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Mark Carney.

Blog by Augustin Hamilton (Quebec Life Coalition) – Photo: World Economic Forum/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons

Justin Trudeau's long resignation is finally coming to an end. Mark Carney, elected leader of the Liberal Party of Canada in the party's leadership race, today becomes Prime Minister of Canada.

But who is this Mark Carney who becomes Prime Minister without being elected by the population, at least until the end of the next election?

He is what you might call a banker, having worked among other things for Goldman Sachs for 13 years before becoming Governor of the Bank of Canada and then the Bank of England. He advised Justin Trudeau on economic issues during the "pandemic". He was recently the chairman of the board of the Brookfield Asset Management investment. He is the UN Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance. He has also participated in the G20, the G7, was Chairman of the Advisory Board of the progressive think tank Canada 2020, a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, chairman of the Group of Thirty, and a member of the boards of Bloomberg Philanthropies, Harvard University Overseers and the Rideau Hall Foundation.

Finally, Mark Carney is a Catholic and reportedly goes to Mass every week.

In general, Mr Carney seems to be fairly discreet about his moral convictions. With one rare exception, on June 24th, 2022, he wrote a tweet on the occasion of the Dobbs ruling (overturning the Roe ruling) by the US Supreme Court, deploring the rollback of "woman’s right to choose" (i.e. abortion):

"I’m proud to live in a country where a woman’s right to choose is so strongly supported. But the devastating decision today in the US is a clear reminder that progress should never be taken for granted.

Our commitment to protecting fundamental rights must be unwavering."

His message at the time indicates that Mark Carney is pro-abortion, which is not surprising given his success in becoming leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.

In addition, Mr Carney sits on the Council for Inclusive Capitalism, founded by Pope Francis and Lynn Forester de Rothschild and others, which calls on major companies to make "actionable commitments aligned with the World Economic Forum International Business Council’s Pillars for sustainable value creation — People, Planet, Principles of Governance and Prosperity — and that advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals." One of the companies, Bayer AG, to respond to this call made the rather un-Catholic commitment to pay 100 million to send "modern contraception" to women in poor countries.

Mr Carney seems to have a penchant for authoritarianism. In his book Value(s): Building a Better World for All, he calls for radical measures to tackle the "climate emergency". Here is an extract from Peter Foster's article published in the National Post in 2021, which analyses Carney the banker's writing (an interesting article by the way):

Since the advent of the COVID pandemic, Carney has been front and centre in the promotion of a political agenda known as the “Great Reset,” or the “Green New Deal,” or “Building Back Better.” All are predicated on the claim that COVID, and its disruption of the global economy, provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity not just to regulate climate, but to frame a more fair, more diverse, more inclusive, more safe and more woke world.

Carney draws inspiration from, among others, Marx, Engels and Lenin, but the agenda he promotes differs from Marxism in two key respects. First, the private sector is not to be expropriated but made a “partner” in reshaping the economy and society. Second, it does not make a promise to make the lives of ordinary people better, but worse. Carney’s Brave New World will be one of severely constrained choice, less flying, less meat, more inconvenience and more poverty: “Assets will be stranded, used gasoline powered cars will be unsaleable, inefficient properties will be unrentable,” he promises.

The agenda’s objectives are in fact already being enforced, not primarily by legislation but by the application of non-governmental — that is, non-democratic — pressure on the corporate sector via the ever-expanding dictates of ESG (environmental, social and corporate governance) and by “sustainable finance,” which is designed to starve non-compliant companies of funds, thus rendering them, as Carney puts it, “climate roadkill.” What ESG actually represents is corporate ideological compulsion. It is a key instrument of “stakeholder capitalism.”

Carney’s Agenda is promoted by the United Nations and other international bureaucracies and a vast and ever-growing array of non-governmental organizations and fora, especially the World Economic Forum (WEF), where Carney is a trustee.

It must be remembered that Mr Carney was one of Trudeau's advisers during the "pandemic" – I don't think I need to remind you how tyrannical that period of time was –, and to see that the banker views such events as opportunities to bring about major changes in society, not hesitating to quote one of the most bloodthirsty dictators in history, leaves one wondering:

When it comes to the COVID crisis, writes Carney, “We are living Lenin’s observation that there are ‘decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen’.”

Let's hope Mr Carney doesn't invoke some "emergency situation" like climate or tariffs to use the Prime Minister's extraordinary powers to push through a few climatist reforms between now and the next election...

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