The Five Percent Has Captured Culture. Carney Is Only Too Happy To Help.

“The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.” James Thorne

Happy Canada Day. It may be your last as we know it. Yes, yes, another Western alienation screed. Can’t those people get a life? But the fact remains that in the coming 12 months Alberta will hold a referendum about its future in Canada. (Quebec has a sovereignty election pending, but “fool me once…”)

Odds are that any vote will result in deadlock for both sides. A third of Albertans saying Yes won’t win anything. But the presence of a sizeable number of voters who want a deal within/ without Canada is a repudiation of the Liberals status quo.

You can tell that the Trump-obsessed entitled are miffed that anything needs fixing. TDS is a disease with no cure for Canadian lefties. They will die of it or with it. When their ranting about Trump peters out they segue to “how dare you?” accusations of treason.

The press has summed up the entitlement mantra, saying Albertans should settle for Ottawa’s expectations of their future. “We’ll decide how much oil you can pump.”  Alberta is a child that must be managed. Author/ columnist John Ibbitson captured the elite’s noblesse oblige attitude. “… the result of that indifference and condescension from central Canada is this referendum on a referendum. We're responsible for that here in the centre.” 

When the “how dare you?” attacks from the Elbows Up army failed to soften up the yokels— votes for the referendum doubled the required number — opponents like the Alberta NDP leader called his own voters “separatists”. In the Quebec context it was a toxic accusation. But Nenshi is a carpetbagger open for bids.

The inflammatory use of the term “separatism” in the jeremiads against Danielle Smith & Co. supposes that Alberta is the change agent in the debate. Typically, progressives are the ones threatening the union with radical notions. In Canada that formula is tuned on its head, and you end up with Scarlett Gillespie, a candidate for mayor in Hamilton, Ontario. He pretends to be a woman and uses a sock puppet in his loopy speeches. Pierre Poilievre, meanwhile,  is tarred for wanting to restore 22 Rideau. Canada is a circus. 

Legacy Albertans are perhaps the most loyal of Canadians. They eagerly went to war in WWI and WWII. They (almost) forgave Trudeau Sr. for the hated National Energy Program in 1983. They don’t want to separate from the nation they’ve known since 1905. They like the flag. They don’t want to change much besides the equalization formula. 

They simply want to be able to decide their own destinies, to develop their energy resources.  Which brings them into direct conflict with a grasping government’s carbon taxes and more— policies now largely repudiated in many parts of the Western media. 

The real separatists in this clash have flipped the roles. The reverse has the Trudeauphiles wrenching Canada from the moorings it knew since 1867. They want to make changes for Alberta in every corner of life from gender to energy to foreign policy. Extending into the Carney years they have turned Canada into a progressive exercise in leftwing acquiescence.

The Pride parades illustrate their commitment to new priorities. When LGBTQ paraders dumped water on PM Mark Carney he tried to laugh it off.  But there was no mistaking the locus of power has moved. The LGBTQ movement now is loyal to its flags and parades— not the Canadian flag or its postmodern prime ministers.

Watch how former CBC/ CTV bingo caller Evan Solomon allows the maple leaf flag to be flown equally or lower that the rainbow flag? How they merge the Liberal brand with dyslexic distress? How they douse the PM to humiliate him so he will laugh? That’s now Evan Solomon’s legacy.

Here’s unhinged Toronto councillor Kristyn Wong Tam demanding imaginary civil rights for trans (0.04 % of population) and reparations for improper use of pronouns. .The over-reach has produced inadvertent humour. @StephenPunwasi “Not a lot of people know this, but when Canadians watch the Big Short, the banks & mortgage fraud are the good guys.” ·Jul 3, 2025

It all models the Marxist menu taught the past generation in OISE and leftist universities. Embracing small minorities in society as indictments of the capitalist system. Trans, LGBTQ, environmental radicals, feminist extremists, chronic underdogs— none represents more than 5 percent POP. But their plight has been embraced by the passionate devotees in unions, academics, media and government.

The process of overtaking society is a quintessential expression of self absorption. Celebrate ourselves. Naked. Demand everyone find this normal. The LGBTQ flying squad has moved on from 1) acceptance. They are now leaning hard on Poilievre in phase 2) Compliance. Once they get him there they'll move to the final phase 3) Subservience. You can't be a whipped Low-T, liberal male until you accept the 3-step plan

This is a playbook the Liberals have run so often-- to so little benefit to Canada-- that people have become numb to their incompetence and chicanery. They will continue setting your money on fire for another three years, because CDN media would rather concentrate on Poilievre living at Stornaway. Or Trump teasing Canada about its inadequacies.

So happy birthday, former Dominion Of. Party like it’s 1999. When people shared values, not consultants.

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/106980270