The Antidote-for-Bullsh1t Post
everyone loves a conspiracy theory, we are all like magpies looking for shiny things in the throes of this election fever that’s descended upon the country
A wax figure is a lifelike sculpture or effigy made from wax, often depicting a famous person. Creating a wax figure involves engaging a time-consuming and intricate process. It requires extensive research, detailed sculpting, and the use of specialized techniques.
Many narratives receiving amplification in the terrain of Canada’s 45th general election discourse feel a lot like crappy wax effigies of the truth, by which I mean factual reality as opposed to some Foucauldian derivation we call truth1. As we descend into the depths of the election fever hellscape, I thought I would clear up some confusion about Carney and Brookfield in a generic way. Reader, far too many wild and whack claims have launched themselves into the political atmosphere.
Reader, Carney didn’t eat your puppy.2
Anyway. Let’s get started, shall we?
Reader, I begin with a reminder that correlation is not causation, that association does not necessarily provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt of any malfeasance done. Engagement farmers and rage baiters and conspiracy theorists behave like crack dealers — always there at the street corner, eager to give you that next rock, the next half-baked theory; they have you leashed up and where they want you. Resist! Trust no one. Not even me, verify and corroborate, this is why I try my best to provide OSINT sources and links so you can check yourself. It’s not my intention or my job to put the thoughts in your head or tell you what to think, only to get you to use the parts of your brain that create the thoughts.
Ok, now that we have preliminaries out of the way, let’s begin.
the bullsh1t antidote
Carney served as Bank of Canada Governor under Harper, his years of service are 2008 to 2013.
He left his position at the Bank of Canada before completing the seven year term because he received an offer from UK be become Governor the Bank of England, years of service 2013 to 2020. He was the first non-briton to occupy the position. You can easily find out what Britons thought of him if you’re interested. Carney is a Bilderberger, it’s believed he received his appointment with the BoE as a result of his Bilderberg Group connection.
In his capacity as Governor of BoE, Carney attended many state events, including a G20 meeting where he was photographed shaking hands with Xi Jinping, that was 2016, when China hosted the G20 meeting.
Carney indeed was present at the royal dinner for Trump during Trump’s first term as POTUS. He sat between Jared Kushner and Princess Anne.
He was not working for Brookfield at this time. He had nothing to do with the Kushner—Brookfield real estate financial deal. It’s unlikely Carney had anything to do with any evasion from or refusal to cooperate with US Senate Committee investigations.
In the letter to Brookfield, [Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron] Wyden[,D-Ore] wrote, “New revelations have raised fresh concerns that Jared Kushner was engaging directly with Qatari officials after his family business had successfully obtained funding from the Government of Qatar. This includes advising the President on matters related to a diplomatic blockade against Qatar by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt. Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently testified in federal court that it was ‘evident’ that Kushner frequently engaged with foreign government officials and often did so in a manner that was inconsistent with the views of other U.S. government officials. Tillerson testified that Kushner and other White House officials expressed support for the blockade against Qatar, despite opposition from the Secretaries of State and Defense. Additionally, in a pitch deck for Affinity Partners, an investment firm founded by Kushner that recently secured a $2 billion investment from the government of Saudi Arabia, Kushner’s biography states that ‘Jared led the diplomatic efforts to end the Gulf rift, reuniting Qatar with the Gulf Cooperation council.’” — US Senate Finance Committee
The Kushner—Brookfield deal happened in 2018. Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund, QIA, was at the time the second largest investor in Brookfield Property Partners, the subsidiary of Brookfield involved in the deal with Kushner Companies to bail out 666 Fifth Avenue. Note the names of the Brookfield subsidiaries, each a separate operation under a larger complex corporate structure. Brookfield Asset Management versus Brookfield Property Partners — connected and not synonymous.
Some have claimed that Kushner and Carney sit on the Bilderberg Group Steering Committee together and insinuate this as a back room connection that proves Brookfield conspiring with Kushner Companies to evade Senate Finance Committee investigations. That’s brain-worm stuff. I can see no evidence from the Bilderberg website that Kushner sat on the Steering Committee, though Carney indeed does, along with many others. Don’t take my word for it, see for yourself, please.
