Meet The New Boss, Eh/Same As The Old Boss, Eh

Up in the 51st state leftwing Canukistan, Justin Trudeau is stepping down after nine long years in power in favor of banker Mark Carney.

Former central banker Mark Carney won the race to become leader of Canada’s ruling Liberal Party and will succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister, official results showed on Sunday.

Carney will take over at a tumultuous time in Canada, which is in the midst of a trade war with longtime ally the United States under President Donald Trump and must hold a general election soon.

Carney, 59, took 86% of votes cast to beat former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland in a contest in which just under 152,000 party members voted.

“There’s someone who’s trying to weaken our economy,” Carney said of Trump, spurring loud boos at the party gathering. “He’s attacking Canadian workers, families, and businesses. We can’t let him succeed.”

“This won’t be business as usual,” Carney said. “We will have to do things that we haven’t imagined before, at speeds we didn’t think possible.”

Trudeau announced in January that he would step down after more than nine years in power as his approval rating plummeted, forcing the ruling Liberal Party to run a quick contest to replace him.

“Make no mistake, this is a nation-defining moment. Democracy is not a given. Freedom is not a given. Even Canada is not a given,” Trudeau said.

Carney, a political novice, argued that he was best placed to revive the party and to oversee trade negotiations with Trump, who is threatening additional tariffs that could cripple Canada’s export-dependent economy.

Trudeau has imposed C$30 billion of retaliatory tariffs on the United States in response to tariffs Trump levied on Canada.

“My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect,” Carney said.

Yeah, Trump is not exactly known for giving in to demands for “respect.” And given that the United States makes up some 77% of Canada’s world trade, while the Canada only makes up some 13% of America’s $9 trillion in global trade, the power dynamic between the two countries is hardly equal. Canada is much, much more exposed to economic hardship in a trade war than the United States is. I expect Carney’s and Canada’s resolve to work about as long and well as it did in the South Park “Canada on Strike” episode.

Can we expect Carney to undo some of Trudeau’s most heinous policies?

Don’t get your hopes up.

  • Mark Carney: “While America engages in the war on woke, Canadians value inclusiveness.” So Canada’s government will continue the same woke policies that helped drive Trudeau (and Canada) down.
  • Jordan Peterson: “The inevitable Grand Pooba of the currently wretched, but still dangerously powerful, Liberals, one Mark Carney, is one of the world’s prime advocates of the insane inanities of Net Zero.”
  • JP: “He is a man who has planned, in writing, not least in his bestselling book Values, the complete destruction of the fossil fuel industry. Bye-bye Alberta.”
  • JP: “If that’s not bad enough, and it is, he’s also simultaneously an advocate of the same postnational view of Canada defined by Trudeau Jr and his moralistic minions.”
  • JP: “What are we, according to such good thinkers? Nothing. Nothing, but if anything, the oppressive, patriarchal, white-supremacist, identityless, colonial settler state defined by the progressive ideologues in the think tanks and elite dining rooms in eastern Canada.”
  • Dave Rubin: “If you live in western Canada, particularly where oil and natural resources are important, this man is basically trying to destroy your livelihood.”
  • Don’t expect anything to change until Canadian federal elections later this year.

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    9 Responses to “Meet The New Boss, Eh/Same As The Old Boss, Eh”

    1. 10x25mm says:

      Mark Carney was appointed vice chairman at Brookfield Asset Management in 2020, where he led the firm’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) and impact fund investment strategy. Brookfield is a multinational conglomerate which uses a variety of pyramid techniques and agressive lawyering to reap outsized gains from heavily leveraged investments.

      Brookfield makes a good deal of money off of fossil fuel investments: coal, natural gas, and tar sands oil. Carney is still getting heat for his false 2020 claims that Brookfield was “net zero” across its portfolio.

      Carney is a smarter, richer version of Fidelito, but no more ethical.

    2. 10x25mm says:

      Prime Minister Carney has an immediate, major issue to resolve, courtesy of Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

      Ontario Premier Doug Ford imposed a 25 percent tariffs on electricity sent to Michigan and other upper U.S. states, starting yesterday (Monday). MISO and NYISO expect the shortfall to destabilize our electricity grid.

