You Can Fool Some of the People Some of the Time

"It is a solemn duty to serve as prime minister at this time of great consequence."

"Canada's new government is focused on things that matter most to Canadians — more higher-paying jobs, improving affordability and making Canada more secure."

"Canada will be action-oriented to meet the moment."

"We will relentlessly pursue this positive agenda because Canadians know that negativity isn't strength. Negativity won't bring down the price of groceries. Negativity won't win a trade war."

Liberal leader Mark Carney

Carney gestures after his new cabinet members were sworn in at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

 

"Mark Carney thinks Canadians are stupid. He thinks a little bit of cosmetic surgery will allow the Liberals to disguise who they are and make people forget what they did for ten years in order to elect them to a fourth term."

"It's the same Liberal gang and same Liberal agenda."

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre

Prime Minister Mark Carney, front fourth from left, poses with members of the newly sworn-in Liberal cabinet following a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Friday. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

After too many years of Justin Trudeau as prime minister of Canada when he was first enthusiastically welcomed in 2015 as a fresh new face that would give Canada a fresh new perspective and prosperity going into the future as well as harmony between provinces and the federal government would finally arrive,given Trudeau's much-vaunted 'sunny ways', Canadians fed up with his Liberal administration finally stated loud and clear that with this man continuing at the helm of the Liberal party, the next general election would commit the Liberals to last place, hanging on to scant seats.

 

With the proverbial writing on the wall, Justin Trudeau had few options but to resign, although he did it on his terms, taking his time and arranging a successor long in the sights of the party. Bearing in mind that each and every Liberal Member of Parliament and certainly those that made up Trudeau's bloated cabinet supported and advanced every initiative that he took as prime minister, from embracing Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and LGBTQ-2+, along with transgender rights for school-age children. 

 

Above all, his Cabinet was quick to agree with their prime minister's environmental agenda that virtually shut down Canada's exploitation of its energy natural resources. Pipelines to carry oil and LNG to points within Canada itself, much less to tidewater ports along with badly needed refinery capacity were cancelled by the Liberal government as a goodwill environmental gesture, while the country imported energy from foreign sources. Perhaps most visually and dysfunctionally evident has been the eruption of public displays of robust celebration of the right of Palestinians in Gaza to promote Palestinian terrorist groups as 'fighters' against Israeli oppression.

A vast sea of Communist and Palestinian flags covers Parliament Hill in Ottawa, exposing the radical extremist agenda that challenges support for Israel and democratic values. (Photo: X.)

These 'fighters', as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad demonstrated their fighting skills by entering southern Israel in a coordinated rush of thousands of operatives with orders to create deadly mayhem in as wide a circle as possible, and some five thousand terrorists, complemented by ordinary Palestinians wasted little time in proving their prowess at mass rape, employing sadistic savagery to mutilate, rape and murder Israeli girls and women. Entire families were wiped out in farming communities, their homes torched while they sought shelter in their 'safe rooms'. The toll of 1,200 massacred, 250 taken hostage is celebrated in the streets of Canadian cities by Palestinians and their sympathizers as 'resistance' to 'occupation', calling for a global Intifada and Final Solution.

 

Pro-Palestinian protesters at a rally on Parliament Hill Saturday/ Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press

Canada's immigration system gone awry, welcoming 'refugees' from a conflict they initiated, along with illegal migrants, students on visas, temporary workers, all straining universal social welfare, including the country's medicare system and creating a dire shortage of housing capacity. The infiltration of a religious/political cohort with no intention of integrating into Canada's culture, its values, its judicial system has resulted in chaos, rising crime rates and a near-dysfunctional society incapable of stemming the tide of hostile relations between ethnic groups as civilizational norms become charged with resentment and hatred.

 

So what does the Liberal cabinet look like under Mark Carney, former banker, economist, self-promoter, short-tempered doctoral plagiarist and narcissist look like? Amazingly like the Justin Trudeau Liberal cabinet. And what does the 'new' Liberal cabinet agenda hold for Canada? Ah well, more of the same, only somewhat shielded from close scrutiny as the new Liberal leader makes his agenda-cautious bid during a general election for an electoral mandate to govern with a majority, not the vanishing minority threatened under a renewed Trudeau government.

