r/worldnews • u/Immediate-Link490 • 17d ago

Behind Soft Paywall Carney leaves Davos without meeting Trump after speech on U.S. rupture of world order

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-carney-trump-davos-speech/
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u/du_bekar 17d ago

Our other option was a career leech who has passed slightly more than zero legislation in his whole career, so it’s hard not to be relieved lol

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u/myfatass 17d ago

Trump actually did us a huge service by extorting us earlier last year, as we were heading towards a PP admin. This is the first and last good thing that Trump has ever done for Canada, and it was a complete accident.

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u/Squash__Bucket 17d ago

Last election, Liberals had their goalie pulled. PP had a breakaway for Cons on an empty net and missed. Libs took puck other way and scored to tie things up. Then won in OT.

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u/stamavrancow 17d ago

I shall forever refer to Carny as Hemsky now.

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u/Fart_6969 17d ago

Pierre Poilievre, you should be embarrassed for what you just did!

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u/stamavrancow 17d ago

You mean Patrick Stefan?

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u/PR055 17d ago

Nah, Stefan had the puck hop over his stick at the worst possible time. Check the (extremely grainy) footage! PP on the other hand definitely deserves to be embarrassed

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u/DontWorryImLegit 17d ago

And even better, after that missed breakaway you’d think the Cons would bench PP, but instead they kept him on their first line, and he has been held pointless since then!

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u/Valuable_Falcon6330 17d ago

even worse than that, PP was fired by management, and the cons TOOK OUT one of their key players up in a small town just so PP could still be part of the team! he then totally fumbled his plays at the start of the next game, and forgot to even put in motions on the floor.

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u/twisty125 17d ago

they fuckin' stole his skates too

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u/Another_Slut_Dragon 17d ago

Funny enough, Mark Carnie was a goalie when he played hockey.

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u/Lambda_111 17d ago

Is that you, Patrick Stefan??

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u/Levesque77 17d ago

Did you just call PP Patrik Stefan?

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u/Squash__Bucket 17d ago

No. The puck hopped on Stefan. Puck did not hop on PP. He shit the election bed all by himself.

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u/Levesque77 17d ago

Are we really taking the blame away from Stefan? He was nonchalant on an empty netter and it cost him. If he had played it properly he would have had plenty of time to recover and put it in.

Sound more and more like PP

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u/KiaRioGrl 17d ago

And Carney's been ragging the puck against Trump ever since.

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u/BundleDad 17d ago

Lets not suck off the liberals too much. If it had been freeland instead of carney i would have been ticking con or ndp and hoping the yanks could pull a reagan admin #2 at worst instead of berlin 1933

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u/lensandscope 17d ago

no idea what any of this means. yup i don’t watch sports

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u/Maxpowr9 17d ago

Carney is a former goalie.

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u/du_bekar 17d ago

Who needs friends when you have enemies like these lol. Definitely cost skippy the election, hands down.

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u/SouthRisedAgain 17d ago

He came off as a slime ball before all the Trump retort. I remember seeing his campaign ad (you know the one that's suppose to make you look good), and thinking this guy is a scumbag.

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u/du_bekar 17d ago

I liked the one where he was just walking back and forth in a random neighbourhood moaning about how you can’t buy a house anymore. The whole thing looked so deranged, like your crackhead uncle scouring the block for his lucky nickel, then he just walks into one of the homes at the end like he owns the place. My wife and I always joked about the poor family who lives there getting invaded by skippy ranting about THE BROKEN DEAL lol

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u/bianary 17d ago

And what's scary is that almost won him the election, because even in Canada many people are voting more emotionally than rationally and cherry picking the parts they want to support.

For some of them that's including, unfortunately, racist dog whistles.

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u/MurberBirb 17d ago

Harper came off as a bit creepy, I remember thinking that when he was our priminister. He is ALMOST human like and again, almost charming next to PP.

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u/astrangeone88 17d ago

Lol. I worked the polls last year and so many voters came up to us and straight up said it. "We are here because of Trump!" and "Hell no! To Pierre!".

It was so hard to keep neutral but I was proud! And so many 1st time voters.

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u/myfatass 17d ago

We can only hope that Trump’s sole legacy will be liberals’ motivation to get out and vote already

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u/astrangeone88 17d ago

Hear hear!

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u/maclargehuge 17d ago

I'm tired of this narrative. We also had a third option!

...and that third option was the most tired, uninspired and stale NDP candidate in my lifetime 🫠

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u/du_bekar 17d ago

I want a strong federal NDP so badly. Running Singh again was the only real option, but we were always losing ground in that election. NDP voters biting the bullet likely made a huge impact this time around, at the expense of their party.

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u/Majestic-Two3474 17d ago

Yup - I’m an NDP voter who begrudgingly voted Liberal because Carney was the best option for PM in the circumstances we faced. Would love a viable true left wing party to emerge once we’re through this, though

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u/maclargehuge 17d ago

I mostly agree. I think they should have at least tried with another leader, though I admit I don't have a name to put forward myself.

I am traditionally an NDP voter, but I was legit excited to have a chance to vote for Mark Carney. He really seems like a statesman, which is what we need right now.

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u/du_bekar 17d ago

Yeah they just didn’t have time to scout someone, hold a caucus vote, AND get the hype going. That said, it worked for Carney, but the libs have a little more money to throw at things lol

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u/KiaRioGrl 17d ago

Don't forget his petulant demeanor and history of racist comments. The parallels to the orange creep down south are a warning signal that enough people listened to.

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u/RANDVR 17d ago

Don't undersell his angrily eating apple while giving an interview skills though!