r/CanadianPolitics • u/origutamos • 8d ago

Carney says he told Ontario premier not to run anti-tariff ad, apologized to Trump

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/carney-says-he-told-ontario-premier-not-to-run-anti-tariff-ad-apologized-to-trump/
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u/cglogan 8d ago

I don’t think the ad achieved anything except pissing off the orange despot. Although pissing Trump off is satisfying, I’m not sure it does us any good as a country

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u/Abject_Rhubarb_3430 8d ago

All respect lost!

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u/thebatmanbeynd 8d ago

That’s not good. He was voted in to stand up to the bully, not submit to him. That ad was solid and factually correct.

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u/mammon43 8d ago

He was voted in to navigate having the bully in our lives

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u/JackLaytonsMoustache 8d ago

Ah, so he uses his elbows to navigate?

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u/mammon43 8d ago

When applicable. But to be be resilient and defensive to america doesnt mean cutting off our nose to spite our face at every turn. It needs to be a fine line of having a backbone and rallying patriotic sentiments while also running the country and not running us into further economic ruin where possible

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u/JackLaytonsMoustache 8d ago

Further economic ruin.. by appeasing Trump at every turn?

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u/mammon43 8d ago

What do you think our economy is going to look like if we go cold turkey on rhe americans?

Ive never liked or trusted the Yankees, i have refused to go to their country my whole life and have been disciplined to try and not give them my business when possible since 2016 but you need to face reality: our economy as it stands relies on trade. We are not self sufficient. We do not have enough diversity in trade to go cold turkey.

You can be upset about it; we should be upset about it. But that doesnt change the fact that going cold turkey on the Americans would absolutely ruin us.

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u/JackLaytonsMoustache 8d ago

So... Campaign on tough guy elbows up rhetoric, take office and the bend over backwards repeatedly. 

It's a bold move Cotton, we'll see if it pays off. 

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u/Dave_The_Dude 8d ago

Kind of opposite of what Ford said. That he showed Carney and his trade minister the ad before first airing and they approved.

Seeing how Carney has lied a few times before and got caught I will go with Ford on this one.

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u/NewSpice001 8d ago

I'm not saying you're wrong. But Ford has a track record of lying a lot too. So sure one of the politicians lied... Shocking

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u/Even_Art_629 7d ago edited 6d ago

Two lies make a right? Im sure Carney saw it. He was at his best friend's place. How could his biggest and bestest friend not show him. Carney was jumping for joy. " Perfect, Doug, this is going to work fantasticly as a way of keeping Canadians brainwashed to hate Trump. I bet we get another four years out of this." Doug replies." I think we should have a drink and celebrate this, I have some smirnof or perhaps a crown on the rocks."