Tuesday was the second day of Carney's investment summit, and Carney also told Canada about his plans to add private capital to our biggest airports, so we will have enough money to enlarge other needed airports around the country.
Mark Carney
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"We have to look at where we stand and who our partners are so that we are integrating, in other words, we trading with, we're connected to, partners on which we can rely," says PM Carney when asked about a possible new security and economic alliance with the EU. #cdnpoli
— CPAC TV (@cpac.ca) September 15, 2026 at 10:12 AM
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"This time is different. We are living in different times," says PM Mark Carney as he responds to a reporter's question on previous public opposition to the privatization of Canada's airports. #cdnpoli
— CPAC TV (@cpac.ca) September 15, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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Steven Harper
“It is clear that the current U.S. administration views our level of economic integration as incompatible with our separate sovereignty,” says former PM Stephen Harper in investment summit speech, calling for Canada to pursue “diminished reliance on the United States.” #cdnpoli
— CPAC TV (@cpac.ca) September 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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One of the most pro-US PM's ever, basically telling Poilievre, Jivani, most Conservative influencers and the National Post/SunMedia chain they are wrong. #cdnpoli #Canada
— Scott Tribe -A proud "Ketchup Chip Nationalist" member (@stribeprogblog.bsky.social) September 15, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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Tom Mulcair comments
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Carney and Harper and the rest of the business people at the summit now understand what Anne Applebaum explains in The Atlantic this month titled Empire of Grift:
... Outside the democratic world, where kleptocracy has long been the norm, no special changes are necessary to accommodate the new American regime. Pragmatism reigns: If American-government decisions are now for sale, then many will eagerly buy them. The Qataris did not give Trump a $400 million jumbo jet merely out of friendship. The Saudi public-investment fund did not commit $2 billion to Jared Kushner’s private-equity fund simply as a gesture of goodwill. And Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama did not offer Kushner and Ivanka Trump a piece of the country’s environmentally protected coastline to build a luxury resort because he admires their design sense.Enjoy this!
Sometimes, these kinds of contributions appear aimed at achieving very specific results. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Emirati royal family, purchased a 49 percent stake in World Liberty Financial, the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture, for $500 million. A few months later, the Trump administration agreed to let the UAE buy high-tech chips whose export the Biden administration had restricted.
Most governments in the old democratic world cannot compete in this race. Europeans, Canadians, Australians, and others can’t pay off the American president by investing in his children’s companies, because that would be illegal. Nor are they finding it easy to adjust to the new world of quasi-official, quasi-private diplomacy.
Instead they are beginning to look elsewhere for contacts, for technology, for trade. No one previously imagined that Canada would find it necessary to sign a defense pact with the EU, let alone to conduct defense-tech negotiations with Australia; it has now done both. The EU has just arranged a free-trade agreement with India, something that few people were interested in completing a few years ago, and another with Australia. In the first half of 2026, no fewer than 26 world leaders visited China, including the British, Spanish, German, and Canadian prime ministers. The French government is slowly removing Windows, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom from its computers, replacing them with open-source software or French-made alternatives. Some German regional governments, as well as the Danish and Dutch governments, are on a similar mission, as are some European banks and universities.
These changes are meant to be permanent. After all, even if a Democrat wins the White House in 2028, the companies empowered by federal money and the ideologues who have taken over institutions will continue to influence Congress and voters. Now that Trump has shown that it can be done, future presidents might also benefit from kleptocratic practices. “We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years,” France’s Europe minister has said...
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Carny platforming this guy is nuts, both morally and politically.
Much to my chagrin Jr. got TMX built.
https://bsky.app/profile/peipolitical.bsky.social/post/3mvmznx7qzc2w
Sorry, if the link doesn't work ...
"Blame Trudeau. His hatred & anger is still on full display after Trudeau demolished him. Just gotta get in digs!
Stephen Harper: "In 2015, Canada was poised to become that energy superpower. Today, we are not. Why? Because of deliberate policy choices that followed over the next decade." #cdnpoli"
Carny's buddy:
"Stephen Harper’s firm behind spy tech Israel is using to target Gazans"
Carney has a "tell" - it's a big smile. When he is actually happy, he smiles of course. But whenever he is at his most charming - a big smile but an intent look in his eyes - it is when he is dealing with someone who is difficult or single-minded like Harper. Carney can charm them into being their best selves and very often he gets them to rise to the occasion.
The only self-depreciating joke I have ever heard from Trump was one time when Carney was with him
Sure is awfully nice of those private companies to give our airports all that money for free!
. . . What's that you say? It's NOT free money? They want it all back and more on top? They'll want a say in how the airports are run?! Whoa. From all the excitement I could have SWORN it was free money!
Damn. Next people will be telling me the FOREIGN INVESTMENT isn't free money EITHER! But come on, would we be doing a race to the bottom on taxation if THAT was the case?!
Don't get me wrong, becoming close with the EU (and various other places) is a good idea right now, and Carney is good at that. And whether or not this is a diplomatic feat by Carney, it's kind of funny to see Harper cutting Poilievre off at the knees and backing Carney's play against the US. Harper was always pro-American, and he was one of the people who helped whip up what became maple Maga, but I guess like e.g. that creep Jason Kenney, the full flower of it was too much stupid for him to tolerate.
But at the same time, Carney still has these marketroid instincts and they are going to do us harm. Although it's funny in the short term, trotting out Harper is kind of like the Democrats trotting out Liz Cheney against Trump . . . it's an indication that you listen to conservatives and find their endorsement important.
What's this? Lego Head Harper is back? I guess since he was the first one to appoint Carney to a bank governor position, he has a special place in Carney's heart.
And what's this about turning airports over to the private sector? We've already done that with our major ones. They're run by not-for-profit corporations that are already charging some of the highest fees in the world. These fees are mostly being collected for the federal government. So how will introducing for-profit corporations deliver better service at lower costs?
Well, I'm not opposed to some privatization of the airports as long as we still own the land and make the rules.
We still own the land and make the rules in Alberta's oil patch. But sure, what could go wrong? Hmmm . . . if we own the land and make the rules, and they're investing to make a profit, isn't that just another Public-Private Partnership? You know, the ones that always turn out to cost twice as much for worse results compared to the government just doing it itself.
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