Western Standard - March 10, 2025


Good Luck, Mr. Carney


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4 minutes

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514

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36

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Mark Carney is the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and he is now cleared to be sworn in as the next Prime Minister of Canada. For the Western Standard's Nigel Hannaford reacts to the news.

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00:00:00.000 So, no surprise, Mark Carney is the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:00:24.300 Having set the contest entry threshold at a lofty $350,000 and outspent the others fair and square, he is now cleared to be sworn in as the next Prime Minister of Canada.
00:00:38.060 There are two things to be said. The first is to Mr Carney himself, and we'll say it just once.
00:00:42.960 Mr Carney, congratulations from Western Canada.
00:00:46.020 But enjoy the moment, for tomorrow we need to talk. Oil, gas, pipelines, and what lanes the government you now head may legitimately occupy.
00:00:55.580 If you mean, as Liberal leader, to continue your predecessor's policy of putting Alberta out of business, it will be a tough discussion.
00:01:03.960 The second thing we must say is to the string pullers in the Liberal Party.
00:01:07.920 This was your chance to restore mainstream thinking to the Liberal Party, not necessarily to become Cog Conservatives or even Blue Liberals, 0.80
00:01:18.220 but you could have pivoted to things that common-sense Canadians could have said yes to.
00:01:24.180 Instead, you gave us four candidates who represented your old style of thinking.
00:01:29.520 The choice was nothing more than who could best channel the departing Justin Trudeau, and you gave us Mark Carney to do that.
00:01:39.700 Time enough to see whether Mr Carney is any more effective as a political campaigner than Michael Ignatiev, the public intellectual,
00:01:47.600 you put up against Stephen Harper in 2011.
00:01:50.400 It's hard to say.
00:01:51.360 So far, you barely let the man speak in public, and then only to state-funded media.
00:01:56.520 But here is your really big mistake on Canada's behalf.
00:02:01.240 You have positioned yourself as a party ready to defend Canada at a time when its future as a sovereign state is threatened.
00:02:09.260 Your narrative is that the threat comes from an aggressive alpha male U.S. president,
00:02:14.260 let me add an alpha male president, who hates bankers and is committed to overturning globalism,
00:02:21.860 which is what putting the United States behind a tariff barrier really means.
00:02:27.980 And to confront this orange-haired iconoclast,
00:02:32.220 who has also pulled the U.S. out of UNESCO, the World Health Organization, and the Paris Accords,
00:02:38.920 you have chosen Mark Carney,
00:02:41.280 a technocrat who has administered not one central bank but two,
00:02:45.620 was very recently the U.N. ambassador for climate change and is, in fact, a platinum-level globalist.
00:02:53.560 That is, he glides easily through the carpeted halls of the World Economic Forum,
00:02:58.560 Chatham House, the Brookings Institution, the Group of Thirty,
00:03:02.520 and he is a pillar of one-worlders like the Build-A-Bergit Group.
00:03:06.980 Nobody says that to contend with Trump you must be like Trump.
00:03:10.620 But when David went up against the Goliath, at least he had a sling and some pebbles what Carney got.
00:03:18.640 This is not going to end well.
00:03:20.580 This is not even going to begin well.
00:03:22.940 Carney is about to get creamed.
00:03:25.260 Liberals, do yourself and all of us a favor.
00:03:28.600 Go early to an election and lose it.
00:03:31.700 Let somebody else deal with Donald Trump.
00:03:35.960 For the Western Standard, I'm Nigel Hannaford.
00:03:40.620 For the Western Standard, I'm Nigel Hannaford.