I don't know why Carney's speech gave the impression of populism/nationalism, Canada is not independent, it's a British protectorate. Carney's remarks came almost at the same time as the Belgian PM, talking about the US : "Being a happy vassal is one thing, being a miserable slave is something else". It doesn't seem to me to be a purely "canadian" response but a concerted response in the Euro sphere.
Interesting, that Jeffrey Sachs reminds in his interview above, how Carney was somewhat a shining light as a student back when in Jeffrey's orbit. I'm pretty sure, when at Goldman Sachs, Carney had had a hand in Russia's financial downfall (although he was exiting), and I'm not saying he did it in a big way or on his own, not saying he is like
Bill Browder (by the way, it is now Sir Bill
the crook Browder as provided by the UK peerage), yet he was in with the company where many were simply all in back then.
To pause at Goldman Sachs and Carney, read
here to see some calculated or just scandals exited by Carney just in time:
It was Carney’s time as co-head of sovereign risk that was perhaps the most exciting time in his career at Goldman. It’s not clear when exactly he resigned and moved to New York,
but his work on the Russian financial crisis in August 1998 has been
widely reported, including by
Encyclopedia Britannica editor,
Peter Kellner.
If Carney was Goldman’s co-head of sovereign risk as late as August,
he was definitely very much aware of the collapse of infamous hedge fund Long Term Capital Management (LTCM). The fund's
implosion was itself tied to the Russian financial crisis as well as the 1997 Asian financial crisis, which Carney was definitely co-head of sovereign risk for.
Why is that so important? Because Goldman Sachs
didn't do badly from the LTCM situation.
Sebastian Mallaby is cited from his book “
More Money Than God”:
We're not saying Carney was implicated in anything untoward. We are saying that his time at Goldman Sachs was clearly a good preparation for running a Central Bank, and now a country facing a trade crisis that will require some cunning to resolve.
Carney had worked on
Enron on the threshold before it
collapsed, too, and had exited just in nick of time.
To digress, there is a
NYT article synopsis (half decent of the
Times because it was written in 1998) that looks at what was going down with Goldman in Russia, and how they were appointed, got out, got back in, loaned and sold, that some say helped the rapid collapse.
Now when Jeffery Sachs spoke above, he critiqued the EU well, adding nuances and such, especially in respect to Germany and Italy. I don't think he really ever discussed the UK - was waiting for it, yet by and large it was omitted, and that gets back to Carney - and the above "
Canada is not independent, it's a British protectorate." That is the thing, Carney takes his orders from the Privy Council - to be sure he has leeway, yet on big issues he will be focused and steered. The question then is, who does the Privy Council truly represent?
Indeed. Charles III is the King of Canada and Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces, after all. And I'm pretty sure Mark Carney is a full on royalist.
I'm not so sure anymore that Charles is the King of Canada, that is if the BNA ACT is in fact invalid. Its murky. Me thinks the royalists are loyalists to the City of London, which Mark would fit to a T.
For now, Carney is smelling like roses on the big Canadian SOY stage in a deal with Xi (recall that China had in March 2025 imposed Canada with 100% export tariffs on SOY, because Canada had laid down 100% import tariffs on EV's from China - so SOY is a big deal, and very big for the American farmers (and, Monsanto - aka Bayer):
From
2018:
“While Canadian producers might have a small opportunity to export a small amount of soybeans export at a little bit higher price, we cannot replace the Americans. We only produce 7.7 million tonnes while U.S. farmers are exporting 30-35 million tonnes annually,” Davidson said.
Canada exports about 2 million tonnes to China with the remaining 5 million exported to about 70 other countries or used for domestic purposes.
“If the Americans can’t export to China, they are going to export to the other places Canada does and there’s a huge risk,” Davidson added.
Industry experts are expecting soybeans produced in Russia to fill the void in the China market and, with millions of acres of soybeans growing in fields in south of the border, the market might become too flush with product this fall.
And that’s not good for Canadian farmers.
