The World Economic Forum and Canada
Canadians need to be better informed about the activities of the current Trudeau government in advancing the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) agenda in the country.
It is important for any discussion about the WEF and Canada to acknowledge that it isn’t a conspiracy theory if the WEF tells us openly what is involved with the global “new world order.” We should accept that the WEF has made public their objectives in The Great Reset. Member countries and international corporations and organizations are focused on meeting the WEF objectives and establishing their programs worldwide. There are key Canadians who are playing a central role to the success of the WEF agenda. So, what is conspiratorial about stating the intent of the WEF and how its plans are being implemented in Canada?
The By George Journal series reviewing the globalists’ agendas has focused on a number of WEF programs, which I will not delve into again other than to say Canadians must be aware of how the WEF has become the muscle behind the United Nations’s 2030 Agenda (the UN objectives have become the WEF objectives). They must be aware of the WEF objectives regarding CBDCs and digital IDs, as well as the ultimate goal of a social credit system that can be established with the technologies of smart cities and the concepts found within 15-minute cities.
Canadians must also be aware of how intimately involved their national political leaders are with the WEF. Deputy PM and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is a Trustee on the WEF Board and, as such, is directly invested in advancing WEF objectives. Mark Carney is a former WEF Board Trustee and remains an active participant leading WEF discussions about global banking; currently Carney holds the office of UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance responsible for coercing the global financial sector to move assets into green funds and green transition activities. PM Justin Trudeau and many of his cabinet ministers are also involved in furthering the WEF agenda in Canada. When it was vogue to do so on the international stage, Trudeau trumpeted the WEF’s refrain about his government’s intent to “build back better.” And recall when the Canadian PM was addressing an UN audience in 2022, Trudeau echoed WEF head Klaus Schwab’s observation, “This pandemic has provided an opportunity for a reset.”
Do you think these ties are surface-level and not significant in the policy planning that is driving this Trudeau Liberal government? Consider this. The WEF advocates for direct government intervention in corporate boardrooms to ensure that private sector capital is redirected to underwrite governments’ environmental programs. As mentioned, Mark Carney is the UN and WEF point man on this effort. Carney also happens to be the point man for PM Trudeau and the Liberals on the Canadian economy and in a recent podcast interview with MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, he spoke about his primary issue for the Liberal government’s economic policy. The UN envoy spoke ad nauseum on “sustainable finance”, which he was describing as the act to “move capital to solutions to address climate change.”
When speaking of the Canadian economic prospects, Carney waxed on about environmental necessities and the “transition towards a low-carbon economy or net zero.” He stated it was a “law of the land” in Canada that the country will reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Carney observed, “How we do that requires certain policies from government, and a number are being put in place. More will be required without question, but financial institutions and companies in Canada and elsewhere around the world react to those policies, and they react to the values of people.”
With Trudeau and Freeland in the key positions of political power, and Carney pursing his policy objectives in the backrooms of both the Liberals and WEF offices, it is quite evident that the agendas of Ottawa and Davos are interlocked.
To understand how interlocked Canada is with the global agendas, there is an annual report published by the Trudeau government that provides a glimpse of how the WEF / UN initiatives are being implemented in the country. It is meant to be a report on the progress being made by Canadians to reach the UN’s 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. However, it is more of a political document in that it is produced by government officials who are selecting the data that reinforces the Trudeau Liberals’ narratives. Here is the link to the 2024 Annual Report.
In the past few years the globalists’ agendas have had a noticeable impact on everything from the imposition of punitive carbon taxes and increasingly burdensome environmental regulatory regimes, to open border policies that have enabled mass migration of third world people to Europe and North America. All combined, the globalists’ agendas are causing increased financial strain on nations and societal unrest among their citizens. With both these cases, Canadians are now experiencing the effects of what the Trudeau government is implementing in the name of some greater global good.
The globalists’ agendas are also impacting resource development and energy use around the world. For example, the sustainable development goals of the UN, being advanced by the WEF, have negatively impacted oil and gas development in western countries – here in Canada, throttling western oil and gas operations and killing what may have been a fledgling liquified natural gas export trade industry. The Joe Biden administration in the United States has had a similar, although not as economically disastrous, impact on the development of the American industry. One result of this global design is the European energy crisis during the winter of 2023, which ironically had countries like Germany needing to reopen its coal plants. While the UN and WEF pressure North America to keep oil and gas in the ground (as PM Trudeau and his Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has spoken about on multiple occasions), the increasing global demand for oil has forced countries to import “dirty” oil and gas production from countries like Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. It has also resulted in the increased use of coal in China as well as those countries in Asia and Africa where Chinese industries are expanding.
