Yes, ‘at least we’re not the U.S.’ is basically Canada’s national coping mechanism. We’ll be knee-deep in our own chaos and still pat ourselves on the back.
The average Canadian can probably tell you what Trump had for breakfast and when he last went to the bathroom but they probably can't name all 10 provinces and 3 territories.
Jews have been accused of being too weak and secretly all-powerful. Poor parasites and global financiers. Communist revolutionaries and capitalist puppet masters. Pick the era and you’ll find a different charge.
That’s because antisemitism isn’t a reaction to what Jews do. It’s a reaction to what unstable societies need.
When economies fail, when leaders can’t fix what’s broken, someone has to absorb the blame. It’s easier to invent a villain than to confront corruption, incompetence, or cultural decay. Jews are a small, visible minority. That makes them useful as a societal pressure valve.
So the story gets rewritten every generation. In the ancient world, Jews were condemned for refusing to worship the empire’s gods. In medieval Europe, they were accused of poisoning wells. In the racial theories of the nineteenth century, they were labeled biologically dangerous. Now it’s colonialism. Same sh$t, different vocabulary.
Antisemitism survives and thrives because it’s politically profitable. It mobilizes crowds and distracts from failure. And, it provides frustrated people a target.
When a society starts obsessing over Jews. It’s because something inside that society is cracking.
Spot on Rina! I completed a thesis during my University studies that documented a historical account of Jewish persecution. The public, I submit, are completely ignorant of the deception presented by weak governments looking to pass blame and attention away from their own misguided flaws, failures and self-serving ideologies.
I am disgusted by this ignorance and make every effort to present the facts as I have come to know them to all those who have condemned the Jewish nation as an evil blemish in our worlds history.
Thank you! Never again is not memorizing that Hitler killed Jews. It is understanding how ordinary Germans were convinced that it was justified and even virtuous. We must spot the signs and stop the normalization of antizionism, the new form of bigotry towards Jews. Credit to https://nayalekht.substack.com/
Glenn Beck certainly put it all in a nutshell! No exaggeration, no embellishment, no twisted comments just the truth the whole truth on the Canadian government & our Canada !
The part no one seems to want to discuss is this: Carney, unlike Trudeau, is a thinker (or else he listens to such). The society he is trying to shape will not be democratic in any familiar sense. Thus my forecast is as bleak as a North Pacific grayday:
It will become nearly impossible to challenge the permanent Liberal majority. But in fairness, perhaps most Canadians will become habituated to it and will not want to risk change. They can always find a scapegoat instead. Currently, it is Trump. After 2028, it will be someone else, some other group, or some general evil.
The permanent Liberal government will decide what issues are important and will be able to block serious political debate about others.
As a result, more Conservative MPs will cross the floor because all the power is really on the other side. Over time, it will become Third-World level corrupt.
Increasingly, rights and freedoms we took for granted will be repositioned as "rightwing" demands that good people should resist. Good people, after all, love the planet and go along with the government.
The economy will continue to decline but the decline will be either hidden or repositioned as success. Capable young people will continue to quietly leave. Gradually, the system leans toward accommodating mediocrities while subtly edging out changemakers. That process accelerates as change increasingly means decline.
The government will try to control the internet and succeed - but only with those people who are happier not knowing things. Those who can see what is happening and yet endure legacy media braying on the topic will be stoic indeed, but wise to be silent.
The Covid crazy taught the Liberals how much falsehood, tyranny, and irrationality most Canadians will put up with - and criticize anyone who stands against it. The Convoy, much as I loved it, was NOT a majority. Maybe that majority will never materialize now.
But maybe I am mistaken. Would welcome hearing other views.
Low information, fearful voters are easily manipulated by unscrupulous politicians bent on exerting power over the masses. Carney doesn't want to be PM to help Canadians, he just likes power for the sake of power and control for the sake of control.
We've seen how far that can lead but Canadians seem oblivious to the manipulation or even worse, they just don't care!
100% and when consequences hit, the politicians will find a new scapegoat and the same gullible Canadians will clutch their pearls and hide their heads in the sand. You just can't cure stupid.
Canada will be USA, a matter of time. China influence will not be tolerated either. No hurry to take Canada, let the liberals implode it first seems to be the plan.
Hmm, it feels to me that we are a small piece of bigger developments in the world order. Canada has become irrelevant beyond the intrinsic wealth storage to be developed at a later date.
