Canada’s new leader is bad for Canada — and the US – Latest News
This previous Monday night, the Liberal Party of Canada — already a decade in energy — secured a new authorities below Prime Minister Mark Carney, its freshly appointed leader.
In politics for much less than a yr, Carney was parachuted in to save lots of the Liberals, who, as not too long ago as December, have been polling at simply 16% below their extremely unpopular former leader, Justin Trudeau.
Carney’s ascent to the prime ministership is the worst of potential outcomes at the worst potential time — not simply for Canada, specifically, but additionally for the United States.
Although he has solely been in politics for much less than a yr, Liberal leader Mark Carney managed to return back from behind and emerge as the new Prime Minister of Canada. REUTERS
For Canada, this implies one other 4 years of the identical Liberal authorities that led the nation into a misplaced financial decade marked by near-zero per capita financial growth, elevated inflation, and swelling public service and spending, which doubled the national debt.
Excessive immigration below the Liberals exacerbated already current crises in housing, health care, and affordability. Canada’s opioid epidemic was worsened by the social gathering’s wrongheaded “safer supply” insurance policies, experiments in decriminalization, and a lack of enforcement of drug legal guidelines.
The Liberals could have a new leader in Carney, however his insurance policies will shift little from his predecessor.
Canadians can count on more of the identical DEI ideology over benefit, an aggressive authorities euthanasia program (MAID), ladies’s sex-based rights persevering with to be ignored, and a justice system that serves as a revolving door for harmful repeat criminals.
Canada is doomed to remain woke for the foreseeable future.
Trump and Trudeau during a assembly back in 2019 — earlier than the US president threatened to make Canada the 51st. state. REUTERS
These are the identical Liberals who continued to assist UNRWA, regardless of studying of its involvement in Hamas’ Oct. 7 bloodbath.
The Liberals, whose overseas affairs minister, Mélanie Joly, positioned an arms embargo towards Israel, and obtained a personal thank-you from Hamas for supporting a ceasefire in Gaza. Under the Liberals, hate crimes towards Jews have elevated 71% since 2023, synagogues and Jewish colleges have been shot at, and Jews are being harassed in neighborhoods the place they reside below the guise of “protest.”
How bad is it? Residents have requested “bubble zones” that can defend Jewish establishments. And Carney could also be even worse. In his short marketing campaign period of 37 days, he confirmed the continuation of UNRWA funding and was caught on video agreeing with a protester that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
A new Liberal authorities additionally means a new leader, even more centered on environmental and social governance than the final, regardless of Canada being accountable for a measly 1.45% of international emissions.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre (with spouse Anaida) was anticipated to change into Prime Minister, in response to critics. AP
Trudeau led Canada during a period of main financial stagnation and deteriorating relations with the US, critics have claimed. AFP through Getty Images
Under the Trudeau Liberals, Canadians have been burdened with a shopper carbon tax that raised the price of dwelling costs, each instantly and not directly.
Axing this tax was such a fashionable marketing campaign subject for Conservative Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre that the Liberals cynically co-opted it and diminished it to zero. And not as a result of they disagreed with this tax of their own making, however as a result of it had change into too divisive and unpopular for their social gathering.
Their new leader, Carney, is a former UN particular envoy for Climate and Finance who later co-founded the Global Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ) to expedite the transition from fossil fuels to inexperienced power. Carney has already admitted that personal property stemming from his place as chair at Brookfield Asset Management could pose conflicts of curiosity.
But he nonetheless selected to not proactively disclose these property earlier than the election. Meanwhile, GFANZ’s affect on the American power industry was not too long ago the subject of a US House Judiciary Committee antitrust investigation, which accused it of being half of a climate cartel.
Trump’s response to the liberals’ win has been intriguing. He was fast to congratulate Carney on his election success; actually, he informed the press that he’d reasonably deal with a liberal than a conservative.
It’s potential that Carney may finish up with a far worse nickname than “Governor,” bestowed by Trump upon former Prime Minister Trudeau during his now-infamous annexation threats.
Despite being in energy for 9 years, Trudeau was unable to navigate Trump’s distinctive model of psychological warfare, nor the flurry of Trump-induced memes, most notably Trump standing on the Matterhorn in Switzerland subsequent to a Canadian flag.
Carney, far newer to politics, is prone to carry out even more timidly and obtain a worse nickname if he falls out of favor with the President. My guess: “Climate Carney.”
For Americans, the arrival of Carney means your neighbor to the north elected a prime minister who, in response to Trump’s tariff threats, stoked one of the oldest, most silly sentiments current amongst Canadians — the smug perception that we’re by some means morally superior to Americans.
“Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration, is over,” Carney informed Canadians.
President Trump posted this meme-worthy image, “joking” about America’s ambition to annex Canada. @realDonaldTrump
He stoked concern, telling us, “America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country.”
Not solely did this anti-Americanism and fearmongering work, but it surely’s laborious to think about it now being simply put back in the bottle.
Carney was in a position to exploit concern of Trump to steer Canadians to disregard the Liberals’ final 10 years of governance. When the threats from the south inevitably recede, Canadians could rapidly come to remorse their alternative.
Terry Newman is a senior editor and columnist at the National Post. You can observe her on X at TLNewmanMTL.
