Mark Carney

How's this for a little bit of contrast?  (Yoda voice:  "Carney pig he is, yeess.")

Let me start with the truth.  I do not like Mark Carney.  Maybe you do.  Ok, fair enough.  Opposite views can be the start of a good, passionate dialogue.   (Or not, if your instant reaction is to dislike me.  That is a pretty typical liberal response.)  All I ask is that you take some time to understand why I do not think he is a good person at all.   I think a nasty heart of stone lies beneath that Brooks Brothers suit.  

Please read his speech below first, and listen to my commentary.   I have gone over that speech word for word and spent hours reacting to it.  I have provided a comments section at the end so that you can have your say.  Feel free to dig deep into your expletives collection. 😁

I am not approaching this speech empty-handed.  I have read his book Values:  Building a Better World for All, and the paraphrased quote below  accurately reflects the essence of what he believes.  

He not only predicts that you will be poor.  He wants you to be poor.  His global plan as outlined in his book requires that you be made poor.  Not him, of course--just you.

If you carry that into your reading of his speech, like me you will begin to see that maybe he is not the man you think he is.

And that maybe you should skate a lot more on the other side of the ice. 

Here is Carney's entire DAVOS speech, with my commentary.  If you really want to begin to know this man and what his goals are, take the time to read it all.  It is rather lengthy, so don't be afraid to take it one bite at a time.  I did promise to treat you as an intelligent human being with an attention span.  

Most importantly, within this speech you need  to find out what his scheme is in regards to your Canada Pension Plan investments.  If for no other reason, read on to discover what it is, and yes, be afraid.   At the end of the speech I have inserted a video that asks "Is Canada's pension plan in danger?"  Watch it.  If you care about your existing or future pension, watch it.

Also, of you hang in until the end, you will find a couple of clips of other notables who see Carney as a walking disaster for Canada's future.

WHAT'S IT GOING TO BE:  THIS?

OR THIS?

(Carney's speech is in regular text.  A summary when necessary,  is in bold text, and my commentary is in red.)

“It seems that every day we’re reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry — that the rules-based order is fading, that the strong can do what they can, and the weak must suffer what they must.

And this aphorism of Thucydides is presented as inevitable, as the natural logic of international relations reasserting itself. And faced with this logic, there is a strong tendency for countries to go along, get along to accommodate, to avoid trouble, to hope that compliance will buy safety.

Well, it won’t. So what are our options?"

(We live in an era of great power rivalry.  This rivalry was based on certain international rules, but the basis for following of those rules is fading.  The strong can do whatever they want, and the weak will suffer the consequences. This is the inevitable progression, and the tendency for the weaker countries is to go along, to accommodate, to avoid trouble, in the hope that their compliance will keep them safe.)

The great powers he speaks of are the USA, China, and Russia.  He seriously misreads history right out of the gate by saying that these great powers followed international rules.  China did not, and Russia did not.  They did whatever they wanted to do.  It was the USA and the western world in general who did try to follow international rules.

This is the first thing to make clear:  when Carney talks about “great powers” that no longer follow international rules, he means the USA.  He is saying that it is the USA who no longer follows international rules or standards of conduct, and will do whatever they feel like doing.  And when he talks about the USA, he means Trump.

Weaker countries will either comply with Trump’s way of doing business, or suffer the consequences.  The crucial thing to recognize here—and in what follows—is that he places the USA into the same category as China and Russia.  Today, according to Carney, the USA is as evil and culpable as the other two when it comes to ignoring international rules. He finishes with the blunt statement that compliance will not keep us safe any longer.  We are no longer safe from the USA’s predations.

"In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called “The Power of the Powerless,” and in it he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself?

And his answer began with a greengrocer.

Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world unite.” He doesn’t believe in it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists — not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.

Havel called this living within a lie. The system’s power comes not from its truth, but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack.

Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down."

(We have acted like the citizens in communist led countries—pretending to believe in lies in order to get along.  Just like the communist system, the system we have lived in was full of lies, and we participated in those lies when we knew they were false.  It is time for countries and companies to stop pretending that we believe in the lies.) 

Carney is equating western countries like Canada and the USA with communist countries.  He is saying that we have been no different than they were and are.  We lived with lies and pretended they were true.  Think that over.  We are no different than China or Russia.  We have been consistentlhy lied to, and need to stop believing the lies.  

No different than China or Russia?

China under Mao murdered over 60 million of its people.  The USSR under Stalin murdered at least 40 million of its people.  Citizens of both countries HAD to pretend to believe the lies, or they would be murdered or sent to camps.  China’s government today is just as oppressive and evil as it was under Mao; Putin is considered by many to almost be a reincarnation of Stalin.  Now ask yourself this question:  have we had to live with governments like theirs? Have we had to pretend to believe the government lies under threat of death?  Who has been more free, more stable, more safe, and more prosperous over the last century—the democratic west, or the totalitarian East of Russia and China?  Carney is trying to tell you that under the present system, you are being just as oppressed.  Setting aside the severely distorted history that supposedly supports this idea, the question to ask is simple.  

What lies have we believed in?

As an aside, when it comes to describing systematic lying, Solzhenitsyn said it better. He lived and suffered under Stalin, and won the Nobel Peace Prize for Literature for exposing the horrors of Communist rule.  Here is what he said.

“We know they are lying.  They know they are lying.  They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying.  And still they continue to lie.”

 Ask yourself this.  Is that the way we have lived in Canada for the past century?  Or is Carney trying to spread his own set of lies through his distorted account of history?  

"For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. We joined its institutions, we praised its principles, we benefited from its predictability. And because of that, we could pursue values-based foreign policies under its protection."

(The “rules-based international order” was accepted and its principles praised.  It was predictable and allowed us to pursue foreign policies based on its values.)

If we ask what the source of these rules of international order have been, and keep that question in mind, we are going to watch Carney re-write history once again.

