The Inimitable Mr. Carney
The Liberal Party of Canada is ecstatic. They’ve finally caught the golden ring on the merry-go-round. There were three byelections in Canada on April 13, and the Liberal Party won all three of them, which now gives them a majority government. To be clear, they have been inching their way in this direction for almost a year now, since they won a minority government in the last federal election. They have been doing this by persuading Conservative MPs to cross the floor. The last such crossing was just a few days ago on April 8, when Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu did the treacherous little dance. She was the fourth Conservative MP to do so since the general election. In the Liberal Party press release, she justified her move by calling it an “opportunity … [to] build the nation at speeds never seen before.” That’s a current Liberal talking point, but it don’t mean a thing.
At the Liberal convention over the weekend, all of the floor-crossers were paraded on stage as trophies much as a stud might brag about his conquests in the men’s locker-room or mean girls might display their inductees at their cafeteria table. Some commentators have called this shameful. Oh please! Since when has shame been part of the left’s moral vocabulary? Since the election of the Trudeau Liberals in 2015, that party has been systematically tearing the country apart with nary a whisker of shame.
There are only two things that are rapidly growing in Canada right now: the national debt and unemployment.
I’ll get to the Liberal agenda in a moment, but first let’s dispense with the canard about “building the nation at speeds never seen before.” There are only two things that are rapidly growing in Canada right now: the national debt and unemployment. Before Carney became party leader, the Trudeau Liberals were spending money like drunken sailors, so that now the government spends more on interest on the debt than it spends on healthcare. This is a classic financial death spiral, but Carney makes Trudeau look like a piker. (RELATED: Carney’s Canada Is China’s Vassal)
The Carney deficits are even bigger than those under Trudeau, and of course, this is fueling inflation and killing jobs. Unemployment would be even greater if not for the fact that the government has simultaneously been rapidly growing its bureaucracy. Trudeau expanded it by a whopping 43 percent, adding 110,000 to its numbers while adding $67.4 billion per year to pay them. The only part of the country where private sector job creation exceeds government hiring is in Alberta, a conservative province that, because of Liberal policy, is now trying to leave the confederation. That’s not building, that’s breaking the nation apart.
Though Carney has not explicitly stated that Canada should join the EU, he has described Canada as the “most European of the non-European countries.” He’s right about that. Under his leadership, and under Trudeau’s before him, Canada has been heading in the same direction as Europe. Both leaders are globalists, and Europe is the globalists’ pet project. (RELATED: Europe Is Thus Illuminated, Exactly As It Is)
But lately, things have gotten complicated for globalists as significant parts of the world have started to push back hard against their agenda. What’s happening in Europe is exemplary. The European Parliament recently passed a resolution that emphasizes the recognition of self-perceived gender identity as a key priority for Europe. It also passed a resolution entrenching climate change as a core EU principle. Sounds like business as usual, but wait a minute. Around the same time, due to public pressure, the same parliament also passed something called a Returns Regulation aimed at speeding up the removal of “irregular” migrants, and this resolution included the possibility of creating “return hubs” outside of the EU. Thus, two ultra-woke policies passed almost simultaneously, with one anti-woke one. I guess that makes it official. The modus operandi of Europe is now schizophrenia. (RELATED: Trump the Wolf Topples von der Leyen From Her Pony — Saint Paul Style)
Poor Carney, like his European cousins, is also in a bind. He remains a true believer in the green agenda, yet has vowed to build much-needed pipelines. Ditto about the transgender movement. Hence, his party now has two different personas, one public and the other private. (RELATED: Mark Carney’s Pseudo-Faith-Based War on CO2)
This contradiction was recently on display following the March 26 announcement of a policy change by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that ensures female Olympic sports categories will be reserved for actual female athletes, as opposed to trans-identified men. In response to this commonsense policy change, Adam van Koeverden, Canada’s Secretary of State for Sport, issued a humdrum press release saying, “We are aware of the International Olympic Committee’s recent policy decision. We will work closely with our sport partners to review the impact of this decision” …blah, blah, blah. Then he promptly turned around and wrote on his Facebook page that there is a “notion that scary drag queens are winning women’s volleyball games … a stupid conservative pseudo fantasy.” He also called efforts to protect female sports events misogynistic, because they are about “policing women’s bodies” and implausibly maintained that he had met many female athletes who agree with him.
Unfortunately, Carney, as a globalist, has characteristically forgotten a basic fact about geography. Canada is not in Europe but rather is in the Western Hemisphere. All that Canada has to do is look around to see what is happening outside of its cocoon. A new world order is being shaped by the Trump administration, and a part of that is a kind of Monroe Doctrine. From Greenland to Argentina through Venezuela, Panama, and soon Cuba, the Western Hemisphere is being declared increasingly off-limits. to the nefarious forces of the world. (RELATED: Canada Looks an Awful Lot Like Venezuela. And Trump Has Noticed.)
Australia has been called the Lucky Country because of its abundant resources and hard-working people. But Canada is arguably even luckier because it has both of those things and also has America as its neighbor. A few years ago, the Russian Prime Minister threatened to invade Canada from the north. That was just bluster. Russia knows that America would never allow that to happen to its northern neighbor. What luck! And wouldn’t it be nice if Canada said thank you by bringing its defense spending up to its NATO commitment?
Canada has the resources and skills to be just as strong and prosperous as America, but instead, under Liberal leadership, it is throwing it all away. The value of a country’s currency reflects the strength of its economy. Long ago, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Chicago, my aunt used to send me five-dollar money orders. At that time, the Canadian dollar was worth $1.05 U.S., and after I cashed the money order at the post office, I was always tickled to have the extra nickel in my pocket. The Canadian dollar is now worth about 75 U.S. cents. It has fluctuated over the years; it came closer to par again under the previous Conservative administration of Stephen Harper, but has been decimated again under Trudeau/Carney.
All of this can still be turned around. Canadians are pushing back, but if they want to keep their country, they have to learn to push back harder. In a recent podcast, Joel Bowman, an Australian who now lives in Argentina, described that country’s turnaround in almost miraculous terms. Before Milei took power, inflation was 300 percent, prices were no longer posted in stores and restaurants, and if you were in a long line at checkout, the price might rise before you got to the front of it. In two years, Milei shaved off 90 percent of that inflation. He fired 70,000 government employees, and the private sector then created 5 or 6 times as many jobs to replace them. That’s what you can do in a country that is free of the shackles and delusions of big government.
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