More trips

So, Carney has jetted off once again, this time to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- his 11th trip to 16 countries.  Wow, this net-zero, green zealot is sure doing his level best to contribute to carbon emissions!  The one silver lining this time is that he didn't drag his harridan of a wife along.

Gawd!

Carney with his financial cronies in the UAE.

What could he possibly need from the UAE?  They produce oil, something we have tons of here at home.  Oh yes, I forgot, we can't get it to markets because pipelines are evil.  But I guess he's happy to buy oil from other countries at great cost.  How dumb!  So this invaluable resource remains locked in the ground, while other countries build, build, build and ship, ship, ship!

The big announcement?  "We will get deals done with the UAE within a year," Carney promised.  Within a year?!  Who knows what deals and who knows if any will get done?  Certainly, Carney doesn't.  But rest assured, he's going to "catalyze" a ton of deals.  His blather is beyond ludicrous -- actually worse than Kamala Harris!

Konrad Yakabuksi has an enlightening column in today's 'Globe and Mail', which pulls back the curtain on Carney's long financial connections with the UAE.  He's been in bed with them big time, which is shocking and unethical -- in spite of all the blind trusts behind which he's put his millions.  Remember, that trust is administered by Michael Sabia, the buddy he appointed as clerk of the Privy Council.  It all smells to high heaven.

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Speaking of deals, what are we to make of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Alberta to build a pipeline to B.C. tide water?  The only "understandings" I take away are that Alberta wants one and Carney doesn't.  Other than that, an MOU is nothing more than a delaying tactic on Carney's part to placate Danielle Smith.  I wonder why she is going along with it?

The other insurmountable obstacle is that the negotiations have frozen out B.C..  Worse, there has been no consultation whatsoever with the Indigenous coastal people, who are already screaming they want in.  Without their say, nothing will get built and Carney knows it.  Oh, and a big shout-out to David Eby, who's already trashed the whole thing.  Yay Dave!

So, nothing's happening and Carney's blasting his airborne carbon footprint hither, thither and yon.  Same old, same old.

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A word about the appointment of Chrystia Freeland as warden of the Rhodes Trust.  Talk about cheapening the currency of that once-illustrious prize, her appointment is a disaster.  B was nominated for the Rhodes in 1962, but lost to a less-qualified francophone because the Quiet Revolution was afoot, mailboxes were being bombed and Quebec ministers murdered and stuffed into the trunks of cars.  

So, B, an anglophone and great athlete, was dumped -- even though he had been nominated by none other than John Turner.  I guess Turner was also too anglo to be considered.  B's booby prize, however, was a Liverhulme Fellowship to the London School of Economics -- not a bad appointment.  When you see who's running the Rhodes now, I'm glad he didn't get it.

Ah, politics.  T'was ever thus.