Before he does, here is the true source of our "values." 

Traditionally, "Western democracies are fundamentally guided by a framework of moral and ethical principles, primarily rooted in the Enlightenment, Greco-Roman traditions, and Judeo-Christian ethics." (Britannica Online)  These principles include individual liberty (freedom of thought, speech, association and action), the equality of every person in terms of value, and equal justice under the law.  In short, international order, in the West at least, was governed by our historically Christian moral democratic foundations. 

Watch how Carney is going to ignore this obvious reality, and suggest that we have been ruled by a wholly different kind of international order--one that is barely a hundred years old.

"We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically, and we knew that international law applied with varied rigour, depending on the identity of the accused or the victim."

(The rules of this international order were not always fairly applied.  The strongest countries sometimes ignored the rules for their own benefit.  Trade and application of the law with less powerful countries was sometimes unfair.)

This is true.  Countries in the West—including Canada—sometimes ignored the rules when they did not work in their favor.  We know that there were times when the law was not applied equally or fairly, and that such inequalities still exist.  But overall, no one can doubt that the Western democracies provided the best moral, cultural, political and legal systems in the world. 

"This fiction was useful, and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes."

(The fiction that international rules were always applied fairly was “useful,”  because the strength of America allowed for safe trade, stable finances, collective security and support for ways to solve disputes.)

First, I do not think that anyone was naïve enough to believe that international rules (or more properly, the Western moral order) was always fairly applied.  We were not living in a dream world, or a “fiction,” with blinders on full.  Nevertheless, it was the western democracies—and the USA in particular—that did have enough moral integrity to at least try—and for the most part succeed--to live the democratic and Christian ideal, and to expose and condemn those instances when they failed. Most of the world benefited from the American hegemony, in terms of fundamental freedoms, protection from invasion, a stable and prosperous culture, and the American  ability to fight and win wars, ie “solve disputes.”  (I suppose you could water down the first and second world wars and call them “disputes.”)  The main point here is that the United States was the primary guarantor of safety, freedom, and prosperity in the western world.  Apparently, according to Carney and the WEF, this era of American protection is over, now that Trump is in power.

We need to contrast how the USA has been a benefit to the world compared to the malevolence of most of the non-western, non-democratic countries, who never played by the rules from the beginning.  Russia certainly didn’t.  China certainly didn’t.  The Muslim world didn’t.  Nearly all the countries in Africa didn’t.  And most of South America didn’t. They were all dictatorships or tyrannies that ran purely on power exercised in a ruthless moral vacuum, controlling their citizens through fear and violence. 

Carney does not call them out.  Only the USA.  We will soon see why.

"So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality."

(Because the system worked so well, we ignored its defects.  We pretended that we were the bastion of international order, and mostly ignored the abuses of that order.)

Who, exactly, is the “we” here?  It has to mean the western world.  We "pretended," did we?  Even the most cursory glance at Western history compared to, say, Russian or Chinese history, shows that we were the bastion of human freedom and order. To suggest that we were as immersed in lies (“We put the sign in the window”) as the USSR is not only ridiculous, but reprehensible, and an insult to the millions who suffered under communist and tyrannical rule. 

"This bargain no longer works."

What “bargain”?  Was living in the west, with the USA as its leader and protector, a bargain?  If that’s what he means, you bet it was!  With the most powerful democracy in the world as our next-door neighbor, friend and ally, Canada enjoyed all the benefits that came with it:  freedom, safety, stability, health, and prosperity.  You’re damned right it was a bargain.

But Carney is saying it no longer works.  Pray tell, why?

 "Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition."

Oh, that’s why.  A rupture, huh?  Admittedly, so far his speech is giving me a hernia, ha ha. Let’s listen as he explains.  

“The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied — the WTO, the UN, the COP, the very architecture of collective problem-solving — are under threat. As a result, many countries are drawing the same conclusions that they must develop greater strategic autonomy in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains. And this impulse is understandable.”

(The middle powers—countries like Canada—have relied on the WTO (World Trade Organization), the UN (United Nations), and the COP (COP is the UN body that deals with climate change) for problem-solving. These institutions are under threat.  Because of this, many countries are deciding to become more self-sufficient.)

This small portion of his speech is truly extraordinary. In one paragraph, Carney manages to re-write four thousand years of political history.  It turns out that the entire western world was not built upon the gradual and painstaking construction of moral and ethical principles rooted in Greek, Roman, and Judeo-Christian ethics. According to him most countries in the world rely on the WTO, the UN, and—truly laughable this—the UN agency on climate change (?!) to help them solve problems, and saw them as the source of international rules.  

There are no adequate words to describe the absurdity of this claim. The West lived with a set of international rules long before any of those organizations even existed.  English common law.  The American Constitution.  The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. These ‘rules’ came from the Christian foundation that underpinned all the western democracies.  Individual liberty. Equality before the law. The inherent value of every person.

Give me one example of the UN solving a major international crisis or problem, especially in the last thirty years or so.  The UN has become  insular, corrupt, and useless.   The World Trade Organization, meanwhile, has a history of supporting exactly the same kind of unfair and unjust trade practices towards third world countries that Carney is complaining about.  And I won’t even dignify the UN panel on climate change by acknowledging its existence.  That Carney can include this as an entity that upholds the global moral order shows only the deep, almost pathological nature of his net zero climate zealotry.

The fact is, all three of these institutions could disappear tomorrow and they would leave hardly a ripple on the surface of international relations.  

The truth is simple.  Carney and his WEF cronies have been using these institutions to further their own global politcal agenda, and that is why they bemoan their loss of influence.  

Why exactly are these so-called rules sources “under threat,” as Carney opines?  Simple.  It’s not that Trump has stopped listening to them.  It is because he had the audacity to stop financing them. 

