The Liberals bought themselves unlimited room to fail by bribing almost the entire media, and are using it to the full.
After a year of no accomplishment whatsoever except backing off on a few of Trudeau's newest and most egregious plans (and of course shoveling billions out the door without tangible results), the biens-pensants are saying "now it's time for Carney to get to work".
In three years, they will be saying "he just needs another mandate for his banking brilliance to bear fruit. And those Conservatives are icky."
Carney and his Liberals now fully control the House, Senate, Courts, and the media. The Elbows Up Election was our last chance to attempt to reverse the course we've been on for a decade. The only choice Canadians have at this point will be to leave this country (if they can figure out somewhere that will take them), or join what Jen adroitly coined the Canadian Octopus Economy.
The only federal instituion in any question of changing, really ever, is the House, and the earliest that could theoretically happen is 2029. The Senate and Courts are appointed by the PM/PMO, so no change is possible there; in fact, they can be further stacked with those loyal to the Liberals/CCP.
The media? Well, with a few notable outliers like The Line (assuming Matt & Jen still have the heart to continue it by 2029), I wouldn't count on any fair and balanced criticism coming from the fifth estate (which is now actually the fifth column).
That leaves Carney three years to tie up any annoying loose ends of democratic function and accountability left in our 'federation' before he has to have one of those annoying 'elections' again, which will by that point be Canadian Kabuki Theatre, as will 'debates' in the House, Senate, and Courts. It's over. We now live in Mark Carney's Octopus's Garden.
"Oh just stop complaining, it's radiating Loser Energy."
I love that this has become the default reaction to pointing out the batshit crazy state of our country and all the ways it's been rigged to prevent any hope for change.
As for how to deal with this, I'm open to suggestions. I have concerns that a right-wing party capable of winning under the current circumstances would have to be so vicious and underhanded that it might not ultimately be an improvement.
But the real CPC loser energy isn't the complaining: it's the pretence that Carney might listen or want to help the country. The Cons should preface everything with "Carney knows perfectly well this is true, but doesn't want to act on it, due to reasons of his own which we won't speculate about. The only political way forward is an election or the public getting angry enough to make him cave".
The point to be scared (or hopeful I guess) is when the Conservatives stop complaining about the system being rigged against them and they silently start succeeding because they have raised billions in dark money and have started covertly bribing journalists and government MP's.
It's increasingly clear that the government and opposition aren't even playing the same game at present. The latter is stuck in the past.
I think they wouldn't succeed by out-Liberaling the Liberals. Far better a campaign to enrage the public with doxxing of crooks and parasites, smear and demonization campaigns, and calling out disloyalty. All of our institutions, courts, media, and academia, are bought. They all need to go.
"Might not be an improvement" is loser energy. Even if we got an equally bad government from the right, it is highly unlikely we would get the same degree of smug self-satisfaction. So, in effect, it would be much better.
And you hopefully wouldn’t have a French dominated government and civil service trying to screw the Anglos and destroy their morality and values every chance they got. “Look everybody, an elephant!”
I fear that any successful challenger would have to be totally morally bankrupt with no regard for rules, norms, or legality, and willing to go the few places that our already deeply underhanded government will not. Poilievre's biggest problem is that he still thinks there are rules. He's a boyscout trying to compete with mafia gangsters.
So far, Carney has focused on establishing a dictatorship.
His manufactured majority will allow him to pass any legislation and to stack committees so as to suppress openness.
Bills C-5 and C-15 give him and his ministers the ability to override any non-criminal law.
Bill C-22 will give him and his ministers the ability to digitally spy on any Canadian. (Everybody, including progressives, were outraged when Snowden exposed this practice the US.)
Bill 1 (2019) gives him the ability to withhold subsidies from media who criticize the government.
Bill C-9 and C-18 (2023) gives him the ability to crack down on any speech he decides is hateful.
He has given himself the power to silence expat Chinese dissidents whom the RCMP can send to face imprisonment or death in China.
Agree 100%. But Canadians let it happen. Canada is now an elected dictatorship. The “Charter” (State Permission) is so exception ridden that it amounts to lipstick on a tyranny pig. As the late Dave Tomlinson (Canadian Firearms Law Guru and a true Western patriot) once said: “a slave that gets to choose its master every four years is still a slave” .
I fully disagree with the degree of disentanglement from the US that carney seems to be hinting at. I dislike fear tactics or emotionally laden language, particularly in the context of a prime minister who hasn’t actually accomplished anything in a year in office.
Mark Carney has proven that he has no interest in improving Canada's economic situation. He is an extremely overhyped white collar shyster with a lengthy list of severe conflicts of interest. Marc Carney is a sellout to the criminal organization going under the moniker Chinese Communist Party.
The public record of his bafflegab meaningless words salads, of his deliberate lies and deceptions is now thick and growing by the day.
Mark Carney has inserted himself into the Canadian politics with the hefty aid by unelected and unaccountable "Liberal" insiders.
Mark Carney is here to collapse the Canadian economy and then loot the country of assets by purchases pennies on the dollar, with his gang and his Brookfield. To Mark Carney the voters and population are nothing but serfs, saps and street rats to be drained of as much money as he and his gang can.
