Masters Of Our Destiny?
By Keith Porteous
Two thirds of the new spending in PM Mark Carney’s recently published Federal budget is earmarked for corporate tax cuts, “mega-deductions”, and other incentives for mostly foreign owned corporate investors. That amount represents a sum that is greater than all the transfers to Provinces for public healthcare combined. The cuts to public services while quadrupling the military’s budget tells you everything you need to know about the governing Liberals.
Canada is now more of a branch plant subsidiary of global capital than ever. Much of this tax funded borrowing and spending is to support a military industrial complex that fuels endless wars and the climate crisis. We are warned of the threat of authoritarianism and the rupture in “the rules based international order”, but when a government’s nationalist rhetoric and increasing peacetime militarism is merged with the private sector corporatists, Mussolini had a name for it: Fascism.
Meanwhile, Carney is striking deals with the dictatorships of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and the other Gulf States, while supporting wars of aggression against Iran, Gaza, Venezuela, Cuba, Lebanon, Sudan, and elsewhere, aided by a compliant corporate media, and all falsely in the name of human rights and democracy, while spreading fear of the “threats” coming from the Eastern powers of the global north. The Orwellian narrative is no longer just a allegorical fiction.
Most governments of the European Union and the UK enjoy less than 20% support from their citizens, who want no part of the war with Russia or Iran or China or anyone else. But Carney is cozying up to these warmongering European leaders who are all facing elections they are sure to lose to ethnonationalist parties in the next 18 months. 100s of thousands of Europeans are protesting in the streets, while Mark Carney is leading Canadians down the Primrose Path of environmental degradation, militarism and endless wars, and austerity for the working classes.
Diplomacy and peacemaking are never mentioned, and at best, the cost of living crisis for working people and the environment receives lip service. The talk of becoming an “Energy Superpower” and a leader in Ai and surveillance technology contrasts Carney’s previous writings about his “values”, the climate crisis, and the need for reconciliation with indigenous people, while Trump’s absurd rhetoric is weaponized to justify the cruel irony of Carney’s current agenda.
Sadly, the professional managerial class and most well-heeled Canadian retirees buy into the justifications of Carneyism, the fear mongering and warmongering, in the most self-serving compliance with these extraordinary measures taken by the Liberal government. 40% of Canadians now skip some meals, as their ability to afford the basics of life becomes less and less. Intelligent people have been led to believe that Carney is needed to save us all from our “enemies”.
This latest Canadian Federal Budget is ominously titled, “Masters Of Our Destiny.” Who are these masters, and which destiny are they referring to? The masters of the globalist World Economic Forum that promises us that in the near future we will own nothing and we’ll be happy, while receiving a digital chip implanted under our skin? I wish it was an exaggeration, but that is the vision we are offered from the WEF, and the warlords of techno-feudalism.
It’s time to resist and reject these would be “masters”, and take hold of
our own destinies.
