Great post Fred! I love Wab Kinew & how he handles himself as one of our Premiers, we need a couple more just like him; one in Alberta, for instance, would be awesome :)
Great post Fred! I saw that interview and liked the clarity of Wab Kinew’s responses. What struck me was the look on the interviewer’s face as he reframed the question. He was either unsure if he had heard Mr. Kinew correctly or was giving Mr.Kinew a chance to backpedal. If all premiers answered as clearly I think Jameson Greer would faint. I love Wab Kinew! He makes a statement with a smile on his face and completely disarms the interviewer.
Another good one Fred, Canada is loving reading your columns. I liked your line, "People are used to politicians sounding like they're buffering". But in the past week or so, Canada has changed the rhetoric and it making it clear that the days of bending over are over. Kinew: "drop the tariffs and we'll buy your booze". Ford: "drop the tariffs and not only will we buy your booze, but we'll start going to Florida and Vegas again". Carney: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariff on steel. 50% tariff on aluminum. 25% tariff on automobiles, and all those tariffs on forest products. Those are violations of our trade deal."
Our Canadian tone has changed and Carney knows that going to beg the orange emperor to be his friend is the worst negotiating tool he could ever pull out of the chest.
My prediction: when Canada does not cave in to the American unreasonable demands, ie. payment and concessions up front to continue discussions, put booze back on the shelves first, drop our dairy protections first, etc., etc., Trump will pull out the "TRASH CUSMA" card, expecting a cave in.
PP will run around like "the sky is falling" and there will be a lot of hair pulling and nail biting, but Mr. Carney will not cave in, he will hold strong, and there may be a period of no trade agreement, but in the end we will get a fair trade deal that works better for Canada than the one that the Americans want to impose on us. Remember, you saw it here first. ;-)
Meanwhile as Laura Babcock reminded us, Doug Ford was on CNN saying “It is unfortunate that Canadians are boycotting and boycotting spending tens of billions of dollars in the U.S."
Fucking trump lickspittle. He will sell out Ontario. Time for him to go!!! Time for ontarians to get the full benefit from their tax money. No shady deals with rich buddies, no payoffs, no back room secret deals. Repeal the foi act and force politicians to be fully transparent. Not hide behind locked doors and bs
C'mon folks, that's not how Ford put things to CNN and CBS. He said it sarcastically as in "it's too bad that we have to boycott you" and it's costing you millions. The message he sent to the US was "take off the illegal tariffs and you might get our tourism and alcohol business back"
I really appreciate reading your take on current events. Perhaps it's feeding my cognitive bias, although I try very hard to have a bias towards what the objective evidence tells me. What you post accords with what the evidence tells me.
Great post Fred! I love Wab Kinew & how he handles himself as one of our Premiers, we need a couple more just like him; one in Alberta, for instance, would be awesome :)
Ontario too. 😉
Great post Fred! I saw that interview and liked the clarity of Wab Kinew’s responses. What struck me was the look on the interviewer’s face as he reframed the question. He was either unsure if he had heard Mr. Kinew correctly or was giving Mr.Kinew a chance to backpedal. If all premiers answered as clearly I think Jameson Greer would faint. I love Wab Kinew! He makes a statement with a smile on his face and completely disarms the interviewer.
Another good one Fred, Canada is loving reading your columns. I liked your line, "People are used to politicians sounding like they're buffering". But in the past week or so, Canada has changed the rhetoric and it making it clear that the days of bending over are over. Kinew: "drop the tariffs and we'll buy your booze". Ford: "drop the tariffs and not only will we buy your booze, but we'll start going to Florida and Vegas again". Carney: "You know what's an irritant? 50% tariff on steel. 50% tariff on aluminum. 25% tariff on automobiles, and all those tariffs on forest products. Those are violations of our trade deal."
Our Canadian tone has changed and Carney knows that going to beg the orange emperor to be his friend is the worst negotiating tool he could ever pull out of the chest.
My prediction: when Canada does not cave in to the American unreasonable demands, ie. payment and concessions up front to continue discussions, put booze back on the shelves first, drop our dairy protections first, etc., etc., Trump will pull out the "TRASH CUSMA" card, expecting a cave in.
PP will run around like "the sky is falling" and there will be a lot of hair pulling and nail biting, but Mr. Carney will not cave in, he will hold strong, and there may be a period of no trade agreement, but in the end we will get a fair trade deal that works better for Canada than the one that the Americans want to impose on us. Remember, you saw it here first. ;-)
Meanwhile as Laura Babcock reminded us, Doug Ford was on CNN saying “It is unfortunate that Canadians are boycotting and boycotting spending tens of billions of dollars in the U.S."
Hmmmmm, give your head a shake Dougie!!!
Fucking trump lickspittle. He will sell out Ontario. Time for him to go!!! Time for ontarians to get the full benefit from their tax money. No shady deals with rich buddies, no payoffs, no back room secret deals. Repeal the foi act and force politicians to be fully transparent. Not hide behind locked doors and bs
C'mon folks, that's not how Ford put things to CNN and CBS. He said it sarcastically as in "it's too bad that we have to boycott you" and it's costing you millions. The message he sent to the US was "take off the illegal tariffs and you might get our tourism and alcohol business back"
Another person who is standing out Premier Wab Kinew. Keep it up Canada 🍁 🇨🇦 we need more leaders like you and Prime Minister Carney making us proud.
Wab Kinew is a great leader. He governs for the people.
Good!! No conservative desire to capitulate to the USA.
I really appreciate reading your take on current events. Perhaps it's feeding my cognitive bias, although I try very hard to have a bias towards what the objective evidence tells me. What you post accords with what the evidence tells me.
Kinew and Carney must get along great.
I love your analyses on all of your posts.
This is the way. Canada Strong
2035 Kinew in Sussex Drive!
Elbows up, Canada!