Shut Up, Doug

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is an unmanned fire-hose and Mark Carney is continuing the village idiot's mission to destroy Canada and sell the pieces to China -

(Sidebar: it runs in the family, apparently.) 

Instead of building up Canada to have some economic and political clout -

(Sidebar: like building a pipeline, which won't happen, one might add.) 

- both men are determined to alienate Trump, the man who is holding all the cards.

To wit:

The question of whether or not the prime minister and his chief of staff saw and approved — either directly or tacitly — an Ontario government anti-tariff ad that set off U.S. President Donald Trump followed Mark Carney to Singapore on Tuesday.

The Prime Minister's Office said there would be no further comment on the television ad, which last week led to the meltdown of sectoral trade negotiations with the United States.

Speaking on background, a senior federal official continued to place the responsibility for the marketing campaign on the government of Ontario Premier Doug Ford, despite the prime minister’s assurance that Ottawa is in charge of negotiations.

"This decision was made by the government of Ontario, and the federal government was not involved in the production or distribution of this ad," said the official.

For his part, Ford defended the call on Monday, saying the ad was put before the prime minister and his senior advisers before it was booked.

"He saw the ad before I put it out and so did his chief of staff," Ford told reporters at Queen’s Park. "They both saw it and we moved forward on it."

The television spot, Ford insisted, achieved its objective to raise awareness among Americans about the effect of tariffs.

"Mission accomplished," Ford said. "It was done. They are talking about it in the U.S. and they weren't talking about it before we did it."

 

Idiot: 

Given that President Donald Trump’s reaction to the ad was to call off all trade talks with Canada and then threaten another 10% tariff on Canada as a result of Ford still airing the ad during the World Series, plenty of people might doubt that statement.

 

Things are be attributed to either malice or stupidity.

Ford, while feeling malice towards Trump, acted stupidly in hope that doing so he would appear to be the tough man in the now stalled negotiations he was not really invited to.

He is more like the flabby drunk who picks a fight with a sober, in-shape guy in a bar.

Carney, on the other hand, installed to carry on Trudeau's country-destroying work, has made ZERO headway in stabilising Canadian-American relations and doesn't care to.

His American-based stocks are doing fine.