@bhaggart.bsky.social:
Carney’s Davos speech may sound good in the abstract. But if you focus less on the diagnosis and more on the prescription, it starts to fall apart. Especially if you focus on its implications for Canada. It offers Canadians not an independent path forward, but a slow decline into vassalization.
@lisawedmann.bsky.social:
Agree. The few clips I saw of his speech yesterday scared me, especially the AI stuff. He’s really just doubling down on the policies & relationships that got us here.
Carney’s a Steve Harper/IDU monster
@sandyandnora Mark Carney Act II — impressive on the international stage, boring and jingoistic in Canada #markcarney #canpoli #liberal ♬ original sound – Sandy & Nora Talk Politics
@LailaAlarian:
Strange to see western leaders moralizing about the importance of the rule of law after a 2 year live streamed genocide they enabled.Fucking Carney included.
@GhassanAbuSitt1:
What Carny was admitting to is that when the Empire goes hungry it eats its own children.
@ebeaudry.bsky.social:
Yup, he gloated about the cuts last week. So the speech sounds hollow.
@walterverse.bsky.social:
Give a speech like that I’m expecting Gripen and drone production immediately. Self sufficiency should mean widespread renewables in 1-5 years, not wasting money on far off nuclear and O&G backed by USA companies. Oh and junk PostmediaUSA and The FraserUSA Institute among other bad actors
@tangibullah.bsky.social:
And “Hey we’re Canadians choosing another way!”
“But also we can’t afford some basic stuff, like Canadian history. I’m sure you’ll understand.”
“Money, right? Heh heh.”
Alarm as Canadian Register of Historic Places to Shut Down
The Canadian Register of Historic Places, better known as the historicplaces.ca website, is coming down. Parks Canada announced in late 2025 that the searchable database – a cornerstone for understanding heritage places in Canada – will be permanently unplugged in spring 2026.
Heritage advocates are scrambling to save the data and find a replacement.
@emgeekay.bsky.social:
Honestly? There is no rhyme or reason for this. It feels like it’s taking a page from the US regime, making history invisible.
@kellyblack.ca:
This here is some mind boggling ridiculousness. Parks Canada announced the Register for Historic Places – a searchable database and a cornerstone for understanding heritage places – will be permanently unplugged this spring @willgreavesmp.bsky.social #CdnHistCarney copying Trump’s Nazis again, or heeding his orders. Must not have anyone know Canada has its own history when Monster Trump and his kid-raping billionaires want us as their 51st State to rape and plunder so that they can get richer. Carney is so fucking obvious, I can’t believe anyone still trusts or believes him.
@robertwrandall.bsky.social:
Crazy, it’s already a dead link.
Thanks to the Wayback Machine it’s still seeable.
But this is a provincial/federal cooperative so do the provinces have any say into the shutdown?
@cubey.bsky.social:
I don’t understand how this kind of site would be difficult to fund. It’s just a server and a database. That’s cheap hosting.
Am I missing something? What’s the expense that they can’t afford?
@ridiculousginger.bsky.social:
How is it possible that I despise Carney more each day? And yet…Me too.
@promich.bsky.social:
Carney keeps making all of Harper’s wildest dreams come true.
Are they still in contact? Seems likely at this point.Harper’s Carney’s boss (IDU).
@rlaffsal.bsky.social:
Wtf. This is mindbogglingly stupid.Ya, Nazi Trump stupid
@Heidi__Matthews:
People out here acting like @MarkJCarney is Che Guevara. That’s not the takeaway, folks.
@EnglerYves:
Mark Carney just accepted a seat on Trump’s Gaza colonial board, backed kidnapping Maduro & continues Canada’s unprecedented military ties to US. Still many are praising the PM for standing up to US & defending sovereignty during today’s speech to World Economic Forum
Quds News Network @QudsNen:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the signing of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Davos after Switzerland confirmed it would enforce the ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza.
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Christi Belcourt:
I listened to Carney’s speech in full twice and read the transcript so that I could really get the “between the lines” part of what wasn’t said, but what was implied.
I think of his speech in two parts.
Part 1 – the first half – he identifies and diagnoses what he thinks are the problems.
Part 2 – the second half – he identifies what he thinks are the solutions.
On the first half: for some people what he said came as a shock and was refreshing because finally a head of State is admitting what generations of people have seen for a long time – that the law, if applied at all, is applied unevenly and as long as countries receive favours and benefits, they are willing to turn a blind eye to it. He admitted Canada has been part of this.
