Carney told New York on Thursday that “Canada strong will help make America great again”

So I’m seeing “why is Carney talking MAGA?” reactions on social media. But at a time when Canada is entering into crucial negotiations over whether Trump will abandon the CUSMA agreement, it doesn’t surprise me to see Carney take the initiative at the Economic Club of New York with a positive message to counter Trump’s zero-sum transactional thinking.
Carney’s message is pretty simple – Canada doesn’t need to lose just so America can win.
Here is today’s Power and Politics Reporter Roundtable, with David Cochrane.

I must say, I found this discussion more sensible than tonight’s At Issue panel. The P&P reporters Joel-Denis Bellavance (La Presse), Mia Rabson (CP) and Aaron Wherry (CBC News) brought more analysis to their discussion of Carney’s speech to the Economic Club of New York, and to the chaos around the Alberta referendum. And with his typical wit, Cochrane said the Alberta NDP have risen so far in the polls that Danielle Smith could find she has set up “a Sovereign Alberta in a United Canada” for Premier Nenshi.

Some other comments:

In Policy Magazine, editor Lisa Van Dusen:

…The headline quote may have been the winkish “Canada Strong will help make America great again,” but the transcendent message beyond the trade, energy, defence, infrastructure and values elements was that in a world transformed by unprecedented financial, economic, geopolitical, and technological complexity and the policy complexity that goes with it, managing global super-complexity takes a supernerd….
…the Alberta debate shifts Canada’s existential threat into a domestic context where Carney’s strengths — the credentials, the global network, the economic supernerdism — are meant to be as worthless as ChatGPT in a knife fight.
Whether that proves to be the case could count for quite a lot in the battle for Canada.

From Tom Mulcair:

This is from a couple of months ago, but its still timely: