The Leftist Project is in collapse. But apparently, Canadians haven’t gotten the message. Or maybe they allowed their personal pique toward Donald Trump and Canadians’ genetically ingrained inferiority complex toward their ginormous brother to the south get the better of them.
The latest exhibit in the case against the Leftist Project is on the energy front. Have you heard much about Europe being without power for a couple of days? It's very strange that this is not being widely reported. There is barely a mention of it in the Wall Street Journal. One would think that America's leading financial daily newspaper would be all over this story.
Thanks to social media, I only learned about it, with helpful Europeans sharing videos of empty store shelves in supermarkets and dark passageways in airports.
Spain, Portugal and parts of France went dark yesterday and are still off-line as I write. Portugal's grid operator blamed "extreme temperature variation-induced oscillations" in is high-voltage power lines. Welcome to the Brave New World of Green Energy!
What is so rich - in the You Cannot Make This Stuff Up Department kind of rich - is that just two weeks ago, Spain proclaimed that it had experienced its first weekday using 100 percent renewable power. Yeehaa!
As my old friend and defense policy expert, former Reagan administration Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Frank Gaffney, mentions in this short audio clip, solar and wind power are inherently unreliable, which is "a formula for disaster here too." California, the state that doesn’t have water from its fire hydrants to douse blazing homes during raging wildfires, boasts that 100 days of every California year are powered by pure renewable energy. That sounds frighteningly like Spain’s recent celebratory tweets before they went dark.
That whole "green energy" thing is a central plank in the globalists’ "you vill eat zee bugs", own nothing and be happy globalist agenda, in the words of now-disgraced King of the Globalists Klaus Schwab.
The globalists' grand project is failing literally before our eyes, while America marches forward with a remarkable man in the White House completing a remarkable first 100 days in office, marked by a complete repudiation of most everything those globalists stand for.
It is a testament to the tenacity of the globalists' hold on the minds of much of the Western World's populace, however, that there has not been a popular mass uprising in Europe over their insane leftism and that the Canadians just elected the uber-globalist of globalists as their new prime minister—former governor of the Bank of Canada Mark Carney.
Carney, the darling of Schwab's World Economic Forum and the Bilderberg Group, checks all the boxes on the globalists' dream ticket. He holds economics degrees from Harvard and Oxford, and spent 13 years in top positions at Goldman Sachs' offices in New York, London, and Tokyo. Then he went to lead the Bank of Canada, from which he ascended to key positions in international financial institutions, like the Bank for International Settlements. The governorship of the Bank of England came next. Now he's the new Labor Party prime minister of Canada.
Boy, you Canucks chose a guy about as far removed from your average Tim Horton coffee-chugging, donut-scarfing, workaday Canadian as you can get.
The leftist policies that the Carney government will embrace, above and beyond the already socialist policies of Canada, will create a pleasing contrast to the policies enacted by the Trump administration in the United States, sort of like North Korea versus South Korea. I wonder if satellite imagery taken of the North American continent in a couple years will show a bright, shining America aglow in abundant wattage and a dark, forbidding Great White North without a bulb burning in the land of our Canadian friends, much as satellite imagery of the Korean peninsula famously depicted a bright vibrant South and a dark, lonely North.
While I’m no expert on Canadian politics, I do wonder if the putative conservative candidate for the top job in Canada, Pierre Polievre, who lost to Mr. Carney, ever considered following the path of Hungary’s Victor Orban and Argentina’s Javier Milei in embracing Donald Trump and his policies, instead of going the opposite direction. I suppose Polievre calculated that Trump’s comments suggesting that the US annex Canada as its “51st state” had to be countered with strong denunciations and righteous indignation. After all, Canadians are a proud people who probably don’t agree with their sovereignty being up for grabs.
On the other hand, I would wager that not a small percentage of the Canadian population looks to the South and envies the United States with a head of state who is unequivocally anti-Woke, pro-free market and wants to see his country great once again. Maybe Polievre should have embraced Make Canada Great Again. Then again, MCGA doesn’t roll off the tongue quite the way MAGA does.
William F. Marshall has been an intelligence analyst and investigator in the government, private, and non-profit sectors for 38 years. He is a senior investigator for Judicial Watch, Inc., and has been a contributor to Townhall, American Thinker, Epoch Times, The Federalist, American Greatness, and other publications. His work has been featured on CBS News 48 Hours Mysteries and NBC News Dateline. (The views expressed are the author’s alone, and not necessarily those of Judicial Watch.)