@tryangregory.bsky.social:
We’ve seen more than enough of Carney’s actual agenda. Stop rationalizing and start resisting.
@penelopejmorrow.bsky.social:
I’m sorely disappointed in @mark-carney.bsky.social
@lalegault.bsky.social:
He’s a bad man and we have made a catastrophic mistake electing him.
@charlesrusnell.bsky.social:
You have to wonder what it would take for Carney to impose sanctions. If starving innocent civilians and then slaughtering them at aid stations doesn’t meet the threshold for sanctions, what would?
@jarrah21.bsky.social:
He is a huge disappointment. Statements don’t stop the slaughter and starving of innocent people.
@George_A_Reed:
Any talk of a demilitarized Palestinian state that is not accompanied by an equal commitment to a demilitarized Israeli state is absurd.
How could any state demilitarize itself while living next to a rogue terroristic regime with no regard for human life or int’l law?
@yipengGe:
You are a war criminal.
@DKomesch:
Condemnation doesn’t stop genocidal states hellbent on eradicating an entire population. Condemnation won’t stop the wicked starvation being imposed. Condemnation won’t end the child amputee crisis. Condemnation won’t stop the genocide. Anything short of sanctions is pathetic.
@aliceseba:
Pardon me, but you mentioned something about taking action, instead of continuing with these DO NOTHING statements. Also, the “humanitarian horror in Gaza” is being caused by Israel. Most Canadians now see through the lies.
We must sanction Israel now in order to fulfill our international duty to do what we can to prevent genocide. It’s been our duty since the January 2024 ICJ preliminary measures.
@jmhamiltonblog:
Nice.
Looks like it was written by the Israeli ambassador to Canada.
Palestine needs unconditional ceasefire;
Both sides need to release their hostages.
Israel must be demilitarized.
And an international peacekeeping force must step in to feed & provide emergency healthcare to Palestinians.
@dimitrilascaris:
Without severe sanctions, your condemnations are useless.
You have no right to dictate who will govern Palestinians.
It is Israel, not Palestinians, who should be disarmed and demilitarized.
You are a fraud and we see through you.
@TheRoyGreenShow:
Mr. Carney, sanctimonious declarations aside, where were you and what was your role on the international stage on October 7, 2023?
Would you please share with Canadians a public statement or statements you may have issued on October 7, 2023, or on subsequent days?
Any public statement or statements about anything Mr. Carney.
It may be helpful to understand what, if anything, may have occupied your thinking.
How well do you understand both broad, as well as nuanced history of Israelis and Palestinians?
You profess you expect Hamas to fully disarm, release its still living hostages immediately and take no part in establishing the Middle East governance you, Keir Starmer and Emannuel Macron collectively forsee.
Do you truly believe Mr. Carney that Israel will either surrender to your three monkeys facile two-state declaration/demand, or be intimidated by your Anglo, Franco, Canadian finger-wagging?
Do you expect Mahmoud Abbas to acquire the immediate mass support to underpin you and your two Euro Amigos?
The three of you repeat Abbas has committed to free elections for Palestinians next year.
Mr. Carney, have you and your chums reviewed how Mr. Abbas discharged his commitment to elections as recently as 2021?
As well, should Canadians now resign ourselves to daily policy/action statements from the Mark Carney federal Ministry of Elevated Elbows?
Meanwhile, as far as any Liberal Party Canadian government engagement in a war-ravaged international society is concerned, a cursory review of recent and utterly panicked, jets half empty retreat to Ottawa from Afghanistan tells that tale.
Thousands of Canada-supporting Afghanis, including unarmed interpreters who accompanied Canadian soldiers into active fighting zones, found themselves abandoned to face the threat of torture and death at the hands of the Taliban.
I will be glad to direct you to audio of my on air interviews with such interpreters, as well as senior Canadian Armed Forces officers who told my listeners and me the Afghani interpreters had saved Canadian lives.
Mr. Carney, clearly you view statements by social media as proper means for a prime minister to communicate actions and decisions to Canadians.
