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The Conservatives were defeated in Canada’s federal election on Monday night – after being significantly ahead in the polls just a few months ago – and Liberal leader Mark Carney has managed to cling to power.
Canada just hit its own Great Reset – Klaus Schwab-style. And it’s far from the great win for the country that the Liberal voters of Canada may think it is – unless, of course, they voted for their own country’s destruction, which we know is a desire rooted in the hearts of many leftists residing in any Western capitalist nation.
While headlines celebrate “historic change,” “new leadership,” and “fresh starts,” the reality is something much darker: a tired, battered system stuck rearranging the same deck chairs on a Titanic steered by the radical Justin Trudeau. The players have changed, but the leftist game stays the same.
The new Liberal face Carney, 60, doesn’t really represent any kind of surprising revolution. Anointed prime minister in early March following Trudeau’s resignation, Carney is a career globalist, a central banker polished to a high corporate shine, now sitting atop a crumbling political machine. The Liberals cling to power with what seems to now be a minority government — a sign of great weakness, not strength — while the Canadian media hails it as stability.
Canada’s Conservative leader, Pierre Poilevre, despite mounting popular support for his seemingly populist message, lost his own seat in Parliament. Jagmeet Singh, leader of Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP), once paraded as the progressive future, was crushed into political irrelevance. And Trudeau? Gone, but his ghost remains, having successfully delivered to his nation what ominously appears to be a Trudeau 2.0.
Canada has voted for, among other things, more economic decline in pursuit of the Left’s climate change fantasies. Time Magazine reported that Carney “has a long record of advocating for emission reductions in financial markets—he was a U.N. climate envoy—which may make it hard for him to appeal to voters who have had enough of Liberal restrictions on oil and gas production, especially now that Canadians are wishing they had more pipelines to tidewater so that they could tell Trump where to put his tariffs.”
In other words, he is going to take Canada in precisely the wrong direction from the one in which even Canadian voters who are enraged at Trump want the country to go.
Carney is also a committed globalist, couching his socialist internationalism in fantasies about Canada replacing the United States as the leader of the free world, or what used to be known as the free world. “Canada is ready to take a leadership role in building a coalition of like-minded countries who share our values,” he declared several weeks ago. “We believe in international cooperation. We believe in the free and open exchange of goods, services and ideas. And if the United States no longer wants to lead, Canada will.”
That means open borders, more mass migration into Canada, and more outsourcing of Canadian industries to other countries. Yet many Canadians, with their Pravda-like media (aside from Ezra Levant’s brave and truth-telling Rebel Media), will likely be lulled right back to sleep. They haven’t been told the full implications and logical outcome of what Carney stands for, and they have no idea what’s coming.
Ezra Levant gives this profound commentary on Carney after the fallout from the election:
I’ve called Carney Trudeau 2.0 — but smarter and harder working. That’s true, and Carney has most of the same team as Trudeau, including the disgraced Rasputin figure, Gerald Butts. But Carney — and his extremist wife — are deep ideological activists, whereas Trudeau was more of a cliche-spouting mascot. If it helps to understand Carney, know that the company he chaired, Brookfield Asset Management, has a trillion dollars under management. It’s like BlackRock, and just as ideological and dictatorial. (Has any Canadian media — other than Rebel News — reported that Carney was interrogated last year by Congressional staff, accused of extorting coal companies?)
…More importantly than personality, all of the issues that caused people to hate Trudeau — housing costs, mass immigration, taxes, wokeism — will continue, and people will see that Carney’s cabinet is largely the same as Trudeau’s was. There has been no change in the Liberals.
…Carney hasn’t given up his belief in “net zero” deindustrialization or other World Economic Forum obsessions. There’s a reason the regime media don’t want you learning about the WEF or what Carney did there as a board member.
…Expect Carney to keep his promise to lavish money on the CBC state broadcaster, partly as a reward for their service these past months, and partly to start campaigning for the next election, that could come within a year. Don’t be surprised if, as a corollary, Carney re-introduces Trudeau’s C-63 Online Harms Act censorship bill. You’ve already seen how they treat Rebel News. They want citizen journalists to know their place.
Levant makes it profoundly clear that what just happened in Canada is not only a great danger to his country, but also a dire warning for the United States and Europe. The globalist/leftist political machine simply swapped out the face cards, and the same hands are still being dealt.
In Europe, meanwhile, the same machine is showing itself to be increasingly authoritarian, barring the principal opposition leader in France from running for president, and quarantining the nationalist parties in order to prevent them from forming coalitions and making even the smallest move to dismantle the socialist, internationalist, open-borders entity that the left has constructed.
Amid all this, many of the most important power struggles are happening behind closed doors, in the corridors of the global institutions and unelected WEF-style agencies — not inside the voting booth.
And this isn’t an issue just in Canada. The forces seeking to destroy the West and its freedoms are still ruthlessly on the march, not just north of the border, but in the U.S. and in Europe as well.
