Mid-Week Post

Your middle-of-the-week fake spring …

 

How strange that this isn’t in the news cycle:

 

 

Canada has already been sold.

Did anyone react when China rigged elections in Canada, or arrested Canadian citizens, or operated secret police stations, or flooded the market with its crappy steel and other slave labour products?

No?

I didn’t think so.

But, please, pitch a fit because Trump said something! Not good!

The childish,reactionary anti-Americanism is the greatest coping device and deflection and probably will still be when this country’s economy goes completely belly up:

It is a remarkable sight to watch, hear, and read Canada’s myopic “intelligentsia” drape themselves in the Maple Leaf while urging the country to “buy Canadian” and fashion other systemic and structural ways to try, belatedly, to curb its dependency on the United States to stave off becoming – officially – America’s 51st state.

 It is a remarkable sight because, since the early 1980s, the reactionary elites have devoted – without hesitation or regret – their considerable powers and influence to backing every calculated step towards Canada morphing, in effect, into America’s 51st state – economically, culturally, militarily, and diplomatically. …

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The "Canada First" response to decoupling with the 🇺🇸 is totally ridiculous once you dig beneath the surface.

Around 20% of Canada's GDP comes from trade with the USA. So, here's the problem with "decoupling"

1. Even if the regulatory hurdles could be cleared, it would take…

— Julius Ruechel (@JuliusRuechel) February 27, 2025

 

The MP who tried deleting her support for a Ukrainian Nazi tries distancing herself from the never-resigning prime minister:

Liberal leadership candidate Karina Gould yesterday said she often “raised my voice” against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and cabinet. “We didn’t get things right,” said the Burlington, Ont. MP who spent eight years as a cabinet member: “Why didn’t you help stop that?”

 

The Anointed One cannot be questioned:

As a data analyst, I’ve compiled a list of Mark Carney’s relationships with globalists, political organizations, NGOs, and lobbyists based on available information. Carney, a prominent economist and former central banker, has held numerous influential roles that connect him to international networks and agendas. Below is a structured overview of these relationships, focusing on his affiliations and roles without reproducing copyrighted text or relying solely on unverified claims.

Relationships with Globalists and International Organizations

World Economic Forum (WEF) 

Carney served as a member of the WEF’s Board of Trustees, a position that placed him among key decision-makers shaping the organization’s globalist agenda. The WEF, known for its annual Davos meetings, promotes economic integration, public-private partnerships, and policies like the "Great Reset." 

He is also listed as an Agenda Contributor on the WEF website, indicating ongoing involvement in shaping its initiatives, even after stepping down from the trustee role. 

His participation aligns with his advocacy for climate-focused financial systems, a priority echoed by WEF leaders like Klaus Schwab.

United Nations (UN) 

Carney was the UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, appointed to mobilize private sector investment for climate goals. This role tied him to the UN’s global sustainability agenda, particularly the Paris Agreement and Net Zero targets. 

He resigned from this position in January 2025, prior to launching his Liberal Party leadership campaign in Canada, suggesting a shift from global to national focus, though his prior work reflects a strong globalist orientation.

Financial Stability Board (FSB) 

As Chair of the FSB from 2011 to 2018, Carney oversaw international financial regulation efforts among G20 nations. The FSB, established to coordinate global financial stability post-2008 crisis, reflects his deep ties to transnational economic governance. 

His leadership emphasized climate risk disclosure, influencing global banking standards like the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), which he helped establish.

Group of Thirty (G30) 

Carney is a member of this independent body of economic and financial leaders from public, private, and academic sectors. The G30’s focus on global economic issues reinforces his connections to an elite network of policymakers and thinkers advocating for coordinated international financial strategies.

Bilderberg Meetings 

He attended the secretive Bilderberg Meetings in 2011, 2012, and 2019, gatherings known for convening influential figures from politics, finance, and industry. While agendas are not public, his participation signals alignment with a discreet, high-level globalist network.

Relationships with Political Organizations

Liberal Party of Canada 

Carney joined the Liberal Party and became a special adviser and chair of its task force on economic growth in September 2024. He launched his campaign for party leadership in January 2025 following Justin Trudeau’s resignation. 

Previously, he informally advised Trudeau during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, shaping economic recovery policies, and was recruited unsuccessfully by Trudeau for roles like Finance Minister. This ties him closely to Canada’s governing party and its establishment.

Department of Finance Canada 

Before his central banking tenure, Carney served as Senior Associate Deputy Minister and G7 Deputy from 2004 to 2007, working under Liberal and Conservative finance ministers. His role in overseeing policies like income trust taxation and Petro-Canada’s sale highlights his influence within Canadian political-economic structures.

Relationships with NGOs and Lobbyists

Brookfield Asset Management 

Carney was Vice Chair and Head of Impact Investing at Brookfield, a global asset manager with over $600 billion in assets, until resigning in January 2025. His focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing aligned with NGO priorities around sustainable finance. 

Brookfield’s partnerships with institutional investors and its Global Transition initiative suggest indirect lobbying influence on climate and economic policies, though specific lobbying activities are not detailed.

Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) 

Carney founded and chaired the TCFD under the FSB, an initiative pushing companies to disclose climate risks. While not an NGO itself, it collaborates with NGOs and advocacy groups like the Climate Disclosure Project (CDP), amplifying his influence on corporate behavior through quasi-regulatory pressure.

Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) 

He co-chaired GFANZ, launched in 2021, to align financial institutions with net-zero goals. This coalition, involving over 450 firms, acts as a lobbying force within the private sector, bridging NGOs, governments, and corporations to enforce climate commitments.

Additional Notes

Goldman Sachs: Carney’s 13-year tenure (until 2003) at this global investment bank, where he held senior roles, connects him to the financial elite often associated with globalist interests. His work on South Africa’s bond markets and Russia’s 1998 crisis reflects early exposure to international finance networks.

Bloomberg L.P.: As Chair of its board until January 2025, Carney linked to a media and financial data giant that influences economic narratives, though direct lobbying ties are less explicit.

Climate Advocacy: His public stance as a “climate czar” (e.g., pushing programmable central bank digital currencies tied to carbon footprints, as speculated in some analyses) ties him to environmental NGOs and lobbyists, though specifics vary by source.

Summary

Mark Carney’s relationships span globalist entities (WEF, UN, FSB, G30, Bilderberg), political organizations (Liberal Party, Canadian government), and NGOs/lobbying networks (Brookfield, TCFD, GFANZ). His career reflects a blend of public service and private sector influence, with a consistent focus on integrating climate action into global finance—hallmarks of a technocratic, globally oriented figure. These affiliations suggest deep ties to both formal institutions and informal elite networks, positioning him as a key player in international economic and environmental policy circles.

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Cabinet supporters are dismissing criticism of Mark Carney over misleading statements he made regarding his involvement in relocating a corporate head office from Toronto to New York. However one minister said Carney should explain himself to Canadians: “You’ve got to ask Mr. Carney.”

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Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney has not yet resigned from his multiple international board positions, despite claiming this week that he had stepped down from all his roles to be “all in” on his bid to become Canada’s next prime minister. 

National Post contacted nearly two dozen organizations that Carney had public links to until recently. While he resigned from most of them around the time he launched his leadership bid in January, he remains connected to at least five.

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Earlier Tuesday evening, during the English-language leaders debate, Carney played up his economic bonafides by pointing to his tenure at the department of finance under Liberal deficit hawk Paul Martin.

“It was my privilege to work with Paul Martin when he balanced the books — and kept the books balanced,” said Carney.

The only problem is that Carney started out at Finance in 2004, according to his LinkedIn page, almost a decade after Martin’s ship-righting 1995 budget and well after Martin finished balancing the books in 1998.

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In 2020, Carney stepped down from the Bank of England to become the United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance.

Now, as LIberal leadership candidate — and frontrunner — Carney champions climate change activism and has embedded it into his energy policies with an “urgency” that demands “high-level solutions.”

“Ones driven by big private capital and partnerships with Chinese institutions like the AIIB,” says Cooper, linking the WEF, of which Carney is a well-known affiliate, to the financial arms of the CCP.

While head of the Bank of England over the course of 10 years, Carney “integrated climate risk into financial stability assessments, positioned himself as a leader in climate-focused central banking and materially deepened the UK’s financial ties with China,” wrote Cooper.

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Mark Carney says he had no knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein or his crimes when he met with Ghislaine Maxwell at his sister-in-law's estate...

...Even though Epstein had seven different phone numbers to reach Carney's sister-in-law? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/noauzk85f1

— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) February 27, 2025

Justin the Moocher:

Grocery expenses for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau topped an average of $1,515 per week billed to taxpayers, according to newly released documents.

That works out to $157,642 in household food expenses over a two-year period — $76,214 in 2021-22 and $81,428 in 2022-23, the most recent years in which records were available from the Privy Council Office.

“It’s one thing for the prime minister to bill taxpayers for government business, but taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for a single cent of the prime minister’s personal groceries,” said Franco Terrazzano, of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, who uncovered the documents.

 

His voters don’t have such a luxury but whatever.

 

 

It’s just money:

The federal government has vowed to reform its $145 million-a-year Arctic grocery subsidy, Nutrition North, following years of criticism and multiple audits that found the program ineffective and costly.

“We will take decisive action,” said Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree. “I won’t make any qualms about it. We will take decisive action.”

 Blacklock's Reporter says Nutrition North was designed to offset the high cost of food flown into remote Northern communities, where the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations estimates that, without subsidies, essentials like milk could cost $10 per liter and eggs $14 per dozen.

 However, numerous reports have concluded that the subsidies have failed to deliver meaningful savings to consumers. A 2020 evaluation of the program found that while prices for select goods were controlled, many Northern households could still not afford a full, nutritious diet.

 Between 2012 and 2018, grocery subsidies totaled $442.9 million, increasing at an average rate of 5% per year. Despite this, MPs and senators have long criticized the program for failing to bring down Arctic food prices.

 The government appointed Aluki Kotierk, former president of Nunavut Tunngavik Inc., as a special investigator to conduct another review of Nutrition North, with a final report due in 2026.