The boogy-man USA was the only country propping these entities up with billions of dollars, while the middle powers soaked up the cash, paid virtually nothing themselves, and used the UN to undermine United States.  

If Carney and his DAVOS clan members think these agencies are so essential, why not just pay to keep them going? At last count the UN needs about five and a half billion dollars just to stay alive for 2026.  If they aren't willing to spring for that 'tiny amount' (in comparison to the EU yearly budget), how much do they really care?

But they can’t afford it.  They lost Uncle Sam as their sugar daddy, and oh don't they hate him for it.

Just as tenuous is Carney linking the sudden irrelevance of the UN et al to the fact that some countries are trying to become more self sufficient.  What on earth does the demise of these virtually useless organizations have to do with, for example, Poland’s move towards agricultural and military self-sufficiency?  Did Poland wake up one day and say 'Oh gosh, the UN is going broke.  Time to grow more food and buy more tanks!' 

Carney provides no link between two separate and disparate ideas.  None.  He simply moves on to call the impulse for self sufficiency “understandable.”  As we shall see, though, he thinks it is a mistake to try to look after yourself.  You need the WEF to look after you.

"A country that cannot feed itself, fuel itself or defend itself has few options. When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself. But let’s be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile and less sustainable."

(Countries are no longer protected by international rules, so they have to start looking after themselves, becoming more self sufficient in food production, energy production, and military defense.  But then each country becomes a fortress against the outside world.)

Let’s cut to the chase here.  We know now that all of Carney’s comments about broken rules are directed at Trump and the USA. But we have to ask again:  what international rules has Trump broken?   What sudden dangers are we in?  Is Trump going to try to take over the world?  No.  Trump is a deal maker.  He has made a whole series of economic trade deals, and imposed tariffs.  That is it.  None of it is illegal.  Not one of the countries who signed a deal with Trump had a gun to their head.  Even the head of the EU said the latest trade deal with the USA is a good one. And what do these so-called vanishing rules have to do with countries trying to look after their own interests first?  Isn’t that exactly what governments are supposed to do?  Place the interests and the welfare of their own citizens first? 

He then makes the claim that countries that do this will somehow be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable.  How, exactly?  If Canada could become more self sufficient, for example, how would this be a bad thing?  Isn’t that exactly what the Trump hating Canadians want?  To get away from dependence on the USA?  To be able to look after ourselves?  Isn’t the removal of trade barriers between provinces an attempt to do exactly that—to rely on our own resources instead of having to rely on outside sources?  Carney makes the claim that countries trying to feed, fuel or defend themselves is somehow a bad idea—that we will be building walls against each other, turning our countries into fortresses. 

Fear-mongering at its best.

"And there’s another truth: if great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate."

First, make no mistake.  For Carney, the country that has abandoned "even the pretense of rules" is the USA.  He can’t mean the other super powers of China and Russia.  The whole world already knows they could care less about ‘the rules’, which means morality.  His point here is to make us afraid of the USA.  I will repeat a simple question.  What rules has the USA broken?  Give us the list, Carney.  When Hitler made the Jews the scapegoat to generate fear and promote hate, he at least gave a list of the ‘rules’ they were breaking (as false as they were). If Carney wants to play that game and make Trump the evil scapegoat, he should at least do the same.  

In interviews,  Carney is quite adept at speaking in complex word salads that in the end say little or nothing, seldom answer the questions put to him, and cloak what he really means and wants to do.  The same is about to occur in this next section.  It is going to require some interpretation, based on one obvious central theme:  that everything he says in this speech is subtly directed towards demonizing the actions of the USA, and especially Donald Trump.  If you begin with that assumption, and recognize that Carney wants to be the leader in anti-Trump rhetoric and invective, then it is possible to penetrate the pseudo-intellectual verbiage which is about to follow, and draw out the core of what he is actually saying and proposing. 

So to begin:  when he says in the above that "if great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate," the great power he talks about is the USA.  Period.  He can’t be talking about China or Russia because they abandoned any pretense of rules or values decades ago.  So he is claiming that Trump is only interested in the pursuit of power and economic gain.  And don’t worry about the term “transactionalism.”  It simply refers to individual countries who make specific deals with other individual countries, without necessarily looking for approval from collective entities like the WTO or the UN.

"Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty. They’ll buy insurance, increase options in order to rebuild sovereignty — sovereignty that was once grounded in rules but will increasingly be anchored in the ability to withstand pressure."

“Hegemons” means the USA.  Trump cares only about money deals, says Carney.  All relationships with other countries are strictly based on money.  Money money money.  Allies (Canada and the EU for example) will diversify, which means stop trading with the USA and look elsewhere.  I have no idea what he means by buying insurance, or increase options to rebuild sovereignty—word salad it looks like.  And there he goes again mentioning rules without specifying what rules are being broken.  WHAT RULES?  The main thing is to realize he means it is Trump breaking them—whatever they are.

"This room knows this is classic risk management. Risk management comes at a price, but that cost of strategic autonomy, of sovereignty, can also be shared. Collective investments in resilience are cheaper than everyone building their own fortresses. Shared standards reduce fragmentations. Complementarities are positive sum."

We are at risk due to Trump.  We need autonomy from the USA.  We can’t do it alone, but if we work together, ie “collective investments,” we can.  We need to band together and chuck the USA.  Let our main shared goal be to destroy Trump and weaken the USA to the point where it loses all its power. 

"The question for middle powers like Canada is not whether to adapt to the new reality — we must. The question is whether we adapt by simply building higher walls, or whether we can do something more ambitious."

The new reality entails an economic and propaganda war against the United States.  We must join it.  We cannot be self sufficient, so we need to do something more ambitious.

"Now, Canada was amongst the first to hear the wake-up call, leading us to fundamentally shift our strategic posture. Canadians know that our old, comfortable assumptions that our geography and alliance memberships automatically conferred prosperity and security, that assumption is no longer valid. And our new approach rests on what Alexander Stubb, the president of Finland, has termed value-based realism."

