"There's no chance after this election is over, that Canada will do anything but fold."
This from a senior official of the Eurasia Group, the influential globalist consultancy that employs both former Trudeau adviser Gerry Butts, and Diana Fox, wife of Mark Carney.
Speaking on the Hannaford show, David Knight-Legg — an Alberta-based finance adviser to governments and industry — referred to information he'd received ‘with a degree of authority that could only come from somebody close to Mark Carney, his wife and Gerry Butts.'
"This fighting talk — Team Canada, elbows up — is for the election, nothing more. Canada has no leverage, none at all. They will fold."
And the Conservatives?
“Pierre Poilievre is fighting a good fight. But he has a job punching through the mainstream media. That huge Edmonton rally barely caused a ripple, hardly reported outside Alberta.”
Meanwhile, Catherine Swift — also appearing on a double-header special edition of `Hannaford today — says members of the Coalition of Concerned Manufacturers & Businesses of Canada don't care much for the Ford-Carney Team Canada approach, anyway.
"They want somebody to do what (Alberta Premier) Danielle Smith is doing, work it out, negotiate with the Trump government. This confrontational, 'elbows-up' approach is not actually doing any good."
Like Knight-Legg though, she sees Canada starting from behind, weakened by ten years of government that ‘diminished and constrained’ Canada’s resource sector… “For ten years we grew not at all.”
With less than three weeks to go to the federal election, Knight-Legg and Swift are commenting on two things.
First, President Trump withdrew reciprocal tariffs on more than 70 countries as they lined up to negotiate new agreements with the US administration. At the same time however, he increased tariffs to 104% on China, a rate clearly intended to exclude China from the US market. The stock market soared on Wednesday, then fell back sharply on Thursday. What happened?
Second, does any of this mean any good for Canada?
There is some hope. As Knight-Legg says, the strategic interests of Canada and the US are virtually identical. But unless the Conservatives are dealing with the US administration, it’s easy to be pessimistic. A Carney government has a different political agenda, that doesn’t fit well with US priorities.
For the full story, tune in to Hannaford tonight at seven o clock.
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