Canada’s Corrupt Liberal Government

More than two decades ago, the United States invited Canada to join in a new Middle Eastern misadventure. The invitation was premised on a big lie about Saddam Hussein’s supposed weapons of mass destruction.

Prime Minister Jean Chrétien declined to participate. It’s not that he foresaw the disaster to come — but he had a team of good advisers, as well as credible intelligence showing Saddam posed no imminent threat and had had no role in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Perhaps more important, Chrétien also didn’t trust his American counterpart, President George W. Bush.

That’s a lot of bluster for a guy whose army is more concerned with sex change operations than being combat ready.

OTTAWA—Given his short tenure to date, Prime Minister Mark Carney may not have fully grasped something every leader eventually must: power doesn’t corrupt, it deludes. By reconciling the irreconcilable, it persuades its holder that contradiction is sophistication.

… At the World Economic Forum in Davos back in January, Carney presented himself as the custodian of coherence in a splintering world. He warned against economic coercion, and the fragility of rules-based co-operation. He cautioned against an overreliance on singular partnerships, and urged renewed commitment to multilateralism and international law. It was the technocrat at his level best: sober, strategic, and alert to all the systemic global risks.

Canada’s former budget watchdog Yves Giroux says the government’s failure to appoint a new parliamentary budget officer after both his and his interim successor’s terms expired is a “conscious decision” to silence the office and prevent it from holding the government accountable.

And with one slick soundbite — we take the world as it is not as we wish it to be — Prime Minister Mark Carney gets to straddle whatever political or foreign fence he is confronted with.

Difficult choices and questions can all be deferred or deflected with this simple mantra.

The Greek myth of Pygmalion is based on a sculptor who fell so deeply in love with the beautiful sculpture he created that it came to life.

The so-called Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon in which higher expectations lead to improved performance.

It is an intriguing prospect, but wishful thinking is probably not the best basis for a system of government.

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When Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada called on the world’s “middle powers” to band together and resist President Trump, perhaps the most obvious ally for Canada was Australia, another sprawling, former British colony.

As Mr. Carney pulled up in front of the Australian Parliament on Thursday, there was a subtle sign of the two countries’ mutual understanding. A row of Australian Army howitzers boomed out a 19-gun salute. The countries’ shared political system meant that Australia knew that a 21-gun salute is reserved for the governor general, Canada’s head of state as King Charles’s representative.

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Within the massive federal government bureaucracy, there are only two independent offices that can be relied upon to give Canadian parliamentarians and taxpayers objective, independent, non-partisan evaluations of government spending.

One of them is the auditor general.

On February 18, Matt Jeneroux, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Edmonton-Riverbend, joined a cohort of other disgraced Conservative MPs, such as Michael Ma and Chris d’Entremont, and ‘crossed the floor’ in the House of Commons, to embrace the Liberal Party of Canada.

Predictably, a horde of liberal pundits and political actors have attempted to seize upon Jeneroux’s feckless politics and exit, in an effort to condemn the Conservative Party of Canada and claim that “moderates are fleeing the CPC.”