Maybe it’s time we really started reviewing our rather generous use of the word “democracy” itself. In Canada its political meaning has shifted from freedom of speech and land ownership to “rule by the mob.”
So, listening to extremely valid , common sense arguments regarding our manufacturing sector, in particular the “tool and dye” sector, the outcome, according to Carney’s wording, is obvious, no?
If CUSMA is not on the table, what is?
We need investment…have for over a decade. Our economy is strategically failing. This government is discounting the US. Who is replacing that vast trade entity? (Trump is an anomaly and won’t be here on the long term.)
Does “strategic trade agreements”, in numerous sectors, ring a bell.
The new world order/ Carney’s Doctrine (as coined by Anita Ananas recently), does not want super powers influencing our economy, nor our financial sector.
Again, who replaces the US and aids “middle powers” ( whatever the definition of that is!) with investments, trade and finance?
As initially stated, the answer is more than obvious. And extremely disturbing.
Nothing is organically transforming. This agenda (as per the 2015 UN SUMMIT AGREEMENT) is accelerating at hyper speed.
Nothing explained in detail, no defined accountability plan.
Simply the use of Canada’s resources, geopolitical location and compliance. Let’s not forget the use of the Canada Pension Plan and the Quebec Pension Plan for strategic investment.
We’re literally selling Canada to the highest bidder. Democracy, common sense and sovereignty are a thing of the past.
Good luck Canada, the US and all Western Democracies.
I agree with Beck. Canada is ruled by the CCP, WEF, City of London who installed Marxist Communists Puppets - Fancy Socks Trudeau and Con Carney. Canada is the MOST CORRUPT Country in the World. Ukraine is #2
Great work, Brian. Thanks for helping Canadians really understand what is going on in Canada. I have great concerns with where Carney is taking us. It is not a good place and there will be lots of pain for average Canadians just working hard to make ends meet.
I believe that Canada is already 3rd world corrupt. The never-ending string of gas-lighting and lies is, well, never ending. Judges do what they want, regardless of what Canadians want. The RCMP is not capable of doing their job because they are stopped by the corrupt administration. (Everyone should follow Sam Cooper). Regardless that Canada is going broke and Carney is eyeing the CPP like my dog eyes her supper – she wants it now, and Carney wants the pension plan now. In Alberta we see Ottawa getting anti-Alberta separatist ‘opinion’ pieces in every news outlet they can find and we see retreads like Kenney and Lukaszuk telling Albertans to stay in this horrible marriage. Just today, Kenney, like a good liberal is tell us that the scary orange man could interfere in Alberta independence. I guess if you're Obama and interfere, or China and interfere that is okay, but if it’s the orange man….
I listened to Glenn Beck yesterday, before reading Brian Lilley's Substack post today. Embarrassingly refreshing to hear and now read what has been lingering for the last decade, and then some. Both confirmed my observations.
In 2015 Canadians, hung on a family name and a stirring eulogy a few years earlier, elected a self-absorbed dilettante, someone who never had to earn his keep. Some, later recognizing their error, turned away from the new Liberal brand. Minority governments became the trend, with strong signals about trust, or lack thereof, sent back to Ottawa, largely ignored. The system, flawed as it was, worked. Minority governments, whether in the House or through committees, face far greater scrutiny than majority governments working behind the scenes.
A champagne socialist with a taste for the finer things in life - Armani suits, Versace bags, Rolex watches, a BMW ZM4 coupe, a collection of high-end bikes, and a Monte Design rocking chair - was chosen by the NDP, once known as a working man's party. He saw fit to prop up the Liberal minority government through their confidence and supply agreement - the two players keeping straight faces that theirs was not a coalition government - ignoring the high cost of living that working people faced. It was a de facto majority, although one that still faced the same scrutiny as the minority government it was. Trudeau and Singh, by trying to maintain that degree of separation, made a critical tactical error that slowly sealed their fates.
Both are gone now, the NDP in shambles, led by someone stuck in the past of still wanting to impose a green new deal on Canadians. Avi Lewis, a typical socialist, his response is the same when questioned about the futility of his family's ideology: socialism has not worked because it hasn't been done right or wasn't real socialism. He cannot escape the fact that socialism is never for the socialists - just look at his life and his predecessor's. It's meant for the rest of us. How he plans to bring working people back in under that tent is anyone's guess.
Trudeau's hasty departure may not have been the same as Zimbabwe's Mugabe, but his replacement has an eerily similar fit and feel to that of Emmerson Mnangagwa, widely known by the nickname "Ngwena" or "Garwe", translating as "The Crocodile." Mnangagwa earned that handle to reflect his "patient, calculated political maneuvering."
