So no surprise, Mark Carney is the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Having set the contest entry threshold at a lofty $350,000 and outspent the others fair and square, he is now cleared to be sworn in as the next Prime Minister of Canada.There are two things to be said.The first is to Mr. Carney. We’ll say it just once: Mr. Carney, congratulations from western Canada.But enjoy the moment. For, tomorrow we need to talk about oil, gas, pipelines and what lanes the government you now head may legitimately occupy. If you mean as Liberal leader to continue your predecessor’s policy of putting Alberta out of business, it will be a tough discussion.The second thing we must say is to the string-pullers in the Liberal party. This was your chance to restore mainstream thinking to your party. Not necessarily to become conservatives or even blue liberals.But you could have pivoted to things to which common-sense Canadians could say ‘yes.’Instead you gave us four candidates who represented your old style of thinking. The choice was nothing more than who could best channel the departing Justin Trudeau.You gave us Mark Carney.Time enough to see whether Mr. Carney is any more effective as a political campaigner than Michael Ignatieff, the public intellectual you put against Stephen Harper in 2011. It’s hard to say. So far, you’ve barely let the man speak in public and then only to state-funded media.But on Canada’s behalf, here is your really big mistake. You have positioned yourself as a party ready to defend Canada at a time when its future as a sovereign state is threatened.Your narrative is that the threat comes from an aggressive, alpha male US president. An alpha male president, that is, who hates bankers and is committed to overturning globalism — which will be the practical effect of putting the United States behind a tariff barrier.So to confront the orange-haired iconoclast who has also pulled the US out of UNESCO, the World Health Organization and the Paris Accords, you have chosen Mark Carney?A technocrat who has administered not one central bank but two, was very recently the UN Ambassador for Climate Change and is in fact a platinum-level globalist? That is, he glides easily through the carpeted halls of the World Economic Forum, Chatham House, the Brookings Institution and the Group of 30… He is a pillar of one-worlders like the Bilderberger Group.Somebody who embodies everything Trump isn't, is your champion against Trump?Nobody says that to contend with Trump, you must be like Trump. But, when David went up against Goliath, at least he had a sling and a handful of pebbles.What’s Mark Carney got?This is not going to end well.This is not even going to begin well. Carney is about to get creamed.Liberals, do yourselves and all of us a favour. Go early to an election and lose it.Let somebody else deal with Donald Trump.
So no surprise, Mark Carney is the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. Having set the contest entry threshold at a lofty $350,000 and outspent the others fair and square, he is now cleared to be sworn in as the next Prime Minister of Canada.There are two things to be said.The first is to Mr. Carney. We’ll say it just once: Mr. Carney, congratulations from western Canada.But enjoy the moment. For, tomorrow we need to talk about oil, gas, pipelines and what lanes the government you now head may legitimately occupy. If you mean as Liberal leader to continue your predecessor’s policy of putting Alberta out of business, it will be a tough discussion.The second thing we must say is to the string-pullers in the Liberal party. This was your chance to restore mainstream thinking to your party. Not necessarily to become conservatives or even blue liberals.But you could have pivoted to things to which common-sense Canadians could say ‘yes.’Instead you gave us four candidates who represented your old style of thinking. The choice was nothing more than who could best channel the departing Justin Trudeau.You gave us Mark Carney.Time enough to see whether Mr. Carney is any more effective as a political campaigner than Michael Ignatieff, the public intellectual you put against Stephen Harper in 2011. It’s hard to say. So far, you’ve barely let the man speak in public and then only to state-funded media.But on Canada’s behalf, here is your really big mistake. You have positioned yourself as a party ready to defend Canada at a time when its future as a sovereign state is threatened.Your narrative is that the threat comes from an aggressive, alpha male US president. An alpha male president, that is, who hates bankers and is committed to overturning globalism — which will be the practical effect of putting the United States behind a tariff barrier.So to confront the orange-haired iconoclast who has also pulled the US out of UNESCO, the World Health Organization and the Paris Accords, you have chosen Mark Carney?A technocrat who has administered not one central bank but two, was very recently the UN Ambassador for Climate Change and is in fact a platinum-level globalist? That is, he glides easily through the carpeted halls of the World Economic Forum, Chatham House, the Brookings Institution and the Group of 30… He is a pillar of one-worlders like the Bilderberger Group.Somebody who embodies everything Trump isn't, is your champion against Trump?Nobody says that to contend with Trump, you must be like Trump. But, when David went up against Goliath, at least he had a sling and a handful of pebbles.What’s Mark Carney got?This is not going to end well.This is not even going to begin well. Carney is about to get creamed.Liberals, do yourselves and all of us a favour. Go early to an election and lose it.Let somebody else deal with Donald Trump.
