Europe Pub (PieFed)Did Carney just signal a massive shift in Canada's foreign policy direction?
www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-davos-spee…
Sen. Peter Boehm, a former diplomat, told CBC’s Power & Politics that Carney’s remarks were the “most consequential” delivered by a Canadian prime minister since Louis St. Laurent — minister responsible external affairs at the time — laid out Canada’s post-Second World War foreign policy direction in 1947.
Louise Blais, a former Canadian ambassador to the United Nations, told Power & Politics that she thinks Carney is attempting to position Canada as a leader among the middle powers.
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No, he signalled it last year. He just went on the world stage to reiterate it to those foreign entities.
It was a good speech. I hope he, and by extension Canada, follows through. There is a significant difference between correctly identifying a problem and successfully implementing a solution. Canada is not without it’s own version of MAGA. So far they have done a much better job of keeping them at bay but only time will tell if that can continue. The speech was a good start though.
LemmyoutofhereIt’s already being implemented. This is to get other countries on board.
I’m terrified conservatives will win the next election
It seemed like that was a real possibility in the last one so you never know. People like simple answers and conservatives play on that tendency all the time. Carney seems to have the right idea here but if he isn’t able to keep the narrative from shifting to something that conservatives can use to make the idiots angry (which they seem pretty good at) then he could be in trouble.
That shift started the moment the American President threatened to annex Canada.
No, it started when he was elected, he just shared his vision on the world stage.
I think this has been his position the entire time. He’s smart. He knows Trump is stupid, evil, and untrustworthy and USA’s word is now worth less than shit on your shoe.
I think we all know you can’t do business with a country that severely flip flops every 4 years. We don’t even know if it’s going to recover from it’s current MAGA Nazi decline. My personal guess is no.
He’s going to smile and wave at the US while repositioning Canada and building new and better trade partner relationships. We’re going to work on long term partnerships, build alliances, and then one day the US realizes it wasn’t invited to our birthday.
He definitely has talked like that at earlier EU Canada economic forums and made several concrete steps in trade diversification in the months before the speech, so it’s not a sudden about face.
But I still can’t help but notice he talks a lot differently at European forums than over here, I wish he talked to Canadians like that more often. I don’t fault people if they wonder whether Carney’s serious since he has also made moves that appeared to appease the US, while in part of the speech Carney says middle powers including Canada should stop doing that.
Canada needs to do a major shift away from the US. They (government, not necessarily people) are only our ‘friends’ when we subordinate all of our policy to their wants. Trump isn’t new on this front, just so childish that it has become impossible to ignore. Even our prior ‘free trade’ was more about the US controlling Canadian business and innovation than actual free trade. Canadians are forced to buy far more American goods per capita than the US has ever bought of Canadian goods.
For all the hand wringers worried about China spying on us, or dealing with countries that have human rights issues we disagree with, all that can be said about US and even more. Why people think we should continue to appease them, I don’t know. It won’t stop an idiot like Trump trying a military takeover if he feels like it, so we are better to be less tied to them to begin with.
I wasn’t too sure about Carney but I liked his speech in Davos. I hope he continues on that road.