Carney is elbows down when dealing with bully Donald Trump

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Who speaks for Canada?

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Ontario's Doug Ford does just that. Manitoba-based Web Kinew does just that. BC's David Eby does just that. Many other provincial premiers are doing the same.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney? Well, let's think about this.

If there is one essential requirement for the office of Canadian Prime Minister, it is to fearlessly defend the interests of the country and the people who make it up.

Mark Carney has repeatedly promised that he will do this.

Remember Carney's campaign speech?

Remember the elections? The Liberal leader is clearly not doing that. Here's some of what he said then about Donald Trump and tariffs.

— April 2, 2025: “We are going to fight these tariffs with countermeasures… In a crisis, it is important to come together and work with purpose and determination.”

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– April 17, 2025: “The biggest risk we have to this economy is Donald Trump… what he's trying to do to Canada – he's trying to break us so the US can own us. They want our land, they want our resources, they want our water, they want our country… We're all going to stand up to Donald Trump. I'm ready.”

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– April 29, 2025: “We have overcome the shock of American betrayal, but we must never forget the lessons. We must take care of ourselves.”

Ah, heady spring days. This was then, this is now, etc. These “countermeasures”? Carney killed them quickly because they angered Donald Trump. Using “force?” And: “stand up against Donald Trump” for his “betrayal”?

Well, our Prime Minister probably doesn't say things like that anymore. Instead, he laughs at all of Trump's (bad) jokes. He claps his hands in delight at any insanity that comes out of Trump's mouth. He and Trump have “a very good relationship,” he beams.

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As a writer in Daily mail Carney famously turns into a “screaming teenager at a Taylor Swift concert” in the presence of the US President.

But that's not what the country voted for, is it? During the election, Carney also said these things about his main opponent: “The Poilievre plan will leave us divided and ready to be conquered. Because the man who worships at the altar of Donald Trump will kneel before him, not stand up to him.”

Carney dramatically changed Trump's mind

But who is now “worshipping at the altar of Donald Trump”?

We all know the answer. Mark Carney's U-turn on Donald Trump was so complete and profound that he should wear a neck brace. Whiplash doesn't even describe it. How is that Invasion of the body snatchers Parliament Hill version. The same Mark Carney you knew? He disappeared. He left.

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For those liberals who are still vainly hoping that their hero will reappear like Lord of the Rings' Gandalf at the Battle of Helm's Deep, their fantasy came to a grisly conclusion last week. After several days of evasive explanations and parsing of words, Carney finally came clean: he admitted that he apologized to Donald Trump for the ad that the aforementioned Doug Ford ran on American television.

You know: an ad that (a) was truthful, (b) accurately quoted Ronald Reagan, and (c) did everything Carney himself had previously promised to do: “stand up,” respond “with force,” and “fight these tariffs.”

Carney apologized for the ad, which said what Carney himself said. And then, for good measure, he threw Doug Ford under the bus by saying he told the Premier of Ontario not to run the ad.

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Two things: he clearly didn't do it. And, just as obviously, Doug Ford will not remain silent or under anyone's metaphorical bus. Not the Doug Ford the country knew. Wrong guy.

It's easy to take all this lightly, but you shouldn't. Our Prime Minister apologized to the bandit because someone courageous simply told the bandit the truth.

It was bad enough. But by the end of the week, the situation had become noticeably worse: even after Carney apologized, Trump still refused to participate in trade negotiations with Canada. And on the same day, Ontario furniture maker Holsag announced it would be ceasing operations in Lindsay and moving to the United States.

So now a worried nation turns its eyes to the capital and asks: Who will speak for Canada?

Apparently not Mark Carney.

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