How would the media react if Donald Trump had received a quarter of a billion dollars from Russia or China just prior to his presidential bid? It’s easy to guess: screaming headlines, indignant calls for impeachment, prosecution, demands for the electric chair. Every news anchor, political pundit, intelligence expert lining up to denounce the travesty with letters signed by infinite lists of former and acting national security officials, etc. And that’s for starters.
But progressive technocrat Mark Carney flies to Beijing to obtain $300M from the Bank of China four months prior to being appointed prime minister by Canada’s Liberal Party, calls snap elections, which he wins without a majority, and the media only praises him. Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre highlighted Carney’s compromised relations with China on nationally televised debates. He also pointed out how the former Bank of Canada governor and U.N. point man on climate change staunchly supported CCP-linked Liberal MP Paul Chiang, calling for goon squads to persecute opponents. (RELATED: Canada’s Manchurian Candidate)
The alarming cases even made it to the New York Times, which ran a half-column piece, days after The American Spectator delved into Carney’s China connections. (RELATED: Canada’s Mark Carney Shares the Same Goal as China — Ending American Dominance)
But mainstream television news networks that spent years spinning the Russia hoax concocted by Democrats with anonymous fake reports framing Trump as a Russian agent, turned a collective blind eye at a time when tensions between Washington and Beijing escalated to levels unmatched since the Korean War.
Canada isn’t some obscure irredeemably corrupt, predictably troublesome third world backwater where Chinese interference hardly merits a footnote (at least not yet). It’s America’s closely integrated northern neighbor and a NATO ally.
Carney of course has vowed to change that. “The old relationship we had with the United States, based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation, is over,” he declared repeatedly throughout the election campaign. It may be why the media is boosting him as their champion against Trump.
Canada’s election press coverage was deflected to Trump as the media pivoted to the president’s comments during his first days in office about making Canada the 51st state. Carney used Trump’s economically sensible suggestions to whip up anti-American sentiment and turn the elections into a Trump-deranged hate fest. “Canadian elections transformed by Trump” read headlines from London to Washington, as a purported surge in Liberal support, which Carney surfed to victory, was credited to Trump’s comments — in a country where all major TV channels and most national newspapers operate under virtual one-party control in synergy with CNN.
Trump actually refrained from attacking or endorsing any candidate and said Carney was “nice” despite constant attacks. His suggested U.S. merger with Canada was made before elections were called and Carney had replaced his burned-out predecessor, Justin Trudeau, who had driven the country to near ruin under the economic advice from the ex-central banker. (RELATED: Mark Carney Is Incredibly Dangerous)
Carney’s Liberal victory, heralded as “Historic” by the BBC, fell short of the parliamentary majority required to effectively centralize control of Canada’s economy and march the once prosperous nation towards Chinese-style socialism. Carney’s globalist panacea, articulated in his book Value(s), involves the merging of state bureaucracies with certain corporate interests into a singular ruling body that digitally controls and taxes all facets of life through a system resembling an insect society.
Getting there requires destroying what Carney sees as Western Civilization’s dilapidated structures together with its individual freedoms that he considers redundant. In Value(s), Carney quotes from Prince Kropotkin, the early 20th century Russian revolutionary who said “the desire to destroy is also a creative desire.”
Canadians are not totally blinded to what the Liberal regime has in store, despite the media’s smoke and mirrors to deflect their attention from the real threat to their freedoms. While losing by three points, conservatives polled higher than in any election of the last 20 years, displacing Liberals from long-held seats in eastern Ontario and expelling them altogether from the energy and food producing provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, which would suffer most from Carney’s stated plans to restrict fossil fuels and beef production.
But Carney’s Maoist march has been a long one, and he is not going to compromise with conservatives to form a government. He will likely rely on support from Quebec’s separatists in exchange for largesse to the French-speaking provinces, similar to how Spain’s pro-China globalist Pedro Sánchez keeps power in Spain through deals with nationalist Catalans.
American conservatives are confident that Carney will give in to Trump on trade. Bill O’Reilly calls Carney’s anti-American rhetoric “bluster.” Andrew Moran of Liberty Nation says that “Trump can sit back and seize upon the fact that he is dealing with a prime minister heading a fragile government.” But few even on the right seem focused on the China factor. Sun Tzu wrote that “complacency is the mother of all defeats.”
“Carney is emerging as a central figure in the global response to Trump’s tariffs,” according to Politico. He was pursuing China’s objective of breaking U.S. dominance on world trade way before Trump came to office. Back in 2019, Carney urged central bankers at the Fed’s annual gathering in Jackson Hole to replace the U.S. dollar as reserve currency:
U.S. developments have significant spillovers onto both the trade performance and the financial conditions of countries even with relatively limited direct exposure to the US economy … acceptance of the status quo is misguided. Risks are building, and they are structural. … Any unipolar system is unsuited to a multi-polar world. We would do well to think through every opportunity, including those presented by new technologies, to create a more balanced and effective system.
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