"In today’s world, polite neutrality is not rewarded. It is interpreted as weakness. A country that refuses to take clear stands does not remain above conflict. It simply becomes irrelevant."
We have lost our way long ago. Too much government of toothless spineless control freaks.
Get out of my life and let me live it in freedom!
Our leaders can't be everything to everyone- they never solve anything. they only make things worse and cause more problems.
This is not my Canada, and if the US would have me I'd likely go. If Alberta separates I will join them.
Carney is a banker who knows the extreme debt he is burying us in will be much cheaper to payback when the value of our dollar is destroyed- I've moved most of my funds into other currencies, since it is coming and likely later in 2026.
Trump's revival of the American economy will put in dire straights and we will be forced to make deals(USMCA) that will not be good for us- We are weak and getting weaker by the day!
My father who fought in WW2 & retired from the RCN warned me when I wanted to join the military that the liberal government would be the downfall of Canada. He was actually pro USA back in the 60s. I live in the free state of Tennessee. I have relatives in Ontario that actully blame President Trump for the mess in Canada. The liberal paid media is one of the biggest problem.
Great and accurate article, but I believe Canada lost its relevance and any trace of international stature early on in the Trudeau regime. And the fact that we kept him in power for a decade.
His prancing around the world stage like some dim-witted, androgynous child, in costume after costume accomplished that. China tagged him immediately as small potatoes. His empty vacuous face, frequently disguised in blackface did the rest - or maybe it was his rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody at a piano bar during the Queen's funeral .... oh Hell, I'll stop there - although I could easily challenge the capacity of this app with his embarrassing faux pas.
The stench of that fecal matter still permeates the Canadian landscape and so it should. Elected three times!! What a disgraceful populace. What a despicable accomplishment.
The currency will be the next devastation. Canada can’t support itself. It manufactures little and sells virtually nothing to the world except woke bs.
I admire and sincerely envy your optimism. I hope you're right and I am wrong.
My main reasons for worrying about the next decade or two are the 200+ Liberal and demonstrably unqualified appellate court judges appointed by Trudeau. The same problem exists in the Supreme Court.
And the judge's appointments are for life.
Secondly the untold number of equally unqualified Liberal appointees to positions of power throughout the vast civil Service and our education system. All of them, Trudeau's nepotistic bastard offspring. All equally dim-witted and all infected with the DEI and LGBQT ++ alphabet viruses.
As everyone in Canada is aware, Civil Service jobs are also for life. Not by law or technically, but in fact. How do you root out literally thousands of DEI infected Civil Service bureaucrats from the system?
And the longer the Liberals remain in power, the more entrenched these people become and the worse the problem gets.
End note: At times, I absolutely hate myself for adding to the volumes of negativity out there. Sometimes, I don't even like to read my own posts. But I can't stop my eyes from seeing what they see. I will however, use your optimism and try to remain hopeful that other, younger generations can fix this scourge. My generation couldn't.
Canada is incapable of taking a principled stand because its leaders are unprincipled, which means, sadly, that far too many Canadian voters are equally unprincipled. The True North will never be strong and free again as long as the bread-and-circuses crowd continue to dominate elections.
Canada needs to quit funding Terrorists. One only needs to count the millions of dollars Canada gave to Hamas via the UN to understand how they funded their tunnel networks and built their armoury.
Let's put it in hockey terms for Mark Carney to understand. If you hide in the shadows and don't demonstrate your good stuff, you get traded or sent back to the AHL.
The opening paragraph under the headline says it all. Canada is losing relevance in the world by the month as this country's national government has chosen the path of economic self-immolation to follow, as our globalist elites try to grab what plunder they can from the sinking Canadian ship of state. We surrendered our military independence more than six decades ago, our industrial entrepreneurial independence a quarter century ago, and our underlying national cultural independence a decade ago.
The Canadian Constitution is a deeply flawed document, born out of the severely flawed vision from a spiritually bereft, arrogant, aristocratic globalist - before being a globalist was in fashion - in the person of one Pierre Elliot Trudeau. His multiculturalist view of what Canada should be, combined with Canada's inherited Westminster Parliamentary System, a system that was never meant to serve a nation so far flung and thinly populated, left us with a Constitution barely worth the paper it's written upon. The U.S. Constitution embodies the commitment and courage of conviction of that nation's Founding Fathers. The Canadian Constitution is a watered down mishmash of endless compromises that does not declare the primacy of the individual's God-given rights but only pays lip service to the God and Christian derived principles of the English law from which our legal system is derived and basically states that our individual freedoms are derived from the state.
