I am so embarrassed now to be a Canadian when I talk to friends and family. We all share the same anger and grief. Our country is collapsing. Our government is corrupt. We hate Israel as a policy. We hate the middle class and are taxing them out of existence. We hate business so we make it impossible for them to invest or be successful in Canada. Why aren't Canadians more angry!
Oh they are angry all right. Angry at Trump, Poilievre, and Smith. Meanwhile PM Carney is fawned over by his adoring elbows up fans. Something is definitely wrong in Canada. The mass delusion is becoming troubling. 🤦♂️
I think if you re-read his post you will see that Mike was making the point that the elbows up crowd are angry but about the wrong things. I agree with him - they are deluded.
I never said President Trump was our enemy. My issue is with all the Canadians blaming Trump for every woe in Canada, and not the federal governments. Donald Trump certainly has a number of flaws, but he was elected to clean up the Democratic mess of the past four years, and for better or worse that is what he is doing.
The Covid propaganda fear campaign designed by our military has had a terrible effect on our population. Instead of questioning government like should be constantly done, in four years most of us have been programmed to follow without question. I watched the Covid sentiment manifest itself in the general public during the forest ban here in Nova Scotia. If you questioned the ban you were ridiculed just like we were if we refused to take the jab.
Well said...I agree...dangle another 1/2 million in salary for all parliamentarians and they will clean the toilets if that's what their masters tell them to do. Taxpayers pay the bills...and that's the problem...why are we bothering to do that - so our funds can support multi-millions of new anti-Canadian Marxist/Communist tax paid voters that are non-contributors??
Tell that to the hamas & palestinians now into year 3+ of protesting wherever they want to in Canada, even in front of government buildings in small rural towns. Obviously not working at jobs so the taxpayers are paying for their expenses. Pffft That!
It all feels pretty bleak to me. I will never understand the apathy that that seems to dominate the country. Corrupt to the core. It feels like an intentional takedown of our society. I am feeling shame and despair as a Canadian today.
I know that travelling anywhere in Canada is dangerous. And in the downtown areas of our major cities, the crime, drugs, shootings, home break-ins, and the filth is unprecedented, uncontrolled, disturbing, dangerous and disgusting. It's not Canadians using our parks and streets and beaches as toilets.
The Conservatives r angry for us, we need to send massages to our MP's..tell them what we r angry about they go to the house of Commons..to represent US the common people.
Those EU, Chinese, elbows up crowd, liberal party liers and cheaters really did it this time. Trudeau started the fires, Carney and friends are adding fuel. Not one liberal loves Canada.
Didn’t Carney’s C-4 bill reduce the marginal tax rate on the lowest bracket from 15% to 14% over the next 2 years? That sounds like helping the middle class, not hurting it.
Are you saying the middle class is the lowest tax bracket? I guess ya kinda just pointed out the obvious then. Are you trying to make us laugh ? (I’m serious)
But too little, too late, no coherence. Foreign policy is beyond critique, just a joke, trying to handcuff the provinces by reinterpreting the notwithstanding, this guy is a disaster.
I wouldn’t scoff at it if our government wasn’t wasting so much of taxpayer (and future generations money) on gender studies in Nicaragua or other such bogus endeavors. I do however appreciate your Pollyanna look at things, just wish I could be as optimistic as you!
1%? Do you know how much that is? It’s one cent on every dollar meanwhile butter is over $7/pound and firewood $400/cord. You think 1% is going to make a difference?
$450.00 a cord where we live in rural Ont. I guess heating a small home with a small wood burning stove AND back-up of a generator to keep the lights on during the many power outages is a crime against humanity.
Well, if your taxable income is $50,000 then instead of paying 15% in federal taxes, or $7500, you would be paying 14% or $7000. So you would be saving $500. Not a total game changer, but it’s a good start.
