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Patsy Rideout's avatar

Most of us, when we know nothing about a particular conversation piece, keep our mouths shut to prevent embarrassing ourselves & the audience, but, not PP, he has verbal diarrhea, same as Trumpi, & can't help himself LOL

Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)'s avatar

In technical settings, saying less is often smarter than saying more.

Gaps tend to show up pretty quickly.

Jim Veinot's avatar

Hopefully some of the engineers already knew who they were dealing with, by reputation.

Lee Simmons's avatar

No shit, eh?!🇨🇦

Roxy Jones's avatar

🇨🇦💙 I cannot imagine Europeans comparing Pp’s drivel to Carney’s Davos speech. Pp is actually on a PR campaign for Carney. 😏

Daniela's avatar

Not any engineers, German engineers, they're the most engineer-y people in Europe since forever. Poor choice to go to the meeting unprepared

Keith Williams's avatar

He was prepared for a different audience. Probably a non-engineering conservative base audience here in Canada.

Lb 🇨🇦's avatar

Why is that moron wandering around the world pretending to be a leader when he is actually nothing and doesn’t even attend security briefings for our country because he can’t

LAS's avatar

Thank you for the background information on LNG.

Alexis 🇨🇦's avatar

All this tells me is that Pierre is a blithering idiot! He doesn’t read up on any of the subjects He’s talking about he talks down to everyone in the audience because he believes that he knows more than everyone else he’s talking to and he comes across as a moron when he talks to people who know more about a subject than he does. And it’s bloody obvious that he did absolutely no reading or research or whatsoever to differentiate between an import facility and an export facility!

Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)'s avatar

In rooms like that, details matter.

You can’t bluff your way through it.

Catherine kedziora's avatar

He doesn’t have enough self awareness to be embarrassed so he embarrasses his whole maple Maga party, how humiliating 🇨🇦

Gail McDonald's avatar

I'm just very happy that those German scientists and engineers are smart enough to realize that PP is not a representative of the Canadian government that is leading Canada. They likely know Carney and his reputation. I'm sure they had a good laugh.

Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)'s avatar

They’d know who’s actually in government, yes.

And that’s what matters in a room like that.

🇨🇦 Natalie Woodn’t 🇨🇦's avatar

So pp is an idiot.

Chris Galletly's avatar

Exporting LNG from Canada's East Coast wouldn't require the pipeline construction. There is enough offshore natural gas production. The problem is the lack of processing and liquefaction infrastructure. Any gas production in Canada's Maritime Provinces is currently moved to the North Eastern US by gas pipeline.

Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)'s avatar

You’re right Chris... this isn’t really a “pipeline problem”… it’s an infrastructure gap.

Canada does have offshore gas on the East Coast.

But without liquefaction terminals, processing capacity, and export facilities…

it’s effectively stranded.

Right now, the system is still wired south... not outward.

That’s the part a lot of political soundbites skip over.

Jacks's avatar

What is this gobshite doing in Europe?! We make deals with the leader of Canada, also known to be the reliable, sympathatic mr. Carney! Go home PP, we don't want you here especially ‘cause you've got no say in what Canada does!!

Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)'s avatar

Different systems.

In Canada, opposition leaders still show up internationally...

whether people like it or not.

Doesn’t mean they’re speaking for the country.

Canadian Cassandra✨💗🇨🇦's avatar

And because PP is an incompetent fool. 🇨🇦

Grace's avatar

When I was working as an engineer, we called 'bigwigs' like pp "seagull manager". Swoop in, loudly proclaiming what's wrong with everything without any technical knowledge/understanding (ie. "Pooping everywhere"), then quickly fly out. Nothing changed. No solution offered. Just criticism of everything and everyone.

Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)'s avatar

I’ve heard that one before… engineers don’t usually hand out nicknames like that for no reason.

Tends to show up when there’s more talk than understanding.

Ben Robertson's avatar

I am thankful every day that Pooliver (my name for him) did not become Canada’s PM. In Mark Carney we have a man who understands finance like no other, who understands diplomacy, who can get up and speak before a crowd without doing a faceplant, and who doesn’t take any of Donald Trump’s crap. I shudder to imagine what it would be like with Pierre the Pathetic Pipsqueak as PM.

Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)'s avatar

A lot of people are reacting to style right now...

but long term, it’s results that matter.

That’s where the real judgment happens.

Debbie Benson's avatar

We have a plague right now of confident stupidity! People who are smart understand that they don’t know everything, respect experts who know their field of study and expertise and are willing to do actual research to learn more. Confident stupid people don’t know that they lack knowledge and double down on their ignorant opinions. And doing actual research is not scrolling on your phone while sitting on the toilet!

Fred Ferguson (GeezerWise)'s avatar

There’s definitely a difference between confidence and competence.

The tricky part is… the louder one often gets more attention.