Since we recently complained about the hypocrisy of supposedly-climate-concerned politicians flying about constantly to repeat clichés of dubious validity, and the strange habit of the new Prime Ministerial communications team in Canada to keep putting “on the margins” of this meeting or that to leverage the connectivity of the somethingorother, we have to note that for instance a January 20 missive said “Yesterday, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, spoke with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Sir Keir Starmer.” And what bold, detailed action plan did they hit on? Why “The leaders reaffirmed that decisions about the future of Greenland are for Greenland and Denmark to decide.” Before resting from their Herculean rhetorical labours, or doing anything other than gabble, “The leaders discussed the need to maintain progress to end the war in Ukraine and to achieve a just and lasting peace for Ukrainians.” And, mirabile dictu, “Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer agreed to remain in close contact.” Great. They can email one another platitudes and save the carbon. Or meet a dozen times a year and say them in person between mouthfuls of tax-funded fancy food.
As we also complained, the frivolity of their positions on nearly everything including climate is underlined by the trivial causes that lead them to get onto airplanes or invite others to do so. As for example “Governor General to meet with the President of Mexico” because, to quote from that press release, a waste of tax money if nothing else:
“At the request of the Right Honourable Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, will travel to Mexico, from January 19 to 21, 2026, to meet with Her Excellency Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, President of the United Mexican States. Following the Year of the Indigenous Woman, which took place in 2025, the visit will also provide an opportunity to reaffirm Canada’s commitment to celebrating the strength, wisdom and cultural heritage of Indigenous women, and to learn from one another’s experiences and best practices.”
Yeah, Mexico’s indigenous policy is a shining example of… uh… anyone remember what it was? As for Canada’s, our last Prime Minister agreed that it was genocidal, not something you’d want to go about giving lessons on. But hey, it’s just “carbon pollution”.
But wait. You also get “Prime Minister Carney meets with Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson” and “on the margins of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland” no less. It was however transformative in its catalytical leveragosity as “Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Kristersson reaffirmed the fundamental principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity”. History will long record… uh… that “Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Kristersson agreed to maintain regular contact as they continue working together on these shared priorities.” And you might want to sit down as “Minister Sidhu meets with United Arab Emirates’ Minister of State for Foreign Trade”. Truly a world transformed. No carbon footprint too massive for these giants.
Non-Canadians may be wondering who exactly Minister Sidhu might be. Canadians cannot enlighten them. But both do of course know who Xi Jinping is. And the Prime Minister was recently in Beijing to kowtow to this would-be ruler of all mankind, either as a bold departure from Canada’s traditional policy of kowtowing to the Communists except when their conduct was so egregious a brief chill was necessary, or as a continuation of his deep and lucrative involvement with that sinister regime while with Brookfield.
What this visit had to do with climate is unclear, since China remains a coal-burning, carbon-spewing hypocrite supreme on that subject. Of course with Carney pretty much everything is unclear given his tendency to babble soothing platitudes about resilience or incomprehensible ones about “variable geometry”. Or terrifying ones about a “new strategic partnership” with the beast in the east.
For our part we would not want to use up valuable high-octane fuel to have our Prime Minister demonstrate that he is either a fool or a rogue in foreign policy even though we do not believe that CO2 is bad for plants or planets. But at least there would be some sense that the visit had been important if Carney’s bloviation were not as unstable as it is unsubstantial. For the rest, if you want to stay in close contact with Keir Starmer about Ukraine or sovereignty or all that there, we suggest email, text and, for really big stuff, videoconferencing.
You heard Carney's ominous words after he returned from China.Literally,he said New...World...Order.He has made a deal with the devil,and we are the ones who will be paying for it.And Trump is threatening 100% tariffs on Canadian goods if this deal go through.If the errantic,irrational,unpredictable Trump makes good on even a portion of this threatened new tariff,the cost to our economy will be incalculable and maybe catastophic.