Our Senate is a near useless anachronism while our disturbingly activist courts are increasingly rewriting our Constitution through politically biased decisions and precedent law.
Typically, the upper chamber of government is supposed to serve as a powerful counterbalance to the House of Commons and its majority rule basis and the power of the Prime Minister, the cabinet, and the PMO. This is not the case in 21st century Canada under the almost impossible to amend Constitution. It was never supposed to be the role of the court system, in this country, to change the Constitution. Yet the Supreme Court of Canada has been doing just that since the Constitution came into effect in the early 1980s.
I live in Alberta and I will vote for Alberta to leave the Canadian federation. The Constitution does not guarantee Canadians' rights, the Liberal government - of the past decade right up to today - is actively trying to restrict our freedom of speech through Parliamentary fiat, federal government policies are stripping and limiting the wealth creation potential of Canada impoverishing more Canadians every day, and the federal Liberal government from 2015 to today is waging an undeclared war on Alberta, its people, and its wealth.
While Canadians keep electing socialist federal governments that are destroying this country from within, I, having no intention to leave the province within which I've lived my entire life, will still do all I can to help Alberta leave Canada.
Sadly though Canada has never wavered its alliance and subservience to China. They have made that very clear long time ago. Now this country is no more than a yes man for CCP.
The US has been our friend and neighbour for a long time. We have supported each other during dangerous and stressful times. China wants that to end. Carney is their boy just like Trudeau was. China wants us isolated from the US and is doing a great job to that end. If pipelines are built, it’s to serve China, not Canadians.
There are many things that are an embarrassment in Canada but the one thing that really hurts is the zero standing we have on the world stage. We were a country the world would look up to but not anymore. Thank you so much to the disgraceful and incompetent Liberal governments
Give me a break. Canada cannot even run Canada. Look at what Canada has come to thanks to the corrupt and suggestible midwits we elect.
Getting involved in Ukraine was a huge mistake and misallocation of **borrowed** money, and as for the mideast, that has been a mess for millennia, repeatedly exacerbated by outsiders with their own purposes and messed up further by those with 'good intentions'.
As for advising other nations, we cannot even deal with what we are calling our own 'first nations'. What a farce!
Jordan Petersen is right. Let the grownups run the world and try to straighten up this mess we call Canada before it falls to pieces. Clean up your own room first, Canada, before you go out to save the world.
Since Trudeau1 in 1968 Canada has been governed by children and by the conservative party. Sadly, childish voters have too often supported the child party, which trashes the country and then looks around for others to blame. The conservative party cleanup crew then comes in gets the bank balance back in order just in time for the next election and the children promising to spend money again.
The same can be said of political parties. The wish washy liberals light policies of the Conservative Party have made it irrelevant which is why it keeps losing.
Yeaahhhhhh ... There are three main reasons the Conservatives keep losing. None of them have anything to do with Poilievre's proposed polices. They are clear, meaningful, reasoned and needed. Simply look at how many times Carny has pirated those policies.
1. The relentless attacks on Poilievre by all outlets of Canada's bought-and-paid-for media.
That accounts for about 70% of the loss. This is the same media who, astonishingly, despite his daily buffoonery, were able to keep Captain Tampon in power for a decade.
2, The criminal election fraud perpetrated by the Liberals, including, but not limited to:
the Longest Ballot committee; the comic farce of the Liberal Leadership election, and the corollary election fraud of floor crossings, including that of Doug Ford who actively campaigned for Carny, (Gosh, I wonder what that was about?) and the ongoing guaranteed vote of everyone in Quebec, regardless of their political party. A vote for the BLOC = a vote for the Liberals. Thank you Trudeau the Elder. All of that contributes 15% of the loss.
3, Voter apathy and Legacy Voting ie: I've voted Liberal for 60 years and dammit, I'll vote Liberal until the day I DEI! And that's the other 15%
Yet, despite all this, despite this Liberal meat grinder, Poilievre still garned 41% of the national vote to Carny's 43%. And THAT is an amazing accomplishment.
Imagine what the election result would be without any of this to contend with. The Liberals would have joined the National Dodo Party in the forgotten mists of history, and Canada would be well on the road to recovering its economy and national pride and relevance.
