Mark Carney’s ‘Climate Tax Rollback’ is a Sleight of Hand
One of the biggest mysteries of the past decade or so has been the lingering of Justin Trudeau. Just how has he managed to stay in post for so long? Nonetheless, the political crises that are inevitably caused by victims of woke-green ideology’s disengagement from reality ultimately led to the Canadian Prime Minister’s resignation. Rather than taking the question of the legitimacy of his Government to the public, in characteristically cowardly style Trudeau suspended Parliament until his party had chosen a successor. Subsequently, the Liberal Party has chosen former Governor of both the Bank of Canada (2008-13) and the Bank of England (2013-20), Mark Carney. Among his policy commitments, Carney has told Canadians that he will abolish the country’s hated Consumer Carbon Tax. But is this about-face on climate policy what it seems, and what does it say about Canada’s new Prime Minister and the next?
Canada’s Left- and green-leaning equivalent to the BBC, the CBC, reported earlier this year that “Nearly every single Liberal, NDP and Conservative MP who currently sits in the House of Commons… won their seat while carrying a commitment to apply a price on carbon”. The similarities between Canadian and British politics do not stop at the equivalents of state-owned news broadcasters. On both sides of the Atlantic, dominant political parties have been united on a consensus that has denied the public a choice and the scrutiny of public debate. These two democratic failures have invariably led to bad policy design. Despite the claims of Liberal and green wonks that the tax was ‘effective and popular’, by 2023 polling showed that the tax enjoyed the support of just 15% of Canadians. Trudeau’s opposite, Pierre Poilievre, seized the opportunity to make the tax an issue in the long-awaited next General Election.
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“On both sides of the Atlantic, dominant political parties have been united on a consensus that has denied the public a choice and the scrutiny of public debate. These two democratic failures….”
Yes and no. That’s representative democracy for you. It’s not inevitable that there will be a party with broad popularity that represents a given view on a given issue. As a voter, you have to decide what your red lines are and vote (or spoil your ballot paper) accordingly. Maybe we need a completely new system where “important” issues are decided by referendum – one way that could be precipitated is by huge numbers of people simply not voting/spoiling their ballot papers or voting for small and single-issue parties.
Follow the money – politics hijacked by voodoo green science, in the service of getting even more green funding and making even more green money.
As Ben Pile’s and Chris Morrison’s learned articles (among others’) highlight in the Daily Sceptic time after time after time. Thank you Both for keeping the faith.
Let’s hope Trump, with all his faults, decapitates the Green head of the hydra.
As term, representative democracy makes about as much sense as life-saving decapitation. Pile even pointed this out in the article: The people who invest in elections simply buy all candidates with a plausible chance of winning and – hey presto! – whatever box you tick, it’ll get you the same policies with different figureheads.
As voter, you can, if you dare (Faeser has in the past threatened to make such information public for perusal of molotov cocktail activists) vote “for the Nazis”. Should this result in “the Nazis” actually winning, the election will be cancelled. If this isn’t enough, “the Nazis” will be arrested so that they can’t stand as candidates anymore. These are all demonstrably features of the system.
The Nazis or Russian interference is another favourite.
Russian interference in elections is real. At least, it was real during the recent German election. But interference here meant people posting stuff on Facebook who claim to be associated with Russia which urged Germans to vote in a certain way and threatened them¹ if they didn’t. OTOH, people, even people from Russia, are perfectly free to publish opinions on social media or elsewhere on how other people should really vote for as long as they don’t directly interfere with the voting process. The latter kind of interference would a valid reason for rerunning an election but not the former.
¹ With either a full-scale Russian invasion or a Russian bombing campaign against German cities, no less. I’ve seen that with my own eyes.
When you say Russian interference is real, what do you mean? Are you saying the Russians are interfering directly or are they paying activist organisations (the enemy within) to interfere?
Whatever, the result of powerful people interfering in elections and government policies seems to me to be just as bad no matter the nationality of the individuals concerned. In some ways interference by “friendly” actors is the worse scenario.
But having said that, in the UK is it possible that Putin convinced most of the electorate to not vote, thereby allowing a reactionary bunch of commies into power based on the smallest popular vote in 100 years?
Ehh … I specifically described what I meant with that, namely, something very similar to what got the Romanian election cancelled: Posts on social media of a certain nature. I also wrote that, while this can be called interference, it’s perfectly legitimate.
Well it does seem that cancelling elections or banning/attempting to ban certain political parties is becoming quite common in Europe. At least creating coalitions to prevent majorities from having a say. Perhaps Putin is influencing Faeser in her attempt to outlaw AfD. Or perhaps Tusk paid Vlad to get him into power.
They tried to link the Brexit vote to Russia and also Cambridge Analytica but there was no credible link when the guy who funded Farage’s party successfully sued that lady whose name I can’t remember.
We’ll see how long this situation prevails. Not forever.
It has been prevailing in Germany ever since the last German government (Dönitz) was arrested by British soldiers and mock-German states started to be created in the conquered German territories in 1946. As the German cartoonist Manfred Schmidt once mockingly put it (abridged paraphrase): In Germany, there’s a democratorship — people vote and the chancellor does whatever he wants.
look what they are doing to farmers now, going over Councils, and removing democratic accountability to compulsory purchase farmland for housing developments, and no doubt, Gren crap. Don’t forget the Gates and Blackrock meetings exposed on GBN that have been stalling FORs.
