Boomers eh?
At least Carney was competent enough to take a Conservative Party policy on dumping the proposed Carbon Tax, but unfortunately he’s still a Net Zero fanatic, plus having a host of other WEF beliefs:
The whole campaign was probably best captured by this exchange between a reporter and a voter:
My interlocutor is a cheerful woman of my own pensionable age. Thirty five years a teacher, she is a good soul. If you had just moved in next door to her, she’d be the first to drop off a casserole.
“I’m voting for Carney.”
“Well actually, you’ll vote for your local candidate. Umm, what riding are you in?”
“I’m not sure. But I like Carney. He has a good resume, you know. He was a banker.”
“So you said. But how do you feel about the fact that he wants to choke our oil industry? Or that as a professed church-going Catholic, he won’t condemn abortion? That he wants to bring back the Online Harms Act? Didn’t you see Minority Report? He’s in thick with people who don’t like people having too much freedom to travel or eat beef. He’s all about making you use less electricity by making it more expensive.”
“I wouldn’t know about any of that. But you know, he seems steady. Makes me feel safe. He’s not going to change things. By the way, he did just cancel the carbon tax. Didn’t he?”
“That was Pierre Poilievre’s idea. Carney just stole his campaign promise.”
“Oh I don’t like Poilievre. He’s rude to reporters.”
“So is Mr. Carney.”
“Whatever. I don’t know much about politics, but yes, of course I’ll vote.”
“I was afraid of that…”
Aren’t we all?
BTW, you can see why the typical Nat supporter (as on Kiwiblog) is so determined to stick it to Trump; they’re terrified that Labour will pull a repeat of Trevor Mallard’s “American bagman” attack in 2026, except this time it will be far more effective. Best if National do everything they can now to inoculate themselves against that mind virus.
No Minister 
That exchange perfectly encapsulates the average voter here in NZ.
I’ve had a similar conversation while campaigning for a political party. -a typical vibe from women was ‘oh I dont have time for looking at that’, while busy sorting out the kids and other stuff.
That’s how a weak immature woman with a pretty face got to be PM.
I know people that ask their friends on Facebook who they should vote for
Somehow, it seems inappropriate to ‘like’ your comment
I wouldn’t like it either. The fact that I know people that do this before heading into a polling booth depresses me immensely
carney links… story #2.
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/luna-destroys-bondi-over-epstein
#1 if you want to know the current situation.
My limited understanding of Canada is that it defines itself as “not the USA” very intensely. As jingoistic as New Zealand’s rivalry with Australia gets, we never define ourselves similarly with them. And to a Canadian, Trump represents all the worst American traits: Loud, obnoxious, capitalist etc. At the end of the day, Canadians love their Liberal Party, even if they got sick of Trudeau.
To add insult to injury, I notice that Pollievre actually lost his own Riding! He unfortunately went from the “not Trudeau” candidate to the “little Trump” candidate, AND the big issue of the carbon tax got taken out of commission. And while I’m not going to blame Trump like many have done, since Pollievre is a big boy and ought to be able to figure out how to win an election by himself, the 51st State rhetoric didn’t help him and was probably unnecessary even as much as I love a good Trump trolling.