Carney is a fiscal conservative, so let's get that straight. His concerns are Canadian independence, sovereignty and growth. He's thinking about keeping the country economically viable and strong through this period of turmoil and "new world order" shift as the US is keen to dump its global hegemony.

Now...... with that said, I'm sure he does care about the climate, but it totally takes a back seat to these other issues which he sees as being essentially existential.

I think it's an order of priorities and people who service the constant crisis/boom cycle of capitalism will never get correct. Humans are party animals and no amount of good sense is going to change that. It's going to take burning this bitch to the ground and immense loss of life to change tack, and only then it will be because it becomes the predominant existential problem.

As long as most people can still shit somewhat comfortably, nothing will be done to upset that directly, ever. This is why so many bad things can happen and the average person wont lift a finger, because they still have a nice seat waiting for them at home to shit on.

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 14 points 1 day ago

If Carney cared about the Canadian null

He'd seize and rebuild the refineries that Brian Mulroney(also a fiscal con) allowed to be moved to Washington State. As it is, US oil companies get to sell our raw product offshore and worse, then sell it back to us. BC communities assume a risk of annihilation for zero benefit.
He'd put oil pipelines to Ontario/New Bruinswick/Nova Scotia with the intent of shipping oil to Europe. You know, a market that actually wants and needs more.
He'd tell the US lumber lobby to pound sand and help rural BC instead of them being ignored by all except the reform party crazies.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Carney is a fiscal conservative, so let’s get that straight. His concerns are Canadian independence, sovereignty and growth

for the 1% wealthy Canadians...

[–] mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

His only concern is serving the coorporates

[–] Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

If he cared about sovereignty, he wouldn't entertain Alberta separatism and should try to call it out for what it is.

Mark's concerns are the bottom line. Always have been. Guy's net worth is 10mil - i don't think he even knows what the average Canadian (i.e. 1/4 go hungry) even feel.