People are plenty angry. They also took note about how the Convoy participants and supporters were absolutely annihilated, had their rigs stolen, bank accounts frozen and the organizers of the peaceful protest just got jail terms and have many thousands in legal bills. I wanted to send money for fuel to help them stay warm. My husband flatly refused, and said he had a very bad feeling that the government would not take that lightly. I'm happy I listened!
People are scared, and rightly so. We have an evil, corrupt communist government. God help us!
Anyone earning more than a 100 grand a year, taking 5-10 vacation s a year don’t care and will continue to vote Liberal Left Wing Radicals they chose to be!
PM Mark Carney is an educated, intelligent man with plenty of global business experience. Yet Canada is arguably doing worse under his tenure than Trudeau if that is even possible. Recognizing “Palestine”, and now supporting arresting the PM of Israel? Yesterday Stellantis announces massive layoffs in Brampton, and the PM appears the same evening at a Liberal fundraising event in Brampton. Tickets up to $1750. Zero new projects have shovels in the ground, hints on new accounting trickery coming in the soon to come, long overdue liberal budget. Yet bills on censorship seem to be priority one on the Liberal agenda. (Bills C-2, C-8, C-9) Canadians need to realize - we’ve been had.
I wouldn't call being a chief thief from the WEF and UN replacement ideologies to bankrupt democratic countries, destroying the UK and having a humongous stock portfolio is equal to an "intelligent man with plenty of global business experience". I do recognize that he is a very successful fabricator, opportunist and grifter.
Not really a fair comparison since Trudeau didn’t have to deal with the tariff issue. But I will point out that Trudeau was a truly ineffective leader and certainly would have deservedly lost the election if he had stayed on. Carney has announced some significant projects so far and has promised more to come in November. Let’s see if they actually come to pass or are just political bluster.
The “significant projects” Carney announced were ALL either underway, nearly completed, or previously approved. Not one was new. He is a fraud who obviously has no desire for Canada to succeed. He really has no “skin in the game” of Canada’s success, and has the handy foil of Trump to blame for all his own incompetence and sneakiness.
Carney is like Trudeau. Naive on foreign policy. Canada gains nothing by having the stance they do towards Hamas. These idiots that think this is about principle should find a stance where the "victim" has principles. Hamas does not.
As for Western Separatists, I get why they are pissed but the Liberals are not doing squat for industry out east here either. Stellantis dumping their Brampton plant is the the second hit after Oshawa lost work to Fort Wayne. Our economy is vulnerable to a lot of things and this mostly can be laid at the feet of the Liberal Party ..
Carney is really trying to get a good deal for Canada eh? Not! He keeps pissing off Trump and for what? So he can laugh about it with his elite friends? Canadians are paying the price!
If Carney is in a hard spot, it's because his ideological bent will not allow him to allow Canada to thrive. His Values vision is clear; our economy is being "replaced" as quickly as he can manage without inspiring Canucks to pick up torches & pitchforks.
Instead of bending to China's demands, knowing China was, is & will be an untrustworthy trade partner, we should move to decouple from China as quickly as we can manage it. Find other trade partners who aren't the world's largest criminal organization.
Were going to hell in a hand basket i think the expression goes..somehow i feel that our countries are working together but separately. So much wrong..its the lack if jobs and $$ that carney and Trump seem to forget that people need to live. As they fly off for a week to asia or trump has breakfast at the Whitehouse or maralogo.
Who are they kidding..
China is holding trumps feet to the fire soon Over minerals, that we have and cant sell.
Carney is getting boring with all the promises like as England said.
Why ban us? They don't want the truth getting out. You think its bad now? lollll, Canada could become a police state by Christmas if Parliament passes bills C-2, C-8, & C-9.
