{"id":102277,"date":"2026-05-06T03:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=102277"},"modified":"2026-05-05T12:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:01:12","slug":"carney-panders-to-the-euro-elites-and-his-tds-afflicted-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/05\/06\/carney-panders-to-the-euro-elites-and-his-tds-afflicted-base\/","title":{"rendered":"Carney panders to the Euro elites and his TDS-afflicted base"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the social media site formerly known as Twitter<\/em>, Ben Woodfinden<\/a> explains Prime Minister Mark Carney’s constant pandering on the international stage:<\/p>\n

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The average voter won’t care, but the more Carney lays out his worldview the more the contradictions and incongruences in his thinking (or lack of sincerity) become apparent. <\/p>\n

In his famous Davos speech he said “we actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be”. But the way he talks about and sees Europe does not fit this, and this statement is bizarre.<\/p>\n

We should absolutely be pursuing closer ties to Europe, but it is delusional if he actually believes the new international order will be “rebuilt out of Europe”.<\/p>\n

Europe for all its grand aspirations cannot even defend Ukraine by itself and without American help. Europe would need something like 300,000 additional troops and \u20ac250 billion a year in extra defence spending just to deter Russia without the Americans. <\/p>\n

NATO’s own Secretary General told the European Parliament in January that Europe “cannot at the moment provide nearly enough of what Ukraine needs to defend itself today, and to deter tomorrow”, and that without American weapons “we cannot keep Ukraine in the fight. Literally not.” Rutte told European lawmakers that anyone who thinks Europe can defend itself without the US should “keep on dreaming”. Four years into the most serious land war on the continent since 1945 and this is where we are. That is not a continent about to anchor a new international order.<\/p>\n

The world order is quickly is reorganising, yes. But around a US-China axis, not Brussels. The eurozone is forecast to grow 0.9% this year. China at 4.5%. China accounts for roughly 30% of global growth, Europe’s share of global GDP keeps shrinking. Europe is just one of many players. Again if you take Carney seriously here, it’s silly. Build closer ties with Europe yes but do not believe this is the next superpower.<\/p>\n

But I suspect this is actually just another sign that Carney is good at politics — he knows exactly what the Davos crowd, his boomer base and media admirers want to hear and he is very good at giving it to them. Flattery has done him enormous favours in European capitals. But telling European elites the future runs through them is not realism, it is the opposite of realism. It is telling people what they want to hear, not the truth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

L. Wayne Mathison<\/a> also comments on Carney’s profound europhiliac positions:<\/p>\n

Europe is not the model. It is the warning label.<\/p>\n

High regulation. Weak growth. Expensive energy. Soft defence. Endless bureaucracy.<\/p>\n

America built. Europe managed. America innovated. Europe regulated.<\/p>\n

And Carney wants Canada rebuilt “out of Europe”?<\/p>\n

No thanks. Canada needs strength, productivity, energy, defence, and sovereignty, not Brussels-style decline with better catering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, Ben Woodfinden explains Prime Minister Mark Carney’s constant pandering on the international stage: The average voter won’t care, but the more Carney lays out his worldview the more the contradictions and incongruences in his thinking (or lack of sincerity) become apparent. In his famous Davos speech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,62,28,5,53,1119,13],"tags":[337,1583,220,1574,726],"class_list":["post-102277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-europe","category-media","category-military","category-politics","category-russia","category-usa","tag-eu","tag-markcarney","tag-nato","tag-technocracy","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qBD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102277"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102281,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102277\/revisions\/102281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}