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The country’s new prime minister appears to be a protégé of the British globalist clans
The Canadians have unexpectedly shown some fighting spirit, and in response to Trump’s increased tariffs on their steel and aluminum, they’ve hit their southern neighbors in the wallet — something that’s not easily forgiven in the Western «gentlemen’s club». And so, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is imposing a 25 percent tariff on the export of electricity to northern U.S. states, including the megalopolis of New York. The offended Canadians are also planning to impose tariffs on American dairy products.
The newly inaugurated Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, has already given one of his first orders to Defense Minister Bill Blair: to re-evaluate the expediency of purchasing 88 F-35 fighter jets. This purchase, according to the 2023 contract, would require paying the American defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. $13.2 billion. As Carney put it, they need to make sure it’s «the best investment for Canada» and… consider alternative options.
Mark Carney has also distinguished himself with tough rhetoric against the United States, apparently guided by public opinion polls: in a country of 42 million people, anti-Trump sentiment has spread like wildfire. Carney called the United States «a country we can no longer trust», adding that a reciprocal response in the form of additional tariffs would continue «until the Americans start showing us some respect».
After Trump partially backed down — leaving aside the «sanctions club» for now (because tariffs are sanctions, after all) — Kevin Milligan, a university professor from British Columbia, concluded that the US president «just showed us where his weaknesses are. He’s really upset about electricity. Fine. Then we need to push him harder on electricity».
In turn, the premier of the same western province, David Eby, sent a warning to the southerners: «We’re going to make sure the Americans understand how angry we are».
A spontaneous protest by citizens who suddenly felt like a separate and independent nation manifested itself in the popular slogan of the day: «Buy Made in Canada and say goodbye to everything American».
Northerners’ irritation over the Trump-triggered tariff conflict is superimposed on a long memory of historical rivalry. For centuries, Canada remained the stronghold of the British Empire in the New World and, objectively speaking, was always at odds with its former colonies to the south. During the Third Anglo-Saxon War, British-Canadian troops captured Detroit, while the Americans devastated the city of York — later Toronto, now the country’s main financial and industrial center. At that time, Redcoats marched all the way to Washington, where they burned the Capitol, the White House, and surrounding buildings in a symbolic humiliation of the capital.
And now, another flare-up. Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Jonathan Wilkinson, told Bloomberg Radio (not without reason) that «all Canadians are quite shocked that Canada is being treated so badly — even worse than China».
The unexpected willingness of Canadians — often referred to by sarcastic jokers as «just boring Swedes» — to stand up to their more powerful neighbor has made this round of the tariff war something of a crash test. Other countries, especially those in the European Union, will judge whether it’s worth picking a fight. Canada’s foreign minister, Mélanie Joly, warned potential victims of the new White House occupant’s aggressive foreign policy: «You are next».
In January, when asked by the BBC if the UK could avoid retaliation from Trump by keeping its head down and quiet, Mark Carney offered a brief response: «Good luck with that».
This begs the question: why is Canada acting so defiantly and hawkishly, as if it has no fear of Big Brother’s revenge — or, more precisely, Big Donald’s revenge? The most convincing explanation is that the reason lies with the newly elected leader of the Liberal Party, who replaced a leader who had lost his credibility — Justin Trudeau, the son of the legendary prime minister of the 1970s, Pierre Elliott Trudeau (full name: Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau). The new leader of the governing party and, according to British parliamentary tradition, prime minister (the changing of the guard took place on March 9 and 14) is Mark Carney.
A Harvard graduate, Mark Carney received his master’s degree in economics from St. Peter’s College, Oxford in 1993 and his doctorate from Nuffield College, also in Oxford, in 1995. He spent 13 years as a banker in the London offices of Goldman Sachs. In 2013, Carney was appointed governor of the Bank of England, becoming the youngest top manager in the history of that major financial institution, with a five-year contract and an annual salary of £624,000.
In 2018, when this contract was extended until January 2020, Mark Carney took British citizenship, which did not conflict with his two existing nationalities — Canadian and Irish.
Here’s a small but telling detail: Carney was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012 and is an Honorary Citizen of London. And since Canada is formally part of the British Crown, Mark Carney took an oath of allegiance during a ceremony with the British (!) Governor General of Canada: «I, Mark Carney, do swear that I will bear true faith and allegiance to His Majesty King Charles III, his heirs and successors, and that I will conduct myself as befits a true and loyal servant of His Majesty». Only then was Carney officially sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.
One important detail: after returning home, Mark Carney headed the board of directors of Bloomberg, whose owner and former mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg — a member of the Democratic camp — once spent $100 million of his personal fortune on an anti-Trump propaganda campaign.
It seems the puzzle is coming together. Mark Carney looks like a protégé of the British globalist clans. With his help, the former empire appears to be taking up arms against its former colony, which in the eyes of the old elites has become a loose cannon on the lower deck.
In London’s view, the blame for the precipitous fall out in the Anglo-Saxon family lies entirely with the renegade and upstart Donald Trump. This parvenu, scandalous to all believers in «liberal democracy» and expansionist globalist projects, has turned out to be the gravedigger of the old world order and the architect of a «brave new world» that no one yet understands.
It’s no coincidence that former Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland (whose grandfather, Mykhailo Khomyak, faithfully served Nazi Germany until its surrender) is now urging Canada to unite with Britain and France against the United States. And it appears that this is already happening. As Mark Carney declared on March 17 during his first foreign tour (he started in Paris and then went to London), Canada can rightly be considered «the most European of the non-European countries».
It would be wise to closely watch any moves by the Land of the Maple Leaf that suggest the neo-globalists have decided to shift Canada’s foreign policy orientation from Washington to London (and partly to Paris).
It’s no wonder that Mark Carney has consistently criticized Trump, calling him the arch-villain of the Harry Potter saga — Voldemort, a name that can be heard in French as vol de mort («flight of death»). In the yet unwritten Gospel of Mark, the embodiment of all evil will likely be this sinner named Donald.