The Senate Finance Committee wrote to Brookfield, addressing its concern to Bruce Flatt, the actual head of the company’s operations. According to the Senate Finance Committee, during its negotiations with Kushner companies, Brookfield stated publicly that “no Qatar-linked entity has any involvement in, investment in or even knowledge of this potential transaction.” Brookfield officials indicated they planned to invest in the 666 Fifth Avenue Property using a separate fund from BPY in order to prevent Qatari money from being involved in the project.
However, evidence has surfaced that points to this assurance from Brookfield as false assurance. Per the Senate Finance Committee’s letter to Brookfield: a few months after the deal was signed, Reuters reported that the Government of Qatar claimed it was involved in the transaction, which was done through Brookfield’s BPY fund, which it co-owns. Additionally, reporting indicated that the limited liability company used to sign the lease on 666 Fifth Avenue, BSREP III Nero LLC, was controlled by BPY at the time of the transaction. Furthermore, the same report notes that BSREP III includes $3 billion in capital from sovereign governments, including $2 billion from Middle Eastern ones. (link above)
Carney favours the Chinese regime. He favours the lucrative investment opportunities afforded by the sheer scale of the economy and financial terrain. He has publicly stated as such a few times. I have shared those clips here previously — you can go fish.
Carney announced his departure from the Bank of England in June 2019. He took a political position on Brexit, a move that caused many to wonder if he had compromised the neutrality and independence of the BoE. Note that as part of his job at BoE, Carney was involved in setting and directing UK financial and economic policy during Covid-19.
On December 1, 2019, the UN Secretary General appointed Carney as Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance.
Carney officially left the BoE the weekend of March 14th, 2020.
He took his corporate position with Brookfield, becoming head of impact investment, on August 26, 2020. Carney wasn't CEO, he didn’t oversee or involve himself in day to day opertations. Carney had a position as Vice Chair of ESG3 and Impact Fund Investing — he had a non-operational role at a company with $850B+ in assets. Again, Carney didn't oversee every decision. He didn’t manage every deal. Carney is not Professor Moriarty. This is not a British espionage thriller, it’s real life Canadian politics.
Around this time, Carney took on a role as informal advisor to Trudeau throughout the Covid-19 Pandemic. You can verify this claim easily—Google is your friend, reader—here’s a piece from Financial Post about this news tidbit.
Carney became a member of the Board of Directors of Stripe in February of 2021. The Conservatives Party has questions about his interests in this company. Reader, I would think the answer to the Conservative Party’s question lies in the answer to the question, can an independent director have any financial interest in the company they serve as independent director? Given his limited role, it’s unlikely he had any involvement in the Freedom Convoy fund suspensions implemented by Stripe. The statements Stripe made to the Public Commission seem fairly straightforward on this matter.
Stripe will benefit from Mark Carney’s extensive experience of global financial systems and governance. And as it rolls out its Climate efforts globally, enabling millions of businesses to bring more funding to emerging carbon removal technologies, the company will receive guidance from one of the world’s leading experts in sustainable finance. — Stripe Press Release, 21.02.2021
Carney launched GFANZ on April 21st, 2021. Per Benefits Canada, GFANZ … introduced 24 major initiatives for the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP26, that’s currently taking place in Scotland. The initiatives are aiming to strengthen the information, tools and markets required for the global financial system to support the transformation to net zero … GFANZ noted the commitments set out by firms across the financial industry — including pension funds, asset managers, insurers and banks — now exceed US$30 trillion, which will be used to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050 at the latest. These organizations will report their progress and financed emissions annually.
MARK CARNEY, UN RACE TO ZERO CAMPAIGN AND COP26 PRESIDENCY LAUNCH NET ZERO FINANCIAL ALLIANCE WITH WORLD’S BIGGEST BANKS, ASSET OWNERS, ASSET MANAGERS AND INSURERS
Industry-led and UN-convened Net Zero Banking Alliance also announced today, co-launched by the UNEP Finance Initiative and the Financial Services Taskforce of the Sustainable Markets Initiative
The Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), chaired by Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, unites over 160 firms (together responsible for assets in excess of US$70 trillion1) from the leading net zero initiatives across the financial system to accelerate the transition to net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest.
All GFANZ member alliances must be accredited by the UN Race to Zero campaign. They must use science-based guidelines to reach net zero emissions, cover all emission scopes, include 2030 interim target setting, and commit to transparent reporting and accounting in line with the UN Race to Zero criteria.
