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   Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 10:39:36 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

   🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney. I call him Sam Slick

   Thomas Chandler Haliburton's Sam Slick (1835) was a fast-talking Yankee clockmaker who sold Nova Scotians things they didn't need through "soft sawder and human natur." A charming, slick outsider peddling optimism and moving on.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Slick

   Carney: 13 years at Goldman Sachs, then the Bank of Canada, then the Bank of England, then Brookfield Asset Management, then the UN's climate envoy, then Prime Minister.
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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 10:39:35 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     🇨🇦 Sam Slick: Canada is getting a sovereign wealth fund. What are they and how might this one work?
     https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-sovereign-wealth-fund-explainer-9.7179217

     Sovereign wealth funds are state-owned investment accounts, usually started with a country's extra money

     Extra money, meh! Huge economy (9th globally, with under 42M population) yet "austerity budgets." Underfunded social programs, infrastructure, services; overpriced goods. Capitalist utopia.
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     Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ (persagen@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Apr-2026 10:39:36 JST Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️

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     ... Mark Carney launched GFANZ to unite global finance around net-zero; when the big banks quietly quit, he walked away too. Now he's rebranded as Canada's nationalist bulwark against Trump - e.g. his Davos conference bravado. 🤨

     Sam Slick always had a new clock to sell.

     #CanadianPolitics #MarkCarney #SamSlick #cdnpoli

     Steve's Place repeated this.