(Canada was almost the first (and now the only) country that is being seriously economically damaged by the USA/Trump.  Our alliance with the USA is over, due to Trump’s malevolence.  We need to turn to “value-based realism.”) 

We need to understand what Carney means by “value based-realism.” Judging by his recent actions,  it is simple:  we pretend to keep our values, while making ‘realistic’ trade deals with evil empires like China. His plan is, it turns out, a return to pretending—to putting a new sign in the shop window.  

Somehow we will keep our “values” while increasing trade with a tyrannical government that enslaves its citizens, commits genocide against some of its minorities, forces pregnancy on its women, uses surveillance systems to force its citizens to comply to every government whim, euthanizes its problem citizens for their religious beliefs and then sells their organs, threatens the free country of Taiwan with military invasion, is responsible for the emergence of Covid 19 and its spread throughout the world, and, as a final note, hates us.  Yes, hates us.  

The Chinese government looks at Canada the way a snake looks into a bird's nest.  But we need to be “realistic,” and instead of trading with that nasty tyrant Trump, we will trade with an even nastier one, with the most evil government on earth instead.  “Value-based realism” turns out to be the slogan ‘Anyone but Trump!’  

There is your new window sign, and impulsive, reactionary Canadians by the millions are ready to hang it up.

"Or, to put it another way, we aim to be both principled and pragmatic. Principled in our commitment to fundamental values, sovereignty, territorial integrity, the prohibition of the use of force except when consistent with the UN Charter and respect for human rights."

Principled in our heads and in our rhetoric, but not in practice.  In practice we will be “pragmatic.”  Respect for human rights will guide our thoughts and noble words, but cannot get in the way of making  deals.  

To quote Macbeth, let the left hand know not what the right hand is doing. Come on in, China!  Let us help you through trade to fulfill your dreams of global dominance and the end of democratic rule, while we lie to our own populace about how noble and idealistic we are.  

Take note of the list he makes of fundamental values.  Not a word about free speech, freedom of religion, equal justice for all, individual liberty, and other fundamental democratic ideals.  Every item is a jab at Trump:  sovereignty (Trump trolling about Canada as the 51st state), territorial integrity (Trump and Greenland and his arrest of Maduro in Venezuela), prohibition of the use of force (Trump bombing the nuclear facilities of Iran and taking out narcotic terrorists trying to smuggle drugs by boat) and paying attention to the UN’s charter of human rights (Trump no longer financially supporting the UN.

One thing for sure.  As long as Carney is eager to cozy up with the Chinese Communist Party, he needs to shut the hell up about supporting universal human rights.

"So we’re engaging broadly, strategically, with open eyes. We actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be. We are calibrating our relationships so their depth reflects our values, and we’re prioritizing broad engagement to maximize our influence, given the fluidity of the world at the moment, the risks that this poses and the stakes for what comes next."

Word salad.  This could be taken out of the transcript and nothing would be lost.  I am not even going to try to understand what it means. 

"We are building that strength at home. Since my government took office, we have cut taxes on incomes, on capital gains and business investment. We have removed all federal barriers to interprovincial trade. We are fast-tracking $1 trillion of investments in energy, AI, critical minerals, new trade corridors and beyond. We’re doubling our defence spending by the end of this decade, and we’re doing so in ways that build our domestic industries. And we are rapidly diversifying abroad."

This is where the gaslighting almost gets stifling.  Read the above slowly, fellow Canadians.   Doesn’t it sound like Canada is just roaring along with all the good things Carney and his liberals have done?  Is this the Canada you are experiencing every day?  It is all complete and total fantasy.  And hold on to that one TRILLION dollar investment number.  I don’t mean to scare you in advance, but a little further down below you are going to find out where he wants to get that TRILLION dollars from.  

Let us take a more accurate snapshot of the true state of Canada:

·       We have the lowest GDP growth in the G7 countries.  It is almost zero

·       The average yearly Canadian salary is now lower than the average salary of the poorest state in the USA—Mississippi

·       Our youth unemployment rate is hovering around 20%.  There are no jobs for them.

·       Carney’s hidden carbon tax is costing Canadians  billions of dollars per year, including the higher costs of nearly everything—especially food—since trucking costs for diesel are so high. Just recently his industrial carbon tax raised the cost of fuel by 18 cents a litre.

·       The dream of owning a home in Canada is over.  Nobody can afford to buy a house any more. 

·       People are living in their cars, unable to afford rent.  Food banks are everywhere and the number of clients is skyrocketing.  The food bank we help at in Miramichi has gone from an average of 20 families per day to a new record just set of 43.  In one year.  In a tiny city of only about 18,000 people

·       Carney’s “income tax cut” saved the average family about $200 per year.  The cost of groceries per month is almost that much.

·       The removal of federal barriers to interprovincial trade has had virtually no effect on improving the economy.  The lack of investment in industry and the death of so many small businesses means that industry has slowed down.  You can’t trade when you aren’t producing anything.

·       Investment in energy?  What?!  Show us one.  Just one.  We have an ocean of energy in Alberta, and Carney has made sure that it will stay in the ground. 

·       The only way he can double our defence spending is to make the deficit even higher than the 90 BILLION dollar projection.  And the only way to do that is to either borrow or print money—both huge causes of inflation. 

·       On the values (or morality) front, let's start with soemthing truly horrific.  Under the MAID program, we have had our doctors kill over 60,000 Canadians since 2017, and they are getting a taste for it.  Our doctors and nurses now actively promote suicide for people who are sad, lonely, or disabled.  They promote it, and ask the soon-to-be-killed to sign a form so that they can harvest their organs, a la China.  

Another thing we imported from the CCP, yippee, nice new value.  Don’t you DARE talk to me about“values,” Mr. Carney.