43 banks from 23 countries (with assets of US$28.5 trillion) form the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) today - which joins GFANZ - with its members committing to align operational and attributable emissions from their portfolios with pathways to net-zero by 2050 or sooner.
The Net-Zero Banking Alliance is convened by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative and co-launched by the Prince of Wales’ Sustainable Markets Initiative Financial Services Taskforce (FSTF). A full list of banks can be found … in the Notes to Editors. — United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative Website
The GFANZ Climate Cartel has begun to unravel, as Blackrock and several other financial institutions have pulled out of the initiative. In a letter dated May 15, 2023, and addressed to members of the Net Zero Insurance Alliance, 23 US Attorneys General stated We, the undersigned attorneys general, are concerned with the legality of your commitments to collaborate with other insurers and asset owners in order to advance an activist climate agenda.
The US House Judiciary Committee launched an antitrust investigation into the Climate Cartel in December of 2023. It produced its interim report a year later, finding substantial evidence that a climate cartel … colluded to pressure American businesses to commit to “net zero” and scale down disfavoured production.
Climate Cartel? What’s a cartel, you ask?
Per Britannica[dot]com, a cartel is an association of independent firms or individuals for the purpose of exerting some form of restrictive or monopolistic influence on the production or sale of a commodity. The most common arrangements are aimed at regulating prices or output or dividing up markets. Members of a cartel maintain their separate identities and financial independence while engaging in common policies. They have a common interest in exploiting the monopoly position that the combination helps to maintain.
Reader, it would seem that one man’s sustainability is another man’s antitrust violation. In the eyes of antitrust enforcement agencies, the social or moral merits of sustainability policy does not make the business practises any less illegal. In fact, as Troutman and Chang write, the Department of Justice investigates and prosecutes antitrust cartels criminally, in partnership with the FBI (Norton Rose Fulbright, 02.2023)
Moving on, as one does.
On February 6th, 2022, Carney wrote an opinion piece for the Globe and Mail, in which he called the Freedom Convoy an example of sedition, and called for following the money, suspending fundraising accounts, and even freezing bank accounts of the people involved. For the conspiracy theorists, note the dates. Let’s go back in time, reader. Stripe flagged the accounts when the Convoy became controversial, GoFundMe also flagged Freedom Convoy accounts for review. Both companies decided that Freedom Convoy participants had violated their ToS BEFORE CARNEY WROTE THE OP-ED.
The February 10th, 2022 Restraint Order issued by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice issued under Section 490.8 of the Canadians Criminal Code directed Stripe to freeze two GiveSendGo accounts listed in the order on 12 September 2022; Sam Swartz and Dan Alexander of Stripe gave testimony to the commission.
Carney did not eat your puppy, Freedom Convoy Cultists.
In fact, it would seem the February 2nd, 2022 actions of the payment platform themselves, the pausing of the funds to review ToS, (as opposed to anything Carney suggested), triggered the government to take the authoritarian steps it did vis a vis Emergency Act. Short of a smoking gun that directly connects Carney to the decision by Trudeau and his band of white collar thugs we call his cabinet ministers, we cannot link him to the declaration of an Emergency. You can read about the Cato opinion and judicial outcome here. You can find Justice Mosley’s decision here.
We can all agree the freezing of bank accounts went beyond reasonable measures. We probably can agree that parking your big rigs or anything on a public through-fare and protest, as the Convoy did, does meet a threshold of disturbing the peace. We can feel uncomfortable about using the CSIS act to stop a protest. We can question the legitimacy of the Emergency declaration — particularly in light of the ongoing and unchecked present-day violence targeting Jewish neighbourhoods, schools, community centres, and synagogues.
Carney’s Freedom Convoy is sedition opinion, at this point, remains just that, an opinion of an advisor. It turned out to be an over-the-top authoritarian one, and that should make people question his ability to lead and govern effectively and legally, ie according to the Constitution. This seems particularly reasonable, in light of his very loud silence on the antisemitic pro-Hamas protests, demonstrations, rallies that have disturbed the peace across the country in various ways and means for over 545 days. It does not seem unreasonable to say that blocking major thoroughfares should receive the same penalty, regardless if the blockade happens with conservative anti-Trudeau anti-Covid-restriction truckers or if it happens with socialist anti-Jewish pro-Hamas Muslims.
