The Reasonable Guy
it turns out that maybe Canadians feel quite okay with staid + mediocre leadership when it’s not a “blackface Bhangra GenderWang clown show”
“Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous.” ― Patrick Rothfuss
“If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.”― Thomas Sowell
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Have we Canadians lowered our standards, reader? We seem mostly satisfied with Mark Carney at the helm of Canada, despite the fact that he has failed to perform in a particularly brilliant or great manner. He’s performing satisfactorily so far. What if we got real for a moment and admitted that we feel a great deal of relief at the notion of having a normal guy in the Prime Minister’s Office? Question: how much mileage does normal and staid win for Carney, in the minds and hearts of Canadians? Answer: quite a lot.
Reader, we can all agree that we feel a great deal of relief seeing the departure of Justin Trudeau. Hearing the door hit his ass on the way out of his political life felt like a joyous moment for many the country. We maybe don’t agree on much, we do agree Canadians and Canada will fare much better without the Bhangra Clown Demagogue endlessly fumbling things and sticking both feet in his mouth. From his off-script gaffs, to his penchant for dramatics and hyperbole, to his ignorance, to his foolish arrogance—Trudeau has time and again made a spectacle of himself at the expense of the country and its people.
Remember when he staged that dramatic photo op at the Cowessess First Nation, after a GPR search detected anomalies under the soil that we now refer to as unmarked graves? Wrote Warren Kinsella, in July of 2021, “it all looks spontaneous, at first glance, but of course it isn’t. With Justin Trudeau, it never is. The clue: Trudeau is holding a small teddy bear, positioned perfectly within the frame of the photograph. Centred, perfectly lit, pointed out towards his official photographer, who has coincidentally come along for the ride …” The narcissism never fails to amaze, even after a decade of his solipsistic clownery.
Around the same time Trudeau posed for his teddy bear photo op in a place believed to be a cemetery of unmarked graves, he said publicly in a press conference, “I understand the anger that’s out there against the federal government, against institutions like the Catholic Church. It is real, and it’s fully understandable, given the shameful history that we are all becoming more and more aware of and engaging ourselves to do better as Canadians.” He refused to call it a hate crime. Instead the post-national trust fund baby turned politician justified the arson attacks targeting religious sites. Since that date Canadians have seen dozens churches across Canada torched. According to a response to the official inquiry filed by Conservative MP Marc Dalton on June 13, 2024 to the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Industry, in the 12 years between 2010 and 2022, police have reported a staggering 592 places of worship attacked by arson.
Trudeau has created a victimhood culture of justifiable violence. Rather than facilitate healing and reconciliation, he chose to stoke resentment and anger, stopping short of appointing a scapegoat for the country to target. Over 30 FN communities still live under a boil water in this country as of July 2025, despite Trudeau’s promise to end all boil water advisories by 2021.
‘Trans women are women,” Justin Trudeau, the only Canadian PM to ever appear on a DragRace show, said anytime questioned about his radical GenderWang approach to gay rights and his destruction of women’s rights. In true demagogue fashion, Trudeau never missed an opportunity to prey upon the prejudices and subversive anti-social desires of his stupefied masses of worshippers. Women’s rights = hate, according to Trudeau. Reader, that sounds frighteningly like something the Ayatollah would say. The Ayatollah has gone on record as calling women’s equality a Zionist plot corrupting women’s position in society. In a 2014 speech Khamenei said that “… the effort to establish equality between men and women was ‘one of the biggest intellectual mistakes’ of the Western world.” It would appear Trudeau thinks of women’s rights and female equality along the same ideological lines, only with a wokerati social gospel flavour.
Readers will recall when, at a town hall in Kingston, Ontario, Trudeau decided he would open the policy door to allow rapists and other violent offenders to serve their prison sentences in female prison. "I will make sure we look at it and we address it and we do right in recognizing that trans rights are human rights and we need to make sure we are defending everyone's dignity and rights in every way we can," Trudeau said in response to an audience member who referred to convicted criminal men who want to cosplay woman having to serve their criminal sentences in male prison as “torture”.
Not surprisingly, following the Correctional Service Canada policy changes, several violent misogynist offenders immediately applied for their transfer to women’s prison. Apparently sex-based rights for carceral women violate the human rights of men who seek to colonise female spaces. Apparently the progressive elites have embraced the deluded notion that a male who undergoes hormone treatment and surgical procedures to feminise his secondary sex characteristics has become a female. No rational thought allowed, that’s transphobic and genocidal, scream the progressive militants whom Justin Trudeau has emboldened and supported throughout his reign as supreme clown of Canada. The case of Mohammad Al-Ballouz recently prompted PQ to change its policy and mandate sex-based prison accommodation assignment.
Reader, one could forgive the average Canadian for feeling okay about Mark Carney taking the helm following the departure of the Justin Trudeau train wreck. Despite his obvious mediocrity, despite his visible social awkwardness, Carney has exhibited a reasonable approach to policy making. When he saw the opposition and divisiveness surrounding the carbon tax, he dropped it. Carney has taken a much more moderate approach to the problematic GenderWang policy. He has recently hinted at reversing the rubbish Online News Act that’s burdensome to local and independent media outlets who relied on Meta for promotion via link sharing.
Look reader, I’m not saying Carney’s ideal. He’s certainly not without his weaknesses and flaws. For one, Carney doesn’t think on his feet. He exhibits weakness in dealing with Trump—he didn’t deliver on his elbows up campaign sh1t talking bravado. Carney favours the PRC a bit too much. He miscalculated his position on recognition of Palestine, and he exhibits meekness when it comes to speaking up about antisemitism. All in all though, Carney does seem far less reckless and solipsistic than his predecessor. Looking back, Justin Trudeau seems like a mirror image of Donald Trump, albeit somewhat younger. When we examine the character of these two men side by side, Carney seems normal—like a reasonable guy, compared with Trudeau— a massive narcissist and insufferable demagogue. And that’s a good thing.