 

Mark Carney's experience in two prestigious government positions; as Governor of the Bank of Canada, and later Governor of the Bank of England, distinguished him as a  high flyer, but his actual performance in each of those positions was less than glowing, despite his current boasts of his positions having been indispensable to good government and even better economics in both countries. The revelation that he had plagiarized other economists' work without attribution, to plump up his doctoral thesis at Harvard revealed a man with rather loose personal ethics.

 

Mark Carney's dedication to left-wing environmental politics is not second to Justin Trudeau's; the latter was an apprentice to the former. Wealth and a strong GDP performance now eludes Canada; our earning powers have been starkly diminished. And Mark Carney, while disavowing any intention to commit Canada not to disturb its vast energy resources in favour of 'renewable energy' sources is playing sly games with Canadians' trust through his utter lack of integrity. His flirtation with the truth has been revealed, as for example when he denied his role in the decision by Brookfield Asset Management to move its head office to the U.S. 

As for his crowd-pleasing decision to lift the carbon tax for individuals (while leaving it intact for corporations), consider this: his career of the last several years was one of campaigning internationally for net zero emissions -- certainly impacting Canada's oil and gas resources. The Net Zero Banking Alliance he created, committing major international banks to net zero carbon emissions has seen latterly, major banks dropping out. The bloom is off that rose, but Mr. Carney's determination to carry on with his net-zero future for Canada remains on tap. Meanwhile, he is busy purloining from the Conservative campaign of Pierre Poilievre promises they initiate, claiming them as his own.

 

Should this man be elected to lead a renewed Liberal government -- with all the accoutrements of the old, discredited Liberal government, including the same tired old, but newly-fired up members of Cabinet, all of whom did their enthusiastic utmost to sell Justin Trudeau's unpopular, divisive and disturbing agenda from a 'post-national' Canada, to one bursting at the seams with new Canadians for whom there are too scant services and little intelligent scrutiny respecting their anticipated capacity to integrate into Canadian culture, in the process destroying all that is decent and civilized -- all the rejected positions taken by the 'old' Liberal government, will flare into new life under the 'new' Liberal government.

"It takes only a cursory glance at his record to work out that Carney's reputation is completely overblown. In reality, he has been 'over-promoted', and, in over eight years at the Bank of England, was at best an indifferent governor and at worst a disappointing failure."

"He created a mess and ... is the epitome of a remote, globalized, technocratic elite. He is very good at self-promotion, at collecting trophy jobs and of course negotiating fabulously generous salaries and expenses for himself."

"He is just not very good at delivering."

Matthew Lynn, Daily Telegraph

Liberal leader Mark Carney, left, and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. POSTMEDIA FILE PHOTOS

Canada: Not Yet a Vassal of China

"We are very concerned with the leaks, particularly because there are so many inaccuracies in those leaks."

"The allegations in the Globe story are false."

"It's certainly a sign that security within CSIS needs to be reviewed. And I'm expecting CSIS to take the issue very seriously."

"In a free democracy, it is not up to unelected security offiials to dictate to political parties who can or cannot run [in general elections to Parliament]."

"One of the things we've seen, unfortunately, over the past years is a rise in anti-Asian racism linked to the pandemic and concerns being raised or arisen around people's loyalties."

"I do not have any information, nor have I been briefed on any federal candidates receiving any money from China."

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

"I would put the threat level at about eight out of ten. That's mainly because the Chinese authorities are absolutely determined to achieve their goals, no matter what people think."

"I'm particularly concerned about their willingness to use almost any method to succeed."

Richard Fadden, former director of CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he does not believe the interference efforts influenced the outcomes of the last two federal elections, in which he was re-elected   Pool

 

The use of the imperial 'we' fairly well sums up Mr. Trudeau's sense of entitlement. To lie as  he sees fit. And he sees fit to lie any time he is challenged with doubts to his credibility. Because incriminating documents showing that he was repeatedly warned by Canadian intelligence of the divided loyalty of some Liberal candidates running for office, his major concern is that someone in CSIS leaked that information and should be found and prosecuted. Despite the warnings, Mr. Trudeau ignored them. And then denied ever having been given the evidence of Chinese involvement in Canadian elections.

That threat level is now recognized as being conservative; what was seen as alarming in Beijing's interference in Canada, and China's ambitions of coercive controls within the country several years ago when that statement by Mr. Fadden was aired at a special committee on Canada-China relations in the House of Commons, has since undergone significant changes, all of them alarmingly revolving around Beijing's interfering in Canada's politics. 