All done by Natural England:Quango to get powers to purchase land to offset damage done to nature
Carney the Carnival Barker. As Bank of England Guv every single one of his doomsday predictions did not occur.
He is as Globalist-WEF as you will get. He is a milder and uglier version of Truedope.
He will continue destroying Canada. Given the sheeple mentality of Canadians and the furious CBC inspired rebranding of the Carnival Barker as the moderate sage of sages, the only adult who can stand up to the Tronald, he migiht win the next election.
Carney was 100% full on fascist retard for the Rona plandemic.
Canada is 100% owned and operated by the WEF.
And if Poilievre looks popular, or actually wins any votes, they’ll just do a Romania on his ass like all good lefty socialist dictatorships do (Hitler was voted in fair and square) in these so modern and Democratic times, you we be allowed to government if approved by the left!
Indeed good point. ‘Saving Democracy’ by outlawing the ‘right wing’ etc. Poilievre is okay but pretty weak, I doubt he would change the open borders, climate bollocks, tariff warring etc. He might roll back some of the queer-trans fascism.
He didn’t like it when that AFD woman gave some home truths to Justin in the EU Parliament (pharma-ment). As I said, he’s a fake Conservative.
“Clever-dick wonk economists” aptly sums up all the chicanery fronting the carbon con-trick.
And Carney is the supreme front-man for all this dickery.
He was also crap as head of the BoE by giving guidance as to when interest would finally start to rise to normal levels after the 2008 crash – they had been at 5% and everyone was fine but consider how people call for lower rates now at 4.5%. Yet every time the economy approached his target he shifted the goal posts and helped the country become addicted to cheap money even before Covid. A complete fascist twat.
There is only one explanation why the public keep voting for climate zealot governments. The explanation is a simple one. They don’t understand anything about climate or energy. They only know about climate based on what their left leaning climate activist TV news Programs tell them nearly every day of the week and they have no clue how energy works, or the fact that their prosperity in the western world is entirely due to their countries use of coal oil and gas. They are easily fooled by the climate con artists in government and bought and paid for media that all they have to do to “save the planet” is get rid of coal gas and oil and use wind and sun instead and everything will tick along just fine. —–NO IT WON’T and NO IT ISN’T. ——–All the countries with the most renewables are the ones with the highest prices. The UK eg has electricity prices up to 4 times higher than in the USA. I am afraid that pretending to save the planet does not come cheap and because most people do not understand what is at stake they don’t realise that their standard of living is on… Read more »
They don’t understand anything about climate or energy. They only know about climate based on what their left leaning climate activist TV news Programs tell them
Absolutely right.
There was a good interview with Witney Webb regarding the rare earth minerals for EVs just wouldn’t last with the demand like we have with ICEs. The Globalists know this, and when you consider these things along the lines of Agenda 2030, it all makes sense.
They can be forgiven for not understanding the climate, even climatologists don’t. Not understanding energy, given how many lives depend upon it, is more serious.
I don’t expect the public to fully understand the climate since as you say it is poorly understood even by so called experts. What I do expect them to do is not just take at face value everything Politicians and Consolidated media tell them. I appreciate that people might not always have the time to investigate every issue, but when it comes to energy /climate their lifestyle and the prosperity that has been built up over the last 100 years is at stake
Carney was also in the Bilderberg Steering Committee. The Bilderberg Group is one of the most secretive and sinister organisations among many, so why did you fail to mention this detail?
Amazing that people living in the coldest country of the world can be worried about global warming. The power of propaganda …
Reminds me of those old Swiss ladies taking legal action because they fear warming!
“Pierre Poilievre”….Another fake conservative.
” by reality TV shows Highway Thru Hell and Heavy Rescue: 401,”
Don’t forget about Ice Road truckers!
Never forget that in 2021 in the Parliament in Canada someone asked how many in here are members of the WEF…..The Speaker responded with an apparent microphone problem, yeah right!
It’s staggering that our governing classes have created such a mess. We are now in the position that we may have to restructure and rearm our military forces just at a time when the cost of energy is out of control due to the action of our crazed government.
Perhaps we can import more weapons from America and then put a retaliatory tariff on them! Alternatively I’m sure the Russians will supply us with cheap gas and we can buy weapons at a knock down price from the Chinese!
They could supply enough weapons for people to overthrow this Government. As some farmer said on GBN, it is time to impeach this illegitimate government.
Mark Blarney – like some malign cosmic toaster that keeps popping up. Isn’t it amazing how far confidence can take you even though you can fail at everything? Brings to mind that archaic term, ‘confidence trickster’.
Carney is President Trump’s poodle. Simple.
The 51st state🇺🇸
The Liberal Party has been taken over by these WEF Agents. The NDP Party has also been taken over by the WEF. Singh, the leader is a young WEF leader. Singh has propped up Trudeau and the Liberals by forming a coalition. What has not been mentioned is the influence of the Chinese Communist Party. The RCMP has been reporting to Trudeau for years that the CCP has been interfering and heavily influencing election outcomes but this was hidden and not actioned by Trudeau. Canada is full of Chinese with over 25% of the population of Vancouver being Chinese. Tens of thousands flood the country attending Universities and many deciding to stay. The CCP can heavily influence the Chinese to support any politician or Party and were actually allowed to be running CCP operated Chinese police stations in Canada. I am convinced that the WEF’s goal in western countries is a one Party government based on the CCP model. This has already been achieved in most of the western countries.