Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

At home and abroad, the next four months will be more challenging than the first four — and cracks are showing in his leadership

As Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government embarks on its first full parliamentary session, Canadians are sending a clear message: The honeymoon is over and we need to see more results.

“The fall will be critical,” wrote David Coletto, chief executive of polling firm Abacus Data in a recent report. “Canadians need to see and feel momentum, on prices at the grocery store, on rent and mortgage relief, on the basics of economic security. Otherwise, the alignment Carney has built could turn into frustration, and then disillusionment.”

With Parliament resuming after a long hiatus, people are wondering whether Prime Minister Mark Carney will finally start keeping his promises. No, of course not. Have you ever really listened to the man talk?

If so, and it’s remarkable how many people including journalists seem not to have tried hard, it’s very troubling. It’s not easy given his soothing, even soporific way of saying nothing deceitfully. But his habit of fudging details while soaring into cosmic incoherence on the big picture and erupting if questioned is no recipe for competent government let alone the transformative kind.

Who is Mark Carney?

The man comes to us from a glamorous but allegedly mediocre career in banking. He was in fact, as many claim, an ineffectual and counter-productive Bank Governor for both Canada and the U.K., despite his frequent braggadocio of having saved two economies. One recalls that Jordan Peterson disdainfully pegged him as a self-anointed “planetary savior,” for Peterson understood that Carney, a man with no class or pedigree, was given compulsively to self-promotion.

The government’s plan to reduce the size of the public service through attrition is “highly unlikely” to be enough to meet the fiscal targets it outlined in the election, according to interim parliamentary budget officer (PBO) Jason Jacques.

“For the order of magnitude that you’re looking at, it would be highly unlikely that you’d be able to close a deficit or reach a number that big without the path going through personnel costs, so without some sort of reduction or substantial changes in the composition of the public service,” Jacques said in an interview on CTV Power Play with Vassy Kapelos on Tuesday.

Despite warnings from experts that the federal government will have to make deep cuts to the public service if it hopes to meet its promises to reduce operational spending, the prime minister most recently insisted the plan is to rely on retirements and resignations.

The civil service is a very important LPC vote bloc.

Nearly six months after promising to “build twice as many homes every year,” on Sunday, Prime Minister Mark Carney followed the path laid out by virtually every other left-leaning politician in the country by launching a new government bureaucracy intended to increase the stock of affordable (read: socialized) housing throughout the country.

He’s just spewing BS. We know it he knows we know it.