In Carney's Canada, Cheaters Prosper Greatly
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The Shock of Waking Up in Carney’s Canada
By , May 18, 2025
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The Confusion Within the Federal Government About the Nature of Its Core Institutions
For better or worse, Canada is a constitutional monarchy. The imperial connotations of this term cause eyes to roll in western Canada. The imperial character of Canada as a colonial outgrowth of the British Empire has become especially popular in Alberta, the probable site of a future referendum on whether the province should become an independent country.
I have sometimes written positively about this development. The allure of independence and various forms of secession from Canada, however, should not impede the need to do in the near future a much better job in improving the quality of Canada’s existing constitutional monarchy. The cynical abuse of the system of governance in the federal election of 2025 should be proof enough that, at the very least, remedies are required to restore democratic effectiveness to the important Office of the Governor General.
The Governor-General’s appointment should be stripped from the powers available to Prime Ministers. The appointing agency must have an arm’s length relationship to government, not be the government. The appointment process should include some level of training in what it means to be a non-partisan Crown official.
To my way of thinking the video below conveys a sense of the high level of confusion even within Canada’s federal government about how to envisage the role of “the Crown” in the constitutional monarchy of Canada. The event took place in 2022 to signify the death of Queen Elizabeth and her replacement by King Charles III. Justin Trudeau and Mary Simon took part in the ceremony although is not exactly clear how we should envisage the nature of the governmental relationship linking them.
Most People in Canada Have Come to View as Normal the Genocide in Gaza
The Canadian election of 2025 culminated in the vote on April 28. April 28 was also the day that hearings began at the Hague where the International Court of Justice initiated hearings into a complex of issues beginning with efforts by Israel’s IDF to completely stop the flow of food, water, medicine and other humanitarian supplies into Gaza. After more than 1 year and a half of tightening the genocidal screws on the entire Palestinian population of Gaza, the Israeli government imposed a total blockade on all humanitarian aid entering the open air prison in early March.
This blockade was “justified” by the Israeli government as an expression of its hostility towards the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA. Since shortly after Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli officials have been accusing UNRWA of secretly hosting Hamas members.
One of the key propaganda covers deployed by the Israeli government in Gaza, is that its indiscriminate genocidal attacks against Palestinians is a “war” said to be aimed at “eradicating” Hamas. Hamas is an agency with which Benjamin Netanyahu worked closely since he was first elected as the Prime Minister of Israel in 1996.
Along with many journalists and health care workers, the IDF has expended considerable energy aimed at the murder of humanitarian workers employed by UNWRA. UNWRA’s work is to supply education, health care and humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. Such work is clearly disliked by many people in Israel.
UNWRA’s crime has been to keep millions of Palestinians alive in ways that announces in the international community the dark side of how Israel came to be during the the Nakba. The Nakba’s genocidal character continues to be accelerated now with the formal embrace by Israel and its backers of forced starvation as a means of displaying and enforcing Jewish supremacy.
This tendency in Canada to ignore the excruciating nature of the international crimes once again being chronicled in the International Court of Justice seems to me to add to the moral-perversity of my country at this historical juncture. The government of Canada was one of those that immediately fell in line with the command from the Israeli government that funding for humanitarian aid provided by UNRWA, should be cut based on unproven allegations.
While this decision concerning UNRWA was subsequently reversed, Canada has proven to be a place where the majority of people seem to take the outbreak of genocide in the Middle East easily in their stride. Canada is far from alone in this regard. Many powers that were once able to assert with some credibility a claim to being pillars of Western civilization, have demonstrated that they are no such thing.
The near uniformity of the unwillingness of those in the driving seats of the Western powers to present a forceful common front against such a ruthless and blood thirsty case of genocide in the Middle East, is sounding the alarm. This alarm points to the probability of further atrocities to come on the moving frontiers of global geopolitics.
Many of those in power have learned to see genocide as the imperative of some chosen people. As this idea takes hold, what can we expect next? What will be the outcome of the apparent normalization of genocide in ways that undermine universalist approaches to concepts like the equal status of individuals when it comes to human rights and equality before the law.
Perhaps influenced by the myths of Christian Zionism, the Conservative wing of public opinion in Canada seems far more likely to side with the genocidaires of Israel. This propensity is very clear in the politics of the Pierre Poilievre, the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
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The Danielle Smith government in Alberta has also joined with Zionists and Christian Zionists to seek attention in the United States and particularly with with factions close to President Trump. Premier Smith appeared with Zionist media operative Ben Shapiro and the Zionist curriculum provider, PragerU, to gain a wide audience to advance the agenda of Alberta’s United Conservative Government.
In Canada the media propagandists paid to promote for the Liberal Party include not only the CBC but also the two other television networks, Global and CTV. Some print operations, including the Toronto Star, are also on the government take.
The rift between the older media venues and the newer venues mostly associated with Conservative politics came out into the open on April 17, the night of the English language debates. When the debate that was supposed to take place happened, arguments broke out with in ways that put Ezra Levant’s Rebel News in a position of controversy. It turned out that Levant had played a significant role in stoking the controversy which went back to his intervention in Court to advance the principle that journalists of many stripes should be able to take part in events where questions are put to politicians.
That night Ezra Levant rose to the challenge, becoming something of a senior statesman of media politics in Canada. Rebel News looked good in this setting. The good work done by that media venues and its allies media venues, however, is often undermined when some of the the station’s reporters leave evidence-based reporting to engage in apologetics for genocidal conduct. On Rebel News and its allied Zionist venues including Western Standard, True North, and Juno News, any criticism of Israel’s genocidal conduct in the Middle East is automatically condemned.
As in Trump’s efforts to regulate American academia, any criticism of Israel for its treatment of Palestinians is said to be motivated by sympathy for Hamas. That makes any such criticism the equivalent of terrorism and therefore criminal in nature. Surely we have arrived at a time in history when we need to get beyond such divisive and unjustified analysis.
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Dr. Anthony Hall is currently Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada. He has been a teacher in the Canadian university system since 1982. Dr. Hall, has recently finished a big two-volume publishing project at McGill-Queen’s University Press entitled “The Bowl with One Spoon”. Visit his blog at Looking out at the World from Canada.
He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
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