Chris Bray writes for the Federalist about an interesting change of tune from Canada’s top elected leader.
Compare the speech Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney gave in New York Thursday to the one he gave in Davos in January, because January Carney seems to have been swapped out for a doppelgänger who has no idea what three-months-ago Carney thought.
In that January speech to the creepy World Economic Forum, Carney let America have it with both barrels. Rejecting the cruel power of a nation led by a mean orange monster, Carney promised to turn his back on an America-centered “old order” and build a coalition of “middle powers” that would boldly challenge the United States. …
… Weak, dimwitted pundits ate it up. …
… The media kept banging away on this ludicrous theme, with Politico gushing about Canada’s “Muscular New Anti-Trump Strategy.” Cooler heads intervened, with the Canadian scholar Stephen Nagy writing that Carney’s speech presented an “elegant theory” that was “practically impossible.”
Three months after he boldly tossed that obsolete dinosaur called America into the trash, Carney traveled to New York City this week to pitch, wait for it, a new and strengthened partnership between the United States and Canada. …
… The prime minister of a country that shares an enormous border with the largest national GDP in the world suddenly discovers that actually, we’d really like to sustain a close partnership with you guys.
“Canada is far and away America’s biggest customer, and an integrated North American market for production is the best and most durable way to confront intense, truly intense, global competition on critical minerals,” Carney said. We reject your power and we seek closer integration with you. …
… Politicians and pundits erect meaningless symbols, and dance around them like it means something. Reality just sits there, waiting quietly until everybody gets done performing the fake noises.
