Going through the news today is basically as depressing as ever. Trump decided to tear up the CUSMA trade agreement, which wasn't a surprise, but still will cause real hardship up here, as well as being quite bad overall for US manufacturing. Such an incredible dolt and a disgrace to humanity.
I am not at all happy about Carney's recent moves and announcement that he is scaling back Canada's climate change goals to focus more on "national unity" (i.e. sucking up to those horrible Albertans) and economic growth. This is extremely short sighted, on a week that is breaking all kinds of heat records in Canada, to say nothing of the US and Europe. This complete inability to force hard choices on the public, i.e. actually making them pay the full external costs of carbon and thus reining in consumption and eventually restoring some sort of balance to the environment, really shows up the limitations of Western democracy (and the general short-sightedness of human nature). So I am not particularly proud of where Canada is heading, though I guess it is somewhat better than most of the alternatives, aside from a few European countries that actually do have their transportation and environmental priorities in better order. But immigrating to any of them is pretty much out of the question at my age, and unfortunately, they themselves are starting to show their racism as immigration levels increase throughout Western Europe. I guess not exactly a ringing endorsement, but I am just not in a great mood these days.
I might as well cut this short and move on to more diverting and less serious topics.
Happy Canada Day, eh?
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