Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is placing a heavy emphasis on cracking down on crime after some Liberals say the issue cost them GTA seats to the Conservatives in last month’s election.

Carney has named tackling crime as a top priority, as his Liberal government is expected to continue pushing a strict gun-control agenda while increasing investments in border security.

The first celebrity economist was the prime minister’s ‘influencer.’

Justin Trudeau, an open admirer of China’s “basic dictatorship,” has now given way to Mark Carney. The new prime minister’s mentor will be of interest on both sides of the border.

Mark Carney earned a scholarship to Harvard, where he studied economics under John Kenneth Galbraith. Born in Ontario in 1908, Galbraith moved to the United States in the 1930s, earned a PhD in economics at UC Berkeley, and during WWII President Roosevelt tapped him to lead the Office of Price Administration. In 1949 the Canadian transplant became a professor at Harvard.

On the same day Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed that François-Philippe Champagne was his permanent choice for finance minister, news broke showing precisely why he’s the wrong man for the job.

Champagne was the man who captained former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s electric vehicle (EV) crusade. He teamed up with the government of Ontario to give over $50 billion of taxpayer cash to the EV industry to try to get electric cars and factories built in Canada.

Change is hard – Prime Minister Mark Carney is finding that out. His second cabinet is a departure from his first cabinet, which in turn was a departure from all of Justin Trudeau‘s cabinets. The new PM went from 37 ministers (including Mr. Trudeau) to 24 ministers (including Mr. Carney), and is now back up to 29 including Mr. Carney, with another 10 secretaries of state, which adds up to 39, surpassing Mr. Trudeau’s final cabinet. Mr. Carney has departed from his departure.

From a distance, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new cabinet looks like change.

It’s structured differently; there are 28 full ministers and 10 secretaries of state, the latter of whom will have smaller departments, smaller salaries and will only occasionally sit at the cabinet table.

There are new faces; more than half of the people comprising this cabinet have never been ministers in the federal government.

Prime Minister Mark Carney promised change, a new way of doing things at speeds never before seen. Yet to help him do this, he is relying on the same old, tired, incompetent ministers who got us into the mess we’re currently in.

The Liberals will trumpet the large number of new faces in Carney’s 28-member cabinet — there are 15 MPs who have never served before.

According to British author David Goodhart, who coined the terms “Somewheres” and “Anywheres,” the Somewheres are people who are more locally rooted and conservative as opposed to the Anywheres, wealthy, educated members of the establishment who can afford to live anywhere they wish, criss-cross the globe on private jets, and scoop up property wherever they happen to touch down. Of course, Goodhart’s binary distinction would need to be supplemented by a third factor in the interests of demographic accuracy, which we might call the “Unawares,” those who remain in thrall to the Anywheres, have not done their homework, and are reluctant to bestir themselves to bring in beneficial change.