It isn’t.
@eikonos.bsky.social:
if Mark Carney were opposed to genocide, he would have already done something about it
He’s clearly a racist fucker, and pro genocide of skin colour he doesn’t like, and anti citizen pro corporate.
@SamHersh01:
Continues to be incomprehensible to me how someone can be in a position of power and do nothing while witnessing one of the worst genocides in modern history.
Carney can halt arms sales or enact harsher sanctions on Israel tomorrow but continues to do less than the bare minimum.Carney is a racist Nazi Zionist, like his political twin Steve AWZ Harper
@bill-comeau.bsky.social:
A dictator facing an arrest warrant for war crimes from the International Court of Justice and a convicted felon are meeting in Alaska to decide how best to carve up Ukraine. Canada must not accept anything coming from these two corrupt leaders.
@christyceeck.bsky.social:
Op-ed of the week for me. I believe manipulative messaging conned us into something we didn’t really sign up for.
“the Carney government’s approach is one that shares more ground with the right than with the activist spirit of postwar governance”
@lalegault.bsky.social:
Mark Carney is arming Israel. So is Donald Trump. Mark Carney is defunding women and queer services. So is Donald Trump. Mark Carney is privatizing health care. So is Donald Trump. Mark Carney is giving corporations tax breaks. So is Donald Trump.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?
@lalegault.bsky.social:
Carney lied to Canadians and women will die when he cuts this funding.
@marginsandroads.bsky.social:
@mark-carney.bsky.social This is not what I voted for.
No level of economic/military “security” will make Canada the prosperous and safe country you aim to build if you neglect the needs of those who are most vulnerable, yet possess the highest potential to build this country, women and girls.
@man-o-man.bsky.social:
Mark Carney is a conservative. He is obviously not a liberal.
@imevolvingru.bsky.social:
Worldwide terrorism towards females and children, Canada must increase jail times 4 assaults against us.
noticed commercials showing females as dumb,unatractive or sx suggestive etc,a bad light basically.usa -rump made all worse than ever,disgusting and malemade religions keep us as a mere rib ,wtfCarney’s catholic, the most misogynistic raping religion there is after Israel’s, and hideously abusive to women and girls.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Stop saying that Carney is making cuts because we can’t afford social programs. He’s making cuts to pay for massive military spending and pipelines.Carney is a traitor, and worse, he’s a Harper con – the worst kind out there, and in cahoots with the Nazi kid-raping Orange Menace and his pedophile enabling Regime. Carney is stealing from ordinary Canadians to give to billionaires, just like Trump is doing.
@parismarx.com:
After seeing Mark Carney fold on the digital services tax, AI regulation, and the Online Harms Act, US Republicans are turning their sights to the Online Streaming Bill that makes streaming companies promote and fund Canadian content.
@metwo.bsky.social:
Why are leaders the world over caving to our idiot President? Why are corporations? If everyone said FU he’d have very little power. He’s made more powerful when world leaders give in. Canadian exports to the US are essential. If the proposed tariffs go into effect lumber will be too expensive for 99% of Americans wanting to build anything. Canada provides 30% of the energy on our NE grid. Turn it off! Canada exports more necessities than most Americans realize. DO NOT GIVE IN TO APPEASE HITLER 2.0It’s not about Americans or Canadians, it’s about Carney and Trump stripping the public purse and robbing ordinary families blind to give to only the ultra rich, it’s happening all over the world. The billionaires see damn well the quickening of the end of human life on earth, they want to become trillionaires before human life is tits up.
Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision by Luke Savage, Aug. 8, 2025, Toronto star
Luke Savage is a writer based in Toronto whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, The Atlantic, and the Guardian. His first book, The Dead Center, was published in 2022 by O/R Books.
Throughout last spring’s federal election campaign, Mark Carney made liberal use of two very potent slogans from Canada’s political past. The first— about the need for Canadians to become “Masters in our own home” —hailed from Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. The second — a pledge to transform the Canadian economy by “taking control of its economic destiny” — was used in the 1970s and 80s by none other than New Democratic Party leader Ed Broadbent.