A nasty curse be set on the chicken wing chicken shit bullshit "Liberal" and wokey leftist voters.
This is well written and seems spot on. More impressive than Carney's benefit from posturing against Trump and his forceful and thoughtful international speeches is the total collapse of Pierre, and unfortunately the conservatives with him. Hopefully Carney can actually start implementing some of the aspirational 'national building' projects that will push us back into being a productive economy.
For those who are whimpering about Carney's popularity, his stealing of ideas, and the floor crossers, perhaps you should contact the CPC. Pierre has given it to him on a silver platter. Would you prefer he did not adopt sound conservative policies?
Actions will matter more than words. I still question the government's ability to control costs in a supply and demand economy, while our neighbour has lost their mind and driven fuel prices up by 40+%. The US isn't going to become more reliable, and Howard Lutnick is a complete and total asshole. We're in a very deep hole due to past lack of action. I wouldn't want his job.
"situational unity acquired through anti-American rhetoric into something more durable."
Wait, what?!? I must have misunderstood...
Aren't there ACTUAL tariffs? Isn't the auto-act destroyed? Didn't orange jesus say he wanted to annex Canada? Is that what rhetoric means? It's a pretty fancy word, so maybe I had that wrong too, lol.
All the major projects and diversification trade deals are important but they will take time to bear fruit. Top issue now is maintaining working realpolitik economic cooperation and access to US market and supporting SME growth in Canada which should get traction faster than the long term stuff. At the same time reducing economic dependence to counter threats to our political sovereignty is critical. For all the comments here about a dictatorship our politicians are still responsible to voters and not donors, unlike our wannabe absorber.
Friend, good points but you have misread a few items. I wish you were more perceptive and more realistic on those.
"Liberal" politicians are definitely no longer responsible to voters and have not been since the The Idiot King's first day in the office. By his second year I had a very clear sense that the bastard is aiming at putting in place a leftists dictatorship.
The Carney character is cementing it in place while he is deliberately wasting time re. the improvement of economy. See Jerry Grant's comment.
Our political sovereignty has been over the decades gradually been sold off to Chinese Communist Party by the "Liberal" establishment, starting with the first Trudeau.
The Liberals bought themselves unlimited room to fail by bribing almost the entire media, and are using it to the full.
After a year of no accomplishment whatsoever except backing off on a few of Trudeau's newest and most egregious plans (and of course shoveling billions out the door without tangible results), the biens-pensants are saying "now it's time for Carney to get to work".
In three years, they will be saying "he just needs another mandate for his banking brilliance to bear fruit. And those Conservatives are icky."
If Mark Carney had a personal newsletter dedicated to singing his praises, it would read like most articles in the Globe and Mail.
Carney and his Liberals now fully control the House, Senate, Courts, and the media. The Elbows Up Election was our last chance to attempt to reverse the course we've been on for a decade. The only choice Canadians have at this point will be to leave this country (if they can figure out somewhere that will take them), or join what Jen adroitly coined the Canadian Octopus Economy.
The only federal instituion in any question of changing, really ever, is the House, and the earliest that could theoretically happen is 2029. The Senate and Courts are appointed by the PM/PMO, so no change is possible there; in fact, they can be further stacked with those loyal to the Liberals/CCP.
The media? Well, with a few notable outliers like The Line (assuming Matt & Jen still have the heart to continue it by 2029), I wouldn't count on any fair and balanced criticism coming from the fifth estate (which is now actually the fifth column).
That leaves Carney three years to tie up any annoying loose ends of democratic function and accountability left in our 'federation' before he has to have one of those annoying 'elections' again, which will by that point be Canadian Kabuki Theatre, as will 'debates' in the House, Senate, and Courts. It's over. We now live in Mark Carney's Octopus's Garden.
"Oh just stop complaining, it's radiating Loser Energy."
I love that this has become the default reaction to pointing out the batshit crazy state of our country and all the ways it's been rigged to prevent any hope for change.
As for how to deal with this, I'm open to suggestions. I have concerns that a right-wing party capable of winning under the current circumstances would have to be so vicious and underhanded that it might not ultimately be an improvement.
But the real CPC loser energy isn't the complaining: it's the pretence that Carney might listen or want to help the country. The Cons should preface everything with "Carney knows perfectly well this is true, but doesn't want to act on it, due to reasons of his own which we won't speculate about. The only political way forward is an election or the public getting angry enough to make him cave".
The point to be scared (or hopeful I guess) is when the Conservatives stop complaining about the system being rigged against them and they silently start succeeding because they have raised billions in dark money and have started covertly bribing journalists and government MP's.
It's increasingly clear that the government and opposition aren't even playing the same game at present. The latter is stuck in the past.
I think they wouldn't succeed by out-Liberaling the Liberals. Far better a campaign to enrage the public with doxxing of crooks and parasites, smear and demonization campaigns, and calling out disloyalty. All of our institutions, courts, media, and academia, are bought. They all need to go.
