I'm seeing so many good posts and comments over the last few days. So tonight I thought I would just share a random selection.
First up, I'm hearing about how Carney is doing now that Parliament is back.
Evan Scrimshaw / Scrimshaw Unscripted
Biggest Threats For Carney As Parliament Returns
On Freeland And Other Things
...The government’s got a very difficult balancing act to pull off this session - a combination of handling the American relationship and building a more resilient, and Trump-proof, economy, walking back the Trudeau era mistakes on criminal justice and immigration, rebuilding relationships and trust with the Jewish community and fighting against antisemitism while respecting free speech, and doing all in the backdrop of a UN General Assembly that is going to be almost entirely about Gaza and recognition of a Palestinian state. That would be a nearly-impossible task for a government running at full efficiency, let alone one full of rookies who still don’t know their briefs yet.
If the government is going to get its head out of its ass, it’s going to need to use this Freeland Cabinet resignation as an opportunity to reset not one face, but their entire attitude. The Take It On Faith approach that has marked this government so far has to end, and it has to be replaced by a government that views Canadians as adults who can understand a concept that’s more than 4 words long. At a time when the Conservatives are continuing to lean into Verb The Noun and other 3 word slogans - I guess this week’s is “Just Another Liberal” - Carney needs to respond by elevating the debate. You make the Conservatives’ sloganeering look like shit not by fighting fire with fire, but by showing them to be shallow morons who don’t understand the issues they talk about.
...Carney is objectively one of the smartest people to serve as PM of this country and frankly of most countries. He is also a political neophyte who, while running a good campaign in 2025, needs to remember that how you do things can matter as much, if not more, than outcomes. In the business world, skipping to the end of a process is a good thing. When you’re immediately sending a strike action to arbitration, you’re fucking the dog royally. There’s a political instinct that technocrats often miss, and that will be crucial.
If Carney wants to be a successful PM he will need to listen to the kinds of voices that Freeland and her old boss marginalized - progressive, but by no means sycophantically Liberal, voices who want the government to go well but also want good governance. Whether Carney can bring himself to listen to that dissent will decide the course of the next half decade. Let’s fucking hope he does.
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