Paired with slick Liberal ads that resolved to “get government back in the business of building affordable homes” and which included evocative stock footage of postwar housing construction, Carney’s message scanned to many Canadians as bold and progressive — promising an activist government with a new spirit of nation-building, and co-operation toward the common good.
To millions of urban progressives and even some would-be Conservative voters as well, it also promised stern resolve in the face of Donald Trump’s threats and a posture of dogged independence from his hard right administration on the world stage. Above all else, a re-elected Liberal government would (unlike Poilievre’s Conservatives) use its mandate to protect workers, reinvest in Canadian culture, and develop a more self-reliant economy amid the disintegration of free trade. This was, at least in theory, a sweeping vision for reform anchored in a tough-minded but fundamentally egalitarian liberalism.
Or so it seemed. The Liberal practice of campaigning on the left then governing from the right is, by now, a hallowed Canadian tradition worthy of its own Heritage Minute.
But, even to early critics of Carney (like myself), the speed with which his government has spurned the soaring vision of economic patriotism and national renewal that got it elected has been astonishing to behold. With this having apparently served its purpose back in April, a much more conservative ethos has become the government’s modus operandi.
Let’s start with the cuts.
There has always been a certain slipperiness to Carney’s economic rhetoric which has, from the very beginning, leaned heavily on the Goldilocks pledge to “spend less” while “investing more.” And for what it’s worth, the government does at least seem intent on keeping one half of this promise.
In letters sent out by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne in advance of this fall’s federal budget, every minister in cabinet was recently instructed to find “ambitious savings” — read: cuts —of up to 15 per cent over the next 3 years (in particular areas, such as the Department for Women and Gender Equality, the cuts look set to be much deeper). The same principle will evidently extend to Crown corporations and other publicly-funded institutions like the CBC — which could find its annual funding slashed by up to $198 million over the next three years. Cuts similarly loom at the National Research Council, The Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Statistics Canada, and countless others that play a vital role in civil society (notably, the Canada Border Services Agency, the Department of National Defence, and the RCMP have all been given much lower targets).
This is, to say the least, an odd idea of “nation-building.”
If enacted, cuts on this scale would outstrip even those made by Stephen Harper and could eliminate as many as 57,000 full-time jobs from the public service. What’s more, there was little indication during the campaign that such cuts would be coming (the deliberate slipperiness of their campaign rhetoric notwithstanding, the Liberal platform quite explicitly committed to “capping, not cutting, public service employment.”) In record time, it would seem, the government’s promised new vision of economic nationalism has quickly given way to something more akin to DOGE North, the slash-and-burn “Department of Government Efficiency” in the U.S. initially helmed by Elon Musk.
When it comes to the Carney government’s abrupt reversals, its budding austerity program is just the beginning. In a fruitless effort to make nice with Donald Trump, it is elsewhere pushing a border bill that has been fiercely criticized by civil liberties groups and denounced by Amnesty International as an attack on the rights of those seeking asylum. Taking this futile strategy even further, the government has also capitulated to Trump by shelving plans for a Digital Services Tax on Big Tech companies and is reportedly considering signing on to his proposed multibillion-dollar “Golden Dome” missile defence initiative.
On that latter point, in a recent op-edfor the Globe and Mail, former Liberal Minister of Foreign Affairs Lloyd Axworthy summed up the absurdity of the Carney government’s posture: “After winning an election on a clear promise to assert a more independent foreign and defence policy — including a move away from reliance on U.S. weaponry, military strategy and security doctrine — this is more than just a baffling development. It’s a betrayal of the vision Canadians voted for.”
Whether you voted Liberal or not, you have to admit Axworthy has a point — and it’s one applicable to plenty else as well. Taken together, the Carney government’s approach is one that shares more ground with the right than with the activist spirit of postwar governance that gave us Medicare, public pensions, and the National Housing Program.
