Jesus, this person wrote a whole article based on their impression of a stage managed photo op? Really?
I did, yes, but it’s ok if you don’t want to read it 🙂
If you purposefully look for stuff to be mad at, you’ll find it. Guy can’t cook pancakes. It’s a good thing PM doesn’t mean Pancake Maker. Let’s see the author of this article be the head of a central bank or negotiate a trade deal with the European Union.
Did you actually click the link?
I ask because I am not touching that with a 10 foot pole, but am curious about the content.
I did. I like to read opinions to see if any good points are raised. I don’t see any valid points in this article. The author derives Carney’s entire personality from a 5 minute photo op where a chef helps him cook some pancakes at the Calgary Stampede.
The author suggests Carney is an angry authoritarian who hates working class people due to his behaviour in that photo op. Specifically, things like not picking up a pancake he dropped on the ground, and saying the reason he couldn’t flip a pancake well was because the chef was making them way too big.
I’ve seen many valid criticisms of Carney, but this article isn’t one.
Thank you for the TL:DR, I appreciate it.
Well I’m glad they ended up at least skimming the post (the first half of it, anyway), because they got to see that the piece actually agrees with their initial criticism: nobody cares if the PM is good at flipping pancakes.
It’s a blog post on my own site, nothing scary about the link 🙂
Edit: I’m fine if people don’t like the blog post but it’s kinda weird to downvote me for assuring someone there’s nothing wrong with the link itself (literally an HTML file with no JS or cookies).
Oh well, hit a nerve I guess
TLDR: Author calls Carney a nightmare boss than proceeds to neurotically nitpick him like the worst micromanager in the multiverse. Literally no connection between their vapid observations and the baseless claims they allege.
The comments they made here are a clear indication of the lack of objectivity and frame of reference behind their writing. But it is an opinion and entitled to be so. It’s just not a very good opinion.
Curious if you clicked any of the dozen links that back up the claims made in the piece?
Yup. Here’s my thoughts on those.
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DGAF bout stampede and pancake flipping
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DGAF bout stampede and pancake flipping
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Only mention of replacement in that article is union saying AI cannot replace them. IMO we need more AI tools in public service.
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The expectations being unrealistic are your allegations. Based on what I’ve read from you, you’re wholly unqualified to make those kind of determinations.
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Broken Link. I’ll assume it’s your opinion that the timelines are unrealistic.
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Canada’s steel/auto sectors are highly integrated and interruption is going to have massive ripple effects in the Canadian economy. So yea Carney is meeting with their CEOs. NEXT.
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Our legislature has been largely ineffective and it’s Clear the CPC/PP intend to continue gridlocking our government. Shifting power from the house is hardly the biggest problem with C-5. Further illustrating that you’re not writing this article objectively but with a specfic target in mind.
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An amendment gets voted down and this relates to pancakes HOW? At least this is a legitimate concern about C5. Albeit a widely discussed one.
Honestly that’s as far as I got. I have concerns about bills C-2 and C5, but the way you’re trying to connect this to Carney personally is a waste of my time as a reader.
You absolutely lost me when you started trying to call out his financial holdings. It’s right there in his response… Is Pierre Poilievre on the up and up with his stock options?
If I had written that and submitted it to my English teacher he would have told me to delete 80% and do 3 more drafts.
This whole thing comes off as a Carney hate piece with zero objectivity. You need to appreciate that the people taking the time to read articles are likely going to be turned off by blatantly biased writing.
I personally am only bothering to respond because clearly you put some effort into this, and maybe you do have something valid to say. But you got some work to do first.
I find it interesting you are so fixated on the pancake aspect when the piece is (to me at least) quite clearly about the PM’s personality, and how it parallels his policy and actions.
Thanks for pointing out the broken link, I’ll correct that
Edit: that link seems to be working again, but it did take a while to load, weird
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This post is cathartic. It’s like you’re yelling in a group chat after a long shift under a clueless boss. If you already see Carney as a cold, top-down technocrat, it hits the mark. It’s sharp, funny, and captures a real frustration that a lot of people feel toward polished elites who seem out of touch with working life, but if you’re not already on that wavelength, it falls short of convincing. It leans too hard on a silly photo op and makes some big leaps from awkward pancake flipping to sweeping conclusions about Carney’s character and politics. There’s not much in the way of hard evidence or policy critique to back it all up, it’s more vibe than substance.
I agree with this. I think a lot of Carney haters conveniently forget who Poilievre is. But in general every good point this blog post had to offer was buried underneath writing that shouldn’t have been cut out in a draft.
Thanks for reading!
I’m a bit shocked at the downvotes. The article brings up some valid criticism of how Carney treats people around him, even in the public eye, and how his actions are really speaking louder than his charming words of promise.
I think the title may be causing the downvotes, the first part of it sounds like a confirmation/ exposé rather than a personal analysis by the OP, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but might be misleading at first glance
Something like this might have done better
I didn’t like how Mark Carney behaved at the stampede, and so I looked at the clip carefully to pick out a few points that may extend to how he treats the people around him
Note: I haven’t had a chance to read the article yet, I’m hypothesizing based on the comment section on why people didn’t like it
If you do end up reading it, I’d love to hear what you think :)
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Thanks very much - and yeah, clearly it hit a nerve, lol
Par for the course. Our politicians are not there with our best interests in mind. They cannot even relate to us.
Yep. I’m surprised how many people can’t come to grips with the reality that Carney is like, super right-wing
