There Goes the Canadian Government || Peter Zeihan

Canada is toast

I found your channel months after this video drop and just had this oldy wash up on the algorithmic beach.

Very interesting still, despite the subsequent twists, tariffs, tantrums, and turnarounds.

I was never a Trudeau guy as a Canadian, but he did have his moments. Some of them in his final days after announcing his intent to step down.

We ended up back in a liberal government, Freeland still on board, but with Carney coming to power. The jury is still out on exactly how good he will be, but he's intelligent enough, has a great economic background, and has the helm in hand. These are unsure international waters. But I'll bet on the banker over the orange wanker any day.

If she is so smart why did she destroy our country through incompetence? I doubt she can even do basic math , nevermind balance a budget

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As for Zeihan’s claim that there has been a 25-year “drought” with regard to having an “intelligent person at the helm”, gosh, is he ever wrong…..

Even though I personally didn’t like Steven Harper, he was not a stupid man, and has both a B.A. and an M.A. in Economics. Mulroney and Chretien were both lawyers, and again, although I didn’t like Mulroney, he was not a stupid man. And I personally think that Chretien was brilliant. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_Canada_by_academic_degrees .

Canada has a very, very long tradition of well-educated, intelligent leaders at the Federal level; something that the United States cannot say by comparison. At least given intellectually challenged Presidents such as Reagan, George Bush Junior, and Trump.

To be sure, no Canadian prime-minster since the 1970s can compare to Trudeau Senior, but then very few politicians can, in just about any modern western country. Trudeau Senior was an unusually imaginative, visionary politician who was also analytically brilliant, and politically Machiavellian. Both idealistic and dead realistic.

The only western equivalents in terms of raw intelligence and “political nous” would be certain German and French politicians. For instance, Brandt, Kohl, and Merkel in Germany, or De Gaulle, Mitterrand, and Macron in France. Both Kohl and Merkel had /have PhDs, and as near as I can tell Macron in France has 5 or 6 degrees, including an MA from Sciences Po in Public Affairs, and an MA in Philosophy from Nanterre. Also some kind of degree from ENA, the most “elite” of the Grandes Ecoles that prepare students for roles in business and government.

Whoa, 640,000 views. When you talk Canada listens, eh. Surprised there was no Freeland vs Carney video. What about a Pierre vs new liberal leader video?

How can a man so smart, say such stupid things? We saw what mass immigration brings! Immigration is not the answer! Brain boy!

Unlike many of my compatriots, I think this is a keen, succinct, and precise analysis. Nobody gets everything right. I am left with the impression he does little research, and makes these as an impromptu presentation. Considering the breadth of topics covered, I'd say it's amazing.

There goes Peter and his click bait headline 🎉

Strong words from a former Canadian…

According to Peter Eigan, all nations are on the verge of collapse

Foreigner are not a substitute for children. Deport

Justin has been looking good for the last few days as he finalised the handover of the governing of Haida Gwaii back to the Haida and this morning announced a major infrastructure project that will see high speed rail in the corridor where half the country’s population lives. He’s looking more relaxed these days now that the responsibility of running the country is coming to an end. Surprising things have happened since he announced he would resign.

Trump has united most of Canada, becoming the brunt of any anger or discontent some might have had. The cabinet members that vowed to stick out the next few months to help steer the country through the threat of tariffs have become visible in the media, reassuring Canadians that there’s. a talented team working hard on their behalf. Albertans are still whining, but that’s nothing new.

There’s a new Liberal leadership candidate called Mark Carney, a former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, who seems to be having an effect on the voting intentions of Canadians. Polls are showing the Liberals gaining on the Conservatives who, along with the NDP, have incompetent leaders. The polls also show Carney, now way ahead of Freeland in the leadership race, as the person best capable of dealing with Trump.

Carney is at least as smart as Freeland – they both went to Harvard and Oxford. They used to be friends. It will be interesting to see if their friendship survives the leadership race. They also both grew up in Alberta, which might assuage some in that province. Carney’s even gaining support among francophones in Quebec.

What’s happening is certainly interesting. Although there’s still a lot of uncertainty, I can sense an energy among Canadians I haven’t seen in decades. It’s going to be interesting.

This is way off.

@peter zeihan what you dont realize is what trump has done basically tells anyone including the ukrainians, that any deal with the usa isnt worth the paper its written on. trade war means both countries will suffer, but canada will just build pipelines to east and west coast and diversify its trade with eu and asia. they can sell their energy to asia and europe at market rates and dont need to give discounts for americans to sell as the middle man.

also canada has a free trade agreement with europe. you are gonna see a shifting of trade by canada to asia and europe, because of what trump has done. that change is gonna happen and nothing trump can do about it. the us is an unreliable trade partner, as the trade deals they make are worthless.

btw i see canada joining the EU rather than joining the USA. europe has people, and canada has land.

and dont kid yourself on a callapse of canada. the canadian dollar in the past was 60 cents to the usd before, and canada is still here. once they shift trade to asia and europe, it will be better for canada in the long run.

and as for us shifting to asia, dont kid yourself. most of those countries are aligning with china because they get a better deal from them and easier access to chinese markets.

where america pulls out of global affairs, china will come in with their check books like in africa, where the americans have left. china is trading with rest of the world where america is isolating itself.

as for population decline in china, well they have a billion people. they can tell their people to have more kids. even if they have only 400 million people of child bearing age, they can tell them to have more kids.

asia is different from america in that when the parents age, the kids just take care of them or move in, and the grand parents take care of the kids.

japan has been in demographic decline and they didnt dissapear.

i am sure china can automate, its not rocket science. they built a better AI with a fraction of the cost to what elon and others are spending. they were even arrogant to say china was 10 years behind america in AI and they showed they werent. and they can make technology at a fraction of the cost in america.

yeah but she is a Liberal and their only expertise has always been corruption and scandals GALORE

This Peter guy is a goof! WEF Freelund brilliant? Oh boy is he ever misinformed. Life is tough there Peter, tough enough but it's even tougher when you're stupid.

Lol. He resigned and Conservative party that had aligned themselves with anti vaxxer and Trump is now losing support and might not get a majority or even a minority because of the possibility of the new leader being a former bank of Canada and former Bank of England head boss. Yeah I guess to switch from coming doom to Canada coming doom. Oh Peter are you anywhere and if so why would hire you. 😊😅😂