Now more than a year after assuming the Liberal mantle, Mr. Carney, like Mnangagwa did over in Zimbabwe, is quietly showing himself to be a quiet, fierce, intelligent, and sometimes ruthless politician. How else to describe luring in those five MP's to cross the floor, other than some behind-the-scenes operation, each reminiscent of a police sting? Send out a minion to set the bait, listen to what they have to say and, of course what they want in return for their loyalty, then slowly draw them in, and seal the deal by meeting "Mr. Big." They're in, perched somewhere up high in the government backbenches, and life carries on. Or does it?
No matter how he and they try to frame it, this unholy alliance does not at all reflect the will expressed last year by voters exercising their democratic vote. Theirs is an illegitimate majority, one that Canadians should not take lightly by simply shrugging our shoulders and sitting down, waiting for the next three years to pass before they invite us back to the polls. As with the "Lost Decade" we just went through under Trudeau, a great deal more damage can be done in that time. And we cannot afford what is quietly being planned for us, all behind the scenes of a majority government.
They should not have our trust. They have not earned it. They do not serve us. They have other things in mind. One predicated on maintaining power...
The most disturbing thing to me was learning there were uniformed Chinese police being boots on the ground in Canada. It is deeply concerning to see uniformed Chinese police operating on Canadian soil. This situation raises serious questions about our sovereignty and the implications for foreign interference in Canada.
It is hilarious that so many Canadians are so smug about the US with all the shenanigans we have going on up here.
Yes, ‘at least we’re not the U.S.’ is basically Canada’s national coping mechanism. We’ll be knee-deep in our own chaos and still pat ourselves on the back.
Bang on Rita, "national coping mechanism" is exactly right. The desire of people in this country to avoid reality/responsibility has become endemic.
The average Canadian can probably tell you what Trump had for breakfast and when he last went to the bathroom but they probably can't name all 10 provinces and 3 territories.
Correct.
Jews have been accused of being too weak and secretly all-powerful. Poor parasites and global financiers. Communist revolutionaries and capitalist puppet masters. Pick the era and you’ll find a different charge.
That’s because antisemitism isn’t a reaction to what Jews do. It’s a reaction to what unstable societies need.
When economies fail, when leaders can’t fix what’s broken, someone has to absorb the blame. It’s easier to invent a villain than to confront corruption, incompetence, or cultural decay. Jews are a small, visible minority. That makes them useful as a societal pressure valve.
So the story gets rewritten every generation. In the ancient world, Jews were condemned for refusing to worship the empire’s gods. In medieval Europe, they were accused of poisoning wells. In the racial theories of the nineteenth century, they were labeled biologically dangerous. Now it’s colonialism. Same sh$t, different vocabulary.
Antisemitism survives and thrives because it’s politically profitable. It mobilizes crowds and distracts from failure. And, it provides frustrated people a target.
When a society starts obsessing over Jews. It’s because something inside that society is cracking.
Credit to Melissa Steinberg Brodsky https://melissabrodsky.substack.com/
Spot on Rina! I completed a thesis during my University studies that documented a historical account of Jewish persecution. The public, I submit, are completely ignorant of the deception presented by weak governments looking to pass blame and attention away from their own misguided flaws, failures and self-serving ideologies.
I am disgusted by this ignorance and make every effort to present the facts as I have come to know them to all those who have condemned the Jewish nation as an evil blemish in our worlds history.
Thank you for your commentary.
Thank you! Never again is not memorizing that Hitler killed Jews. It is understanding how ordinary Germans were convinced that it was justified and even virtuous. We must spot the signs and stop the normalization of antizionism, the new form of bigotry towards Jews. Credit to https://nayalekht.substack.com/
Great insight on this problem Rina. I wholeheartedly agree. I believe our society go be in moral decay. Sad.
Glenn Beck certainly put it all in a nutshell! No exaggeration, no embellishment, no twisted comments just the truth the whole truth on the Canadian government & our Canada !
How is it possible after the last 11 years for anybody to consider Canada being a democracy?
Canada is well on its way to becoming the next Argentina
Canada should try to be Argentina today. The Milei government is killing it by comparison to Canada.
Indeed. But someone like Milei would be treated just like Trump by all the Socialist Sheep and Government Union workers!
