{"id":33114,"date":"2025-03-23T12:15:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T16:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/?p=33114"},"modified":"2025-05-09T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T14:38:42","slug":"can-mark-carney-save-canada-from-trump-lets-hope-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/can-mark-carney-save-canada-from-trump-lets-hope-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Mark Carney Save Canada From Trump? Let’s Hope So."},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"Danielle<\/a>M<\/span>ark Carney, our new Liberal leader, is campaigning to be Prime Minister of Canada.<\/strong> His main opponent, the rage-farming, grievance-mining Trump mimic Pierre PoiLIEvre, is campaigning to be governor of a 51st state. Canadians generally think PoiLIEvre is the candidate most likely to cave in and do whatever is necessary to appease Trump<\/a>. That includes giving away our country just for a pat on the head from the US dictator.<\/p>\n

PoiLIEvre’s party caucus all know this, they know how their leader has aligned himself with Trump, and has mimicked Trump’s words, behaviour, and disinformation campaigns. Canadian media knows it too.<\/p>\n

Many rightwing extremists across Canada also hope we will lose our sovereignty so they can openly wave their swastika flags, and carry assault weapons into schools or restaurants. Some less-extreme (there are no ‘moderate’ conservatives left, apparently) followers also want this so they can lose their healthcare because being able to go bankrupt for medical expenses is a freedom they desire. And PoiLIEvre promised to make Canada “the most free nation on earth.<\/a>” Just not free from corporate predation or American takeover.*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But they’re all gormless and ill-informed: at best we would become a dependent, second-rate US territory, like Puerto Rico or Guam. The US will never<\/em> accept any other land as a state with the same powers or voting authority unless they are already white-ruled, fanatically Talibangelist, racist, and authoritarian.<\/p>\n

\"PoiLIEvre<\/a>
PoiLIEvre advisor Jenni Byrne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PoiLIEvre’s top advisor and lobbyist for Loblaws<\/a>, Jenni Byrne,<\/a> was photographed wearing a Trump MAGA hat<\/a>, an image widely shared on social media. She has never refuted the image nor denied her affection for the far-right pro-fascist MAGA movement. (CONservatives have never<\/em> cared about lowering prices: they care about corporate profits and shareholder benefits, not the cost of living or how inflation affects working people).<\/p>\n

It was never hidden from anyone that there are several, maybe very many fascist supporters in the CONservative caucus. Hell, three of them openly wined and dined an avowed German neo-Nazi<\/a>, Christine Anderson, and posted photos of them with her on social media. PoiLIEvre’s response? He shrugged and kept them in caucus. After all, that was always his base. And the CONservative media just waved its collective hands like courting neo-Nazis was normal. Well, it seems a fashion for fascism has become the ‘new normal’ among conservatives.<\/p>\n

PoiLIEvre’s entire campaign for the past three years since becoming leader of the party has been essentially “Canada is a broken shithole country it’s Trudeau’s fault” while pandering to every rightwing cause and extremist group he could cozy up to, including toxic American MAGA cultists. But since Trump attacked Canada’s sovereignty and economy (and continues to do so), PeePee has lately been trying \u2014 unsuccessfully \u2014 to rebrand himself as a patriot wrapped in the Canadian flag<\/a> he previously disparaged.<\/p>\n

However, PoiLIEVre’s deep MAGA connections have not been forgotten by either his opponents or his base, and are proving very unpopular among potential voters. A whole Canada Unity\/Buy Canadian\/Screw Trump movement has sprung up and the Trump mimic PoiLIEvre looks utterly out of place trying to pretend he’s one of that new team.<\/p>\n

Don’t be misled by his new clothes or his denials about how much MAGA loves him. PoiLIEvre has been endorsed by far-right pro-fascist bloviators and icons like Elon Musk, Conrad Black, Alex Jones, Jordan Peterso<\/a>n, and Tucker Carlson. Trump himself said on the Hugh Hewitt Show in a live interview on January 6 2025<\/a> that his views and Poilievre’s are “aligned.” Any later remarks by the serial Liar-in-Chief that PoiLIEvre isn’t MAGA enough or that he would prefer a Liberal leader are just the usual misinformation and gaslighting Trump is infamous for. Trump is simply trying to interfere in our upcoming federal election.<\/p>\n

\"PoiLIEvre<\/a>Consider that extremist US VP JD Vance and PoiLIEvre’s new favourite MP Jamil Jivani are best friends<\/a> from university and Jivani attended Trump’s inauguration<\/a>. Repugnican operative Mike Roman<\/a> who also advises PoiLIEvre’s party was charged in 2023 in the USA for his efforts in helping Trump’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election. The trucker insurrection that PoiLIEvre supported was a Repugnican\/Alberta separatist campaign with funds pouring in from Repugnicans. Connect the dots yet?<\/p>\n

Treasonous separatist and Trump lover Alberta premier Danielle Smith spoke in an interview on the far-right Brietbart News media on March 22, 2025, saying, “So I would think that there\u2019d be, there\u2019s probably still always going to be areas that are skirmishes or disputes about particular industries when it comes to the border, but I would say, on balance, the perspective that Pierre would bring, would be very much in sync with, I think…the new direction in America. And I think we\u2019d have a really great relationship for the period of time they’re both in.”<\/p>\n

