Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker on X - "There's an old adage: "They wouldn't keep doing it unless it worked" Enter Mark Carney, who can't go five minutes without dropping the line "In a more divided and uncertain world" like it's his personal mantra. Every speech, every policy pitch, every news release...bam, there it is. Why? Because it sells fear. It justifies bloated government spending, endless regulations, and "unity" under Ottawa's control while painting critics as dividers. The Carney Liberals peddle this doom-loop to distract from their own messes. Skyrocketing debt, housing chaos, inflation, crime, immigration. "The World's uncertain? Blame Trump or anyone but us. Hand over more taxes!" Repeat. And the believers? Eastern citiots and media lapdogs who nod along, feeling virtuous in their echo chambers. Newsflash...the World's always been messy. Carney's line isn't insight, it's manipulation. But if it didn't work on the gullible, he'd have drop it yesterday. Division sells votes."
Mike Lake on X - "It’s absolutely unfathomable how little scrutiny Canada’s national media is giving the Carney Liberal government, while offering megaphones to partisan Liberal insiders to declare their feelings about their literal political opponent. Where are the blaring headlines about Canada’s record debt, self-inflicted housing and food crises, increasing serious crime rate, and broken immigration system? If we’re going to talk about political machinations, where are the dogged reporters asking MPs who have joined the Liberals about the conversations they’ve had, and with whom, in advance of crossing? Who’s asking the newest Liberal MP why he took the last three months off?! Or if he actually lives in BC or Alberta? These are all important and fair questions that are in the public interest and are, quite simply, not being pursued by almost anyone in the mainstream media. Relentlessly asking Liberals what they think of Conservatives is not the journalism Canada needs at this crucial moment in time."
Andrew Scheer on X - "The Canadian mainstream media is giving Carney the biggest open ice EVER in recent political history. Punishing food inflation? Housing starts falling? Bigger deficits than Trudeau? They don’t care. They even write articles about Canada being worse off than Alabama but act like it happened all of a sudden - like the weather. Meanwhile, Carney hasn’t removed a single anti-development law, or approved a single new project out of his Major Projects office. His response to food inflation is a recycled Trudeau policy that didn’t work back then. He promised during the election that he would get a deal on US tariffs and so far things have just gotten worse. Meanwhile, the media gush over trade deals that have already been signed by previous governments, regurgitate Liberal spin as headlines, and spend more time scrutinizing the opposition than the government. We all know the Liberals subsidize them. But the Parliamentary press gallery could at least pretend to be objective by telling the truth on Carney’s actual results versus his rhetoric."
Foreign minister won't say if China is still seen as a 'disruptive' force in the world - "Within hours of landing in Beijing with Prime Minister Mark Carney, Foreign Minister Anita Anand appeared to be stepping back from the Liberal government’s 2024 assessment that China is an “increasingly disruptive” global force."
Liberals Must Go | Facebook - "Chrystia Freeland criticized Mark Carney for his deal with China. She had this to say on TV: “What is really ironic, and I personally would say is sad, is China today when it talks to countries like Canada, is casting itself as the reliable partner. As a country that particularly middle powers like Canada, can trust, can lean on, that if you do a deal with China, it’s a deal that has meaning. And China is also casting itself as the defender of this international order based on rules that the US created. Now, my own view is we need to be a little bit skeptical of commitments from China to do that. I was foreign Minister when, in retaliation for Canada’s decision to honor an extradition treaty with the United States, two Canadians were illegally seized, arrested by China, effectively held hostage. International experts concluded that their treatment amounted to torture. That is not the behaviour of a reliable partner! But for me, a really terrible thing that’s happening right now is a lot of people, a lot of Canadians are now coming to the conclusion that Beijing can be trusted more than Washington. I think that’s really sad and I don’t think that’s in America’s national interest.”"
