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Just as heading into the November election Americans felt that it would be the most consequential in a lifetime, Canadians feel the same about the present contest in Canada. And it is fascinating that the Liberal Party’s strategy leading up to Canada’s election has been similar to that of the Democrats in the American election, as if they were operating from the same playbook. The most striking feature of this similarity is that both parties started out with unpopular leaders, and so both got rid of them and replaced them with someone different, but without bothering to consult the voters. Whereas the Democrat party parachuted in Kamala Harris to replace a feeble and unpopular Joe Biden without her having garnered a single vote in the primaries, Mark Carney was plopped in as leader of the Liberal party, though he had never ever run in an election. And now, given the idiosyncrasy of Canada’s parliamentary system, Carney is now running as the anointed prime minister. (RELATED: Canada Has a New Globalist Prime Minister (For Now)

A new party leader usually leads to a bump in the polls, but Carney, who, unlike Harris, had neither name recognition nor a natural constituency, was able to inherit a huge, ready-made following without lifting a finger. Only a few months ago, the Liberals were trailing the Conservatives by a whopping 26 points, and had the election taken place back then, this might have doomed them to near extinction. But now most polls show the Liberals so far ahead of the Conservatives that if the election were held today, they would form a majority government. There is nothing that failed leaders such as Justin Trudeau want more than a distraction, and the most favored distraction has always been war because it not only makes citizens forget the troubles brought on by their rulers but also arouses fierce, blind patriotism. For the Liberals, Donald Trump’s trade war has been a gift from heaven. It has created a huge crisis — a crisis that could have been quickly defused if either Trudeau or Carney had gone down to Washington and in good faith had negotiated a deal with Trump, as about 70 nations have now stepped up to do. But if that had happened, the Liberals would have had to run on their record of disastrous policies and innumerable scandals. The best way to understand how the Liberals under Carney’s leadership are now exploiting this crisis is that they are no longer running against the common-sense Conservatives under Pierre Poilievre but against President Donald Trump who has been demonized by the mainstream media in Canada much as he was in America and there is no cure for Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada because Canadians have never lived under his leadership.

Moreover, just as the Liberals are exploiting this trade war for political advantage, so too is China exploiting the Liberals with whom they have long had a cozy relationship, and, as it turns out, that they could not have found a better accomplice than Mark Carney. Canadian critics have claimed that Trudeau and Carney are cut from the same cloth because both are self-professed globalist-elitists as well as admirers and supporters of China. Early in his administration, Trudeau expressed admiration for the People’s Republic of China, which he affectionately called a “basic dictatorship.” And under Trudeau’s leadership, China interfered in the two previous elections in favor of the Liberals. Despite both public outcry and concern from the intelligence community, the Liberals have never permitted an independent inquiry into the matter. Now, more brazenly than ever, China is at it again.

Paul Chiang was a Liberal candidate for the House of Commons. As such, he told the Hong Kong-based media outlet Ming Pao that people could claim a million-dollar bounty if they brought Conservative candidate Joe Tay to Toronto’s Chinese Consulate. Ming Pao is funded directly by the Chinese state, and Hong Kong Watch, an advocacy group focused on protecting the freedom-loving Hong Kong diaspora from oppression by the Chinese communist government, maintains that Chiang’s comments are grounds for arrest. As the leader of the Liberal Party, Carney could have had Chiang disqualified, but he didn’t. He simply called this a “teachable moment,” though afterwards, due to public pressure, Chiang was forced to withdraw.

He was replaced by Peter Yuen, a former deputy police chief for outreach and diversity. Independent journalist Sam Cooper has reported that Yuen attended “a gala hosted by the Confederation of Toronto Chinese Canadian Organizations — an association with direct ties to the Chinese Consulate and Beijing’s United Front Work Department. [At the gala] Yuen stood beside a prominent…community leader known for attending high-level United Front meetings in Beijing with President Xi Jinping [and] sang the patriot song My Chinese Heart.”

