Trump's Personal Quest For American Dominance

"Let's be real about this; the rhetorical attacks on Canada have not actually resulted in a net good for the United States."

"[The White House habit of] yelling at Canada [helped to install a] far left-leaning internationalist [government] hostile to American interests."

"All of this started off as a joke, and I think President Trump is so committed to the bit at this point that he couldn't get off the train [repeated pledges to turn Canada into the '51st state']."

Conservative U.S. podcaster Ben Shapiro

 

"[Poilievre would have been] Canuck DeSantis [Ron DeSantis, Republican governor of Florida who challenged Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination]."

"Trump will [and has already] weirdly get on with Carney."

"Trump  vibes with the smart, hyper-machievellaian center-left type."

Curt Mills, editor, American Conservative

Mark Carney with supporters at a victory party in Ottawa, 29 April 2025. Photograph: Dave Chan/AFP/Getty Images

 

U.S. President Donald Trump is smirking triumphantly. It has been his very direct interference in Canadian affairs that succeeded in upsetting the trajectory of the April 28 general election. A situation where the Liberal Party of Canada succeeded in gathering a greater number of votes, sufficient to form a minority government, than the Conservative Party which had been surging in the polls before Mr. Trump introduced the shock of  his announced trade tariffs targeting first Canada and Mexico and China, before he included much of the rest of the world.

The Canadian public was well and truly sick of the Liberal government, its never-ending ethical scandals, its impoverishment of the Canadian economy, its massive annual deficits and a debt larger than anything any previous government had ever attained. The federal government estrangement from the Western provinces linked to its green agenda of refusing to exploit the generosity of natural resources in the energy field, has caused a rift between the provinces themselves, favouring the east and damning the west.

 

Runaway rising costs of food and lodging, a failing universal health system overburdened by an unsustainable and indiscriminate surge in immigration, refugee and migrant intake, along with other social services strained to their limits, including insufficient and prohibitively costly housing stocks, rising crime rates that a soft judiciary intent on giving bail for the most serious criminal offenders leading to a steadily rising crime rate. The twin problems of growing homelessness among whom people in mental distress loom large, along with an ever-widening circle of drug dependent, overdose-prone addicts.

@PierrePoilievre

President Trump, stay out of our election. The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box. Canada will always be proud, sovereign and independent and we will NEVER be the 51st state.

Factor in ethnic/religious communities that no longer adapt to the Canadian way of life, its social contracts, its value system, its laws and regulations, and you have a restive population, resentful of a government whose policies and idiosyncracies in social engineering and race and gender politics have created deep divisions within society. All of which soured the public on the Liberal government headed by Justin Trudeau, the very embodiment of an entitled, sociopathic, deceitful, manipulative and narcissistic personality.

 

His government was in tatters; the antithesis of all that it represented was seen in the Conservative government with its leader, Pierre Poilievre prepared, given the Conservative-approving soaring polls, to win the next election. And then along came Donald Trump. And along came an international banker set to replace Justin Trudeau, boasting a record of accomplishment as former Governor of the Bank of Canada and of Great Britain. A man every bit as narcissistic as Trudeau, given to stretching the truth to suit his agenda, a man for whom plagiarizing and claiming as his own the intellectual work of others, slid by his supporters.

 

 

On the campaign trail Mark Carney who was elevated into the role of Prime Minister by the simple (and unprincipled) expedient of being voted in as leader of the Liberal Party in place of Justin Trudeau, and who then went on to boast of his professional expertise and successes in the world of finance, with no experience whatever in politics, and no seat in Parliament, to promise that he, and only he could lead Canada in its battle against an American president determined to economically ruin Canada and annex it into American territory.

 

Canadians in enough of a majority voted for the man who promised he would be Donald Trump's worse nightmare. A man who charged his Conservative competitor Pierre Poilievre of being just like Trump. When the truth is that Trump saw Poilievre as an impediment to his plans of absorbing Canada, and Carney as a useful tool in his extortion and coercion plans. Immediately after the election, US. President Trump spoke of Mark Carney as a "very nice gentleman" and their latest telephone conversation "couldn't have been nicer and I congratulated him". 

