Mark Carney can apparently do no wrong. Scroll through comments on news articles, and you’ll encounter an energetic online army defending the prime minister’s every action.
Cancelling a tax on the world’s most profitable tech giants? A genius chess move in his trade war against Trump.
Advocating for new pipelines while the country burns from climate change-fuelled wildfires? A tough decision to shore up Canadian sovereignty.
Boosting spending on the military to record and wasteful levels? A responsible counter to supposed perils like Russia or North Korea.
Expanding surveillance powers to crackdown on refugee rights? Well, at least he’s not Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre.
The U.S. President’s tariffs and threats have left Canadians anxious and disoriented, giving Carney an opportunity to move fast and with far too little scrutiny. He’s pushing through pro-corporate policies that go beyond anything he outlined on the campaign trail. The agenda is so right-wing, in fact, The Globe and Mail last week gleefully noted that “Brian Mulroney could have endorsed it.”
It’s no wonder that Carney is trying to push through his agenda as fast as possible, while Canadians remain disoriented. The prime minister’s newly-appointed top senior civil servant, Michael Sabia, is clear about this Canadian-style shock doctrine: “windows of opportunity open and close,” he wrote in a letter to civil servants on Monday. Sabia would be one to know: once upon a time he helped none other than Brian Mulroney privatize a rash of Crown corporations. Carney has even openly signalled he’s preparing to purge any civil servants who don’t get in line (with “high-level talk of recruiting other business achievers” to replace them).
We need to drop the Carney denialism in a hurry, and get angry instead. The prime minister, a consummate technocrat who knows how to cater to elite interests, is taking Canadians for a ride, while servicing his natural constituency: bankers, tech broligarchs, oil barons, and arms manufacturers. It’s time we open our eyes, clue in to what’s happening, follow the money—and put up a fight.
the ONLY military threat to Canada is from the US. Every other suggestion is a treasonous thief stealing our prosperity for US colonial warmongering force amplification. Unacceptable evil, but unanimous party unanimity on the issue.
The "necessity" is following Trump orders to buy US weapons, at a self destructive pace. Canada's only response to US demands to jump has always been "I can go higher than this if you give us time to gaslight our slaves". This servitude has only increased after Trump's war declaration on Canada. The reward for servitude has been increasing levels of extortion placed on Canada.
Military servitude is 100% part of any overall trade relationship with US. It is fact, Canada's only real bargaining chip. The US does not defend Canada in any way whatsoever, because it is Canada's only threat. NORAD defends the US, and only defends Canada in the sense that Canada adopts the same demonic propaganda evil as the US to make enemies with who the US tells us to.
By far the most inept betrayal of Canada in trade negotiations is our rulership continuing to support US military policy, including Ukraine aid, and now, actively destroying Canada, AS A NECESSITY, to pay for absurd bankrupting US weapons purchases. Canada's alliances must include Asia and Europe, and MUST EXCLUDE the US. Instead, both Canada and EU are increasing military subservience to US, and getting abused harder for the favour.