Bye Bye Canada

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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.

Follow Aynaz Anni Cyrus’s Substack and visit her site Live Up To Freedom. Also visit her art studio at LUTF Art Studio.