instinct Alberta has spent fifteen years fighting in Brussels is the one an associate absorbs as law. A country that wants to sell more oil and gas to the world does not begin by binding its energy rules to the bloc that tried to keep its oil out.”
This is a brilliant paragraph, in a stellar essay.
I posted on another site that I have heard many benefits of EU association, but I have heard mentioned none of the responsibilities.
We know that a subsidized, Liberal adjacent media will obsequiously and gratuitously support Mr. Carney, whether or not it is his ill-timed Trade War, or his ill-advised foray into the European regulatory state.
What we don’t know, is how does this initiative positively affect any of the ten greatest concerns afflicting Canadians today?
Canada suffers from an investment and production deficit; how does this strategic partnership allay those problems? Not generally, but specifically.
Great essay; this was a disturbing pleasure to read. What a splendid observation.
You point out so, so many contradictions and flaws in MC's push to Europe and, quite frankly, I expect that push to continue and the contradictions and flaws to simply be ignored, particularly by our mainstream media who are long since purchased and paid for.
The Vimy references by Carney are especially irksome for the irony that the Liberals spent a decade denigrating our history and flushing it down the memory hole; until they cynically needed something to stir up the proles. The bad faith manipulation is plain as day.
Closer ties with Europe are part of any sensible answer; Europe is wealthy, democratic, and already bound to us by a trade agreement. Its future, however, is questionable.
Marco, a good article and background.
The above quote from your article does not sit well with me. A sensible answer is to make a deal with the US that negates the tariffs. The EU is not wealthy. Their policies are like a cancer on every country in the union ! Carney would join us to the EU to have no say in how they run our country ! This person supposedly represents our country yet he would roll over for them for a kiss on the cheek ! Carney would get his ideology manifest on his plate, WEF, DEI, mass immigration, green energy and carbon capture ! None of this is acceptable !
Carney says this will be presented to parliament for a vote ? Really ? To get a true answer run this question across the country in an election ! Remove the MSM brainwashing and the mail-in-ballots that are rigged for Carney. Canada is about to be hog-tied and destroyed otherwise !
I disagree, a question of this magnitude should not be decided by an election or by Parliament or even by holding a referendum. It should be by plebiscite.
Referendum: The submission of a proposed public measure or actual statute to a direct popular vote.
Plebiscite: A vote in which a population exercises the right of national self-determination.
Thorne, thanks for the insight and reply. I agree, this is a very important decision ! This is also the end goal of Trudeau and Carney. The system is rigged against us no matter what form of consensus is used ! This has to be addressed also.
All very true, I am sorry to say. It certainly is grotesque to castigate Canada's imaginary "colonial" past while giving a pass to the very real colonial past of so many of the members of the EU.
There is nothing wrong with trading with Europe, and anyone else. Not insensible. Wealth is relative. Trading with Haiti of the Maghreb would be less lucrative. Europe is wealthier than Honduras and about 100 other states. Same applies to "democratic."
None of what that paragraph says, and nothing in the piece itself says that Canada shouldn't make a deal with the US. Not.a.thing. But that's not the topic of the piece.
Read everything else here [or anywhere else] and find me a single spot where my elbows were in the air.
Not sure what else I could say. You say that Canada would have no say in Europe. That's literally what the first sentence of this essay says.
The world is built on relationships & geography. Reality is that we are right next to the US and this will always be the case.
At present, the US is led by people who can only be described as irrational. But this does not make every American irrational, and this will pass and a new generation of leaders will emerge who are able to interact with the world.
For now, we need to be building relationships with the people we can. I would suggest that our Premiers should be having long get to know you conversations with the Governors of boarder states, and our business community should be calling their counterparts on a very regular basis because when this is over, it will be the relationships that save us.
“The regulatory instinct Alberta has spent fifteen years fighting in Brussels is the one an associate absorbs as law. A country that wants to sell more oil and gas to the world does not begin by binding its energy rules to the bloc that tried to keep its oil out.”
