Canadians salute (the president also known as) TACO, Ole YamTits, Orange Shitgibbon, Man-Baby, Tiny Hands, Diaper Don, Mushroom Dick, Toupe'd Fucktrumpet, Trumplesthinskin, Diaper Don, Grifter-in-Chief, Don the Con, DonOld, the Lyin' King, Rug-wearing Thundermugget, Farty-seven, The Orange Shitler, That Orange Fuck:
The underlying theme of Carney's meeting yesterday with the Premiers was Canada's new "Elbows Up" economy - where we decrease dependence on the United States by ramping up our trade and cultural relationship with Europe and Asia.
So I wanted to do a post tonight on the latest "Elbows Up" news - it isn't as active as it was in March and April, but there are still some great stories being told.
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On the morning of March 14, Mike Myers called.Carney was about to be sworn in as Canada’s 24th prime minister. He had won the Liberal leadership five days earlier on the first ballot with 85.9 per cent support. It was more than Trudeau received in 2013 (80 per cent), more than Poilievre received from Conservative members in 2022 (68 per cent). Freeland had come in a distant second with eight per cent.On the back porch of the Governor General’s residence, Jane Deeks, Carney’s director of digital strategy, took a video call from Myers on her phone. Huddled beside her were Mike Maka, deputy campaign manager for the upcoming Liberal election tour, Thomas Pitfield, who would be the campaign’s executive director, and Gerald Butts and his wife, Jodi.Days earlier, Maka had emailed the Scarborough native after his March 1 appearance on Saturday Night Live, where he’d worn a “Canada is not for sale” T-shirt and mouthed “elbows up” during the show’s closing credits.Myers had called back that afternoon, enthusiastically.
This is great - "we are erasing America from our stories and we're not going back"
How's our economy doing? Well, pretty well, really:
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Did you know there is now an Elbows Up political podcast!What defines Canada? We rule comedy because we are not predatory. We live on harsh terrain and were forced to compromise. But we love hockey goons. So watch out Mr. Taco, we aren't afraid to go from "sorry" to "you'll be sorry". My latest on elbows up. charlieangus.substack.com/p/whats-a-ca...
— Charlie Angus (@charlieangus104.bsky.social) June 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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"This isn't a show about picking a fight. It's a show about being ready for one."
Here's a sector of Canadian industry that is ripe for more development:
Other comments:Canada’s video game industry is MASSIVE but under-appreciated. That’s been bothering me. So, I spent the past 1.5 years asking dozens of AAA/indie devs, actors, lobbyists & more about how to address this & got an incredible range of perspectives! 🇨🇦 🎮 My 2nd-biggest @mobilesyrup.com feature ever:
— Brad Shankar 🔜 Summer Game Fest (@bradshankar.bsky.social) June 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Europe is catching the "elbows up" message too:View on Threads
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Do the Europeans know “elbows up” means were sending pollution straight from Western Canada to the historic European shores?
We have an “elbows up” climate plan. It involves extracting and burning every last drop of oil we can find, even dirty “tar sands” oil. JW
" climate plan. It involves extracting and burning every last drop of oil "
I think (hope) Carney is a wily player. He is talking about both FF and renewable energy. His message is, 'we will not stand in your way'. On the other hand, I can't see his gov't funding/owning a pipeline at this this point.
Despite the official approvals of TMX, it never got 'social license'. The owners realized this, then Trudeau Jr. made the second biggest mistake of his career: he bought/funded the commercially dead project.
I don't foresee the private sector initiating another oil pipeline in Canada. Even if they somehow obtained widespread indigenous consent, let's look at the prospects:
XL? "we don't need your oil" per tRump.
West to east? No refining capacity
via BC to Asia? TMX is only at 70% capacity.
As for that other boondoggle LNG, no new pipelines are likely until the current ones (in place and under construction) show they have a strong, consistent market. (Not a given.)
I always suspected Trudeau bought that pipeline because he wanted to get Canada's oil out of the ground and sold before the world moved on from oil completely, a prospect that the oil companies and Alberta refuse to contemplate.
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