Carney as Canadian leader

[CharonY]

19 minutes ago, Peterkin said:

Well, it's an existential threat.... Greenlanders are not widely divided on the issue either.

They do leverage the situation for gain more concessions from Denmark. I also don't think that for them it does not feel quite as threatening as for Canadians.

[Peterkin]

Distance, I suppose, and less daily contact with the realities of the current American political scene. Plus, I guess the big T is not so cross with them as he is with us. 

I don't think any of his expansion ambitions will come to fruition; he may become king, but not emperor. (And I shudder at the thought of seeing him in those splendid new clothes!) But he'll do an awful lot of damage before it's over, and we'll need a good deal of resolve and co-operation to survive it. I hope we're getting a leader to ride these rapids. I don't care if he's politically savvy or charismatic or a great orator, just so he's calm and collected and stable enough. Gods know, the world could use an infusion of sanity! 

[MigL]

13 hours ago, CharonY said:

I also don't think that for them it does not feel quite as threatening as for Canadians.

They do, however, have a large American military base, located in Greenland, which, considering Greenland's population and defensive capabilities, is more than adequate/capable of taking over the country.

That idiot in charge of the US has already authorized planning for the invasion of the Panama Canal, yet people are still giving that lunatic the benefit of the doubt.

[CharonY]

1 minute ago, MigL said:

They do, however, have a large American military base, located in Greenland, which, considering Greenland's population and defensive capabilities, is more than adequate/capable of taking over the country.

That is fair, but based on at least some reports, folks are wary but focus more narrowly on their own path to independence. Some in fact have pushed for closer ties to the US in order to accelerate Danish independence. And compared to the last election that party (Naleraq) did make gainst. But the Democrats party made even more gains, which, similar to the previous ruling party is planing on slow independence. I think the politics there is difficult with long-existing tensions with Denmark as well as social and economic challenges dominating their thinking for a long time. The US debate had likely an influence, but likely not as much of a dominating one.

20 hours ago, MigL said:

Politicians have to know how people work, because they represent all their constituents. They don't represent their constituent's money. The problem with putting elitists in power, who think that they are good at everything , is that you end up with 'business men' like D Trump, who are good at ripping people off, and think that policy is done by extortion. To them, the 'deal' is more important than how it affects the people.
Then again, I am judging him on very little information. He hasn't gone into full campaign mode yet, so I can't judge him on election promises, or their eventual delivery. I would think none of us know how well either M Carney or P Poilievre will serve. You cast your vote and you take your chances.

I think you have good point regarding folks who think that they are good at everything. Or they may have the tendency to surround themselves with similar folks as them because they see them as an extension of their own genius.

This is a bit of a conundrum as one would hope that a good politician would surround themselves with experts to balance out their expertise in moving the system (I see quite a bit of failures in both elements in case of Trudeau- he seems to be better at reacting to crises than handling overall management). Yet, often politicians often do not do that and prefer to surround themselves with folks that help them stay in power. We do see an extreme case of it not happening in the US and I think a big failure of Poilievre was to align himself with Republican tactics way too early, which now has become toxic. An although campaigns have not started yet, he campaigned staunchly on anti-Trudeau sentiments, and it seems that re-alignment is tricky. Who knows how ideologically aligned he really is with the US style right wing, but now he has to be careful to disentangle himself while not offending his base too much.

I doubt that given the current economic situation his repeated appeals to tax cuts is going to play that well anymore. But as you said, who knows?

[J.C.MacSwell]

Trump Claims he'd "rather work with a Liberal than a Conservative" and Poilieivre "is no friend of mine".

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trump-says-he-would-rather-deal-with-a-liberal-than-a-conservative-calls-poilievre-no-friend-of-mine/

The guy loves the Putin playbook (Putin claimed he'd rather Biden as POTUS than Trump)...but unlike his MAGA supporters Canadians know that what comes out of his mouth is more likely to be false than truthful.

[exchemist]

16 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

Trump Claims he'd "rather work with a Liberal than a Conservative" and Poilieivre "is no friend of mine".

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/trump-says-he-would-rather-deal-with-a-liberal-than-a-conservative-calls-poilievre-no-friend-of-mine/

The guy loves the Putin playbook (Putin claimed he'd rather Biden as POTUS than Trump)...but unlike his MAGA supporters Canadians know that what comes out of his mouth is more likely to be false than truthful.

Oh yes, this is because he knows he's radioactive, so distancing himself from Poilievre will help the latter's chances.