The Globalist Campaign To Destroy Personal Property Rights

"I don’t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land. Yeah, it’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now.” Billie Eilish

No doubt Billie Eilish would disagree, but one of the abiding gifts of the British Empire was the establishment of property rights. The enshrined right of anyone to possession of their own home or property. To hundreds of millions around the planet the introduction of property rights is among the top benefits of Western civilization. 

It created the middle class, which led to democracy, which led to prosperity. It inspired Adam Smith to codify capitalism. (Billie might remind us about the horrors of the East Indian Company and Opium Wars. Whatever.) 

It was not for nothing that, in its earliest applications, the right to vote was restricted to those who held property. Influenced by John Locke’s ideas of property as a marker of societal contribution and independence, it was believed— and turned out largely to be true— that those with a dog in the fight were most likely to be the best stewards of the societies in which they lived.

Those possessing property decided what values their community would hold, what taxation could be applied, what laws would govern the group. They rejected absolute monarchy and divine right. Government legitimacy derived from popular consent and the protection of these rights, justifying resistance to tyranny.

It was noisy but effective. Over time suffrage was expanded to all citizens. (Everywhere but America that meant proving your identity.) Expanding the voting roles and liberalizing voting procedures didn’t work as well, but it was still judged effective enough by stakeholders.

Too effective for today’s autocrats and globalists who desire to run society themselves. It’s why people like Justin Trudeau talked openly of taxing the equity in property owners’ homes. People who wanted to order which vaccines you can take, how close you can stand to others, how many people could sit at your table in a restaurant. Who would put you in jail if you disagreed with wearing a mask. 

As the son of Pierre Trudeau, Justin came by high-handedness naturally. An authority figure in the ideal country. When it comes to governance, Canadians are big on go-along-to-get-along. Enforced behaviour is, after all, the cornerstone of Canada’s single-payer healthcare. There is no Column B on this menu. It gives the government the right to tell you how you can medicate yourself. How long you must wait it in line for treatment. When you can end your life. 

Everyone is meant to comply. The impertinence is why Trudeau was so shocked when the Truckers Convoy chose to defy him on vaccinations. It’s why he unlawfully invoked the Emergency Measures Act. It’s why most Canadians fell in line with Trudeau’s media buddies, condemning the truckers. 

It’s why so many who should know better are now all-in with Friend of China Mark Carney pivoting them to globalism and away from individuals rights. Trudeau’s successor knew that he couldn’t play Trudeau’s mandate with voters. So Carney flew around the world gathering wistful promises of a new world economic model led by China. 

His Elbows Up crowd, ecstatic at the idea of ditching Trump’s U.S., dreams that a freed-up Canadian economy will now roar. Sorry. The federal debt currently sits at $1.3 trillion, with over $60 billion a year in interest payments— roughly equivalent to every dollar of GST revenue. The federal sales tax is now effectively servicing the debt— not to build anything, fix anything, or improve anything. No wonder the economy is described as ‘on life support’ with Canada’s monetary establishment driving a “train wreck”.

Canadian money has been leaving the country at a far faster pace than foreign investment has been coming in — a gap approaching one trillion dollars. (Carney’s former firm Brookfield is among those who’ve skedaddled south from Canada.) Someone will have to make up the gap. 

Which brings up to those pesky people who own their own homes.  For good reason they’re less than convinced that Carney and his B.C. lieutenant David Eby are not going to make a move on the home equity they’ve gathered. 

Already Eby is cutting deals with Billie Eilish’s friends in the B.C. native community to give unelected chiefs controls over crown lands. Or partial ownership of homes thought to be owned by the middle class. Or the land upon which the Vancouver International Airport stands. They hope that by the time the public wakes up to this attack on property rights it will be too late. 

How worried is Carney about blowback? Not very. He’s watched the abject Billie Eilish surrender of the Canadian managerial class to land acknowledgements that harken to some half-remembered native nirvana. He’s seen his dimwit cabinet member Marc Miller suggest that black communities have contributed to Canada for “over 400 years”. 

He knows that given the right circumstances (Trump saying something about Canada’s failing economy) he will have the Boomers in his palm. As Dan Donovan writes, “Mark Carney speaks with the confidence of a man who has spent years being applauded in rooms where applause is cheap. Davos loves him. International panels love him. The global financial class loves him. 

And why wouldn’t they? Carney is fluent in the language of elite reassurance, the soothing cadence of “values‑based realism,” “strategic autonomy,” and “mobilizing a trillion dollars in investment.”

He’s so worried that he’s likely to call a snap election this spring. If he gets his majority control of your home will be one of his tasks. As for Eilish, she might not be in her mansion much longer. The Indian tribe that once owned the property now wants to take her up on her offer to make all land titles void. Mayber she can then write a song about karma.

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, his 2025 book Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed Hockey is now available on Amazon. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his previous book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His new poetry collection In Other Words is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca and on Kindle books at https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1069802700