Andy Lee on X - "Chinese News (posting under 大中生活 on WeChat) releases a glowing endorsement of Mark Carney. It’s described as being headquartered in Toronto, with a Chinese Canadian audience of 800,000. There’s only one issue. Its IP address shows the account is being run from Shandong, China. @csiscanada @CPC_HQ http://chinesenewsgroup.com/index.php/news"
cbcwatcher on X - "Michael Cooper at the Procedure and House Affairs committee, asks Nathalie Drouin, Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council, why they downplayed Chinese language propaganda on WeChat that was obviously promoting Mark Carney "It completely downplayed what on the whole were generally positive narratives about Mr. Carney." @MichaelCooperMP"
Carney wants 'justice' for the world, but what about for Canadians? - " It is always a little worrying when politicians wrap themselves in the flag. Patriotism is such an easy emotion to arouse that the public, with banners flying, almost always rally to the “cause” — whatever the cause is. So it was Thursday, when Prime Minister Mark Carney, fresh from his triumph at Davos, made a speech in Quebec that declared Canada the greatest country on earth... The world has been dangerous and divided for years and Canada has done nothing about it. Wayne Eyre, the out-going Chief of the Defence Staff, gave an interview to the Post in 2024 warning the world was in a “pre-wartime security environment.” China and Russia were meddling dangerously in the Arctic, he said. It was only when Trump — the Great Disrupter or the Big Bully, call him what you will — started making loud and belligerent noises that Canada increased defence spending... Justice is something that Canadians have been demanding for a while after being exposed to a litany of cases of criminals being bailed only to continually re-offend. The Liberals broke the system which is why Carney announced “the strongest tightening of the criminal justice system in generations” in an effort to fix it. As a bastion, said Carney, we are recruiting more agents for the Canada Border Services Agency, enabling greater surveillance at the border, breaking down internal trade and finding new international markets. “We’ve announced a dozen new economic and security partnerships across four continents in the last six months,” said Carney. Great, but if it hadn’t been for Trump would any of this have happened? As for a “beacon” where rights are protected, perhaps the prime minister has not yet got around to reading the Appeal Court judgement last week which found the invocation of the Emergencies Act to deal with the Freedom Convoy was massive overreach and an enormous infringement of free expression. Canadian civil rights were trampled into the ground and the prime minister remains mute on it. The problem with appealing to patriotism is that it blinds people to the real issues."
Jimmy Lai shows the cost of Carney's devil's bargain with China - "The draconian 20 year imprisonment of Hong Kong dissident and newspaper-owner Jimmy Lai, effectively a death sentence, is a reminder that if we are going to get into bed with China we should be aware that we are soiled by association... Clearly, Carney is in no hurry to start lecturing the Chinese on their appalling human rights abuses, not with business at stake. When he returned from his trade mission to Beijing last month, Carney was insistent on telling Canadians that Canada “can thrive in a new system” and that if we were ambitious we could secure enormous investment from new partners. “And we must be pragmatic,” he said, code for there will be times when we need to hold our noses from the noisome behaviour of our new partners. Canada’s approach to China had to be “recalibrated,” he said, it had to be narrow, specific and within guardrails as well as rooted in “value-based realism.” Human rights had to be part of broader discussions, preferably with coalition partners, he added. Whatever all this meant, Carney summed it up perfectly when he said, “We take the world as it is, not as we wish it to be.” Four days later, Carney was preaching a different story at Davos. In a speech widely interpreted as aimed at U.S. President Donald Trump, the prime minister was demanding the creation of a new world order “that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights.” Carney’s approach to China is thus a laissez faire, hands off, “no megaphone” policy. However, to the U.S., once considered an indispensable ally, Carney’s response is to shout very loudly at a world forum for middle powers to band together against the American oppressor. The danger in such a foreign policy should be obvious. We have decided to implicitly trust a dangerous power that until a few months ago was considered the greatest threat to our democracy and way of life, while abandoning an ally because the current president cannot control his mouth or his temper... it was less than a year ago that Carney, when asked for the biggest threat facing Canada, replied with one word: China... Anita Anand, the foreign affairs minister, said she was “disappointed” with the sentencing and called for his release. Disappointed? It’s disappointing when your elderly mother can’t meet you for lunch, but it’s an absolute tragedy when an elderly man is imprisoned for believing in democracy. Consider that in December, a month before Carney’s love-in with China, Anand wrote about Lai’s trial saying, “Canada condemns the politically motivated prosecution of Jimmy Lai under the National Security Law in Hong Kong and calls for his immediate release. We continue to express our concerns about deteriorating rights, freedoms and autonomy which are enshrined in Hong Kong’s Basic Law.” If we must trade with China, we should be under no illusions that there will be a cost — not just abandoning the megaphone but abandoning people such as Jimmy Lai. In less than two months we have gone from strongly condemning his trial to merely being disappointed at his two decade sentence. At Davos, Carney said Canada was not “powerless” — “The power of the less powerful starts with honesty.” Fine, let’s start with honesty: What values is the prime minister willing to sacrifice as part of his devil’s bargain with China?"
