Mark Carney LARPing Trump
the performative nothing-burger of Carney’s “executive order”
UPDATE at 1710 PDT 15.3.25 :: An Order in Council pertaining to Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, aka consumer carbon tax, now appears in the database, dated today, the day after Carney fake signed it in front of the cameras. This just appeared on the website in the last few hours or less.
Whatever this is, it’s not legally binding.
It’s not an Order in Council. These are drafted by cabinet and signed by the head of state, which in a constitutional monarchy is the monarch, in Canada that’s His Majesty’s representative, the Governor General, who gives royal assent. There is no OIC on public record, despite the state broadcaster CBC claiming PM Carney signed one. Furthermore, the prop executive order1 says April 1st, which isn’t day one it’s day 17 of Carney’s reign as an unelected PM. Yes he’s unelected, he doesn’t hold a seat in the House of Commons. As such Carney cannot participate in parliamentary debate and business, he can only observe. It’s a weak position for a party leader not to have a parliamentary seat, and Carney has an inherently weak position, as a political novice leading a very unpopular minority government. Carney cannot be directly questioned by His Majesty’s Official Opposition, and therefore has no public accountability.
Note: I’m not a fan of Mango Mussolini however I couldn’t resist this meme I found on Xwitter. Mimicry is a form of flattery, not disdain. Anyway. Brainworms.
So, what is this?
At best it’s a politician’s promise to address the unpopular consumer carbon tax. At worst, it’s political theatre to influence political polls in pre election mode. Either way, it points to what we have long known—the governing Liberal government conducts itself in transactional fashion, as Norman Spector famously described Justin Trudeau, it’s all politics all the time. Duplicitous and performative, disingenuous and shallow — the current culture of federal politics has revealed itself as valueless and corrupt, a club of political theatrics centred around Canada’s Laurentian Elite Aristocracy.
CTV publishes a Canadian Press piece with a headline that says Carney terminated the Carbon Tax that claims, the order-in-council Carney signed in front of cabinet ministers and the press actually stipulates that the ‘the fuel charge be removed as of April 1, 2025.’ When you read further you see that it will be eliminated for consumer purchases and the price for big industrial emitters remains in place. So, who you think will ultimately pay the price for big industrial emitters? The consumer will!
It’s all beside the point when you consider that Carney sat in front of his media sycophants and pretended in Trumpian fashion to sign an executive order. Orders in Council are not signed by the PM, though they may be drafted by him and his cabinet. Tax legislation cannot be repealed by an OIC, they can only be repealed by an act of parliament. The amount of the consumer carbon tax can be reduce or increased by OIC, however this is not that. So, a promise was made to temporarily set the consumer carbon tax to zero. A fake order was bandied about in Trumpian fashion, a bunch of useful idiots pretending to be journalists and media lapped up the horsesh1t soup, and we can’t have nice things in Canada because we are collectively stupid and shallow and headstrong in our delusions about our collective self.
There is no consumer carbon tax OIC on the Canada website. You can conduct your own research and see for yourself and I encourage readers to begin practising due diligence in this manner, trust no one to tell you what you yourself can discover. We have access to public records and we all have internet access and we all have smartphones, there can be no excuse to exercise your responsibility to the democratic process vis à vis civil education.
Truth isn't outside power, or lacking in power...Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power. — Michel Foucault
Between March 9 and March 15, 2025 the following OICs received Royal assent.
Old Port of Montréal Corporation Inc. & Parc Downsview Park Inc. ** Lease **
Regulations Amending the Wildlife Area Regulations
Regulations Amending the Migratory Bird Sanctuary Regulations
Regulations Amending the Canadian Aviation Regulations (Parts I, III, IV and VI to VIII – Air Navigation Services)
Regulations Amending the Income Tax Regulations (Northern Residents Deductions)
Regulations Amending the Financial Consumer Protection Framework Regulations
United States Surtax Order (Steel and Aluminum 2025)
So, I don’t exactly know or understand what anyone thinks happened.
As far as I can see, a whole lot of Progressive Leftist Political Fcuk All happened. I’ll take as a small win the deletion of the Women and Gender Equality Ministry and the other woke horsesh1t departments Mister I’m a Feminist Men can be Women SparklePants created in his term as Gulag Leader ahem PM of Canada. I continue to hope for the political future of my country. I continue to struggle to see the best in those in whom I lost faith or trust as political or community or anything leaders. I feel abandoned, in every sense, except by g-d.
Oh, Canada, terre de nos aïeux. Ton front est ceint de fleurons glorieux!
Canadians love yourself, love your life, love your home, love the land that sustains you, love your country. If you cannot find it within you to take pride and love in your own country and home, then why not? The answer is yours to discover and to carry and not ours to suffer.
Canada is my country. I am no settler, I fully belong here and my belonging is subject to no one’s imposed Maoist and narcissistic and fake reconciliation process. Grievance victimhood culture is Machiavellian and morally corrupt. I have grown weary of both the abuse the left wing progressive and the right wing populist collectives of an entire nation of Canadians, who’ve suffered terrible browbeating and feel broken and betrayed and full of despair. I have grown weary of immigrants who come to my country to sh1t upon us all, in arrogant selfish ungrateful fashion. Love Canada if you are here and leave if you cannot.
I’m tired. Just a little bit longer, I tell my tired self. May it be.
There’s no such thing as an Executive Order in Canadian governance.