Well, it certainly took long enough, but at the end of April - the 28th to be exact - Canadians are going to the national polls.

For the first time in what seems like eons, there won't be a weepy, woke Fidelito Trudeau at the head of the Liberal ticket.

Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau cried like a petulant child in his last moments in office. pic.twitter.com/OhHm5Jut2t

— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) March 14, 2025

Don't cry for me, Fidelito!

The truth is, I never liked you.

Under normal circumstances, one would imagine anything or anyone replacing the ineffectual 51st governor would instantly be a vast improvement over the wimpishly whingey and malevolently manipulative man-child. 

Not these are not normal times.

Canadian liberals shuffled off their moribund coil and hand-selected a World Economic Forum (WEF)/Davos devotee global banker type, who has earned somewhat of a reputation for expedient decision-making and who's never really cared for spending time in Canada at all, as their next prime minister.

Mark Carney has never been on a ballot in his entire life, and here he is - Prime Minister of Canada.

The rest of Canada was pretty unhappy about how this all went down, and it proved to be a welcome break for the Conservative Party head, Peter Poilievre. 

Once a high-wire act and sure 'next thing' for prime minister in the era of Trudeau's general dystopian incompetence, Mr Poilievre had been taking a beating lately thanks to Trump's unrelenting Canada bashing and his seemingly tongue-tied inability to formulate a coherent response to it.

He simply couldn't do any better than, 'Canada's great! Don't be mean!'

Pierre Poilievre: "My message to President Trump — Knock It Off."

Donald Trump: "Who or what is a Peter Polyliar?"#NeverPoilievre #pierrepoilievreisbroken pic.twitter.com/ZM8WbP2kNO

— Paul D. Heaslip 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 (@HugoMonster96) March 7, 2025

Swan dive in the polls.

Personally, I think Trump threw him a bone when he talked up Carney and said it was a shame Poilievre 'stupidly' didn't like him very much. 

I might not be the only psychic working the 1-800-OCa-nada numbers this weekend.

Leftists are openly and with a straight face suggesting that Trump and Poilièvre are WORKING TOGETHER on a "mass reverse psychology play". https://t.co/fghTVkufqN pic.twitter.com/P5dAtCahgt

— Marc Mongrain (@Lukathor) March 20, 2025

Would you put it past Trump?

Not me.

In the meantime, the slickster appointed banker turned prime minister from 'Eat the Bugs' world has been running into headwinds. 

First, as an Oxford graduate, he was probably surprised to get hit with a plagiarism scandal.

Mark Carney is facing serious accusations of plagiarism in his Oxford doctoral thesis, with academics identifying multiple uncredited passages lifted.

Northern Perspective’s Tanya and Ryan joined The Candice Malcolm Show to discuss: https://t.co/bCZQsw9mgj pic.twitter.com/QdlpRGxDdf

— Juno News (@junonewscom) March 30, 2025

But, as he sits on Harvard's board and voted to keep their serial plagiarist in her cushy job, it was more an institutional failure than personal.

Fun fact for Canadians.

Mark Carney @markjcarney is a Member of the Board of Harvard - https://t.co/9vm9LhFVQA

Carney voted to keep President Gay despite evidence of her own Plagiarism and Institutional Anti-Semitism and discrimination against Asians by Harvard under her… https://t.co/xwScbtnStn

— Andrew Haynes (@AndrewJWHaynes) December 23, 2023

So many of those educated elites from those same schools seem to suffer from the same maladies, don't they?

So strange.

That little brouhaha was only beginning to blow over when other, more pertinent to life in Canada, scandals erupted.

The first is Carney's fascination with China. His many public statements touting Chinese economic prowess and his preference for them are being revisted.

When Mark Carney tells you what he wants, believe him. pic.twitter.com/uEn7UamBPA

— Canada Proud (@WeAreCanProud) April 1, 2025

Canadians find this particularly alarming in the face of Carney's announcement that he has no intention of building any new Canadian pipelines or allowing any new fossil fuel operations.

Mark Carney is clear he will not meet any of the asks to assert Canada’s energy independence.

Like Justin Trudeau, he just doesn’t believe that there’s a business case for our natural resources.

Yet Germany, Japan and Greece wanted our LNG.

Canada can’t afford Mark Carney. pic.twitter.com/5LLXx4CBZe

— Stephanie Kusie (@StephanieKusie) April 1, 2025

This, as Poilievre points out, will keep Canadians dependent on the United States.

BREAKING: Mark Carney says, "we do not plan to repeal Bill C-69."

This Liberal law blocked BILLIONS of dollars of investment in oil & gas projects, pipelines, LNG plants, mines, and so much more - all of which would create powerful paycheques for our people.

A 4th Liberal… pic.twitter.com/0eaJZ9ASrt

— Pierre Poilievre (@PierrePoilievre) April 1, 2025

Hard as it is to believe, one of the knocks on Poilievre is that he has always been 'Canada first' and doesn't suffer fools gladly. It seems that's a bad thing.

...One of Poilievre's slogans — "Canada First" — echoes Trump's own talk of putting "America first." He uses "woke" as an all-purpose pejorative and says he is on the side of "common sense." He has toyed with conspiracy theories and said he would ban his ministers from attending the World Economic Forum.

Poilievre thrives on conflict and has attacked major media outlets and accused them of being in league with the Liberal government. He also took to describing Liberal policies as "wacko" (after being ejected from the House of Commons for using that word to describe the prime minister).

Sadly, according to the Canadian press, Poilievre also uses the same English as Trump.

This is also a bad thing, it would seem. 

Much worse than denying your country energy independence and allowing your ministers to go to Davos. 

And seriously, why would you want to change when Davos has already come to you?