Western Standard - September 29, 2025


Mark Carney’s First Six Months： A Floundering Government

Topics
Carney's failures Carney's leadership and fiscal mismanagement
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Trudeau Mark Carney
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4 minutes

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867

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51

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11

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Canadians voted Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau re-elected in 2015 on a promise to fix Canada's economic woes. Since then, the country has been hit hard by the Trump administration's trade tariffs and other punitive measures, and the economy has continued to crumble. Now, under the leadership of Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, things are even worse.

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00:00:00.000 Let's talk about some federal stuff to kick it off.
00:00:03.120 It's been half a year now.
00:00:05.240 Under Mark Carney's grand leadership,
00:00:07.860 the liberal government is directionless
00:00:09.700 and as inept as it ever was under Trudeau's guidance. 0.91
00:00:12.700 I mean, liberal strategists, 0.90
00:00:13.780 they successfully convinced Canadians
00:00:15.860 that the trade war with the U.S. was such an urgent issue
00:00:19.100 it could only be managed under the brilliant guidance
00:00:21.400 of the economic wizard, Mark Carney.
00:00:23.880 Voters in eastern Canada forgot about the decade of ineptitude
00:00:27.460 under the Trudeau regime and kept the liberals in power.
00:00:30.340 To say Carney's underperformed is an understatement.
00:00:33.460 Carney's tactics on the trade war
00:00:34.900 have been hopelessly weak and ineffective.
00:00:36.960 Despite campaigning on being a tough-talking, 0.94
00:00:39.000 elbows-up sort of leader,
00:00:40.720 Carney's offered nothing but capitulation
00:00:42.580 while Trump imposes and removes tariffs upon Canada at will.
00:00:47.220 The Canadian counter-tariffs were dropped
00:00:49.660 and Carney's been reduced to begging for Trump's goodwill
00:00:52.500 while the Canadian industries suffer.
00:00:55.400 Carney's failures in economic diplomacy
00:00:57.160 aren't just limited to the U.S.
00:00:58.360 as canola farmers are taking a $2 billion hit in Canada
00:01:02.000 due to liberal tariffs on Chinese cars
00:01:04.200 to protect the Canadian-made EV industry
00:01:06.000 that doesn't exist.
00:01:08.160 While Carney insists he wants to facilitate
00:01:10.460 the development of Canadian resource industries,
00:01:12.960 he refuses to remove the legislation choking those sectors.
00:01:15.940 The tanker ban, the no more pipelines bill,
00:01:18.320 they're still in place.
00:01:19.620 And Carney pretends to be mystified
00:01:20.900 as to why no private investors
00:01:22.380 have been willing to step up
00:01:23.920 and build pipelines in the country.
00:01:25.740 Energy sector investment in general
00:01:27.660 has been chilled due to the looming emissions cap.
00:01:30.360 Why invest in an industry
00:01:31.420 when the government plans to make it illegal
00:01:32.900 to produce over a certain amount of the product?
00:01:35.660 And Carney's hinted at reconsidering the cap,
00:01:37.720 but his senior bureaucrats are making the case to keep it
00:01:39.780 and the Liberals just voted down a motion
00:01:41.820 to remove the cap.
00:01:42.600 This mixed messaging fosters instability
00:01:45.140 and rattles investor confidence in every industry.
00:01:48.680 Does Carney have control of this issue
00:01:50.060 and does he have a plan and not?
00:01:52.720 Crime's been a growing concern for Canadians for years
00:01:54.880 and the Carney government's been paying lip service to it
00:01:56.840 while doing nothing.
00:01:58.260 The Attorney General embarrassed himself
00:02:00.180 when he told Canadians
00:02:02.060 they don't have the right to defend themselves
00:02:03.640 just before a crime wave hit,
00:02:05.220 which left a man dead and a child molested
