The Brits that watched Carney try to destroy England insist he's quite intelligent. You would have to be to last 13 years at Goldman Sachs become BoE, BoC, ,CEO of Brookfield, pull Trudeau's strings from the shadows for 5 years and then become the PM etc.
So you know what he did was completely intentional. Canadians have normalized incompetence to such a degree everyone says "well he's just an idiot like us" that made a mistake. Guy like that don't make mistakes. And if he did it wouldn't be on the world stage at the political and business event of the year. It would be a mistake like forgetting to mention a few hundred million dollars in personal income.
I never said that he was not intelligent, but I see Carney as having one similar personality flaw Trudeau had: ego. Despite having a more stoic and serious demeanor, Carney is still an arrogant prick who believes that he deserves to manipulate the system because he has the credentials and glad-handed the right people. It would not surprise me if he believes that he can outmaneuver both the United States and China so that he could secure
Canada himself a better deal. The problem is that you can only press your luck so far as Uncle Sam was already starting to tire of Canada's flakiness on security under Biden.
If we want to approach this from a cynical lens, the Liberals appear to be leveraging the China deal and Trump completely-foreseeable response to call a spring election and position itself for a majority. I mean, Canadians are such braindead rabble that it brought the Liberal Party back from oblivion last year. However, the problem is that Canada is fraying at the edges and we have discussed here ad infinitum. As
@OutInTheRain stated, we have at least five years before things get spicy. The real estate bubble is in danger of bursting, mass immigration as social cohesion deteriorates, and Quebec is talking about separation while the West flirts with the idea, etc.
Compounding this is Ottawa's lack of coercive power and waning institutional legitimacy. The Liberal Party survived multiple scandals through procedural manipulation (e.g. calling the 2021 election to avoid answering for the Winnipeg leak scandal), but that is corrosive over time as it demonstrates to those with actual reasoning skills that there is no accountability within the system. Then there is the Tamara Lich/Chris Barber trial where the fed prosecuted a mischief (the barest minimum of crime) case for years because of the Convoy humiliation while the courts give violent criminals like murderers and rapists the kid gloves. Add the fact that the Canadian and American markets are deeply integrated and the United States shoulders the burden for continental defense, which leaves me to wonder, "Is Canada even a legitimate country anymore?"
Carney's made his millions so he doesn't really care about this question. However, what men like him do like is power because credentials mean that he has a quasi-divine divine right to rule like the absolutist monarchs of the seventeenth and eighteenth century. My read on him is that he loves the positions he held slightly more than the wealth he generated because they insure that he can use procedure to increase it. The spanner in the works is if and when the United States tires of the games this country has been playing since the days of Pierre Trudeau.
