Axworthy’s not wrong: Carney does look like he’s taking a ‘bootlicking’ approach to Trump, so far (article)

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Axworthy's not wrong: Carney does look like he's taking a 'bootlicking' approach to Trump, so far - The Hill Times

Prime Minister Mark Carney, who campaigned and won the recent federal election by promising to stand up for Canada, has so far acquiesced to United States President Donald Trump's significant demands. Carney agreed to increase spending on our national defence to five per cent of our GDP, agreed to rescind our digital services tax on American tech giants, and seemed to suggest that Canada may take part in Trump's Golden Dome, modelled after Israel's Iron Dome. On the dome issue, Trump is now saying it would cost Canada $61-billion, or we can participate for free if we become America's 51st state. Hopefully Carney is playing the long game here and will eventually fight back, but so far, at least publicly, he has not.

This is not standing up for Canada's values.

Last week in a blog post, Lloyd Axworthy, who served as foreign affairs minister in prime minister Jean Chrétien's cabinet and led the Ottawa Treaty banning landmines in countries around the world, accused Carney of taking a "bootlicking" approach to Trump, and in an interview with the Canadian Press, said Carney has to be principled, tactical, and pragmatic, but also tough. "Flattery is always part of the game, but you can take it to the point where you actually become unctuous," Axworthy told CP.

 

 

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First off, points to flatterly for managing to use the word unctious in a sentence casually   

But this is becoming more and more obvious as we go.

And the interesting thing is it's not just with trump. Anybody he talks to he immediately says he will give them what they want if he can avoid a confrontation. Even if he doesn't intend to deliver. Daniel smith complains about pipelines and suddenly he's like oh yes we will have tons of new Pipelines. He talks to the provinces and he says oh we would never consider pipelines without your permission. Anybody he talks to he says what they want to hear and if they have any power over him at all he just gives them what they want hoping they'll go away.

And that's just not being a good prime minister. That's going to come home to bite him in the ass relatively shortly when he has to start delivering on things and suddenly can't.