A recent Western Standard magazine cover.

His vision is our nightmare: Pundits sound off on Canada’s new China-first prime minister and self-proclaimed globalist

“(Mark Carney) wants diversity. He wants woke. He wants ESG. He wants net-zero. He is going to further destroy your country.”
— Dave Rubin, NY Times bestselling author and host of the Rubin Report, March 10, 2025

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“Carney is now supposed to act for the good of the country after lobbying to defund and drive out of existence Canada’s oil and gas companies, steel companies, car companies and any other sector dependent on fossil fuels. He’s done this through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which he founded in 2021.
“Carney is a climate zealot. He may try to fool Canadians into thinking he wants new pipelines, liquified natural gas (LNG) terminals and other hydrocarbon infrastructure, but he doesn’t. Far from it. He wants half the existing ones gone by 2030 and the rest soon after.”
— Ross McKitrick, professor of economics at the University of Guelph and a senior fellow of the Fraser Institute, writing in the National Post, March 13, 2025

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“Sure, Carney has offered some criticism of Trudeau’s Carbon Tax, but only once the public had soured on it. Even then, he began walking back his support by saying the Carbon Tax had ‘served a purpose up until now,’ and he’s now pledging that his government will ‘immediately eliminate the consumer Carbon Tax,’ which is to say, the portion of the tax which is most visible to voters.
“That really is his problem with it — not that it makes it harder for working Canadians to gas up their cars, heat their homes, or afford groceries. No, it’s because the tax is paid by consumers directly, and so it’s too easy to see how it’s making our lives more expensive. Meanwhile, the industrial Carbon Tax, which is paid by businesses, will remain untouched, or perhaps raised, despite the fact that those costs will ultimately be passed on to the consumers.
“This ‘sneaky’ move is characteristic of Carney’s career thus far.”
— President of Canadians for affordable Energy and former Liberal MP Dan McTeague, in the Western Standard, March 12, 2025

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“Quick question to Mark Carney: If we were facing an existential crisis that necessitated the carbon tax, how could you justify removing it now as you prepare for an election? It is as though you don’t believe that it is an existential crisis at all. You are playing with people’s lives, and financial futures. Have some decency. Stop being an authoritarian globalist. You exist to serve us not to steal our money. It is our money not yours (government).”
— Concordia University marketing professor Gad Saad, March 16, 2025 post on X

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“Carney draws inspiration from, among others, Marx, Engels and Lenin, but the agenda he promotes differs from Marxism in two key respects. First, the private sector is not to be expropriated but made a ‘partner’ in reshaping the economy and society. Second, it does not make a promise to make the lives of ordinary people better, but worse. Carney’s Brave New World will be one of severely constrained choice, less flying, less meat, more inconvenience and more poverty: ‘Assets will be stranded, used gasoline powered cars will be unsaleable, inefficient properties will be unrentable,’ he promises.”
— Cambridge-educated economist Peter Foster, former National Post columnist and author of 10 books, writing in the National Post in 2021.

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“Mark Carney is one of the world’s prime advocates of the insane inanities of net-zero. He is a man who has planned, in writing, not least in his best-selling book Values, the complete destruction of the fossil-fuel industry. Bye-bye Alberta.
— Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson, March 10, 2025 podcast

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“Mark Carney is no stranger to daft soundbites… just 17 per cent of U.S. exports go to Canada compared with more than 75 per cent of Canada’s exports ending up in the US. The imbalance is just too great for Canada to even countenance ‘winning’ in a prolonged trade dispute, as Carney preposterously claimed.”
— Ben Marlow, The Telegraph columnist, March 10, 2025

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Mark Carney “is the former chairman of the Brookfield Assets Management… It invests heavily in fossil fuels and pipelines around the world, except in Canada.
“Before Mark Carney announced he was running for the Liberal leadership he moved the headquarters of Brookfield Assets to New York because he knew he was going to win this race and that his policies were going to hurt that company, so he moved it outside of Canada to the United States where it will fare much better under Donald Trump.”
— Post Millennial columnist David Krayden, on Redacted, an online news podcast March 12, 2025

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“As recently as last year Carney was publicly declaring how he was ‘deeply impressed’ by the speeches delivered by the (China) police state’s senior leadership at the China Development Forum. Last spring, Carney met with Xi Jinping himself, and a few weeks later, Carney and the Qataris were boosting China’s investment prospects while other international investors were pulling back.
“Even after his appointment to head up Trudeau’s economic task force last September, Carney was holding meetings with top officials in China, and last November, Brookfield secured a $276 million loan from the Bank of China to help underwrite Brookfield’s many Chinese assets.”
— National Post columnist Terry Glavin, March 13, 2025

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“Mark Carney was governor of the Bank of England and under his tenure too much money was printed, which did damage to the British economy and put our economy off track. He, at the last election, endorsed Rachelle Reeves economic policy. She has now become chancellor. It has been a disaster for Britain. The country is heading for bankruptcy.
“So, I would strongly recommend not backing Mark Carney or his policies on Net Zero, which had been disastrous for Britain. It would be disastrous for Canada.”
— Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, Jan. 21, 2025

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“By the time he left office (as governor of the Bank of England), Carney had created a mess which his successors have struggled to clear up. Inflation spiked up to a peak of 11.1 per cent in the UK, compared to 5.2 per cent in France, or 8 per cent in Italy, hardly a country known for controlling prices effectively, largely because the Bank had printed too much money.”
— Columnist Matthew Lynn in the London Telegraph, March 10, 2025