 

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump weighed in on the federal election, offering advice to Canadians about how they should vote. (Balce Ceneta/The Canadian Press)

 

He plans, he stated, to meet with Carney "within the next week or less" in Washington, and expects to have a "great relationship" with Canada. "I actually think the Conservative hated me much more than the so-called 'Liberal'", Mr. Trump admitted. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly asserted to the Associated Press that the Canadian election "does not affect President Trump's plan to make Canada America's cherished 51st state". And his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt reinforced that message; that Trump's calls for Canada to become the 51st state were "Trump truthing, all the way".

 

The Canadian election outcome was heavily weighed by the antagonism seen from Trump against Canadian sovereignty and his disdain for the role of any Canadian prime minister whom he preferred to call a 'governor'. Trump made no secret of the fact that he planned to ruin the Canadian economy, as additional pressure to have Canada accede to his plans of being absorbed into the United States;  his personal quest for American dominance.  

You Can Fool Some of the People Some of the Time

"It is a solemn duty to serve as prime minister at this time of great consequence."

"Canada's new government is focused on things that matter most to Canadians — more higher-paying jobs, improving affordability and making Canada more secure."

"Canada will be action-oriented to meet the moment."

"We will relentlessly pursue this positive agenda because Canadians know that negativity isn't strength. Negativity won't bring down the price of groceries. Negativity won't win a trade war."

Liberal leader Mark Carney

Carney gestures after his new cabinet members were sworn in at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. (Justin Tang/Canadian Press)

 

"Mark Carney thinks Canadians are stupid. He thinks a little bit of cosmetic surgery will allow the Liberals to disguise who they are and make people forget what they did for ten years in order to elect them to a fourth term."

"It's the same Liberal gang and same Liberal agenda."

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre

Prime Minister Mark Carney, front fourth from left, poses with members of the newly sworn-in Liberal cabinet following a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Friday. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

After too many years of Justin Trudeau as prime minister of Canada when he was first enthusiastically welcomed in 2015 as a fresh new face that would give Canada a fresh new perspective and prosperity going into the future as well as harmony between provinces and the federal government would finally arrive,given Trudeau's much-vaunted 'sunny ways', Canadians fed up with his Liberal administration finally stated loud and clear that with this man continuing at the helm of the Liberal party, the next general election would commit the Liberals to last place, hanging on to scant seats.

 

With the proverbial writing on the wall, Justin Trudeau had few options but to resign, although he did it on his terms, taking his time and arranging a successor long in the sights of the party. Bearing in mind that each and every Liberal Member of Parliament and certainly those that made up Trudeau's bloated cabinet supported and advanced every initiative that he took as prime minister, from embracing Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and LGBTQ-2+, along with transgender rights for school-age children. 

 

Above all, his Cabinet was quick to agree with their prime minister's environmental agenda that virtually shut down Canada's exploitation of its energy natural resources. Pipelines to carry oil and LNG to points within Canada itself, much less to tidewater ports along with badly needed refinery capacity were cancelled by the Liberal government as a goodwill environmental gesture, while the country imported energy from foreign sources. Perhaps most visually and dysfunctionally evident has been the eruption of public displays of robust celebration of the right of Palestinians in Gaza to promote Palestinian terrorist groups as 'fighters' against Israeli oppression.

A vast sea of Communist and Palestinian flags covers Parliament Hill in Ottawa, exposing the radical extremist agenda that challenges support for Israel and democratic values. (Photo: X.)

