So glad David Cochran is back at Power and Politics:Pierre Poilievre and Yankie Doodle Andy keep whining about Carney backroom deals to get a majority. Most conservatives are probably whining on how their leadership was so bad that 4 MPs were so unhappy that they took a deal. This majority is thanks to PP and nothing else.
— Dale Burnay (@daleburnay.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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Poilievre on Carney's education:
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Arlene Dickinson writes about Poilievre's criticisms:
...It’s called anti-intellectualism.
It’s important to see it exactly for the political strategy it is and to understand exactly why he’s doing it.
The playbook’s simple. Make someone’s expertise sound like they’re out of touch. Make their accomplishments sound like elitism. Make their intelligence sound suspicious.
It’s a strategy. And once you see it you won’t be fooled by it.
Pierre loves talking about the struggles of everyday Canadians.
The cost of groceries. Housing. Making ends meet. He constantly invokes the real struggles of people as if he’s someone who has lived the pain.
He’s not and he hasn’t.
Poilievre became a political staffer at 18. An MP at 25. He’s never run a business or had to make payroll. He’s never had to worry about having enough money to retire. Never had to put something back on the shelf because his money ran out before the end of the month.
He has zero lived experience of the struggles he performs sympathy for every single day.
At first it was puzzling then that he’d go after Carney’s economic credentials, right? But it’s not a random attack. It’s the strategy. Make being qualified sound like a liability.
As far as I see our PM hasn’t pretended to be something he isn’t. He has an extraordinary track record of delivering under immense pressure, at the highest level, and he has the skills to actually fix the problems that Poilievre just talks about....
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This clip is from 2025 but it explains Poilievre's greatest weakness in one remark "you can only believe so much in the free market if you're a tenured professor at Chicago or a life-long politician".
Some comments about the Canadian economy:@lawvsreality #MarkCarney with the takedown of #PierrePoilievre. #Canada #fyp #cdnpoli #CanadianResisters #canada🇨🇦 #canadatiktok🇨🇦 #canada_life🇨🇦 #elbowsup #CanadaStrong #canadatiktok #canadalife ♬ original sound - lawvsreality
I think 2026 and 2027 will be Summers of Construction for Canada:
Here's some of the latest economic data from the IMF and others, when you are in the mood to do battle in the jungle of trolls and rage baiters. TEXT provided in ALT text field on image. 🇨🇦💪
— Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 & Buy Canadian Warrior (@vanellemusic.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 8:29 AM
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Today, Canada broke ground on the Contrecœur Container Terminal expansion at the Port of Montréal — a major infrastructure project expected to increase the port’s capacity by about 60%, strengthen supply chains, and support thousands of jobs.
— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) April 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
PM Carney: “With each shovel in the ground, we are building a stronger, more independent, more resilient Canadian economy. In less than seven months, this project went from a proposal to a construction site. That is the speed and ambition we need to build Canada strong.
— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) April 9, 2026 at 12:05 PM
Prime Minister Mark Carney says plans to expand the Port of Churchill as part of a trade corridor through northern Manitoba are a top priority. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
— Karen Pauls (@karenpaulscbc.bsky.social) April 14, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Exports through Port of Vancouver reach record levels vist.ly/4vdqc #cdnag #westcdnag
— thewesternproducer.bsky.social (@thewesternproducer.bsky.social) March 18, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Speaking as someone in Arizona, this is a really, really successful travel boycott. Over a million Canadian visitors used to pump ~$2 billion into our state economy every year. Anecdotally, every Canadian I've bumped into around here in the last year with property is selling up and not coming back.
— kay taylor rea (@kaytaylorrea.bsky.social) April 13, 2026 at 9:56 AM
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I can't imagine how angry this will make Trump: I call him Nutlick - the guy who is proud he didn't leave his children on Epstein Island - and he is just as far out of his depth as Poilievre is.Prime Minister Mark Carney established himself as the leader of Europe.
— Scott Galloway (@profgalloway.com) April 15, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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Do these brainiacs not realize how pathetic they look? They chest thump & RahRahRah!!! Next breath they whine about Carney “running” to do a deal with China like jilted lovers They’re just contemptible mendacious fabulists that think they’re omnipotent. Twats apple.news/AylOieIxeR7O...
— Shamus Brown (@shamusbrown1.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Moving on, here is an Iran War update in two panels:
— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 8:03 PM
— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 7:04 PMIf there actually was an agreement to open the Strait, the ships didn't get the memo:
Despite Trump’s claims to the contrary, nearly every ship attempting to pass through the Strait of Hormuz today turned back.
— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) April 17, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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The thing about Poilievre accusing Carney of not knowing economics is that it's ludicrous, but it points to something important: Economics as a discipline, as it's taught in the main stream, is bankrupt.
So imagine you have a guy who's an expert astrologer. He knows EVERYTHING about astrology, he knows the history going back to Babylon, he knows the star charts backwards and forwards, he knows all the influences and this and that. Accusing him of being a bad astrologer would be ridiculous. It would be even more ridiculous if the person making the accusation was a self-styled astrologer on the basis of having read "Astrology for Dummies". But in the end, he's still an astrologer.
And that's basically what Carney is--he's a REALLY GOOD astrologer, one who has tempered his astrological theory with experience of the world, knows when to fudge those charts a bit to get a result more in tune with reality. Whereas Poilievre is a crap astrologer who believes his charts if they tell him the sky is green. But the underlying discipline they're both relying on is bullshit which became received wisdom not because it describes reality, but because it describes an alternate reality in which giving all our money to rich people would be GOOD, because that is useful to rich people and they're the ones endowing the chairs in economics and paying for "think tanks".
I loved Carney's description in that video, that the only people who believe in free markets are tenured professors at Chicago and lifelong politicians - in other words, people who are paid by the public not by the market at all. So I guess I am not convinced that Carney doesn't see the weaknesses in our economic systems too.
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