You Can Lead Carney To Davos And Yes He Will Most Assuredly Drink!

Did you read the press coverage practically falling all over themselves in praise of Carney's speech? What a wonderful triumph, they said fawningly and a breach in the dam of superpower hegemony! Bullshit.

Middle powers like Canada can whine and complain and band together in the fight against Trump, but in the end, that won't likely produce meaningful results.

That performance came off more like an academic exercise than a speech destined for the people. It was overly intellectual and filled with meaningless platitudes, not to mention pious positioning and strutting. 

Beyond anything else, it reinforced the perception that Carney is already locked down solid in the camp of the world's elite political thinkers and their transnational economic agenda. Carney knows only too well who he's really working for: multinational corporations and their wish list. 

The creature from Goldman Sachs and Brookfield has still got religion. No surprise there, unless you've been asleep since he became prime minister. Carney is there to serve their interests before our own. Any sentient being can see it, even though so many will quite deliberately look the other way, given that this government aligns with their agenda, that of the privileged few. Millionaires are full-square in his corner.

Makes you wonder how this will translate in the next election: inflation and unemployment continue to creep up while food and gas prices also rise. Not a recipe for on-the-ground happy campers. Young people in this city need at least an annual income of 100K to buy their first home. Not happening, not ever, for so many people. So, inevitably, there's still a lot of runway ahead for the CPC. Pierre will come out of the convention with a solid mandate from the party. He's already sounding all the right notes in Parliament. From this point, at least for the foreseeable future, confrontation won't be the order of the day. Much will depend on how the government proceeds, but so far, opposition parties will want the government to succeed at least economically, to offer beleaguered Canadians some desperate relief. That means if my name is Poilièvre, things are looking up. 

In my book, Carney should have stayed the hell away from Davos, especially with this economy. He didn't, and that may come back and bite him in the ass, perhaps far sooner than most people think. To be continued.