Mark Carney is a man with a plan

As a Canadian, I remember the good old days when travel agents told us to put our national flag on our backpacks so that the Europeans and Asians wouldn’t assume we were Americans. Canada had a reputation for being nice, unlike the stereotypical “ugly American.”

Now a Canadian flag symbolizes a nation in free fall. We are erasing our history and euthanizing the elderly to save on health care costs. We let so many immigrants in every year that home ownership is unaffordable for the young. We are racking up the national debt at a furious pace and 50% of all spending in the country is by the government. Our military is crumbling, and our borders are porous. But not to worry, we have safe injection sites if you can’t stand thinking about it anymore.

Into this mess steps a man with a plan. Mark Carney is an economist, a former governor of the Bank of Canada (2008-13) and the Bank of England (2013-20), and a member of the World Economic Forum Foundation Board. You wouldn’t think that is the bio of an eco-loon, but you would be wrong.

Carney is the quintessential “Davos man,” to employ Samuel Huntington’s term. A “Davos man” regards himself as a citizen of the world and sees nation states as hindrances to global, bureaucratic control of society by benign people like himself. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre describes Carney as “a global elitist who sees the world as an economic playground and national loyalties as an encumbrance or, at best, an irrelevance.” The WEF goal is government control of all facets of society through social credit. If that sounds very much like China, that is because it is.

But how do we get there? Net zero is the plan.

In Carney’s 2021 book, Value(s): Building a Better World for All, he lays out his vision. Note that it is not a vision for Canada (the country he claims to want to lead) but for the world. As a Davos man, he sees himself as part of the elite that rules all humanity, not merely some second-rate, post-national, entity called Canada.

In this book he sums up markets as efficient at wealth creation, which is why we must reluctantly tolerate them, but as useless at closing “the gap between what we value and what the market prices.” The core point of the book, he says, is “how markets can serve us.” For the markets to serve “us,” however, they must be guided by government bureaucracy.

Central to the argument of the book is what Carney calls “the climate crisis.” Chapter 11 spells out the climate crisis data in terms that brook no dissent. He writes,

Net zero isn’t a slogan, it’s an imperative of climate physics. ... To limit temperature increases to 1.5 degrees C, the ‘average’ global citizen born today will have a personal carbon emissions budget over their lifetime equivalent to one-eighth of that of their grandparents.

This vision is for a decline into miserable poverty for most Canadians.

One reason the Soviet Union collapsed is that the West was able to sustain rising standards of living, and the Communist system was not. But what if you could convince the masses that a rising standard of living was (a) immoral and (b) impossible? And what if you could impose Communism globally all at once? Who could then say it is not working?

Carney has the support of Justin Trudeau’s radical, socialist, minister of the Environment and Climate Change, Stephen Guilbeault. (Yes, Canada actually has a “minister of the Environment and Climate Change,” which reminds me of a remark Pope Benedict attributed to one of his atheist colleagues at the University of Regensburg who said that the university, with its Roman Catholic and Protestant Faculties of Theology, was remarkable for having two entire faculties devoted to something that does not even exist!)

Whereas Trudeau believed that whatever the climate emergency cult told him was true, Carney was one of the ones telling him what was true. Trudeau is a cult member; Carney is the cult leader.

The left-wing media portrays him as a boring and competent manager of the economy. Canadians like that. It seems like a major upgrade from Trudeau, who famously claimed “the budget will balance itself.” (It didn’t.) Carney will present himself as just the man you need to fix that leaky budget. He also will be marketed as the anti-Trump. Since the leftist media defines Trump as the incarnation of evil upon the earth, that just might work. Ironically, the globalist Carney could sail to victory on a groundswell of Canadian patriotic fervor.

Mark Carney is a clear and present danger to Canada.