in World News Mark Carney: Too Much Baggage, Too Many Lies
by David Solway
“Vlad? I know two Vlads. One is a cute little bunny that brings me cookies. The other is bad Vlad. Which Vlad?”
“Which one do you think?”
“Bad Vlad?”
“Good call.”
—Dr. Seuss, “Horton Hears a Who!”
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie.”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “The Gulag Archipelago”
With all the baggage he is carrying and the litany of lies he unstintedly spouts, and given the last decade of catastrophic Liberal rule in which a prosperous country has plummeted to near-Venezuelan status, it is hard to understand how Canada’s newly unelected prime minister Mark Carney continues to slice through the turbulent political waters under a towering glide of sail. Or perhaps it is not so difficult, given Canada’s well-earned reputation of smug and untutored credulity.
The Liberals under Justin Trudeau had fallen so low in the polls they might as well have been specks in a Dr. Seuss children’s book, their piping voices scarcely to be heard. Following Carney’s accession, the party of gross mismanagement and globalist pretensions bestrides the nation, confident of a resounding electoral victory on April 28.
Canada is, after all, a left-leaning country, virtually two thirds of the electorate reflexively and collectively voting for the socialist cum communist Liberals, the NDP and the Greens regardless of whatever harm they wreak on the country’s prospects, solvency and unity and irrespective of whomever is leading them, usually profiteers. Admittedly, the Greens appeal chiefly to the fringe crazies, mainly on the West Coast, especially the Gulf Islands. The Liberals, like the Democrats in the U.S., have lunged from the center to the far left, an aberration that cares nothing for the people it presumably represents, joined by the socialist NDP, presumably tending to the betterment of the working class it has manifestly betrayed.
It’s to be expected. Trudeau and Carney are impenitent plutocrats, and the leader of the NDP Jagmeet Singh sports a gold-plated retirement package worth millions and has been observed driving a $200,000 Maserati SUV. Despite their internal scuffles and traded barbs, they are all participating in the banquet of goodies that goes by the name of power-and-profit, a klatch of mandarins and champagne socialists affecting to improve the lot of the common folk, and to save the planet while they are at it. And Canadians, in their ineffable complacency, eagerly buy the ruse.