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Monday, April 21, 2025

Links - 21st April 2025 (1 - Mark Carney [including Sasha Carney and Trans Mania])

Ryan Gerritsen๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ on X - "Mark Carney - “I am not Justin Trudeau.” Ya ok, he only advised him on the economy, immigration, climate change, infrastructure & more in 2020. He had his hand in everything that has contributed to the downfall of Canada."
Michael Burt ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ The Plumb Line on X - ""I just got here.""

Meme - Mark Carney to Trump: "CANADA WILL Never BE THE 51st STATE!"
Mark Carney hugging Xi Jinping: "WE'RE CHINA'S 51ST PROVINCE"

He saved the Liberal Party from oblivion. But can Mark Carney close the deal? - "“Has there ever been a prime minister with a rรฉsumรฉ so suited for this job, at least on the economic management side? But at the same time there has never been a prime minister so inexperienced,” said Elizabeth Goodyear-Grant, professor of political studies at Queen’s University and director of the Canadian Opinion Research Archive. Running a central bank or hedge fund is different than governing a country like Canada. There is less visibility, and fewer regional and provincial balances to strike, Goodyear-Grant said. Carney’s career has been an escalating series of jobs managing money and setting rules behind the scenes for others to follow, but he has less experience playing them out himself before the public, and barely a few weeks experience as a governing party leader... “I find him fascinating,” with his “long flirtation” with the Liberal Party, and the obvious sense that he was only interested if he could have the top job from the get-go, said Jim Farney, professor of political studies at the University of Regina, director of its graduate school for public policy, and an expert in the politics of Canadian social conservatism... Farney said chiefs of staff under Stephen Harper, for example, usually went about 18 months. What would it mean to be chief of staff to Carney, he wondered, or finance minister? Farney said he is likewise unclear how Carney will relate to provincial premiers and Indigenous leaders, with his poor French and inexperience in brokering political compromise... “Somewhere Michael Ignatieff is screaming,” said Tamara Small, professor of political science at the University of Guelph. The same things that tanked Iggy arguably apply to Carney too: the “Just Visiting” slogan, that sense of elite entitlement, of swanning into politics as if it’s a step down, the wonky inexperience with campaigning. “They both use words like mendacious,” Small joked... That’s Carney’s current image to the wide centre-left of the Canadian electorate. Smart as Harper, less cringe than Trudeau. Polls suggest it is a sweet spot, though the real test remains. Canadians do not usually vote mainly on foreign affairs, not since free trade in 1988, and even more rarely on a single issue, not since conscription in 1917. This election is set to be an outlier . “We are going to vote on a nationalistic posture toward foreign affairs. It won’t last forever, but it’s strong now. People are still in the throes of trying to figure it out,” Small said. Carney’s novelty helps him, because he looks good on paper, his bio full of what his main rival Pierre Poilievre has called “trophy titles.”"

Amy Hamm: Carney has the charisma of an AI chatbot - "Carney has faced similar criticism regarding his comments in French: that he is not fluent enough to offer much substance in Canada’s second official language. In February, he mistakenly said in French that he is “in agreement with Hamas.” In March, he struggled to understand a French-speaking journalist’s question. His answers in French have been short and simple. But is he really doing any better in English? I think not. We should seriously consider if this is less a matter of Carney’s French-speaking skills, and has more to do with his general failure to articulate any substance or vision for his leadership. His English comments are hardly more meaningful than the ones he makes in broken French. Despite the constant and trite references to “building,” he has not, in either language, given Canadians a straight answer on building pipeline projects. He even vacillated — in a single sentence — from a no, to a hopeful maybe, to a more reserved “we’ll see” while on the Quebec talk show, “Tout le monde en parle,” recently. “We are in a crisis, we must act. We must choose a few projects, a few big projects. Not necessarily pipelines, but maybe pipelines, we’ll see,” said Carney . Speaking at a Liberal new conference about our military, Carney offered more vacuous statements and promises : “We won’t only bring the Canadian Armed Forces up to today’s standards, we will also build a military that is ready to fight threats that Canada is facing. And we will protect Canadians, now and into the future.”"

EDITORIAL: Public skeptical about Carney’s new carbon tax - "A survey by Leger for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation of 1,631 adults from April 4-7 found that 70% of Canadians believe businesses pass along most (44%) or some (26%) of the added costs they face to the public because of the federal industrial carbon tax. Only 9% believe businesses absorb most of the costs without hiking prices, while 21% say they don’t know."

