The Western world has always approached international law this way. It’s why the rest of the world usually rolls its eyes when they start to get preachy about it. The contrast between Carneys speech in Davos and now is just more blatant than usual. The rules for thee but not for me doublethink has always been there.

Always has been. Not just the rich folk either. Ask some Canadians about indigineous people and youll feel like youve time travelled back a century.

Hockey is globally perceived as the winter white privilege sport. Tennis is the summer counterpart though I’d argue tennis is less homogenous.

This is called a bribe. Bridge owner bribed US president Donald Trump with $1 million dollars in exchange for blasting competitor.

Men don’t have emotions remember? Stoicism and what not.

Getting caught with “you can fuck off” on a hit mic doesn’t help either. Last thing anyone wants is for Canada to gain a reputation of cheating, especially after the drone scandal with the Canadian womens soccer team at the Paris Olympics in '24.

Ahead of the tournament, on 22 July, New Zealand players noticed a drone flying over their training session and reported this to local police.[2] Drone operating laws in France ban drones from being flown above people and ban recordings made by drones to be shared without the subjects’ consent. French police were already wary of drones in terms of security around the 2024 Summer Olympics.[1][3] Saint-Étienne police followed the drone and found and detained its operator, a member of the staff of the Canadian team. The New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) then reported the incident to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) integrity unit, before making a public announcement the next day together with New Zealand Football, expressing their disappointment towards the Canadian team. The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) then apologized to the NZOC and said they would review next steps with Canada Soccer and all the relevant governing bodies.[2][4]

The drone operator, analyst Joseph Lombardi, admitted after his arrest that he had also filmed another New Zealand training session on 19 July,[5] a fact later made public by the COC.[1][3] Though Lombardi immediately said that the spying was “a personal initiative”, the police found a text message exchange on his phone with assistant coach Jasmine Mander that indicated Mander knew of the spying.[6]

If you’re resorting to espionage please just accept that you suck and don’t do things that drag your nations reputation in the process.

This will never happen since the Americans would see it as intentionally antagonizing. They’ve made it clear they see the Western hemisphere as theirs.

In fact, in response they may take more deliberate action to capture control of Canada coercively. Being part of the EU would provide no meaningful protection against that. It would unnecessarily invite a more aggressive American posture towards Canada.

If Carney did this it would be one of the biggest blunders in modern political history. Thankfully he’s a pretty smart guy. There’s very little value in joining the EU for Canada.

There may be overlap in values but Europe is not what it used to be. Much of the worlds economic growth will be driven by the global south for the next thirty years so Carney is wise to prioritize carefully calculated deals with those countries.

He will be travelling to India next, let’s see what he can secure as far as a trade deal goes. The EU and India are celebrating their recently signed free trade agreement, perhaps Carney will follow suit.

Having nationalistic tendencencies seems on par with many European countries today.

There is truth in what you’re saying but I’m having trouble relating it to the topic at hand.

Carney needs to create favorable conditions for Aldi (a German company) to enter the Canadian market. They already have a strong presence in the north eastern US and they could easily undercut the existing Canadian grocery monopolies. This is a market in desperate need for healthy competition.

Costco already undercuts Canadian grocers. Most Canadians that have one available preferentially go there but it’s not enough. If the Canadian grocery market is bloated and inefficient, letting more light and agile (albeit foreign) players in will be a much needed wake up call for domestic corporations.

This is not advocacy to remove all red tape in retail. Target tried to break into the Canadian market and failed miserably because they couldn’t adapt to Canada. In my view that’s perfectly fine, but Canadians desperately need relief when it comes to cost of food and its unlikely that will come from their grocery oligopoly.

Each monopoly is owned by a billionaire family (Weston, Sobey and Coutu).

It’s basically medieval feudalism up here. Price fixing and gouging are out of control. If Carney does anything meaningful to disrupt it he will be lauded for it for decades to come.