(An example: Carney is justifying throwing all the money at defence while cutting the rest of government b/c he says the world is more dangerous now. The CF is clearly counting on huge recruitment numbers. But both Carney and the CF claim that the US is still an ally, and not a threat.
(Which, c'mon. Canadians understand that the US is the most relevant source of instability for Canada & the world. Patriotic Canadians will enlist to defend the country vs the US. But why should Canadians support greater defence spending if we're just going to side with the country threatening us?)
Reducing internal trade barriers, creating a national housing strategy are fine policies, but they don't come anywhere near making up for the US market. How to address that? And European defence outreach? Does anyone think that Europe would intervene militarily to defend Canada under any conditions?
It also makes little sense to pursue new trade agreements when what Canada's always been terrible at isn't signing agreements, but support for Canadian businesses in moving abroad. Of course, that takes money and expertise, the two things Carney's slashing from government.
Carney's policies -- slash-and-burn government, tepid international outreach, AI-driven economic development, the bizarre pursuit of continued security cooperation and a trade deal with the US -- are taking us in exactly the wrong direction, toward subjugation and vassalization.
Canadians don't need, as Ling argues, "someone to point out that the house next door is on fire." Experts have been doing that for months. We need the government to understand the crisis. We need them to build a firebreak, at any cost. We need a complete change in strategy, before it's too late.