Apparently for people to fly off the handle at a headline that completely ignores what he said.

I wonder how much more reasonable the political discourse would be if people would just read the damn articles.

This is a discussion where the Austrlian press needles Carney on topics related to Iran, as they should. Carney’s threading a tight situation and discussing many things in hypotheticals, but this took the Canadian PMO and many other world leaders aback.

I tend to agree with you. He said:

“One can never categorically rule out participation,” he said.

“We will stand by our allies, when it makes sense. There’s a distinction between the offensive actions that were taken and are being taken by the United States and Israel, that were taken by them without consultation with Canada, with other allies, and we’re not party to those actions.

“But we will always defend Canadians, we will always stand by and defend our allies when called upon.”

The right answer would be to make like a Conservative and not answer. He can’t piss off Trump, but he knows Canadians (outside of a few communities) aren’t into this shit. Saying maaaaaaybe walks back most of his appeal from Davos.

Carney is not a great politician. He doesn’t know when to shut up (hence his statement of support for the war in India). So far he’s lucked into the right moment. I’m not sure what the next few years will bring.

The speech was always only about threats to canada and greenland