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Monday, August 24, 2026

Links - 24th August 2026 (1 - Mark Carney)

Mario Zelaya on X - "If Pierre Poilievre had:
> said "Make America Great Again"
> went another country & said “it’s good to be home”
> went to China & said he was "setting us up for the New World Order"
> bought condos from wealthy donors so they don't "lose money"
> got caught on his hands and knees with Ghislaine Maxwell
> negotiated a majority
> passed a law allowing cabinet to secretly spy on Canadians
> led the country to be the only G7 in a recession
> bragged about sending money to people who can't afford to eat
> missed 100 out of 136 question periods
> spent nearly a $1 million on airplane food in 1 yr
> reappointed someone who couldn't recall flying business class
> failed to deport 23 of 24 identified IRGC operatives
> allowed 577,739 deportation orders to sit unenforced
> rammed a spy bill with secret amendments
> had a 86 yr old defense board with the US suspended
> proposed a debt sovereign fund
> got additional tariffs from the US for not stopping forced labour imports
> quietly removed "forced labour" from Global Affairs' diplomatic goals
> sealed Health Canada vaccine injury records until 2040
> took 4 different positions on Iran strikes in 96 hours
> begged the US to let Canada back into trade talks
The legacy media would call it the greatest political collapse in Canadian history. But it's Carney, so they call it leadership instead."

No Canadian P.M. has ever been more personally enmeshed with the U.S. | National Post - "In his address to last weekend’s Liberal convention, Prime Minister Mark Carney once again emphasized the need for Canada to rethink its dependence on the U.S.  “A good number of our historic strengths, which came from our close ties with the U.S., have become our weaknesses,” Carney said in French to the Montreal crowd.  He said that even if Canada gets over the “initial shock” of the trade war launched by U.S. President Donald Trump, it should “never forget” the lessons. “We need to take care of ourselves,” he said in French. It’s not a new argument from the prime minister, who has often outlined his plan to steer Canada away from U.S. trade and political influence. This time last year, Carney said in a campaign speech that Canada’s integrated relationship with the U.S. was “over” and that Canadians must “fundamentally reimagine our economy.”  But the paradox of the claim is that it’s coming from a figure who is more personally enmeshed with the United States than any other prime minister in Canada’s history.  Half of Carney’s children live in the U.S. His wife was recently working for a U.S. company. Almost all of his multi-million dollar portfolio is in U.S. assets. He is Canada’s only prime minister to receive his undergraduate degree from a U.S. university.  And one of his last acts before entering politics was to help move one of Canada’s largest corporations to a new home on U.S. soil.  In late 2024, just a couple months before Carney entered politics as a candidate for the Liberal leadership, Carney oversaw the relocation of Brookfield Asset Management from its Toronto headquarters to one in New York City. The move was justified at the time as a means to secure more U.S. capital, and to potentially score Brookfield a spot on the S&P 500 stock index.  Carney was serving as Brookfield’s chair. In a letter dated Dec. 1, 2024 and later circulated by the Conservative party, he urged shareholders to support the move out of Toronto... four months after his swearing-in as prime minister, Carney first disclosed the details of a personal investment portfolio that he had placed into a “blind trust” to be managed at arm’s length throughout his time in office.  The trust contains 567 entities. And according to an analysis by Monique Kasonga at the Investigative Journalism Foundation, 91 per cent of them are American. Just three Canadian companies were among the holdings: the oil and gas firm Canadian Natural Resources, the railroad company Canadian Pacific Kansas City and the clothing brand Lululemon.  A heavy American presence can also be seen within a list of 25 companies that Carney submitted to the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner, citing them as entities over which he had once held an “oversight role.”  It’s mostly a list of green energy companies. Eight of the 25 are U.S. firms, more than the number of Canadian entities listed by Carney.  The most recent known job held by Carney’s wife Diana Fox Carney was with a U.S. firm. In May 2021, the New York City-based Eurasia Group announced Fox Carney’s appointment as a senior adviser...  The Carneys have four children, and two of them are known to be U.S. residents who studied at Yale and Harvard.  And if the Carney children are favouring U.S. universities, they’re following in the footsteps of their dad, whose own undergraduate degree came from Harvard University in 1987...  He’s also the first since Pierre Trudeau to have an American university of any kind on his resume (the elder Trudeau got a master’s degree at Harvard in the mid-1940s).  For all the other prime ministers of the past 50 years, any non-Canadian education was reserved to post-graduate work at a school in the U.K.  Kim Campbell studied at the London School of Economics in the 1970s. John Turner attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship.  Jean Chrétien, Brian Mulroney, Paul Martin and Stephen Harper all studied at Canadian universities and law schools."