The impact of UN / WEF on farming
Another area in which the UN / WEF global agenda is causing great hardship and detrimental consequences for people, particularly farmers, is the agriculture initiatives that are impacting not only the farming of livestock and crops but the viability of the smaller operators in the agri-food industry. News of the globalists’ influences in Sri Lanka and Holland, and the protests there and in countries from Germany to Ireland have made international headlines.
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Director of the European Center for Energy, Climate and Environment, puts the current policy arguments into perspective in an editorial entitled, “Climate Policies Will Shut Down Farmers.” She writes, “European farmers are being told that because of the aim for “net-zero emissions” of greenhouse gases and other so-called pollutants in 2050, their industry is being phased out if they can’t adapt.”
Furchtgott-Roth points to what occurred with the social unrest and food crisis in Sri Lanka as a warning sign of the effects of the WEF agricultural goals.
“In 2021, Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa banned synthetic fertilizer and pesticide imports practically overnight, leaving Sri Lanka’s farmers with only organic substitutes, because he claimed that chemical fertilizers and pesticides were leading to “adverse health and environmental impacts.”
Six months later, rice production had dropped by 20% and tea production had declined by 18%. Rice is a staple in the country and tea is a vital export.
In 2022, with inflation at 55% and the economy in tatters, protesters took over Rajapaksa’s home, his government fell, and he had to flee the country.”
The turn of events in Sri Lanka remains today an instructive story.
The Netherlands is another country that had working farmers feel the full weight of the WEF pressing down on their farms and agrifood networks. Mark Rutte, the then PM (and a favorite darling of WEF head Klaus Schwab) was headstrong in wanting to establish the WEF’s policies targeting carbon emissions of the agriculture sector. His government declared that, in the name of mitigating a global climate crisis, they would take “drastic measures” to reduce emissions of nitrogen. There was to be a rash of new fertilizer regulations. The government also released a report Not Everything Is Possible that suggested it would need to consider the purchasing of livestock farms (some estimates as high as 3,000 farms) to shut down the farming operations, thereby effectively and immediately reducing the country’s agricultural carbon footprint.
Dutch farmers had always maintained the government’s powerplay was to introduce overbearing regulations that would increase the cost of operations and run family farms and independent farmers out of business. The government would then acquire the land and have control of future crop and livestock on that land. This scenario is not as far-fetched as it might seem given that the UN has a history of reports and declarations that call for state-controlled or owned land. For example, there was the UN’s 1976 Vancouver Declaration on Human Settlements that states (page 8): “Land is an essential element in development of both urban and rural settlements. The use and tenure of land should be subject to public control because of its limited supply through appropriate measures and legislation including agrarian reform policies.” Verily, the Dutch farmers’ suspicions of the globalists were neither ill-placed or paranoia.
In 2021, the government of Netherlands was at the WEF meetings to announce it was a lead in a public-private partnership that was launching Food Innovations Hub that would help to transform the food ecosystem. The WEF statement read: “With 10 years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, we need to fundamentally change the way food is produced and consumed. This includes changing the practices of more than 500 million smallholder farmers and the consumption patterns of 7.7 billion individuals.”
The aggressive manner in which the Rutte government dealt with the Netherland farm communities resulted in tens of thousands of Dutch farmers taking to the streets in protest – weeks on end tractors lined city streets bringing the country to a standstill. In the 2023 national election, the farm protest vote factored large in the defeat of the Rutte government. A farm protest political party took five per cent of the popular vote and became an integral part of a new governing coalition. Newly elected representative Femke Wiersma was a former agriculture lobbyist and today is the Netherlands’ minister of agriculture.
The farm protests in the Netherlands also took place across Europe in Germany, Belgium, Poland, France, Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.
The same attempt to introduce farm regulations to address global crisis concerns is being made in North America. It the US, senior statesman John Kerry is the country’s “climate envoy” for the UN and WEF. He has been outspoken in stating that cutting pollution (greenhouse gas emissions) from agricultural production is the key for the global fight against climate change: “We can’t get to net zero, we don’t get this job done, unless agriculture is front and center as part of the solution.” Kerry was central in forming a new global initiative with the US and United Arab Emirates fronting a total of $13 billion towards managing investment from governments and the private sector into farming practices that will cut emissions.