00:02:07.140 in two separate home invasions.
00:02:09.020 The Liberals then voted down a motion
00:02:10.420 to crack down on violent repeat offenders.
00:02:12.600 On the unity front,
00:02:14.160 the Liberals have inexplicably opened the door
00:02:16.040 to a possible constitutional crisis
00:02:18.460 when they asked the courts to put limits
00:02:20.160 on the use of the Notwithstanding Clause.
00:02:22.140 If the courts comply,
00:02:23.100 Quebec nationalists are going to go ballistic,
00:02:25.140 as will the independence movements
00:02:26.740 in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
00:02:28.480 Well, that might not be a bad development
00:02:30.140 in the long run.
00:02:31.020 Why on earth is Carney inflaming it?
00:02:33.680 He's also insisting on maintaining
00:02:35.140 Trudeau's attempted gun ban,
00:02:37.160 despite the policy being an utter failure
00:02:38.920 since it was first announced.
00:02:40.240 The government continues to kick the ball
00:02:42.600 down the field,
00:02:43.320 you know, extend the deadline,
00:02:44.380 while the public safety minister
00:02:45.840 has admitted that the gun grab
00:02:47.560 is unenforceable.
00:02:48.760 Total embarrassment.
00:02:50.320 At the end of July,
00:02:51.920 here's Carney again showing his strength of will.
00:02:54.060 He indicated he would recognize
00:02:55.220 Palestinian statehood
00:02:56.700 under the preconditions,
00:02:57.920 preconditions,
00:02:59.260 that Hamas released the hostages,
00:03:01.320 disarmed themselves,
00:03:02.100 and removed themselves from power.
00:03:03.720 Hamas did none of those things,
00:03:04.900 so Carney simply shrugged
00:03:06.040 and recognized their statehood anyways. 0.98
00:03:08.060 What a wimp. 0.93
00:03:08.960 He hasn't been proving himself 0.99
00:03:10.540 to be a leader.
00:03:11.780 He's proving himself 1.00
00:03:12.500 to be a feckless wimp. 0.99
00:03:14.060 He's established a pattern 0.75
00:03:15.080 of making strong policy statements,
00:03:16.740 drawing lines in the sand,
00:03:17.780 only to jump backwards
00:03:18.720 as soon as he experiences pressure.
00:03:20.720 A sudden flurry of resignations
00:03:22.280 from senior liberal MPs
00:03:24.280 and somebody from his own office
00:03:25.440 gives the impression
00:03:26.120 that they see a bleak outlook coming here.
00:03:28.940 Clearly Carney hasn't instilled confidence
00:03:30.960 in the liberal ranks 0.59
00:03:31.740 and the rats are starting to flee 0.97
00:03:33.460 while they can.
00:03:34.520 Even Trudeau managed
00:03:35.400 to keep his members loyal to them.
00:03:37.360 I suspect the looming disaster
00:03:38.680 scaring those liberal loyalists away
00:03:40.340 is the budget deficit,
00:03:41.800 which is expected to near
00:03:42.880 or possibly surpass
00:03:44.220 $100 billion.
00:03:45.640 It's a staggering number
00:03:46.980 and indicating
00:03:47.660 gross fiscal mismanagement.
00:03:49.900 While Carney's used the word
00:03:51.000 austerity when speaking to the budget,
00:03:53.340 he's done nothing but cut checks
00:03:54.600 from the taxpayer's account
00:03:55.840 since he assumed power.
00:03:57.280 It's the lazy way
00:03:58.200 to try and govern
00:03:58.880 and it's going to lead
00:04:00.020 to an economic crash.
00:04:01.580 Even Trudeau never imagined
00:04:02.780 running a deficit
00:04:03.500 anywhere nearly as high
00:04:04.460 as what Carney has managed
00:04:05.340 to do in six months.
00:04:06.900 The real frightening part
00:04:08.240 is it's likely going to be years
00:04:09.860 before Canada can free itself
00:04:11.100 from the yoke of Carney's
00:04:12.140 callow and limp governance.
00:04:13.880 Just imagine the damage
00:04:14.740 he's going to manage to cause
00:04:15.800 with a few more years
00:04:16.900 to fumble around.
00:04:18.260 Canada is broken
00:04:19.160 and probably beyond repair.
00:04:21.380 And as this becomes
00:04:22.340 more evidence to Canadians,
00:04:23.820 we can expect independence movements
00:04:25.220 and provinces to keep growing.
00:04:27.740 We can't save it all.
00:04:28.740 Maybe we can save parts of it.
00:04:30.780 Elbows up indeed.