Very sad to see the federal minister behind Carney has become a bobbing head. I thought we'd lost the tacky bobble-head style in press conferences when Trudeau moved on.
My former, late mother-in-law had an aversion to "looking for trouble". Her first husband died of cancer, her second bore the ink and scars of the camps. She knew that trouble finds one itself, that one needn't rush there.
Carney evidently understands this wisdom. There will be trouble in Quebec sooner or later, but there's no rush. In the meantime, he'll stay clean, and occupy the high road.
I liked the “And I’ll finish here” part. I was feeling kind of sorry for him by the end of his string of non sequiturs that were unrelated to your question. He sounded like someone who knew he was making a hash of the answer (which I can relate to).
While an actual answer would have been preferable, I like that he comes across as being somewhat embarrassed that he is giving a non-answer. Much preferable to his predecessor's penchant for giving a clearly rehearsed answer that was tangentially (if that) related to the question.
I believe he was having difficulty with responding to questions in french in a non structured environment. The questions were one after another with varying degrees? Of difficulty. The Priminister was not standing alone and reading from a prepared script.
Paul's read is right on ( as usual). He is one of the few English Canadian commentators to really understand Quebec politics. PPSP , the PQ leader, is Quebec's version of Pierre Polievre and he won't be elected in the fall and there will not be another referendum, whether he is becomes premier or not.
We are watching closely the amateur hour that is the Alberta separatist movement. The current spokespersons are really not very impressive.
There’s a lot of déjà-vu in Alberta these days for those of us who remember the Quebec independence referenda. Already they’re talking about keeping their Canadian passports.
Any day now: partition. Also the fate of Canadian Forces bases.
While expressing his moral outrage at the Alberta separatists, PM Carney celebrates the special status afforded Quebec. Canada may not be broken but hypocrisy like this keeps it on life support.
French Canada existed 250 years before Confederation. Alberta was created 40 years after Confederation. Quebec has a ''national'' assembly, a ''national'' capital, a ''national'' holiday, a Quebec Pension Plan, a Quebec police force. Nobody in Quebec refers to Ottawa as ''the nation's capital'' the way the rest of the country does, it is called the federal capital. These are facts of life not hypocrisy.
I cannot help agree with Mr Spicer. The British North Act circumscribed specific roles for our federal government and the provinces. Times have changed but why on earth is Ottawa still hogging the lions share of the tax revenue when it’s the provinces’ super expensive health and education responsibilities which have grown so vastly since 1867?
Probably because the Conservative Provincial Leaders are privatizing health care against the wishes of Canadians. USA health firms are panting at the border. Education is being cut in Ontario especially for kids with special needs - while having a $ 44 billion non public contingency fund. * See FCA budget reports in 2022, To support mobility across the country health care quality should be monitored for outcomes and and ditto for access to good education needed to sustain Canada's ability to compete internationally. Time for a constitution amendment or at least require results reports from the provinces on results attained from transfers of our taxes.
"The federal government will send the money, Quebec will spend the money."
"The announcement required various concessions to provincial autonomy."
Hallelujah, that in a nutshell describes the problem that Premier Danielle Smith has with the Liberal government. Provincial autonomy. If the feds would just stay in their lane, take care of what a national government is supposed to, and quit meddling in provincial affairs, all this talk of separation would have remained just that ... talk.
The problem with the Liberal government of the past eleven years is they want everything to be a negotiation, and treat the provinces like children who need to be put in their place, as they inflict a "we know what's best attitude." The solution is simple, but are they willing to back away from their power trip and allow the provinces to look after their own affairs?
To make it easier for those interested, Paul's question starts at the 33:45 mark. What is so difficult to understand in Carney's answer? As Paul says, Quebec was the only province that had not yet come to terms with the feds in the divvying up of the Canada Public Transit Fund. Whose doing was that? Trudeau? Legeault? Who cares. New people, new approaches. I can imagine Carney saying to his team: Get This Done. And it was. Next may be Ford, the provincial outlier for an agreement on Child Care.
His Getting Things Done with Alberta is more complicated. Much of the media coverage neglects important aspects of the MOU and the Implementation agreement which makes the public discussion lopsided.
It's funny to hear on CBC News a careful inclusion of Mr. Poilievre's comments on whatever brought Carney in the news of the day. They are mostly vacuous and, above all, angry. His future does not look good.
