Mark Carney, who served as governor of the Bank of Canada from 2008 to 2013 and governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, has succeeded Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada.
Members of Canada’s governing Liberal Party elected Carney this evening on the first ballot. According to the New York Times, Carney won 85.9% of the votes cast from more than 150,000 people voted. He will assume the role as Canada’s 24th prime minister at a date to be announced. Carney makes history as the first Canadian prime minister to have never served in prior elected office.
Trudeau stepped down from the leadership role he held since 2013 amid concerns of how he was addressing the nation’s economic challenges, particularly its housing crisis. Under Canadian law, federal elections must be held by October.
In taking the leadership role, Carney pushed back at comments by President Trump about absorbing Canada into the United States and the threat of a new trade war between the countries.
“America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” Mr. Carney said in his acceptance speech. “We didn’t ask for this fight, but Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves.’’
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LOL, Canadians just can’t get a break. The list of countries behind today’s Iron Curtain is long. Once again, the people of the world await the United States taking action to set them free. We just need a pope who isn’t a communist.
We the People? No, I think it’s just some people (or trolls).
Canada has a large and erratic neighbor on its southern border and might be well advised to build a wall to keep us out. Canada will do just fine in any trade war; they really don’t need us, but we are a useful trading partner (for both nations). The Trump/Muskrat & GOP game is all about endless social disruption and division to hide their real goal; stealing the wealth of the wealthiest nation. Putin is so proud of his little psychophants!
The people of the world are NOT waiting for the U.S. to set them free. We are not reliable enough for that, and never really have been, despite our flatteringly engineered stories about ourselves.
U.S. history is hollowed out by many omissions, and much information is still sealed or redacted, but even the ”official” records that remain show a nation that has, typically, supported corrupt dictators who subjugated their own people for self-enrichment as those Dictators take money from U.S. corporations to pillage that nations’ resources and its poorer people.
The U.S. military has been used to subjugate foreign citizens for the benefit of U.S. corporations, and our military has trained right wing elements of those nations to subjugate their own people.
The U.S. has long been the world’s premiere weapons dealer and supporter of Oligarchs, corrupt U.S. supported Puppet Presidents, and Dictators (even those that we label an enemy).
And, yes, other nations often do this too, but “WE the People” claim that we do not because “we love democracy!” Do we? The evidence does not support that premise.
A post was made by another with this statement:
“We just need a pope who isn’t a communist.”
Is there a rational explanation behind that comment? It is clear that the comment in total spoke to someone who thinks that the U.S. is anti-communist.
Wakey Wakey!
The U.S. does not really hate communist nations; we just don’t like the competition in the global corruption game, unless we can profit from it!
For over 100 years, the major U.S. political parties have paraded around the worn out meme of “hate the communists”, but the lie is in their actions. They don’t really hate communists; they just want a scapegoat to blame for their own hypocritical polices and corruption, while they work hand and glove with those same “terrible communists”, especially in the global trade game.
The GOP really has embraced the “hate communists” meme, which has gone hyperbolic with the MAGA GOP, and that brings up this question “Do they protest too much?”
YES, they do, and they don’t mean a word of it. It’s pure deception.
It was Republican Nixon (supported by the GOP and likely even some Democrats) who trotted off to communist China to open free trade with the world’s most populous communist nation, even after all that bloodshed during the Chinese communist revolution and the terrible policies that led to tens of millions of Chinese dying of starvation.. which had also happened just prior in Soviet Russia with even more dying of starvation. So, that’s okay now?..because the U.S. wants “free trade” with China?
It was breathtaking to behold this 180 pivot in U.S. policies against China.
(Of course, the U.S. had its own long history of destruction, Dust Bowl era, depressions, slavery, genocides, etc. but at least we’re not “commies”?
Give me a Break!
After 100 years of the U.S. tarring and feathering “those Commie bastards and their Commie atrocities” …all that blaming was just…. not that big of a deal anymore?
NOPE! Nixon and the GOP wanted to forget all that and “make some loot, so scoot and get this trade deal done!” WOW! As long as U.S. corporations could exploit abundant, super cheap, over-worked Chinese labor and lax (to NO) environmental laws in China, then the whole “boogie woogie communist story” just faded away.
U.S. corporations exported manufacturing to China and got very, very rich, while U.S. workers were laid off in mass firings and were repeatedly told by the GOP that they just needed to “work harder for lower wages”.
That Nixon GOP trade deal and its fallout mirrors Musk and his Muskrat Team right now as the stink of Maga Musk keeps yelling that everyone else has to put in 80 to 120 hours work per week or “they’re lazy” while Musk pops more eye-rolling pills and dances around like a pudgy Putin looney with a chainsaw to dismantle and eliminate protections for workers, consumers, the environment, and even democracy, itself, on the alter of looting NOT foreign nations, but OUR OWN.
The U.S. is finally feeling the fear of the full brunt of unbridled U.S. Capitalism in all its ugly reality. This is a new feeling for many Americans, but, for others, it is what they have always known and/or experienced directly.
The sad part is that some in the historically harmed communities are seeking refuge within Maga, as supporters now, hoping they can escape the harms coming… if they just play The Stockholm Syndrome angle and side with their oppressors.
But that game often does not end well. Hitler used the Brown Shirts and SS to do his dirty work, and even some who feared him joined him, but then Hitler killed many of them, as he saw them as a future threat.
Lord… have no mercy on our nation; we don’t deserve it.
We need to learn this lesson and correct it on our own because we created this mess, and many sat back and did nothing while we knew it was in production.