[StickMan]

Originally Posted by Firebot

Objectively, I like pretty much every action Carney has done so far as PM. First action was to kill the carbon tax exactly as promised - we can argue semantics about how levies still exist, but the public aspect that was deeply unpopular is no more. He's been very strong on Trump, even so much as to snub him until he acts like a grown up. He's met with several premiers individually already on a plan forward. He's acting like someone dealing with an emergency existential crisis. He may be a novice politician, but maybe we don't need a politician today. He's even gone to steel plants as a show of support (it would be nice if he addresses his recent Canadian streel debacle of a comment and promotes Canadian steel)

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...5a493a4ec.html

Trudeau was a narcissist ideologist that actively divided the country. He ran a fiefdom and implemented mindboggling ideological policies like the online harms bill and turned immigration into a perceived negative. Freeland gaslighting us about vibecession, pushing carbon tax down our throats yet doing the heating oil carve out when convenient to his party. Let's not forget his plan to buy votes with complete disregard of the federal budget that suddenly has been forgotten. Only a full blown very public mutiny by his party got him to eat a bit of humble pie.

If we are to believe the party direction is mostly done by the leader, Liberals are acting like a different party right now and Carney is acting like a leader. We also saw Trudeau last month lead to protect Canada when it was most needed. I'm not convinced that the party is much different from a few months ago, but actions do speak more to me than words and the actions are solid.

I don't get the same leadership vibe from Poilievre, because he's too busy attacking Trudeau Carney. He had the opportunity to show strong leadership at the onset of Trump shenanigans, but he chose to completely ignore the American threat to focus instead on the Carbon tax and "Just like Justin".

Had Kamala Harris won in the US, or even if we had Trump 2016 instead of what we have today, I think the CPC and Poilievre win the election in a landslide no matter what Carney did as the nationalism rush and annexation threat would not have occured and the opportunity to pivot would not have been as strong.

But that's not what happened, and one party quickly adapted to the current reality, while the party that was leading in the polls are still stuck in 2023 pretending that the US is not threatening our sovereignty. We all knew Trump was going to be chaotic in his 2nd term, but the very serious annexation threat that arose and trade war unleashed against us for us to submit, needs a strong leader with strong principles to fight it.

I have more confidence in Carney fighting Trump than I do Poilievre. Heck I have more confidence in Trudeau right now. And that's completely Poilievre's fault for acting more like a Danielle Smith than a Doug Ford. Ironically Ford has given his full support to Carney, not toeing partisan lines as there is more important matters at hand.

Poilievre is showing extremely poor leadership and choice of priorities at time when leadership is the most important value, while Carney is showing strong leadership and getting others to follow him

What I see is Carney being promoted by the mainstream media (as the media is in the fight of their life to maintain the gravy train of funding they receive from the liberals), there is no balance in Canadian media. The media has painted Carney and the liberals as "team Canada" even though they are the ones that have caused all the issues in Canada, Trudeau has been dividing Canadians for 9yrs. Trudeau did not write any of words he said on the way out, and it was comical to see him attempt to show any pride for the "post national state" he actively destroyed for 9yrs, he is a great actor and a horrible human.

I haven't seen Carney show any strength, he has mostly hidden from the public and has resorted to approved media only situations. The premiers have had to resort to dealing with Trump on their own even though trade is a federal jurisdiction. Carney has hilariously adopted the PP conservatives taking points as his own without the media calling him out on it. He did not kill the carbon tax, he just put it on hold, and he will be replacing it with something even more taxing to Canadians, he is extremely pro-carbon tax and we will all suffer greatly under Carney.

Carneys purpose is to keep the money flowing to his green investors, the liberal media and all the other corrupt liberal recipients of tax payer money. The liberals are corrupt to the core, they need to be completely rebuilt from the ground up and I don't see that happening under Carney. It is sad to see people who watch too much mainstream media give Carney such high praise when he hasn't earned any of it. What a sad country Canada has become.