Canada Election 2025

We really need some better ideas.

Election day in Canada has come and gone. I hope everyone enjoyed the show. Now perhaps we can get back to thinking about how to get a new government.

The stupidly cynical have always said that it does not make any difference what party gets elected. It actually matters a lot. It is just that none of them are good options.

Each of the parties in contention do in fact represent substantially different things. None of them represent the public’s interest. All represent factions of the ruling class.

That is how oligarchy works. We live in an oligarchy, rule by an elite. We do not live in an autocracy, rule by one or a small number.

There is a general delusion that we live in a democracy, rule by the people. In the present day world, democracies are not tolerated. Unless the people are willing to fight back, and know how to, democracies get wiped out.

The thing with Canada is that most people still have not got it that they are not in a really free society. The system does not work for them. They are some way from developing the will to fight for something better.

There is a lot of passivist conditioning in Canada, as well. People think that if they avoid being aggressive, and are seen to be reasonable, they can “speak truth to power” and this is supposed to have some result. What, is not clear.

As I keep writing about the elite or ruling class, especially in Canada, I keep having to define some terms describing elite factions. Most people have no clue about these concepts.

There is so much to be said about the dynamics of interplay between oligarchic capitalist factions in societies. Yet most Marxists and other political scientists are not much interested in studying it. The ruling class is a monolithic black box to these people.

Some countries have a long history of civil strife caused by fights between oligarchies. This often gives civil society a chance to gain some power. Civil society means the public’s needs and interests, and the institutions which have grown up to serve them.

Sometimes this has allowed civil society, with high quality public services, to build up in countries. In other conditions, it has led to fascism or to reactionary conservatism. The latter means, elite factions who see civil society institutions as corrupting to society and who want it all torn down and society returned to an ideal state which never existed.

One feature of these reactionaries is that they see everything which is not them as ‘communist’. They see  most manifestations of the globalist financialist faction as ‘communist’ or ‘socialist’. To them these terms are interchangeable. They live in their own reality.

Financial capitalism means an elite faction which gets its money from rents and investments. They are better organized than industrial capitalists. They have been running a global financial empire for centuries.

However, the old globalist way of running things is in decline. The British empire had been the core of this larger empire. Canada was, of course, part of the British empire.

On the other hand are Industrial capitalists who get their money from the classic capitalist method of extracting surplus from labor. They want constant industrial expansion. Their big weakness is that, despising government, they are much less able than financialists to run governments.

Financialists generally see industrialists with contempt. They are in favour of depopulation and deindustrialization, not constant economic expansion. They really despise reactionary conservatives.

Financialists also dislike and fear socialism. However, it is socialism which inevitably represents civil society. Thus, they recognize the need to coopt socialist movements, and to maintain minimal civil institutions so as to keep the population quiet.

The biggest reason Canadians are so well controlled is that the oligarchy in Canada has usually been fairly united. We have not had elite factions fighting among themselves. Imperial financialists have been firmly in control.

We usually have not had government by industrial capitalists at a national scale. We have had some aggressive national or sectoral interest capitalists at a provincial level. We have rarely suffered outbreaks of reactionary conservatism.

For most of Canada’s history, we have been run by Financialists aligned with the British empire, and then to globalism. The United States has been an industrial capitalist country for most of its history. So, for most of Canada’s history, our elite has been hostile to the United States.

The tight relationship between Canada and The States was a recent development. It only went back to world war two. Now the Trump government has exploded that relationship and we are returning to the former mode.

The British empire always tried to contain the USA and reintegrate it back into its system. That is what the American civil war was about. That is what most of the assassinations of American presidents were about.

That is what the sabotage and destruction of any public banking and currency system the Americans tried to develop, were about. That is what the creation of the federal reserve system in 1913, by British aligned American businesses, was about. By typical British intelligence services methods, Americans were bamboozled into thinking that, by this, they had created a protection system against foreign economic disruption.

However, the British still had conflicts with many American administrations, up to Franklin Roosevelt. In post war times, they have let the Americans run Canada. This era has now come to an abrupt end.

We are going back to the earlier situation, which had persisted since the American revolution. We are the empire’s front line against rogue American capital which it cannot control. Carney’s job will be to lead us against the empire’s enemies, south of the border.

With this election, we seem to have dodged a fatal situation in Canada. However, we remain stuck in a grim one.

A reactionary conservative movement has been building in Canada. Its figurehead is Pierre Poilievre. Once such people have ripped out the core of a country’s government services, the economy and society of that country never really recover.

The Trump fiasco in the states has caused Canadians to see the consequences of such a government and to turn against the reactionary tendency. Thus, the reactionary conservatives in Canadian politics now have a problem. They are jumping to disassociate themselves from Trump.

