Mark Carney

[JOE]

Mark Carney will make a good Prime Minister, hey Herman Herm?

[DKG]

The organization that employs Carney's wife and Carney's top advisor Gerry Butts, just revealed Carney's real plans.

They say Carney will: "QUIETLY FOLD SHORTLY AFTER THE VOTE".
They exposed Carney's plans to accept Trump's devastating and unjustified tariffs.

The truth is out.

Carney is weak. Too weak.

And he'll be the first to roll over and sell out Canadians.

[Herman]

I still get notifications that old Joe quotes my posts despite me having that wanker on ignore for months.

[Brent]

With the collapse of the NDP and Bloc support combined with the media not reporting anything on Carney's lies and questionable past he is projected to win over 200 seats. This is so bad for the working class as he will double down on Trudeau's agenda.

[Thiel]

The Conservatives must go on offense. They need to remind voters that is the Liberal Party itself that has put Canada at the mercy of Trump's protectionism.

[Herman]

The conventional wisdom about the federal election is that concern over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff war on Canada has overtaken concern about carbon taxes as the ballot question.

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But that's a false framing of what's at stake.

The defining issue facing Canadians is the high cost of living and our declining standard of living, including the negative impact of Trump's tariffs and Liberal carbon taxes on our economy.

According to Statistics Canada, real (inflation-adjusted ) gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, a widely accepted measure of prosperity, dropped by 1.4% last year, following a 1.3% drop in 2023.

Jake Fuss, director of fiscal studies for the Fraser Institute, wrote in The Hub that real GDP per capita in Canada during the Justin Trudeau/Liberal years from 2015 to the present rose by a meagre 1.9%. In the U.S., it increased 14.7%.

Over its decade in power, the current Liberal government compiled the worst record of economic growth of any Canadian government since the Great Depression.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development predicts that Canada will have the lowest real GDP per capita growth rate of any developed nation from 2020 to 2050, lower than every other member of the G7 to which Canada belongs, including the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Japan.

The Liberals tout their new leader, Mark Carney, as Canada's saviour for the economic problems the Liberals themselves contributed to during their lost decade in power from 2015 to 2025.

But Carney's prescription for getting out of the economic abyss the Liberals put us in has been to copy the campaign platform of Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives on everything from reducing government spending, deficits and debt, to cutting government bureaucracy and the size of the public service, to ending runaway immigration and lowering punishing taxes on the middle class.

They've even promised to end their signature policy — the consumer carbon tax — which Poilievre has been advocating for years, although they continue to cling to Trudeau's industrial carbon tax, which the Conservatives would scrap.

By their admission, the Carney/Trudeau/Liberals are saying, in effect, that they were wrong and the Poilievre Conservatives were right on all these issues, underscoring the importance of voting wisely on April 28.

[Herman]

Mark Conman is a pathological liar and a fraud.

Carney has a tendency to take credit where it's not due
https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/lorne-gunter-carney-has-a-tendency-to-take-credit-where-its-not-due

If allegations of plagiarism against Prime Minister Mark Carney, as reported Friday by the National Post, turn out to be true, they would be more part of a pattern of behaviour by the new Liberal leader than an out-of-character anomaly.

In his 1995 thesis at Oxford University, Carney seems to have lifted quotes from others' work without giving the original authors the required credit. According to an analysis by the Post, there are at least 10 such instances.

But that's not unlike Carney and the Liberal campaign team taking credit for his work allegedly saving Canada during the 2008-09 financial crisis.

"I have listened, with increasing disbelief," Stephen Harper (the prime minister at the time) felt compelled to write last month, "to Mark Carney's attempts to take credit for things he had little or nothing to do with back then."

Central bank governors make important decisions on expanding or contracting the money supply and varying the interest rate, but they are not, as Harper pointed out, responsible for "day-to-day management of Canada's economy during a global financial crisis," as Carney seems to claim.

The Brits remember him, when he later became governor of the Bank of England, for helping stoke a fear campaign aimed at defeating the Brexit referendum, even though as a central banker he was supposed stay out of politics. Now Liberal ads claim Carney guided Britain through that crisis, too.

After his stint at the Bank of England, Carney eventually became chairman of Brookfield Asset Management, one of Canada's largest investment houses. There he boasted about running one of the largest "green" investment portfolios in the world.

Except environmental groups frequently pointed out that Brookfield routinely under-reported the emissions produced by the companies it owned — sometimes by a factor of 12-fold — just so it could claim to environmentally conscious investors that it was at net-zero or close to it.

In 2023, Brookfield (which portrayed itself as committed to social justice and workers' rights) bought an American insurance company, Rockwood, that had a history of insuring coal mining companies then fighting to avoid paying benefits to miners who developed black lung.

Of course, there is the move of Brookfield's head office out of Canada to the United States (Toronto to New York), which Carney claimed not to be responsible for, even though he twice recommended the move to shareholders.

There are those little tax dodges in Bermuda that Carney helped arrange for investors in two of Brookfield's "green" funds.

The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre rated Brookfield one of the worst performers for respecting human rights on its renewable energy projects in developing countries.

In 2022, the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund pointed out that despite Carney and Brookfield touting their eco record, more of Brookfield's energy portfolio was invested in fossil fuel industries than in alternative energy.

Perhaps more relevant to Canada's current efforts to build new pipelines and diversify its list of energy customers, one of Carney's main focuses for the last half-dozen years has been lobbying banks, insurance and investment companies to refuse to invest in oil and gas.

As recently as 2023, Carney described himself as "relentlessly, ruthlessly, absolutely focused on the transition to net zero."

He even helped found an organization, GFANZ, that sought to enact strict global "climate disclosures," so companies would be forced to show the full extent of their emissions and investors would be able to "decide who to lend to or invest in and who to avoid."

Plagiarism or not, Carney is not exactly what he seems to be.