Well, it seems as though our cousins in the Great White Place have decided that a dozen-odd (very odd) years of Justin Castreaux’s “leadership” were not enough, and have elected his replacement Mark Carney as their next Chief Wokist.
Carney, it should be recalled, was the former head of the Bank of England who will be forever remembered as the man who nearly destroyed Britain’s economy during that messy Brexit business. Prior to that, he was governor of the Bank of Canuckistan, and is widely seen as the reason housing prices rocketed and ordinary Canuckis ended up with higher debt — the highest ever, as it turned out. (In fairness, his policies enabled Canuckistan to weather the 2008 global recession in terms of its GDP, but at the expense of said Canuckis, who are still trying to deal with high housing costs. I report, you decide.)
I have told the tale of back when I was still consulting, we independent consultants had a rule never to work with a startup whose principal officers (CEO, CFO or COO) had a Harvard MBA. Carney doesn’t have one of those, but his degree in Economics comes from the same institution. Draw your own conclusions.
There’s more, much more, including his assistance in getting South Africa (!) to participate in international bond markets while he was employed by the infamous Goldman Sachs, of the 2008 global crisis fame, although it should be noted that he left GS five years before that.
By the way, his family is a poster-child for ultra-wokery — not that this should be a disqualifier, of course, but it does point to what he comes home to every night.
Anyway, this economics whiz* is the man Canuckis have elected to be their Prime Minister for the foreseeable future, and his first public statement as PM was a strong anti-Trump message, which means that it’s unlikely that Canuckistan will ever become our 51st state.
So in that, at any rate, we Murkins can breathe a sigh of relief.
*Just FYI, the word whiz is also a euphemism for a stream of piss.
We don’t need to go about annexing Canuckistan, Mexico etc. We don’t need their problems at all. Could you imagine the cost to fight the War on Drugs in Mexico? The Snow Mexicans had better smarten up. If they don’t work with Trump then their economy is going to crumble as they lose their biggest trade partner.
Fuck Canada and Fuck Mexico.
I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.
# TRUMP IS KICKING ASS
# AMERICA FIRST
CM well said as usual!
Some of us in Alberta are pleased, because we’ll be #51 soon.
Let’s have a party, we’ll bring the presents, namely the 3rd largest oil reserves in the world and a conservative population. Alberta’s election results map is all conservative blue except for the usual 1 or 2 districts of insane urban karens.
How did the commies convince you Americans that free, conservative states should show up as red on a map? Red is their stinking evil color of bloodshed, not yours.
IIRC, the map color was flipped by NBC towards the end of the Cold War.
Minor nit: “we independent consultants has a rule” should be “had a rule”.
Thanks for the info. I’d read that he wasn’t an improvement. Don’t know much about the political structure of Canada, so I can’t make an informed comment. I just hope America’s Hat grows some brains soon. I’ve read that something like 25% of the Canadian population is not native born. There’s no way that that’s a good thing, and a second hostile, third-world country with a long, undefended, land border is the last thing we need next door.
So the Canuks voted (allegedly; wouldn’t surprise me if their Libs “fortified” the results like ours did in 2020) for more hard-left insanity because they hate Donald Trump and refuse to “concede” to his tariffs?
Uh…what does the US import from Canada? Maple Syrup and Lumber, IIRC. What does Canada import from the US? Well, The Canukistani government has spent the last few decades utterly destroying their country’s manufacturing base, so…pretty much everything.
That’s not cutting off their nose to spite their face. That’s shoving a twelve-gauge into their own mouth an pulling the trigger to kill someone else.
“what does the US import from Canada?”
4.3 million barrels of oil a day.
“I have told the tale of back when I was still consulting, we independent consultants has a rule never to work with a startup whose principal officers (CEO, CFO or COO) had a Harvard MBA. ”
I have two stories of people from Harvard,.
1) I was a Comp Sci major in college in the early 80s, and I worked part time in the Computer Center. When the IBM PC first came out all the professors got one, and a friend was tasked with supporting said professors. One in particular had his BS, MS and PhD in Comp Sci all from Harvard. He was going thru the set up instructions which told him to remove the disk (the old 5.25 inch floppies). He removed the disk from the drive, the proceeded to peel open the disk cover and pull the mylar media out, then called my friend for assistance. She told him she’d get him a new disk, and to not do that again.
2) In a former office at a large IT consulting company, working on site at a VERY large client, morale was in the toilet. Anyone with a brain (which precluded most of our management) could tell why, we had three a-holes in the office who couldn’t get along with anyone including each other, so arguments were frequent. So our management brings in another consultant, a Harvard BBA on whose diploma the ink was still damp. She interviewed us, she gave us questionaires, we even spent a half day at a team building exercise. After a couple weeks of her maximum effort she came up with the solution to our morale issues: Bagel Fridays! Meaning we would all take turns buying bagels and fixings for everyone in the office each Friday. Because I will suddenly start getting along with my cow-workers (sic) because I’m forced to buy them food. Our illustrious BBA decided that the business world was too demanding so she returned to Harvard to persue her MBA. I have no doubt she’s now a tenured professor there drawing upon her two weeks of experience in the real world and teaching the next generation how to do business.
I’m often reminded of the line from Good Will Hunting: “You dropped 150 grand on an education you could’ve gotten for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library:
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Sometimes, being a hardnose businessman means that you forget to read the room. DJT just fell into that trap. At the time, the worst possible thing that President Trump could have done was to start a serious fight with Truedope and by extension the country which is the largest export target of goods and services, and the third largest source of imports. He did not need to use a heavy cluebat to get some serious movement on the border problems.
But what he did do, has resulted in serious Unintended Consequences. He triggered the rampant malevolent TDS of millions of leftie Canucki idiots (BIRM) who believe every damn word spouted by the CBC (Canadian Broadcorping Castration). Who then voted for the globalist POS Carnage.
And now President Trump has another instance of California or Massachusetts on the northern border. An instance which will be further bought and paid for by the CCP, and which not give a damn about border crossers or fentanyl, or actually about guns being smuggled north.
Canada is seriously fucked up and it will get worse as the leftie craziness causes further damage. And I have no doubt that free money, a-la-USAID, from the Carnage regime, will end up crossing the border. (In fiscal 2024, the Truedope regime, *gave away* 75 Billion (Cdn= $54B US) to ‘worthy’ recipients. This was not statutorily required spending, like military pensions. This was gladhanding.)
It will continue.
(Resident of Ontario. New ‘parliamentarian’ as of Monday, same as the old one…. Damn)
I still have some faint hope that you are wrong.
Perhaps Trump foresaw some of this and wanted the idiot Carney to be PM, because Carney is all of crazy, weak, stupid and compromised by his business and China ties. I would not be one bit surprised if the CIA has some serious dirt on Carney. Kiddy Island? Business fraud or huge debts? Chinese honey pot girls or huge debts to China?
Poilievre is imperfect but as PM he would have been a better negotiator. I think. Maybe.
Oh well, I’m old, I haven’t voted Liberal since I was 18, dumb as a post, and voted for Trudeldumb the elder in 1970, it all doesn’t matter much to me anymore.
I’m still hoping Alberta leaves to become 51.