These 'fighters', as Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad demonstrated their fighting skills by entering southern Israel in a coordinated rush of thousands of operatives with orders to create deadly mayhem in as wide a circle as possible, and some five thousand terrorists, complemented by ordinary Palestinians wasted little time in proving their prowess at mass rape, employing sadistic savagery to mutilate, rape and murder Israeli girls and women. Entire families were wiped out in farming communities, their homes torched while they sought shelter in their 'safe rooms'. The toll of 1,200 massacred, 250 taken hostage is celebrated in the streets of Canadian cities by Palestinians and their sympathizers as 'resistance' to 'occupation', calling for a global Intifada and Final Solution.

 

Pro-Palestinian protesters at a rally on Parliament Hill Saturday/ Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press

Canada's immigration system gone awry, welcoming 'refugees' from a conflict they initiated, along with illegal migrants, students on visas, temporary workers, all straining universal social welfare, including the country's medicare system and creating a dire shortage of housing capacity. The infiltration of a religious/political cohort with no intention of integrating into Canada's culture, its values, its judicial system has resulted in chaos, rising crime rates and a near-dysfunctional society incapable of stemming the tide of hostile relations between ethnic groups as civilizational norms become charged with resentment and hatred.

 

So what does the Liberal cabinet look like under Mark Carney, former banker, economist, self-promoter, short-tempered doctoral plagiarist and narcissist look like? Amazingly like the Justin Trudeau Liberal cabinet. And what does the 'new' Liberal cabinet agenda hold for Canada? Ah well, more of the same, only somewhat shielded from close scrutiny as the new Liberal leader makes his agenda-cautious bid during a general election for an electoral mandate to govern with a majority, not the vanishing minority threatened under a renewed Trudeau government.

 

Mark Carney's experience in two prestigious government positions; as Governor of the Bank of Canada, and later Governor of the Bank of England, distinguished him as a  high flyer, but his actual performance in each of those positions was less than glowing, despite his current boasts of his positions having been indispensable to good government and even better economics in both countries. The revelation that he had plagiarized other economists' work without attribution, to plump up his doctoral thesis at Harvard revealed a man with rather loose personal ethics.

 

Mark Carney's dedication to left-wing environmental politics is not second to Justin Trudeau's; the latter was an apprentice to the former. Wealth and a strong GDP performance now eludes Canada; our earning powers have been starkly diminished. And Mark Carney, while disavowing any intention to commit Canada not to disturb its vast energy resources in favour of 'renewable energy' sources is playing sly games with Canadians' trust through his utter lack of integrity. His flirtation with the truth has been revealed, as for example when he denied his role in the decision by Brookfield Asset Management to move its head office to the U.S. 

As for his crowd-pleasing decision to lift the carbon tax for individuals (while leaving it intact for corporations), consider this: his career of the last several years was one of campaigning internationally for net zero emissions -- certainly impacting Canada's oil and gas resources. The Net Zero Banking Alliance he created, committing major international banks to net zero carbon emissions has seen latterly, major banks dropping out. The bloom is off that rose, but Mr. Carney's determination to carry on with his net-zero future for Canada remains on tap. Meanwhile, he is busy purloining from the Conservative campaign of Pierre Poilievre promises they initiate, claiming them as his own.

 

Should this man be elected to lead a renewed Liberal government -- with all the accoutrements of the old, discredited Liberal government, including the same tired old, but newly-fired up members of Cabinet, all of whom did their enthusiastic utmost to sell Justin Trudeau's unpopular, divisive and disturbing agenda from a 'post-national' Canada, to one bursting at the seams with new Canadians for whom there are too scant services and little intelligent scrutiny respecting their anticipated capacity to integrate into Canadian culture, in the process destroying all that is decent and civilized -- all the rejected positions taken by the 'old' Liberal government, will flare into new life under the 'new' Liberal government.

"It takes only a cursory glance at his record to work out that Carney's reputation is completely overblown. In reality, he has been 'over-promoted', and, in over eight years at the Bank of England, was at best an indifferent governor and at worst a disappointing failure."

"He created a mess and ... is the epitome of a remote, globalized, technocratic elite. He is very good at self-promotion, at collecting trophy jobs and of course negotiating fabulously generous salaries and expenses for himself."