Dimon disputes Carney’s middle-powers strategy: “It’s a fantasy” - "JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon challenged the economic logic behind Prime Minister Mark Carney’s middle-power strategy during the Council on Foreign Relations’ CEO Speaker Series in a conversation presided over by CFR President Michael Froman.  “When Mark Carney said the powers should get together, it’s a fantasy,” Dimon said. “They did that. It’s called Europe.”... Carney’s version is strategic autonomy through coordination. Dimon’s rebuttal is that coordination without growth becomes bureaucracy with a flag.   Dimon argued that Europe already ran the experiment Carney is describing and has not kept pace with the US. “The GDP of Europe has gone from 90% of America to 70%,” he said. “And in our view, it will probably continue to erode over time because of high taxes.”  World Bank data show the EU’s GDP at $19.5 trillion in 2024, compared with $28.8 trillion for the US, putting the EU at roughly 68% of US output, close to Dimon’s current comparison.   Froman pushed back lightly during the exchange, saying it had become difficult to attend CFR events without hearing Europe “dumped on.” Dimon replied that his point was serious.  “But Europe, this is a serious problem,” Dimon said.  His critique moved from GDP share to fiscal and capital-market structure. He said he was “not against social safety nets,” but argued that European systems are “high and ineffective.” He added that many countries carry debt near 100% of GDP and said slow growth makes that debt burden more dangerous.  Tax data support part of the contrast he drew. The European Commission said EU-27 member states collected €7.1 trillion in taxes in 2024, up 5.6% from 2023, while the EU tax-to-GDP ratio rose from 39.0% to 39.4%. The OECD put the US tax-to-GDP ratio at 25.6% in 2024, well below the OECD average of 34.1%.   Dimon’s larger argument was about investment. He said Europe has “poor tax structures that stop investment,” and added that capital formation “generally drives growth.”"
Moral superiority in pretending you're superior to the US is priceless. But of course, if Americans think they are superior, they are ignorant jingoistic fascists

JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 on X - "Even CBC is calling out Carney’s creative accounting.  They’re subtracting the Canada Pension Plan from our national debt to make the numbers look better.  Suddenly our debt-to-GDP drops to just 10%.  That’s not fiscal responsibility.   That’s straight-up bogus accounting.  You can’t use pension funds to pay government debt. Every serious economist knows it. The CBC panel didn’t hold back: “subtracting the Canada Pension Plan to calculate our national debt is totally bogus!”  While they cook the books:
• $67+ billion deficit this year
• Interest payments already $54 billion+ and climbing fast
• Tent cities exploding in Edmonton and across the country
• Another $100 million heading to Palestine on top of $400 million already sent
Canadians get the bill. Carney gets the creative math.  This isn’t “building Canada strong.”   This is hiding how badly they’re breaking it.  #cdnpoli #CarneyFail #LiberalFail #DebtTrap #CanadaFirst"

