Paul Rowan Brian is a BC-based columnistWith new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney now in charge of the Great White North, many around the world are looking more closely at his beliefs and pedigree.An alum of Goldman Sachs and former head of the Bank of England, Carney has been heralded by Canada’s dominant centre-left voices in the media as a national saviour. If he were a black woman or transgender, one wouldn’t have been surprised to see shrines and worship services to the Great Leader take place during his campaign.Carney’s rallies with liberal Baby Boomers giving the finger to those who opposed their anointed globalist was the cherry on top of a deeply smug, self-righteous election that has resulted in several provinces of Canada forming serious separatist movements. Carney voters were assured by Canada’s leftist elites that they were “standing up to Trump” by electing a competent and decisive man. Don’t like it? Get lost, Trump-lover!In a recent twist, Carney’s grinning thumbs-up with Trump during the recent White House visit and the uncovering of his various deep ties to the Trump and Kushner family just mean he’s the perfect person to deal with our southern neighbour, not that he was lying during his election campaign claims about being Mr. Canadian Nationalist, say liberals..According to the dominant media narrative, Carney, 60, is here to save Canada from its myriad challenges. A Harvard and Oxford-educated galaxy brain who believes all the correct, liberal things, we’re told that Carney is the perfect person to manage President Donald Trump’s tariffs and bring Canadians together in a thriving liberal democratic society full of wonderful rainbow multiculturalism and diversity.Let’s be clear: Canada certainly needs to be turned around. The nation’s standard of living is sinking lower by the month and its economy is “walking on a tightrope.” The military is rapidly deteriorating, homeless populations and drug addiction are soaring and crime rates are through the roof across the nation. Supposedly, Carney’s just the guy to fix this and guide us back to the sunny side of the needle-strewn street full of homeless people.Nice narrative. It would be a shame if somebody looked a bit deeper. So let’s do just that..What’s really behind Carney’s beliefs? Who’s the man behind the suit who’s already been feted as a national saviour by Canada’s federally-funded leftist media machine, the CBC? What experiences and influences built Carney into who he is today? Why are photos of him rubbing shoulders with figures like Ghislaine Maxwell circulating around the internet?Born in the mid-1960s in the tiny far-north town of Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, Carney’s family moved to Edmonton, Alberta when he was six. Due to his Irish ancestry, Carney was raised a dual citizen and held Irish and Canadian citizenship, as well as the UK citizenship he later obtained, at the time of his recent election to PM. He said he will be dropping both in order to retain only his Canadian citizenship.A bright student and enthusiastic athlete, Carney went on to attend Harvard on scholarship. There, he played hockey as a goalie and at a game, met his future wife, Diane Fox. The daughter of a wealthy British pig-farming family, Fox is a climate-obsessed “eco-warrior” whose sister-in-law Tania Rotherwick was a close friend of Ghislaine Maxwell.Fox serves on the board of think tank the US-based Eurasia Group, where she’s surrounded by a number of individuals including once disgraced journalist, now member of parliament, Evan Solomon. She pulls off the impressive feat of being, perhaps, even more focused on climate change than her husband.Carney moved on from Harvard to a position in London at Goldman Sachs in the late 1980s, where he worked in credit analysis before going to Oxford, and pursuing his Ph.D. in economics with a future view of potentially becoming a professor or getting involved in public policy. He returned to Goldman after that, eventually becoming a managing director and leaving to become deputy governor of the Bank of Canada. This was followed by various senior positions in the Canadian government, and the Bank of England for just under eight years. He went on to head up one of the largest asset management companies in the world as chair of Brookfield Asset Management, as well as sitting on the board of directors for Bloomberg, L.P..Carney has also served on a long list of boards for globalist, climate-focused organizations such as the World Economic Forum. He was also appointed “Special Envoy on Climate Change” to the UN in 2019 and during the pandemic, advised on Trudeau’s approach to COVID.It’s worth remembering that Trudeau’s reaction to COVID included calling those who didn’t want to get COVID vaccines people who “don’t believe in science or progress and are very often misogynistic and racist.” Trudeau mused whether or not “we tolerate these people” and blocked Canadians who hadn’t gotten the jab from leaving the country. Trudeau went on to deploy Canadian authorities against peaceful truckers during the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa, including trampling an old lady in a walker with a police horse.According to Carney however, Canada’s response to COVID prioritized“the values of economic dynamism and efficiency joined by those of solidarity, fairness, responsibility and compassion.” The thousands whose businesses shut down or were persecuted for not getting an experimental vaccine might disagree with his rosy sentiment..It’s also bizarre that Carney would write such a noble-sounding proclamation given that Canada’s largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, ran a headline including sentiments of “Let them die” for the unvaccinated. Also relevant: Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program is surging ahead with euthanasia for those suffering from mental or physical illness, including offering it to a traumatized combat veteran.In his 2021 book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, we get a clear snapshot of Carney’s beliefs and priorities. To be fair, the book is based on a crucial question for our age and raises important questions, asking:“What is value? How is it grounded? Which values underpin value? Can the very act of valuation shape our values and constrain our choices? How do the valuations of markets affect the values of our society? Does the narrowness of our vision, the poverty of our perspective, mean we undervalue what matters to our collective wellbeing?"These are very good questions. Carney notes that the formerly binding force of religious faith had the power to at least partly answer them. Now he and the Davos Set are the new bosses, here to rule over us and save the planet whether we like it or not.