Scary stuff. Who is pushing all of this....gun ban, censorship...? KEBEK $ What a mess. Kicking us off the internet for posting the truth, speaking the truth, posting facts...mmm... marxist, commie? Why? Liberal, Tory same old story. Decades in the making. Just follow the money - kebek - Ottawa - kebec, $$ - and a little left over for the rest of the country, just like the equalization scam....kebek gets over 50% every single year... been going on since 1982. 100s of billions stolen out of Alberta and Sask., BC, Ont. since the 1960s, 70s. Equalization (money laundering into kebec) became entrenched in his commie charter = kebek communist (proof below) Pierre Trudeaus constitution of 1982. Since then, 25 years of Liberal govts have made things worse. 18 years of 'Conservative' govts, the exact same thing. Kebeks Charter = 10s of billions stolen out of Ottawa yearly and funneled into quebec and other metis (they are not french) – towns and companies, all across the country every year, all disguised as grants, subsides, equalization, transfers, bilingualism (code for french) – only outside quebec while kebec bans our language, history = bills 22, 178, 101, 96. Multiculturalism (only outside kebec), massive government growth, mass immigration, control, censorship, surveillance, taxes and debt. Canada now just liberals masquerading as conservatives, the rest, marxist -communists masquerading as liberals. ’French power’ in all provinces. They are revising, eliminating our BNA history all over the country as they rename, remove all things English, Scottish. Liberal, Tory, same old story. Repeal the kebek - commie charter. Stop all immigration now. Deport now. HELP
What a mess. Govt is the problem, all of them. $$$ Crooked and corrupt to the core, all of them. Liberal, Tory, same old story. Decades of this mess. No leadership anywhere. But why? Who runs the country, Ottawa? $$$ KEBEK Mass immigration, massive govt growth, debt, crime....100s of billions stolen out of Alberta and Sask., BC, Ont. since the 1960s, 70s. Equalization (money laundering into kebec) became entrenched in his commie charter = kebek communist Pierre Trudeaus constitution of 1982. Since then, 25 years of Liberal govts have made things worse. 18 years of 'Conservative' govts, the exact same thing. Kebeks Charter = 10s of billions stolen out of Ottawa yearly and funneled into quebec and other metis (they are not french) – towns and companies, all across the country every year, all disguised as grants, subsides, equalization, transfers, bilingualism (code for french) – only outside quebec while kebec bans our language, history = bills 22, 178, 101, 96. Multiculturalism (only outside kebec), massive government growth, control, censorship, surveillance, taxes and debt. Canada now just liberals masquerading as conservatives, the rest, communists masquerading as liberals. ’French power’ in all provinces. They are revising, eliminating our BNA history all over the country as they rename, remove all things English, Scottish. Election fraud? YES, guaranteed. Why? Simple, they lie about everything. Welcome to Marxist - commie Canada where your vote is meaningless. Why? Bigoted = Socialist = marixst = commie = kebec runs the nation. This IS the problem, and No party, NO ‘leader’ will touch it. ‘Cons’ Poliver, Ford ?...nothing, not a word. “First quebec, and Ottawa and then the entire country…” ‘french power..." PET. $ Seriously, how do we get these lying, crooked, corrupt greedy metis bigots out of Ottawa, Queens Park? We have no-one to vote for. Liberal, Tory, same old story. Repeal the kebek - commie charter. Stop all immigration now. Deport now. HELP
Carney's stance is so courageous and ethical and not at all based in the demographics of domestic politics and the performative nonsense of his predecessor. Never mind that Netanyahu, nor any future Israeli PM will be coming here anytime soon, or that the ICC could only ask Canada to arrest him if Israel waived his diplomatic immunity under the Rome Statute. That seems unlikely. He probably didn't know that because Carney's a big picture fella and Trump surely respects his elbows up stance on Bibi and Palestinian statehood, even though Carney announced Canada's recognition without any of the pre-conditions he referred to previously being met. But Hamas has really stepped up in restoring order in Gaza since the ceasefire - look how quickly they sniffed out those terrorists and liquidated them in a public square. That's a nation state Carney can work with. Can we sell them some EVs for green public safety? Maybe SNC Lavalin can build them a monorail? And with his completely realistic, no nonsense pledge to put Canadians in Gaza to keep the peace, they'll be working hand in hand.