It’s also one with clear (and dubious) precedent in recent history. In 1993, when the Liberals were returned to power after nearly a decade of Conservative rule, Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin duly thanked the electorate with a budget that slashed unemployment insurance, gutted social assistance, cut billions from health, education, and other social transfers to provinces and territories, handed pink slips to some 45,000 public servants, and ended federal funding for affordable housing. Three decades later, these cuts still cast a long shadow over our country’s social fabric, living on, as they do, in the likes of underfunded services, weakened infrastructure, deepened social inequality, and an over-financialized housing market that will take decades to repair.
Having signalled the opposite in the election campaign last spring, the Carney government evidently hopes to lead Canadians down this same path yet again, into a bold new era of dramatically-reduced social expenditure and trickle down economic development where cuts are sold to us as investments and becoming “Masters in our own home” means nothing more than a deregulated business climate; where it’s made easier to build pipelines, millionaires keep their special tax privileges, and our “economic destiny” is something we realize by bending the knee to foreign giants like Google and Netflix; where Ottawa spends lavishly on security and defence while imposing austerity elsewhere; and, in the face of all this, the government has the audacity to call it “nation-building.”
This is Mark Carney’s vision:
The tragedy, of course, is that Canada desperately needs the kind of progressive, interventionist approach so many were led to believe a Carney government would bring.
Another round of deregulation and pro-corporate policy-making, it hardly needs saying, won’t lower rents or shorten hospital wait times, just as gutting an already underfunded public sector will not magically spur growth or make our democratic institutions stronger. Trump’s threats, by the same token, will not be deterred by a policy of conciliation — let alone by new multibillion dollar investments in American military hardware.
This is, quite plainly, not the sort of nation-building millions thought they were voting for. If Carney was sold to the electorate as a banker with a social conscience, Carney in practice seems to quite simply be a banker: a technocrat unable or perhaps unwilling to look beyond the discredited market dogmas of the past forty years or envision any proactive role for the federal government in the economy beyond making life easier for large companies and the people who own them (be they Canadian or otherwise). For decades now, this approach — and its attendant economic effects — has delivered us top-heavy growth, stagnant wages, and depleted social programs. In the United States, and throughout much of Europe, it has helped erode confidence in democratic institutions while weakening civil society and injecting new life into the far right. Carney is far right, and he’s a catholic as well and unforgivably pro genocidal Israel. Murderous Nazi combination.
As a strategy for “nation-building” it is oxymoronic. But, in a moment of economic turmoil and global uncertainty, it is also one bound to leave us much less well-positioned to weather the storm. It’s been barely three months, but Canada’s new government has already traded wartime stock footage and the slogans of the Quiet Revolution for austerity and cuts without missing a beat. Elbows up, indeed.
Cris:
During the campaign Carney was openly endorsed by Trump. Now we started to understand why.
@siobhanftb.bsky.social:
In exchange for blowing a massive hole in my safety net, I got my first cheque under the Carney cuts. Want to know how much less I’m paying in taxes so he can lay off public servants to replace them with ChatGPT?
30 bucks. For the month.You are fortunate compared to those living under the poverty line. We save nothing, while losing many services, and will lose much much more when Carney attacks Canada’s public health care and social and environmental protections. Seeing as he’s catholic, and that raping kid killing church hates women and kids, MAID and health care for women and girls, I fully expect Carney, to please the Vatican, will take away our right to MAID, and criminalize family planning, condoms and other birth control, and criminalize abortion. The evil fuckers, and their ghoulish inhumane women and girl hating religions, catering to the Orange Slob Nazis, will likely also work to take away women’s right to vote (currently being worked on in USA), and legalize rape here too. Religions are filthy cruel tools of rape and mass murder; they ought to be criminalized, not health care for women and girls, but that will never happen because billions of humans have fallen into the propaganda trap that believing in God will get them into heaven, a fabricated happy place.
@tryangregory.bsky.social:
Just a reminder what Carney’s military spending spree will involve: lots and lots of money going to US manufacturers.
@walterverse.bsky.social:
Yeah I had some thoughts on the matter as well. I am gutted that we are going to continue with the F-35 lemons