Carney slapped with failing grade in new billboard campaign
A Western Canadian advocacy group has launched a nationwide billboard blitz grading Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first six months in office — giving him an “F.”
A Western Canadian advocacy group has launched a nationwide billboard blitz grading Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first six months in office — giving him an “F.”
Alberta, meanwhile, says it won’t enforce Ottawa’s firearm confiscation plan.
Pride activists in Calgary are pushing for it to be declared a “sanctuary city,” while a provincial minister says the idea carries no legal weight.
And Edmonton council voted down a motion to pause new bike lanes pending more consultation.
All that and more on this week’s Alberta Roundup with Isaac Lamoureux.
Indeed not a surprise but also the "F" stands for two words.
The letters of each... F U
OH WAIT...
... Just realized ... Those two letters have a couple of extensions.
Both totally appropriate in the case of Carney.
Carney certainly deserves a failing grade on his performance to date. In considering his performance on the economy, no-one seems to have acknowledged his support for the US Fed’s so-called Average Inflation Targeting framework in his book “Value(s)”: “[T]he Federal Reserve’s adjustment of its mandate to pursue Flexible Average Inflation Targeting is timely and welcome. Reflation of the economy in the medium term is essential.” It would have been appropriate for him to apologize for his support for this highly inflationary policy framework as the US Fed Chairman did in August 2025. Of course, if he had done that before he ran for the Liberal leadership he might not have won. However, it would have been the decent thing to do. And having won the federal election, if he apologized now, he would also have to apologize for lying, twice, to Pierre Poilievre in the English-language leadership debate that he had never offered inflationary advice to PM Trudeau as his economic advisor. That would be a big ask, but that would also be the decent thing to do. And it might raise his grade from an F to something higher.