Fieldnotes from Parliament Hill this week

An opinion piece (scribbled for therapeutic purposes)

This past week on Parliament Hill there was pomp and pageantry, a spectacle of parliamentarian tradition, and, most unfortunate for Canadians, much more of the same. This is a short opinion piece that looks behind the legacy news headlines. And, I offer a trigger warning for those CarAnons (once TruAnons) who might be stuck in the “Elbows Up” position. Here are a few fieldnotes from the Hill….

The light parliamentary schedule is inexcusable

You would think that with Canadians having just returned a Liberal government in what was coined “the most consequential election of a lifetime” with the country facing “an existential crisis”, our Prime Minister would insist MPs sit through summer to save our country from its fateful demise.

But, the Carney Liberals have scheduled to sit in Parliament for only four weeks before breaking for the summer. PM Carney decided parliamentarians had nothing urgent to debate and there was no need to deliver a budget with details of the country’s fiscal situation.

Seriously? It has been 161 days since MPs last met in the House of Commons. At the most they will meet for 20 days, not even enough time for parliamentary committees to be constituted and work to begin. The summer recess is 86 days long. So, it will not be until the latter part of September until MPs begin their work in debating policies and issues of the day within parliament!?

The Governor General’s pathetic knowledge of the King (and her position)

The incompetency of Mary Simon as Canada’s Governor General reached a new low this week when she posted in social media that King Charles was a foreign monarch from the United Kingdom, who was visiting our country. She claimed she was honoured to have an audience with the King. Egad!

King Charles is King of Canada. He was in Ottawa to underscore for the world (and particularly for U.S. President Donald Trump) that the country is founded as a constitutional monarchy. As such, the Governor General of Canada is the country’s head of state and is the representative of Canada’s monarchy. In other words, Mary Simon represents King Charles. It’s obvious that Simon does not understand this relationship – perhaps she has been jetting around, touring and dining too much at Canadians’ expense to fully comprehend the significant role she plays as the King’s representative in His Majesty’s dominion.

“#GGSimon was honoured to have an audience with His Majesty King Charles III at Rideau Hall as part of Their Majesties’ Royal Visit to Canada.

These ongoing conversations deepen the meaningful bond between our nations.”

(punctuated with British and Canadian flag emojis appearing side-by-side)

This is wholly pathetic to the point of being grounds for dismissal. Overreaction? Perhaps, but I will argue that it is not an overreaction, given the primary reason PM Carney invited the King to Ottawa. Here is Carson Jerema who provides his insight in making the point: The Governor General just undermined the King of Canada

Throne Speech is (again) super vague about Canada’s energy superpower

In delivering the government’s agenda for the upcoming session of parliament, King Charles emphasized the importance of building the Canadian economy, “The government’s overarching goal, its core mission, is to build the strongest economy in the G7.” The King mentioned Canada an “energy superpower” and its commitment to both “clean and conventional energy”. He went on to echo PM Carney’s recent bons mots that the government is prepared to boldly build the country in the “largest transformation in the Canadian economy since the Second World War”.

Lofty words, but no mention of that inconvenient reality that Canadians’ wealth is generated with the development of the oil and gas sector. And there was no mention of the nitty gritty details of pipelines.

The King and the Throne Speech proved to be as elusive as PM Carney has been on this subject. I take it that this is by design. In the House of Commons this week energy minister Tim Hodgson was asked pointblank by Albertan MP Shannon Stubbs if the government would repeal Bill C-69 and their production cap to get pipelines built in western Canada. The novice (and nervous) minister Hodgson read his answers: “Yes, we will support new pipelines if there is consensus in Canada for them.” He repeated this refrain about consensus a number of times. It leaves one wondering… how will an energy superpower emerge with a stunted oil and gas sector?

Answering MPs’ questions is beneath Mark Carney

The House of Commons had not even begun its routine order of business when PM Carney let it be known that he was not going to continue the practice established by Justin Trudeau of making himself available to MPs for questioning in the House of Commons. Carney will limit his participation in parliament to answering only the Leaders of Opposition.

It’s a question of accountability – something that does not jive with Carney’s autocratic style of governing. Carney is continuing in the trend of centralizing all power in his Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) with his own unaccountable staff and advisers, such as Gerald Butts, Mark Wiseman, and David Lametti. As it is, his PMO staff dictates to the Liberal caucus of elected representatives. Like Trudeau, for Carney his MPs are basically handmaidens carrying out orders of obstruction and obfuscation in Parliament, intently regurgitating Liberal rhetoric while keeping potentially controversial issues from being made public.

