Carney to America: Canada doesn't need to lose just so you can win

Carney told New York on Thursday that “Canada strong will help make America great again”

Impressive speech by PM Carney 🇨🇦 https://youtu.be/-Wa2kZIV26s?si=eYDIlUzrtu3jOT5h

- Kier Atkinson 🇨🇦

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So I'm seeing "why is Carney talking MAGA?" reactions on social media. But at a time when Canada is entering into crucial negotiations over whether Trump will abandon the CUSMA agreement, it doesn't surprise me to see Carney take the initiative at the Economic Club of New York with a positive message to counter Trump's zero-sum transactional thinking.
Carney's message is pretty simple - Canada doesn't need to lose just so America can win.
Here is today's Power and Politics Reporter Roundtable, with David Cochrane.

I must say, I found this discussion more sensible than tonight's At Issue panel. The P&P reporters Joel-Denis Bellavance (La Presse), Mia Rabson (CP) and Aaron Wherry (CBC News) brought more analysis to their discussion of Carney's speech to the Economic Club of New York, and to the chaos around the Alberta referendum. And with his typical wit, Cochrane said the Alberta NDP have risen so far in the polls that Danielle Smith could find she has set up "a Sovereign Alberta in a United Canada" for Premier Nenshi.

Some other comments:

🔴 Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a very compelling address today at the Economic Club of New York. 👏🏼👏🏼 The PM highlighted that a stronger, more confident Canada is the ultimate partner for the United States. By taking practical, common-sense steps, we can deepen our economic ties and build shared prosperity. We're better together. ✅

- Fun Tom

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In Policy Magazine, editor Lisa Van Dusen:

...The headline quote may have been the winkish “Canada Strong will help make America great again,” but the transcendent message beyond the trade, energy, defence, infrastructure and values elements was that in a world transformed by unprecedented financial, economic, geopolitical, and technological complexity and the policy complexity that goes with it, managing global super-complexity takes a supernerd....
...the Alberta debate shifts Canada’s existential threat into a domestic context where Carney’s strengths — the credentials, the global network, the economic supernerdism — are meant to be as worthless as ChatGPT in a knife fight.
Whether that proves to be the case could count for quite a lot in the battle for Canada.

From Tom Mulcair:

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This is from a couple of months ago, but its still timely:

And this is worth remembering:

Canadians owe First Nations a real debt of gratitude right now. While Smith and others are talking about Alberta separation like it’s a game of checkers, a lot of First Nations leaders are reminding people that Treaties exist. History exists. Responsibilities exist. You can’t just rip a country apart because you're frustrated with Ottawa. There’s something incredibly powerful about seeing Indigenous leaders defend unity in Canada after everything this country has put them through. Whether people agree politically or not, that deserves respect. I love my Indigenous family members. My uncle and my cousins mean a lot to me. I’ve watched them deal with their rights being ignored and pushed aside for generations. And now, at a time when this country feels more divided than ever, they’re standing up not just for their own rights, but for mine too. I’ll never take that for granted.

- The Kyle Jordan Project

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Finally, in other news, Canada won over the US in the IIHC Quarterfinals, knocking the US out of the tournament and improving Canada's record to 8-0. So good!
 

TL, DW:   TSN reports Macklin Celebrini opened the scoring for Canada on the power play and Jet Greaves made 34 stops to keep the Americans off the scoreboard. Sidney Crosby scored his first goal of the tournament on an empty-netter, and Dylan Holloway and Connor Brown also scored.

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About the Friday Habs game: 

we don't know who will win, but we do know that the Canadiens will play their hearts out.

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