With Carney's rock solid moral base, I know that rules and consequences won't get in the way of doing what's right and we'll soon see Canada's recognition of Tibet, which was annexed by China and suffered a genocide of 1.2M people, and of an independent Taiwan, maybe even Kurdistan. Right? And the next time President Xi is here, Carney will slap the cuffs on him too for the atrocities in Xinjiang.
I can tell you what he was thinking. He was thinking Canada has signed on to the international criminal court and has agreed to participate in it and honor all arrest warrants from them.
Carney’s affirmation on the ICC question was legally consistent but diplomatically careless. Canada is a signatory to the Rome Statute, obligating cooperation with ICC warrants—but most allies would balance that duty against geopolitical cost. Leadership requires reconciling principle with prudence; Carney’s instinct favoured the former, not necessarily the national interest.
I am so embarrassed now to be a Canadian when I talk to friends and family. We all share the same anger and grief. Our country is collapsing. Our government is corrupt. We hate Israel as a policy. We hate the middle class and are taxing them out of existence. We hate business so we make it impossible for them to invest or be successful in Canada. Why aren't Canadians more angry!
Oh they are angry all right. Angry at Trump, Poilievre, and Smith. Meanwhile PM Carney is fawned over by his adoring elbows up fans. Something is definitely wrong in Canada. The mass delusion is becoming troubling. 🤦♂️
I think if you re-read his post you will see that Mike was making the point that the elbows up crowd are angry but about the wrong things. I agree with him - they are deluded.
I never said President Trump was our enemy. My issue is with all the Canadians blaming Trump for every woe in Canada, and not the federal governments. Donald Trump certainly has a number of flaws, but he was elected to clean up the Democratic mess of the past four years, and for better or worse that is what he is doing.
The Covid propaganda fear campaign designed by our military has had a terrible effect on our population. Instead of questioning government like should be constantly done, in four years most of us have been programmed to follow without question. I watched the Covid sentiment manifest itself in the general public during the forest ban here in Nova Scotia. If you questioned the ban you were ridiculed just like we were if we refused to take the jab.
Well said...I agree...dangle another 1/2 million in salary for all parliamentarians and they will clean the toilets if that's what their masters tell them to do. Taxpayers pay the bills...and that's the problem...why are we bothering to do that - so our funds can support multi-millions of new anti-Canadian Marxist/Communist tax paid voters that are non-contributors??
I'm thoroughly pissed off. Of course if we go to protest in Ottawa we'll have bank accounts frozen and may have to defend ourselves in a court of law.
Protests don’t work.
A revolution is what’s required!
WORLD Revolution is coming . This time the coward traitor police will run like scared girls.
Tell that to the hamas & palestinians now into year 3+ of protesting wherever they want to in Canada, even in front of government buildings in small rural towns. Obviously not working at jobs so the taxpayers are paying for their expenses. Pffft That!
Pretend its a free Palestine protest...
It all feels pretty bleak to me. I will never understand the apathy that that seems to dominate the country. Corrupt to the core. It feels like an intentional takedown of our society. I am feeling shame and despair as a Canadian today.
I know that travelling anywhere in Canada is dangerous. And in the downtown areas of our major cities, the crime, drugs, shootings, home break-ins, and the filth is unprecedented, uncontrolled, disturbing, dangerous and disgusting. It's not Canadians using our parks and streets and beaches as toilets.
The Conservatives r angry for us, we need to send massages to our MP's..tell them what we r angry about they go to the house of Commons..to represent US the common people.
Those EU, Chinese, elbows up crowd, liberal party liers and cheaters really did it this time. Trudeau started the fires, Carney and friends are adding fuel. Not one liberal loves Canada.
Didn’t Carney’s C-4 bill reduce the marginal tax rate on the lowest bracket from 15% to 14% over the next 2 years? That sounds like helping the middle class, not hurting it.