Jean Philippe Fournier on X - "I read the liberal platform. I know a thing or two about govt budgets having worked for a Finance minister.  This plan will lead to Canada losing its AAA credit rating.  Markets were expecting (wrongfully) something serious to come from an ex-central banker. They were wrong.  And mark my words they will react.  The craziest thing in there is the creative accounting regarding investments vs. spending. Liberals will pretend that "investments" (I presume infrastructure? who knows cause there aren't any details!) don't count in the deficit, and so they will be able to "balance the budget" by 2030.  Unfortunately, their 250 billion dollars (!!) in new spending will still add to the debt. You just won't see it. Canada, in its current state, can't afford this.   As an economist, I honestly was expecting more from Carney." Carney promises $130B in new spending, no timeline for balanced budget - "A Mark Carney-led government will spend $130 billion on new measures over the next four years, with no timeline to balance the federal budget... The four-year plan also includes billions in gender and equity-related spending, including $160 million to make the Trudeau-era Black Entrepreneurship Program permanent, $400 million for a new IVF program and $2.5 billion for new infrastructure in Indigenous communities... New and existing measures will blow a $225-billion hole in the federal budget, with some of it being offset by bigger federal penalties and fines for transgressions like money laundering... The Liberal platform gives no timeline for a return to balance... He admitted that he’d need to cap growth in public sector employment to meet the platform’s fiscal targets...  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh said, any way you break it down, Carney’s plan means cuts to services for everyday Canadians."
You can fund endless spending by "taxing the 'rich'" and printing money, after all

Western Standard on X - ".@AmazingZoltan: "How many genders are there?"
Carney: "Uhhhhhhh ... In terms of sex, there are two.""
Amy Eileen Hamm on X - "According to @BCnursemidwife, @VCHhealthcare and the panel that found me guilty, Carney is wrong about there being two sexes. I hope that they summarily denounce his bigotry, as they did when I said the same thing."

Wesley Yang on X - "“We value all Canadians for who they are and will continue to do so.” Canada’s prime minister in reply to question about whether women deserve their own private spaces. (Translation: No)"

Meme - Kat Kanada @KatKanada_TM: "There's no bigger polluter than a Liberal who never shuts up about climate change and Net Zero, etc."
"Carney and wife burn 242,250 litres of jet fuel on European networking tour - emit 612 tonnes of CO2. Canadian Parliament is currently suspended and Carney is not an MP"

Meme - General Hillier @GeneralHillier: "Wow! Many things you can throw at the other party but saying they abandoned the Armed Forces and the Liberals stepped up and changed that? Nothing further from the truth. The last decade has been a ‘Decade of Despair’ for the CAF because of the Liberal government."
Liberal Party @liberal_party: "Pierre Poilievre and his Conservative Party abandoned our Armed Forces and our Veterans. Liberals stepped up and changed that."
Clearly, everything wrong federally in Canada in 2025 is the fault of Stephen Harper's government which lost power in 2015

Meme - "Pierre's Housing plan:
Get rid of bureaucracy and red tape in the way of building homes
End the Liberal immigration disaster growing our population
Use incentives and punishments to force cities to reach targets housing
Carney's housing plan:
The same government that failed at planting trees will launch a state-owned construction company that will somehow build 500,000 homes per year"

Carney cancels on Canadian 'The Knowledge Project' pod, goes on US anti Trump Democrat Scott Galloway's pod instead : r/CanadianConservative - "Who is importing US politics again? Pierre has helped launch two independent Canadian podcasts since his campaign has started - who is "anti" Canadian media again? Jon Stewart and Galloway Carney, or Primeau, Gonzalez, Shane Parrish?  I bet the CBC will talk about Carney's appearance on Galloway's pod, and not Pierre's 1 million view episode from TKP."
"Carney literally launched his campaign on an American talk show.  He's recieved endorsements from "Canadian" celebrities who just so happen to prefer to live and pay taxes in the US of A. Brookfield certainly does also.  Neil Young has lived in America for about as long as Canada has had its current flag!  Another famous American endorsement he got last month: Donald Trump.  Americans are lining up for Carney!"

