WE HAVE just had an extremely depressing Canadian election. The Liberal Party secured a fourth consecutive term of government, despite falling short of an overall majority, and Mark Carney is confirmed as Canadian Prime Minister.
This is in some ways an unlikely victory. Justin Trudeau, the previous Liberal Prime Minister, had become a widely mocked and despised figure, so much so that he lost the support of key allies and ended up having to resign.
Changing the candidate is of course a time-honoured way for a party in power but also in trouble to try to shift the narrative. It’s an opportunity to hope that a fresh face will change fortunes. The idea must surely be to pick someone notably better than the hated leader they are replacing. Someone more charismatic, more convincing, more energetic, dynamic and approachable. Someone who can claim to be unconnected with prior failures, or someone who has a groundswell of support and respect within and outside the party in power.
Carney fits none of these things. A Globalist banker with no elected experience to draw on, he can be blandly bureaucratic, with a hint of smug, or he can be prickly and defensive, with a hint of disgust. He doesn’t deal at all well with any kind of challenge or debate. He’s an accountant with a sneer. If you wanted to persuade people, he was an awful choice.
Additionally he is tainted with the failures of the prior administration. Carney was a key economic adviser of the Trudeau government. Let’s remind ourselves of just how unsuccessful that economy has been:
The Canadian Liberal economy was an impeccable model of Globalist failure. It was a high-taxation and high-welfare economy. It believed in a large and expensively maintained State interfering in everything. It embraced open borders and adding millions of low-skilled or welfare-receiving immigrants. It pretended that this was economically and culturally advantageous, when it is actually a recipe for reduced social cohesion, increased crime, failing overburdened infrastructure, and economic stagnation while weighted down with an imported populace who don’t contribute much of benefit. It continued with these policies regardless of the cost, while also rabidly denouncing any contradiction of these policies as racism, xenophobia and bigotry.
Canada is a vast country with abundant natural resources. It could have propped up all its welfare spending and State bureaucracy by properly developing its natural resource abundance. Instead, the Liberal Party attacked all the industries that could provide this advantage. Suffused with a radical ‘Green’ agenda, it spent years taxing and punishing those Canadian provinces reliant on traditional energy sources and aligned with heavy industry, mining, oil and gas companies upon whom those regions depended for high employment, decent pay, and well-funded infrastructure and development. The Liberals tried to destroy these beneficial industries, and places such as Alberta where jobs, mortgages and lives were on the line knew it. Four days before the election, the Calgary Herald was warning that a Carney victory would increase Albertan support for independence.
When that win came, Alberta’s Premier Danielle Smith issued a ‘congratulation’ statement which counts as a furious denunciation: ‘Albertans are proud Canadians that want this nation to be strong, prosperous, and united, but we will no longer tolerate having our industries threatened and our resources landlocked by Ottawa. As premier, I will not permit the status quo to continue. In the weeks and months ahead, Albertans will have an opportunity to discuss our province’s future, assess various options for strengthening and protecting our province against future hostile acts from Ottawa, and to ultimately choose a path forward.’
How did Carney achieve it? How was it possible when at one point polling was showing Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives 20 points ahead of the Liberals? If what I say about Carney is true (that he was a terrible candidate, an obvious selected puppet, tainted with Liberal failure, possessed of obvious corruption exposed during the campaign, devoid of charisma and charm and promising a continuation and deepening of despised Globalist policies) how did he win?
The easy and stupid answer is because Donald Trump initiated a tariff war and spoke about annexing Canada as another US State. The real answer is the globalist control of media and propaganda in Canada, and globalist skill at moral alchemy and the Canadian national character.
The first part of that is pretty obvious. Canada gave the world Rebel Media, which has been a valuable alternative media force. But it doesn’t have anything like the flourishing alternative media ecosystem of the US. And the Liberal government had already enacted some of the toughest, most blatantly totalitarian social media and internet provision rules in the Western world. Canadians were blocked from accessing platforms and news providers that aren’t State controlled or that refuse globalist instruction on the content they are allowed to share. Canadians do not have freedom of speech or freedom of information.
Thus the Liberal Party were in control of the narrative regarding the US tariffs and Trump’s comments on Canada. It’s not so much that Trump did these things that made the difference: it is Liberal propaganda control of the response to these things that made the difference.
That’s where moral alchemy and the Canadian national character come in. Let’s reference the second of those first, because it’s the most widely understood and appreciated.