Mark Carney really is a WEF Davos man | Financial Post - "The political ideology of our prime minister and his government cannot be adequately defined by the traditional right-left vocabulary of capitalism versus socialism. Rather, it is best described as corporatism or stakeholder capitalism as espoused by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Davos elites. That philosophical approach to the economy may be unfamiliar to most Canadians, but it influences how Mark Carney is governing the country and it has important implications for democratic accountability and individual prosperity. It is not a conspiracy to say the WEF has exercised enormous influence over western governance during the past five decades. It operates quite openly, even if many people are unaware of its existence. Its founder, Klaus Schwab, once boasted about “penetrating” Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, more than half of whose members went through WEF leadership programs... physician and scientist Robert W. Malone outlines the WEF’s three underlying assumptions. 1. The major problems facing humanity are global and therefore require international co-ordination. 2. Such co-ordination is best achieved through a co-ordinated network of leaders from business, labour, government and civil society. 3. Private companies are instruments of public purpose and should be accountable, not only to shareholders, but more broadly to “stakeholders,” whose interests are mediated by the leadership class. Malone points out that while corporatism shares with fascism the belief that organization of the economy should be co-ordinated by various elites, it is not fascist: it is internationalist rather than nationalist and not violent, militarist or racist. It does align comfortably with the Chinese Communist Party in its support for elite planning, the role of private enterprise in advancing public objectives, and the preference for technocratic management over elected decision-makers. But it rejects proletarian ideology and extensive state ownership and envisages a key role for large corporate participants. Corporatism’s assumptions counter the historical liberal worldview based on consent of the governed, institutional accountability and rule of law. It differs from the free enterprise market economy where companies are accountable to shareholders who focus on profitability rather than external managerial direction that takes into account broader societal objectives. The problems with the noblesse oblige WEF model are therefore both philosophical and practical. It undermines democratic and constitutional governance by empowering unaccountable actors with self-serving and ideological agendas and by imbedding bureaucratic structures that are hard to dismantle by normal electoral means. And, instead of market discipline, it relies on technocratic and state judgment to pick winners and losers and imposes a costly regulatory burden that increases risk and drives away capital. The effect is to undermine productivity and weaken economic performance. Europe, which is both culturally and intellectually receptive to the WEF, has implemented these principles in binding legislation through the EU Commission. Not surprisingly, the EU’s prioritizing of welfare, climate action and regulatory intrusion in the marketplace has caused its GDP per capita to fall significantly behind the U.S. Although Liberals hate to hear that Canada has lagged its southern neighbour for similar reasons, the data are irrefutable. There are many Canadian examples of corporatism, some of which preceded Carney’s government. In 2019, the Canada Business Corporations Act (CBCA) was amended to codify the Supreme Court’s BCE case, which decided that directors owe a fiduciary duty, not only to shareholders, but also to employees, pensioners, creditors, consumers, governments and the environment. Once the judiciary and the state adopted stakeholder capitalism, the media quickly followed, making it conventional wisdom. Mark Carney’s 2021 book, Value(s), is a paean to stakeholder capitalism, including the adoption of ESG (environmental, social and governance) reporting. His recently proposed sovereign wealth fund, to be financed by $25 billion in government debt, is classic corporatism in the form of industrial policy. It combines state and private capital from corporations, financial institutions and pension funds who together will select investments designed to advance currently favoured societal objectives. Although Carney is now talking up resource development, he conditions his support on incorporating sustainability, emissions reduction, Indigenous partnership, climate compatibility and international environmental commitments. This is not the “Drill, baby, drill” that has made the U.S. the world’s largest producer of oil and gas. Carney supports a rules-based international order and co-operation among middle powers and multilateral institutions on economics and climate policy. He has an affinity for UN, WHO, IMF and central bank co-ordination. He is orienting Canada toward Europe and diversifying away from the U.S. and he has pushed for Canada to be part of a coalition of democratic middle powers rather than overwhelmingly tied to the American “hegemon.” It may not be a pure WEF blueprint, but it is heavily influenced by stakeholder capitalism, ESG finance, climate-conscious industrial policy and multilateral institutionalism. That it differs fundamentally from core U.S. values may appeal to Canadian nationalists, but it won’t be as democratically accountable or as economically successful."
To Protect Democracy, globalists want to transfer power to unaccountable, unelected global institutions

Meme - "Carney vs. Carney
You cannot "live within the lie" of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination. January 20th, 2026
Canada, like Mexico, is open to deeper integration, including options for Fortress North America in selected sectors. May 9th, 2026"

Chris Warkentin on X - "Mark Carney promised Canadians he would build at speeds not seen in generations.  Now, in a sharp rebuke, Canada's Federal Housing Advocate reported that it would take over 1,000 years - a millennium - to restore housing affordability with Mark Carney’s plan.    Justin Trudeau may have been the drama teacher, but maybe it's Carney who's best at theatre!"
Pierre Poilievre needs to resign! All he knows is to whine!