Ivison: Carney’s magic fades a little after French debate - ""I thought he was on the defensive, but nonetheless, didn’t really speak to any serious policy issues. He had to say: ‘Sorry, I’m not Justin Trudeau. I just showed up here.’ But didn’t really have an answer to how the team and the program is any different from what we’ve had over the last 10 years.”...  Brodie said he doesn’t think that’s a plausible argument. “I think that when we get to the ballot box, Canadians are looking to make a judgment on the last 10 years of a country that’s poorer, weaker, and more divided. For better or for worse, he’s the guy who’s leading that party. And over the course of the past three weeks, we’ve seen all these folks who were major figures in the Trudeau government, who had planned to retire, now coming back to sign up for Mr. Carney’s team.” Ivison suggested that Carney is still trying to straddle being the agent of change and being the defender of Trudeau policies like dental, pharma and daycare.  Lang said that is an inherent contradiction.  “I guess what he’s trying to say is the leader of the Liberal Party changes everything in the Liberal Party, even if the leader of the Liberal Party doesn’t fundamentally change the cabinet, because the cabinet hasn’t fundamentally changed. And there’s a lot of policy continuity. They’re keeping a lot of the things in place, apart from the apparently hated carbon tax. So there is a tension there at a minimum, if not a contradiction...  Brodie said Poilievre faced challenges at two levels. “One, he had to continue to prosecute the case that we’ve had 10 years of poor, weaker, divided (government). ‘Do you want four more years of that?’ And I think on that front, he actually did pretty well. I’m not sure that Carney had great answers about how much of a change his next four years, if he got them, would be.  “And, secondly, there’s the prosecutor case on the individual issues. I know some of the questions were not in Mr. Polievre’s wheelhouse. But I think he did well considering these are probably issues he doesn’t really especially want to talk about. But on housing, cost of living, and on getting our own economic house in order to go toe to toe with Trump for the next four years, I thought those were good answers. He didn’t lose his cool….(and) his advantage in the language, I think, showed through,” he said.  NDP leader Jagmeet Singh did lose his cool with the moderator, Patrice Roy...  On healthcare, Brodie said the NDP has a specific interest in healthcare because it relies on healthcare unions for support. “They have to talk about what a great system it is because their supporters are the only people who still believe that. Everybody else is looking for some bigger change here in order to get just basic access to basic tests, as those wait lists continue to grow and people find their health is suffering. I’m not surprised that the Liberals don’t want to talk about healthcare. It doesn’t work for them the way that it used to. It really only works for the NDP because they have to keep those healthcare unions (happy). They are the only people who think the current system is working because after all, it is working for them,” he said."

Stephen Taylor on X - "No surprises here. Liberal who can't speak French wins French debate according to French CBC."a>

Moose on the Loose on X - "Mark Carney just RIPPED OFF Pierre Poilievre's plan but made it worse. Pierre - removes gst off of all new homes Carney - remove gst off all new homes and substancially renovated homes but ONLY for first time home buyers"

Stephen Taylor on X - "Reporter asks Carney: "In one week, you promised to cancel the increase on capital gains. You opened the door to the pipeline project, and you also promised to cancel the GST on the purchase of a first home. My question is simple: why didn’t you run for the Conservative Party?""

Senator Leo Housakos on X - "For a guy who’s supposedly an economic guru, has he put out any policy yet that he didn’t copy from the guy who’s supposedly nothing more than slogans?
Carbon Tax ✅
GST for homeowners ✅
Capital Gains Tax ✅"

Viva Frei on X - "This is Mark Carney “cancelling” the capital gains “tax hike” that Justin Trudeau proposed while Mark Carney was advising him behind the scenes. Here is a video of Justin explaining that tax hike less than one year ago. If you vote Liberal, you are an idiot with the memory of a goldfish."

Brian Lilley on X - "A couple of things about cancelling the capital gains tax changes - which I support.
1. Carney can’t do this without a vote in the House.
2. The Liberals were telling us until 5 minutes ago that this capital gains tax change was vital for our economy and fairness"

'We are all Canadians': Carney speaks on LGBTQ+ rights - "access to health care in Canada is not a business, it is a fundamental right for all Canadians without exception."
Don't Trust the Science on puberty blockers and transitioning kids!

Billboard Chris ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ on X - "BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister @MarkJCarney ’s daughter went to the UK’s infamous gender clinic, the Tavistock, when she was a child.  In this essay discovered by True North News, Sasha Carney (formerly Sophia) writes of her visits to the Tavistock.  She also rails against ‘transphobes,’ and tells of her childhood inspiration for identifying as transmasculine — a ‘boygirl’ identity encouraged by Enid Blyton books that her mother starting buying her.  “My teenage years existed in close proximity to this TERF-driven scrutiny, which was fixated on identifying how ‘authentically trans’ people like me really were.   “In 2013, shortly after I chopped off all my hair into a deeply regrettable floppy Justin Bieber cut, I moved to London, the land of Enid Blyton murder mysteries. A block from my new house was the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, an imposing grey building which contained the country's only child and adolescent ‘gender identity clinic.’  “I watched as my friend, after a year of weekly appointments trying desperately to get an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria, was denied the diagnosis, and with it any hope of top surgery because they sometimes wore skirts.   “I watched organisations with names like @Transgendertrd  refer to trans Tavistock patients as ‘experimental subjects’who didn't know what was best for them.   “I watched as my school's former principal told a national news outlet that trans students like me and many of my close friends were c*s women who were only coming out to ‘cause turbulence’ and ‘adhere to anything a bit radical.’  “I watched all this happen, and I quietly stopped wearing underwire bras, and wore baggier clothes, and I felt a fierce surge of jealousy every time I walked into the Tavistock for therapy and saw patients turn left, towards the medical spaces I didn't feel ‘trans enough’ to enter.”  Did Liberal leader Mark Carney approve of these visits to the Tavistock, the home of the UK’s childhood sex changes?  Full essay text in thread, below. ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ"