What is the Canadian national character? Clearly, I’m going to be talking in very broad generalities here, and I’m no expert on Canada. But I do believe national character is a real thing, and references real differences that are broadly accurate.
It seems to me that Canadian national character and the things Canadians value are centred on passive qualities rather than active or passionate ones. Canadians don’t think of themselves, on the whole, as the world’s greatest lovers or the world’s toughest fighters. If they fight, it is reluctantly. They can value and display courage and warlike qualities, but it has to be in some situation where they are almost forced into it. Canadians don’t like confrontation, disagreement and violence. They value consensus, agreement and peace. Canadian identity in these ways carries over the best and worst qualities of traditional English respectability. There is this focus on not making a fuss, on knuckling down, on being ‘good sorts’ or ‘decent chaps’ who keep things functioning rather than smash things up. There is the sense that civilisation depends on getting on with it, helping others, and not complaining too much along the way.
At the same time there is an insecurity based on America being clearly much more powerful, a need to find points of difference, and a focus of those points of difference on American brashness, confidence, and arrogance. At their most affectionate, Canadians see America as this blundering big oaf who needs calming down a bit but can be fun to party with. At its worst, the Canadian attitude to Americans is exactly like the attitude of Hillary Clinton to MAGA deplorables, a sniffy, snobbish, disgusted contempt for these yahoos on the border with their guns and flags and cockiness.
Now we come to the most complex understanding, and that’s where moral alchemy comes in as well as national character. From what I’ve said about national character, it’s clear that Canadians might be predisposed towards an unfair interpretation of Donald Trump. Trump is quintessentially American and looking after American interests in an old-fashioned nationalist manner, so much so that he sees nothing wrong with the idea of expanding America. Even before Trump included Canada in that discussion, his brashness, his rebelliousness and his ego are all things which Canadians think of as American flaws.
Canadian characteristics and American ones are not necessarily bad and good character traits in all circumstances, but Canadian character traits are more easily exploited, deceived and distorted by globalist moral alchemists, while Americans put up a bit more resistance. Canadian passivity, respectability and decency are good qualities when applied in the functioning of a high trust, socially and ethnically cohesive society with leaders themselves abiding by very civilised standards. They are disastrous weaknesses when facing imported savages or malign leaders serving foreign interests.
Moral alchemy then is the process of turning our virtues into our vices, of using traits which were once socially positive as the very traits that will destroy our society altogether.
This Canadian election gave a perfect example of it. Just as alchemy was the dream of turning lead into gold, it was also the dream of transforming and transfiguring Man himself. The medieval alchemists dreamed of creating a Better Man, an Angelic Form, devoid of human weaknesses, just as they dreamed of creating gold from base materials.
For globalists, in many ways the project is the same one. The radically transgressive, transformative, transhumanist approach to society and the individual, the assumption that all things are there to be used in an arcane experiment, that there is nothing that may not altered, and nothing too sacred to transform. This attitude of experimental disregard for consequence, and almost ecstatic pursuit of Change, is in everything from Carney’s economic illiteracy regarding traditional industries and energy supplies, through to equally globalist contempt for the borders between nation states or the existing demographics of them.
With their control of public news and propaganda, combined with their desire to continue the disastrous changes Liberal government under Trudeau had already started, moral alchemy and Canadian national attitudes served Carney well. The candidate was switched and the media pretended he was a genuine fresh face rather than a puppet already responsible for much of Canada’s decline. Moral alchemy would then secure the win for the curious absurd reality that another Liberal government represents both total stagnation and radical change.
It represents both because Carney will give us an even faster version of the destruction Trudeau delivered.
Moral alchemy allowed Globalists to look at a Canadian virtue and turn it into a vice. They added a pinch of Fake Patriotism. They played to Canadian insecurity regarding the US. They got Carney to wrap himself in a flag and pretend to be a patriot. All utterly ridiculous of course, because Carney represents globalism and has about as much patriotism for Canada as I have for Nigeria.
The moral alchemists did what they do. And Canadian existing anti-American prejudice, Trump Derangement Syndrome and preference for meek acceptance of what the authorities are saying, did the rest. People were bombarded with propaganda that Trump was the threat, and voted accordingly, even though everything that Trump said was correct (most Canadians would have more freedom and development from joining the US) and everything Carney and the Liberals had done was disastrous.
Many Canadians would rather a polite capture by Communist China than a bold offer that insults their egos from Trump’s America. They will accept globalist tyranny while fantasising about US invasion.
This article appeared in Jupplandia on April 30, 2025, and is republished by kind permission.