  Then there is Bill C-9, which will make it possible to prosecute Christians and will declare parts of the Bible to be hate speech.  And how about the “value” of free speech, where in Canada we now have at least three bills that censor it or restrict it? 

·   And one quick fact about his mention of AI capability.  An AI facility requires a huge amount of electricity.  Carney will not allow gas fired, coal fired, or nuclear power plants.  You cannot run an AI facility on green energy.  His AI claim is pure bluster, as well as his trillion dollar investment in energy.  Unless he means buying solar panels and windmills from good ol’ China.

Both our auto and forestry industries are collapsing, because Carney will not make a deal with Trump.  His Trump Derangement Syndrome is costing Canadians thousands of jobs on a monthly basis.

·   Canadians who are waking up to the future are leaving, by the thousands.  53,000 of them since 2022, and 23,000 just in the first quarter of 2025. There are even companies starting up that specialize in helping you with the paperwork, the searching, the real estate, the settling in—everything.  Many of the ones leaving are the well educated.  The brain drain is accelerating.

·Our health care system is collapsing.  Too expensive, and doctors and nurses are leaving. 

That, sadly, is the true state of affairs in Canada. 

"We’ve agreed to a comprehensive strategic partnership with the EU, including joining SAFE, the European defence procurement arrangements. We have signed 12 other trade and security deals on four continents in six months.In the past few days, we’ve concluded new strategic partnerships with China and Qatar. We’re negotiating free trade pacts with India, ASEAN, Thailand, Philippines and Mercosur."

I checked.  There are no reports anywhere in the news about 12 trade deals.  There are seven in the process, but they were initiated before Carny took office.  He has had nothing to with them. If there were a plethora of trade deals, the CBC would be all over it.  The other items are just negotiations.  Nothing has been signed or settled—an earmark of what Carney has actually accomplished in Canada for Canada so far.  I googled a list of Carney’s actual accomplishments—things that have yielded actual concrete results or shovels in the ground.  Other than removing interprovincial trade barriers—which have made zippo difference to anything important—there is pretty much nothing.  It’s all ‘here’s what we are going to do’ instead of ‘here is what we have done.’

"We’re doing something else: to help solve global problems, we’re pursuing variable geometry. In other words, different coalitions for different issues based on common values and interests. So on Ukraine, we’re a core member of the Coalition of the Willing and one of the largest per capita contributors to its defence and security."

"Our commitment to NATO’s Article 5 is unwavering, so we’re working with our NATO allies, including the Nordic-Baltic Eight, to further secure the alliance’s northern and western flanks, including through Canada’s unprecedented investments in over-the-horizon radar, in submarines, in aircraft, and boots on the ground — boots on the ice."

This is finally something good, but Carney is not doing it because he wants to—it’s because he has to.  Trump—that evil man—secured a new deal with Nato to increase the amount all NATO countries spend on defense from 2% of GDP to 5%--and that includes Canada.  Up until now, Canada spent next to nothing on the military.  So even when we see Carney’s liberals doing something good and right, we have to thank Trump for it (that’s gotta hurt).  But Carney makes it sound like he is the hero who took the initiative.  What a snake.

"Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland and calls for focused talks to achieve our shared objectives of security and prosperity in the Arctic."

Trump added tariffs to Denmark as a negotiating ploy to get them to sell Greenland.  The USA is ready to pay 700 billion dollars for it, and negotiations are continuing.  Trump stated clearly during his DAVOS speech that he has no intention to take Greenland by force.  What Canadians don’t understand—because our media propaganda machine doesn’t want us to understand—is why Trump wants Greenland so much.  For that we need to turn to what the USA did to help Israel secure its territory.  With unique American technology, Israel has completed a defence system called The Golden Dome.  It is now able to destroy any and all missile attacks directed against it.  No more rockets from Islamist terrorists killing innocent Israeli citizens.  It is amazing how it works, and it is 100% effective.  Trump wants the same golden dome for North America.  That’s me and you and the USA and Mexico.  No more nuclear threat from China, or North Korea, or Russia.  Would that be amazing or what?!  The thing is, Greenland needs to be secured from any possibility of invasion from either China or Russia, and its geographical location makes it an ideal and necessary part of the golden dome boundaries.  Trump wants all of us to be safe.  That is his motive.  Those who say he wants it for its mineral deposits or oil or whatever are clueless.  You have to go through at least 25-50 feet of ice just to reach the ground.  Greenland has minimal value in terms of any kind of mineral exploitation.

"On plurilateral trade, we’re championing efforts to build a bridge between the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the European Union, which would create a new trading bloc of 1.5 billion people. On critical minerals, we’re forming buyer’s clubs anchored in the G7 so the world can diversify away from concentrated supply. And on AI, we’re co-operating with like-minded democracies to ensure that we won’t ultimately be forced to choose between hegemons and hyperscalers."

The first thing to note is that, once again, this is all talk and no concrete action, no signed agreements or anything actually being built.  As for a trading block of 1.5 billion people, two things need to be noted.  First, what the EU needs most is energy.  And thanks to ten years of Liberal rule and ass-kissing of Quebec, we can’t get a pipeline to the east coast from Alberta so we can sell oil and natural gas to those 1.5 billion people.  Second, it costs a lot more to ship our goods all the way across the Atlantic or Pacific, so our profit margins will be a lot smaller.  That’s why trade with the USA was/is so good.  Right next door, easy to ship, and the trade works both ways.  But Carney, in his stupidity and desire to be the anti-Trump hero, is willing to watch billions of trade dollars disappear.  Anything to destroy the USA’s hegemony and Trump along with it.  Anything to drum up Canadian hate for Trump and the USA. We need to recognize that we Canadians are pawns in the WEF’s—and Carney’s—end game, which is to rule over us from thousands of miles away.  