This parliament with Carney will prove to be yet another autocracy, most likely a kleptocracy, run out of the PMO. It is more of the same as it was under the insufferable Trudeau, and most likely it is going to be worse.

Mark Carney, Canada’s globalist autocrat

Consider that Carney has been Canada’s elected PM for a little over a month and that parliament has just been reconvened. Now consider the fact that our country has committed to a number of international agreements in the last few weeks – without any parliamentary debate and without any public discourse. Heck, there has not even been enough time to air the issues within the Liberal caucus. Policy is simply being proclaimed by the PM.

Canada’s globalist autocrat, our very own Davos Man, is actively removing the country from its longstanding symbiotic relations with the U.S. and pivoting to European bodies and their costly programs. Just in the last two weeks, here are Carney’s decrees:

• Making a $500 billion (U.S.) promise with G7 nations to “build back better” the country of Ukraine

• Committing to the EU’s “ReArm Europe” and whatever Canada’s share of a 800 billion Euros defence program

• Signing the WHO Pandemic Treaty, tying Canada to the global management of the next pandemic

Canadians must begin to question how we are going to benefit from these costly commitments – and, more urgently, we must find a way to check the unbridled power of our globalist autocrat.

MPs to pass money bill with no accounting and no budget

The Carney government tabled the “Main Estimates” for this year and is asking MPs to approve in the weeks ahead a $486 billion spending plan. There are little details and, of course, MPs have been told they must pass this expenditure figure without a budget.

If this request were made of a banker, it would be laughed out of his office.

The bloated figure that has been presented by Carney has government expenditures increasing year-over-year by 8 per cent – above the 2 per cent promised in the last budget that was delivered by then Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland more than a year ago. Conservative MPs made noise this week about the fact it also includes a line item for consultant fees of $26 billion – without providing any details of where this money is going or who is being paid. Also noted was the fact that the estimates do not include the Trudeau government’s deathbed promises made in early 2025 for $74.1 billion of new spending. Adding these promsies would bring the government’s total spending for 2025-26 to $554.5 billion. John Ivison breaks this out in the National Post: The first Carney spending numbers are out, and they’re as bad as Trudeau’s.

Again, a banker would just laugh at this request but our PM global banker is serious that MPs must agree on this in the next three weeks before Carney’s planned parliamentary summer recess.

Odds and ends

Here is a must-see video of newly minted industry minister Melanie Joly being shooed away with a flick of Carney’s wrist. Carney does not even look up from what he is doing in dismissing Joly.

If you have not yet heard rookie Conservative MP David Bexte’s maiden speech, it is six minutes worth listening to, and you can find it being celebrated in many places in social media – like here. In that speech, Bexte delivered what I believe is the “Quote of the Week”:

“…the Bow [River] runs past oil wells shut by people who never set foot on a rig. It flows by farms taxed by bureaucrats who couldn't grow a weed. It flows past churches left to burn while politicians offer excuses instead of justice. It flows past the homes of veterans, seniors, and families forgotten by the system -- but not by me.”

Lastly, here is the “Image of the Week” found in both X and Instagram feeds. Was it CBC News or CTV News (or both) this week that made some comment about “there is no divide in our country”?

In the weeks to come I intend to track a few items:

• The PM meeting with the Premiers and what kind of “nation-building projects” will be put on the table beyond the high speed rail line from Quebec City and the “longest auto tunnel in the world” to run the length of the GTA.

• Canada’s offerings at the NATO meeting as the poor beggars of the outfit.

• PM Carney hosting the G7 Nations – as the head of a country that is unfit to be included in the G10 or 12 or whatever, never mind the G7.

I am also curious whether the MPs will sign away a half a trillion dollars at Carney’s request. I can hear him laughing from inside the PMO…. banker that he is.

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You may also be interested in reading these By George Journal articles:

• Canada’s economy is “walking on a tightrope”

• With Canada’s immigration policy, expect more of the same from Carney Liberals

• The need for fiscal transparency, parliamentary oversight, and accountability

• The veil of secrecy remains draped over the Liberals – CCP relationship

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