Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

By coincidence, Wednesday’s French-language debate was held on the same day as the three-month anniversary of Mark Carney’s leadership launch and his official foray into elected politics. His political recency is sometimes characterized as a weakness. But it’s clear from the debate that Carney and his campaign team view it as an essential strength.

A litany of negative news follows Canada’s unelected Prime Minister Mark Carney around.

On two recent occasions, Liberal Leader Mark Carney had the opportunity to take a strong, ethical stand — to quite simply do the right thing — and twice he failed to do so.

Carney refused to fire Liberal candidate Paul Chiang, after he said a rival should be kidnapped and handed over to China; and now he has failed to dismiss staffers who maliciously distributed fake and misleading buttons at a Conservative conference.

Remember last week when Liberal Leader Mark Carney promised a Calgary audience that his Liberal government would make Canada “the world’s leading energy superpower?”

First of all, I don’t know how many times we Albertans are going to have to hear some Liberal politician come to our province and promise to advance our energy industry before we immediately break into gales of laughter.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney made absolutely clear Monday morning: dirty tricks will not be tolerated in his campaign. Sorry, wait, that should be: they will not just be tolerated – they will also be minimized and excused.

The Liberal Party apparatus first signalled as much when, after a CBC News report that Liberal staffers planted phony buttons at a conservative event last week, it released a statement saying its staffers merely “got carried away.” Mr. Carney drove that point home when he announced that the guilty parties would be reassigned within his campaign. This is a slap on the wrist that, in practice, actually feels more like a hot oil massage and cuticle treatment.

The Liberals’ cynical brand of politics is nothing new—and Carney clearly doesn’t care about accountability

The Liberal Party has always done a good job creating a vague sense that they’re the proverbial “adults in the room,” more technocrats than politicians, above the fray, distinct from the Conservatives with their ideological fixations. To people who’ve seen the Liberal machine up close, this is laughable—just ask Jody Wilson-Raybould.