I’ve been watching increasingly austere policies come up (and voted against them) since before 2008. This guy has been pro-regulation, remember. Not something big business tends to favour. Austerity policies tend to come from politicians listening to dedicated neoliberal economists, touting the usual free market garbage. When it comes to a banker, you have to research/watch them and discern what outcome they’re going for. The best clue for that is probably their past actions. Thankfully there are old and new articles about both potential party leaders, along with the other party leaders. I’ve just read a couple about him so far (as well as seeing that interview you mentioned when it got posted online).

Nah, he’s not Musk. He can come off as wooden but he’s still more politically savvy than that. Even if he wholeheartedly agrees with the ideology, he’ll hide it. He’ll probably have other subtler slips though.

I’m also considering alternatives to Proton myself. I’ve seen the privacy-oriented communities give a bunch of options. Search “Privacy” and you’ll see them listed. Tuta probably isn’t bad as a paid account but the free app left a lot to be desired the last time I checked (no message search or sorting like Proton).

There’s been controversy over a founder’s public backing of the US Republican party.

Bizarrely enough, he’s actually probably less in favour of slashing everything than Freeland and obviously Poilievre… if his rhetoric and past actions are indicative. Yes, heads of banks can often do evil, but some have still spoken up about inequality in recent years because they’re more aware of what’s happening in markets than a lot of economists are. (Here’s a kind of shocking video by an economist and public educator who went to the private sector for a while after doing his Master’s at Oxford discussing why, for those interested.)*

If Carney is at least somewhat on our side, we would at least stave off another fascist or fascist-supporting government in the world.

*TLDW: The vid happens to be about why highly ranked economists often get predictions wrong. One of the reasons he goes into is private sector money drawing promising students away from universities unless they’re wealthy enough not to need the money. Wealthy PhD students are typically too out of touch to realize the models they use leave out crucial data on inequality.

I came to comments to find out what “gills” kicking in meant. 😂

(Now Kerry Ann’s comment makes sense but the original still doesn’t.)

His purpose is probably to implement as many austerity measures as he thinks he can get away with in return for financial kickbacks from the wealthy.

Then why did he spend his entire career in government?

Yup, PP was just at a fundraiser thrown by someone who profits massively from private health care clinic chain investments in the US.

Very concerning, to say the least. It has to be a series of inside jobs. I especially want to know if there’s a pattern in who those arms are going to.

Have I missed past coverage? I haven’t heard about it before this.

It’s really not the Beaverton.

Or they never cared about putting downward pressure on prices

Very open to it. Just want to respect indigenous land claims.

(also @m0darn@lemmy.ca)

I’d love to see either of those things happen if possible. I was just making my estimation of what seems the most realistic scenario, based on what I’ve heard and seen so far.

My guess is that this is probably about the massive amounts of energy they’ll need for Stargate, the massive AI initiative. They want a much, much sweeter deal on energy resources. This feels a lot like an equivalent of the time Trump badly screwed over at least one other country that needed Covid vaccines by outbidding them for supplies (that were already promised to them) at the last minute.

I agree. We could also forge better partnerships with Mexico, Central and South American countries, and Pacific island nations. Up to now I think our companies have been more exploitative (i.e. manipulating governments or bringing underpaid labour), but we could do things that are mutually beneficial instead. Strengthening less powerful neighbours is beneficial to everyone in a region (including the US, ironically), while exploitation just helps the specific corporations involved.

I don’t think they were saying they need resoling every year. That would be absurd, so I hope not. The idea was that they can be resoled and repaired at all, so it’s not fast fashion. Hopefully they also use other environmentally friendly practices. The big issue here is the up-front cost.

Totally agree with Doctorow as usual that this would be ideal, but there is NO way the US would allow that without things getting much, much uglier. Maybe we could get away with the app store temporarily but I’m sure it would get shut down eventually… unless we can convince our other allies to back us first. Unless he thinks there’s a high chance of this, I think he’s underestimating the kind of response we would face-- especially given the current climate.

As he says in the article, we’ve won some trade disputes but I doubt any of them were under an ISDS. Either way though, we do definitely need to boost our own tech sector so we have self-sufficiency if things go bad.

Hey, now there’s an oldie. Nice to see it’s getting popular enough to be recommended to people again.

Thanks @xmunk@sh.itjust.works and @Windex007@lemmy.world, that helps clear the AB part up.

Am I incorrect to assume his rural Ontario voter base wouldn’t be okay with him throwing in with Trump, while Danielle Smith is expecting to be lauded by her Alberta-first base for this?