U.S. Voters Smelled A Rat But Canadian Voters Bought The Cheese

“Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot… Donald Trump is smarter than me, you, and all the critics… this dude is a phenomenal—he is the most powerful human on earth.”— Van Jones, CNN liberal/ Trump hater

While hockey is nominally the national sport of Canada, a good case can be made that sneering at America is a close second. Mocking the foibles of the neighbours to the South as a means of propping up the junior partner’s self esteem has long been a feature of Canadian life. The Excited States etc.

Donald Trump took the condescension to stratospheric levels. So strong is the mockery of modern-day Laurentian popinjays that a 51st state jibe from Trump spun an entire election on its head. How bad were Liberal fortunes? Many of Trudeau’s allies and groomsmen announced they were not pursuing re-election. Depending on who’s counting votes now, fussy banker Mark Carney could have a voting majority in Parliament after the Trudeau Liberals trailed by as many as 20 points in the 2024 polls.

The manipulated Carney hustle advertising Change! was a carbon copy of the backroom Democrats attempts to nurse a mentally incapacitated Joe Biden through the 2024 elections then spring VP Kamala Harris as the first female president. When Biden imploded while debating Trump the shadowy DEMs behind Biden accelerated the Kamala script. Despite the frantic efforts of their media/ pollsters Harris flopped and Trump resumed the presidency in a lopsided win. Average Americans were not fooled.

By now the questionable sequence of events in Canada that brought Carney in from the bullpen to clean up for Trudeau is well known— and highly mockable in its own right. The proroguing of Parliament, the rigging of the Liberal leadership race by DQ-ing candidates, the hermetically sealed Carney resume, a very short campaign, the Elbows Up Mike Myers TV spots, the vow to match tariffs and so on. It was a cavalcade of corruption.

All of this Canada First! was accepted by gullible Boomers and smothered by the purchased media. Advertisers jumped in with patriotic beer ads. Trudeau’s postmodern state was more like Laurier’s Canada rallying to fight the Bosch in 1915. The extent of this deception can now be seen with the benefit of time. Carney’s accession was a carefully controlled script in which Carney rescinded tariffs during the campaign without telling voters. He declared that America was no longer Canada’s No. 1 partner then begged to be let in on the proposed Golden Dome defence shield. He revived the most controversial Trudeau era cabinet members. He joined GB and France in demanding Israel go easy on Hamas. 

And when the economy started tanking he blamed Pierre Poilievre for failing the nation. What voters now can see is that the last election was about Boomers, the Liberals last line of acquiescence. Myers’ nostalgia was about saving the equity in Boomers’ cash-box homes so that the government could then tell those using their homes as equity that as a trade off, they will now tax the equity in their primary residence. 

The great thing about being a Canadian Liberal is you can make every mistake in the book-- and a few not in the book-- and CDN. voters will still forgive it all if you show them a movie star. For all the mocking they receive from Canada, American voters saw through the Biden farce and said “Enough”. Canadian voters saw the same grift and said “More Please”. How do you take a nation like that seriously?

For those Canadians in media who regularly make fun of the Americans’ bravado and noise there has been no awareness of how Canadians had been played like a cheap violin. Okay, Andrew Coyne finally admitted voters were conned. But most settled back into a deep sleep, free from Chinese fentanyl, money laundering by the big banks and the plight of their kids and grandkids. 

Nice work if you can get it. Mark Carney got it, and his Boomers ca now swallow deep.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, Bruce is regular media contributor. The new book from the team of Evan & Bruce Dowbiggin is Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL & Changed Hockey. From Espo to Boston in 1967 to Gretz in L.A. in 1988 to Patrick Roy leaving Montreal in 1995, the stories behind the story. In paperback and Kindle on #Amazon. Destined to be a hockey best seller. https://www.amazon.ca/Deal-Trades-Stunned-Changed-Hockey-ebook/dp/B0D236NB35/