Journalists in Canada have a serious problem: they fawn over powerful people, blaring their decrees and promises, but not actually looking at the results or the subtext of those promises.

A journalist’s job is not to drool. It is to gather facts and vet them. Even columnists need to think critically and not jump around like cheerleaders.

The Globe and Mail gushed over Carney (I guess hoping for more government money).

No, they’re not. They have resources that the EU wants. That’s not being a power: that’s being an exploitable unit to harvest. There is a big difference.

It’s like the kid in high school whose parents installed a pool in the backyard. Yeah, lots of kids will make nice, but not because the kid is a power. The kid has a pool. Take away the pool, and you take away the parasites.

And at this point, all Carney has managed to do is make Canadians have to pay more for basics such as food through tit for tat tariffs, get a manufactured majority, jet set around the world on the taxpayer’s dime, chased the EU so Canada has less independence and money, and table legislation to reduce basic rights for labor and free speech as he gives speeches and mugs for the camera.

What he didn’t do was cut Donald Trump at the knees. And he could have if he wanted to do it, but then it would be over, people would be paying less, and he wouldn’t get to spin a narrative about what a Great Man he is. If we had actual journalists in this country, they would have picked this apart. You want your leaders to produce? You don’t cheer them. You tear them apart. The end.

The New York Times, sadly, thinks promoting Carney is a good thing.

As I said before, Carney has done nothing of substance to help Canadians. He didn’t stand up to Trump directly. He didn’t cut off the electricity or show how dependent the US is on Canada. There was no need for a trade war, but the trade war was a perfect misdirection and Carney took advantage of it.

Unfortunately, Canada doesn’t have a free and independent press who can stand back, look at what has been said versus what has been done. There is a bizarre fixation for Canada to be a “power” on the “world stage.”

They would be better off ensuring people can prosper here without having a public sector job or rely on government grants.

That’s power. Other countries don’t have to cheer us.

Canada will pay for this brazen journalistic laziness. Falling for old and obvious parlor tricks is the precise reason journalism in Canada collapsed. The New York Times should be more careful not to fall into the same trap. Yes, Donald Trump is a destructive nobody, but he could have been humbled if the left and independents had guts to put their foot down much, much sooner. Not through screaming or protests, but through actual work. If everyone went stopped going to work for one day in response to one of his policies or executive orders, everything would have ended the same day.

Learn to fight effectively. Stop gushing over mediocre men who talk big. Look at the fine print.

The rest becomes clearer once you decide to be a responsible adult.