The present Alberta premier is too stupid and fanatical to even do that and thinks she will ‘intermediate’.

So we will continue with globalist, financialist government, lead by the globalist banker Carney. Little Prince Justin was also aligned with globalism. However, he had no idea how to actually run anything.

Trudeau had the ‘sunny ways’ idea that most problems would take care of themselves if left alone. For ten years, the problems kept piling up and failed to fix themselves. Carney has spent his career managing organizations and knows that problems must be addressed.

How Carney understands the problems facing Canada, and how he will deal with them, will be interesting to see. The basic fact is that Trump has just created a big split in the Western, Atlanticist hegemony. Trump has taken semi dictatorial control in the USA and made himself the world wide leader of a combined reactionary conservative, and industrial capitalist, tendency.

Again, there will be be a serious fight between these oligarchic factions. Canada will now be on the front line of it. However, our local globalists will have plenty of “fifth column” people, aligned with Trumpism, to deal with.

These people must be coopted or rooted out. We will not hear so much of this “government is the problem” and “christian family values” nonsense in future.

Alas, what we will be getting a lot more of will be the liberal globalist narratives designed to manage us toward their objectives. These people’s aims are very real and very serious. Liberalism is often called the most dangerous ideology, and for a reason.

To further their control, globalists always try to control all opposition from within. Where that is not possible, they seek to occupy the centre position. That is, they make their control tropes seem like the most reasonable and moderate position.

They are very good at making their often really barbarous ideas seem like the only sensible course. Anyone questioning them is made to look like a lunatic. Even more interesting is their way of making what should be left issues into right wing issues.

Real left political movements are most dangerous to them. The right wing can be managed or coopted. If all else fails, right movements will usually destroy themselves, after causing a lot of damage to society.

The real left is always rigorously suppressed. A phony left is usually created. The latter are often referred to as “Fabian” socialists, after the old Fabian club in England.

The New Democrat party and its predecessors were always Fabian organizations. They help the globalists to manage the left impulses, and keep pulling left inclined people back into liberal issues and into electoralism. It is useful to liberals to let NDP and its supporters think they are responsible for most of the post war social developments.

What NDP has usually done is to restrict such developments. For example, we might have had a fully state funded medicare system in Canada if it had been fought for hard enough. The NDP enabled our flawed insurance based system and has acted like it was an astute compromise, which they actually created.

Of course, the Green Party exists to manage the ecofanatic impulses the globalists set in motion, so it does not run out of control.

The conservatives, of course, existed to cage nationalist and reactionary impulses, and industrial capitalists in general. It went off the rails around the turn of this century when the Steve Harper and International Democratic Union (IDU) types, and the Preston Manning Reform Party freaks, merged and coopted the conservative “brand”. The IDU aligned parties have been the platform for reactionary conservatives who want to replace the “communist” global liberal hegemony.

Our choices yesterday were limited to this pack of jokers. A left alternative, advocating for the public’s interest, was not on the menu. Neither was even a moderate conservative party, advocating ‘family values’ but without all the libertarian extremism.

So it is not hard to see what we will get for the next two to four years. The Carney liberals are ‘business liberals’, somewhat like the Chretien government. They will not try to take the meat axe to social services or sell off infrastructure for peanuts.

Since they have another minority situation, they will do it with the NDP monkey on their back. They can use the NDP as an excuse to do things which are necessary but which the financial lobby does not approve of; “The NDP made us do it”. The Deepers are always a useful stalking horse for determining the minimum reform which will calm unrest.

The Liberals will work to restructure government to suit their present objectives. They will go about it in a step by step way. They will make much of the public think that they are doing progressive things, the only sensible things.

They will prevent the screwhead IDU aligned provincial governments from privatizing health care. They know what a calamity that would be. They will likely ‘nationalize’ the health system, meaning put it under direct federal control.

They will keep the dental and pharmacare programs and perhaps expand them somewhat. They will maintain our minimalist health system, designed to keep the ‘productive’ part of the population healthy. The permanently disabled and elderly will still get minimal care.

You can be sure that ‘medical assistance in dying’, and ‘eldercare’ will remain, so as to insure that the unproductive members of the public do not hang around longer than necessary. The ‘treat in community’ approach to mental illness and addiction will remain in place. Thus we do not have to spend anything on facilities for them and they can just die in the streets. This has the added benefit of destabilizing poor communities.

Advanced education will not be privatized. They will still need a pool of trained people to run things. But education will be increasingly unavailable to most people.

The Carney people will likely do a lot for vital infrastructure. Transportation, local and national, will be improved. It will not be privatized.

There will be a new national housing program. The Carney people seem to have realized the mistake the Chretien liberals made when they cancelled the old housing program in the nineties. The new one will still be very paternalistic, never allowing the residents any control.

