Friday afternoon, I received a tele-marketing call from the Liberal candidate in my riding in Calgary. She went through the usual spiel of “having a strong voice to speak on my behalf in Ottawa”.
She added the polls in the riding look like it’s a toss-up between her and the Conservative candidate, but if I cast my vote for her, “we can elect a government and a prime minister in Mark Carney that will stand up to Donald Trump and protect Canadian sovereignty”.
No mention of solving the housing crisis. Not a word about getting a west-to-east pipeline built so Canada can open up new markets for our most valuable resources, oil and natural gas.
No promise to not bring back the consumer carbon tax. Nothing about withdrawing electric vehicle mandates.
Nary a mention of reviewing the equalization payments scheme, or renaming it for what it really is, the ‘Let’s keep the feudalism system alive in Canada’ tax.
She did, however, offer to give me a ride to my polling station, and I may ring her up and ask for a lift, just for a laugh. My polling station is one-and-a-half blocks away.
But talk about being taken for a ride, that’s exactly what Mark Carney has done to Canadians, with his puffed-up chest and cheeks, saying he is the only one who can ‘handle’ US President Donald Trump.
The Liberal Party leader should be sending a thank-you card to Trump, because there is no candidate for prime minister in all of Canada’s history who has received as large a gift as Trump has delivered to Carney.
Instead of having to defend the record of failures of the Liberal government over the last decade, Trump and his tariffs arrived like presents in a Christmas stocking for Carney, who was then not forced to defend Justin Trudeau’s fumbles and blunders, not that there are any reasonable arguments to defend them.
Carney went so far as to throw Trudeau under his campaign bus on Thursday, calling him “an unserious figure who invited ridicule”, as reported by Blacklock’s Reporter.
President Donald Trump “treated me as the Prime Minister, not as something else,” Carney told reporters, as per Blacklock’s. “I am not even going to say the word he used about my predecessor.”
With friends like that......
But Trump and his tariffs have also been gifts to Canadian, by shining a light, perhaps unintentionally, of deep-rooted problems and challenges facing the country, in particular the west/east chasm that is deeper than most thought.
Carney has himself shone a light on the chasm, perhaps unintentionally.
On February 12, speaking out of the English side of his mouth in Kelowna, he suggested he had converted from being a climate change zealot to someone who supported an energy east pipeline.
He said he would “use all of the powers of the federal government, including the emergency powers of the federal government, to accelerate the major projects that we need in order to build this economy and take on the Americans.”
Only five days later, speaking out of the French side of his mouth, he told CBC those emergency powers wouldn’t apply to Quebec, which would have veto power over any pipeline to the east coast, which he repeated at the French-language Liberal leadership debate.
Carney identifies as the only party leader who can ‘handle’ Trump, but it’s Trump doing the handling.
Trump has said he would rather deal with a Liberal, which Carney takes as a compliment. It isn’t; it’s an acknowledgment by Trump that Carney would be an easier pushover than Pierre Poilievre.
Trump is not now and never has been the number one issue in this federal election, but Carney has convinced the Liberal cult followers the president is bound and determined to destroy Canada, making it the 51st state.
If Canada is ever to become the 51st state, that decision will be made in Canada by Canadians, not in Washington DC nor in Mar-a-Lago.
The Laurentian Elite, of which Carney is a member, will be the root of destroying Canada, not Trump.
Maybe the president sees what’s happening and is merely offering an invitation to those left standing.
Carney has proven at his rallies and media scrums he is smug and pompous, talking down to people, showing his arrogance and lack of patience when asked a question by the media he doesn’t want to answer. In fact, most of his ‘answers’ have not been answers.
The number one issue of this election is Canadian unity and the future of the country.
The biggest threat to Canadian unity is Carney and his Liberal elitists.
Just as boys don’t belong in girls’ sports or locker rooms, Liberals don’t belong in government and a broken system can’t be fixed by those who broke it.