Human rights only apply to Western countries
Ryan O'Connor on X - "Liberals during the pandemic: anyone who talks about the New World Order is a conspiracy theorist
Liberals, 2026: our "partnership" with the Chinese dictatorship "sets us up well for the New World Order""
Carney's artificial government - " Carney had promised a tariff relief deal with the U.S. by July, only for most of those tariffs to still be in place more than six months later. He had promised a Canada “building at speeds not seen in a generation,” only for his tenure to coincide with contractions in everything from manufacturing to construction. But even many of the Carney government’s accomplishments aren’t all they seem. Agencies have been founded, agreements have been drafted and targets have been met, but actual material results are yet to be seen...
His much-touted trade deals aren’t really trade deals... Carney said he told U.S. President Donald Trump in a phone call that he had secured “12 new deals on four continents in six months.” According to Carney, Trump was “impressed.” But a closer look at virtually all those deals reveals no material changes to Canada’s prior trade relationship with the subject country. No alterations on tariff rates, no changes to import quotas; just documents replete with non-binding vagaries like “encourage joint research, development, and demonstration … in strategic areas.” One of the only exceptions was Carney’s recent deal with Beijing, which saw Canada agree to admit 49,000 Chinese-made EVs in exchange for China dropping its punitive tariffs on Canadian canola. But even then, the deal was very limited. The only other material provision being Canada expressing its hope that China would drop its other punitive tariffs, if only for the next nine months. “Canada expects that Canadian canola meal, lobsters, peas and crabs will not be subjected to relevant anti-discrimination tariffs from March 1, 2026, to the end of this year,” it reads. As Carney himself would confirm a few days later, all he did was “rectify some issues” with China, and he has no intention of pursuing a free trade deal...
The “major projects” list is still just a list
His expansion of the Canadian military has involved some clerical tricks... the Carney government placed the Canadian Coast Guard under the oversight of the Department of Defence. Previously, the Coast Guard had been the purview of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The move was officially explained as being necessary to “strengthen coordination, improve information-sharing, and enhance Canada’s ability to protect and defend its interests at home and abroad.” But it just so happens that the agency’s $2.8 billion budget now counts as military spending.
Spending is very obviously not being reined in... his first budget also delivered the highest non-crisis deficit in Canadian history, coming in at $78.3 billion. For every dollar in “savings,” several dollars in new spending were added. And as was highlighted this week by Canada’s interim parliamentary budget officer, billions of dollars in supposed spending reductions might be happening simply because the Carney government has rejigged the definition of spending...
Build Canada Homes isn’t fixing the housing crisis (and obviously has no plans to)... Build Canada Homes had been pitched during the 2025 election as the agency that would singlehandedly turn the tide on Canada’s deeply entrenched housing affordability crisis. The agency would assemble prefabricated housing on federal lands “at scale,” pushing Canada towards an unprecedented build rate of 500,000 homes per year. But the agency needed only to release its first plans and budget before it became clear that nothing close to 500,000 homes would be in the offing. A December analysis by the Parliamentary Budget Officer concluded that Build Canada Homes would, at best, be able to deliver “26,000 new housing units over five years.”"