Moving on to more anti-buillsh1t serum.
In 2022 Brookfield restructured, announcing a spin-off, the company would rename itself Brookfield Corporation and the new spin-off would take the name Brookfield Asset Management (BAM). BAM increased its stake in a number of key companies.
Carney became chairman of the Board of Directors for Bloomberg in August 2023.
In 2024, Brookfield toyed with moving its HQ from Canada to the USA, again this move served as part of a restructing to maximise its financial position and optimise its taxation position. This decision involved several levels of decision making. The corporate structure of Brookfield is wildly complex, here’s a picture for you from a 2015 US Securities Commission document.
A listed HQ address of Brookfield happens to be on the fifth floor above a bike shop in what appears to be a three story building on Front Street in Hamilton, Bermuda. The fourth and fifth floors are indeed at the back of the building, not visible from the street view. If you play around with the street view in Google Maps, you can just see the fourth and fifth floors at the back of the building. Go look, don’t take my word for it. Google Maps is your friend, reader.
Look, reader—corporations strive to maximise profits and shareholder dividends, that typically involves optimising taxation, ie minimising tax payable. This does seem to create bad optic for Carney, politically. However, it’s not the worst political optic about him, as I have written previously in this publication. Remember, he is one man at the head of A SINGLE SUBSIDIARY of a very large complex global company. He oversaw the management $900 billion dollars in assets — he was the head of impact investment, that’s a non operational role.
You can read a Globe and Mail opinion piece written by Allan Lanthier about this offshore tax shelter in Bermuda thing. Gift link here, and you can see an excerpt below. Lanthier is a retired partner of an international accounting firm and has been an adviser to both the Department of Finance and the Canada Revenue Agency.
Okay, moving on.
In September 2024, Carney accepted the position as Chair of the Leader’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth. This means he became an Official Advisor to Trudeau. Note he remained a private citizen, with all his corporate appointments and positions, advising a governing political party’s leader. He did not and still does not hold public office. Around this time reports surfaced of talks between Brookfield and the federal government regarding the creation of a multi-billion-dollar investment fund seeded with federal government money and designed to attract additional investments from Canada’s large pension plans. Why aren’t the Mark Carney Ate My Puppy Conspiracy Theorists talking about this more? It’s got some teeth, at least.
So, reader, are you with me?
Brookfield approached the government with a pitch for a $50 billion fund, asking the taxpayers for $10 billion, asking the pension funds for $36 billion, and proposing to itself contribute $4 billion. The pitch met lukewarm reception. Reader, are you thinking for yourself? Do you see anything that concerns you, here? Let’s recap. A corporation at which Mark Carney had a position as head of impact investment (BAM) approached the federal government, to pitch a taxpayer and pension fund funded investment fund. On September 9th, 2024, the Liberal Party of Canada (LPC) announced that Mark Carney will serve as the Chair of a Leader’s Task Force on Economic Growth. Reader, at this point, the question asks itself.
The Brookfield proposal comes after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tapped former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz in April to consult the country’s pension funds on ways to incentivize them to invest more in Canada. Freeland made that move in response to pressure from some factions of the business community that believe Canada’s institutional investors ought to invest more in domestic firms to boost innovation and stimulate the country’s lagging productivity.
It also comes as Mark Carney, the former Bank of Canada and Bank of England governor who is a key player at Brookfield Asset Management, begins a new role as economic adviser to the governing Liberal Party.
It’s not clear whether there is any connection between Brookfield’s efforts and the work being done by Poloz and the government. The sources who spoke with The Logic said they did not know. — Catherine McIntyre
It smells like conflicting interests, reader. Also that sound you heard was my Bullsh1t Meter breaking under the pressure of all the stinky conflicting interest bullsh1t flying around Mark Carney, our teflon climate cartel don.
Moving on, like we do.
In October, Carney Went to Beijing to attend the Financial Street Forum. He met with several global and Beijing financial big heads. He met with the mayor of Beijing. He met with CCP-aligned stakeholders and financial big-heads. I have yet to see a smoking gun that links Carney with any Bank of China officials, and no doubt, he well may have rubbed shoulders with same. I have not seen with my eyes any such evidence. That doesn’t mean it does not exist — I have not seen it. I have heard claims on X that he met with or engaged in discussions with CITIC Group officials at the Financial Street Forum — I have not myself verified this claim, so take that for what you will, reader. You can read a brief press release from Xinhua News about the conference.
