Carney is not the guy
Why does he act like he is?
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Mark Carney should be calling an election, not acting like he is the democratically chosen Prime Minister. He is not. In fact, he has never been elected for any public office in Canada. No one asked him to go to France or England, or to negotiate defence with Australia. No one asked him to deal with Trump, or to make vital decisions concerning Canada’s military footprint in the arctic, or for that matter, to squander another $253 million on indigenous reconciliation initiatives in the North. Who exactly does this guy think he is? And worse, why is the Canadian media going along with Carney’s shocking presumptuousness? They obviously love the guy and insist on treating him with kid gloves, but they are also misleadingly creating the impression that Carney is a legitimate prime minister. He is not. He is unelected. Full stop.
In the recent past, Canadians have seen politicians win internal party contests for leadership then ascend unelected by the public to the nation's top office, only to be removed at the conclusion of general elections shortly thereafter. And, in the more distant past, on rare occasions, extending back in some cases to the pre-Confederation era, a variety of circumstances arose where unelected or appointed politicians found themselves at the helm of the nation.
Charles Tupper’s tenure as prime minister for example, after the conservatives installed him in place of the incompetent Mackenzie Bowell on May 1, 1896, was the shortest in Canadian history. He served for 68 days then lost in the general election to Liberal leader Wilfred Laurier. For two years previously, Bowell, who was also unelected, had been a disastrous and unpopular prime minister. His assignation had been made by Scottish peer and colonial administrator, the Earl of Aberdeen, Governor General John Campbell Hamilton, in 1894 after the untimely death of the highly popular prime minister John Thompson. The rationale for Bowell’s appointment was that he was the most senior member of the conservative cabinet at the time of Thompson’s passing.
Fast-forward to June of 1984 when John Turner became the unelected 17th prime minister of Canada. He did not hold a seat in Parliament when he won the Liberal leadership which automatically assumed his premiership of the nation. A scenario not unlike what Mark Carney has found himself in today. Although unlike Carney, Turner had formerly held elected office from the early 1960s until he temporarily retired from politics in 1975. Brian Mulroney’s Progressive Conservatives mopped the floor with the Liberal’s in the September general election of 1984. Turner won his seat, but was compelled democratically to exchange the top office for leader of the official opposition, a position he held from 1984 to 1990.
The next time a politician who had not been first elected to the Commons or Senate would be installed as prime minister would be 2025, when Mark Carney won the sketchily orchestrated Liberal leadership contest, which the Globe and Mail reported fewer than 40% of the 400,000 Liberal Party members actually voted in.
Kim Campbell was an esteemed member of Mulroney’s Progressive Conservative cabinet, holding such positions as attorney general and minister of national defence. When Mulroney’s popularity waned in 1993, Campbell briefly assumed the top office until the PCs were decimated by Jean Chrétien later that year. Chrétien’s Liberals won a majority, while the PCs suffered the most devastating loss ever visited upon a governing party in Canada, and the worst defeat of any governing party in the entire Western world.
None of the past unelected prime ministers mentioned above were popular or successful by any measure, however, all of them, with the sole exception of Mark Carney, had previously held an elected office at some point in their political careers. Canadians do not like unelected leaders. Since the historical record about this is clear, on what precedent is Carney placing his boldness? What amount of nerve must one possess to personify such brazen audacity? And what low opinion concerning the intelligence of Canadians must Carney hold to think his temerity has gone unnoticed. It has not.
Canadians have also noticed his propensity to lie, and they noticed yesterday the condescension and gross elitism in which Carney treated reporters. When CBC’s Rosemary Barton, easily one of Carney’s biggest allies in the legacy media, pressed Carney on the issue of his personal asset disclosure and potential conflicts of interest, his response was both puzzling and breath-taking: “look inside yourself, Rosemary.” What!?
How about you look inside yourself, Carney. Maybe look in the mirror while you’re at it and ask the reflection who the hell he thinks he is. From banning reporters from his events and insisting that all journalists make pre-approved appointments, to now demonstrating an appalling level of disdain for the Canadian people by his refusal to answer simple questions, and his belittling of those who ask them. What are Canadians to think other than this admitted elitist feels he does not answer to them. He says he is “following the rules,” don’t ask for more than that, just look inside yourselves, and apparently, according to Carney, everything will explain itself. Hogwash!
So, if the Canadian exemplar concerning unelected imposter prime ministers is anything to go by, then why should we worry about Carney if he is bound to be replaced within a few months at most? I am not so sure we should be so sure, notwithstanding Canada’s historical record. Carney is surging in the polls. And Trump has bizarrely endorsed Carney for what seems to be no other reason than Poilievre “said negative things” about Trump.
Instead of doing what I recommended, which is also what Maxime Bernier recommended, to de-escalate and downplay the trade war situation, recognize Trump’s importance to Canada’s future and the need for Canada and the U.S. to be strategically aligned, Poilievre took Trump’s bait.
Trump expects pushback from leftwing parties, but from his perspective, when rightwing parties do it as well, he has no time for that. Poilievre should have listened to Bernier but as usual, as it appears to me, he listened to the polls then jumped on the fake jingoism bandwagon. In my piece from these pages, Trump vs. Canada, I emphasized the need for Poilievre to advocate for greater inter-provincial trade without framing our relationship with the U.S. as adversarial. This would have required a principled, not populist, response from Poilievre. Who can say at this point how big of a mistake it was for Poilievre to not take a more middle of the road, less reactionary, approach in dealing with Trump’s tariffs threats.
It is nothing short of shocking that the Liberals under Carney are emerging as quite popular in spite of the hell Trudeau just put us through. What had seemed like a done deal for Poilievre has all of a sudden become a close and intense contest. As it stands, Carney is an imposter. But he is also a real threat. Poilievre is going to have to fight like he has never fought before. If he loses, the elitist charlatan takes the reins. What a dismal and dreary outcome that would be.
Thanks for reading. For more from this author on this topic, read Who is Mark Carney? AND, don’t miss James’ latest commentary on The Subversion of B.C. Law
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He is nothing but a globalist parasite
Why does he act like he is Prime Minister because the Globalist's let him in And Canadians are mute!
there should be some sort of uproar by the Canadians , going to Parliament and demanding an election.. We are imprisoned by Globalists who must laugh at how easy it was to take over Canada.