‘Nostalgia is not a strategy’: Mark Carney is emerging as the unflinching realist ready to tackle Trump | Mark Carney
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/21/nostalgia-is-not-a-strategy-mark-carney-is-emerging-as-the-unflinching-realist-ready-to-tackle-trump
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In addition to “nostalgia is not a strategy”, the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination, him calling out, well, the world’s response to Trump is what catches my attention, saying __”we negotiate from weakness. We accept what is offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.”__
I was watching a CBC panel discussion on this topic, and the one thing that stood out to me was how frank and in tune with the realist reality of the new world order they all were. The panel seemed to agree that there will come a time that the USA will try to divide Canada in an effort to conquer us.
This is the new reality. Managing this risk is something that must now underpin every policy the government pursues.
When Canadians think of division, we only seem to think of Quebec Separatism and Alberta Separatism.
However, as a British Columbian, I think there is a far greater and more divisive threat growing in my province that has much more of a chance of boiling over than anything happening anywhere else in this country, and we are not paying any attention to it.
The entire situation regarding Reconciliation, land claims, Aboriginal Title, the race based jurisdiction that comes with it, and threats to public lands and private property that it poses, in my opinion, is a real national security threat for Canada and its unity.
The Overton Window has shifted drastically in BC over the last 6 months, and we need to take these matters seriously before the pot boils over.
The longer Reconciliation goes on without any aim or end goal, the more uncertainty around property rights it creates, the more jurisdiction our province gives up to race based orders of government, and the more access to public lands and parks we lose, it will all inevitably lead to anger and rage that the USA will exploit.
Citizens are not going to Reconcile forever. Citizens are not going to accept the apartheid that Reconciliation calls for. We are not going to give up title to the land underneath our homes. We are not going to be barred from entering our public parks. We are not going have communal property like fishing rights taken away. We are not going to pay taxes to a racial group. We are not going to let race based orders of government, that we have no democratic say on, tell us what to do.
I truly believe that if this is pushed any further, if the opportunity were to arise, British Columbians would likely choose to become subjects of the American Empire than do what the Reconciliation ideology calls for.
This is becoming a real threat to our country, I implore those in power to not let it go unnoticed and unaddressed before it is too late.
We need to put the prosperity of Canada ahead of the Reconciliation ideology. Stop with the nostalgia of a pre-colonial Canada. The reality is, Canada exists now, Canadians are all here to stay, and we are not going to Reconcile our country away. That is the realistic reality our governments need to come to terms with.
You’re welcome to disagree with me. I’d just like to leave this comment here for whoever in government may be reading.
When Churchill made his ‘we shall never surrender’ speech, the most important line was a dog whistle to the Empire.
‘And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old.’
Unfortunately Canada does not have an Empire to rely on or the means to credibly create the conditions to have other insert themselves on our behalf. This speech was made at our country’s peril and hopefully will not have negative ramifications.