How to explain Mark Carney’s obsession with Europe and his lack of attention to Canada’s economy and an actual budget?
Carney’s pirouette through NATO meetings, always in his custom-tailored navy blue power suits, carries the desperate whiff of an insecure, small-town outsider who has made it big but will always yearn for old-money credibility. Canada is too young a country, too dynamic and at times a bit too vulgar to claim equal status with Europe’s formerly magnificent and ancient cultures — now failed under the yoke of globalism.
Hysterical foreign policy, unchecked immigration, burgeoning censorship and massive income disparity have conquered much of the continent that many of us used to admire and were even somewhat intimidated by. But we’ve moved on. And yet Carney seems stuck, seeking approval and direction from modern Europe — a place where, for most countries, the glory days are long gone.
Carney’s irresponsible financial commitment to NATO is a reckless and unnecessary expenditure, given that many Canadians are hurting. But it allowed Carney to pick up another photo of himself glad-handing global elites to whom he just sold out his struggling citizens.
From the Globe and Mail
“Prime Minister Mark Carney has committed Canada to the biggest increase in military spending since the Second World War, part of a NATO pledge designed to address the threat of Russian expansionism and to keep Donald Trump from quitting the Western alliance.
Mr. Carney and the leaders of the 31 other member countries issued a joint statement Wednesday at The Hague saying they would raise defence-related spending to the equivalent of 5 per cent of their gross domestic product by 2035.
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the commitment means “European allies and Canada will do more of the heavy lifting” and take “greater responsibility for our shared security.”
For Canada, this will require spending an additional $50-billion to $90-billion a year – more than doubling the existing defence budget to between $110-billion and $150-billion by 2035, depending on how much the economy grows. This year Ottawa’s defence-related spending is due to top $62-billion.”
You’ll note that spending money we don’t have in order to keep President Trump happy is hardly an elbows up moment, especially given that the pledge followed Carney’s embarrassing interactions with Trump at the G7. I’m all for diplomacy but sick to my teeth of Carney’s two-faced approach to everything. There is no objective truth to anything our prime minister touches. Watch the first few minutes of the video below.
Part of the NATO top-up we can’t afford is more billions for Ukraine which is pretty much considered a lost cause. NATO must keep that conflict going in order to justify its existence and we will all pay dearly for it.
The portents are bad. This from the Globe:
We are poorer than we think. Canadians running their retirement numbers are shining light in the dark corners of household finances in this country. The sums leave many “anxious, fearful and sad about their finances,” according to a Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan survey recently reported in these pages.
Fifty-two per cent of us worry a lot about our personal finances. Fifty per cent feel frustrated, 47 per cent feel emotionally drained and 43 per cent feel depressed. There is not one survey indicator to suggest Canadians have made financial progress in 2025 compared with 2024.
The video below is a basic “F”- you to Canadians from a Prime Minister who smirks and roles his eyes when questioned about his inept money management.
He did spill the beans to CNN with this unsettling revelation about the staggering numbers we are talking about:
Signing on to NATO's new defence spending target could cost the federal treasury up to $150 billion a year, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday in advance of the Western military alliance's annual summit.
The prime minister made the comments in an interview with CNN International.
"It is a lot of money," Carney said.
This guy was a banker?
We are witnessing the political equivalent of a vain woman who blows her entire paycheque to look good for an aspirational event even though she can’t afford food or rent. Yes, she sparkled for a moment, but in reality her domaine is crumbling. All she has left are the photographs of her glittery night. Our Prime Minister is collecting his own album of power-proximity photos he can use to wallpaper over his failures as our economy collapses.
The glass slipper doesn’t fit.
You have to be of a certain vintage to recall Pierre Trudeau waxing and waning about diversifying the Canadian economy, including increasing trade with Europe. But this ran into the grand metaphysical deception that afflicts Carney and his "elbows up" Renfields: it doesn't work. Proximity makes trade with US the only solution, with oil being perhaps an exception if we had pipelines. Conceptualism and idealism are common vices among progressives. They also think, incorrectly, that all law eminates from above and do not understand that there are things they simply can't do (that is another essay). They reason based on conceptual premises: "You can't appease a bully, therefore you must fight forever wars with them and not trade with them, ever and forever." Reality intervenes. The only rational reason to focus on Europe and decouple trade with US has nothing to do with the Canadian economy and the welfare of its citizens. They will suffer job loss, collapse of standard of living, loss of political power (what is left of it), loss of culture, traditions and historical memory, and will be penned into farm like enclosures and provided with suitable slop entertainment, flashy lights and toxic food and health "care". The purpose of this grand European fantasy is to allow Europe (which has high debt, but little if any resources as collateral) to join India and China in the carving up and exploitation of Canadian resources for the benefit of India, China and Europe. That is your hero, Canada, Mr. Carney's true purpose. Trust me, the Canadian and European elites will not be the ones to suffer, as they will keep their jets, combustion engines, and soires. The only thing they fear is the loss of their status and lifestyles, which is the underlying grand purpose and rationality of Globalism.
Oh, come on, Carney was the Elitist who helped jump start Operation COVID-19, the transnationalist Elite's desparate psyop due to failing globablist efforts to control us all. He is now positioned to keep the operation going, so just take what he is doing as part of the control strategy to keep us all off balance and in fear. The Technocracy is moving in on us, these daily shows are misdirection.