"He is just not very good at delivering."

Matthew Lynn, Daily Telegraph

Liberal leader Mark Carney, left, and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. POSTMEDIA FILE PHOTOS

Charming Beijing Captivates Liberal Loyalty

"[These comments] deeply offended, [demonstrating a] terrible lapse in judgement [however, the episode could serve as a] teachable moment."

"This is a person of integrity who served his community as a senior police officer for ... more than a quarter of [a] century. He's made a terrible lapse in judgement."

"He's made his apology. He's made it to the public, he's made it to the individual concerned, he's made it directly to me, and he's going to continue with his candidacy."

"He has my confidence." 

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

 

"[The response by Mr. Carney is indeed a] teachable moment."

"It teaches us that Mark Carney will never stand up for Canada."

"If Mark Carney won't stand up for a Canadian against this foreign hostile regime now, how could we ever expect  him to stand up for Canada after the election?"

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre

 

"He is a police officer, and he ought to know that when the CCP [Chinese Communist Party] went out and put a bounty on anybody, including Canadians, that cannot be acceptable."

"That is intimidation at its worst."

NDP MP Jenny Kwan

 

"What we saw was the news of the bounty was sort of re-upped, but we're just watching the open space for anything related to that." 

"That alone, I think, is a form of coercion."

"Spreading, again, the information about the bounty is precisely how malign foreign states seek to silence, harass and coerce."

Rapid Response Mechanism head Larisa Galadza, Global Affairs Canada

Paul Chiang is seeking re-election in Markham-Unionville, a riding he took from the Conservatives in 2021 by a margin of fewer than 2,500 votes. Justin Tang The Canadian Press file photo

"If  you can take him to the Chinese Consulate General in Toronto, you can get the million-dollar reward", advised Liberal electoral candidate Paul Chiang to an news conference comprised of Chinese-language media, in reference to Conservative candidate Joe Tay who had been charged under the Hong Kong national security law as a threat to Beijing for his Canada-based YouTube channel critical of the Beijing-dominated CCP government.

 

When the comment hit headlines in the legacy media in Canada, calls for the Liberal party to disown Mr. Chiang and remove him as a Liberal candidate for the April 28 federal election expressed the disgust of most Canadians. Derisory statements by opposing political party candidates are not uncommon during election campaigns, but seldom do they cross the line into currying to foreign interference in Canada's affairs and certainly never to the extent that one candidate incites to violence against another.

 

Pressure came fast and furious even within the Liberal party for Mr. Chaing to be removed as a candidate in view of his comments last week. The bounty in  question, in Hong Kong dollars $1 million, transcribes to $183,000 in Canadian currency. Any taker could be assured of earning themselves a reward for luring the Conservative candidate to appear at the Chinese Consulate General in Toronto where he would be spirited to China and imprisoned as a traitor to Beijing -- but certainly not to China.

 

Mr. Chaing informed the Chinese-language media that given Mr. Tay's position on China and Beijing's response, should Mr. Tay be elected to Parliament, the Hong King criminal charge would be a cause of "great controversy", according to the Ming Pao newspaper. And no doubt it would, since the Liberal Party goes out of its way to pacify Beijing, and continues to build on its relationship through trade, despite the assaults on Canadian sovereignty where Canadians have been falsely imprisoned, Canadians have received the death penalty in China, and Chinese interference in Canadian affairs is deeply troubling.

 

Liberal Leader Mark Carney says Paul Chiang will remain a candidate under his banner, despite calls to drop the Markham-Unionville incumbent for suggesting people turn in a Conservative candidate to the Chinese consulate and collect a bounty.   CBC News

Even so, even when Canadian Intelligence has warned government on many occasions through updated reports that China is among those countries -- foremost among those countries -- that have used their expatriate Chinese-Canadian community originally from Mainland China to act as agents for Beijing, as well as instructing all expats that it is their ancestral patriotic duty to infiltrate and capture whatever advances in technology, science, medicine, and military news helpful to be conveyed to China's possession.