A hyperscaler is just the huge online presences like google or Amazon, who are also big into AI development.  The USA us already way ahead of the whole world when it comes to AI development, so Carney is living in a dream world if he thinks he can form a coalition that can compete with the them.

"Our view is the middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu."

(Note:  a lot of Carney-ites got the vapors over him saying this.  Turns out it's not all that original...😒Follow the link and watch.)

Ooh scary.  That ravenous USA will devour us all.  Never mind the fact that we have been feeding off the USA’s generosity for years now.  The USA has been on the menu for a long time, and Trump is done with it. We have been tariffing the heck out of them for years, but now cry foul when Trump tariffs us back. Trump is a deal maker, and it’s funny how pretty much the entire EU has made a deal with him, while Canada stands alone in being huffy about it.  Carney is the reason we have no deal.  Carney’s plan to drum up hatred against Trump and the USA is working like a charm so far.  Canadians are buying it hook line and sinker--hopefully until our economy crashes and they see Carney for the snake oil salesman he really is.  Trump is ready to make a deal.  He’s not out to get us.  He actually likes us, but he is done being a sucker.   

"But I’d also say that great powers can afford, for now, to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms. Middle powers do not. But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what’s offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating."

If you think of the China deal Carney just made, you can almost taste the hypocrisy.  “When we negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness.”  The hegemon he means, as usual,  is the USA.  But he just finished negotiating bilaterally with a hegemon:  China.  When he does it with a murderous totalitarian state, it’s ok.  But doing it with the USA?  That is just wrong.  What a two-faced hypocrite.  All countries compete with each other to make deals.  That is how capitalism works, and that is partly how the west became the most prosperous technologically advanced place on earth.  But Carney hates capitalism. He wants to replace it with the WEF’s soft (at least initially) socialist totalitarianism.  Carney is a closet communist.  So closeted he doesn’t even know it himself.

"This is not sovereignty. It’s the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination."

I have no idea what this means.  If we make deals on our own we are not sovereign?  If we make a deal with a great power, are we always on the losing end? Subordinate? If that were true, and known to be true, no country would make a deal with the USA.  But every country on earth that had trade with the USA made deals with Trump.  Why?  Carney has an inferiority complex.  Just because Canada is a lesser power than the USA, it does not mean we always get crapped on.  We have had at least a century of good deals with the States, and in fact we tended to get the better deal.  We saved billions just on not having to worry about defending ourselves, and applied tariffs to some of our goods without major complaint from the USA.

"In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice: compete with each other for favour, or combine to create a third path with impact. We shouldn’t allow the rise of hard power to blind us to the fact that the power of legitimacy, integrity and rules will remain strong if we choose to wield it together."

Carney should be careful talking about a) legitimacy, since his elevation to leader of the Liberal Party was rigged, and therefore hardly legitimate; b) integrity, considering he have a number of blatant conflicts of interest regarding his involvement with Brookfield and his many past dealings with China, as well as the hypocrisy of attacking the USA for punishing Canadian companies with tariffs while at the same time moving Brookfield from Canada into the USA to avoid those very same tariffs, costing Canadians their jobs in the process.

And by the way, hard power has always existed.  Carney makes it sound like an evil, but America’s hard power won two world wars and ensured the safety and stability of the entire western world against the threat of the USSR.  The hard power of peace through strength, wielded by the USA, has kept other unscrupulous and evil hard powers from taking over.  Trump’s hard power has freed Venezuela from a murderous drug lord dictator, saved 30 million Israeli’s from nuclear immolation, and most recently has destroyed ruthless Islamist terrorist camps in Nigeria, saving thousands of Christians from being routinely slaughtered.

Carney’s whole speech is a not-so-subtle screed against Trump and the USA.  That is the heart and soul of it.  And that is the real reason he got a standing ovation at the end of it. He played to the crowd.  His crowd. The elites who want global control and need to steamroll or impoverish any opposition.  That steamroller is directed strictly towards the USA.  Russia and China get a free pass.  If you listened to the French President Macron in his DAVOS speech, you will see why.  He all but offered to kiss Xi Jinping on the lips. 

"Which brings me back to Havel. What does it mean for middle powers to live the truth? First, it means naming reality. Stop invoking rules-based international order as though it still functions as advertised. Call it what it is: a system of intensifying great power rivalry where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion."

Here is the truth; the reality.  The traditional international order that had rules no longer exists.  It now consists of the great powers in rivalry with each other, and where the most powerful get their way through economic intimidation, forcing the middle powers to integrate with them, to make bad deals, and to be subjugated to them.

Not so.  The truth is that the great powers—China, Russia and the USA--have always been rivals.  This is not a new development.  Yes, it is true that the first two have no rules.  Theirs is the ruthless pursuit of wealth and power.  But not so the USA.  The USA is the only one of the super powers that really is pursuing a more free and just world and a more free, safe, just and prosperous America.  Trump, for all his faults, loves his people and is fighting for his country.  (Can you really say that about Carney?  If he really was fighting for Canada, he would have made a deal with Trump by now.  But he does not want to do that.  He wants you to hate Trump and to hate America.  And his plan is working.)  America has no interest in taking over the world.  Russia and China are rabid for it.  America does not want subjugation.  It wants fair trade.  Trump is not lying when he says he wants the EU to prosper and the UK to prosper, and Venezuela to prosper, and Cuba to prosper, and Iran to prosper—and for all of them to be free. 

"It means acting consistently, applying the same standards to allies and rivals. When middle powers criticize economic intimidation from one direction but stay silent when it comes from another, we are keeping the sign in the window." 

If Carney actually meant what he says about applying the same standards to all, he never would have made a trade deal with China.  But of course he does not mean it.  He is always ready to bow to "pragmatic realism"  We need to be consistent and united only in our constant criticizing of Trump and the USA.  We can’t be including China or Russia, since we and our governments and the EU in general seem quite happy to be trading with them, despite the fact that both countries both would love to destroy us.