In the past several weeks, stories have broken in the Canadian media revealing just how blatantly intrusive Beijing's interference has become. The last two general elections gave China the opportunity to intrude on purely Canadian affairs by slipping funding to favoured Liberal candidates from within the Chinese-Canadian community supportive of Beijing, while Liberal candidates for office from among Chinese-Canadians critical of Beijing suffered from malign and systematic slander causing them to lose their seats in Parliament.

Various CSIS briefing notes and secret Privy Council memoranda have been covertly released to selected members of the press revealing that the claims made by Justin Trudeau of never having been alerted of Chinese election interference are inventions. Publication of evidence revealed that Chinese diplomatic missions in Canada have surreptitiously urged Chinese students studying in Canada to volunteer as aides to select Chinese candidates and to support them financially, which Beijing would later refund to the students.

Wealthy Chinese-Canadian businessmen loyal to Beijing have similarly made donations totalling $1 million to the Pierre Elliot Trudeau memorial charitable foundation, in a clear move for influence. The foundation's rules are never to accept offshore funding, so they were white-washed through Canadian funders who later recouped their financial outlay via Beijing. Only when the matter was made public, did the foundation state its intention to return the funding.

Justin Trudeau, as an elected Parliamentarian, made himself accessible at Liberal fundraisers mounted by Chinese businessmen when tickets to attend were several thousand dollars. Attending the fundraisers to benefit the Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau certainly compromised the integrity of a future prime minister in hugely questionable judgement calls.

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his government has taken 'significant actions' since 2015 to respond to the threat of foreign interference in elections.   CBC

 

Prime Minister Trudeau responds to questions from the news media and from taxpayers by denying all reports of questionable conduct on his part relating to Chinese influence in Canada. Only when the public became aware through news reports that China was operating 'police stations' whose purpose was to persuade Chinese-Canadians who oppose Beijing to return to China to stand trial, was the RCMP dispatched to close down the Chinese police presence in Canada.

Amendments to China's National Intelligence Law in 2017 stipulate irrespective of citizenship, expatriate Chinese are legally bound to cooperate with Chinese military intelligence, state security agencies, and the United Front Work Department. The 2020 National Security Law stipulates Chinese-Canadians supportive of Hong Kong democracy are criminals who should be returned for prosecution to China. Chinese Communist Party interference and harassment of Chinese-Canadians is an insult to Canadian sovereignty and citizenship.

The United Front Work Department keeps tabs on Chinese-Canadians, creates influence through Chinese-language local newspapers distributed to the Chinese-Canadian community and is influential in persuading voters whom to vote for and whom to sideline. The result has been that a number of Chinese-Canadian citizens have been elected who clearly prosecute Beijing's influence in Canada, while Chinese-Canadian Parliamentarians critical of China and loyal only to Canada, are targeted by Beijing.

 

Mr. Trudeau classifies any who question the legality of Chinese machinations in Canadian affairs as 'bigoted views', 'racist' in intent and harmful to Canada-China relations. The Prime Minister has always been enthralled with China, and the Liberal Party in particular has always striven for closer trade and investment ties with China. Only when the Conservative government of Stephen Harper was in power was there hesitation to allow Chinese investment and buy-outs of sensitive Canadian mineral resources put on hold.

 

The public is now sitting up to take notice of the troubling and dangerous interference in Canadian affairs, particularly that of election interference. Opposition parties in Parliament have called for an independent investigation. Something that the Prime Minister evades. The Parliamentary House Affairs Committee voted in favour of an open-ended public inquiry into "allegations of foreign interference in Canada's democratic system, including but not limited to allegations of interference in general elections by foreign governments".

The latest allegations to strain an already challenged diplomatic relationship between Ottawa and Beijing have a majority of Canadians of the belief the Chinese government did indeed attempt to interfere in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections, while demanding a stronger response from the federal government on the issue.

These are the latest findings of a new public opinion survey from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute.

Amid allegations Beijing attempted to influence the outcomes of both the 2019 and 2021 elections to ensure the federal Liberal Party formed a minority government over the opposition Conservatives, two-thirds of adult Canadians express belief that Beijing “definitely” (32%) or “probably” (33%) tried to meddle.

Majorities across the political spectrum are of this view, while half of Canadians say this attempted interference represents a serious threat to democracy (53%).

Angus Reid Institute, March 1, 2023