SLOBODIAN: The end of Trudeau, but not necessarily the Trudeau era

“We got you.” So said a teary-eyed Justin Trudeau on March 6 in his final speech as prime minister. Canadians wept too — jubilant tears over his departure.

The deservedly loathed one, who belittled, betrayed and weakened Canada, moulding it into a socialist shell of its former proud democratic self, offered a wild fairytale account of his decade as PM.

“On a personal level, I made sure that every single day I put Canadians first, that I have their backs,” said the manipulative fibber to the bitter end!

“And that’s why I’m here to tell you all that we got you,” he said referring to scandal-plagued Liberal party members still in place who supported his destructive agenda.

Trudeau and the Liberal cabal sure “got” us, by essentially shoving another knife in Canadians’ backs already bent under the weight of horrific fiscal policies, vindictive attacks on rights and freedoms, and their twisted view of what Canada should be.

Here we are, facing an election called by Trudeau’s replacement Mark Carney, who now sits as PM.

He’s there only because instead of heeding demands to call an honest election as their popularity nosedived, the Liberals flipped a finger at Canadians and slyly manœuvered to allow 14-year-olds and foreigners to sign up as Liberal party members and usher him in.

Unelected Carney has nothing to be proud of for agreeing to be installed. Like male athletes who call themselves girls and steal titles, there’s no honour in that.

Shamelessly opportunistic? Or are we to believe Carney is driven to serve by a professed “love” of Canada, and at the great personal sacrifice he claims he made? Or is he a dangerous Manchurian candidate parachuted in to finish what Trudeau started? Carney’s deep globalist ties should send chills down the spines of Canadians who bother to pay attention and recoil at the idea of the Liberals winning another election with him at the helm.

The economic advisor to Trudeau, former world banker, former UN climate change zealot, Davos groupie, and board of trustees member of the World Economic Forum led by “you’ll own nothing and be happy” Klaus Schwab, doesn’t hide what he stands for. He boasted about it.

Pay attention Canada!

Unlike Trudeau, so incompetent he was shunned by that crowd, Carney’s in tight with it.

“People will charge me with being elitist or a globalist, to use that term, which is, well, that’s exactly, it happens to be exactly what we need,” said Carney recently.

Who is “we?” Certainly not Canadians wanting to live in a sovereign nation not under control of the UN, the WEF, the WHO and shadowy figures chopping away at the sovereignty of European nations, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Until the return of US President Donald Trump last November, the list included the US.

Since Carney was sworn in March 9, the Liberals gained traction and now slightly lead in some polls over Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives, who they’d long trailed by double digits.

Hopefully, the Liberals are experiencing a temporary “sugar high” because everybody’s celebrating Trudeau’s departure and talking about the new kid in town who doesn’t much like being held accountable.

 They’re manipulating Canadians into believing they suddenly want to sing O Canada with sincerity and wave the flag they trampled on — because of Trump’s tariffs.

They’re banking on Canadians drinking the Kool-Aid that Carney’s the one to take on Trump. Canada won’t “kneel” … Canada needs “respect” … Canada will impose “like for like” tariffs, he declared taking cheap swipes at Poilievre.

Instead of actually showing Canadians he’s capable of facing Trump man to man, Carney shoots divisive, antagonistic verbal arrows from afar. It seems he made no effort to meet with Trump to sort the mess to avert economic tariff hardship Canadians face.

Carney took a page out of the Trudeau playbook. Trudeau ran away from the Freedom Convoy, ran off to holiday in Tofino on the 1^st National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.

Carney ran away from Canada by packing up the Brookfield Asset Management company he chaired, moving its headquarters to New York six days after Trump announced the tariffs.

Carney now runs away from reporters to avoid uncomfortable questions about his financial dealings and sleight of hand carbon tax plans, and ran off to meet with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and stopped into Buckingham Palace to meet with King Charles III. They all hid from reporters. Why?

All pointless meetings. It’s Trump who Carney should be directly negotiating with. Especially in light of Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem warning Canadians should expect “weaker growth, higher costs and more uncertainty” due to the tariffs.

Does Trump smell weakness in Carney?

Is that why he tauntingly said it would be easier to annex Canada with the Liberals in power?

Is that why he endorsed Carney last week? Trump declared Poilievre is “no friend of mine” and “it’s easier, actually, to deal with a Liberal.” He called the delegation Trudeau had sent to Washington DC “nasty” people.

Trump, in demanding that Canada start pulling its weight on both defence spending and stopping the traffic of illegals and deadly fentanyl crossing the border into the US, has been accused of wanting to weaken Canada.

It’s hard to believe that’s so. It's doubtful he wants to hurt Canadian businesses and consumers any more than the American citizens he’s fiercely fighting to protect.

But Trump is a master of exposing rot, corruption, wasteful spending and agendas contrary to the good of citizens.

Was this a brilliant move on his part to claw back the support Liberals gained over the tariff war because he knows dealing with Poilievre’s Conservatives will actually bring mutually beneficial results?

He’s had no problem dealing with the tough, level-headed Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who like him, will fight fiercely for the people she was elected to represent. Without being nasty.

Did Trump do Canadians a huge favour by pointing out the truth — the Liberals under Carney aren’t equipped, or perhaps even willing, to solve this mess?

But they’re desperately trying to convince us they can while issuing contradictory messages on big issues. For example, Carney just said he’s willing to move away from the emissions cap. Yet Environment Minister Terry Duguid said the plan is to keep the emissions cap in place.

Which one is it? Must Canadians wait until Carney’s elected to find out if him cozying up to Alberta by spending time there is a ruse and he’ll sabotage the energy industry and further alienate Westerners beyond repair?

It reminds one of former house leader Nancy Pelosi’s comment in 2010 on the secretive Obamacare that proved disastrous: “But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”

Carney demanded a “strong and clear mandate” from voters virtually on blind faith.

His PMO seat is hardly warm, and already there are red flags.

While trying to distance himself from Trudeau’s legacy, he simply played musical chairs naming the same people to cabinet who got Canada into the mess it’s in.

His priorities are disturbing. Who is he to commit to weighing down struggling taxpayers more by sending $100 million in humanitarian aid and governance support to Palestinians still under the thumb of Hamas terrorists? You’d think the first move of a leader who “loves” Canada would be to help Canadians first.

Trump’s making headway in bringing an end to the slaughter in the Ukraine/Russia war. France and England and others are getting in the way, sabotaging those efforts with talk maybe or maybe not of sending troops into Ukraine.

Carney lectured Russia that it must negotiate in good faith. Then he poked the bear by inviting Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the June G7 summit in Alberta.

Zelenskky’s popularity in Ukraine stands at 4%. This dictator crushed religious freedom and denies people an election.

He doesn’t belong at the G7 summit.

Parading him to get Ukrainian Canadian votes and $100 million for pro-Palestinian votes is the sleazy Liberal way.

Nothing changes under Carney. The question is: How stupid are Canadian voters?

Many were duped, manipulated and bought off during the COVID ‘pandemic.’

Will Canadians forget inflation’s pain, billions squandered here and abroad, and other ills inflicted by these same Liberals now led by a craftier leader?