For those of us who pay attention, it was refreshingly frank.
The people see what is going on and they are tired of being lied to to their faces. There is a lot more to be said about this Herr Carney is one of the biggest most vile liars of the corrupt bunchbut I want to talk about the second half.
The second half of his speech is more revealing for what he is proposing as solutions.
Essentially he said the solution is to lean heavily into short term economic protections by going full force with resource extraction projects and making deals with countries outside the U.S. while turning a blind eye to human rights abuses.
In short his solution is not offering a vision to try to correct what he considers the problems, but to lean into it with protectionism, environmental degradation, erosion of Indigenous rights, and turning a blind eye to human rights abuses or environmental protections elsewhere.
He said this new reality means he would make deals with other countries and “we may not agree on everything” – translated: they may commit atrocities but for our own benefit, we won’t say anything about it.
He said he would invest in new mining, AI, and defense, etc. As I’ve been posting about – I argue these are precisely the things that are going to make Canadians and Indigenous Peoples less safe and less protected over the long term. How? Because these critical minerals and AI are being used to fuel the military industrial complex. The U.S. who is the biggest threat to everyone’s safety in the world is the primary customer. And even if they weren’t, the resource extraction being done is for the companies producing and profiting from ever more destructive weaponary and the incarceration and detention of civilians.
Where exactly is this all going to end up – if you flood the world with
weapons that are so destructive they could destroy the planet a hundred
times over – if you produce more guns, more drones, more sound-cannons,
more tanks, more lethal tech, more gear, more jails, more cages? Who
exactly do you think is going to use these – and who are they using them on?
These minerals and “investment” feed the military industrial complex which
are used by the US particularly not so much for ‘defense’ as they are for
‘offense’ – and not so much for either of those as they are for profit.
Let’s be real. There are billions and billions of dollars at stake. That is
what is driving this.
The minerals being extracted in Canada are being used for weapons. The
technology being developed is being used for the suppression of dissent.
They will further entrench surveillance and further limit freedoms
including freedom of movement. Corporations have usurped the will of the
people.
I’m talking seven generations from now long term and beyond.
I have a vision for the future many generations from now – a thousand years
from now – that is a planet that is healthy, filled with animals, water is clean, communities live and thrive, the violence of these times hardly remembered, where children are protected from birth and all people and other beings are respected. I have a vision for the future where people constantly reach for higher goals that further entrench respect for all people and the planet.
That is what was missing from Carney’s speech.
He does not see the solutions as reaching for these goals.
His solutions are economic. They are capitalist. They serve the corporatocracy. Same overlords. Same injustices. Same violence perpetrated on the people and the lands. Same game, different faces.
We won’t get out of the problems that exist in the world by digging in deeper to what got us here in the first place.
I thought I would add this perspective so that people consider what wasn’t
said in his speech – and what perhaps really needed to be said instead.
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@Shack_Rat
Jan 20, 2026:
Everyone praising Mark Carney’s speech as “bold,” “brave,” or “eloquent,” and treating it as evidence that the West can still rescue itself, is still misunderstanding the nature of the crisis.
The “rules-based international order” didn’t erode gradually or mysteriously; it collapsed the moment Western governments showed that the rules don’t apply when the violator is an ally. Gaza didn’t expose a weakness in the system that could be patched or repaired; it revealed what the system actually is.
For two years, the Western world didn’t merely fail to restrain Israel; it funded it, armed it, vetoed accountability, rewrote legal standards in real time, and criminalized dissent at home. International law was selectively suspended, not overwhelmed like some people want to say, and once legality becomes conditional, the concept itself ceases to exist.
That was the real point of no return in 2023. Not because Donald Trump violating the sovereignty of Greenland broke the order, but because the precedent was set in full view of the world: mass killing can be lawful if it’s committed by the right state, against the right people, with the right patrons. After that, no appeal to “norms” or “institutions” can be taken seriously again.
Don’t gaslight yourselves into thinking that Carney is offering a path to renewal here; he’s delivering a sophisticated obituary. You can’t rebuild credibility with speeches after showing that the law is optional. Anyone treating this as a hopeful turning point is as delusional as a person watching their house burn and believing better fire alarms will restore the structure.
It’s already over. And as the Western order fractures under the weight of its own contradictions, Gaza won’t be a footnote to its collapse. It’ll be remembered as the moment the world finally understood that the system had died long before anyone admitted it.
