There were some tough words from Vice President JD Vance last week as he posted on X that Canada has nobody to blame but itself for its declining standard of living and eroding democracy. Truth be told, Vance told Canada what should be obvious after over a decade of withering Liberal regime of first Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and now Prime Minister Mark Carney.
Canada has become a febrile country of out of control spending and deficits; evaporating freedom and gross government corruption that is so bad and so obvious that it’s almost like people just take it for granted and actually believe that is the cost of a vaguely competent federal government.
It is on the verge of becoming a failed state while the transnational collosus Brookfield Asset Managment that Carney once headed is making a killing with new business ventures in the US and around the world. While Trudeau left office in virtual disgrace, languishing so badly in the polls that he decided to resign as Liberal leader, his replacement has somehow managed to convince too many Canadians that he is a man who knows how to get things done and who understands the real world.
In reality, Carney is simply a more dangerous prime minister than Trudeau ever was because Carney has the veneer of respectability from being the governor of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England. He’s also wealthy beyond the imagination of most ordinary Canadians who remain oppressed, over-taxed, over-regulated and on the verge of losing the foundational right of freedom of speech.
Canadians know how close their country is to economic and political catastrophe and Vance was merely identifying the elephant in the room when he wrote, “While I'm sure the causes are complicated, no nation has leaned more into "diversity is our strength, we don't need a melting pot we have a salad bowl" immigration insanity than Canada.
“It has the highest foreign-born share of the population in the entire G7 and its living standards have stagnated.”
Now this is absolutely true. Canada has been fattening its population with both legal and illegal immigration over the last 10 years to the point where 23% of the population was foreign born in 2021. That number is much higher today.
Vance continued, “And with all due respect to my Canadian friends, whose politics focus obsessively on the United States: your stagnating living standards have nothing to do with Donald Trump or whatever bogeyman the CBC tells you to blame.
“The fault lies with your leadership, elected by you.”
Once again, Vance is correct. Whether it’s Ontario Premier Doug Ford doing his regular grandstanding by removing American alcohol from the provincial government-owned liquor stores or Carney running an entire federal election campaign on how President Donald Trump and the United States now represented some sort of existential threat to Canada, Canadian politicians want voters to believe that it’s Trump and America that are creating the economic stagnation.
What has Mark Carney been so effective at achieving since becoming prime minister? He has failed to negotiate any trade deal with the United States, which, despite the delusional aspirations coming from Carney’s office about a brave new world of trade outside of the North American partnership Canadians have long enjoyed with the US, remains his greatest foreign policy failure. Trump is currently not even talking to Carney – even though Carney flipped his narrative on the president almost immediately after winning the Apr. 28, 2025 federal election. Trump was now “transformational” and “transformative” and no longer a threat.
Carney has also been very effective in promulgating censorship and surveillance bills that have an extremely good chance of becoming law while the Liberal minority government is sustained by the seven Members of Parliament elected by the socialist New Democratic Party.
The bills now in front of Parliament include one that will criminalize so-called “hate symbols” that could be interpreted as whatever the government chooses it to be. The Online Harms Act that died with the Trudeau government is on the verge of being resurrected by Attorney General Sean Fraser. It is a Frankenstein monster of a bill that will include a thought crimes component, where people could be subject to house arrest on the basis of something they might be contemplating to communicate over the internet. Who in hell gets to determine what you or I are thinking? Well, that would be a new federal government bureaucracy dedicated to eradicating hate speech.
Another federal bureaucracy that is completely off the rails is the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) that just massacred hundreds of ostriches at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, BC. The CFIA is literally sending out roving death squads to kill anything it suspects of being contaminated by the H5N1 avian influenza that has become the latest overblown pandemic threat for big government and big pharma. The former wants to control the population as it did during Covid and the latter just wants to make billions of dollars on another vaccine. The ostriches that the CFIA slaughtered with over one thousands rounds of ammunition on Nov. 5-6 were completely healthy birds that had developed herd immunity to avian flu. That didn’t matter to the CFIA.
What happened at the ostrich farm is not an isolated incident but another example of the Carney government’s war on agriculture and profound dismissal of private property rights – which are also being usurped by the ludicrous notion of “aboriginal title,” which means Canada’s First Nation bands can literally claim any tract of land as their own provided their ancestors might have lived on it centuries ago.
Canada is close to becoming a failed state. That might be hard for a lot of people to stomach or comprehend, even for a lot of Americans to accept, given the long democratic history of the country, but it’s become so obvious that it’s almost beyond dispute.
And there doesn’t appear to be an escape route anymore. It’s simply too late. And why has time run out. Well, let Vance have the last word: “The fault lies with your leadership, elected by you.”