 

Mr. Chiang himself saw fit to apologize soon after  his comments were publicized:

"The comments I made were deplorable and a complete lapse of judgement on the seriousness of the matter. I sincerely apologize and deeply regret my comments."

"I will always continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Hong Kong in their fight to safeguard their human rights and freedoms."

 

And while unelected PM-incumbent Mark Carney is satisfied to let the matter lie there and continue to approve Mr. Chiang as a Liberal candidate, the man himself took the initiative to resign from the Liberal candidacy. Whether his apology is sincere is debatable. He still took the right course in apologizing and taking himself out of the election. There is no debate that Mr. Carney, on the other hand, has often engaged in dishonourable conduct. He has bent the truth to suit his fabricated explanations.

 

And on this occasion he has spectacularly failed to act with conscience and integrity. Canadians should hold him to account for this, yet another lapse in judgement on his part. On the other hand, government officials tasked with identifying and responding to foreign threats during the election period acknowledge they are monitoring the situation closely. Moreover, the RCMP has opened an investigation in the matter. While the man aspiring to be elected Prime Minister of Canada succumbed to his own lack of moral integrity.

 

Mr. Tay has been left uneasy and concerned over his safety, given the obvious nature of the threats against him posed by a foreign government whose record on human rights is abysmal. He has stated that the situation left him fearing for his safety. Spurring him to get in touch with the RCMP for his personal protection, and demanding that Carney fire Chiang. A demand that thirteen pro-democracy groups in Canada linked to Hong Kong produced a statement urging the Liberal Party to "send a clear message" in removing Chiang's candidacy, making it clear they cannot accept his "insincere apology".  

"I want to be clear: no apology is sufficient."

"Threats like these are the tradecraft of the Chinese Communist Party to interfere in Canada."

"And they are not just aimed at me. They are intended to send a chilling signal to the entire community in order to force compliance to Beijing's political goals."

Conservative federal election candidate Joe Tay 

"[Foreign interference, including instances of transnational repression, continue to be a] pervasive threat in Canada [and the federal police takes all reports and allegations seriously]."

"The RCMP is looking into the matter, however no specific details can be provided at this time."

"To ensure the integrity of our investigations, the RCMP typically does not disclose information relating to investigations unless criminal charges are laid, rendering it a matter of public record."

RCMP spokesperson Kristine Kelly 

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, speaking in New Brunswick, says Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s decision to stand by candidate Paul Chiang, who called for people to turn in Conservative candidate Joe Tay for a Chinese bounty, ‘teaches us that Mark Carney will never stand up for Canada.’ Poilievre added that he spoke to Tay and he is ‘very, very rattled.’   CBC

"It is a teachable moment. It teaches us that Mark Carney will never stand up for Canada."

"The Chinese government literally wants to kill Joe Tay because he’s a political dissident. And this candidate said that that should happen."

"I have never in my life seen a prime minister unwilling to protect a Canadian citizen against a foreign government that wants to take his life through a bounty."

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre

 

One of Those Who Considers Himself the Most Intelligent Mind in the Room

"I believe you are mischaracterizing this work. As an academic of nearly 40 years, I see no evidence of plagiarism in the thesis you cited nor any unusual academic practices."

"Mark's thesis was evaluated and approved by a faculty committee that saw his work for what it is; an impressive and thoroughly researched analysis that set him apart from his peers."

Margaret Meyer, Official Fellow of Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford University

 

"Oxford's guidelines are not atypical from other universities."

"When you have something lifted verbatim from a source, in there without quotation marks or citation ... that constitutes plagiarism."

Oxford graduate professor

 

"He's just directly repeating without quotations. That's what we call plagiarism."

"[Some of Liberal Leader Mark Carney's thesis questions might be considered by some as more of a] grey area, [but it would still constitute plagiarism according to Oxford standards."

