Rollin' with Emperor Shrek and Carnage Carney

Plus two books you should read/scan before you head to the polling station

So. Canadians will exercise their democratic rights to elect a new Canadian Leader on April 28,2025. Let’s talk about that. I’ll keep the tone upbeat, no worries. We’ve got a scant five weeks to figure out what we’re doing, and more importantly, this being Canada, what Emperor Shrek is planning for us. He has belatedly sent Robert Lighthizer, his former trade representative, to explain the necessity of tariffs to the public via Tucker Carlson. It’s too little too late, and the people who need to listen to this won’t because…Tucker. But let’s face it, even his base is now upset. The Market is plunging; it doesn’t like uncertainty. People are getting frightened. It’s all schrecklich!

Shrek is a word of German origin, as in Der Schreck, or the fright. The Frightful One has made it plain that he thinks Canada is ‘nasty’. What the hell is that supposed to mean, when everybody knows how polite and nice Canadians are, right? How dare he start a trade war and push us around and slander us, the thinking goes. We’re hurt and angry and so we’ll be voting the Liberals whom we hated only a month ago back into office via a wrinkly banker known as Carnage Carney in Britain. He was spirited in by the global cabal to replace Trudeau. Sad to say, the legacy media isn’t telling Canadians that he was dubbed Carnage Carney when he was Governor of the Bank of England for a reason. Under his green agenda/Net Zero stewardship, the British economy flatlined and is still going to hell. The Brits soon got rid of him. And then he remembered his old friend, Trudeau. And became his backroom advisor on how to wreck our economy as well. Seems like he did a fine job with that, which is why the Liberal Party installed him as their Leader. And Canadians, having short political memories, suddenly saw him as some kind of financial heavyweight who could stick it to Emperor Shrek, unlike his opponent, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who suddenly seemed weak and inconsequential. That’s the context, for my non Canadian readers.

All of a sudden, Canada is in the eye of the storm about why Emperor Shrek is acting out the way he is. After all, he’s being ‘nasty’ to all his allies. Those suffering from an unhealthy degree of Trump Derangement Syndrome or TDS, just shrug and say, see, we told you he was crazy. Which leads me to the overwhelming question: is he really nuts and are we poor Canadians in our rights to hate him and elect someone like Carnage Carney just to spite him? Instead of someone who might be a proper alternative to the Liberal wrecking machine of the last decade?

Well, here is where it gets complicated, but if you bear with me, you will emerge at the end of this post with what I hope is a lightbulb moment about Emperor Shrek’s motives and the general state of Canada and even the entire western world.

First, some context on two books I’m recommending as essential background reading. Kleptopia, by Financial Post investigative journalist Tom Burgis, was published in 2020 with the sub title: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World. The focus is on the global web of international thugs and corrupted banks laundering dirty money with help from gangsters posing as politicians. Burgess tells four stories that range from the Kremlin to Beijing, Harare to Riyadh, Paris to the White House. He is clearly anti-Trump and his focus leaves out China and Canada. It reads like a crime thriller, and would make a great NetFlix series. After I shook off my nausea, I thought, well at least Canada isn’t like that. We’re still a nice, safe, law abiding country, right?

That illusion was shattered when I read Wilful Blindness, How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons and Chinese Communist Party Agents Infiltrated the West, a similar book by local journalist Sam Cooper. He just published the third edition that includes the story of how the CCP corrupted Canadian politics, and you could say it’s timely. Burgis is a better story teller, but Cooper is an ace researcher and reporter of nothing but the facts, Ma’m. He doesn’t have any obvious political bias unlike Burgess, a typical ‘progressive’. The trouble is, these very different authors come to the same conclusion about the world we actually inhabit. I had read Cooper’s articles delving into the seamy side of Vancouver in 2017 when he first began researching why the local real estate market is so bubbly. It seemed mysterious. The market was awash in cash driving up prices to eye-waterinw levels, and the locals were either very happy or very mad, depending on where they were on the real estate ladder.

Our real estate prices inflated, just like the balloon animals in my fave cartoon. It’s wonderfully idiotic yet deeply metaphorical of the times we live in. I highly recommend it when you get depressed about Canada, Carney, Trump and not being able to afford your place of residence because of bloated prices…

But I digress. Cooper soon realized that what was driving the market was a tidal wave of narco fentanyl money laundered through the casinos, especially the River Rock in Richmond, a suburb of Vancouver with a mostly Chinese population. They once opened the brand new Aberdeen Mall with only Mandarin signs, which didn’t endear them to the white minority but did send a message about who was boss. Not many people wanted to talk about this—Racism!— but Cooper did. The more he dug, the deeper the pit of vice, corruption and protection leading all the way to the CCP in Beijing. The circles of corruption were so well established that they had labels with international cachet, like The Vancouver Model and The Big Circle Boys. Everyone knew, nobody wanted to talk. In spite of years of strenuous collection of evidence by Cooper and just about everyone who was supposed to keep order in the Casinos, nothing was done because in Ottawa, they prefer to ignore their own in favour of the CCP. Requests for interviews were ignored, and the RCMP couldn’t get their mountain of reports read by the upper echelons of the federal liberal government. The book was a bestseller, but since it is ignored by the ‘legacy media’, only a minority of Canadians have read it. Still, some of the truth began to leak out. Eventually, the public outcry became loud enough that an official inquiry into Vancouver money laundering was launched. The Cullen Commission came to the conclusion that yes, it was going on and should be stopped. And they made a bunch of recommendations on how to do that. Okay, problem solved. Alas, no. The Cullen Report is what’s known as a ‘limited hangout’, something now very common when our corrupted institutions are called to account.

According to Cooper, the Report did not pursue the obvious and more disturbing political ramifications. It just didn't follow through, which seems strange until you look at who Trudeau is: the child of a known Communist brought up to think highly of the CCP. No wonder the Liberal government to this day refuses to release the names of MPs that were targeted and turned. They claim it was just a small group; RCMP sources say it was fifty or more. Yet another inquiry again failed to get to the bottom of how the Chinese government managed to get into the very heartland of Canadian society, first via drugs and money laundering and secondly via a so called cultural institution called The United Worker Front, which has deep ties to the CCP. And how they use their influence to bully local Chinese Canadians and use unsuspecting MPs to their advantage. And buy up all the real estate. It’s a new type of warfare that also has a telling tagline: The Whole Society War. It’s a Thing, especially around here.

If Canadians cannot bear to look at their own corrupted state, the geopolitical masters in Davos whom Carney serves certainly do. They have come to some conclusions about what needs to be done to bring both Canada and its frenemy the USA to heel. Carney has meanwhile outed himself as a nasty guy who doesn’t think much of journalists asking questions. His hubris is showing and inflating, like those rollin’ animals and our house prices. See, it’s all connected.

My fellow sub stacker John Carter has some predictions about what will happen in a Carney-led Canada and here is an excerpt from his recent post, Ukrainada.

Canada will continue its precipitous devolution into a police state. Political dissidents will sometimes be arrested and imprisoned on grounds of sedition, but this won’t happen very much because the Canadian state largely lacks the capacity. Repression will mostly be accomplished automatically, e.g. by garnishing or even freezing bank accounts for spicy language on social media. If the People’s Party of Canada get too popular, it may be banned, and Maxime Bernier may either be imprisoned, e.g. on hate speech charges, or forced to flee into American exile.

Thanks, Carter, couldn’t have said it better myself. I’m mentally packing my bags and trying to get adopted by some kindly American.

Wishing all Canadian patriots five weeks of Happy Electioneering.