These times call for courage and determination to stand for freedom, or free societies will surely be lost.
We face a much greater threat on the northern border than the southern one.
Yeah, being a forested northern border outside the legal gates (entry points) it is much harder to enforce non-entry. We need a fence up there also.
That “border “is just a line on the map.
Yes we do, at least for the time being.
Canada has voted for its own destruction. To become a failed third world nation of no consequence. Oh Canada no longer glorious or free.
I thought Trump’s wanting to make Canada a state was obnoxious but certainly no reason for it to commit national seppuku. Oh, Canada!
I suspect that the Canadian TDS sufferers are as hysterical as the rest.
Agreed. I understand them being offended by Trump joking about the 51st state, but committing suicide is a big overreaction. Maybe we should simply invite their better provinces to become states, starting with Alberta.
I’m a life-long Albertan and will absolutely vote to separate from Canada (and join the U.S. if need be) at the earliest opportunity … Separatist sentiment in Alberta and Saskatchewan is above 40# on the polls, and will skyrocket following this election …
The key factor in Monday’s election was how the Liberals managed to deceive eastern Canadian voters (perhaps the dumbest people on the planet!) into believing they would ‘save Canada’ from the big, bad ‘evil Trump’ … That took the spotlight off their abysmal ten-year track record of destroying Canada … The same political party that has sold us out to the UN, the WHO, the WEF and China suddenly transformed into chest-thumping ‘Canada first’ patriots …
PT Barnum once said there’s a sucker born every minute … Actually, there’s an Ontario-Quebec voter born every two seconds …
There was a great deal of method in Trump’s “madness,” as there generally is. This is the best analysis I’ve seen on Trump and Canada:
In the US, you elected Trump to correct the death spiral your country was in. The results were instantaneous and dramatic. You rocketed away from the Death Star known as the Democrat Party corruption.
In Canada, after 10 years down even a worse path than the US, we just chose to elect Darth Vader to completely destroy what little we had left of our country. Pierre was our only hope. As always, the voters of Ontario and Quebec, combined to invalidate the votes of the ROC= rest of Canada. They do it to us every time. Ontario is composed of the Political support network of big Government. They vote to keep the missing hundreds of millions of dollars heading their way.
Quebec moved away from the Bloc, to the Liberals, because they always threaten and manipulate the Liberals with separation and withholding their needed votes. They hold their breath until they turn blue and mummy and daddy cave in and hand them billions of dollars in candy, yet one more time.
They are enabled and fully supported by the government subsidized MSM and all the professional victim groups. It is a tough uphill, uneven battle for the Right to counter. The Conservatives did have the most voters in a generation this time, my local Conservative candidate got elected. The usual suspects pulled the race card and Orange Man Bad to no avail. It was the worst I have ever seen in my 55 year voting history., but sanity prevailed at least in my district.
About a year from now, when all the Liberal lies, all the additional taxes, all the unpayable debt, all the skyrocketing inflation and prices….all hit the fan, I’m hoping for a landslide of buyer’s remorse. I will be there doing my best Nelson Muntz “Ha Ha!! It’s a minority government so we can only hope the infighting starts and we have another election to restore sanity to Canada.
Ironic that, at least superficially, Canada looks more and more like Russia, with its interminable winters, centralized control of everything, and stifled media. Add to that the LGBLT on rye moral grandstanding with its understood, if not outright, disapproval of the nuclear family, (which Russia does not engage in). I am no fan of a corrupt Dictator like Putin, or the neo-feudal societal structure that still exists in Russia (see Elvira Bary on Youtube), but so many Western countries are now looking like products of a cookie cutter.
If the Western countries were cookie cutters of Putin’s Russia, we would at least have something resembling a wholesome social structure. Sometimes Putin makes a lot more sense than out “leaders”; a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Then it’s time for the rest of Canada to secede and become a part of the United States. Ontario and Quebec can go it alone.
Truer words were never spoken … AMEN!!!!! That deserve each other …
I wouldn’t want BC (or at least, not most of it). Or Manitoba. Or the Atlantic provinces, for that matter. Alberta, yes; and maybe Saskatchewan. That’s it.
An electoral college would prevent that.
Which is why liberals want to do away with it in the USA.
The people in the accompanying photo use pronouns, have a “We believe” yard sign and buy their Ben and Jerry’s at Target.
I believe they would also have a “Hate Has No Home Here” sign.
Whenever I see that sign, I think “Well, a virtue-signaling a-hole certainly has a home there!”
Boy, they really showed us huh? “We hate your President America so much we just decided to commit cultural and economic suicide. Take that you MAGA monsters! “ “You thought us ignorant fools, you ain’t seen nothing yet!” By the time they’re done, that statehood talk will be a punchline. I feel sorry for those Canadians who tried to bring common sense to their country.