Billboard Chris ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บ on X - "I see the libs found this post and lost their minds.  It’s not an attack. It’s a literal re-posting of a publicly published essay that Mark Carney’s adult daughter wrote.  You should all read it to understand where she’s coming from, and then contemplate why a girl who doesn’t fit neatly into a stereotypical box felt a need to go to a gender clinic.   Why does our society even have gender clinics?!  The only message she should have received from the government healthcare facility and from her parents was that there was nothing wrong with her.  The very idea that there are clinics to treat children who don’t conform is INSANE.  And given that TENS OF THOUSANDS of mostly AUTISTIC CHILDREN are being MAIMED, STERILIZED, and turned into lifelong pharmaceutical patients forever dependent on some exogenous source of hormones (never mind the bone loss, heightened increase of cancers, heart disease, etc.), OF COURSE WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT IT.  She’s the daughter of the Prime Minister of Canada — a country doing nothing to stop systemic child abuse. A country which does the very opposite. It encourages the child abuse under a lie of ‘gender-affirming care.’  So you can all politely take your virtue-signalling foolishness somewhere else. Or not. I really don’t care. Hate or love, it’s all good.  And great job to @CandiceMalcolm ’s news organization for originally uncovering this important essay."

Melanie Bennet on X - "Nope. The public interest in the Sasha Carney story isn't about Sasha Carney. It's about Mark Carney's willingness to medically abuse his own child. If he can sacrifice his child to genderwang, then it's pretty likely genderwang will flourish under his leadership, harming countless more children in the process."

Robyn Urback on X - "Trash story, with zero public interest. Defenders will say it speaks to Carney’s “judgement” or something, but that’s a terribly weak way to defend publishing a story that cruelly targets a politician’s kid just to whip up fury"
Jonathon Van Maren on X - "Sasha Carney is a writer who has focused on transgender issues, a current subject of debate in Canada. If Pierre Poilievre had a son or daughter who was, say, a pro-life activist--would that attract journalistic interest? Or if they were an activist opposing gender ideology?"

Eva Kurilova on X - "It's interesting that liberals are desperately saying "don't talk about Mark Carney's adult daughter who is open about her views!" instead of "actually it's a GOOD thing his daughter is a they/them who advocates for the sterilization of children." Very telling."
Jonathan Kay on X - "I agree we shouldn’t dwell on kids of politicians who get trapped in a cult. Many families endure such tragedies. it’s usually not relevant to politics. It’s more complex when our govt *subsidizes* that cult, & when the person is an adult who boasts about their cult membership."