 “I think there have been a lot of questions about how the subsidies have actually reached the consumer,” Kotierk said. “It’s really important that there be a review.”

 Her investigation will examine the program’s effectiveness and explore alternative ways to ensure Northerners have access to affordable, nutritious food. However, it will not include public hearings.

 “So many of us travel around with big Rubbermaid tubs because any opportunity we have to go to the south, we fill it up with groceries to bring back home,” Kotierk said. “That’s a very common experience.”

 Launched in 2011, Nutrition North replaced the postwar Food Mail Program, which offered subsidized shipping rates for food flown to remote communities.

 Despite increasing subsidies, a significant number of Northern households — especially those earning less than $55,000 with school-age children — continue to struggle to afford a balanced diet.

 In 2015, the House of Commons rejected a proposal to replace grocery subsidies with direct consumer assistance, similar to the U.S. food stamps program, which provides pre-loaded debit cards for purchasing fresh food.

 

Well, bye:

For Sarah Jama, the incumbent independent MPP for Hamilton Centre, the night was over within minutes.

The onetime NDP member, expelled from caucus for airbrushing the October 7 atrocities, came a distant fourth, with less than 5,000 votes, by the time the seat was called for the NDP’s Robin Lennox, an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at nearby McMaster University.

 

 

 There are simply no words for this kind of posturing:

The number of applicants applying to Canada’s “LGBTQI+ refugees resettlement program” is up 1,100% year-over-year, with more than $50 million of taxpayers' cash doled out to a single charity so far.

 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in February 2025 updated the program first rolled out by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives in 2011. Since then, the Canadian government has partnered with more than 60 organizations and brought in more than 330 gay refugees.

 People who say they are persecuted in their home countries for identifying as gay, trans, queer, etc., can come to Canada, where they will receive a full year of financial “support” — and longer if they can’t support themselves after a year has passed.

 

No, Your Eminence, Justin cannot be trusted not to be a disgusting creep:

Cardinal Francis Leo of the Archdiocese of Toronto is expressing “profound concern” over the Trudeau government’s desire to strip pro-life groups of their tax charity status.

 In a letter dated February 21, 2025, addressed to Canadian Minister of Finance Dominic LeBlanc, Leo called upon the Liberal government to stop its planned attacks against the charitable tax status of pro-life groups.

 “I write today to express my deep concern regarding the recent Finance Committee’s pre-budget report. The committee proposes to remove advancement of religion as a charitable purpose,” wrote Leo, who was elevated to cardinal late last year.

 Specifically, Leo cited the report’s “recommendation 430” which reads, “Amend the Income Tax Act to provide a definition of a charity which would remove the privileged status of ‘advancement of religion’ as a charitable purpose.”

 Additionally, Leo brought up section 429, which recommends the government “no longer provide charitable status to anti-abortion organizations.” 

 “I strongly urge the federal government to reject these recommendations… If you wish to discuss tangible examples of how religious charities are strengthening our country, I would be most pleased to meet with you along with those on the front lines of care, ministry, and accompaniment,” he wrote.

 Leo noted to LeBlanc that when it comes to religious charities in Canada, they “strengthen the very fabric of our nation through their dedicated service, outreach and care.”

“The recommendation itself to strip away official charitable status from these organizations demonstrates a lack of understanding of the critical role religiously-affiliated groups offer in every corner of our nation,” he wrote.

 Leo also noted to LeBlanc that it is “astonishing to think that a pro-life approach to public living is no longer seen as acceptable in a country that enshrines freedom of religion and belief in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.”

Oh, that garbage document?

 

No one wore ribbons or waved flags when Putin annexed the Donbass:

The American people are, by and large, tired of subsidizing Ukraine’s end of this war. They are absolutely against American forces being involved. There is a lit fuse on America’s patience, and trying to stamp it out by shouting that anyone questioning perpetual subsidies of this war is Putin’s pal is not going to cut it. The fact is that Trump is probably Ukraine’s last chance to retain American support. The guy who follows Trump is going to be worse for Ukraine.

 … China is a substantially greater threat to the United States than Russia in the macro. The fact is that right now, we can’t confront both powers. We need to focus on China. That’s the major threat to the United States.

 … The Europeans should be taking the lead in supporting Ukraine and should be taking the lead in defending Europe. They are freaking out about this. It’s hilarious that their answer to Donald Trump telling them they need to step up and take charge of their own defense is to step up and take charge of their own defense to show Donald Trump what for. Typically, a threat involves promising to do something the person you’re threatening does not want you to do instead of exactly what he wants you to do.

 

It is pure hubris to think that the waning Europe can take up the military and political torch that it forced the US to carry for Ukraine.

But Europe will be seen to be trying.

 

 

That’s an excellent question:

What a breathtakingly vile comment. Hamas terrorists murdered nine month-old Kfir and four year-old Ariel with their bare hands and mutilated their bodies to conceal the crime. How could anyone equate this monstrous depravity with the fate of children in Gaza killed unintentionally in a war to defend Israel against genocide — killed, moreover, because Hamas uses Gaza’s children as human shields and cannon fodder?