Are you saying the middle class is the lowest tax bracket? I guess ya kinda just pointed out the obvious then. Are you trying to make us laugh ? (I’m serious)
You do realize that we have a progressive tax system where everyone benefits from the lower tax in the that first tier, right?
But too little, too late, no coherence. Foreign policy is beyond critique, just a joke, trying to handcuff the provinces by reinterpreting the notwithstanding, this guy is a disaster.
And your point is…
The point that you are so obviously missing is that the tax cut benefits everyone, including the middle class.
1%. Let them eat cake!
I wouldn’t scoff at it if our government wasn’t wasting so much of taxpayer (and future generations money) on gender studies in Nicaragua or other such bogus endeavors. I do however appreciate your Pollyanna look at things, just wish I could be as optimistic as you!
1%? Do you know how much that is? It’s one cent on every dollar meanwhile butter is over $7/pound and firewood $400/cord. You think 1% is going to make a difference?
$450.00 a cord where we live in rural Ont. I guess heating a small home with a small wood burning stove AND back-up of a generator to keep the lights on during the many power outages is a crime against humanity.
Well, if your taxable income is $50,000 then instead of paying 15% in federal taxes, or $7500, you would be paying 14% or $7000. So you would be saving $500. Not a total game changer, but it’s a good start.
The only ones not angry either don’t give a damn about anyone other than themselves or too well off to be affected, or both
People are plenty angry. They also took note about how the Convoy participants and supporters were absolutely annihilated, had their rigs stolen, bank accounts frozen and the organizers of the peaceful protest just got jail terms and have many thousands in legal bills. I wanted to send money for fuel to help them stay warm. My husband flatly refused, and said he had a very bad feeling that the government would not take that lightly. I'm happy I listened!
People are scared, and rightly so. We have an evil, corrupt communist government. God help us!
I meant pricks BTW.
Meaning they are self centered prices.
Anyone earning more than a 100 grand a year, taking 5-10 vacation s a year don’t care and will continue to vote Liberal Left Wing Radicals they chose to be!
PM Mark Carney is an educated, intelligent man with plenty of global business experience. Yet Canada is arguably doing worse under his tenure than Trudeau if that is even possible. Recognizing “Palestine”, and now supporting arresting the PM of Israel? Yesterday Stellantis announces massive layoffs in Brampton, and the PM appears the same evening at a Liberal fundraising event in Brampton. Tickets up to $1750. Zero new projects have shovels in the ground, hints on new accounting trickery coming in the soon to come, long overdue liberal budget. Yet bills on censorship seem to be priority one on the Liberal agenda. (Bills C-2, C-8, C-9) Canadians need to realize - we’ve been had.
Busy man isn't he? So busy he can't get anything done.
May be educated but helped destroy the UK and is here to finish off Canada.
He and the current federal politicians need to be purged using extreme prejudice and if not feasible than taken over.
Absolutely! When can we start!
Freeland was only 50% off on our budget. Good she has been given promotions. Not in the news anymore? Hmmm...
how do you spell WEF ?
I wouldn't call being a chief thief from the WEF and UN replacement ideologies to bankrupt democratic countries, destroying the UK and having a humongous stock portfolio is equal to an "intelligent man with plenty of global business experience". I do recognize that he is a very successful fabricator, opportunist and grifter.
When will Liberals wakeup and accept that this is NOT the old Liberal party! As a Toronto-born senior the change is a great one!
Not really a fair comparison since Trudeau didn’t have to deal with the tariff issue. But I will point out that Trudeau was a truly ineffective leader and certainly would have deservedly lost the election if he had stayed on. Carney has announced some significant projects so far and has promised more to come in November. Let’s see if they actually come to pass or are just political bluster.
The “significant projects” Carney announced were ALL either underway, nearly completed, or previously approved. Not one was new. He is a fraud who obviously has no desire for Canada to succeed. He really has no “skin in the game” of Canada’s success, and has the handy foil of Trump to blame for all his own incompetence and sneakiness.