I'm not sure if this is what happened, but the obvious policy to take with public transit would be to underserve AB, SK and ON, because all three premiers have a stated, clear, hatred of public transit and even humble bike lanes. Why waste money on premiers who think it useless?
But, assuming that sensible allocation is what the feds did, it is still hard to admit to, even if politically optimal.
You're comparing Canada's democracy to what, exactly? The ranking you link to states Israel is a "working democracy." But if you look at liberal guarantees, the treatment of minorities, and the occupation, major international watchdogs and political scientists label it with deep asterisks. International indexes, like the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index, explicitly classify Israel not as a "full democracy," but as a "flawed democracy."
I’m comparing Canada to what it was several years ago when Paul was largely ignored by Prime Ministers and Leaders of the Opposition. I linked to the ranking simply to show that there’s room for improvement. Dragging Israel into the conversation is toxic. Take it over to Twitter where it belongs.
You made a flippant remark questioning whether Canada has a democracy, made an air-quotes wink at it like a conspiracy theorist, and then linked to a non-credible ranking of democracies. Take that over to Twitter, please.
I listened to the video of PM Carney’s response to your question- twice. And not dissimilar to remarks Joly made last week I wondered (out loud, on Twitter) whether said in French it would be less incomprehensible? Expect the response would be as Marc Lévesque responded to me “Non”!
There are those that will cry "foul" anytime La Belle Province receives anything from the feds. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. The PM has very real world political reasons for ensuring his political support in Quebec remains solid. It sounds to me that there are valid reasons for the funding to be disbursed. Now if we could get everybody to do something about the TTC.....
''PSPP probably thinks Carly Simon wrote a song about him''. What a great line!
Seconded.
Very sad to see the federal minister behind Carney has become a bobbing head. I thought we'd lost the tacky bobble-head style in press conferences when Trudeau moved on.
When did it become a law that all press conferences must have a wall of bobbing heads in the background?
I really really like CPAC's "original language" option for those of us that are bilingual. It means not having to sit through monotone dubbing.
Agreed.
My former, late mother-in-law had an aversion to "looking for trouble". Her first husband died of cancer, her second bore the ink and scars of the camps. She knew that trouble finds one itself, that one needn't rush there.
Carney evidently understands this wisdom. There will be trouble in Quebec sooner or later, but there's no rush. In the meantime, he'll stay clean, and occupy the high road.
I liked the “And I’ll finish here” part. I was feeling kind of sorry for him by the end of his string of non sequiturs that were unrelated to your question. He sounded like someone who knew he was making a hash of the answer (which I can relate to).
I found he felt very insicure.
While an actual answer would have been preferable, I like that he comes across as being somewhat embarrassed that he is giving a non-answer. Much preferable to his predecessor's penchant for giving a clearly rehearsed answer that was tangentially (if that) related to the question.
And that should make us happy With what is going on right now? Trudeau is gone Hollywood now we need real answers, transparency.
I believe he was having difficulty with responding to questions in french in a non structured environment. The questions were one after another with varying degrees? Of difficulty. The Priminister was not standing alone and reading from a prepared script.
He never ad lobs easily in both languages
Paul's read is right on ( as usual). He is one of the few English Canadian commentators to really understand Quebec politics. PPSP , the PQ leader, is Quebec's version of Pierre Polievre and he won't be elected in the fall and there will not be another referendum, whether he is becomes premier or not.
We are watching closely the amateur hour that is the Alberta separatist movement. The current spokespersons are really not very impressive.
PPSP might be very well elected with a small margin.But he his loosing his appeal
Danielle Smith came out today with NUMBERS what it will cost to separate in
Alberta
Same will be for PPSP?
There’s a lot of déjà-vu in Alberta these days for those of us who remember the Quebec independence referenda. Already they’re talking about keeping their Canadian passports.
Any day now: partition. Also the fate of Canadian Forces bases.
Even money that you are wrong. Ping me back in October
do you remember when P.Polievre was ahead 20 points in the polls ?
While expressing his moral outrage at the Alberta separatists, PM Carney celebrates the special status afforded Quebec. Canada may not be broken but hypocrisy like this keeps it on life support.
French Canada existed 250 years before Confederation. Alberta was created 40 years after Confederation. Quebec has a ''national'' assembly, a ''national'' capital, a ''national'' holiday, a Quebec Pension Plan, a Quebec police force. Nobody in Quebec refers to Ottawa as ''the nation's capital'' the way the rest of the country does, it is called the federal capital. These are facts of life not hypocrisy.
