Mark Carney says Canada prepared for 'extreme tail risk' of U.S. military action
Mark Carney: "Canada is an ocean nation. We border three oceans. We have the world's longest coastline as a consequence of that. That's our inheritance and we recognize the obligations, the responsibilities that come with that." #cdnpoli
Allison Moon 🌙 🍁1#Canadians don’t understand how #toxic the #RussianShadowFleet & #corporations have been… #RSF comprises roughly 1,500 aging, poorly insured tankers operating outside international oversight to transport sanctioned oil & fund Moscow's war in Ukraine 🍁 #CANpoli 🇪🇺 #CDNpoli 🍁 #CanadaSky 🇪🇺 #Canadiana
mellowcanuck.bsky.social1In 100 years Canada will need healthy coasts to provide what food they will....not some rusted out pipeline.
Canada confirms plan to diversify away from Elon Musk’s Starlink
Moon Titan 🏳️⚧️ 🇨🇦11Thank god, now do Palantr and jets
marley60.bsky.social7X, Palentir and jets. NOW !!!!!
Flux Liner3Elon Needs to be in PRISON.
Nat Chiclets 🍁🦋🪷1Can't happen soon enough Cut those ties asap!
Ken Wood part owner of 🇨🇦12Great great news. Lets not take so long. We dont need/want Starlink. #cdnpoli #uspoli #boycottusa
g8as a Carney hater (yes he's worse than Harper) I gotta say I don't hate this one so much
Tamela Ehlinger 🇩🇰🇨🇦🇵🇦🇲🇽🇳🇴🇸🇪🇬🇧🇺🇦6Excellent! Now get rid of any and all Palantir contracts PURGE all of from Canada Keep yourselves safe from the oligarchs
The Slim Dude 🇨🇦6Hey Mark, now do Microsoft.
In The Red on 101.7 FM CHLY Nanaimo2“The prime minister noted that Starlink had previously shown bias in a global conflict scenario by disrupting service and selectively limiting data in Ukraine.” #Canada #Tech
As Canada deepens ties with Europe, could it leave U.S. banks and dollars behind? Some see U.S. financial dominance as a threat — and are taking action www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Nancy F6Well obviously Canada needs to protect our banking and payment systems .
🇨🇦AB.CAN🇨🇦6I do think it’s a threat. Denying access to our money is absolutely something a madman could do with the controls sitting in the US. Mapping this out, protecting us is way more important than attending QP at this point in time. Show up every now and then but damn, do what you do best PMMC.
Rosecrucian Roeth4I would much prefer doing business with the EU, they seem to be more adult than the Murican guys, who seem to be caught up in the testosterone fuelled footballesque version of business finance.
Jerry Chouinard 🍁🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🇦🇺🇳🇿🇬🇧2YouTube channel House of El discussed Europe alternative to Visa/MasterCard: WERO. Canada is implementing a system called Konek/Interac. youtu.be/dCrHOjmVz_I?...
🇨🇦 NEVER 51st State, Pro Soc Democracy, Pro UBI, anti-racism,2A recent EU leader said that with Canada joining them economically, that it would balance the economic advantage America has over the rest of the world. I’d love to see their dollar plummet while ours rises. Won’t stop them from nuking anybody the paedophile wants to nuke, however.
Wagskris1Great read ! Thx !
Two things: @mark-carney.bsky.social did the right thing here, preparing for the worst-case scenario. That’s the job. But he should explain these things directly to Canadians - rather than via an American outlet. Especially in the midst of a trade war, why drive all the traffic to NYT?
Peter Coffman9That Canada was modeling its response to a potential invasion by the USA was widely reported in January, so this isn’t really news - except to an American audience, which is presumably the target here.
Neil6To be fair, the NYT article says that Carney responded "when pressed". Considering both that this type of preparation is fundamental to the PM's role and that it creates sensational headlines, Carney wouldn't simply blurt this type of info and Canadian media would assume these discussions were had.
Heather e^-1/x^25He did. Back in January.
C Switzer3I had the same thought yesterday….Why was I reading it in the Times?
lapin2.bsky.social3It was reported by news outlets before. Did any Canadian reporters bother to ask the question?
Bev Pausche, APR3CTV coverage on the coverage: www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
Mark Carney is advocating nothing that money managers around the world aren't already calling for. The age of the greenback as the premier and near-exclusive reserve currency is over. Trump and Bessent have mortally wounded it. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
The Certified Letter1To be fair, past administrations have done their parts by weaponizing the system. That pisses other countries off.
Walter Muller1I don't blame him...US is using the dollar as weapon to block countries from trading...its better to have dollar, euro, yuan as GBP as diversified reserve
Khashoggi's Ghost71Didn't JD say this would be a good thing for the US?