Carney definition of 'capital' recognized by nobody else on earth: PBO - "In their pursuit of a budget that prioritizes “capital spending,” the Liberals have adopted a definition of “capital” recognized by no other advanced economy on earth. This was according to recent testimony by Jason Jacques, Canada’s interim Parliamentary Budget Officer. Appearing before the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates on Tuesday, Jacques was asked whether any other countries follow the Carney government’s newly adopted policy of counting items like subsidies and tax credits as “capital.” “We are unaware of any advanced jurisdictions that would define capital in that way,” replied Jacques. Jacques cited the explicit example of the Carney government defining corporate income tax credits as “capital” in their 2025 budget. “There are other measures as well, including operating subsidies provided to companies … that’s not really seen in other jurisdictions,” he said. Although Canada’s 2025 federal budget contained the single largest non-crisis deficit in the country’s history ($78.3 billion), Prime Minister Mark Carney argued that much of this was due to “generational capital investments” rather than conventional federal spending. It’s a theme Carney took up during the 2025 campaign. Under the slogan “Spend Less, Invest More,” he pledged a new kind of federal bookkeeping that would define spending as either “operational” or “capital.”... the interim Parliamentary Budget Officer has been warning for months that the Carney government seemed to be using the new “capital” definition to hide billions of dollars of spending that wasn’t really about capital at all. In a November report on the 2025 budget, the PBO said the Carney government had an “overly expansive” definition of capital investments, and that the whole system seemed to be defined by “subjectivity.” As one example, whole swaths of spending sometimes ridiculed as “corporate welfare” were now reclassified as “capital investments.” This includes production subsidies and “capital-focused corporate income tax incentives” similar to those that formed the core of the various multi-billion dollar handouts to EV companies struck in the final months of the leadership of then prime minister Justin Trudeau. Volkswagen, for one, was promised a $13 billion package of grants, tax credits and subsidies if they built their EV facilities outside St. Thomas, Ont., while Stellantis was promised $15 billion to do the same in Windsor. Under the Carney government’s Capital Budgeting Framework, a federal dollar can be tallied as capital spending so long as it assists “a private sector entity, Indigenous community or another level of government” to build capital. Thus, all kinds of grants, subsidies, tax credits and bursaries are now eligible to be deleted from the government’s operational spending rolls. A report published by the office of the PBO in November noted that while other countries do maintain separate capital budgets — most notably the U.K. —they’re much more disciplined in what they define as capital. According to the report, if the Carney government was defining capital the way the British do, $94 billion of their planned “capital spending” over the next five years wouldn’t qualify."
Clearly, the Master Economist is right and the interim Parliamentary Budget Officer is just ignorant. He should Trust the Expert
Dan Albas on X - "Former PM Harper allegedly "silencing" fed.govt. scientists was a national news story that ran for weeks. PM Carney's Liberal govt. actually firing scientists and closing down research facilities is largely ignored by the same media org's."
Joe Rogan says Trump 'ruined Canada' by helping Mark Carney win : r/notthebeaverton
Of course, the left wingers were very upset. Ironically, one asked "Why is this chucklefuck so obsessed with us?", when left wing Canadians are obsessed over Trump and the US
Carson Jerema: Is Carney leader of the Trump 'resistance' or an inanimate carbon rod? - "This week Mark Carney applied for the job he really wants: leader of a new “rules-based international order” centred around “middle powers.” It is pretty much the same job that every Canadian prime minister, chafing at American power, has wanted. John Diefenbaker bristled at U.S. expectations that Canada host nuclear weapons, or support its Latin America strategy, and so hoped the British Commonwealth of Nations could exist as almost a rival to the United Nations. Pierre Trudeau embarrassed Richard Nixon by normalizing relations with China first, and Paul Martin oversaw the creation of the G20. Justin Trudeau, of course, tried to lecture the world about how Canada could lead the way on lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Yet, now that Carney is making a similar play for similar reasons as his predecessors, much of the western media is swooning as if he discovered fire and we are all tasting cooked steak for the first time. He has been described variously as “meeting the moment,” the leader of the “resistance” and even as “Churchillian.” An American conservative writer posted on X that Carney was a “pretty big upgrade” on Trudeau. Look, an inanimate carbon rod would have been a “pretty big upgrade” on Trudeau, but it is still an inanimate carbon rod, so perhaps some perspective is in order. During his speech at the World Economic Forum on Tuesday, Carney spoke of a “rules-based order” that “is fading” and about how “we are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” It was all a not-so-veiled attack on U.S. President Donald Trump’s admittedly disruptive approach to foreign policy. “Rather than waiting for the hegemon to restore an order it is dismantling” Carney said, the so-called middle powers must “create institutions and agreements that function as described.” His arguments might have been more persuasive if he hadn’t completely misunderstood why, since the end of the Second World War, the world has been marked by relative stability and peace, at least among western countries and their allies. Carney spoke as if the “international rules-based order” exists (existed?) as a distinct entity separate and apart from American power. He recognized the “fiction” of such an “order” but argued the fiction was that “the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient.” In fact, the only reason there is (was?) an “international rules-based order” is because the Americans wanted it. The U.S. didn’t merely help with, as Carney put it, “open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes,” it subsidized and backstopped the entire system through the projection of hard power and by creating alliances and relationships around the globe. Carney merely spoke of amoral “hegemons” completely oblivious to history. After the world wars, rather than retreat into its historic isolationism and permit the world to fall back into a destructive era of multipolar competition, the Americans pledged to protect Western Europe and East Asia. The primary threats came from, as they do today, the Russians and the Chinese... Countries around the world permitted the Americans to set up military bases and enter into economic partnerships and trade deals, all of which the U.S. deemed in its interests. Allies participated (mostly) freely and willingly because they similarly benefitted from it. The U.S. is the system. Without it, the world we’ve known since 1945 would not exist. Carney’s Davos speech contains not just historical errors, but also logical ones, particularly in his use of Václav Havel’s greengrocer. The grocer puts up a sign touting communist propaganda, as does every other business on the block, even though no one believes it. The lie of communist totalitarian regimes is enforced through fear. Carney twisted this story by likening participation in the post-war order with Havel’s greengrocer: “We participated in the rituals. And largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.” But this puts a global system that has permitted untold prosperity and security on par with some of the worst regimes of the 20th century."
