In electing a consummate globalist to defend Canadian sovereignty, Canadian voters exhibited a voluble national pride more commonly seen south of the border. In that sense, even if Trump may not get his 51st state of the Union, he has nonetheless imposed the value of sovereignty and national independence on the archetypal post-national state. Far from signalling a global liberal rally against Trump, the fact that the liberals were only able to beat Trump by embracing the language of national independence, national interest, and sovereignty make clear that Carney’s electoral victory happened on Trumpian terrain.
How Trump Won the Canadian Election
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2 responses to “How Trump Won the Canadian Election”
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Hi Bill
The article by Philip Cunliffe is extremely poorly written. As if he works for a clueless and biased mainstream media… Saying that “Carney … is most known for being head of the central bank of another country—Great Britain—from 2013 to 2020, as well as enjoying a long list of senior posts in various globalist organizations: the Bank for International Settlements, the Group of Thirty, the World Economic Forum, the Financial Stability Board…” is misleading at best. It is unprofessional to omit the crucial resume facts that Carney was the Governor of the Bank of Canada in a challenging period of so called GFC during 2008–2013, that he spent more than 10 years in senior positions with Goldman Sachs and has a few other key achievements in top academic institutions in the world.
And, to add insult to injury, the article does not mention the bad campaign of the Conservatives who simply failed to adjust their tunes aimed at the light headed globalist Trudeau when he resigned. Take it from a Canadian — Cunliffe the expert doesn’t know sh*t about Canadian politics and lack a basic intellectual integrity. -
Hi Dmitri,
I will assume that you are are right about the resumé facts you mention.
But you may have missed the point. Trump’s “America First!” is a special case of “Country/Nation First!” His baiting talk of Canada as the 51st state — which no one could take literally — got the new PM to give up Trudeau globalist bullshit — “Diversity is our strength” — and come out for Canadian national sovereignty and “Canada First!”
In that stretched sense Trump won the Canadian election.
A brilliant riff from Cunliffe. I wished it had occurred to me.
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