A common trait of elitist globalists is their smug sense of superiority and their clueless delusions of self-sacrifice. Former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, of Canada’s failed Trudeau administration, a darling of the Davos crowd and beloved by the U.S. and Canadian corporate media, serves as Exhibit A.
Freeland, who has degrees from Harvard and Oxford, quipped in a February interview with the Toronto Star that she gave up a good life in New York City to return to Canada and pursue her political career. There are many Canadians, particularly the truckers whose funds Freeland froze, who would agree that Canada would have fared better if Freeland had remained in New York with her British-born husband who works at the New York Times.
Despite all the economic hardships Freeland’s policies imposed on Canadians, she ran to succeed Trudeau as head of Canada’s Liberal Party, which would have immediately made her Canada’s prime minister had she won. Liberal Party delegates who decided the election overwhelmingly rejected Freeland. She secured a mere 8% of the vote, losing to Mark Carney, who captured 86%.
Carney has never held elected office. He’s derived all his power from the political and business elites he associates with in Europe and New York. Much like backroom Democrats installed Kamala Harris to head the Democratic party, Canada’s Liberal Party anointed Carney to restore some credibility in the wake of Trudeau’s and Freeland’s disastrous leadership.
Unfortunately, Carney is another elitist globalist beloved in Davos who also attended Harvard and Oxford. Like Freeland, Carney is a Canadian carpetbagger who has returned to his birthplace to lead a country where he hasn’t lived for much of the past two decades. After serving as the Governor of the Bank of Canada until 2013, he spent the next seven years as Governor of the Bank of England – the first foreigner to ever hold the role.
Carney later spent much of his time in New York City, where he became Chair of Brookfield Asset Management, a Canadian company that relocated its headquarters to New York City. Carney initially insisted that the decision to relocate Brookfield was made after he resigned as chairman, but living in New York, he likely wasn’t an avid reader of Canada’s Financial Post.
Telling bald faced lies appears to be a common trait among Canadian elitists who attended Harvard and Oxford. When it became public years ago that Freeland’s grandfather was a Nazi collaborator who ran a rabidly antisemitic newspaper in Poland the Nazis seized from its Jewish owner, Freeland dismissed the reports as Russian disinformation. Freeland’s brother, an historian, confirmed the information was true.
It’s a safe bet that Carney is better familiarized with the Financial Post these days. The publication a week ago published this article alleging that he plagiarized portions of his 1995 doctoral thesis. For all Carney’s supposedly brilliant and original ideas, the Financial Post cited examples where Carney’s work appeared lifted or borrowed without acknowledgement and attribution.
“He’s just directly repeating without quotations. That’s what we call plagiarism,” said Geoffrey Sigalet, an assistant professor and member of UBC Okanagan president’s advisory committee on student discipline, which handles plagiarism cases for the university.
Joe Biden knows all about the dangers of citing material without attribution. He was forced to withdraw from his 1988 presidential campaign because of plagiarism allegations, including plagiarizing a law review article for a paper he wrote in his first year at law school. He also faced accusations that he used material from others’ speeches without attribution.
Carney’s handlers, of course, were outraged by the accusation. Carney’s flack, Isabella Orozco-Madison, called the allegations of plagiarism an “irresponsible mischaracterization” of Carney’s work. Carney’s doctoral supervisor, Dr. Margaret Meyer, has publicly defended him, stating she saw “no evidence of plagiarism in the thesis” and that overlapping language is typical when frequently referencing sources in academic texts.
Meyer is an American who earned her doctorate at Stanford and was a 2023 recipient of the Role Models in Economics Award from the European Economic Association.
What a small world — Kamala Harris’s father, Donald, was a longtime Stanford economics professor and is listed as emeritus on the university’s faculty.
As Kamala Harris fast learned, running for national office is a dirty business, inviting considerable scrutiny. It’s a safe bet that the Financial Post wasn’t randomly brushing up on economic theory when it stumbled on Carney’s thesis, but rather some political operative handed it to the publication or at least told a reporter where to find it.