The global initiative unveiled by Kerry is billions of government-financed dollars pooled in order to beget more government money. One might think of it as a giant green slush fund that is slopping about to ensure the UN / WEF sustainable development objectives for agriculture remain at the forefront of the policy discussions within the member countries.
[An aside to bring you a breaking news story: An audit of the World Bank’s 2017-2023 climate finance portfolio has found more than US$41 billion ($56 billion Canadian) is missing. This missing cash represents 40 per cent of all climate change funds handed out. Oxfam issued the report last week: Climate Finance Unchecked. How does $41 billion dollars go missing?!]
In Canada
In the last four years, Canadian farmers have had a number of grievances with the Trudeau government respecting the implementation of its green agenda. There has been the exorbitant costs of the carbon tax on farm operations, beyond the costs of fuel for farm vehicles, including the heating and cooling of barn structures for both livestock and crops. Most recently, farmers are experiencing Kafkaesque exchanges with Ottawa bureaucrats about use of fertilizer, the very same issue that has been frustrating the European farmers.
In January this year, the Canadian agricultural minister announced that Canada stepped forward to be a “founding member” of the Efficient Fertilizer Consortium, an initiative spearheaded by an international group, the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research. Canada is now one of eleven nations, including the US and UK, committed to reduce carbon emissions associated with fertilizer use by 30% below 2020 levels by 2030.
To underscore this announcement Agriculture Canada states that “reducing nitrous oxide emissions associated with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use is necessary to achieve net-zero by 2050.” The Trudeau government has embarked on a series of initiatives, this being one of them, to achieve the 2030 and the 2050 goals.
Critics of the government’s policy argue that the fertilizer initiatives will reduce crop yields, and some argue that this is the unstated goal of the initiative. Fertilizer Canada expressed its opposition to the government’s 2030 target, claiming Canadian farmers stand to lose a potential $48 billion in income if this fertilizer reduction policy is adopted.
This is the latest fight Canadian farmers have taken up in recent years against the uncompromising green policies and regulations advanced by the Trudeau government – policies and regulations that are not surprisingly being advanced simultaneously in other western countries. Canadian farmers are attuned to the struggles farmers in Europe are having with their national governments and with the European Union. The farm community’s frustrations with government bureaucrats have hardened their views on governments’ intent and the global agenda respecting agriculture.
In Canada, one look at the editorials from Farmers Forum, the largest circulation farm newspaper in Ontario, will give you an idea of the widespread cynicism and distain for what is unfolding internationally.
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As WEF policy documents describe, globalists have designs beyond altering farmers’ use of certain fertilizers. Their reach extends into all facets of the agrifood industry, including food production. There are initiatives, for example, that include the financing of new sources of laboratory grown meatless foods and protein products. It all seems incredible and impossible – and then Canadians read about the government investing in the world’s largest cricket processing facility.
Globalists’ aggressive activities to gain greater control of the international agricultural sector, starting with regulating independent farmers out of business, is systematically unfolding in Canada – and, again, Canadians need to pay closer attention to it. Canadian farmers are more aware of the global threats because they are caught in the crosshairs, and the UN / WEF agendas have quickly become an existential threat to their way of life.
Let’s return to the thought that it is not a conspiracy if it is written down and made public. With this in mind, take the necessary time to explore the WEF online news portal, WEForum.org, where it states: “We bring together government, businesses and civil society to improve the state of the world.” There you can research the aims and initiatives of the Centre for Nature and Climate. You will read about the Food Action Alliance that supports 29 “flagship initiatives” internationally that are transforming sustainable food systems. You can find reports like “Accelerating the Global Transition to a Bio-based Economy” featuring milestones initiatives such as a US Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug Administration project that are “bringing cell-based meat products to market faster through a series of efforts to proactively address the safety of cultivated meat.” The WEForum.org will take you down many rabbit holes – you can spend endless hours being wholly amazed at what you learn.
Canada has a publication called Corporate Knights - www.corporateknights.com - that is unabashed cheerleading for the WEF and the globalists’ agendas. Surfing through this on-line publication you can read, “Why we need to wean agriculture off fossil fuels”, a report that calculates the transportation, production, and storage of food accounts for at least 15% of the world’s fossil fuel use. Or you may wish to read a recent editorial comment “Canada’s new sustainable finance rules don’t go far enough” stating that the Trudeau government must do much more to meet its global commitments and the goals set for 2030. Again, this publication provides many rabbit holes.
