As The Donald ramps up the rhetoric about annexing Canada, America’s northern neighbor will get a new leader. Despite the differences, the U.S.’s life is much easier when it has serene relationships with its closest allies. Mark Carney, former central banker, will lead Canada until its next election. While it’s due by October, the election may come much sooner. What’s in store for America now that Canada is on maneuvers?

You may wonder how a man who has never held elected office and is, therefore, not a current Member of Parliament (MP), can become the Prime Minister of Canada.

Idiosyncratic governance rules vary from nation to nation, so I won’t argue about how ridiculous I may think a particular set of laws are. The fact is the Canadians were all but handed a Prime Minister with the same inclinations as the outgoing El Fidelito del Norte. Only, this one has a brain, too.

For all his numerous faults, Mark Carney is nothing, if not well educated. He did his undergraduate economics degree at Harvard, and his Master’s and PhD at Oxford. The only better place to get a complete Keynesian indoctrination is at Cambridge.

In addition to his Canadian citizenship, Carney holds Irish and British citizenship, though he is currently renouncing the latter two.

Carney has already been a Goldman Sachs banker, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, and the Governor of the Bank of England. As a central banker, the only real talent he exhibited was for printing money. In his defense, that’s the only skill most central bankers have.

Some say he guided Canada through the financial crisis, while other, more numerate observers say he made Canadian housing unaffordable.

After his Bank of England stint ended in 2020, he became the U.N. Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. He’s a lunatic about “inclusive capitalism,” “stakeholder capitalism,” and “climate change.” But that’s not the worst part.

Carney is a true believer. An apostle of The Great Reset, he’s intent on destroying Canada’s natural advantages in oil and gas. In many ways, he’s the ultimate globalist and a willing WEF servant. Klaus Schwab must be licking his chops in anticipation. Schwab adored Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau, but Carney is a massive upgrade.

How Carney Became Prime Minister

Either way, Justin Trudeau, of dubious and questionable parentage, was a chip off the old block. Whether by Pierre or Fidel, Justin would, at worst, be a socialist. (If Fidel Castro genuinely played “hide the sausage” with Maggie Trudeau, it’s all the better for leftists who loathe the nuclear family.)

Despite his dashing good looks, Trudeau was always one scandal away from resignation. After nine years, it finally caught up with him. That opened up a leadership race within his Liberal Party. The two frontrunners were Chrystia Freeland and Mark Carney.

Freeland served as Deputy Prime Minister under Trudeau. She also has a Ukrainian mother, speaks Ukrainian fluently, and attended the world’s foremost spy college, St. Antony’s College at Oxford. Her suggestion that Canada should seek nuclear weapons protection from Europe to defend itself against the United States came across as nutty. Freeland didn’t have much chance against Carney anyway because she was tarred with the brush of Trudeau’s policy failures.

So, how can Carney become Prime Minister if he’s not a sitting MP? Because the Canadians adopted the Westminster system (the UK’s parliamentary system), the Prime Minister doesn’t need to be an MP at the time of his appointment. However, he must win a by-election or a seat in the next general election to continue serving as Prime Minister. A by-election is a special election to fill a vacant parliamentary seat.

The odds are that Carney will call an election soon into his tenure. He must do so by October, but a delay may call his legitimacy into question. The only reason for a delay is to fight The Donald and his trade war.

But that gives him some time to prepare for Pierre Polievre.

Why Polievre Is On the Back Foot

The apple-chomping, reporter-stomping Pierre Polievre has a problem. Despite his support for the truckers, calling Trudeau a “wacko,” and cutting down a reporter over gender ideology, he’s not the overwhelming favorite to become the new Prime Minister.

This goes back to what I’ve always said about the Anglosphere, ex-the U.S. They’re all a bunch of insane socialists, if not outright communists. This isn’t just a Canadian issue. British-style socialism has destroyed New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, and Canada. Throw in South Africa, for that unique mix of ANC communism and outright racism, and you’ve got the whole deck. This is why I’m so against annexing Canada, or any other part of the Anglosphere.

The U.S. isn’t like these countries. What’s left wing in America is the center in the rest of the Anglosphere. Anything farther right and they think you’re goosestepping and burning books.

Canadians associate Polievre with Trump, which is a massive negative. Polievre wants to cut the carbon tax, but that doesn’t excite Canadians. And Polievre isn’t on the front page nowadays; that’s Carney.

My problem with Polievre is that he’s too pro-Ukraine, but that isn’t his problem in Canada. So while it’s ridiculous to me, what would a Carney-run Canada do with its large, southern neighbor?

Carney’s Canada and the United States

Domestically, Carney has some good ideas, such as repealing the consumer carbon tax (like Polievre), limiting the Canadian government's growth, and increasing housing availability.

But he will surely butt heads with his people and America about his energy policies. As a Net Zero Nut, Carney wants to phase out fossil fuels and get the electric car fleet going.

Carney also wants federal permitting reform to accelerate clean energy projects and enhance the Output-Based System, which rewards high emitters that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

The problem is that these policies cripple his oil and gas industry. But since it accounts for only 3.2% of the Canadian GDP, I’m not sure he cares much about it.

He’ll face some problems with Canada’s reluctance to militarize the Arctic. This is the crux of the issue with America. As with Greenland, the resources are utterly secondary to putting a military footprint in the Canadian Arctic. If Carney says to The Donald, “Build away!” the sovereignty issue will disappear overnight. But Carney is a multilateralist who is more inclined to talk than act.

A Mercator projection map doesn’t do the issue justice. But looking at the North Pole directly, it’s easy to see why the U.S. is so concerned. Without Canadian acquiescence, America would be disadvantaged up North.

Credit: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Wrap Up

Klaus Schwab must be happier than a pig in poop. With Carney about to be installed on the northern border and Sheinbaum in office south of the Rio Grande, he’ll have the U.S. tied up in North America for some time.

If he hopes to get Canada's top job, Pierre Polievre must mount a comeback against Carney and his well-oiled machine. But right now, it looks unlikely. Expect a Mark Carney victory, unless the tides change between now and October.