The most difficult problem the Carneyoids will have to deal with is privately owned housing, meaning the real estate bubble. It must be deflated somehow. However, most home owners in Canada think they are ‘wealthy’ because they are sitting in an asset which is priced at three or four times its real value.

Such people are doomed to disappointment. Carney’s trick will be in preventing that disappointment from turning into a catastrophic panic. Or, into support for the reactionary screwheads opposing him.

The solution for the housing bubble is really a mere accounting problem, requiring a ‘big write down’. As well, there must be a change in the way property taxes work, to discourage speculation. The very big ‘money laundering’ problem in Canada, a big cause of speculative inflation, must be dealt with.

It will be interesting to see how the globalist financial capitalists deal with this problem. Of course, what they want is to push the lower level ‘investor’ operations out of the market and own everything themselves. “You will own nothing and you will be happy” says the World Economic Forum.

The Carneyites will move quickly to realign our gas and electricity lines on an east to west axis, cutting north and south connections. The financialists already own most natural resources except oil and gas, which they will move quickly to control. The Alberta government will throw a fit about that and be slapped down.

Right wing industrialist, reactionary, and racketeer provincial governments will be taken on and removed. This will be a hard task, because they have dug themselves in. They may all start posing as Canadian patriots, but they all have connections with Trumpians and the IDU network.

Thanks to Harper, the righties have control over the ‘mainstream’ media in Canada, mostly through Post Media. But obviously, this is not such a source of power anymore. The media were against Carney, but he easily overcame that.

Over their term, Carney and friends will coopt conservative provincial establishments. That, or they will break them. Ontario’s Doug Ford, in particular, is trying to kiss up to Carney.

As for international relations and trade, Carney will align with the more pragmatic factions of the globalists. That is, the ones more interested in protecting what they have rather than maintaining global hegemony. The more intelligent of them do seem to sense that the time of this global empire is coming to an end.

These people do see China as threat number one. Unlike the industrial capitalists, they understand that they cannot take on China directly. They will try to find a way to coopt the Chinese, or to limit their influence, or simply to get agreement about ‘spheres of influence’.

This is why Carney, in the election debate, when asked what Canada’s big security threat is, answered “China”. Yet he is doing nothing to antagonize the Chinese. He clearly expects to continue or expand trade relations with them.

This aligns with the thinking of most European globalists, including the Brussels “Eurocrats”. China has to be dealt with. The cretinous Trump people, and other reactionary nationalist groups, can be isolated and gradually eliminated.

Thus it is seen, that this is the high tide for reactionaries and industrialists in Canada conservatives in Canada. From here on they are in decline. The sources of their power will be closed down.

The Liberals will continue as the ‘natural governing party’. They will always occupy the centre. Unless Carney is a lot dumber than I take him to be, he will soon bring in a system of Proportional Representation. (PR)

PR will make it easier for the Liberal party, and liberal ideology, to hold the center of Canadian politics. Advocates for PR take note; this will not result in more progressive government policies or broader political participation.

The way the minority government of the last twenty years worked, show how PR parliaments would work in Canada. There will be no coalitions. The governing party will dare the smaller parties to shut them down. It will still be able to shove through what it wants by shifting to the party to left or right of it.

A minority party would have to exert great pressure to extract minor concessions, such as the pharmacare and dental plans. These were bare minimum programs which the Liberals had few problems with bringing about. At the end of it, NDP got no credit for them, but was blamed for keeping the Liberals in office.

The Liberals still have uses for the NDP. At some time it may form a government. It would then act like a surrogate for the Liberals, much the way provincial NDP governments have acted.

So, for the foreseeable future, politics will be interesting in Canada. We will watch the total breakdown in The States and be glad we avoided that. Things will be better here than in Trumptopia, but not great.

We will live under the new globalist agenda. We will have an industrial strategy, but not one that creates a lot of jobs or prosperity. We will be on some kind of basic income system which is designed to maintain reserve and surplus populations, not to facilitate full employment.

Most people will never be able to afford homes. Gradually, people who inherited their homes will lose them.

Health care will not be privatized, but will never be very good for most people. There will be be a secret upper tier health system for, guess who?

Life will be austere. The Liberals will be permanent. Canada will become a place where people emigrate from, rather than immigrate to.

Canada will become a key country within the Atlanticist world. However, the Atlantic world will become an impoverished, isolated back water. The rest of the world will move on from Capitalism.

A generation on, Canadians will look around at the rest of the world. They will ask why a country which has such resources, which used to be one of the world’s wealthiest, has become so poor. Then the government will be changed.

It will not be changed through elections, electoral parties, or electoral politics.