Mark Carney calls for less dependence on the USA by using YouTube, X, Facebook and LinkedIn...

Rather than speak to Canadian media about the broken relationship with the USA, he’s using American platforms.

It was a bit odd, on Sunday morning, Mark Carney posted a video to YouTube. It was a direct to the voter address lasting a little over nine minutes where he didn’t break any new ground but spoke at length about the broken relationship with the United States.

This was part political theatre, part infomercial, but all of it designed to remind voters that the United States is bad and he’s here to protect us.

“I know from experience that outside forces can sometimes seem overwhelming,” Carney said at the start of his video.

“In my previous jobs at the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, part of my duties to make regular public reports on what we were doing to manage the economy. And I remember during the financial crisis, when there was a real risk of panic, I developed a practice called Forward Guidance.”

From there, Carney said that he would speak directly to Canadians in the future with more Forward Guidance, also the name of his YouTube video.

Mostly, the video was a rundown of how the Americans have changed and he’s going to respond.

“The U.S. has fundamentally changed its approach to trade, raising its tariffs to levels last seen during the Great Depression. Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become our weaknesses; weaknesses that we must correct,” Carney said.

“The US has changed and we must respond.”

More words, no action, but a dose of hypocrisy...

Now, I have a few problems with this video and how it has been presented, starting with the fact that Carney doesn’t add anything new. This is the same sort of thing he’s been saying for a year, but where is the action.

Just like with his investment summit that Carney announced last week, he’s good at make promises or pronouncements, bad at delivering results.

Secondly, why is Carney calling for less reliance on the United States while using all American platforms to get his message out?

This video was posted to Carney’s personal YouTube channel which has 54,000 subscribers and as I write, the video has been seen 160,000 times and growing. After he posted the video to YouTube, he then went on X, Facebook and LinkedIn where he posted a short teaser video with a message that everyone should go to watch the full video on YouTube.

Not to belabour the point, but all of these platforms are American owned and American based.

I have no problem using these platforms, and I do use them, but I’m not the one saying we need to rely less on the Americans and build Canada strong for Canadians.

Carney’s constant talk of breaking with the Americans...

For a man who was elected promising that he would get us a good deal with the Americans, that he knew Donald Trump and how to deal with him, Carney likes to talk a lot about rupture.

“We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition,” Carney said in his Davos speech back in January.

It’s a theme he’s returned to again and again and it’s one that informed his video address on Sunday. When he speaks of rupture, he’s talking about his desire to break away from the United States.

He’s no longer trying to secure a new trade deal with the US, there have been no serious talks in five months, and as Mexico moves ahead with their CUSMA review, we remain frozen out.

Which is exactly how Carney likes it. He’s no longer looking out for what is best for Canada’s economy, he’s looking out for what is best politically for him and the Liberal Party.

Carney knows that fighting with the Americans will gin up his voting base even if it hurts us economically.

Yet, remember less than a year ago when he released a single mandate letter for his cabinet?

The top priority was working to get a new relationship with the United States, not break up with them.

“Establishing a new economic and security relationship with the United States and strengthening our collaboration with reliable trading partners and allies around the world,” the mandate letter reads.

Poilievre rightly blasts Carney...

In response to the Carney video, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre posted his own thoughts on social media. In it, he rightly detailed that despite claims otherwise, Canada’s economy is failing and Carney is making things worse by fighting with the Americans.

The Carney Liberals have given us the worst food inflation, the worst household debt, the worst housing costs, and the only shrinking economy in the G7. He has not repealed a single anti-development law, approved a single pipeline, and housing construction is actually falling.

To top it all off, he’s doubled the deficit Justin Trudeau left behind.

These are all Liberal-made problems that Carney made worse.

And as for the U.S., Mark Carney’s talk of a rupture with the customer that buys two-thirds of our goods is not a plan. He has not negotiated a single new Free Trade Agreement with any country on earth.

The meetings, photo ops, and non-binding memoranda are all an illusion.

In his video, Carney made it sound like the Conservatives didn’t want to do anything in response to Trump’s tariffs and other changes, that is emphatically not true. Time and again Poilievre has laid out plans to strengthen Canada by unleashing our economy.

He did so again in his response to Carney.

If we want to be affordable at home, safe at home, and strong at home we must make real change at home.

That’s why Conservatives are fighting for an end to wasteful Liberal spending. Let us cut corporate welfare, consultants, foreign aid, and handouts to fake refugees.

Unblock our resources.

Unleash our entrepreneurs.

Approve pipelines and major projects today.

Incentivize municipalities to build homes.

Cut the gas taxes on farmers, truckers, and steelmakers.

Stop the money-printing and inflationary deficits that drive up the cost of everything.

That’s the only way we will be strong at home and unbreakable abroad.

These are all changes that Carney could make that would strengthen our economy, unleash our entrepreneurs and none of them rely on Donald Trump or working with the Americans.

Also, in response to Carney the Conservatives issued a video response from Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman.

We have an economy that is underperforming and not just due to Trump and tariffs.

Mark Carney could be acting to change that now, he’s more interested in politics than economics though and that is hurting us all.