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"Les canadiens et les canadiens sont inquiets du cul de la vie!" --Mark Carney. The next few years will be delightful.
Okay, my schoolboy French is tres terrible, but am I translating this correctly? "The Canadians and the Canadians are worried about the ass of life"?
> Carney tripped up, most notably when he said, “we agree with Hamas,” instead of “we agree about Hamas,” to the delight of Conservatives all over social media.
> On that note, he announced the carbon tax would soon be cancelled. I'm super-disappointed. The carbon tax is the most effective market-based mechanism for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. The majority of economists support it, while political support trails behind significantly. Also, it's disingenuous to only focus on axing the carbon tax without mentioning that the quarterly refund to every resident of Canad…
There's an interview with the former Minister of Environment who pushed through carbon pricing (https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/11/Catherine-McKenna-Intervi... - note this is a thoroughly left leaning newspaper). She notes that she felt the government's failure to properly communicate/advertise about how carbon pricing works (and the refunds I imagine...) left the field wide open for the conservatives to own the messaging and framing.
It is disappointing, but not at all unexpected.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Years? This guy's tenure will be best measured in weeks.
Why is that?
Note that he’s only Prime Minister temporarily. He’s replacing Trudeau and will call elections soon (must be before October) and will go up against Poilievre. EDIT: Didn’t mean to suggest he won’t win the election. But he’ll have to defend the seat.
Potentially temporarily - the tariffs and 51st state rhetoric has really shifted the polling there from an easy conservative win to a liberal resurgence
Allow me to be obtuse, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't every moment unprecedented? Like, isn't that how time works?
The speeches tonight by Chrétien and Carney were quite powerful and succinct. There were a lot of gems in there that will likely go viral on US and Canada news networks. But what struck me the most from the speeches was the strong sense of certainty that Carney is the right person to take Canada into the next decade.
> Mark Carney steps into an unprecedented moment Allow me to be obtuse, and correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't every moment unprecedented? Like, isn't that how time works?
> On that note, he announced the carbon tax would soon be cancelled. I'm super-disappointed. The carbon tax is the most effective market-based mechanism for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. The majority of economists support it, while political support trails behind significantly. Also, it's disingenuous to only focus on axing the carbon tax without mentioning that the quarterly refund to every resident of Canad…
Carbon tax is toxic in Canada. Bashing it is like a quarter of the conservative's platform. There's an interview with the former Minister of Environment who pushed through carbon pricing ( https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/11/Catherine-McKenna-Intervi... - note this is a thoroughly left leaning newspaper). She notes that she felt the government's failure to properly communicate/advertise about how carbon pricing works…
Since they're both axing the tax anyway, that's one less differentiator which leaves me thinking maybe I should just choose based on who is more likely to pop the real estate bubble.