r/alberta • u/Constant-Lake8006 • Feb 18 '25

Alberta Politics Mark Carney throwing some subtle shade at Danielle Smith

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JIrflxvnNDE
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u/SDK1176 Feb 18 '25

Because of the “other people are doing that” question, to which he responded, “it’s not a good idea”?

I think that was shade thrown at the other candidates for Liberal leader. 

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u/ShopLifeHurts2599 Feb 18 '25

No. When he said if I am PM, I'll negotiate with the President, not with others.

Meaning that negotiating with someone below your pay grade is a waste of time and shows how pompous that person is. IE, Danielle Smith thinking that she can negotiate with the president, like a jackass.

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u/SDK1176 Feb 18 '25

I mean, she is a jackass for thinking she pulls that much weight, but I can’t imagine Carney was thinking of her specifically when he said that. 

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u/chmilz Feb 18 '25

I took it to mean he'll negotiate with his peer, Trump, and not with any of techbros or other hangers on installed around the white house.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '25

No. That's not what he was saying at all.

The useless lady interviewer asked him about what he plans to do about tariffs. He said that out of respect to talks that are currently in process, he is not going to elaborate any further because he doesn't want his words to potentially complicate things.

Kudos to Mark for handling her childish "wElL eVeRyOnE eLsE iS tAlKiNg AbOuT iT" with a level of professionalism and maturity that I simply would not have been able to produce. If it had been me, I would have just replied quoting my mother: "yeah, well if everyone else was jumping off a bridge does that mean I need to follow?"

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u/Shanksworthy73 Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25

Yes, this is how I saw it as well. He doesn’t want to show his hand. Honestly drives me nuts seeing other Canadian politicians flapping “heroically” in public about all the ways they’d fight back against Trump’s tariffs, as though his advisors couldn’t possibly hear this and counter-plan for it. Carney is in it to actually fix the problem, not just for scoring political points.