Former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s reign ended with a whimper, not a bang, but Prime Minister Mark Carney’s seems poised to go the other way around. The question is when.
While Trudeau walked out of the House of Commons with his tongue stuck out, taking his chair with him, Carney has yet to take a seat or even a single vote in a general election. He won’t be prime minister long before he has to face the electorate.
Just how long depends on the NDP. On March 14, Singh told Global News only 40 percent of Canadian employees are protected by Employment Insurance, something he finds insufficient given the job losses he expects due to Trump tariffs.
Singh said the government should be allowed to pass an economic plan that puts Canadian jobs and workers first. “I want to see that plan passed first, and then an election passed afterwards,” Singh said, adding, “It’s going to take time to get that. If that pushes an election back a bit, that’s fine.”
That means the upcoming election won’t come up right away.
Meanwhile, Carney is doing a worldwide victory lap. The former central banker of two countries (talk about an insider!) is seeing King Charles III, visiting the Notre Dame Cathedral, putting his arm around French President Emmanuel Macron, and going to Nunavut on Tuesday. Yes, the globalist is rounding the globe on the taxpayer dime.
And just how did Carney get in? He won the Liberal leadership race with 131,674 votes from party members as young as 14 years old and included those with permanent residency and not citizenship. The strange question is why 400,000 people were registered to vote, but only 150,000 or so were verified and had their vote counted. So, on what basis were 250,000 people excluded?
That’s questionable enough, but what really doesn’t pass the smell test to people like Ezra Levant is that Carney’s vote was “suspiciously similar” in every one of the Liberal ridings across Canada, whether rural or urban, francophone or anglophone, something Levant doubts is “statistically possible.”
Carney’s terrible French was on display in the French language debate, yet even in Quebec, his support was always 73 per cent or higher, except for the riding of Pierrefonds—Dollard where 130 people showed up to vote for former MP Frank Baylis, lowering Carney’s percentage to 60 per cent.
Carney’s weakest other support came in Yorkton-Melville, Saskatchewan (71 per cent) and Peace River-Westlock, Alberta (70 per cent). Although the RebelNews Audit Carney petition is almost at its target level of signatures, it’s doubtful any investigation will follow. The Liberal party brass is happy with the coronation and has no interest in scrutiny.
No, the new Liberal leader was coronated the same way Trudeau was in 2013. Then, as now, the party had little bench strength to draw on, save for one person with name recognition. Warren Kinsella once called Trudeau a “human ATM” for the funds he drew to the party. Carney is just the same in 2025, having swooped into Canada only to get million-dollar backing from those who want the Liberal machine to keep rolling.
Those sorts of interests should concern Canadians. Whereas the Harper Conservatives lost power over some measly expense claims by only three senators, the Liberal government has been involved in scandal after scandal. They went soft on SNC Lavalin, handed out fat contracts to Liberal buddies in the pandemic response, only to follow up with enough questionable dollars Sustainable Development Technology Canada, also known as the Green Slush Fund.
Can Canadians really vote Liberal in the belief that Carney’s takeover means the slate is clean? Carney did not win alone. He is still backed by the same corporate and party apparatus that benefitted while most of Canada sunk. He may have cancelled the consumer carbon tax, but he’s prepared to punish the alleged big polluters more, a move that will still leave Canada’s resource-based economy hampered.
Carney’s cabinet has many familiar Liberal faces, though Chrystia Freeland is only the Minister of Transport and Internal Trade, and fellow leadership contender Karina Gould is excluded entirely. Are the renewed Liberals really so new?
Nik Nanos is predicting a “knife fight” of an election after his March 7 poll found the Conservatives only one point ahead of the Liberals. However, that was still two days before Carney was chosen and, in political terms, a long time yet before an election will be held.
About 2,000 people were in attendance at the Rogers Centre in Toronto as Carney became leader on March 9. This was 500 short of the crowd in London, Ontario for Pierre Poilievre’s Canada First Rally, a fact even the CBC mentioned in their Liberal leadership broadcast. Whereas the Carney crowd was rather subdued, the Poilievre gathering was full of energy.
The Liberals have traded one globalist leader for another, and it’s doubtful Canadians will get fooled. The country demanded change after 9 years with Harper and they’re demanding change after 9 years of the Liberals. Trading Trudeau for Carney is not change enough for a demoralized country whose values and economy have floundered.