Although Carney only won the nomination in early March, interesting details about him are fast emerging.
The New York Post reported that Carney is “a creation of the establishment swamp with extensive ties to the Democratic Party in the US, which he’s going to great lengths to bury.”
Among the Post’s disclosures were the less than six degrees of separation between Carney and John Podesta, Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff, chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign for president, and the custodian of a $375 billion “charity” that funneled controversial contributions to environmental groups with ties to the Democratic party. The Post uncharitably referred to Podesta’s charity as a “slush fund.”
Podesta also is founder of the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based advocacy organization. One month after Biden was elected in 2021, Podesta and Gerald Butts, former principal secretary to Justin Trudeau, co-hosted an online event to discuss the future of electric vehicle production, shifts and trends in international trade, the North American renewable energy market, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, multilateral cooperation, and the role of environmental justice issues during the shift to a clean market economy.
Butts was a longtime Trudeau aide who resigned in the wake of a scandal involving allegations that Trudeau’s office pressured his attorney general to offer a deferred prosecution agreement to a prominent Quebec-based company accused of bribing Libyan officials, although he denied any wrongdoing.
The Post reported that Butts contributed to Carney’s campaign and works closely with Carney’s wife, Diana Fox Carney, a senior advisor at the Eurasia Group, a global consulting firm in Manhattan. Butts is also a senior advisor and vice chair at the company, according to its website.
Eurasia Group has benefited from numerous consulting contracts worth hundreds of thousands of dollars with the Canadian government between 2015 and 2024 when Trudeau was prime minister, the Post reported, citing public records.
Carney was pictured alongside Jeffrey Epstein madame Ghislaine Maxwell. In one photo, Carney was joined by his wife and another man, seemingly enjoying themselves with Maxwell as they laughed and gestured at the stage. Maxwell had gone to school with Fox Carney’s sister, although she was not close to the family a spokesperson for Carney said when the photos began to circulate online in January, according to reports.
For more on Carney’s controversial climate change policies and connections, my go-to Canadian pundit Chris George has done an admirable job connecting the dots. I’ve learned enough about Carney to conclude that if Canadians are foolish enough to elect him, they might come to regret not accepting President Trump’s offer to become the 51st state.
The Two-facedness of Australians?
Having focused on Canada, let’s ponder for a moment on what’s happening in Australia, another of Her Majesty’s former colonies.
Consider these headlines:
Elon Musk supposedly isn’t popular with Australians these days, so one might expect his 2025 Tesla sales would command a near insignificant market share in the country.
Think again.
Here’s a chart published by the website electrek showing Australia’s EV sales during this year’s first quarter:
Tesla remained far and away Australia’s leading EV brand. Admittedly, Tesla’s sales were down 60% percent from the 2024 first quarter, but Australia’s EV sales were down 70%. If Australia’s EV market declined because of Musk’s unpopularity, it’s telling that no other competitor saw a major surge.
Australia is one of the most competitive elelctric vehicle markets in the world because it allows China’s automakers to sell their advanced technology EVs in the country.
Notice that GM’s Cadillac Lyriq and Ford’s electric Mustang, which the company proudly builds in Mexico, didn’t make the list, despite both vehicles being sold and marketed in Australia.
Australians understandably might have an aversion to Ford products. Ford in 2018 agreed to pay a $10 million fine — the highest fine handed out to a car company in Australia – to resolve allegations relating to the auto giant’s handling of complaints about faulty gearboxes in more than 10,000 Australian cars.
“Buying a new car is a significant financial commitment and Ford’s unconscionable conduct caused considerable distress and frustration to thousands of consumers,” said Rob Sims, the former chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Australians who own the electric Mustang, like their U.S. counterparts, are reporting issues with the vehicles. I especially enjoyed the headline from this damning review that appeared in The Australian last November.
In case the headline writer’s humor escaped you, the Mustang is also referred to as a Pony. Australians may be hypocrites, but they have a wonderful sense of humo(u)r.