The Prime Minister, with an ego larger than the CN Tower and severe Donald Trump envy, subsequently waved to the crowd from the red carpet before entering the Fairmount Hotel and a Toronto International Film Festival event Sunday evening.
It was as if he thought himself the one getting a TIFF award.
The only starring role Carney has had is one in a black comedy called “How to manipulate weak Canadians into thinking he cares about Canada.”
Little did he know that just hours before — while the red carpet was being rolled out — a large, unkempt homeless man was propped up against the hotel, probably visiting from the drug-infested encampment around the corner at the side of Toronto’s Union Station.
No doubt he was cleared away before the Great Man turned up. I can’t imagine what he was promised to move.
Carney wouldn’t have wanted to know, not that he’d care or admit, that this is the state of Canada’s large cities after 11 years of Liberal rule.
We common folk must run the gauntlet of drug addicts (many in the fentanyl pose), homeless vagrants, immigrants who don’t respect anyone’s boundaries or the city that is hosting them, not to mention weirdos who are clearly mentally ill, many of them riding the TTC.
In his elitist world, only kings, sultans, princes and EU ambassadors are worthy of his attention — like-minded would-be patricians to whose countries he jets on a lovely government plane offering up fine wines and a gourmet catered feast.
It has finally dawned on me what our PM is all about — that is, in addition to his massive ego, his constant gaslighting and his childish petulance towards anyone who dares challenge him.
Mark Carney is having the time of his life.
He’s got the legacy media and stupid Canadians in his pocket, leaving him to swan around the world behaving like he’s the King of Canada.
None of the above will criticize him for screwing up a trade deal, considering he once claimed he was the only one who could achieve such a deal with Trump.
All mere details.
No one will raise a stink that despite travelling to more than 26 countries during his first year in office, Carney has only managed to make up $12B of bilateral trade with three countries.
Considering bilateral trade between Canada and the U.S. is about $880B per year, Carney has a long way to go.
No one is prepared to remind him that he came into town at the beginning of June with another large motorcade to pledge to a group of naive Liberal Jews that he’d tackle the rise in antisemitism.
His so-called antisemitism committee has met just once.
He can make decisions unilaterally — like his musings about strengthening ties with the EU or pompously yapping about a two-state solution (already refused repeatedly by the Palestine Authority) — because he rarely shows up to the House to answer to his opponents.
Accountability is not high on his dictatorial agenda, and the legacy media don’t challenge him for fear of losing their bailouts or access to the few times the Great Man doles out crumbs.
He can host an Investment Summit in Toronto — as he did this week — to go through the show of trying to lure would-be investors to Canada.
I’m going to bet this move will be as successful as his trade deals.
After all, who wants to invest in a country that is on a downward spiral, rife with immigrants who hate Western values and want a handout, not a hand up, high taxation, a union mentality and economic turmoil.
But he put on the show before jetting off to France and his pals at the EU, leaving all the troubles of the country he purports to lead behind.
Carney has us where he wants us.
We are, after all, Canadians.
We are passive, resigned to our fates and not generally ones to make waves.
Well, not all of us.
Some of us vote with our feet and leave.
Others scream and shout but are often intimidated into silence by the frumpy Boomers like the one I saw on the TTC Tuesday wearing a “Canada is not for Sale” cap.
I don’t blame Donald Trump for our troubles.
Our hubris and the idiocy of American-hating Canadians who think we can do battle with a country that has 8.5 times our population and a world of influence are leading us down a bumpy path — one of our own making.
Good article, Sue-Ann. I worry about what he plans to do to us next, while wondering about the trade deal. Is it a mirage? All the signs point to disaster.