AC/DC’s Thunderstruck is blasted when Mark Carney walks into rallies and events.
Odd song choice for an expensive suit trying to portray the image of a solid, steady banker whose economic brilliance will rescue Canadians from the wreckage caused by the Liberal party members he leads, endorses, and advised for years.
It gets cheering supporters all pumped up. But could any of them explain how lyrics about wild thrills on a road trip and hookups with, to delicately put it, exceptionally ‘kind’ Texas girls that ‘whoa baby, baby … blew our minds’ inspires their confidence in a dangerous WEF-modelled utopian future that Carney suggests he’ll deliver?
A line in Thunderstruck about going rogue is almost mockingly rich. ‘Broke all the rules, played all the fools’ could apply to Justin Trudeau’s secretive, scandal-plagued Liberals who recklessly ramped up Canada's federal debt to $1.3 trillion, enriched friends with shady contracts and all this while Canadians struggled.
Carney assures he’s different. But as meat has become scarce in too many fridges due to the Liberal’s runaway inflation and taxation, there’s little meat to chew on in the hoagie he’s serving that’ll increase the debt by billions of dollars and weigh Canadians down even more.
This elitist globalist who wears $2,000 runners makes feeble attempts to portray himself as a regular Joe to woo votes from commoners. He said Thunderstruck was his “warm up tune” when he played minor hockey.
It was released in 1990 when he was 25, so he’d have been playing with kids aged five to 17. Carney was either a late minor hockey bloomer or he... what? Exaggerated? Or fibbed, maybe?
It wouldn’t be the only time. Canadians who bother to try to sift through every questionable thing he's said on the campaign trail should be thunderstruck that Carney’s nose hasn’t gone Pinocchio.
Couple that with the smug secrecy shrouding his ties to Brookfield Asset Management (BAM,) where he served as chair of the board for five years right up to when he resigned to seek the Liberal Party leadership, and the hard truth is Canadians don’t know enough about Carney’s assets and personal economics, or global allegiances, or plans to “reimagine” Canada, to place trust in him.
Here are a few more rich ones from the prime minister.
As the lies stack up, it’s mindboggling to think Canadians who were so enraged with Trudeau’s deception and scandals, could blindly accept drab Carney at face value.
The polls, if they are to be believed, indicate that voters will hand Canney a majority government on April 28.
Maybe all is righteous and honourable in Carneyland concerning Brookfield, as Carney says it is. Maybe he won’t reap any of that personal benefit the Conservatives allege he could.
But we have learned to mistrust rich Liberals so 'maybe' isn’t good enough.
Let's see. There was Trudeau’s Aga Khan affair, the SNC Lavalin affair, the WE Charity debacle, the ArriveCan scandal, paying outrageous consultancy fees to McKinsey & Company, the purchase of a $9 million condo in Manhattan for the consul general, $231.7 million paid to Canadian Aviation Electronics for never-used ventilators sold as scrap metal. And let's not forget the Sustainable Development Technology Canada program’s green slush fund through which the auditor general says hundreds of millions were given to Liberal insiders, and much more.
It was the Liberal government's refusal to share the paperwork on this, that brought Parliamentary business to a standstill before Christmas. How convenient was that. As Parliament was not sitting, there could be no confidence vote to bring the Liberal government to an end.
Meanwhile, Carney has been criss-crossing Canada pledging billions to fund his climate zealot projects that include heat pumps and nuclear energy. Coincidentally, Brookfield has interests in heat pumps, nuclear energy and modular housing.
Are the Conservatives onto something when they hammer the message that Canadians 'can’t trust Carney?’
He should be tripping over himself to divulge his assets and potential conflicts of interest, to erase all doubt and suspicion and let us know he really is a swell guy. But no. All we peasants deserve to know is that his assets are in a blind trust.
Conservative Michael Barrett wrote a letter to Canada’s lobbying commissioner demanding an investigation into Carney’s pledge to spend $1 billion on heat pumps “a decision that would clearly benefit companies in the heat pump business.”
At issue is Brookfield Infrastructure that owns Ontario-based Enercare, a company that offers services that include heat pump retrofits. Brookfield Infrastructure is BAM’s listed flagship infrastructure company.
“As such, it is conceivable that Mr. Carney might well benefit financially from the Liberals’ announced $1 billion heat pump program.”
During the French leaders’ debate Carney promoted nuclear energy “as a great opportunity” and cited two companies — Cameco and Westinghouse Electric Company.
Huh. Cameco and Brookfield acquired Westinghouse Electric in November 2023.
The Conservatives charged that Carney unscrupulously promoted Westinghouse. “If Westinghouse was to rake in billions of Canadian tax dollars, Mark Carney would almost certainly benefit financially,” wrote Barrett in a statement.
Barrett said, “Carney should come clean and immediately disclose his assets so Canadians can render judgment” on conflicts of interests before voting in the federal election.
Obviously, that’s not going to happen.
Another potential red flag might be Carney’s tough talk about President Donald Trump’s tariffs, allegedly the “biggest crisis of our lifetimes.”
He said Trump is “trying to fundamentally restructure the international trading system” and is “rupturing the global economy.” Rupturing or repairing?
Here’s where it gets interesting.
“To succeed in a crisis, you have to act with overwhelming force. In a crisis the private sector retreats, and government needs to step up. Government must lead and catalyze private investment.”
Overwhelming force? Does that only apply to Trump’s tariffs or is it OK in any other crisis the Liberal government declares?
Trudeau used overwhelming force to crush Canadians exercising their right to protest lost rights and freedoms when he unlawfully invoked the War Measures [Emergencies] Act.
Carney nodded in approval accusing Freedom Convoy participants of being “treasonous.”
Too many unknowns, too many potential red flags with Carney, too many past failures and mediocre performances ignored.
Many Brits were glad to get rid of Carney who served as governor of the Bank of England.
“Britain, unlike Canada, has always been more brutally honest about what they like about Carney — but mostly what they don’t like,” wrote National Post columnist Michael Taube.
“The wide range of criticism included Carney’s left-wing politics, such as his championing of radical environmentalist policies like net-zero emissions, along with his oppostioin to Brexit, his political inexperience, dull personality, volatile temper, lousy track record at the Bank of England and more.”
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If the Liberals under are elected to serve a fourth term, Canadians will quickly learn if another AC/DC hit — Highway to Hell — would have been a more appropriate campaign song choice.
One interpretation of the meaning of the lyrics is that the song is based on a stretch of road in Australia, the Canning Highway, dubbed the highway to hell because of the high motor vehicle fatality rate.
What lies ahead on the road, under Carney?
Carney promises big things. Carney also lies. Carney want to pursue online censorship legislation — the democratically dangerous Online Harm’s Act that’ll crush free speech... and criticism of him.
So, under Carney will Canadians be thunderstruck in a good way or led down a fiscal, oppressive highway to hell by a guy who hides an alleged volcanic temper behind a sort of pleasant forced smile?