Link to post Floppy Elbows Carney in the election thread.
Yes, leveraging eastern Canadians fear of Trump and making them think he was the best person to deal with him. Obviously that is proving false.
Tax on! Tax off! A sign of someone who might have been successful within the constrained environment of an organization, but doesn’t know how to manage things in the fluid environment of politics. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that Trump would react like the violent ape he is. It’s what he does.
I now hear a pundit saying it was a negotiating tactic. Can someone explain what the benefit of this tactic was, if that was the case? Otherwise, why chalk up cleverness when incompetence is the more likely answer.