Six months ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney laid out a new and pragmatic path for middle powers in the face of an increasingly hostile U.S. and a rising China. In a new season of his podcast “Gloves Off” journalist Stephen Marche considers the opportunities for Canada given the new geopolitical reality.
https://shows.acast.com/gloves-off
Edit: every Canadian should listen to this podcast. Finally an unvarnished truth.
It’s just really unfortunate that we’re doing it by continuing down the path of capitalism and eco-unsustainability.
I’d like to believe that something parallel to this was possible but with actual democratic-eco-socialism.
I felt that way too. It would be optimal. A Canadian mixed-market opportunity, of free markets where it can and socialized industry where it must. We could start this path any time we wanted. Crown Corporations and investment are a matter of will, not finance.
The real problem that I see are the geopolitics of power. The world’s re-armament is a gross malallocation of unsustainable resources at the worst possible time. But being ruled by the worst of humanity isn’t doing anyone any favours either, so here we are.
The real problem that I see are the geopolitics of power
Bingo.


