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Mark Carney’s Trickle-Down Nation-Building
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I have to disagree with a few points the article made.
First, Canadians do not define ourselves as 'Not America'. The author may be confused with the nickname of "America's Hat" that is given to us by Americans in jest. We define ourselves by our own culture and politeness, thank you very much. I also disagree that we seek to escape 'economic dependence' on America. I think the Buy Canadian phenomenon arose as a rebuke to the aggressive annexation comments by the President, but I don't think this extends far beyond liquor and tourism.
The author then moves on to critique Build Canada Homes, focusing on the P3 partnerships and "profit over getting as many homes built as possible". The source for this criticism comes from CUPE, which at the very least is a biased source. Further, they cite the expiration of current federal housing programs as a knock against Carney... for what reason? Part of the reason our debt has ballooned so significantly is inefficiency, over-spending, and over-promising.
Lastly, the article goes into criticizing cuts to the public service. The PS has ballooned to an unsustainable size, every manager has a manager. Austerity was part of Carney's platform, because overspending on the PS is holding back projects like infrastructure building. I don't buy the author's argument that reducing the public service is bad, especially when they claim that GA lay-offs reduce our bargaining power for trade and investment agreements. This is conjecture based off less people = bad, more people = good, which is part of the reason the PS has grown to the size it has in the first place.
Efficiencies aren't created by bloating, and this article didn't sell me on the arguments it was making. Much of the content was opinion backed by little fact, and when it was, the facts were buried in secondary sources that were not elaborated upon or related back to the original argument.
Happy to hear other opinions.
While I don't feel this way, to say that this isn't a thread in the discussion around Canadian identity is just denial.
I don't know how you could disagree with this. One of the few things people more or less universally like about Carney is his pursuit of trade relationships outside of the Canada/US trade relationship specifically to reduce our dependence on the American market. If you think we're just a bit miffed at the US and don't want to buy a few consumer goods for awhile, I think you have seriously misread the mood of the country.
...Do you have anything stronger than calling them a biased source? You are coming into the NDP community and suggesting that a union is an inherently untrustworthy source and just assume those reading are simply going to accept that at face value?
Are you campaigning? This is a meaningless slogan without specifics.
According to what?
The motherfucker wrote an entire book called Value(s) to trick progressive voters into thinking he was one of them. I absolutely do not remember selling off public assets to fund government backed investment vehicles as being a major part of the platform. The guy is a deceitful snake and this post hoc rewriting of history where he was always forthrightly showing himself to be a Harperite conservative is dishonest.
Oh, how is tripling the military budget going to effect that?