      The giggle here is it may well boomerang on Ontario and destabilize their grid. Premier Ford evidently does not remember August 14th, 2003 very well.

      President Trump noticed Premier Ford’s electricity tariff and replied in kind this morning:

      “Based on Ontario, Canada, placing a 25% Tariff on “Electricity” coming into the United States, I have instructed my Secretary of Commerce to add an ADDITIONAL 25% Tariff, to 50%, on all STEEL and ALUMINUM COMING INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM CANADA, ONE OF THE HIGHEST TARIFFING NATIONS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

      This will go into effect TOMORROW MORNING, March 12th.

      Also, Canada must immediately drop their Anti-American Farmer Tariff of 250% to 390% on various U.S. dairy products, which has long been considered outrageous. I will shortly be declaring a National Emergency on Electricity within the threatened area. This will allow the U.S to quickly do what has to be done to alleviate this abusive threat from Canada.

      If other egregious, long time Tariffs are not likewise dropped by Canada, I will substantially increase, on April 2nd, the Tariffs on Cars coming into the U.S. which will, essentially, permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada.

      Those cars can easily be made in the USA!

      Also, Canada pays very little for National Security, relying on the United States for military protection.

      We are subsidizing Canada to the tune of more than 200 Billion Dollars a year. WHY??? This cannot continue.

      The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State.

      This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear.

      Canadians taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the World will be bigger, better and stronger than ever — And Canada will be a big part of that.

      The artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear, and we will have the safest and most beautiful Nation anywhere in the World — And your brilliant anthem, “O Canada,” will continue to play, but now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL STATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!”

      The Canadian dollar immediately dropped 0.7%

    3. Malthus says:

      “[T]he power dynamic between the two countries is hardly equal. Canada is much, much more exposed to economic hardship in a trade war than the United States is.”

      Toronto is the wealthiest province in Canada. It’s proximity to the Industrial Midwest gives it an advantage in international trade because of inexpensive transportation costs across the Great Lakes.

      While industrial activity in the Great Lakes region is declining, the infrastructure build up from the preceding years has established “trade routes” that continue to facilitate trade between our two countries.

      In a trade war with the US, Toronto is disproportionately affected. This provides leverage against Canada’s political center. If I were Mark Carney, it would give me pause to consider that a trade war would diminish Toronto’s financial clout and political power.

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    5. Malthus says:

      Errata: for “Toronto is the wealthiest province…” instead read “Ontario is the wealthiest Province…”

      Toronto is a city, not a “state”.

    6. Malthus says:

      @10×25

      “The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State.”

      For Canada, this is like cutting your throat to cure a nosebleed.

      That said, integrating Canada would not be much more difficult than reuniting East Germany with West Germany. Living standards between the two countries are similar, language is the same (excepting Quebec) and the Canadian dollar is a decimal-based currency.

      However, the cultural divide is wider than the existing one between North Atlantic states and the Deep South. Canada tends to view the USA much like Yankees see Southerners. America has regional tensions that would be exacerbated by assimilating Canada. For that reason alone, the Canada Project ought to be shelved.

    7. Paul Murphy says:

      1 – Ontario Premier, Doug Ford pretends to be able to put a 25% tariff on electricity sold into the United States and has parlayed that pretence into a negotiating position on all tariffs affecting Ontario. In reality, however the best he can do is add a surcharge on what Ontario Hydro charges its American customers – he has no basis for intervening in national tariff issues – those are a federal issue.

      2 – I have a more “conspiracy oriented” view of what’s happening on my sub stack. Please take a look Paul530.substack.com.

    8. flicka47 says:

      @Malthus

      Just got off a cruise ship in Brisbane AUS yesterday (yeah, there ☺) Met a Canadian who wants to become the 51st state. BUT we’re not allowed to give Quebec back!

    9. Stephen J. says:

      I don’t want our provinces to become the 51st through 60th states, but I would be deeply happy if we could copy your Bill of Rights.

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