Really? Tell me when the port expansion in Churchill was approved. Sneaky and incompetence? Sounds like you are describing PP.
You have ears that don’t hear reality, and eyes that see what isn’t there, it seems. Don’t bother me again, please.
You didn’t answer my question. Don’t know the answer?
Don't hold your breath ,Kevin. You just might feel over.
Carney is like Trudeau. Naive on foreign policy. Canada gains nothing by having the stance they do towards Hamas. These idiots that think this is about principle should find a stance where the "victim" has principles. Hamas does not.
As for Western Separatists, I get why they are pissed but the Liberals are not doing squat for industry out east here either. Stellantis dumping their Brampton plant is the the second hit after Oshawa lost work to Fort Wayne. Our economy is vulnerable to a lot of things and this mostly can be laid at the feet of the Liberal Party ..
Carney is really trying to get a good deal for Canada eh? Not! He keeps pissing off Trump and for what? So he can laugh about it with his elite friends? Canadians are paying the price!
If Carney is in a hard spot, it's because his ideological bent will not allow him to allow Canada to thrive. His Values vision is clear; our economy is being "replaced" as quickly as he can manage without inspiring Canucks to pick up torches & pitchforks.
Instead of bending to China's demands, knowing China was, is & will be an untrustworthy trade partner, we should move to decouple from China as quickly as we can manage it. Find other trade partners who aren't the world's largest criminal organization.
Carney gave us a 1 percent tax break in one place but taxed us in other places the 1 percent is a joke.
Not my Prime Minister
Were going to hell in a hand basket i think the expression goes..somehow i feel that our countries are working together but separately. So much wrong..its the lack if jobs and $$ that carney and Trump seem to forget that people need to live. As they fly off for a week to asia or trump has breakfast at the Whitehouse or maralogo.
Who are they kidding..
China is holding trumps feet to the fire soon Over minerals, that we have and cant sell.
Carney is getting boring with all the promises like as England said.
The reluctant boyfriend. !!!
Great article ..
Why ban us? They don't want the truth getting out. You think its bad now? lollll, Canada could become a police state by Christmas if Parliament passes bills C-2, C-8, & C-9.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2rmakvExpc&t=38s
Scary stuff. Who is pushing all of this....gun ban, censorship...? KEBEK $ What a mess. Kicking us off the internet for posting the truth, speaking the truth, posting facts...mmm... marxist, commie? Why? Liberal, Tory same old story. Decades in the making. Just follow the money - kebek - Ottawa - kebec, $$ - and a little left over for the rest of the country, just like the equalization scam....kebek gets over 50% every single year... been going on since 1982. 100s of billions stolen out of Alberta and Sask., BC, Ont. since the 1960s, 70s. Equalization (money laundering into kebec) became entrenched in his commie charter = kebek communist (proof below) Pierre Trudeaus constitution of 1982. Since then, 25 years of Liberal govts have made things worse. 18 years of 'Conservative' govts, the exact same thing. Kebeks Charter = 10s of billions stolen out of Ottawa yearly and funneled into quebec and other metis (they are not french) – towns and companies, all across the country every year, all disguised as grants, subsides, equalization, transfers, bilingualism (code for french) – only outside quebec while kebec bans our language, history = bills 22, 178, 101, 96. Multiculturalism (only outside kebec), massive government growth, mass immigration, control, censorship, surveillance, taxes and debt. Canada now just liberals masquerading as conservatives, the rest, marxist -communists masquerading as liberals. ’French power’ in all provinces. They are revising, eliminating our BNA history all over the country as they rename, remove all things English, Scottish. Liberal, Tory, same old story. Repeal the kebek - commie charter. Stop all immigration now. Deport now. HELP
Proof - context - https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_nwo154.htm?fbclid=IwAR3d4OQYKvkv-VYqRI3bvsAbWEPPKQY-evN2wi7BYtzmoIhnEw_rQPUfDYM
Keep up the good work Brian!