Terry Newman: Carney's quest to 'Make America Great Again' | National Post - "It sounded to me like Carney may have been softly conceding that during moments of great uncertainty — like the Brexit referendum — the establishment (including himself) often gets the politics and the long-term consequences wrong... Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg referred to Carney as “the high priest of project fear” and suggested that his “reputation for inaccurate and politically motivated forecasting has damaged the reputation of the Bank of England.”  Lord Lamont, a Vote Leave spokesperson, also criticized Carney, saying: “The governor should be careful that he doesn’t cause a crisis. If his unwise words become self-fulfilling, the responsibility will be the governor’s and the governor’s alone. A prudent governor would simply have said that ‘we are prepared for all eventualities.’ ”...  He said that Canada is focused on what it can control, citing international partnerships that make Canada “a much stronger, more resilient, more independent country.”  This isn’t just good for Canada and all Canadians, he told the room, “it’s also good for the United States, because a stronger Canada is a better ally.”  At this point, I experienced whiplash. Carney had previously said repeatedly that Canada’s relationship with the U.S. — one “based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military co-operation — is over.”  In New York, he tried to shove his past comments down the memory hole, saying that the two countries had differences “over the centuries” that have always been worked out thanks to shared values and common interests.  He highlighted just how intertwined and dependent the two countries are on each other, calling it “mutual strength.”  Then came the kicker. He told the room: “Let’s be absolutely clear. Canada strong will help make America great again.” This was followed by a little bootlicking of his American audience.  He wished the U.S. a “happy birthday,” and called it “the most dynamic, resilient and inventive country the world has ever seen,” with values that should “continue to serve as guides to its future and the future of the rest of the world.”  He continued: “That future should include a new partnership with Canada,” one “that re-imagines co-operation in specific sectors that are deeply challenged by global competition.” The Canada of today, he told the audience, is different from the Canada of the past, claiming that the country is “predictable and reliable in a world that’s anything but.”  Really? Was telling Canadians that “our old relationship with the United States … is over” something that a “predictable and reliable” country would do? I don’t think so.  The fear drummed up against Canada’s neighbour and most important trading partner worked great for Carney politically — but how much has it cost Canadians?"

Eric Paquet on X - "Our globalist ideologue Prime Minister, with his endless word salads and empty slogans: “So when we’re building physically, we are building inclusively and sustainably in solidarity… these same values must hold when we build virtually.” The reality:
 • Honda’s $15 billion Ontario EV and battery plant is now frozen amid slowing EV demand and market reality.
• Stellantis’ NextStar battery mega-project in Windsor has been mired in construction chaos and subsidy fights — despite billions in taxpayer handouts.
• EV supply-chain projects tied to GM, Ford, Umicore, and others have delivered delays, layoffs, restructuring, and scaled-back ambitions after massive public subsidies.
• More than a dozen major Canadian energy projects — worth an estimated $176 billion — have been cancelled or paralysed by crushing regulations, endless permitting delays, carbon taxes, and open political hostility toward the sector.
• The Liberals’ much-hyped “Build Canada Homes” promise has generated far more press releases than actual homes, while housing affordability keeps getting worse.
Canadians were promised nation-building, green prosperity, affordable housing, and economic renewal.  Instead, we got endless subsidies, bureaucratic chokeholds, ideological lectures, stalled projects, fleeing investment, and falling productivity.  At some point, slogans stop being competence and become a pathetic substitute for results.  But sure “Elbows up”.
“Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.” ✍️ Ronald Reagan, 40th president of the United States"
The far left still hate him, because he's not destroying the country as fast as they'd like

Mark Carney took a private flight from Ottawa to Toronto so that he could pretend to go grocery shopping in Brampton while wearing a $5,000.00 suit. His wife wore Chanel. We’re in a recession. : r/CanadianConservative

