It's not nearly as trivial as this. Trump has the power to singlehandedly halt the auto industry production in Canada. He can unemploy hundreds of thousands of people in Ontario, disrupting millions of people's lives in their families and communities. Whoever is elected PM can't just sacrifice these people. In fact I would expect a more worker friendly PM, say from NDP, to be even more protective. In such a scenario, they can't afford to just flip off Trump, given the power he has over Canadian workers. The PM is forced to contend with this power and its effects. I'm not defending any of Carney's decisions, made or would be. I'm expaining why anyone in the PM shoes is faced with a terrible predicament when faced with Trump.

[–] teppa@piefed.ca -5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Canadians love blocking pipelines and doing things that make Canadians poorer in the name of climate change. They also love urban sprawl and mass immigration from low emitting countries paradoxically.

[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"love blocking pipelines"

Funny, I view Canada as very pipeline friendly, considering we just bought a extremely expensive one to ship oil through BC.

[–] teppa@piefed.ca -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well no see that misses the nuance, they created a regulatory environment that made Kinder Morgan drop out, then to avoid the bad press around Canada being uninvestable they had to buy it. Then they had massive cost overruns and are now talking about gifting it to indigenous people to avoid disclosing what a money sink it has been.

[–] CanadianCorhen@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wait, I'm confused.

Did they block the pipeline, or spend billions buying and completing it. Can't be both.

[–] teppa@piefed.ca -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Kinder Morgan left due to our laws preventing development. They didn't want to be blamed for causing capital flight so they bought the pipeline to prevent bad press. We had the 2nd last performance in the 38 countries of the OECD in per capita GDP growth since 2015. We take our standard of living for granted and if Carney didn't come in the Liberals would have been wiped out.