What a mess. Govt is the problem, all of them. $$$ Crooked and corrupt to the core, all of them. Liberal, Tory, same old story. Decades of this mess. No leadership anywhere. But why? Who runs the country, Ottawa? $$$ KEBEK Mass immigration, massive govt growth, debt, crime....100s of billions stolen out of Alberta and Sask., BC, Ont. since the 1960s, 70s. Equalization (money laundering into kebec) became entrenched in his commie charter = kebek communist Pierre Trudeaus constitution of 1982. Since then, 25 years of Liberal govts have made things worse. 18 years of 'Conservative' govts, the exact same thing. Kebeks Charter = 10s of billions stolen out of Ottawa yearly and funneled into quebec and other metis (they are not french) – towns and companies, all across the country every year, all disguised as grants, subsides, equalization, transfers, bilingualism (code for french) – only outside quebec while kebec bans our language, history = bills 22, 178, 101, 96. Multiculturalism (only outside kebec), massive government growth, control, censorship, surveillance, taxes and debt. Canada now just liberals masquerading as conservatives, the rest, communists masquerading as liberals. ’French power’ in all provinces. They are revising, eliminating our BNA history all over the country as they rename, remove all things English, Scottish. Election fraud? YES, guaranteed. Why? Simple, they lie about everything. Welcome to Marxist - commie Canada where your vote is meaningless. Why? Bigoted = Socialist = marixst = commie = kebec runs the nation. This IS the problem, and No party, NO ‘leader’ will touch it. ‘Cons’ Poliver, Ford ?...nothing, not a word. “First quebec, and Ottawa and then the entire country…” ‘french power..." PET. $ Seriously, how do we get these lying, crooked, corrupt greedy metis bigots out of Ottawa, Queens Park? We have no-one to vote for. Liberal, Tory, same old story. Repeal the kebek - commie charter. Stop all immigration now. Deport now. HELP
Hi Brian....thank you for publishing on Substack. I've missed your articles, since I've disconnected myself from 'x.com'.
Brian, as I've said before....you have a really great ability to report 'fairly' and responsibly. You even admit mistakes.
Thank you, Brian! Love your work!
Carney's stance is so courageous and ethical and not at all based in the demographics of domestic politics and the performative nonsense of his predecessor. Never mind that Netanyahu, nor any future Israeli PM will be coming here anytime soon, or that the ICC could only ask Canada to arrest him if Israel waived his diplomatic immunity under the Rome Statute. That seems unlikely. He probably didn't know that because Carney's a big picture fella and Trump surely respects his elbows up stance on Bibi and Palestinian statehood, even though Carney announced Canada's recognition without any of the pre-conditions he referred to previously being met. But Hamas has really stepped up in restoring order in Gaza since the ceasefire - look how quickly they sniffed out those terrorists and liquidated them in a public square. That's a nation state Carney can work with. Can we sell them some EVs for green public safety? Maybe SNC Lavalin can build them a monorail? And with his completely realistic, no nonsense pledge to put Canadians in Gaza to keep the peace, they'll be working hand in hand.
With Carney's rock solid moral base, I know that rules and consequences won't get in the way of doing what's right and we'll soon see Canada's recognition of Tibet, which was annexed by China and suffered a genocide of 1.2M people, and of an independent Taiwan, maybe even Kurdistan. Right? And the next time President Xi is here, Carney will slap the cuffs on him too for the atrocities in Xinjiang.
That is quite the story.
It certainly is. I’m trying to decide if it’s historical fiction or comedy.
Satire
I can tell you what he was thinking. He was thinking Canada has signed on to the international criminal court and has agreed to participate in it and honor all arrest warrants from them.
What part don't you understand.
Carney’s affirmation on the ICC question was legally consistent but diplomatically careless. Canada is a signatory to the Rome Statute, obligating cooperation with ICC warrants—but most allies would balance that duty against geopolitical cost. Leadership requires reconciling principle with prudence; Carney’s instinct favoured the former, not necessarily the national interest.