On April 7, the Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) revealed it had detected that a state-backed Chinese WeChat news platform has been attempting to influence the Chinese diaspora’s views of Carney. Attempts included “amplifying” his “experience and credentials.” The Task Force included links to Youli-Youmian, which saw the publication referring to Carney as a “tough Prime Minister” to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, a “rockstar economist” and that he plans to deepen “economic and trade cooperation with China” as the first “technocratic” prime minister in Canadian history. When questioned about this by reporters, Carney apologized and said that he had “absolutely no idea” why a Chinese state media outlet was promoting him.

Ever since the COVID pandemic, it has become clear that the globalist-elitists have been working hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party by wielding power through the UN. During his time abroad as governor of the Bank of England, Carney became a member of the Foundation Board of the WEF and in 2020, after leaving that job, was appointed the UN’s special envoy on climate and finance. Then, in 2021, he set up several so-called climate alliances, such as the Net Zero Bank Alliance (NZBA) and the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative (NZAMI), whose goal was to freeze out petroleum development by denying oil companies financing. On the other hand, in 2016, while speaking at the Toronto Board of Trade, he said, “One of the many strengths of China is their perspective,” and praised the virtues and profit opportunities for investors to invest in China’s “green” capital market. Of course, the green capital market is China’s manufacture of solar panels and windmill components using energy from its numerous coal-fired power plants. Not surprisingly, while Carney has been encouraging investors to invest in China, echoing Hunter Biden’s business affairs, China has been investing in him. During his time in the private sector as chair of Brookfield Asset Management, Carney secured a $270 million loan from a Chinese state-owned bank. Likely, this is one reason why Carney has called for the Chinese Yuan to replace the American dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

Canadians who think that if they win the election, the Liberals under Carney will become more moderate are deluding themselves. During the Liberal leadership race, all of the other candidates, except for two, former Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla and MP Chandra Arya, were globalist-elitist types just like Carney. Chandra was disqualified early on by the party brass without explanation, and Dalla, tellingly, was disqualified for bogus reasons just before the first leadership debate. Both wanted to bring the party back to its roots, and it is notable that before she was disqualified, Dalla was running second in the polls and looking like she might catch up to Carney. When the final votes were counted, it turned out that 80 percent of the votes for Carney came from the nation’s richest neighborhoods, probably from the crowd whom Carney had advised to invest in China.

As of this writing, the Liberals are ahead in the polls, but they aren’t acting that way. They have been caught pushing down Conservative lawn signs — “because Trump is Hitler and Poilievre is Trump” and planting vintage Trump campaign buttons such as “Don’t trust the polls” at Conservative rallies. Carney, in his short time in the public eye, has also been adding up scandals. While claiming to want to bring jobs to Canada, he endorsed moving his investment company to New York, thus sending capital and jobs out of the country, and was subsequently caught lying about it. Opposition research has also revealed that he plagiarized parts of his doctoral thesis at Oxford, not by way of echoing a British politician as did Joe Biden in his first run for president, but in several word-for-word passages without quotation marks or citations. Recently he has also said that he might use the Emergency Measures Act — which the courts have ruled was illegally invoked by Trudeau during the peaceful Truckers protest — to stimulate the Canadian economy (think “climate emergency” and his decarbonization campaign), and, recalling the infamous days of Trudeau tyranny, his government without notice or explanation has now frozen the bank account of feminist Meaghan Murphy who has been vocally opposed to the sex-transitioning of children on the day she was officially confirmed as a candidate for the conservative Peoples Party.

When the Liberals were in the cellar and the polls showed the Conservatives with a 26-point lead after a decade of destructive Liberal policies and scandals, the people of Canada had finally shown their disgust. It is hard to say whether the present polls are accurate, and there are signs, including a poll that asked neighbours who they were voting for, that they are not. In any case, if they are really winning, one might be forgiven for wondering why they are running such a dirty campaign. After all these years, it would be tragic for both Canada and its good relations with America if the Liberals won a fourth term under Carney because, in the pecking order of globalist-elitist China entangled types, he is higher up than Trudeau and looks to be more dangerous.

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