Michael Kovrig on X - "There's just one problem. It also has the most subversively horrifying subtext by a Western world leader who is not Trump that I've read in a very long time. Carney's (or his speechwriter's) choice of Havel’s “lie” metaphor is rhetorically dangerous: it blurs the difference between democratic hypocrisy and totalitarian coercion, and it invites the interpretation that liberal order itself has been a quasi-ideological fraud, which for all its many flaws, it has not been. For example, Canada was not coerced into the LRBIO in the way Havel's shopkeepers were coerced into communist conformity. It's a problematic parallel. And there are more of them. I'm still thinking about this. It's a powerful speech but has some dangerous undercurrents... a lot depends on what is meant..."
Dr. Andrea Wagner on X - "Carney’s @MarkJCarney speech at WEF, invoking Václav Havel, landed harder than people realize. Havel’s warning wasn’t simply about communism as an ideology. It was about how any society can be cemented into a soft or hard totalitarianism when ordinary people are pressured to repeat slogans they don’t believe just to stay safe, employed, and socially accepted. That is how the lie becomes infrastructure. Not through tanks, but through compliance. Canada has its own version of this now. It’s the compelled language, the forced scripts, the institutional rituals where people nod along to statements they privately reject: that sex is infinitely malleable, that women and men are interchangeable categories, that merit must be subordinated to “equity” as defined by bureaucracy, and that the default political solution is always more administration, more surveillance, more power for the state. Freedom of speech has long died. And the most corrosive part is the moral theatre: scapegoating mostly conservative “white men” as a class, lowering standards in the name of virtue, and calling it progress while universities and institutions lose the capacity for honest debate. The moment truth becomes punishable and conformity becomes a job requirement, the society is already sliding. Slowly, politely, and then all at once. Havel’s point was simple: the regime survives because people participate in the lie. The only antidote is refusing to speak what you do not believe. Canada needs less coercion dressed up as compassion, and more courage to defend reality, meritocracy, and free speech before we wake up in a country where people are investigated, sanctioned, or even arrested for saying the obvious. I grew up on the slogan Workers of the World Unite. I miss Václav Havel."
Dr. Andrea Wagner on X - "After reading the replies and DMs under my Václav Havel post, I have to say I’m genuinely impressed. Havel is a Central and Eastern European icon. Everyone from our part of the world knows exactly what his name means: the moral clarity of living in truth, the courage to resist soft coercion, and the refusal to let comfort become complicity. Most Canadians don’t know him unfortunately. Which is why it’s almost ironic to watch Carney invoke Havel at all, because Carney represents precisely the kind of managerial, elitist, fake, technocratic worldview Havel would have distrusted and despised. Havel didn’t fight totalitarianism so that a new class of polished administrators could repackage control as “stability,” dissent as “risk,” and conformity as “social responsibility.” But here’s the part that gave me real hope: the Canadians in my comments and my inbox are not asleep. They are not naive. They are paying attention. They see the drift. They feel the tightening. They understand, instinctively, that Canada has been sliding into soft authoritarianism for years now, not with tanks, but with narrative policing, institutional capture, and the quiet punishment of anyone who refuses to repeat the approved script. And if it’s even 51% of us who can still see it, then that’s a majority. Which means it’s still possible to fight for the soul of this country. 🇨🇦 So let’s fight!"