The part no one seems to want to discuss is this: Carney, unlike Trudeau, is a thinker (or else he listens to such). The society he is trying to shape will not be democratic in any familiar sense. Thus my forecast is as bleak as a North Pacific grayday:
It will become nearly impossible to challenge the permanent Liberal majority. But in fairness, perhaps most Canadians will become habituated to it and will not want to risk change. They can always find a scapegoat instead. Currently, it is Trump. After 2028, it will be someone else, some other group, or some general evil.
The permanent Liberal government will decide what issues are important and will be able to block serious political debate about others.
As a result, more Conservative MPs will cross the floor because all the power is really on the other side. Over time, it will become Third-World level corrupt.
Increasingly, rights and freedoms we took for granted will be repositioned as "rightwing" demands that good people should resist. Good people, after all, love the planet and go along with the government.
The economy will continue to decline but the decline will be either hidden or repositioned as success. Capable young people will continue to quietly leave. Gradually, the system leans toward accommodating mediocrities while subtly edging out changemakers. That process accelerates as change increasingly means decline.
The government will try to control the internet and succeed - but only with those people who are happier not knowing things. Those who can see what is happening and yet endure legacy media braying on the topic will be stoic indeed, but wise to be silent.
The Covid crazy taught the Liberals how much falsehood, tyranny, and irrationality most Canadians will put up with - and criticize anyone who stands against it. The Convoy, much as I loved it, was NOT a majority. Maybe that majority will never materialize now.
But maybe I am mistaken. Would welcome hearing other views.
Low information, fearful voters are easily manipulated by unscrupulous politicians bent on exerting power over the masses. Carney doesn't want to be PM to help Canadians, he just likes power for the sake of power and control for the sake of control.
We've seen how far that can lead but Canadians seem oblivious to the manipulation or even worse, they just don't care!
But consequences do not care whether we care or not. They just are.
100% and when consequences hit, the politicians will find a new scapegoat and the same gullible Canadians will clutch their pearls and hide their heads in the sand. You just can't cure stupid.
No, but you can chase away smart.
Canada will be USA, a matter of time. China influence will not be tolerated either. No hurry to take Canada, let the liberals implode it first seems to be the plan.
Just to clarify…there are no viable “parties”. One party…rather a one country spokesperson seemingly governing.
Unfortunately true.
Hope your right! In the mean time we are in for a lot of hurt.
Hmm, it feels to me that we are a small piece of bigger developments in the world order. Canada has become irrelevant beyond the intrinsic wealth storage to be developed at a later date.
Brian, another great entry and summation.
Maybe it’s time we really started reviewing our rather generous use of the word “democracy” itself. In Canada its political meaning has shifted from freedom of speech and land ownership to “rule by the mob.”
So, listening to extremely valid , common sense arguments regarding our manufacturing sector, in particular the “tool and dye” sector, the outcome, according to Carney’s wording, is obvious, no?
If CUSMA is not on the table, what is?
We need investment…have for over a decade. Our economy is strategically failing. This government is discounting the US. Who is replacing that vast trade entity? (Trump is an anomaly and won’t be here on the long term.)
Does “strategic trade agreements”, in numerous sectors, ring a bell.
The new world order/ Carney’s Doctrine (as coined by Anita Ananas recently), does not want super powers influencing our economy, nor our financial sector.
Again, who replaces the US and aids “middle powers” ( whatever the definition of that is!) with investments, trade and finance?
As initially stated, the answer is more than obvious. And extremely disturbing.
Nothing is organically transforming. This agenda (as per the 2015 UN SUMMIT AGREEMENT) is accelerating at hyper speed.
Nothing explained in detail, no defined accountability plan.
Simply the use of Canada’s resources, geopolitical location and compliance. Let’s not forget the use of the Canada Pension Plan and the Quebec Pension Plan for strategic investment.
We’re literally selling Canada to the highest bidder. Democracy, common sense and sovereignty are a thing of the past.
Good luck Canada, the US and all Western Democracies.
Glenn Beck does a major deep dive into Canada’s massive Liberal government corruption over the last number of years. https://x.com/BeautifulCana1/status/2047620313404620824?s=20
I agree with Beck. Canada is ruled by the CCP, WEF, City of London who installed Marxist Communists Puppets - Fancy Socks Trudeau and Con Carney. Canada is the MOST CORRUPT Country in the World. Ukraine is #2
Great work, Brian. Thanks for helping Canadians really understand what is going on in Canada. I have great concerns with where Carney is taking us. It is not a good place and there will be lots of pain for average Canadians just working hard to make ends meet.
