Pied Piper Carney

Opinion

Pied Piper Carney

Patrick Jamieson, Victoria, BC

Volume 41  Issue 7, 8, & 9 | Posted: October 5, 2026

Pied Piper of Hamelin: iStock image

Whether we like it or not, Mark Carney is the pied piper of Hamelin. He has entranced the entire country to follow him like children along the enchanting path he is convinced only he can see as the way out of the Big Mess.

Donald Trump is but a symptom of the distress that has paralyzed our will. Trump is single-handedly dismantling capitalism as we know it. Carney is the clearheaded prophet who is up to the job of saving a system, as the banker’s banker figure, that actually is at the root of the problem.

He may well be up to the job but the job will result in worse folly than what we fear from Trump. Carney has everyone thinking with their wallets; how to get out of this disaster fiscally intact. If anyone can do it, Mark can.

Today I heard from another social democrat that he voted Liberal last election. All the Greens went the same way. Carney is a wizard at talking us out of our convictions.

As a pied piper he is leading us astray by charming tunes. Single-handedly he destroyed Liberalism, replacing it with a faux progressive conservatism.

By saving a system that is rotten to the core, because it is fed by a self preservations form of greed instead of love and respect for the lowliest, the planet is burning, demagogues like Trump rule and the rich get richer while the poor get poorer despite the best intentions of faux liberals.

Small wonder genuine progressive Conservatives like Doug Roche are so full of anguish at how Carney is leading us astray , principally on the environment, arms race and social program files. Pensions, labour rights and health care are in sights as the eventual casualties.

Carney has promised what slick Liberals have promised since confederation, that the solution to all our problems is to think bigger. His is a wrongheaded plan, that at best or worst, will result in the preservation of a system that perpetuates the conditions that manufactures the Donald Trumps of this world.

Like children we are being led down the garden path by his pied uniform of demure manners. His Davos speech amounts to Chicken Little’s tune ‘the sky is falling.’ Yes, Mark but it started 65 years ago at least, when the contradictions of the system became undeniably transparent.

   

Patrick Jamieson, Victoria, BC