@ThePolemicist_:
Thanks for this eloquent post. I’d say that there was an accumulation of obviously hypocritical aggressions that made clear the “rules-based order” always meant “We make the rules, you obey our orders.” But the outright, prolonged, live-streamed genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza was an historical crime of another order, which has damned everyone who was involved in or ignored it or had the capability to stop it but didn’t, and ended any allowance for even rhetorical pretense of Western virtue. Glad Carney acknowledged outright, in words, the end of such pretense, though he did that as a reaction to Greenland, not Gaza, and he has, in action joined the despicable “Board of Peace,” which is nothing more than Trump’s icing on the genocide cake.
@MarkJCarney Jan 20:
In an era of great power rivalry, Canada is choosing to be principled and pragmatic. To name reality, to act together, and to build what we claim to believe in.
@Cereal_Twit:
You could have chosen to be principled over Gaza. Or Venezuela, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan…any one of the many imperial wars you so eagerly helped US/rael with. But you found your principles now when Greenland is under threat? You deserve Trump.
@emmettmacfarlane.com:
It’s kinda amazing the depth and breadth of the positive reaction to the Carney Davos speech. I get it – Canadians like when int’l people laud us. But Carney said similar things during the election campaign and we’ve seen how he’s governed since. I’m almost stupefied by how naive everyone is being.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Cue the Carneybots:
He’s been playing 4D chess*!
He’s made so many deals**!
PP is worse***!
(* Aka appeasement)
(** With regimes that have horrible human rights records)
(*** But in fact with many similar policies)
@berkshire.bsky.social:
It’s beyond aggravating. Also, none of the people praising them seem to have noticed his disgusting, sneering dismissal of labour and the working class
@wtfis2bdone.bsky.social:
Nationalism across the political spectrum is a helluva drug. Canadians are not politically engaged or informed. We are a colonial democracy, not a democratic republic. We’ll be sold for parts to the tech oligarchy. Canadians have ZERO clue.
Qua Cassandra, I will end up going mad.
@its.small.patatas.ca:
Thank you for saying this. Every time i start going down the rabbit hole of our PM’s links to certain SV figures, his attitude toward resource extraction, and his dealmaker rhetoric, i start to feel very uneasy. Maybe it’s time to write the blog post I’ve wanted to write for nearly a year now
@ridiculousginger.bsky.social:
Same! Felt like I was taking crazy pills yesterday. Like, can we wait to see if his actions line up with his words? Because so far they haven’t. I’ve been so gravely disappointed in him ever since he took office.
@reneestephen.bsky.social:
When he was bragging about having cut taxes I boo’d so loudly I woke the neighbour’s dog
@ridiculousginger.bsky.social:
lol! Yeah, it’s so nice that boomers get to pay less for their yachts /s
I wish he would help the people who actually need help! AarghCarney only serves USA and the rich, and his Hanky Panky pals like Evan Solomon. He also knows that humans love lies and liars.
@oaksides.bsky.social:
To date his actions toward the US have not matched his speech. If the speech marked that a change is coming, great. If there’s more cozying up and cancelling digital services taxes and such coming, then it’s useless words.
@oaksides.bsky.social:
He cannot make a speech like that and then continue to try to appease the USWhich he undoubtedly will. He simply can’t without throwing away all international credibility.
@bhaggart.bsky.social:
I think the bigger question is: what does Carney think delivering look like? It sounded like he was arguing that he is delivering: by cutting regulations and taxes, pushing resource projects, slashing the public service, signing trade agreements, sovereign digital/AI that includes US companies…
@moniz.bsky.social:
I’m not sadly. Just because the alternative as PM would’ve been an unmitigated catastrophe, to many people, that means Carney is above criticism & must be our saviour, and unquestioned. It’s truly pathetic.
@chemicalchaos.bsky.social:
The man just constantly lies
@tislo.bsky.social:
It was a nice speech. Now, where are our Gripens and SAMP-Ts?ha ha ha. Carney’s working to give us to Nazi USA, he’s going buy American because he’s a fucking traitor, like Steve Harper. Carney’s escalating Alberta oil patch harms to Canadians and life-destroying pollution by mostly American oil and gas companies via his massively deregulating MOU with traitor Smith. Carney is an evil man, serving genocidal Nazi Israel/USA, not Canada, and lies non fucking stop. Like Trump and Harper, he knows well how to con the masses to make the rich richer, and make the masses cheer for him as he steals their rights, jobs and services, and allows kids and the marginalized to be harmed.
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