I believe that Canada is already 3rd world corrupt. The never-ending string of gas-lighting and lies is, well, never ending. Judges do what they want, regardless of what Canadians want. The RCMP is not capable of doing their job because they are stopped by the corrupt administration. (Everyone should follow Sam Cooper). Regardless that Canada is going broke and Carney is eyeing the CPP like my dog eyes her supper – she wants it now, and Carney wants the pension plan now. In Alberta we see Ottawa getting anti-Alberta separatist ‘opinion’ pieces in every news outlet they can find and we see retreads like Kenney and Lukaszuk telling Albertans to stay in this horrible marriage. Just today, Kenney, like a good liberal is tell us that the scary orange man could interfere in Alberta independence. I guess if you're Obama and interfere, or China and interfere that is okay, but if it’s the orange man….
I listened to Glenn Beck yesterday, before reading Brian Lilley's Substack post today. Embarrassingly refreshing to hear and now read what has been lingering for the last decade, and then some. Both confirmed my observations.
In 2015 Canadians, hung on a family name and a stirring eulogy a few years earlier, elected a self-absorbed dilettante, someone who never had to earn his keep. Some, later recognizing their error, turned away from the new Liberal brand. Minority governments became the trend, with strong signals about trust, or lack thereof, sent back to Ottawa, largely ignored. The system, flawed as it was, worked. Minority governments, whether in the House or through committees, face far greater scrutiny than majority governments working behind the scenes.
A champagne socialist with a taste for the finer things in life - Armani suits, Versace bags, Rolex watches, a BMW ZM4 coupe, a collection of high-end bikes, and a Monte Design rocking chair - was chosen by the NDP, once known as a working man's party. He saw fit to prop up the Liberal minority government through their confidence and supply agreement - the two players keeping straight faces that theirs was not a coalition government - ignoring the high cost of living that working people faced. It was a de facto majority, although one that still faced the same scrutiny as the minority government it was. Trudeau and Singh, by trying to maintain that degree of separation, made a critical tactical error that slowly sealed their fates.
Both are gone now, the NDP in shambles, led by someone stuck in the past of still wanting to impose a green new deal on Canadians. Avi Lewis, a typical socialist, his response is the same when questioned about the futility of his family's ideology: socialism has not worked because it hasn't been done right or wasn't real socialism. He cannot escape the fact that socialism is never for the socialists - just look at his life and his predecessor's. It's meant for the rest of us. How he plans to bring working people back in under that tent is anyone's guess.
Trudeau's hasty departure may not have been the same as Zimbabwe's Mugabe, but his replacement has an eerily similar fit and feel to that of Emmerson Mnangagwa, widely known by the nickname "Ngwena" or "Garwe", translating as "The Crocodile." Mnangagwa earned that handle to reflect his "patient, calculated political maneuvering."
Now more than a year after assuming the Liberal mantle, Mr. Carney, like Mnangagwa did over in Zimbabwe, is quietly showing himself to be a quiet, fierce, intelligent, and sometimes ruthless politician. How else to describe luring in those five MP's to cross the floor, other than some behind-the-scenes operation, each reminiscent of a police sting? Send out a minion to set the bait, listen to what they have to say and, of course what they want in return for their loyalty, then slowly draw them in, and seal the deal by meeting "Mr. Big." They're in, perched somewhere up high in the government backbenches, and life carries on. Or does it?
No matter how he and they try to frame it, this unholy alliance does not at all reflect the will expressed last year by voters exercising their democratic vote. Theirs is an illegitimate majority, one that Canadians should not take lightly by simply shrugging our shoulders and sitting down, waiting for the next three years to pass before they invite us back to the polls. As with the "Lost Decade" we just went through under Trudeau, a great deal more damage can be done in that time. And we cannot afford what is quietly being planned for us, all behind the scenes of a majority government.
They should not have our trust. They have not earned it. They do not serve us. They have other things in mind. One predicated on maintaining power...
The most disturbing thing to me was learning there were uniformed Chinese police being boots on the ground in Canada. It is deeply concerning to see uniformed Chinese police operating on Canadian soil. This situation raises serious questions about our sovereignty and the implications for foreign interference in Canada.
Mike Rowe curling voice over - https://archive.org/details/gbtv_31372183_1200K
Never heard of Glenn Beck, now I'll have to add him to my podcast list.
I've been listening to him for years. Hearing his views on Canada and the world will be well worth your time...