"Carny", also spelled "carnie" or "carney", is North American slang for a person who works in a carnival, traveling fair, or amusement park. That includes the barkers, the hucksters, and... the clowns.
Way back in 2012, when Canadian Liberals were beating the bushes for to find a leader to succeed the failures that were Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff, a reporter asked Michael Carney if he were interested in the job. Mr Carney replied, "Why don't I just become a circus clown?!"
Not quite 13 years later, when it began to look as if Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface would lead the Gliberals to electoral disaster, Mr Carney was asked again. This time he put up his hand (as he himself phrased it in a presser today) and said, "YES!" And on March 9th he became both ringmaster of the circus and the star clown... and, coincidentally, the unelected Prime Minister of Canuckistan.
Today, the Right Honourable Mark Carney decided that the time had come to send in... or, more accurately, lead in the clowns. "Send in the clowns" is a theater reference describing what must be done if a show isn't doing well. They do at a rodeo when a rider is in danger of being trampled by a bronco or gored by a bull.
Today, knowing that his party wouldl be defeated in a vote of conference if Parliament were allowed to resume its legislative duties, as was supposed to happen tomorrow, Mr Carney besought the Governor General to call an election. She agreed. Canucks will decide on April 29th whether they can stand another four years of Liberal DEI, ESG, eco-alarmism, wokeism and general ridiculousness.
Mr Carney will run in the Ottawa-area riding of Nepean, represented in the last parliament by Indo-Canadian Chandra Arya, whom readers may remember
[or not. Ed.] as the first casualty of
the rigged Liberal leadership race (WWW 26/1/25). Mr Arya has been told he is no longer welcome in the circus tent.
Mr Carney wants to be remembered by voters as the mastermind who, as Governor of the Bank of Canada and then the Bank of England, steered those countries through troubled economic waters. He is more likely to be remembered as a certified (and certirfiable) eco-wienie whose record suggests that he will be driven by climate policy, attempting to save the planet from burning to a cinder.
As the United Nations' special envoy on climate action and finance [Wut? Ed.], he founded and co-chaired the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), resigning on 15 January, the day before he threw his hat into the Liberal leadership race.
Carney the Eco-Warrior. Ah yes, that's it. Mr Carney's mission, as he sees it through pink-tinted glasses, is to reduce global emissions by promoting ESG -- "environmental, social, and governance" -- principles, which he thinks should be used to evaluate companies and their investment decisions. As one of the Boys of Davos, Mr Carney knows that ESG is the best way to save the planet and stay rich at the same time.
His commitment to such principles has raised many eyebrows in the Paranoid States of America, where Mr Carney and one of his GFANZ executives were interviewed for several hours last year the House Financial Services Committee. The committe been actively scrutinizing ESG issues, with Republicans focusing on potential conflicts with shareholder interests and antitrust concerns, while also investigating potential collusion among financial institutions and activists whom the committe called a "climate cartel".
If he gets to keep "the best job in the world" (the words of Trudeau II in a note left on his desk), Mark Carney is likely to be a compleat ESG prime minister.
In his speech after winning the Liberal leadership, he said he had, "A plan, a plan, a plan…that makes us an energy superpower in both clean and conventional energy…a plan that creates one Canadian economy, not 13, because in Canada, we are stronger when we are united."
That's the snake oil he's selling, but everything Mr Carney has said and done so far suggests not only that he can't unite Canada's provinces to create an energy super-economy, but that he's not actually interested in doing so, not now, not ever.
His insistence on keeping in place an industrial carbon tax and an emissions cap -- both devised by Junior and his nutty Environment Minister, Steven Guildbeaut (now shuffled into a less visible portfolio) -- doesn't inspire much confidence in his energy superpower plan. Given his longstanding ESG obsessions, all evidence suggests that Prime Minister Mark Carney could be even more dedicated to strangling Canada's resource economy than was Prime Minister Blackie McBlackface. Too bad for Canada!