This is why making Canada a state would be a complete disaster for America and I think Trump knows it. It would give Democrats control of our congress completely! Two senators and know telling how many representatives. All would be Democrats! He really needs to shut up about it!
Truth be told, Alberta and Saskatchewan would make for two beautiful red states, and four solid GOP senators … !
keep your maga maggot hands off Canada.
Don’t worry Beto. No one’s coming for your Canada “nice” maggot leftist sh*t hole. We definitely don’t need people who vote for leftism to spite Trump. Enjoy latter day Trudeau=ism because you will get it good and heard now.
Following the EU down the drain. Placeholders for some Caliohate.
Caliphate, that is
I was unaware that Anni Cyrus was such a perceptive and effective writer. But, not surprising, with the impressive life that she has struggled through. And she is so beautiful.
I’m an American who again feels so sad where our neighbor to the north has ended up at. A former Christian nation hasn’t fallen on hard times but has completely thrown in the towel on national sanity. At least our southern neighbor has done something to improve their country. God help Canada come to its senses before the ultimate disaster occurs.
A lot of wrong notes, dubious sources and, sadly, a convincing demonstration of how little the author knows about the northern tundra.
Sorry to my fellow MAGA friends, but the reason they lost was because of Trump’s BIG EFFIN’ MOUTH (his signature fault and worst enemy).
You don’t threaten to take over countries, folks. Joke or no joke (I think it was only **partly** schtick).
Canadians, who have some reason to believe they live in a real country, reacted as any population would.
Come on, you’ve got to be particularly dense to get offended by this kind of joke – and to believe that we Americans want to add more States, whether to the north or the south, to the 50 ones we already enjoy!!
When you own a brain in working order, you chose a leader based on what his/her character and achievements will enable him/her to accomplish for your country – not on anything else, including rumors, propaganda or the candidaates’ mannerisms, Well, the Canadians have made their bed, let’s hope they can sleep comfortably in it, while we Americans will enjoy fairest tariffs and a less porous northern border. .
There is no evidence that Einstein said “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” But I believe that anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows that is spot on. California, of course, has held the title of Insanity Central for a couple of decades now but suddenly a new challenger has emerged. Canadians, in their zeal to show Americans just how much they hate Trump, have voted for the return of Fidel Castro’s illegitimate son Justin Trudeau’s marxist policies. Boy, I guess you sure showed us. Bonne chance Canada!
I can’t help but think that the Chinese Communist Party has its fingerprints all over Carney’s victory.
There is no doubt chicoms preferred ,shilled for the carny
Worse. Than true dough. A “global banker of no fixed abode”‘ as M. Steyn Puts it
Maybe an opportunity for Real traditionalism to begin in Canuckland. From the ashes etc.. although they don’t have con/trad contrarian history like usa,
What America was under Carter, Clinton, Obama and Biden……Canada became under Pearson, Trudeau, Chretien, Trudeau and Carney………..
We reap what we sow…….
I automatically think it was voter fraud . Same thing with Australia but I’m sane so voting to ruin your own country doesn’t compute .
President Trump made a mistake. Like all of us he’s not immune to mistakes despite the vast good he does. He pushed the wrong button because he or his advisors did not understand Canada, but specifically, central Canada, We in the west are like a different country, and may well be before long. Central Canada, even before Confederation in 1867, has feared the power and perceived aggression of the United States. It evolved into a twisted kind of anti-Americanism, something the left feeds on to maintain power. Trump awakened that old fear which the Liberals milked and fed. That fear was capitalised on by the Lauentian elite and the Toronto, Quebec, Ottawa Gang of Four who are absolutely convinced that they are the rightful rulers of Canada. They trhive on a top-down rule. Every other part of Canada exists in their minds to satisfy their ‘rightful’ rule which is really just greed and lust for power. Carnage, sorry, Carney, is a destroyer, a man of revolting character, a prevaricator, and ultimately, a thug. The Liberals played to the fear ignited by Mr. Trump, and in doing so they have put Canada on a path to destruction. Despite laws that permit a province to satisfy a desire for independence, my personal belief is that the Marxists in charge will never allow it, and the inevitable result will be bloodshed. Alberta in particular where the core of dissatisfaction lies, is the financial engine of the country which through Marxist legislation forces Alberta to re-distribute its wealth to other less productive, less imaginative, and more comfortable populations with insatiable appetites for wealth handouts that they have not earned (Think Quebec, Manitoba and the Maritime provinces with the exception of Newfoundland and Labrador). The situation for Albertans who have endured hardship and poverty is that we will not endure our wealth taken by immoral legal mandates or force of arms and violation of the Canadian consitution by corrupt lawbreakers like Trudeau and Carney or anyone else lacking ethical standards and common decency. The Laurentian elite should consider themselves warned.
Carmey a thug? You are projecting trumpo onto him.
If he turns out to be like trudeau (I doubt it’ this guy is a trained economist) it will have been 100 percent trumpo’s fault for attacking Canada and endorsing his opponent.