So, when Carney was complaining about tariffs with Trump for the news - albeit complaints going both ways, in the background was China, and of course Russia. One can look it up, yet it has been said by a few, that Carney and Trump appear to be playing a
Good Cop and Bad Cop game on China:
Trump and Carney playing "Good Cop and Bad Cop"?
However, a section of Chinese analysts believes that Donald Trump and Mark Carney are playing "Good Cop and Bad Cop" with China and its stake in multipolarity. Trump threatens to make Canada the 51st state, Carney pivots towards China and the Gulf to get $1T investment in return for the toxic assets in Canada, thus opening up the Chinese market at the same time pretend to stand up to US hegemony. All the assets in the US and Canada are unsustainably overvalued, and they require a constant flow of capital to sustain their value. So Mark Carney, since October, has visited the UAE, Qatar, and China, among many other foreign trips, securing investment for the inflated assets in Canada. This had been supported by the Trump administration despite his overt admission of the changing world order. Carney had a background at Goldman Sachs and led the UK in Brexit; he had been praised by Trump ever since his election.
Anyway, with Carney, not to be forgot is that a leopard does not change his spots. Carney does not represent citizens as anyone living in Canada had experienced, despite the platitudes when he throws around a few crumbs.
For Bay Street (and that was in 2019):
Two-Thirds of All Assets in Canada’s Economy Are Now Owned By Under 1% of All Companies
Multinational corporations currently own 67% of all assets in Canada's economy
Multinational corporations currently own 67% of all assets in Canada's economy
pressprogress.ca
by
Mitchell Thompson
April 1, 2019
Less than 1% of companies operating in Canada control over two-thirds of its assets,
new figures from Statistics Canada show.
Many of those 'assets' are under American corporate control, too, and have been for sometime. That is the fragile Canadian economic reality, should foreign corporations ever decide to pull up stakes (and they have before and are). It is also a reality that could keep the game turning over for some time to come - which may mean that tariff words of Carney and Trump are just words and numbers (with dire consequences for folks producing), as the corporations find their chairs before the music stops.
There is a reason that Mark ran the Bank or Canada back then, with quick speed dial to Ben Bernanke and Timothy Geithner. There are reasons he headed up the Bank of England, and reasons he became the UN's special envoy on climate change off the side of his desk. Big reasons he ran Brookfield Asset Management's hedge funds, along with GFANZ - reasons he captured green initiatives along with being one of the top dogs of the WEF, alongside Larry Fink.
Mark is assuredly smart...
To pause on what Carroll Quigley cites of Cecil Rhodes's circles within circles, with International Banking Rhodes big supporters, Mark is this circle. Although he is the PM and he can give marching orders, he also must take orders.
(credit to James Corbett's expose on Rhodes -
2008 Meet Carroll Quigley)
Also not to be forgot, is that Carney was given the Chair of the BIS (Bank of International Settlements) in
2017, and maybe he is fully out now that he is PM, although with him it is hard to say. However, in 2019, Carney, the soon to be outgoing Gov. of the Bank of England
said - using the pretext of C02 crises before the covidbs crises (never let a good crises go to waste) that:
“There will be industries, sectors and firms that do very well during this process because they will be part of the solution,” he said. “But there will also be ones that lag behind
and they will be punished.”
Carney
said in July: “Companies that don’t adapt will go bankrupt
without question.”
The C's once said:
A: There are benevolences evident even in the darkest circles {the Lizzies here were reference, yet expand that out to 3d circles}.
The world is looking at a lot of leaders who may appear to be in the darkest circles. Of the resent Canadian election cycle that heralded Mark to new political heights, there also appears to have been manufactured reasons:
(whitecoast) In the official Canadian election results Carney and the Liberals won 44% of the vote and the Conservatives won 41%. What percentage of real, non-rigged Canadian votes went for each?
A: 48 to conservatives. 35 to libs.
Something fishy went down, and as Candace says, I don't like it.
Will have to wait and see what Mark's true circle is, and just how benevolent he might be within it.
On Trump, he is a businessman first and foremost, and every businessman needs supportive bankers.