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Posted August 22, 2025

What you can do I can do better

Yesterday, August 18th, Canada ran a “general election” disguised as a by-election in Battle River - Crow Foot, a riding in Alberta, Canada (currently, at least). I called it “general election” because I will reason out that this by-election will shape the outcome of Canada’s next General Election. Now I am writing to inform those who missed the events that dislodged Trudeau and the events as they evolved thereafter. Of course you know as well as I do that it took a micro-uprising a year or so ago to dump Justin Trudeau with whom his Dad had saddled Canada for the trip to the Just Society. But the only thing Justin could do was apologize and pick our pockets to pay for deeds he called “ancestral sins”.

A Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre then took the wheel and unprecedented numbers of us flocked along with him. Before long there wasn’t room for doubt left about a landslide Poilievre electoral victory.

The Liberals were well prepared for the event by having recruited Mark Carney. The moment Trudeau was tossed, Carney swept in triumphantly. But who is he?

He is an “Economist”, a member of the “Dismal science”, which is how Thomas Carlyle pragmatically called it. Moreover, Carney is fortunate enough to have been born with the talent for selling himself. This attribute he manifested by becoming Governor of the Bank of Canada and, after his term there, becoming governor of the Bank of England.

After Trudeau created an unprecedented economic quagmire, Canadians appreciative of Carney’s “Prophet of the system” attributes, abandoned Poilievre en mass and shifted our hopes onto Carney. The voter shift was massive yet slightly short of giving either Mark or Pierre a majority. A most unfortunate aspect of the election was that Poilievre lost his own Parliament seat. In the party-ocracy tradition, if a political party leader fails to get elected, an ordinary Party Member elected in a “safe” riding resigns, a by-election is staged and, presto, the defeated “leader” has a pack to lead. This time around, MP Damien Kurek resigned his Battle River-Crowfoot riding to do the “honour” for the defeated Poilievre. In the ensuing August 18th by-election Poilievre “won” that MP’s seat with more votes than anticipated. The important thing to note is that Poilievre will be in the House of Commons to bark at Carney. And this is more important than it would be in normal times. Because Carney having been PM only since April 28, 2025, and his performance having not pleased all of us and having displeased many, needs be under scrutiny.

His dealings with Trump have been more under cover than they should be in any Democratia, much more so with Trump blurbing about annexing Canada to the USA. Canadians’ aversion to those who siphon Canadian wealth abroad is strong and Carney has been doing so. The voters of Canada are not about to trust a PM who “manages” large sums of money in foreign tax heavens and asks us not to worry, be happy, because for the duration of his Prime Ministership he has put it all in a blind trust? Surely not!

We must watch Carney’s actions for he has already revealed his affection to power. The remarkably swift recovery from the Carney hit indicate compatibility of the pair. The events encourage elation for the results of the lonely by-election.

Please Mark, keep us posted. Keep vivid in your mind that we need the facts on which to figure out what you must do for us.