Li Yunze, Minister of the [National Financial Regulatory Administration] NFRA, told the forum that the administration will guide financial institutions to increase financial supply, optimize resource allocation, and accelerate smooth circulation of capital to boost China's economic recovery. — Xinhua News
Note that the People’s Bank of China does not equal the Bank of China. The former refers to the central bank, which sets monetary policy, ie put crudely, it prints the money. The latter refers to a lending institution, ie put crudely, it hands out money. These are not the same and does a central banker make decisions for individual lending institutions? That’s a stretch, don’t hurt yourself, reader.
In November, Bloomberg announced the Bank of China loan to Brookfield Asset Management.
On January 16, 2025 Carney publicly announced he would step down from all corporate positions. There’s a rumour floating around that he only took temporary leave, that’s from a sarcasm-satirical post, ie a joke, that Stephen Taylor posted on his Xwitter account. He said so, for anyone who bothered to see past their confirmation bias. No other source can verify the claim that Carney took a temporary leave — it was a joke, people. Chill.
“I thought it was obvious, but this is satire,” tweeted Stephen Taylor on 26.3.2025 at 09:27 Vancouver time.
So, that’s the antidote for the Mark Carney Ate My Puppy and Will Eat Your Puppy Too Mind Virus that’s being inflicted upon us by conspiracy theorists—rage baiters—engagement farmers who all deal bullsh1t like dude in the DTES deals cut-up Tylenol pills as premium crack rocks. Note we called that bunk during my time in ‘hood.
Reader, you should know me well enough by now to know that this substack article has zero to do with my political or personal opinion of Mark Carney. You should know, if you’ve read me for any length of time, that I think for myself, that I think critically, and that I have the innate ability to push back on criticism of people I dislike, yes I will defend from unfair treatment or accusations those I do not like. It’s called the ethic of fairness, reader. I don’t deal in absolutes, and I don’t do groupthink. I don’t believe any saviour will save me or you or the world. I also don’t believe in an absolute evil entity that wants to do the opposite of save me or you or the world. I reject Manichaeanism, reader.5
I calls as I sees, reader. So, for the anti-Carney cultists out there, remember confirmation bias is not your friend. You should seek to disprove your hypothesis as opposed to prove it, when we have an emotional stake in the outcome of our investigation, it tends to cloud our investigative judgement.
So, reader. Take your anti-bullsh1t pills from not-a-nurse-anymore Bad Hijabi and shhhh whilst you think for yourself, mmmkay reader? Stay safe out there, guard yourself from the mind viruses. Yes, there is more than one brain worm mind virus in circulation. Reader, it’s cray-cray. Information consumer beware.
Shabbat Shalom, muthafcukahs. Do Jews keep the Shabbat, or does the Shabbat keep Jews? Ponder that one whilst you give yourself a break from the internet gremlins.
Michel Foucault didn't view truth as a fixed, objective reality, he saw it as a socially constructed concept produced and regulated by power structures within specific “regimes of truth”. Foucault argued that we do not discover truth, rather he proposed that truth “happens” through discourse, it evolves through an intricate process that’s intertwined with power, knowledge, and the subject. Left wing progressives and right wing populists each in their own groupthink way adopt a Foucauldian approach to truth. Here at Bad Hijabi, we reject the Foucauldian conception of truth as subjective and determined by the discourse.
I take my inspiration from the British band Idles, whose song “Great” contains the lyrics “Islam didn't eat your hamster” intended to challenging narrow-mindedness and convey a message of inclusivity. Listen to Great by the Idles here.
ESG = Environmental, Social, Governance and refers to a corporate framework used to measure a company’s performance on the issues of sustainability and ethics.
Sorry, reader there is no way for me to gift link this to you right now.
Manichaean refers to the view that Divine Light and Divine Darkness constantly battle one another, it imposes a dualistic view of existence. I reject this conceptual view of existence in favour of the Judaic view, which has more nuance and complexity to itself, and therefore more accurately reflects reality.