I cannot help agree with Mr Spicer. The British North Act circumscribed specific roles for our federal government and the provinces. Times have changed but why on earth is Ottawa still hogging the lions share of the tax revenue when it’s the provinces’ super expensive health and education responsibilities which have grown so vastly since 1867?
Probably because the Conservative Provincial Leaders are privatizing health care against the wishes of Canadians. USA health firms are panting at the border. Education is being cut in Ontario especially for kids with special needs - while having a $ 44 billion non public contingency fund. * See FCA budget reports in 2022, To support mobility across the country health care quality should be monitored for outcomes and and ditto for access to good education needed to sustain Canada's ability to compete internationally. Time for a constitution amendment or at least require results reports from the provinces on results attained from transfers of our taxes.
"The federal government will send the money, Quebec will spend the money."
"The announcement required various concessions to provincial autonomy."
Hallelujah, that in a nutshell describes the problem that Premier Danielle Smith has with the Liberal government. Provincial autonomy. If the feds would just stay in their lane, take care of what a national government is supposed to, and quit meddling in provincial affairs, all this talk of separation would have remained just that ... talk.
The problem with the Liberal government of the past eleven years is they want everything to be a negotiation, and treat the provinces like children who need to be put in their place, as they inflict a "we know what's best attitude." The solution is simple, but are they willing to back away from their power trip and allow the provinces to look after their own affairs?
To make it easier for those interested, Paul's question starts at the 33:45 mark. What is so difficult to understand in Carney's answer? As Paul says, Quebec was the only province that had not yet come to terms with the feds in the divvying up of the Canada Public Transit Fund. Whose doing was that? Trudeau? Legeault? Who cares. New people, new approaches. I can imagine Carney saying to his team: Get This Done. And it was. Next may be Ford, the provincial outlier for an agreement on Child Care.
His Getting Things Done with Alberta is more complicated. Much of the media coverage neglects important aspects of the MOU and the Implementation agreement which makes the public discussion lopsided.
It's funny to hear on CBC News a careful inclusion of Mr. Poilievre's comments on whatever brought Carney in the news of the day. They are mostly vacuous and, above all, angry. His future does not look good.
He is playing his role…Opposition. Like it or not.
Hope he continues to play his version of the role which is to attack government leadership on a personal level. Pure Trumpian politics.
I'm not sure if this is what happened, but the obvious policy to take with public transit would be to underserve AB, SK and ON, because all three premiers have a stated, clear, hatred of public transit and even humble bike lanes. Why waste money on premiers who think it useless?
But, assuming that sensible allocation is what the feds did, it is still hard to admit to, even if politically optimal.
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Thank goodness you hopped in the car! Eyewitness to history!! (Does your boss reimburse you for mileage?)
He’s pretty chintzy.
Access has improved. So has the respect you're receiving. But given the answer, I wonder if our "democracy" is any further ahead?
https://www.democracymatrix.com/ranking
You're comparing Canada's democracy to what, exactly? The ranking you link to states Israel is a "working democracy." But if you look at liberal guarantees, the treatment of minorities, and the occupation, major international watchdogs and political scientists label it with deep asterisks. International indexes, like the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index, explicitly classify Israel not as a "full democracy," but as a "flawed democracy."
I’m comparing Canada to what it was several years ago when Paul was largely ignored by Prime Ministers and Leaders of the Opposition. I linked to the ranking simply to show that there’s room for improvement. Dragging Israel into the conversation is toxic. Take it over to Twitter where it belongs.
You made a flippant remark questioning whether Canada has a democracy, made an air-quotes wink at it like a conspiracy theorist, and then linked to a non-credible ranking of democracies. Take that over to Twitter, please.
I listened to the video of PM Carney’s response to your question- twice. And not dissimilar to remarks Joly made last week I wondered (out loud, on Twitter) whether said in French it would be less incomprehensible? Expect the response would be as Marc Lévesque responded to me “Non”!
CBC and Radio Canada are very often dissimilar.
In the 90s, Radio Canada was often quite overtly pro-sovereignty.
There are those that will cry "foul" anytime La Belle Province receives anything from the feds. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. The PM has very real world political reasons for ensuring his political support in Quebec remains solid. It sounds to me that there are valid reasons for the funding to be disbursed. Now if we could get everybody to do something about the TTC.....