"It means building what we claim to believe in, rather than waiting for the old order to be restored. It means creating institutions and agreements that function as described, and it means reducing the leverage that enables coercion."

All this paragraph does is raise questions.  What exactly do we “claim to believe in”?  Carney never makes it clear.  The most we can glean is that he appears to believe most in the WTO, the UN, and the body that is pushing climate change.  And what is the old order?  What exactly did it consist of?  Still vague on that.  And what kind of leverage enables coercion?  Coercion regarding what?  Making trade deals?  You don’t need to be coerced into making a deal that is bad for you.  You say no.  The EU made deals with Trump regarding tariffs because to say no would have cost them way too much.  They made a deal, and the head of the EU herself said they were happy about it.  Carney alone refuses to make a deal with Trump.  With the country that takes 80% of our trade.  Apparently he thinks refusing will not cost us too much--80% of our trade.  Tariffs against Canada that could have been lifted if he made a deal.  80% of our trade. But he says no to all of it.  All the other countries made deals in the best interest of their people.  But not Carney.  He is not interested in pursuing what is best for his people.  He has bigger plans.  If he made a deal with Trump he couldn’t drum up our hatred.  Mob hatred of Trump is essential to get Canadians on his side.  It’s all he’s got. 

"That’s building a strong domestic economy. It should be every government’s immediate priority."

What exactly will build a strong domestic economy?  Dealing with anyone but Trump, apparently. Good luck with that, Canada!  Building a strong domestic economy should be every leader’s priority, true.  It sure is Trump’s.  Any kudos to Trump for that, Mr. Carney?  It sure isn’t yours though, is it?  Try practicing what you preach.  If you truly wanted a strong domestic economy in Canada, you would be drilling for oil, building pipelines, attracting investment, building power plants, and making a deal with Trump to save our automotive and forestry industries. You would quit making it harder and harder for farmers to farm. You would use public lands to make building houses cheaper, and get rid of the economy-crushing industrial carbon tax that is making everything more expensive.  Oh, and RESUME GOOD TRADE RELATIONS WITH THE COUNTRY THAT TAKES 80% OF IT, you two-faced, smug, arrogant, spindly-legged hollow-chested pseudo-intellectual snake.  (Sorry, I could not help that last comment.)

"And diversification internationally is not just economic prudence; it’s a material foundation for honest foreign policy, because countries earn the right to principled stands by reducing their vulnerability to retaliation."

Diversifying trade internationally isn’t only economically smart.  It promotes honest foreign policy, because countries can afford to be principled only if they are not going to be retaliated against economically.

So a country like Canada, say, can have honest foreign policy, or be principled, only if it does not cost them.  Really?  Only be good or just or fair if it does not hurt you?  There's that good old pragmatic realism again.  Only be principled when it doesn't cost you. Carney is saying countries can’t afford to be principled if it’s going to hurt their economy.  That is the moral philosophy of a coward.

"So, Canada. Canada has what the world wants. We are an energy superpower. We hold vast reserves of critical minerals. We have the most educated population in the world. Our pension funds are amongst the world’s largest and most sophisticated investors. In other words, we have capital talent. We also have a government with immense fiscal capacity to act decisively. And we have the values to which many others aspire."

No need for translation here.  We need only to identify what is incorrect, misleading, or an outright lie.  Let’s start with an outright lie.  We are an energy superpower.  We could be an energy superpower, but most of our oil and natural gas is still underground, because Carney and ten years of Liberal climate zealotry have not allowed the pipelines needed to move the oil east and west, or to have ships off the coast to carry the natural gas. We have the largest deposits of oil and natural gas in the world, but the USA sells more of both than we do, because they are not afraid to drill for it and find markets for it.  We are actually energy poor, exemplified by our high electricity and gas prices. We hold vast reserves of critical minerals. Yes we do.  And to be fair, some of it is being mined. But over-restrictive environmental policies, a years-long approval process, and the requirement of approval by reluctant indigenous communities  means it will be years before these minerals start being taken from the ground.  We have the most educated population in the world. No we do not.  We rank anywhere between 8th to 12th among developed countries.  That is not bad, but that is not the problem.  The problem is the brain drain.  The problem is that our most educated are leaving the country for better jobs, better pay, better working conditions, lower cost of living, and lower taxes.  53,000 of them left in 2022, and 23,000 in the first quarter of 2025 alone.  Who is leaving?  STEM graduates (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), Phd’s, and medical personnel, ie doctors and nurses.  We can thank ten years of Liberal incompetence wrecking the Canadian economy for the brain drain.  How is Carney going to stop it?  No idea. 

"Our pension funds are amongst the world’s largest and most sophisticated investors. In other words, we have capital talent."

What Carney is saying here should terrify—not too strong a word—every Canadian who is either drawing CPP or expecting to when they retire.  Why?  Listen up.  Canada has one of the best pension fund management systems in the world, resulting in assets of about 4.5 TRILLION dollars.  And Carney wants access to it.  He wants the CCPIB—the crown corporation that manages the pension investments—to use the funds to invest in Canadian projects and infrastructure.  Right now, so far, the CCPIB is smart.  They see that Canada is a lousy place for investment.  That is why 80% of our CCP investments are out of the country.

Carney wants that money to be funneled into Canadian projects.  That means Liberal projects.  Like electric cars. Like green energy and delusional net zero climate policies. Like more bloated bureaucracy and expensive social programs.  Take a look at what the Liberals have done with our money over the last ten years.  What have we got to show for it, in terms of real actual assets or new infrastructure?  Nothing.  Instead, the national debt went from 600 billion to more than twice that:  1.4 trillion dollars in just five years.  And what do we actually have to show for it? We have the lowest per-capita productivity and GDP growth in the G7 and our increasingly ruined economy is projected to stay that way until 2060.  Think that over.  We are going to be in third world territory in terms of economic growth for the next 34 years. Now ask yourself:  what will happen to our 4.5 trillion dollar pension fund if we let Carney’s Liberals get their hands on it? It will disappear into the depthless Liberal black hole, wasted and gone forever.  Our CCP fund is the single largest capital asset we have left, and the Liberals are like a pack of hyenas circling the remains of the Canadian carcass, drooling over it.

