Peggy Anderson

[(((Stockwell Day))) @Stockwell_Day]

Dear PM @MarkJCarney, we are at a tragic and historic turning point. As we all grieve the pain of these families, we now have a choice. Are we going to choose shameful ignorance and downplay what the RCMP and some non-government paid media have said. The killer is biologically male. We must join other jurisdictions and nations along with International medical and scientific bodies and at least put a temporary hold on the life-threatening
practice of allowing children to be subjected to surgical and pharmaceutical alterations related to the issue of so-called gender confusion.
This must include an immediate stop to prescribing SSRI medications to children dealing with this question of gender. If Canada’s citizens do not immediately begin calling their MLAs and MP‘s to pursue this subject, then we deserve the highway of horrors that will continue to overrun us.

[Hugh Hewitt @hughhewitt]

Make time to listen to Canadian PM Mark Carney’s speech and Q-and-A at Davos. It is quietly but quite definitely anti-American. Thoroughly so, though cowardly in its avoidance of naming us or President Trump. The former banker got a standing ovation from the bankers annual pep rally. Of course he would. But as you listen, keep in mind some facts.

First, Carney purports to speak for the “Middle Powers” —a variant of the non-aligned nations of the Cold War. Which is odd since Canada depends almost entirely on America for its national defense and for freedom of the seas that allows it to sell its oil.

Second, Canada has 42 million people and a GDP of 2.4 trillion but doesn’t even spend 2% of that GDP on defense. (It promises to reach 2% by 2030. Right.) It is not a “Middle Power.”

Carney says he stands with Greenland and Denmark (against whom he doesn’t say because in a uniquely cowardly approach to rhetoric he doesn’t name @POTUS or the U.S.), but when asked in the Q-and-A if there’s an “off ramp” on the subject, Carney is hopeful about the “discussions which have been catalyzed in an unusual way.”

Carney talks about the need for Europe and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (which doesn’t exist) to expand so as to counteract the “hegemons.” Yes, really he did. China and the U.S., just two hegemons. No differences at all. He doesn’t mention the $62 billion trade surplus Canada has with the U.S. In fact his speech is free of the reality of hard facts. (He does mention that Canada has submarines. It does. 4. The newest was commissioned in 2015. The other 3 were commissioned in 2003 (2) and 2000 (1).)

Canada has a standing military of 68,000. Unlike Poland and Finland which are also frontline states with Russia, Canada doesn’t actually have any ability to repulse conventional incursions from Russia without the U.S. to quickly back it up.

In short, it is a cowardly bit of theater by a banker for bankers, an anti-Trump speech by the fellow who just got back from warmly embracing Xi. (The genocide of the Uyghurs, the crushing of Hong Kong’s freedoms, the ongoing threat to Taiwan, Jimmy Lai’s imprisonment —none of that distinguishes the “hegemons.”)

The truth —the real, hard facts of the world— is that Canada is not a “middle power.” It’s a small power blessed to live under the security umbrella provided for the past 80 years by the U.S., and to earn its excellent standard of living because of the freedom of the seas guaranteed by the U.S. When you hear Carney declare Canada to be an “energy superpower,” ask yourself to which countries does it sell its oil and to which countries could its oil be sold should freedom of the seas be contested?

Justin Trudeau was a clown. Mark Carney appears to be a vain banker from Tom Wolff’s Bonfire of the Vanities —a “master of the universe” in an imaginary world.

Of course he got a standing ovation at Davos for his “Middle Power” chest thumping. What did Canada do to itself since the days of Harper and Mulroney?

The link to the speech is in the replies. Listen to it all. I hope @POTUS does.

[Peggy Anderson @thepegster23]

@TheoFleury14 Twenty pounds of bullshit in a ten pound sack

[Danielle Smith @ABDanielleSmith]

This morning, I am joined by Ministers Adriana LaGrange, Dan Williams, and Jason Nixon on refocusing Alberta's health care system. https://t.co/8mhmFekXwD

[Peggy Anderson @thepegster23]

@DianaBatten_ You are supposed to be representing your constituents not Pembina

[Peggy Anderson @thepegster23]

@DuaneBratt @calgaryherald Good. Maybe Calgary city council will get their budgets under control. I live in Calgary BTW.

[Peter Csillag @petercsillag]

No matter who becomes the next UCP leader, Alberta is positioned for success as the result of Premier Kenney’s term: unparalleled drive to attract jobs and investment; a balanced budget and credit rating upgrade(!), expanded school choice; critical fair deal groundwork; and more.

[Peggy Anderson @thepegster23]

@Patrick_Johner @nenshi @calgaryherald Back at ya!