Beware Of Bankers Bearing Gifts: All Hail The Carney UniParty

"Mr Madison, what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it.”— Principal Anderson in the film Billy Madison

We were reminded of the good principal’s comments last Saturday as we watched PM Mark Carney’s address to the delegates who’ve installed him as Justin Trudeau’s successor. “Virtue is like a muscle, “ he intoned. “It grows with exercise. When we are kind, kindness grows. When we seek unity, unity grows. When we are Canadian, Canada grows. And when we are all in for Canada, we will build Canada strong for all.”

Hello, Hallmark, synecdoche in Aisle Five. 

Just to show Elbows Up that he’s a regular guy (with a billion-dollar portfolio) he also made a little joke about their abstemious #TDS loyalties. “Anyone had any bourbon lately? Sorry…Small individual acts of solidarity. We are the masters of our destiny.” Gack.

Remember, the cliché is that Right Wingers are supposed to be suckers for Donald Trump’s bombast. But the Liberals—and their purloined Conservatives and Knee Deeps— swooned for this treacle, making the point that the Left is even more vulnerable to Obama-style speechifying. Virtue is like a muscle? Must be the muscle involved in knee jerks.

Madame Carney was not about to miss her moment, either. She doesn’t even live in Canada. but she’s entitled to lecture Canadians on being good little NetZero comrades adhering to her husband’s “now-famous Davos speech”. (Famous with whom?) “My husband and I have been stopped on the streets of Mumbai, Sydney, London and Paris and, of course, throughout Canada, by people from all backgrounds seeking to thank Canada for our country's global leadership.”

Leadership? That leadership has seen the largest capital outflow in the nation’s history over the Liberals’ past decade with more than $1 trillion in investment leaving, (according to a new report by RBC) . A recent survey by the Business Council of Canada found that nearly half of CEOs identify the domestic regulatory burden as the single most important factor influencing their investment decisions—higher than CUSMA uncertainty.

But what’s a trillion between Elbows Up friends? Watching these overtures to China and the EU— and the repudiation of Trump’s America— it’s become obvious that Canada’s aging Left is like the new Bruce Springsteen. Boomers marinated in progressive drivel and bragging about their faux-tough Elbows Up! selves. They’re no less besotted than when Pierre Elliot Trudeau dizzied the rubes with his urbane chic in Trudeaumania.

Like the ascension of PET in 1968, the press is fully onboard with the creation of a UniParty, a many-splendored thing crossing party lines and demographics. Having been paid handsomely by Carney’s predecessor (the repulsive frat boy Justin) TV hosts, news columnists and social-media bots are racing each other to honour the Trump Slayer. Forget that the biggest asset in his political fortunes was NDP voters deserting Jagmeet Singh to join the Liberaces. What a true Canadian legend!

Whose wife lives in the United States. All four of his children live and study in the United States. An estimated 91 percent of his investment portfolio is in the United States. He owns a house in the United States. He moved Brookfield’s head office to NYC. Yet he tells Canadians they can’t trust America. Canada must veer to his friends in the globalist movement. Must accept China as its Daddy.

And Canadians in Atlantic Canada and the West must see his $90B fever dream of a bullet train as nation building— even though it will only serve the Family Compact corridor in Central Canada. The poodles of the press gallery, who have no problem pulling down Sir. John A. Macdonald, are keen on putting the Little Banker on a pedestal for that one.

They also ignore his ominous words about freedom of speech. "Large American online platforms have become seas of racism, misogyny, antisemitism, islamophobia and hate in all its forms... My government will act.” Coming from a Liberal party that unlawfully suspended civil liberties for truckers in 2022 this can only mean one thing. You’re not invited.

The scribblers are also not admitting that the pre-fab majority in the House ignores how the Elbows Up movement teeters on a demographic cliff. Young Millenials and Gen Xers regularly tell the pollsters they have no affinity for the Liberals, still supporting the Conservatives by substantial margins even as Grandpa and Grandma throw themselves at Carney. Almost 40 percent say they’d move to Trump’s America is given the opportunity. 

Having gained their UniParty, the Liberals can now turn their attention to dissidents in Alberta and Quebec, both of whom have planned referendums set to go in late 2026 or early 2027. That means a few more floor crossings before launching an assault on Danielle Smith, the energy she-devil. For now legal challenges from First Nations are gumming up the process in Alberta. In the meantime the UniParty candidate in Alberta, NDP leader Naheed Nenshi, will soften up Smith with a torrent of fake sentiment that ignores that Canadas left Alberta years ago, not the other way around.

Quebec, which needs Canada more than vice versa,  will take care of itself if left alone. As it always has when there’s Plains of Abraham guilt in Ottawa. A few climate concessions at the expense of the oil industry and expressions of bilingual nitpicking will keep them in the fold. 

Leaving the Liberal reality in place till 2029. In the words of Mrs. Carney, “Canada … is helping to define and shape a New World Order.” To the life boats, mes citoyens!

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 2023 book Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, was voted a Top 20 greatest professional hockey books of all time by bookauthority.org . https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1770415300?linkCode=gs2&tag=uuid0a1-20 His previous book with his son Evan, Deal With It: The Trades That Stunned The NHL And Changed Hockey is now available on Amazon. His new poetry collection In Other Words is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca and on Kindle books at https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1069802700