Meme - Shaughn.SGT(ret) @PrairieVeteran: "Look at these national media headlines.  These ARE NOT Twitter headlines.  When we say Carnage is doing the same thing here as he did in the UK, we are called crazy and liars.  But read the headlines.  Sound familiar to what is being said here?  He has expensive tastes.  Very expensive.  And he want YOU to pay for it.  Remember he almost bankrupted the UK.  Were they better off when he left?"
"Carney claims Bank's 'staggering' expenses bill is justified
Fury as Bank of England spends nearly £100,000 on staff summer PARTY
Cost of Carney's Egypt summit flight ballooned to $736K with no air force plane available
Austerity? Not for Bank of England boss Mark Carney who has racked up £30ok in foreign travel expenses in three years
Carney's in-flight menu includes fine wine, braised beef and 'luxury' butter: Canadian Taxpayers Federation
Carney criticized for nearly $200K spent on in-flight meals including "luxury Normandy buttercups"
Carney's Toronto cabinet meetings cost $530,000
Bank of England trio's expenses hit £100k for three months
Bank of England governor Mark Carney under fire for £50,000 expenses bill in three months"

Mario Zelaya on X - "‼️ BREAKING: Liberal MPs are now telling reporters that Carney is a dick
He yells at them
Has a “short fuse”
A bad temper
A habit of dressing down members of his own party
He lost Guilbeault
And 14 MPs hate his policies but are terrified so they begged & hid their names"
We already knew about his temper from the Brits, but left wingers prefer to hate on PP. At least the report comes from The Toronto Star, so they need to go through more cope to dismiss it (it will probably be along the lines of @mario4thenorth is "far right" and unreliable, even when he's not the primary source)

Thread by @TrendPolCa on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App - "BREAKING: New reporting from @althiaraj reveals growing internal tension within the Liberal caucus, with MPs alleging that Prime Minister @MarkJCarney is tightly centralizing power and reacting harshly to internal dissent. 👇🧵
According to Liberal MPs speaking anonymously, @MarkJCarney has adopted a strict top-down management style. One MP stated that the Prime Minister "yells" and "punches down at caucus all the time," reportedly telling members, "If you don't agree with our agenda, I don't want to hear it".Several MPs have reportedly faced sharp rebukes when raising regional or policy concerns:  @JaimeBattiste (Nova Scotia) received a "stunning rebuke" after raising concerns regarding changes to the Indian Act.  @DougEyolfson (Winnipeg) was told not to bring concerns regarding Alberta's healthcare bill to the PM.  @IaconoMP (Laval) faced pushback over requests for a riding visit. In an effort to prevent further leaks—such as an email sent by 13 MPs regarding climate strategy—Caucus Chair @j_maloney has instructed Liberal MPs not to speak with journalists or put their concerns in writing to the Prime Minister. The tightening control extends beyond caucus meetings. The report highlights that Carney has bypassed local riding associations by appointing candidates instead of holding open nominations. Additionally, proposed changes to freedom of information laws could restrict public access to internal emails and text messages — Toronto Star"
The left wingers screeching about how evil Doug Ford is for his secrecy will have some interesting cope

Meme - "On May 28, Mark Carney told an American audience that Canada has the second fastest growing economy in the G7. The next day, it was announced that Canada is in a recession. HE HASN'T TAKEN A SINGLE QUESTION FROM THE MEDIA SINCE THEN. SOURCE: Blacklock's Reporter, June 1, 2026"

Pierre Poilievre on X - "BREAKING: Mark Carney is the ONLY leader in the G7 to lead his economy into a RECESSION. All other G7 countries face the same tariff and global problems, yet none are in a recession. Excuses, speeches, buzzwords, and signing ceremonies do not grow the economy.  Canada is the only G7 country in recession because of Carney Liberals hiking industrial carbon taxes, kept anti-development laws, and doubling Trudeau’s deficit."
The cope is to blame Trump of course

Mario Zelaya on X - "Carney: ✅ Harvard degree ✅ Oxford PhD ✅ Head of Bank of Canada ✅ Head of Bank of England ✅ Economic Advisor to Trudeau ✅ Chairman of Brookfield ✅ “Economic genius”
The Result: 😖 We are the only G7 country in a recession That’s what makes this egregious."
"Qualifications" are more important than performance or achievements, after all

The Food Professor on X - "So let me get this straight...  Canada is in a recession—the only G7 country currently in one. Unemployment is up. Inflation is rising. Food insecurity is at a record high.  Yet the highest proportion of Canadians since 2017 now say the country is on the right track.  That's either a remarkable display of optimism—or a sign that many Canadians aren't getting the full economic story from the news they consume."

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