“Increasingly, the value of something, of some act or of someone is equated with their monetary value, a monetary value that is determined by the market,” Carney notes.The warnings against wealth inequality, loss of humanity and integrity and the psychological and societal damage of our materialistic, atomized age are absolutely true. Carney is far from the first or even the hundredth thinker to observe this. But using it as a pretext for white-knighting about building a better society full of urban densification and a net-zero carbon utopia is the real purpose of the book. Just because somebody points out a real problem doesn’t mean they’re going to offer you a real solution..Carney’s Value(s) points to the Davos Set’s preferred golden calf of “stakeholder capitalism,” a mission-oriented carbon-reduction capitalism that aims to find a way to balance the market with the collective interest of stability and “sustainability.”What exactly is meant by these collective interests, who decides that, and how such priorities would actually be implemented in real life are, of course, the rub.Even if the motive behind enforcing a totalistic secular humanist view of the purpose of an economy or a society were entirely valid, the potential to abuse that out of an “end justifies the means” mentality would remain as strong (or potentially stronger) than in a theocratic state that modern liberal democracies so blithely assume to have ethically and conceptually overcome in their modern enlightenment.“We must build consensus around national goals, such as a just transition to a net-zero economy, combating COVID or universal skills training so that all can reap the rewards of the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” Carney writes..Here Carney and his globalist brethren run into the obvious problem at the heart of their grand projects: they want to recreate the solidarity and conceptual unity of a God-led world order, but without God. They want to create gods (“sustainability,” “equity,” “fairness”) and build a flawless Tower of Babel on that foundation.Such projects are doomed to end in oppression and megalomaniacal overzealousness in the pursuit of this elusive “fairness.” Worshiping ideals such as a “net zero” economy is just a way of trying to replace God, tribe and culture as the binding force of a society.This mindset is especially self-defeating and dangerous when it is primarily pursued in the high-tech developed world where it can be more fully implemented, leaving the developing world as the dirty furnace of mass production and unchecked pollution where it can churn out the parts needed by the “enlightened” moneyed nations and their increasingly restrictive carbon measurement systems.As Canadian psychologist and commentator Jordan Peterson recently remarked, “Carney says in his book that every single financial decision that every individual or organization makes has to prioritize decarbonization above all else … There will be many who pay a price along the way but it’s necessary because, you know ‘you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.’ ”.All it takes is a brief glance below Canada’s rank media propaganda to see that something is very rotten in the True North. Carney’s cancellation of Canada’s consumer carbon tax is just a carrot approach, likely to be continued by bigger carbon credits and incentive programs. When the carrot ceases to be appealing for enough citizens, the stick will appear. And it may hit quite a bit harder than many expect.Carney has been installed precisely because he’s an inside man who’s going to use Canada to advance the globalist agenda, not because he’s some principled hero who’s going to stand up to Trump and protect the precious conscience of sensitive Canucks. There’s no doubt that Carney is worse than Trudeau. In fact, it’s quite likely Carney’s reign will come to make Trudeau’s time in office look pleasant and agreeable in comparison..To dismiss Carney as a joke or unintelligent would be foolhardy; he’s clearly a brilliant man who also happens to be committed to a green socialist agenda that will inevitably curtail fundamental freedoms and national sovereignty.The technique is completely obvious to anyone paying attention. Carney is not some evil villain talking about harming people. He’s clearly a kind and intelligent guy who wrote a whole book about helping people. The idea that he sees himself as some dark master plotting world enslavement in a smoky backroom misses the point and is an infantile understanding of how global power works: the reason people like Carney are so dangerous is precisely because they see themselves as saviours and heroes heralding an exciting new age of progress and shaping the “Fourth Industrial Revolution.”Woke extremism, burdensome DEI regulations, ESG doctrine being forced on businesses and carbon reduction becoming the new religious mantra are all part of the progressive package that Carney intends to push. It might start with nice rainbows and tax credits, but it won’t take long to turn ugly.This goal will inevitably include some need to clamp down on carbon by restricting freedom of movement, speech and a laundry list of other rights that Westerners take for granted. This is the glaring subtext of Carney’s book and everything said by politicians like him.That such inevitable rewards and punishments will be done supposedly for people’s own good and the good of the planet is the self-righteous icing on the cake.The fact that a sufficient number of Canadians were naïve enough to elect Carney bodes very darkly for Canada’s future.Paul Rowan Brian is a BC-based columnist.