Floor crossings happen because so many of the party’s MPs have no principles. Doug Ford is a scoundrel but he’s not all that much different from the succession of federal Conservative leaders who run away from any conservative idea. Take Poilievre disciplining MPs who met with Christine Anderson, a hero of the lockdowns. Then he ran on a TDS platform attacking Trump and the United States because his first instinct is always to copy the Liberals. He refuses to stand with conservatives.
The Bloc takes votes away from the Liberals and makes it harder for them to get a majority. That’s not the reason Conservatives keep losing.
To get around the paid for media, Conservatives need to do a better job on independent media and social media but they’ll never succeed anywhere so long as they sound just like the Liberals. They have to stop chasing the same voters as the Liberal and start leading on issues to bring the voters on board. To get past the media narrative you have to show them the alternatives.
OK, not a lot of purpose in continuing this discussion. We disagree on pretty much everything and we're not going to solve any of the issues, so in the interest of civility let's just leave it there. Nice chatting with you.
Bryan you’re just a provocateur and not a very good one. Everything you said is the opposite of the truth, just like the con man Carney. If this is the end of Canada as we knew it, it will have been due to generational plunder by the piratical Trudeaus and their handlers in the WEF.
Harper’s government was better than the Liberals but by degrees not direction. He continued mass immigration and kept the country in the WEF and climate change pact. All the Conservative leaders that followed him have been further to the left. Despite leading for years and fighting an election, Poilievre hasn’t pledged to pull out of the Paris accord and then there’s the self-explanatory action against Christine Anderson, a hero to Canadian conservatives, for which he has never apologized. His anti-American rhetoric in the last election has forever destroyed his reputation. He needs to resign.
Excellent article!!!
We have lost our way long ago. Too much government of toothless spineless control freaks.
Get out of my life and let me live it in freedom!
Our leaders can't be everything to everyone- they never solve anything. they only make things worse and cause more problems.
This is not my Canada, and if the US would have me I'd likely go. If Alberta separates I will join them.
Carney is a banker who knows the extreme debt he is burying us in will be much cheaper to payback when the value of our dollar is destroyed- I've moved most of my funds into other currencies, since it is coming and likely later in 2026.
Trump's revival of the American economy will put in dire straights and we will be forced to make deals(USMCA) that will not be good for us- We are weak and getting weaker by the day!
The Libs in Canada must go!!!
My father who fought in WW2 & retired from the RCN warned me when I wanted to join the military that the liberal government would be the downfall of Canada. He was actually pro USA back in the 60s. I live in the free state of Tennessee. I have relatives in Ontario that actully blame President Trump for the mess in Canada. The liberal paid media is one of the biggest problem.
Yes, excellent analogy of soggy assed Canada.
Most excellent, Reality does require effort. Get the Liberal/Marxist team out.
Great and accurate article, but I believe Canada lost its relevance and any trace of international stature early on in the Trudeau regime. And the fact that we kept him in power for a decade.
His prancing around the world stage like some dim-witted, androgynous child, in costume after costume accomplished that. China tagged him immediately as small potatoes. His empty vacuous face, frequently disguised in blackface did the rest - or maybe it was his rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody at a piano bar during the Queen's funeral .... oh Hell, I'll stop there - although I could easily challenge the capacity of this app with his embarrassing faux pas.
The stench of that fecal matter still permeates the Canadian landscape and so it should. Elected three times!! What a disgraceful populace. What a despicable accomplishment.
Yes it does, and will, for decades to come.
I don’t think there will be decades to come for Canada.
That little evil fairy steered this country into the abyss and jumped off at the last second.
I strongly feel that 2026 will be it, the end.
I sadly concur. The writing is on the wall.
The currency will be the next devastation. Canada can’t support itself. It manufactures little and sells virtually nothing to the world except woke bs.
We are not a viable enterprise at this point.
I admire and sincerely envy your optimism. I hope you're right and I am wrong.
My main reasons for worrying about the next decade or two are the 200+ Liberal and demonstrably unqualified appellate court judges appointed by Trudeau. The same problem exists in the Supreme Court.
And the judge's appointments are for life.
Secondly the untold number of equally unqualified Liberal appointees to positions of power throughout the vast civil Service and our education system. All of them, Trudeau's nepotistic bastard offspring. All equally dim-witted and all infected with the DEI and LGBQT ++ alphabet viruses.