"Might not be an improvement" is loser energy. Even if we got an equally bad government from the right, it is highly unlikely we would get the same degree of smug self-satisfaction. So, in effect, it would be much better.
And you hopefully wouldn’t have a French dominated government and civil service trying to screw the Anglos and destroy their morality and values every chance they got. “Look everybody, an elephant!”
Not that I wouldn't be willing to take the chance at this point. Don't get me wrong.
You mean the current administration is not vicious and underhanded now? Could have fooled me.
I fear that any successful challenger would have to be totally morally bankrupt with no regard for rules, norms, or legality, and willing to go the few places that our already deeply underhanded government will not. Poilievre's biggest problem is that he still thinks there are rules. He's a boyscout trying to compete with mafia gangsters.
He needs to realize that the rules, norms, and legalities are themselves morally bankrupt, and the only way forward is to rip it all up.
It increasingly looks so.
So far, Carney has focused on establishing a dictatorship.
His manufactured majority will allow him to pass any legislation and to stack committees so as to suppress openness.
Bills C-5 and C-15 give him and his ministers the ability to override any non-criminal law.
Bill C-22 will give him and his ministers the ability to digitally spy on any Canadian. (Everybody, including progressives, were outraged when Snowden exposed this practice the US.)
Bill 1 (2019) gives him the ability to withhold subsidies from media who criticize the government.
Bill C-9 and C-18 (2023) gives him the ability to crack down on any speech he decides is hateful.
He has given himself the power to silence expat Chinese dissidents whom the RCMP can send to face imprisonment or death in China.
Taken together, this is truly terrifying.
Agree 100%. But Canadians let it happen. Canada is now an elected dictatorship. The “Charter” (State Permission) is so exception ridden that it amounts to lipstick on a tyranny pig. As the late Dave Tomlinson (Canadian Firearms Law Guru and a true Western patriot) once said: “a slave that gets to choose its master every four years is still a slave” .
I fully disagree with the degree of disentanglement from the US that carney seems to be hinting at. I dislike fear tactics or emotionally laden language, particularly in the context of a prime minister who hasn’t actually accomplished anything in a year in office.
Carney's strategy of uniting Canada is working great, if you define Canada as the land mass east of the Manitoba border...
Isn’t that the part formerly known as Upper Canada?
Mark Carney has proven that he has no interest in improving Canada's economic situation. He is an extremely overhyped white collar shyster with a lengthy list of severe conflicts of interest. Marc Carney is a sellout to the criminal organization going under the moniker Chinese Communist Party.
The public record of his bafflegab meaningless words salads, of his deliberate lies and deceptions is now thick and growing by the day.
Mark Carney has inserted himself into the Canadian politics with the hefty aid by unelected and unaccountable "Liberal" insiders.
Mark Carney is here to collapse the Canadian economy and then loot the country of assets by purchases pennies on the dollar, with his gang and his Brookfield. To Mark Carney the voters and population are nothing but serfs, saps and street rats to be drained of as much money as he and his gang can.
A nasty curse be set on the chicken wing chicken shit bullshit "Liberal" and wokey leftist voters.
This is well written and seems spot on. More impressive than Carney's benefit from posturing against Trump and his forceful and thoughtful international speeches is the total collapse of Pierre, and unfortunately the conservatives with him. Hopefully Carney can actually start implementing some of the aspirational 'national building' projects that will push us back into being a productive economy.
For those who are whimpering about Carney's popularity, his stealing of ideas, and the floor crossers, perhaps you should contact the CPC. Pierre has given it to him on a silver platter. Would you prefer he did not adopt sound conservative policies?
Actions will matter more than words. I still question the government's ability to control costs in a supply and demand economy, while our neighbour has lost their mind and driven fuel prices up by 40+%. The US isn't going to become more reliable, and Howard Lutnick is a complete and total asshole. We're in a very deep hole due to past lack of action. I wouldn't want his job.
"situational unity acquired through anti-American rhetoric into something more durable."
Wait, what?!? I must have misunderstood...
Aren't there ACTUAL tariffs? Isn't the auto-act destroyed? Didn't orange jesus say he wanted to annex Canada? Is that what rhetoric means? It's a pretty fancy word, so maybe I had that wrong too, lol.
All the major projects and diversification trade deals are important but they will take time to bear fruit. Top issue now is maintaining working realpolitik economic cooperation and access to US market and supporting SME growth in Canada which should get traction faster than the long term stuff. At the same time reducing economic dependence to counter threats to our political sovereignty is critical. For all the comments here about a dictatorship our politicians are still responsible to voters and not donors, unlike our wannabe absorber.
Friend, good points but you have misread a few items. I wish you were more perceptive and more realistic on those.
"Liberal" politicians are definitely no longer responsible to voters and have not been since the The Idiot King's first day in the office. By his second year I had a very clear sense that the bastard is aiming at putting in place a leftists dictatorship.
The Carney character is cementing it in place while he is deliberately wasting time re. the improvement of economy. See Jerry Grant's comment.
Our political sovereignty has been over the decades gradually been sold off to Chinese Communist Party by the "Liberal" establishment, starting with the first Trudeau.