 If what I have written so far hasn’t struck any nerves yet, this should.  If this does not finally make you afraid or angry, then you are likely too far gone in the progressive left la-la land, and are likely suffering from a hopeless and terminal case of media-induced Trump Derangement Syndrome and anti-USA hysteria.

"We also have a government with immense fiscal capacity to act decisively. And we have the values to which many others aspire." 

“Immense fiscal capacity?”  Ha! Ha!  Carney’s projected deficit is 90 BILLION dollars.  He is talking about the capacity to borrow and to print money.  Canada is beyond broke.  Add 90 Billion to a present debt of 1.4 TRILLION. (Let’s put the zeros in that number so you get the full effect:  $1,400,000,000)  That, according to snake-oil Carney is our immense fiscal capacity.  If he is talking about what we could have, ie future capacity, let me repeat:  we are going to have a third world  economy until 2060, unless we make some radical changes to the way this country is run. 

BREAKING:  Trump is going to impose a 100% tariff on all Canadian goods if Carney continues to make trade deals with China.  I was right when I said that Carney’s DAVOS speech spelled economic suicide for Canada.  With a 100% tariff on all of our goods, our economy will grind to a halt within two months.  The USA will miss some of our goods, no question.  But they can hold out a lot longer than we can. (80% of our trade is with the USA.  Only 10-13% of US trade is with Canada.  Do the math.  Who is going to be hurt more?)  Plus there is a whole world of trade partners out there only too eager to replace what we were selling. And how is big brave Orange-Man-Killer Carney reacting?  He cancelled his news conference today—hiding out in his house, just like Trudeau did during the trucker strike. 

Back to the speech:

"Canada is a pluralistic society that works. Our public square is loud, diverse and free. Canadians remain committed to sustainability. We are a stable and reliable partner in a world that is anything but, a partner that builds and values relationships for the long term."

More gaslighting.  Canada is a pluralistic society that is falling apart.  Indigenous peoples block every attempt to build infrastructure for industry and development; the French in Quebec have a new popular leader whose number one priority is separation.  Two other provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan also have strong movements to separate.  We are swamped with millions of new immigrants, many of whom do not share our rapidly fading Christian values.  And now that we have decided that our greatest ally is now our greatest enemy, we are a million miles away from being a reliable partner for any country to invest in.  Nobody in their right mind—except a predatory nation like China that sees us as prey—is going to invest a penny in this train wreck of a country.

"And we have something else: we have a recognition of what’s happening and determination to act accordingly. We understand that this rupture calls for more than adaptation. It calls for honesty about the world as it is."

Here is the world as it is.  The WEF, with Carney as its most visible useful idiot, wants to isolate and destroy the USA, so that its members can try to establish a global government.  How they think they can do that without the USA to keep China and Russia at bay, I have no idea.  The USA is still, at this moment, the strongest super power in the world.  They alone can stand against the evil predations of China and Russia.  They alone can keep the western world safe, and stable, and prosperous.  All we have to do is make a deal with them.  You need to ask yourself why we are not.  Why?  It is due to a pure Carney-induced calculated mindless mob mentality hatred of Trump.  And that hatred is going to destroy us if we don’t put it aside and restore our friendship.  Trump is ready for it.  Any time.  He does not hate Canada—but he will not let us become a back door for Chinese malevolence. 

"We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn’t mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy, but we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers, the countries that have the most to lose from a world of fortresses and the most to gain from genuine co-operation. The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home and to act together. That is Canada’s path. We choose it openly and confidently, and it is a path wide open to any country willing to take it with us."

If the old order does not come back—if the USA does not continue to be the primary protector of all that is good about the West—we are done.  The jackals are waiting for the American lion to fall.  Canada will not be able to stand in the winds that will blow if that happens.  A fortress is exactly what we need.  A fortress around Canada and the USA.  If the two of us work together, we would have all the resources to become truly self sufficient, safe, free, and prosperous.  Instead we are being driven apart by a coalition of elites who live thousands of miles away and yet want to rule us.  We are being driven apart by a ruthless PM who could not care less about you, backed by a media at his beck and call, a well-oiled propaganda machine on steroids. He and the WEF are a coalition that cares only about power.  They will end up joining Russia and China.  Look how Canada is already joining the latter.  Without the USA to protect us, Russia, China, and the WEF will form a new trinity of evil.

I may as well end on my own intellectual note.  Your speech, Mr. Carney, reminds me of a quote by poet and essayist William Blake, who had this to say about Francis Bacon’s essays, which offered very worldly advice which was at odds with basic Christian morality and a Christian world order.  To quote him, I would say this about your speech:

 “Good advice for Satan’s kingdom.”

                                                    IS CANADA'S PENSION PLAN IN DANGER?

Ok, time to tickle the dragon's tail a little bit.  I promised you others who support what I am saying about Carney.  The first two in the following clip are (drum roll...) Jordan Peterson and Ezra Levant.  If your eyeballs roll all the way to the back of your head at the mere mention of their names, I am probably going to lose you as a viewer.  I hope not.   I hope you are willing to listen to someone on the other side of the ice.  What they say about Carney here is worth listening to, especially when you consider that they were saying it before his DAVOS speech. 

Next is another one from Jordan.  In this one he shows us pretty convincingly how Carney's utopian vision of a net zero world is pure fantasy, and how Canada will go down the same path as Germany did in its futile search for enough green energy to run a country.