"It seems like it's [examples of plagiarism] all over the dissertation."

Geoffrey Sigalet, assistant professor, member UBC president's advisory committee on student discipline

 

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that elite economist and now leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Mark Carney, who has taken on the as-yet-unelected mantle of Canadian Prime Minister's 1995 doctoral thesis in economics from Oxford University, titled 'The Dynamic Advantage of Competition' is fairly well shot through with examples of plagiarism, an absolute sin in academic circles, as it is in journalism and other recorded-word disciplines. A total corruption of what is felt to be authentic, original observations based on study and analysis.

 

According to the learned judgement of three university academics there are ten distinct instances of apparent plagiarism in that doctoral thesis. Full quotes, paraphrases, or slightly modified quotes from four different writers previously published were used by this aspiring economist completely lacking acknowledgement or proper attribution. In the investigation leading to an expose published just recently, Oxford University administrators failed to respond to a request for comment. 

His election adversary, Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, did respond by commenting on X:  

Mark Carney loves to brag about his experience. Here it is: 

• - Plagiarism 
• - Tax evasion 
• - Creative accounting -
•  Abusing tenants 
• - Union busting 
• - Moving his headquarters out of Canada to the U.S. 
• - Denying insurance claims to coal miners dying of black lung 
• - Taking massive loans from Chinese state-owned banks 
• - Advisor to Justin Trudeau on the economy

 

Examples abound of Mr. Carney's laissez-faire attitude toward straightforward truth where he has been caught out on a number of occasions dissembling and playing with verifiable facts in an effort to shield himself from the responsibility incumbent on one who expects to be believed by a wide segment of the population when he declares himself fit and prepared to lead a nation. So perhaps it isn't quite surprising that his lax demeanor reflecting a propensity to lift other peoples' ideas and present them as his own has become habitual with the man.

 

There is the direct example of his lifting and adopting ideas and promises made by the Leader of the Official Opposition in Parliament during the current federal election campaign. Barely changing the wording of campaign pledges originating with Pierre Poilievre, to present them as his very own inspirations to better the lives of Canadians. Making other statements to appeal to the electorate that clearly belie his oft-stated beliefs and priorities which clash directly with those statements geared to impress voters in a positive manner.

 

In Mr. Carney's thesis he refers extensively to a 1990 book by Michael Porter, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, where he duplicated parts of Porter's work, presenting sentences with minor tweaks, as his very own brainchilds. Writing in his thesis virtually exactly what he had taken out of Porter's book, adding "an" to a sentence and "even", without quotation marks to alert the reader, without the addition of a footnote to reference someone else's work being quoted.

 

All perfectly acceptable, according to his thesis supervisor at Oxford who stated that "it is typical that overlapping language appears" when sources are "frequently referenced in an academic text. For example, over the course of this more than 300-page thesis, the Michael Porter book ... is cited dozens of times. Within his thesis, Mark acknowledged, cited, scrutinized and expanded on this piece", she elaborated, noting that his PHD thesis is "twice as long" as her own. Statements that should raise some eyebrows.

In some instances Mr. Carney duplicates another author's sentences using minor alterations, replacing "for example", with "e.g.", or changing one or a few words, for "be" to "become", or "likelihood" to "probability". Proper citation was not added to indicate he had lifted an author's words, nor were quotation marks added. Shifty practices which anyone who considers themselves as highly intelligent as Carney does, would acknowledge them to be.

 

Canada is due to go to the polls on April 28   GETTY

"[Plagiarism is regarded by Oxford University] as a serious matter."

"Cases will be investigated and penalties may range from deduction of marks to expulsion from the University, depending on the seriousness of the occurrence."

"[Oxford University defines plagiarism as [p]resenting work or ideas from another source as your own ... by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement."

Oxford University Website 

On its website, Oxford University says it regards plagiarism “as a serious matter.” Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images