Random observations

So, today's the day Mark Carney is expected to walk away wearing the Liberal leadership crown and thus be anointed our prime minister.  

His Majesty's Crown

Trudeau's weepy and pathetic speech about his "dedication" to the country was nauseating.  "Every single day, I have done what was best for Canadians.  I have always had your backs," he blubbered.

It was pathetic because if ever anyone has put his globalist, woke-and-broke, DEI agenda ahead of his country it was Trudeau.  He tried, but repeatedly failed, to impress other world leaders with his farcical socks and smug ignorance at every conference and meeting into which he crashed.  He was an embarrassment at every turn.

An old colleague of mine from our public service commission days, who now runs a very successful consulting firm, said in a recent newsletter said that Carney must find room for Freeland and Gould in his cabinet.  Gould maybe, but Freeland never.  She will be the one to make sure the cabinet is continually riven because, frankly, she can't shut up.   

Will she defer to Carney?  Never.  Just can't help herself.  Thinks she is always the smartest person in the room and hectors everyone within earshot -- including the long-suffering public.  Does she listen?  Why do you think every senior ADM and DM with whom she worked at Finance immediately retired when she took over?  Exactly.  I knew those guys when I was with Customs and Excise.  They are very smart and would not take kindly to an ill-informed ex-journalist telling them which end was up.

Do we really want a prime minister who parades around in too-tight-too-short dresses with unkempt hair flopping everywhere?  And those pearls!  Gawd.

So, Mr. Carney, dump her.

He also needs to completely clean out the PMO -- especially Katie Telford.  She controlled Trudeau's his every thought and planned his every move.  I mean, the guy couldn't even wipe his backside unless she handed him the toilet paper.

So, Mr. Carney, dump her too.

But what everyone needs to remember is that Carney is a declared woke, DEI, green lunatic.  Just read his book, 'Values', it's all in there.  He wants net zero in 10 minutes and a load of other things that cannot come to pass.  Just ask Liz Truss and a number of other British politicians and journalists I watch on YouTube and they'll tell you how he helped destroy the British economy with his green ideologies.  He's hiding all that for the moment, but mark my words, it'll come to pass and we'll be much worse off when it does.

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What to make of Trump's taking a chainsaw to the public service?  Fareed Zakaria exposed the many lies he has told on his show this morning, but none matters because Trump's base is as ill-informed as Freeland.  As Zakaria pointed out, you can quickly slap tariffs on, but it takes decades to remove them.  He pointed to the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, which levied similar tariffs on everything imported into the US.  Great idea at the time, but those tariffs were not completely lifted until the nineties -- 60 years later!    

Trump's actions remind me of Teddy Roosevelt's heated exchange with fellow Republican congressmen in 1902, when the president threatened to bring in federal troops to reopen anthracite mines which had been closed because of a strike.  One said, "What about the constitution?"  To which Roosevelt, shaking his colleague by the shoulders, said, "To Hell with the constitution when the people want coal!"

That prompted representative Joseph Cannon to say, "Roosevelt's got no more respect for the constitution that a tomcat for a marriage licence!"

I think that applies to Trump, but it appears the judiciary is stepping up to reign him and Musk in on some of their more outlandish moves.  As I said, buckle up!