Thread by @SimonEsler on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "They’re Trying to Silence You on Carney’s Child. Here’s Why. ๐Ÿšจ
Pundits want all discussion of Mark Carney’s kid shut down—claiming it’s “cruel” and “inappropriate.”  But this isn’t about privacy. It’s about suppressing debate on radical gender ideology in Canada.  Let’s break it down. ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡
1️⃣ Carney’s child published a public essay.  If it was meant to be “off-limits,” why was it written to shape public discourse on gender identity?  Why is discussion of this policy-driven essay now “off-limits”? ๐Ÿค”  If you enter the arena, your ideas are up for critique.
2️⃣ Politicians’ families aren’t off-limits—until now! ๐Ÿ˜†
๐Ÿ”น Doug Ford’s daughter faced media scrutiny for her anti-vaccine stance.
๐Ÿ”น Trudeau’s family was investigated in the WE Charity scandal.
Public interest in politicians’ families isn’t new—so why the sudden rules?
3️⃣ Gender policy is not “private”—it’s public. This essay endorses:
✅ Puberty blockers
✅ Gender-affirming care
✅ Self-ID without medical gatekeeping
These are policy arguments. We have every right to debate policies affecting Canadian children.
4️⃣ Meanwhile, the UK is backtracking on gender-affirming care. The Cass Review EXPOSED:
๐Ÿšจ Puberty blockers lack solid scientific backing.
๐Ÿšจ Tavistock rushed kids into medicalization.
๐Ÿšจ Detransitioners were ignored & silenced.
Why is Canada doubling down while the UK reverses?
5️⃣ Sasha Carney’s essay is a chance to address this before the election. It’s not about one family—it’s about policies pushed into law without scrutiny.
๐Ÿ”น Canada’s conversion therapy ban passed w zero opposition
๐Ÿ”น Gender-affirming care is a Uniparty issue in Canada
6️⃣ Pundits aren’t protecting Carney’s child—they’re protecting the status quo.
The Cass Review shattered gender-affirming care. Scandals from Tavistock, WPATH, and whistleblowers are mounting. This is a desperate attempt to prevent scrutiny before Canada’s model collapses too.
7️⃣ This is about control. If the debate were about truth, they’d welcome discussion. If their position were strong, they wouldn’t need censorship. Instead, they demand silence—because they can’t defend the reality of what’s happening.
๐Ÿ”ฅ Final Thought:  Sasha Carney’s essay isn’t just a personal story—it’s a case study in ideological subversion.  This conversation isn’t being shut down to protect a family.  It’s being shut down to protect a system that can’t survive scrutiny.  Will we let them?
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Canada deserves answers ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
๐Ÿ”น Why are we ignoring the Cass Review?
๐Ÿ”น Why is gender medicine “off-limits” for debate?
๐Ÿ”น Why was the conversion therapy law passed without opposition?
This isn’t about left vs. right—it’s about a system that must be questioned."

Barbara Kay on X - "The daughter did not request privacy. Au contraire. She represents gender ideology aloud and with pride. It is fair to wonder aloud what effect this will have on her father’s political stance."
Unapologetic Conservative ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ on X - "If she was an astronaut, could we talk about it? If she was working for Xi Jinping should we mention it? Will the woke left be be talking about it to promote votes? Is she talking about it? Why can't Conservatives discuss what is in public, highly relevant to every Canadian family, current legislation, controversial, proven to tumble Liberal polls?  Just stick to reasoned arguments & facts  & don't sink to petty attacks."
Joel: ื™ื•ืกืฃ ืคื ื—ืก on X - "Agreed. Especially when Mark Carney and his family were more than happy to have Canadian press write glowing articles about them. His four daughters are all adults and once they allowed the press into their personal lives for propaganda purposes they are completely fair game to have any and all negative press as well."
Knight Templar of Ni on X - "Yeah I'm confused here. I thought trans people were to be feted and celebrated not hidden in a closet. ๐Ÿคท How short their memories are though."

Dr. Debra Soh on X - "If a politician has a “trans” child, the public has a right to know. It tells us your policies will be based in pseudoscience & that you have poor judgment."

Stuart Parker, blancmange impersonator & cannibal on X - "Remember when Stephen Harper shook his son’s hand as he headed off to elementary school?   The left and the legacy media were fine with excoriating Harper on his parenting style and plastering the kid’s face everywhere. Impugning and attacking the parent-child bond between the PM and his minor child on TV, in newspapers, magazines, memes, editorial cartoons. Right in front of a this seven year old kid.  Sure, that was okay. But talking about Mark Carney’s 24-year-old activist public figure daughter, now that—that’s apparently beyond the pale.  Why? We all know why. It’s because there are no acceptable circumstances to criticize genderwang. Until this orthodoxy is overthrown, it will always be made to seem like whatever criticism has been made is blasphemy."

TyranP on X - "Attacked should not be condoned, that’s true.  However acknowledging their existence and/or public activism on any debated subject that’s part of the cultural zeitgeist is valid, and not an “attack”   Parents who trans their kids are cemented to the ideology for life  They can never admit they (even inadvertently or coherced) harmed their own children.  Gender ideology is child abuse & is something Carney will commit to on behalf of all Canadians  That’s why it’s relevant.  I’ve only seen @BillboardChris  ‘s mentions of it. Which was not an “attack”. That’s valid discourse on the topic, and hella relevant.  If that’s what you’re referring to, I have to ask; Since when does acknowledging reality become “going after someone” or an “attack”?"
Reality is an attack on delusion, so

Jagmeet Singh on X - "To Poilievre's friends. Lay off Carney's kid. Stop being a bunch of bullies and jerks. It's not okay."
Dr. Emily Stowe on X - "1) She's 24 YO and everything discussed about her, SHE published online.
2) Remind me again who used his kid as a prop and brought her to the House of Commons? Sit down and shut up."

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