For a more serious and detailed review of the globalists’ agenda, I recommend:
The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty by Dr. Michael Rectenwald
There is also the substack Chaos Newsletter by Dr. Meryl Nass, in which she recently explained in a series of slides the global agendas and “a war on food”, and “what globalism had done to our food and to us.”
Reread The Great Reset to see what has been printed in black and white.
A Parting Thought
It is near impossible to keep track of the multiple UN / WEF initiatives that are currently being worked on by tens of thousands of officials around the world – and hundreds of bureaucrats within Canada’s federal government. One day we might see a news headline about fertilizer regulations and the next day it is smart city technology or the benefits of a cashless society. Like the ceaseless lapping of waves upon a shore, the globalists’ news items appear then recede from our attention without any close inspection.
So, there is an ocean of activity taking place without our notice. The officials at the UN and WEF are diligently working towards their objectives as we carry on with our lives. As it is, we are existing in two separate spaces – and I suppose that is fine if it was not for the fact that the globalists’ activities have the potential to have a direct impact on our lives. Whether it is deciding on accelerating programs to fight climate change or new fiscal plans to combat inflation, the global organizations are having an increasing impact on us. We need only consider the experiences we had through 2020 and 2021 with COVID and the pandemic lockdowns to take away an important lesson on just how far and wide the globalists’ reach into our personal lives can be – and how easy it seemingly is to have us subjected to their plans.
In an insightful editorial comment entitled Globalism and Freedom Do Not Mix, Brownstone Institute founder Jeffrey Tucker speaks of the uneasy feeling he had while in New York City during the latest UN meetings. I am signing off this WEF piece by extensively quoting Tucker and encouraging you to read the whole of his column.
“The impression I had while there was that the experience of everyone in town that day, all swarming around the big United Nations meeting, was one of deep separation of their world from the world of the rest of us. They are “bubble people.” Their friends, source of financing, social groupings, career aspirations, and major influence are detached not only from normal people but from the nation state itself. The fashionable attitude among them all is to regard the nation state and its history of meaning as passe, fictional, and rather embarrassing.
Entrenched globalism of the sort that operates in the 21st century represents a shift against and repudiation of half a millennium of the way governance has worked in practice….
The world today is packed with wealthy institutions and individuals that stand in revolt against the ideas of freedom and democracy. They do not like the idea of geographically constrained states with zones of juridical power. They believe they have a global mission and want to empower global institutions against the sovereignty of people living in nation states.
They say that there are existential problems that require the overthrow of the nation-state model of governance. They have a list: infectious disease, pandemic threats, climate change, peacekeeping, cybercrime, and I’m sure there are others on the list that we’ve yet to see. The idea is that these are necessarily worldwide and evade the capacity of the nation state to deal with them.
We are all being acculturated to believe that the nation state is nothing but an anachronism that needs to be supplanted. Keep in mind, this necessarily means treating democracy and freedom as anachronisms too. In practice, the only means by which average people can restrain tyranny and despotism is through voting at the national level. None of us have any influence over the policies of the WHO, World Bank, IMF, much less over the Gates or Soros Foundations. The way politics is structured in the world today, we are all necessarily disenfranchised in a world governed by global institutions.”
Read more on this subject matter in the By George Journal:
On the Globalists’ Agendas vs Canadians’ National Interests
There is no question that the United Nations and it's mouthpiece, the World Economic Forum, are fully engaged in globalist activities that will result in Marxist control of the world by destroying national sovereignty. The people of the world must stand up now and stop that from happening. If we don't say no on a global basis we will indeed "OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY"! Lloyd Leugner, Cochrane Alberta Canada.
Are we as a Society going to continue to allow WEF, WHO, IMF, The U.N. etc to compromise our existence and the future existence of our great-grandchildren and future generations of every one the worlds many different races and cultures, I.e. Gates desire for population reduction, laboratory proteins etc, and others promoting cancellation of family farms, the destruction of many Countries Economic stability, and the list continues to grow with each Davos conference, or do we elect politicians who are willing to scale back the current agendas of those organizations named above and their disciples? The alternative could be a worldwide revolution by those considered the great unwashed. Just my opinion