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Mark Carney has had a heckuva year since officially ascending to the office of Canadian Prime Minister – elected to office now, instead of being merely the guy from the World Bank that the Liberal party appointed when former Prime Minister Justin ‘Fidelito’ Trudeau stepped down and went off to date Katie Perry.





Since his election last April, in the middle of a tumultuous border scrum playing out as Trump mercilessly trolled lame duck Fidelito over being a ‘governor of the 51st state.’ There were all sorts of assorted jibes at the feckless poseur and imposed then unimposed various tariffs (starting a feisty war of words and cross-border fees with Ontario Premier Doug Ford). Quite a chest-beating ruckus. 

Carney won his election against a suddenly confused and impotent-looking Conservative Pierre Poilievre based on being the guy able to ‘stand up to Trump.’ 

Seriously.

Anyway, Carney was the victor in a reactionary burst of patriotic maple-leafed Syrupian fervor, after months of watching Poilievre run away with the polls up to that point. Poilievre even lost his own seat in Parliament in the blowout. Unbelievable collapse.

How’s that miraculous, Trump-inspired Liberal rebirth going?

Not so great. If you look at the larger picture, for a former World Bank guru, Davos regular, Harvard board member, etc., Carney has been all over the map trying to simultaneously talk up Canada, badmouth the US/Trump, and work some deals to get his stagnant Canadian economy at least nudged into some sort of forward motion.

Now, all of Canada’s economic ills can’t be laid at Carney’s feet, but they most surely can be draped across Trudeau’s and the Liberal Party’s. A couple of years ago, I wrote a post about how Canadians were, in effect, the kids allowed to sit at the adults’ table by virtue of being a G-7 member. By no metric did the Canadians actually belong in that exclusive club – it was only their proximity to the United States that allowed them to LARP as ‘somebody’ on the world stage. 





Things have hardly improved in the interim, and this is also part of the impetus for Carney’s determined resistance to watching that big, fat, cash cow called ‘Alberta’ try to extricate itself from the confederation. The country cannot afford to lose the province.

In January, at the annual Davos gathering and immediately afterward, Carney set tongues wagging with his anti-US rhetoric and his cozying up to the Chinese (discussing NATO and Greenland during his meeting with Chairman Xi).

The globalist in the diminutive executive was slipping out from behind the smiling mask.

He decried the ‘economic coercion’ of superpowers – read, US – and said the New World Order was ready to rock.

At the end of January, Carney inked a deal to sell lots of dog food (seriously) and such to the Chinese in exchange for importing buttloads of their EVs. Not only did the United States explode, but Ontario Premier Doug Ford,m where many US auto manufacturers have plants, did as well.





The backpedal was fast and awkward, and the Chinese deal went ‘poof’ so fast the ink didn’t have time to dry.

Carney was America’s best broski again.

Until he wasn’t.  We’ve been through several iterations of this coy dance now over the past five months, and, in the latest, Carney has made a deal to buy Canadian Air Force planes from the Swedes instead of the UN.

So, naturally, he was back in New York sucking up after that.

‘Canada,’ Mark Carney said, is ‘going to help make America great again.’

WHUT

 Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for a “new partnership” with the United States to “help make America great again,” in a speech delivered in New York on Thursday.

Carney said that while the world is undergoing a “rupture” as the U.S. transforms its commercial relationships, working closely with Canada in specific sectors, including aluminum, automobiles and critical minerals, would strengthen both countries.

Amid an ongoing trade war with the U.S., Carney has vowed to double Canadian exports to other markets in the next decade and signed more than 20 economic and security deals in the last year. As Carney spoke in New York, U.S. trade officials were in Mexico City in talks with officials there about overhauling the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on trade. The discussions for now exclude Canada.





And as those trade talks continue without the wee, waffling Canadian prime minister, he, the banker man, got some more sticker shock today.

Canada has officially slipped into a technical recession after two consecutive quarters of negative growth.

The news is not encouraging.

Real GDP in Canada fell -0.1% in Q1 2026 following a -1.0% contraction in Q4 2025.

This marks two-straight quarters of GDP contraction for the first time in six years.

Economists had expected Q1 GDP growth of +1.5%, yet the economy suddenly contracted. 

The weak GDP data coincides with a weak job market as well, as the Canadian economy is likely to remain under pressure amid ongoing US tariffs.

Meanwhile, the household saving rate fell to 3.5%, reaching its lowest level since the Q1 2024 as spending rose faster than incomes.

Canada is facing a major economic slowdown.

Canadians believe that Mark Carney is wearing Pinochio’s nose, and it’s growing.





They’re also quite embarrassed about being the only G-7 country to be in a recession, and that’s with Germany barely hanging on.

Yet Carney bounces around from plan to plan and best buddy to best buddy like Ricochet Rabbit without anything to show for it but increasing misery for his fellow Syrupians.

One economist, who is the Chief Market Strategist for Wellington Altus, calls it ‘the dead parrot’ economy. 

…Canada has slipped into a technical recession, yet Bay Street pundits and the Bank of Canada continue to insist the economy is “resilient” and capable of absorbing further rate hikes. This is not analysis, it’s denial.

What we are witnessing is a real-time reenactment of the Monty Python “dead parrot” sketch. The data is deteriorating, growth is contracting, and the consumer is clearly strained. 

Yet the official narrative refuses to acknowledge what is plainly in front of it. Instead, we get semantic gymnastics: the economy isn’t weakening, it’s “normalizing”; it isn’t rolling over, it’s “adjusting.”

At some point, this stops being a difference of interpretation and starts looking like institutional groupthink. 

The insistence on strength in the face of weakening fundamentals risks a policy error, one where rates remain too restrictive for too long, deepening the downturn that policymakers claim does not exist.

The parrot is not resting. It is, unmistakably, dead.





This young lady’s little TED talk – she moved from Canada to the US – is an eye-opener.

…• Taxes on **everything** — income, spending, gas, groceries, heating, alcohol, even your phone bill. Your money disappears before you even see it.

• Healthcare? “Universal” in name only: years-long waitlists, millions without a family doctor, overflowing ERs. Many Canadians quietly cross the border and **pay privately** for timely care.

• Government now regulates online speech and literally blocked Canadian news links on social media.

• Housing crisis so bad young people are completely locked out of ownership.

• Deep cultural reliance on government to “solve everything” with more programs, more spending, more control.

Her message to Americans: “I get why you’re protective of free speech, limited government, and individual freedom. Once government gets too entangled in your life… it’s very hard to get that freedom back.”

This isn’t some right-wing rant. This is a Canadian who lived it — and chose freedom.

Not to mention that MAID system for removing troublemakers and expensive citizens.

This is also exactly the dystopian future Democrats envision for us should they ever return to power.

Oh, hay-yull, no.

I like my parrots squawking boisterously and planning meticulously.





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