Had Kamala Harris won, Justin would have carried on using the public purse as his personal wallet, further making a total moron of himself, the true legacy of his disastrous government.
But the Americans switched tactics and voted in a functioning adult who made his business to cut costs, rebuild national pride, kick @$$, take names and be the subject of a million memes.
Justin must have realised it was all over when he was summoned to Mar-A-Lago (but why did he "resign" from his dad's former office and his riding? Only his barber and his hair plugs know for sure).
He reduced the country to a state of weakness that Trump, for all of his boldness, pointed out and was assailed for it.
It was then that an Ignatieffian interloper named Mark Carney stepped in.
He pretended to be an everyday Canadian who had three passports, ruined the Bank of England, and set the course for the crippling state of this country's economy.
On Sunday, he was parachuted into office with the help of less than one percent of residents (not citizen) in this country in a contest so rigged and cocooned from democracy that the very word should be trademarked and Canada should be dragged into court for misusing it without permission and financial compensation.
Now here we are:
Mr. Carney writes that during the COVID-19 crisis, governments got it right.
“In developing a COVID policy framework for the common good, we can take the lessons from climate change… In that case, there is an overarching goal — environmental sustainability — that is set by society’s values of intergenerational equity and fairness. &c.”
So all that compulsion, all that trust-the-experts, all the ‘we’ve got your back, we’re in this together’ that led to people spying on their neighbours… there’s a template here. What works for climate change worked for COVID-19 and will work for climate change again. In the hands of a statist technocrat, which Mr. Carney certainly is, there is a system of expert, top-down control the values of which are manifest when — but only if — Everybody Does Exactly What They Are Told. Dissent is unhelpful.
Values based upon what Mr. Carney says then, are to be considered the heart of Canadian identity, things like ‘nature, community, diversity, solidarity, fairness, responsibility and compassion.’ And let’s not forget ‘sustainability.’
Those are Canadian values?
Since when?
And what guidance did Mr. Carney take from them as he removed the head office of his Brookfield investment firm from Canada to a more tax-friendly and Trump-ian US environment? (Perhaps pliability and hypocrisy might be added to his list.)
(Sidebar: see here.)
Meanwhile, whatever happened to Canadian values like equality before the law, and freedom — the freedom famously articulated by John Diefenbaker — to ‘speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who govern my country.’
It certainly wasn’t the template for the COVID-19 response; people who spoke fearlessly lost their jobs, churches were closed and if you opposed what you believed was wrong you risked not only job loss, but jail.
This suggests that if you believe — as Mr. Carney says he does — that ‘preserving the planet’ is the foundational goal of government and that this nostrum must guide all personal and economic decision making — 'all' you'll note — this top down, we-know-best relationship between governor and governed would be an obvious best practice.
Just like COVID-19, then.
Listen to the experts and do as you’re told.
So perhaps that’s why nobody on the Liberal/NDP side talks much about liberty and free speech, these days. And why would you, if in your religious zeal to fight carbon emissions you want to control where people set their thermostats, how much they drive, whether they drive at all, or whether it should even be legal to express an opinion about it. All of the above facilitated in due course by the development of Central Bank Digital Currencies, perhaps sooner than we think. (The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms will be releasing a study on CBDCs later this week. Watch the Western Standard for exclusive details.)
Why would you tolerate free speech and liberty? Again, it’s just not helpful.
Such apparently are Mr. Carney’s professed values. But, after ten years of Mr. Trudeau and the glimpse into his own soul that Mr. Carney provides in ‘Values,’ the inescapable conclusion is that the people who have infiltrated the Liberal Party of Canada and now possess its soul would like to define the country’s values in a way that turns most Canadians into peasants, while in a new feudalism they defer to a new elite defined for its moral excellence by its faith in fighting climate change.
No thanks.
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Extraordinarily, in an age where justified populist rage against an out-of-touch establishment is spreading across the globe, Canadians have ended up with a leader who embodies that very establishment. In many ways, Carney is the technocrat’s technocrat. A bone fide citizen of nowhere.
The new Canadian PM’s CV reads like a parody of an archetypal Davos man. He has been governor of the Bank of Canada, governor of the Bank of England and a United Nations special envoy on climate action and finance. Before he entered the public eye, he worked for Goldman Sachs – in London, Tokyo, New York and Toronto. He has degrees from Harvard and Oxford. Yet he has never once held any form of elected political office. He does not even currently hold a seat in Canada’s House of Commons.
Carney is living, breathing proof that expert credentials are no substitute for sound judgement or political acumen. He has embraced just about every naff and dangerous political trend of our times, never deviating from the Davos script.
Most notoriously, as governor of the Bank of England from 2013 to 2020, Carney became the high priest of Project Fear ahead of the 2016 Brexit vote. He warned before the referendum that a Leave vote would spark an instant recession. It didn’t. He claimed Brexit would make investment in British assets so risky that it could ‘test the kindness of strangers’ should the UK take the leap. Needless to say, this was politically motivated hysteria, not a sober assessment of Britain’s economic prospects outside the EU.
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Newly minted Liberal leader Mark Carney isn't wasting time when it comes to spreading fake news — following in the footsteps of Justin Trudeau and Steven Guilbeault.
During his victory speech on Sunday, Carney said, "Pierre Poilievre would let our planet burn. This is not leadership, it's ideology."
Audience members booed Poilievre.
Carney, a prominent figure in climate finance and former governor of the Bank of England and Bank of Canada, views achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as both an urgent necessity and a significant economic opportunity.
He advocates for an expedited transition to net zero — similar to Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault.
Some say Carney's adherence to climate change and net zero ideology are a threat to Canada's oil and gas sector and economy. Carney has acknowledged the oil and gas sector’s economic importance while pushing for decarbonization.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss has warned Canada about electing Carney prime minister.
"I strongly recommend not backing Mark Carney for his policies on net zero," she said in January. "It was disastrous for Britain. It would be disastrous for Canada."
Canada’s contribution to global CO2 emissions is approximately 1.5% — making Carney's "planet burn" comment ridiculous and fake.
Around 311 coal fired power plants under construction worldwide, rendering Canadian emissions tiny by comparison.
There will be no real change from the previous government save Carney is less likely to behave like a buffoon in public.
But the taxes and the eco-fanaticism will stay the same.
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