MantaHunk 🌎🏳️🌈☮️🟧2I predicted this. You have to understand the Dark Enlightenment Movement pushed by Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and the Silicon Valley Bros. Their intention, their mission is to kill the US dollar and move the world to unregulated crypto. The goal is to control the world's money suppl. It's here.
I've been rabbiting on about this. Too often Mark Carney doesn't treat Canadians as a target audience in his comms. It'd be great if he'd sit down with a Cdn newspaper for the type of interview he just granted the NYT. We deserved to be told about prep for a potential US military action. #CdnPoli
My IRL friends call me Chris19It says something about empathy and perspective-taking, too. It's not just that Carney's taking the electorate for granted, it's that he shows no regard for how Canadians might *feel* hearing that there have been preparations for a US military action. That is noteworthy.
Conor Curtis11It's PR: He goes to the U.S. or somewhere international and leans on the his international reputation to try to erase his domestic, and foreign, policy choices. And people just forget, even though, and I cannot stress this enough: the NYT words do not match the actions: bsky.app/profile/sust...
wolfelake2002.bsky.social6It’s almost as if the electorate don’t really matter to him now that he’s positioned himself with a majority.
Lisa4This arrogance will catch up to him at some point. Just not sure when.
psvrh.bsky.social3I get the impression he thinks about us like employees, and front-line employees at that, who aren't worth messaging to, while the NYT and such are his actual peers that he feels at least notionally responsible to
Canada “is reviewing a planned order of 88 Lockheed Martin F-35 jets and is also considering … Saab Gripen fighters. Carney did not specify where he was on that decision, but he did say that he wanted to use Canada’s newly bolstered defense budget to order aircraft that perform well in the Arctic.”
Paris Marx63For those not following closely, F-35 is not well-suited for the Arctic.
Conor Curtis11People are sharing this interview as if it means something new. But Carney is good at hinting at maybe doing something positive for once while always doing the bare minimum positive things to get away with the massively negative things: Privatization Erosion of right to strike Corporate tax cuts
Canadian Cynic2How is this even still a debatable issue?
Carney spoke to the NYT for an hour. "Mr. Carney suggested that he had carefully examined the possibility of a U.S.-led military invasion, but declined to discuss in detail what that involved. “I think you have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk.”"
George Pearkes280“Extreme tail risk” is a very good way to describe that sort of scenario that will fly over the heads of a lot of people reading it.
Isaiah Bishop68it is really not that informative except starlink, USD thoughts, and him articulating we did prep for US mil action
John Muller35I am actually somewhat put at ease by the knowledge that we really did game out a US invasion scenario and didn't just pretend it couldn't happen.
Ken Caldeira3When does the mainstream commercial media start using the word "traitors" to describe the Republicans who are undermining the long-term interests of the United States for their corrupt short-term gain? The venality of the Republicans is disgusting. The timidity of the Democrats is disappointing.
Matt Szafranski2Both countries have had scenarios on a shelf for a century. Despite how the world had changed, I imagine Canada's defensive plan is essentially the same. The main difference is today there would be wide and open rebellion in the US to it doing such a thing.
"The Iranian threat is one of the biggest threats in the world, the modern world. For example, there is still an existential threat to Israel caused by Iran and its allies. It still exists. It is not acceptable. It has never been acceptable." ~PM Mark Carney JFC. The USA illegally attacked Iran.
RexLibris12Carney would've backed Bush in Iraq and justified it by talking up reconstruction contract opportunities. ie: if we help destroy this country we could earn money by helping bury the bodies, er, I mean rebuilding the infrastructure.
PublicWrx8He also backs the Trump Regime's crimes on Venezuela and Cuba.
Rick7The Zionist is showing. Israel is, and always has been, the aggressor.
Dizzy ★7Meanwhile, Isreal has 200+ nuclear warheads and is singlehandedly responsible for most, if not all, of the devastation in the Middle East. But, sure. “Iran”.
MrCranky 🇨🇦5The man is clueless.... and a backer of genocide.
lissa4Did he just say that today? I know he’s said such ridiculous things before but is this a UN-related quote?
Ben Shapiro's Eye Merkins13Meanwhile he doesn't recognize the genocide in Gaza or talk about the existential threat to Palestine. Or children in Minab, or the attack on oil infrastructure in Tehran. He's slightly concerned about optics in Gaza, mostly because it affects Canada's ability to have normal relations with Israel.
Saeed Khan7What an utterly embarrassing leader we have in Canada. Truly an unethical, callous, embarrassment who lied to Canadians to get elected. Did Canada walk out when Netanyahu came up to speak? Did they?
Rick6Carney stop endorsing genocide, and international crimes. Challenge level: Impossible. The man is a huge bigot.
Dizzy ★3Shilling for the status quo that has only succeeded in getting the planet precisely where it is today.
jimmycraig42.bsky.social2Our PM is corrupt as hell