Read that again. Alberta’s premier told not only American rightwing audiences, but anyone who listens to the broadcast on Sirius XM, that Pierre PoiLIEvre is “very much in sync” with fascist US president Trump who is currently conducting a trade war and assault on Canadian sovereignty and our economy. And this was broadcast only yesterday (at the time of this writing).<\/p>\n

Smith also attended Trump’s inauguration<\/a>. Of course, she did. She’s also been to MAr-a-LArdo, cap in hand, to kiss the ring like the other MAGA sycophants. The anti-Canadian Smith is also spending taxpayers’ money to be a keynote speaker at a far-right fundraising event<\/a> for a private corporation in Florida at the end of this month, along with extremist MAGA cultist Ben Shapiro. The private company hosting the event describes itself as “an educational media platform devoted to furthering U.S. values.” In 2024, Smith appeared onstage with former Fox Newz host and Putin sycophant Tucker Carlson at events in Calgary and Edmonton.You can’t get any less Canadian than Smith.<\/p>\n

The Protecting Canada organization<\/a> released a “public memo”<\/a> about the upcoming election that noted,<\/p>\n

The Conservative leader\u2019s tone has been divisive and negative for too long, reminding voters of everything we hate about American politics. Add to that the fact that well-known MAGA personalities, like Elon Musk, and even Trump himself, have endorsed Poilievre… Messaging on Poilievre’s alignment with Trump and American-style politics is
\nresonating powerfully.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, as media blogger Dean Blundell<\/a> points out, a combined US-Russia disinformation attack campaign has been launched against PM Mark Carney. Blundell writes:<\/p>\n

Canadian law enforcement has issued a stark warning: a massive, coordinated disinformation campaign is being unleashed against Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor and a rising political star. This attack isn\u2019t random\u2014it\u2019s part of an orchestrated effort by Russian-affiliated networks, Trump-aligned forces, and radical right-wing operatives who see Carney as a direct threat to their authoritarian ambitions. With Pierre Poilievre\u2019s Conservatives collapsing in the polls, the global far-right movement is going into overdrive to destroy the man poised to defeat them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Blundell adds that rightwing Canadian media are also participating in the smear campaign against Carney, including the pro-Putin\/Pro-Trump Rebel Media:<\/p>\n

At the center of this operation is\u00a0Rebel News, the Canadian far-right propaganda outlet notorious for its paid disinformation campaigns. Known for its history of spreading conspiracy theories, Islamophobia, and climate change denial, Rebel News has now pivoted to its latest target: Mark Carney. Their newest fabrication attempts to tie Carney to Jeffrey Epstein, using the same playbook of guilt-by-association tactics that the alt-right used against political figures like Hillary Clinton and Justin Trudeau.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NDP MP Charlie Angus was his usual blunt self when he recently wrote on his Substack blog<\/a>,<\/p>\n

We face real-world threats from Donald Trump and his MAGA machine. Efforts to upend the election and hand victory to \u201cMAGA Maple\u201d Pierre Poilievre will go into overdrive. Canada’s online space will be flooded with hate, disinformation and, attempts to sow division.
\nAnd nowhere will this be more evident than on social media – where the toxic MAGA influence has already taken hold.
\nIn the fetid swamp of META, hate has been bubbling up for some time. In Mark Zuckerberg’s upside-down world of “sponsored pages” and ads from fake groups, President Zelenskyy is portrayed as a con man, Elon Musk an inspiring hero, and Canadians as whining babies for standing up to Trump.
\nThen, there’s the vicious memes and AI-generated content targeting political leaders like Jagmeet Singh, Mark Carney, and former PM Trudeau.
\nEven more disturbing, Pierre Poilievre’s MAGA Maple influencers have shamefully taken to trying to link Prime Minister Carney to the notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
\nIt is a sick but calculated tactic to drive divisions between people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Similarly, the National Post \u2014 Canada’s Der-Strumer-wannabe newspaper \u2014 has been running opinion columns (usually on the front page) by far-right bloviators disparaging and attacking Carney, as they did previously to Trudeau. Same weapons, different target. NatPost is seen by many Canadians as a pro-Trump\/pro-Putin propaganda arm, similar to Fox News(the US propaganda arm of Russian state TV). Thanks to Stephen Harper allowing Canadian media to be sold to foreign investors, the whole PostMedia chain is owned by Chatham Assets, a US pro-Trump hedge fund.<\/p>\n

On top of all the MAGA endorsements and Trump mimicry, on top of his continual negative depiction of Canada as a broken, crime-infested shithole country and Canadians as stupid people<\/a>, his refusal to cooperate with the media, how can anyone with even a shred of decency, ethics, morality, or patriotism cast a vote for someone who refuses to get a security clearance even if he becomes Prime Minister of Canada.<\/p>\n

Canada deserves better than the Maple MAGA PoiLIEvre.<\/p>\n

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*<\/strong><\/span> According to the World Population freedom inde<\/a>x, Canada already has a rating of 97 out of 100 based on ranking 12 categories of the Human Freedom Index: Rule of Law; Security and Safety; Movement; Religion; Association, Assembly, and Civil Society; Expression and Information; Relationships; Size of Government; Legal System and Property Rights; Access to Sound Money; Freedom to Trade Internationally’ and Regulation. We don’t need PoiLIEvre’s American-style “freedoms.”<\/p>\n

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