Justin Trudeau was bad, but Mark Carney will be far worse
Justin Trudeau’s time as prime minister will be remembered as one of the most destructive eras in Canadian history. Under his watch, Canada’s national identity was diluted, civil liberties were trampled, economic competitiveness cratered and divisions between citizens deepened beyond repair.
From draconian COVID crackdowns to the reckless invocation of the Emergencies Act against peaceful protesters, Trudeau normalized authoritarianism under the guise of tolerance and progress. While smiling for Vogue covers, he reduced a proud, hard-won heritage into little more than a backdrop for photo ops and platitudes.
But if you think it can’t get worse, think again. Hell has a basement.
Enter Mark Carney.
At first glance, Carney appears to be a competent alternative to Trudeau’s ideological theatrics. But look again, and you'll see that Carney represents something far more troubling: a globalist technician, carefully engineered for this moment. This is a man who speaks in the bland-sounding language of "stakeholders" and "transitions" while quietly planning the most radical transformation in the country's history.
Carney’s ascent was no accident. After years operating quietly behind the scenes — as governor of the Bank of Canada, then governor of the Bank of England — he became a darling of the World Economic Forum, a fixture at Bilderberg, and a loyal lieutenant of the Trilateral Commission. His path wasn't earned through public mandate or electoral battle. It was conferred, behind closed doors, by institutions whose interests lie not with Canadian sovereignty but with expanding technocratic control over Western democracies. He didn’t rise because of popular support. He was selected, groomed and installed.
He openly boasts about being a globalist. In a recent interview, Carney declared: “I know how the world works, I know how to get things done, I’m connected. People will charge me with being elitist or a globalist, to use that term, which is, well, that’s exactly, it happens to be exactly what we need.” In other words, he sees his elitism not as a flaw, but a qualification. That alone should set off alarm bells.
When a man auditioning to lead a country tells you outright that his loyalty lies with an international ruling class, believe him. Former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo famously said that politicians should campaign in poetry and govern in prose. Carney doesn’t bother with either. He governs in code, the sterile dialect of central bankers and global technocrats. Terms like "stakeholder capitalism" and "net-zero alignment" mask a project not of service, but submission. To Carney, Canada is not a nation to be cherished or defended. It is a laboratory. A staging ground for a larger project, one in which democracy is treated as a nuisance to be managed rather than a right to be respected.
What does that mean in practice?
It means the full deployment of Central Bank Digital Currencies, allowing the government and financial institutions to control when, how and where citizens spend their money. It means debanking political dissidents without trial, as already seen under Trudeau but set to be systematized under Carney’s colder, more organized hand. It involves reshaping Canada’s economy around Environment, Social and Governance or ESG scores. Real industries — such as oil, gas, mining and farming — will be suffocated under a mountain of climate bureaucracy designed not to "save the planet" but to entrench an elite class of corporate monopolies aligned with the new order.
In Carney’s Canada, owning a gas-powered vehicle will be viewed with suspicion, and farmers will be compelled to reduce production to meet arbitrary emissions targets. Essentially, ordinary working Canadians will likely be penalized for their way of life. At the same time, multinational corporations will be rewarded with government-financed green subsidies for pledging allegiance to ESG benchmarks they helped design themselves.
The truly unsettling part is that Carney’s political resume is nonexistent. No years spent fighting unpopular causes. No accountability to any constituency. No democratic reckoning at all. His entire career has been about bypassing democracy itself.
In a sense, Carney represents the logical next step after Trudeau’s demolition job. Trudeau destabilized Canada’s foundations. Carney is stepping in to rebuild it, not as a nation of free citizens, but as an administrative region within a larger, borderless system of corporate governance. A system where people are no longer protected by a social contract but managed like livestock: monitored, nudged and corrected under the pretext of global crises — climate, pandemics, inequality, disinformation — manufactured or manipulated to justify endless "emergency" rule. The message to Canadians is simple: You had your fun with elections. Now the grown-ups will take it from here.
Trudeau moved the furniture; Carney wants to demolish the entire structure and replace it with something unrecognizable. Millions voted for Carney because he projected calm and stood firm against Donald Trump’s rhetoric. He seemed like the man for the moment — measured, confident, in control. But buyer’s remorse is coming fast. And with Carney, there are no refunds.
John Mac Ghlionn is a writer and researcher who explores culture, society and the impact of technology on daily life.