This is a brilliant paragraph, in a stellar essay.
I posted on another site that I have heard many benefits of EU association, but I have heard mentioned none of the responsibilities.
We know that a subsidized, Liberal adjacent media will obsequiously and gratuitously support Mr. Carney, whether or not it is his ill-timed Trade War, or his ill-advised foray into the European regulatory state.
What we don’t know, is how does this initiative positively affect any of the ten greatest concerns afflicting Canadians today?
Canada suffers from an investment and production deficit; how does this strategic partnership allay those problems? Not generally, but specifically.
Great essay; this was a disturbing pleasure to read. What a splendid observation.
Terrifically well thought out, Sir!
You point out so, so many contradictions and flaws in MC's push to Europe and, quite frankly, I expect that push to continue and the contradictions and flaws to simply be ignored, particularly by our mainstream media who are long since purchased and paid for.
I can't help but think of the old saying 'Beware of Greeks bearing Gifts". Afterall, Carney is a high ranking WEF'er. 🤔
The Vimy references by Carney are especially irksome for the irony that the Liberals spent a decade denigrating our history and flushing it down the memory hole; until they cynically needed something to stir up the proles. The bad faith manipulation is plain as day.
Closer ties with Europe are part of any sensible answer; Europe is wealthy, democratic, and already bound to us by a trade agreement. Its future, however, is questionable.
Marco, a good article and background.
The above quote from your article does not sit well with me. A sensible answer is to make a deal with the US that negates the tariffs. The EU is not wealthy. Their policies are like a cancer on every country in the union ! Carney would join us to the EU to have no say in how they run our country ! This person supposedly represents our country yet he would roll over for them for a kiss on the cheek ! Carney would get his ideology manifest on his plate, WEF, DEI, mass immigration, green energy and carbon capture ! None of this is acceptable !
Carney says this will be presented to parliament for a vote ? Really ? To get a true answer run this question across the country in an election ! Remove the MSM brainwashing and the mail-in-ballots that are rigged for Carney. Canada is about to be hog-tied and destroyed otherwise !
I disagree, a question of this magnitude should not be decided by an election or by Parliament or even by holding a referendum. It should be by plebiscite.
Referendum: The submission of a proposed public measure or actual statute to a direct popular vote.
Plebiscite: A vote in which a population exercises the right of national self-determination.
Exactly
Thorne, thanks for the insight and reply. I agree, this is a very important decision ! This is also the end goal of Trudeau and Carney. The system is rigged against us no matter what form of consensus is used ! This has to be addressed also.
All very true, I am sorry to say. It certainly is grotesque to castigate Canada's imaginary "colonial" past while giving a pass to the very real colonial past of so many of the members of the EU.
True. And one might also add that it was not the most rational Canadian leadership that led us here.
Hi Richard.
There is nothing wrong with trading with Europe, and anyone else. Not insensible. Wealth is relative. Trading with Haiti of the Maghreb would be less lucrative. Europe is wealthier than Honduras and about 100 other states. Same applies to "democratic."
None of what that paragraph says, and nothing in the piece itself says that Canada shouldn't make a deal with the US. Not.a.thing. But that's not the topic of the piece.
Read everything else here [or anywhere else] and find me a single spot where my elbows were in the air.
Not sure what else I could say. You say that Canada would have no say in Europe. That's literally what the first sentence of this essay says.
The world is built on relationships & geography. Reality is that we are right next to the US and this will always be the case.
At present, the US is led by people who can only be described as irrational. But this does not make every American irrational, and this will pass and a new generation of leaders will emerge who are able to interact with the world.
For now, we need to be building relationships with the people we can. I would suggest that our Premiers should be having long get to know you conversations with the Governors of boarder states, and our business community should be calling their counterparts on a very regular basis because when this is over, it will be the relationships that save us.
It doesn’t add up. I will not become a member of the EU! What about Canadian sovereignty?