The Canadian Question

Canada is my country, but sometimes it feels like I should go around apologizing for the utter dishonesty of its leadership, its media, and the consequent ignorance of its people.

There's an old joke about why the people of Halifax didn't join the American revolution against the crown - they didn't have a permit. it's funny because it's not literally true, but it is true to history, true to the national temperament, and true in its consequences: 250 years of economic servitude, refused opportunity, and failed ambition.

So today Canada's prime minister is going around exercising his Trump derangement syndrome and claiming that he'll leverage western Canadian energy exports to get his version of NAFTA3 through - except, of course, that western Canada needs to sell energy products into the U.S., but the U.S. doesn't need to buy them. But hey, he does have a Plan B - Canada joins the EU! Really, I mean this is so far beyond stupid it can't see asinine in the rear view mirror.

The UK recently made headlines because someone pointed out that its average income is below that of all 50 American states - well, guess what? take out western Canadian food and energy exports to the United States and Canada qualifies for third world status. Quebec and the Maritimes live on transfers from the the west and Ontario makes; what? some wine? Toronto's core strength is financial control and manipulation of hinterland resources - but take away the west and they'll have nothing to manage and a much smaller captive population to exploit.

The bottom line on Ontario outside Toronto is simple: they don't make much of anything now and Carney et al are happily killing off its remaining industry through carbon taxes, permitting processes, encouraged "indigenous" lawsuits, and an insane venture on assembling Chinese cars for the American market they won't have access to.

Carney isn't actually that stupid - he's apparently quite smart, although also one of those who get themselves promoted by always agreeing with the most powerful person in the room - actually something that is almost the defining characteristic of TDS sufferers in highly visible positions.

So what's going on? dig deep enough and I think the issue is simply that left wing fascists like Carney desperately want a feudal form of government in which they're the nobles, there is no middle class, and the vast majority spend their lives serving the nobles - a system which Carney's family connections have led him to believe is the right and natural way of things.

He's wrong: the three most pivotal political events in human history: the Exodus; the emergence of Christianity; and the American revolution, all point in the opposite direction: towards human equality of value, personal responsibility, and individual freedom.

This strikes at what is probably the most important thing about the American system Canadians do not understand: that the Declaration stands outside of the constitution, so power flows from the people to the government, not, as it does here, from the crown to the government. As a result the American constitution limits what government can do while the Canadian Constitution Act does the opposite: assuring Canadians of rights they don't have (ask any trucker) while actually empowering government to do whatever those wielding its powers want to.

All of which leads toward a simple idea: the current arguments about an Alberta independence referendum are, I think, just so much hot air: many of the people behind it are undoubtedly sincere, but it's such an obvious loser it might as well be a liberal false flag operation. A well written, well argued, Alberta Declaration of Independence on the American model would, on the other hand, be a very different kind of thing because it would be easy to sell in every English speaking province or territory - and could then be slipped into place as underpinning the "constitution act" to give Canadians a real chance of limiting government.

Couple that with a Trump/Milei clone coming to power after Carney loses his bet on the U.S. midterms, and Canada might even survive - although, realistically, getting it done would require guts and, well, we're back to Halifax circa 1773 aren't we?