Employing U.S. President Donald Trump’s marquee slogan, Prime Minister Mark Carney told a New York City business crowd on Thursday that “Canada strong will help make America great again,” a remark the U.S. envoy to this country said was “worth repeating.”
Speaking at the Economic Club of New York, the prime minister detailed his economic diversification strategy, and his plans to recalibrate Canada’s relationships and reputation.
“We’re focused on what we can control, and that means weaving a dense web of international partnerships abroad. That’s making us a much stronger, more resilient, more independent country,” Carney told the business crowd.
Touting some key areas where the federal Liberals have made progress, Carney sought to make the case for why Canada and the U.S. should continue to co-operate in key sectors.
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As long as we boycott the shit of the us, and stop bending over the barrel for them. We are making America a slightly less shitty place
Okay, but I’d like to make both the US and Canada more compassionate and less harmful places to live. I don’t see how a Neolib who has expressed many times that he does not intend to challenge the fascism in the US (even excitedly tried to jump on the Iran invasion) does that.
I get a lot of you wanna feel like you’re some freedom fighter for buying Hawkins (which is the superior product) instead of Cheetos, but the truth is that the common interests among propertied classes in the US and Canada is going to trump whatever kind of effect you think you’re having. Booze and tourism seems to be the most hard-hit, and afaik, that shit’s peanuts compared to the fossils fuel industry that the US is singlehandedly extending the life of and Carney is all in on.
I dont disagree with what you say. But when Americans are not really doing anything about a guy who has invaded other countries. And wants to do so with mine, its expected that we will be prickly.
“Not really doing anything.”
That’s about the most privileged Canadian shit as I’ve ever read. People have fought US imperialism for centuries, including the same groups of people targeted by its fascist government today. There are dozens of examples of mutual aid and direct action campaigns that protect people from being abducted and thrown in prison camps or worse. They’re not doing anything because why, it doesn’t help you for people to create networks of action and support to the benefit of their communities? They’re fucking being abducted by what was already a surveillance police state with centuries of racist, ableist, misogynist, queerphobic, transphobic, and settler-colonial violence. It isn’t “prickly” to discount the work other people have done to challenge a fascist dictatorship just because it gave you a booboo now, it’s fucking entitled and petulant.
How many people have died fighting this empire in the last year alone? What the fuck are you doing? Not buying American whiskey? Get the fuck over yourself, go sabotage the Oil Sands if you wanna talk the big talk.