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Posted May 30, 2025

Governing ourselves, it matters much

The closing paragraph of my previous column reads:

“What worries me most is that Carney may deem that we elected him to govern us. Worse yet is that Carney will “govern” us, that we will not be allowed to govern ourselves. We dream of democratia, we want to elect the Helmsman but we want to be the Captain of the Good Ship Canada. Please Mark, undo the slip of your tongue, if such it was, and give us a chance to tell you what we want you to do for us.”

When I wrote that paragraph I had not yet read Carney’s book “Value(s)”. What I knew about him was what his election campaign team of persuaders and what Donald Trump wanted us to know about him. This was on purpose, it being my wish to understand the dynamics of that election. The most impressive thing I learned from listening to the campaign rhetoric was his neglect to connect to and elaborate about the 1988 Canada – USA Free Trade Agreement which had grown to CUSMA. Yet, Canada’s vulnerability vis-a-vis the terrific Trump tariffs is easily traceable to the FTA.

After being elected Liberal PoParty Boss, Carney and Trump had a friendly telephone conversation prior to the upcoming Canadian election. We were told that Trump did not refer to “Governor Carney”, as with his flagrant address to PM Trudeau “Governor of Canada, the about to be 51st USA State”. We do not know whether Carney had demanded Trump apologize for the crude remark the President had made. But we were told that Trump and Carney were going to re-negotiate the Free Trade matter later, after Carney was “empowered” by becoming Prime Minister in the Canadian election, in addition to being appointed MP by the Liberal gang. Since we know much more about Donald than we do about Mark, we sweat and wait to learn who outsmarted whom.

Soon after Carney was elected MP and PM, he told us that he will ignore the Center Aisle of the split House, that he will govern us all and Canada the Land, as if we all had voted for him and no one had voted against him, which is not the case. This may mean one of many things: It could mean he could play a dual personality, or he would modify his conduct to please those who voted against him, as well as those who voted for him. Or it could mean that somehow he learned of a massive mind-change of those who voted for his opponent. They saw the light, realized how wrong they had been, repented and now they wish for National unity so as to undermine Trump’s plan to divide Canadians and unite Canada with the United States of America piece by piece.

It appears that Carney believes that we elected him to think for us. To the extent this may be correct, it should be of concern to all of us but it would be unfair to hold him accountable for that. Because for a long time we have been governed by others as we were denied our birthright to govern ourselves. Consequently we have lost much of our self-confidence and other fundamental qualities that make us citizens of a democratia. We have lost whatever it takes to be free as we have been brought into a mental state of servitude. Those who break out of that quagmire are deemed hallucinating and better be avoided.

Those who have “governed” us have shattered our self respect, they have made us feel “lost” and in need of being chaperoned each step in our transit from cradle to coffin. It is equally tragic that we are stupidified and cannot discern that the current problems of the world are the residue from that.

The Rt. Hon. David Johnston GG wrote a book titled “Trust” – 20 ways of Building a Nation. This diatribe I found wasteful and detrimental to its professed purpose of building trust for “our leaders”. This because Johnston does not illustrate his work with case(s) where people mistrusted “trustworthy officials”. Surely, I do not dispute this having happened nor do I preclude its recurrence. I do advocate action to diminish deserving an unearned expectation of Trust. But this must follow the advent of trustworthy Officials because trusting the untrustworthy results in disaster.

As I mentioned above, I had not read Carney’s Book “Value(s)” when I wrote the previous column. Now I am in the process of reading it. There are similarities between it and Johnston’s book “Trust”, but I appreciate that both writers help me understand what is really going on in our society.

Characteristically I will mention that Mark Carney re-invented the most important trial in History, the Trial of Socrates; and that both Carney and Johnston seem to have missed the Bertrand Russell adage: “People are born ignorant, not stupid; Education makes them Stupid”.

The importance of the trial of Socrates and that adage of Bertrand Russell’s cannot conceivably be overstated.