As everyone in Canada is aware, Civil Service jobs are also for life. Not by law or technically, but in fact. How do you root out literally thousands of DEI infected Civil Service bureaucrats from the system?
And the longer the Liberals remain in power, the more entrenched these people become and the worse the problem gets.
End note: At times, I absolutely hate myself for adding to the volumes of negativity out there. Sometimes, I don't even like to read my own posts. But I can't stop my eyes from seeing what they see. I will however, use your optimism and try to remain hopeful that other, younger generations can fix this scourge. My generation couldn't.
Spot on
Canada is incapable of taking a principled stand because its leaders are unprincipled, which means, sadly, that far too many Canadian voters are equally unprincipled. The True North will never be strong and free again as long as the bread-and-circuses crowd continue to dominate elections.
Don't expect Carney to grow a spine. He is a fence sitter, not a leader.
Carney is taking care of his favorite investor, Mark Carney.
The fence doesn’t want him either
Canada needs to quit funding Terrorists. One only needs to count the millions of dollars Canada gave to Hamas via the UN to understand how they funded their tunnel networks and built their armoury.
Let's put it in hockey terms for Mark Carney to understand. If you hide in the shadows and don't demonstrate your good stuff, you get traded or sent back to the AHL.
..or (hopefully) flash that smirk to the wrong person whose life you have destroyed/ has nothing left to lose/ and is not afraid of death...
Spot on Don!
The opening paragraph under the headline says it all. Canada is losing relevance in the world by the month as this country's national government has chosen the path of economic self-immolation to follow, as our globalist elites try to grab what plunder they can from the sinking Canadian ship of state. We surrendered our military independence more than six decades ago, our industrial entrepreneurial independence a quarter century ago, and our underlying national cultural independence a decade ago.
The Canadian Constitution is a deeply flawed document, born out of the severely flawed vision from a spiritually bereft, arrogant, aristocratic globalist - before being a globalist was in fashion - in the person of one Pierre Elliot Trudeau. His multiculturalist view of what Canada should be, combined with Canada's inherited Westminster Parliamentary System, a system that was never meant to serve a nation so far flung and thinly populated, left us with a Constitution barely worth the paper it's written upon. The U.S. Constitution embodies the commitment and courage of conviction of that nation's Founding Fathers. The Canadian Constitution is a watered down mishmash of endless compromises that does not declare the primacy of the individual's God-given rights but only pays lip service to the God and Christian derived principles of the English law from which our legal system is derived and basically states that our individual freedoms are derived from the state.
Our Senate is a near useless anachronism while our disturbingly activist courts are increasingly rewriting our Constitution through politically biased decisions and precedent law.
Typically, the upper chamber of government is supposed to serve as a powerful counterbalance to the House of Commons and its majority rule basis and the power of the Prime Minister, the cabinet, and the PMO. This is not the case in 21st century Canada under the almost impossible to amend Constitution. It was never supposed to be the role of the court system, in this country, to change the Constitution. Yet the Supreme Court of Canada has been doing just that since the Constitution came into effect in the early 1980s.
I live in Alberta and I will vote for Alberta to leave the Canadian federation. The Constitution does not guarantee Canadians' rights, the Liberal government - of the past decade right up to today - is actively trying to restrict our freedom of speech through Parliamentary fiat, federal government policies are stripping and limiting the wealth creation potential of Canada impoverishing more Canadians every day, and the federal Liberal government from 2015 to today is waging an undeclared war on Alberta, its people, and its wealth.
While Canadians keep electing socialist federal governments that are destroying this country from within, I, having no intention to leave the province within which I've lived my entire life, will still do all I can to help Alberta leave Canada.
Well said. Saskatchewan here - if AB votes to leave, we’ll be moving there. Had enough.
Sadly though Canada has never wavered its alliance and subservience to China. They have made that very clear long time ago. Now this country is no more than a yes man for CCP.
Xi relishes his appoinment with Carney and Ma.
The US has been our friend and neighbour for a long time. We have supported each other during dangerous and stressful times. China wants that to end. Carney is their boy just like Trudeau was. China wants us isolated from the US and is doing a great job to that end. If pipelines are built, it’s to serve China, not Canadians.
There are many things that are an embarrassment in Canada but the one thing that really hurts is the zero standing we have on the world stage. We were a country the world would look up to but not anymore. Thank you so much to the disgraceful and incompetent Liberal governments
Give me a break. Canada cannot even run Canada. Look at what Canada has come to thanks to the corrupt and suggestible midwits we elect.
