I have to marvel at how haughty and self-assured Canadians are in their ignorance after recently taking to a normie friend. There are too many who operate under the delusion that Canada is a major player on the world stage and that Mark Carney is some savant economist is going to take the nation to new heights. Sure, he looks qualified on paper, but let us look at the results. His tenure as governor of the Bank of England cratered their economy and left the UK a wasteland with inflated energy price. Several financial institutions pulled out of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) over antitrust concerns. That is two strikes. However, Carney acts like he is entitled to be prime minister because he walks in a world that rewards failure through credentials and connections.
Canadians are allowing this to happen because our relationship with the United States is that of a jealous younger sibling. We lack the population, industrial base, technology, and military to become a superpower so we look for alternative ways to demonstrate our supposed superiority (e.g. "free" healthcare) over our yankee brethren. Part of this comes from the historical negationism that Canada was destined for greatness, as exemplified by this 1904 Wilfrid Laurier quote:
"Let me tell you, my fellow countrymen, that all the signs point this way, that the 20th century shall be the century of Canada and Canadian development.… For the next 100 years, Canada shall be the star towards which all men who love progress and freedom shall come."
Those damn dirty Yanks stole the spotlight that was rightfully ours! Well, the true context of Laurier's words was that Canada was a country of vast potential, but he said those words in a time where the European powers jockeyed for influence and markets across the globe. He could not have foreseen that two World Wars would smash the empires of the old world and create an ideological grapple between two superpowers for the last half of the century. I postulate that "stolen glory" narrative took a hold inside some dark corner of the Canadian psyche that twisted existing (albeit low-key) anti-American sentiment into something self-destructive that the Laurentian elites embraced.
It manifested in the premiership of Pierre Trudeau who stuck his thumb in the American's face through his idolization of Mao Zedong and long-standing friendship with Fidel Castro. It manifested again in the early 00s with Canadians' smugness over not joining the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and again after the leftist rabble froth at the mouth mad because Orange Man says something stupid. We must remember that Trudeau the Elder left Canada is dismal shape. It took both the Mulroney and Chretien governments FOURTEEN years to reverse, which included massive program cuts and layoffs. History repeats and Trudeau the Younger undoes that by leaving the nation in much worse shape. What differentiates us from the nineties is that the so-called centrists of today are willing to self-immolate because Trump wounded their precious egos.
Is Trump petty? Sure, but Trudeau should not have been acting like an alpha bitch during his first term. Similarly, Justin should not have said that tariffs would wreck the Canadian economy because he handed Trump the ammunition to use against us. Annexation was never a real threat. Why would the Republicans want to make Canada the 51st state when that would mean more Democrats in the House? Trump knew that would rattle Justin's chains and didn't care about the consequences. As long as America comes out on top.
What Canadians fail to realize that there is no difference between Trudeau and Carney on an ideological level. Both possess a messianic complex and believe that they are part of an anointed few capable of saving the world from the (imagined) threat of carbon "pollution". Both look to manipulate the free market to create a "green economy" that will only result in energy poverty for millions. Carney is keeping the people behind the Century Initiative so that means we'll reopen the tap to flood the country with Jeets--thus further eroding social cohesion. He has no intention of building infrastructure to reduce our reliance on the United States. No plan to address growing crime and drug addiction. No plan to ease the regulatory burden that keeps us from developing our resources. All be plans to do is accelerate what his predecessor started. Should that come to pass, well, Canada will cease to be a viable nation in five to ten years. Perhaps it is irony that a Carney victory increases the chances of US annexation, at least of the Western provinces.
How deliciously ironic it would be.