Who is Mark Carney? Perhaps a better question is: What is Mark Carney? Is he a "rock star" banker as some of his supporters claim? It's hard to say, even harder to imagine what a rock star banker would actually be. It sounds nice though. What also sounds nice is the glossy track record he seems to be showing Canadians, with claims that he and Paul Martin balanced the budget in the past, while also claiming responsibility for Jim Flaherty's work during the '08 recession. In that respect, he's a run-of-the-mill politician, claiming to be responsible for things he's not, while also dodging accountability for the things he has caused: inflated housing markets, printed money, partisan lobbying, carbon tax, household debt, ESG investment policies, and advising the current PM.
In his first public speech after declaring his intention to slide into the role of unelected PM, Carney declared that he was interested in "plans, not slogans." I thought it was odd to use a slogan to refute slogans, but that's basically the crux of it; he's a banker. He says what you want to hear, his job is to smile to your face while robbing you blind. He's good at it. Suits like him will steal the eyeballs out of your head, plunk grapes back in, and then tell you that you look better. We can’t fall for it; we can’t afford to fall for it.
The public in both England and Canada have suffered from his policies; however, his elitist buddies and investors can't stop getting richer. What's most disturbing about this whole ordeal is Canada has been softened up by dogmatic policies based in left-wing theory instead of practicality, and now that we are ripe for the picking, the globalist banker who claims to be both European and Canadian is here to finish the job. Make no mistake, Mark Carney is not here to save Canada; he's here to finish carving it up.
Quantitative easing is his legacy. What's quantitative easing, you ask? It's fancy banker talk for printing money. He printed £450 billion in England, which has caused the inflation that they are still dealing with. The Bank of England’s £450 billion QE program, launched under Carney, coincided with inflation rising to a 40-year high of 11% in 2022. Carney’s own 2021 speech admitted QE’s role in ‘amplifying inequality.’ His other legacy? Holding interest rates artificially low during his time here, which contributed to an inflated housing market. His policies have harmed the countries he's been a part of, and no number of shiny smiles or sharp suits can change that.
He's a shiny new paint job on a broken-down Liberal car. He's a last gasp from a desperate party looking to change their image. Canadians will not fall for it as he can no longer hide from media and duck for cover under a softball leadership campaign. Over the next few weeks and months, Mark Carney will start to deal with reality, instead of the false campaign he's been running. He's had no opposition in the Liberal race, as it's obvious most of his competitors are more interested in working in his cabinet than challenging him as a leader. He is now leaving the frying pan and entering the fire. His legacy will be on display, and so will his sleazy maneuvers and antics.
We need a leader who believes in Canadians, a leader who understands the problems and is willing to fix them, not someone who sees an opportunity to slide in and accomplish his planetary goals. Mark Carney is a globalist; he fancies himself as a European ice hockey goalie, in his own words. Surely, we as a nation cannot trust a man who calls himself an "ice hockey goalie" to Canadians. He was a goalie, he played net; that's how we speak. We don't call it ice hockey; that's European language.
He's a phony even on the surface, and what he gets up to behind closed doors would make the average Canadian shudder. Carney is a big proponent of large global initiatives that undermine Canadian sovereignty. He believes in large, centralized planning that forces companies to adhere to ESG and carbon-related initiatives, even though they harm our ability to increase our wealth. The globe is Carney’s home, and he sees Canada as a chip to maneuver. As UN Special Envoy on Climate Action, Carney prioritized international ESG frameworks over Canadian energy workers, lobbying to defund pipelines while investing in offshore wind projects tied to his Brookfield associates.
Carney isn’t unique — he’s the epitome of a technocratic class that swaps roles between central banks and corporate boards, crafting policies that serve Davos, not Dryden or Drumheller. He’s a fantastic glad-hander with an ivory smile, but he doesn’t have our interests at heart.
In 2015, we fell for a handsome guy with a nice smile who sounded good. He lied about his accomplishments and exaggerated his track record. He had global interests at heart while saying anything he could to get elected. We don't need a slightly older, more organized globalist like Carney taking over from Trudeau. We need to stop falling for the trick. We need to stop electing leaders who are more desperate for camera attention than for fixing our problems. We don't need another "rock star" politician that the global left loves; we need a hardworking Canadian leader who can chart our course and solve our dilemmas.
Canadians can’t afford another smooth-talking salesman. This time, let’s demand a leader who’s spent more time in Timmins than Zurich, whose loyalty lies with Main Street, not hedge funds — because Carney’s Canada isn’t ours to surrender.
Absolutely unhinged post, just completely divorced from reality.