Getting involved in Ukraine was a huge mistake and misallocation of **borrowed** money, and as for the mideast, that has been a mess for millennia, repeatedly exacerbated by outsiders with their own purposes and messed up further by those with 'good intentions'.
As for advising other nations, we cannot even deal with what we are calling our own 'first nations'. What a farce!
Jordan Petersen is right. Let the grownups run the world and try to straighten up this mess we call Canada before it falls to pieces. Clean up your own room first, Canada, before you go out to save the world.
Since Trudeau1 in 1968 Canada has been governed by children and by the conservative party. Sadly, childish voters have too often supported the child party, which trashes the country and then looks around for others to blame. The conservative party cleanup crew then comes in gets the bank balance back in order just in time for the next election and the children promising to spend money again.
They keep quiet as they keep passing federal bills, taking away power from the provinces, and citizens, and giving to the federal government.
When the government stands for nothing, advocates for nothing then we can't hold them to anything.
The last sentence in this article is dead on!! How do we go about working towards this?
The same can be said of political parties. The wish washy liberals light policies of the Conservative Party have made it irrelevant which is why it keeps losing.
Yeaahhhhhh ... There are three main reasons the Conservatives keep losing. None of them have anything to do with Poilievre's proposed polices. They are clear, meaningful, reasoned and needed. Simply look at how many times Carny has pirated those policies.
1. The relentless attacks on Poilievre by all outlets of Canada's bought-and-paid-for media.
That accounts for about 70% of the loss. This is the same media who, astonishingly, despite his daily buffoonery, were able to keep Captain Tampon in power for a decade.
2, The criminal election fraud perpetrated by the Liberals, including, but not limited to:
the Longest Ballot committee; the comic farce of the Liberal Leadership election, and the corollary election fraud of floor crossings, including that of Doug Ford who actively campaigned for Carny, (Gosh, I wonder what that was about?) and the ongoing guaranteed vote of everyone in Quebec, regardless of their political party. A vote for the BLOC = a vote for the Liberals. Thank you Trudeau the Elder. All of that contributes 15% of the loss.
3, Voter apathy and Legacy Voting ie: I've voted Liberal for 60 years and dammit, I'll vote Liberal until the day I DEI! And that's the other 15%
Yet, despite all this, despite this Liberal meat grinder, Poilievre still garned 41% of the national vote to Carny's 43%. And THAT is an amazing accomplishment.
Imagine what the election result would be without any of this to contend with. The Liberals would have joined the National Dodo Party in the forgotten mists of history, and Canada would be well on the road to recovering its economy and national pride and relevance.
Spot on! 👍🏻👍🏻
Just the unvarnished facts. Thank you James Turner.
Floor crossings happen because so many of the party’s MPs have no principles. Doug Ford is a scoundrel but he’s not all that much different from the succession of federal Conservative leaders who run away from any conservative idea. Take Poilievre disciplining MPs who met with Christine Anderson, a hero of the lockdowns. Then he ran on a TDS platform attacking Trump and the United States because his first instinct is always to copy the Liberals. He refuses to stand with conservatives.
The Bloc takes votes away from the Liberals and makes it harder for them to get a majority. That’s not the reason Conservatives keep losing.
To get around the paid for media, Conservatives need to do a better job on independent media and social media but they’ll never succeed anywhere so long as they sound just like the Liberals. They have to stop chasing the same voters as the Liberal and start leading on issues to bring the voters on board. To get past the media narrative you have to show them the alternatives.
OK, not a lot of purpose in continuing this discussion. We disagree on pretty much everything and we're not going to solve any of the issues, so in the interest of civility let's just leave it there. Nice chatting with you.
Bryan you’re just a provocateur and not a very good one. Everything you said is the opposite of the truth, just like the con man Carney. If this is the end of Canada as we knew it, it will have been due to generational plunder by the piratical Trudeaus and their handlers in the WEF.
Harper’s government was better than the Liberals but by degrees not direction. He continued mass immigration and kept the country in the WEF and climate change pact. All the Conservative leaders that followed him have been further to the left. Despite leading for years and fighting an election, Poilievre hasn’t pledged to pull out of the Paris accord and then there’s the self-explanatory action against Christine Anderson, a hero to Canadian conservatives, for which he has never apologized. His anti-American rhetoric in the last election has forever destroyed his reputation. He needs to resign.
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