The polls follow each other and look alike. In unison, they say that a large majority of Canadians believe that Mark Carney is the ideal man to negotiate with Trump.
This massive support is almost mystical.
Mollusc
On the one hand, if Carney has largely exhibited his loose with mollusc, he has never shown his talents as a negotiator. We have no evidence or even the slightest index of its alleged superiority.
So how can we believe that he will give Trump the reply, while he struggles to debate properly or respond to journalists? Certainly, this blind fervor recalls that of the disciples of a sect for their guru!
On the other hand, we do not reduce the management of a country to the capacity of its Prime Minister to negotiate with Trump, because the pricing war, as brutal as it may be, will be temporary. Commercial storms always end up calming, whether according to agreements or electoral cycles.
Admittedly, negotiating prices is an important mission, but it is only a chapter of a government mandate. Govern is much more than managing a punctual tariff crisis!
On the other hand, Canada’s economic challenges are structural and glaring: cost of exploding, budgetary indiscipline, galloping public debt, failing productivity, housing crisis, infrastructure in decrepitude, taxation disincitativestifling bureaucracy, etc.
However, these files require more than a diplomatic duel. They ask for a clear vision, daring policies and concrete ideas that will give everyone the hope of a better future.
Leader
The pollsters are therefore wrong to be obsessed with the Trumpian prices.
The question is not only to know who will negotiate the best with Trump, but to know who most seriously thought about interior problems and who offers the most effective solutions.
Because, let us not forget that once the crisis of the prices have been adjusted, it will remain to build a prosperous country! However, to get there, you need a real leader, not a negotiator!
