Mr. Carney,
You stood at a podium yesterday and told Canadians that this country thrives because we are Canadian.
It was a beautiful line. Polished. Applause ready. It was also insulting.
Because it confuses thriving with surviving, and only someone who has never had to do either could make that mistake so confidently.
Canadians do not thrive the way you describe.
We endure. We adapt. We make do. We get through.
We get up early not because it is inspiring, but because bills do not care about speeches. We work late not because it is fulfilling, but because standing still is not an option. We shovel our own driveways because help is expensive, unreliable, or nonexistent, and we still show up on time.
That is not thriving, Mr. Carney. That is survival with dignity.
We survive when systems fail. We adjust when costs rise. We absorb broken promises and carry on anyway. There is no applause line for that, because survival does not photograph well.
We survive because farmers plant knowing Ottawa might change the rules halfway through the season. Because tradespeople build while being taxed, regulated, and lectured by people who have never risked payroll on a slow month. Because parents budget groceries like a tactical exercise and still manage to raise decent kids without permission from a federal narrative.
We survive because Canadians are practical. When something breaks, we fix it ourselves. Not because we want to, but because waiting for government help usually means waiting forever. Or being told the service exists on paper.
You speak of thriving while Canadians quietly ask which services you are referring to.
Healthcare that exists in theory. Housing plans that never house anyone. Affordability programs that arrive long after the damage is done.
We survive because communities step in when institutions step back. Not because systems are strong, but because neighbours are. We rely on each other because experience has taught us not to rely on governments that measure success by how well they explain failure.
We survive because small businesses stayed open through lockdowns, fines, shortages, and paperwork that multiplied faster than revenue. Because families absorbed inflation while being told it was temporary. Because seniors adapted quietly to shrinking purchasing power while politicians assured them relief was coming.
You call this thriving.
Canadians call it getting through.
We survive because we know how to get through winters. Literal ones and political ones. We stock up. We brace ourselves. We do not expect rescue, especially from people who have never had to wait for it.
We survive because we question authority. Just ask the Freedom Convoy. Canadians have an instinctive allergy to being ordered around by people who exempt themselves from the consequences. We remember what happens when compliance is mistaken for unity.
We survive because we do not confuse slogans with reality, no matter how high the elbows go or how loudly we are told to clap. We know the difference between leadership and performance. Between patriotism and appropriation.
And while governments waste money, restrict rights, censor speech, divide citizens, and congratulate themselves, Canadians quietly keep the country functioning anyway.
That is not thriving. That is resilience under pressure.
So when you tell Canadians they thrive because they are Canadian, it lands differently on those of us who have actually lived it.
Because confusing survival with thriving is easy if you have never had to survive.
And that is the problem.
Mark Carney speaks of thriving from a life buffered by boards, institutions, and global forums. A life spent above the consequences does not teach you the difference between getting ahead and just getting through.
Those who have never had to survive often mistake endurance for success, and then try to take credit for it.
So no, Mr. Carney.
Canadians are not thriving because of you.
We are surviving despite a government that made life harder, more expensive, more divided, and then attempted to dress our endurance up as its achievement.
Our resilience is not your accomplishment.
It is proof of a people who carried each other while being lectured by someone who does not recognize the difference.
And Canadians are done applauding the performance.
My advice to you Mr. Carney?
Before defining Canadians, try surviving as one.
As always,
Melanie in Saskatchewan
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This is what I wrote:
“Trump wants a strong Europe, but not a bureaucratic, anti free speech Europe that is stagnating their own economies and is oblivious to the radicalization of international organizations by authoritarian regimes”
I didn’t say that there are authoritarian regimes in Europe 🤷♂️
But Europe is totally absent many times when the UN is following the lead of Russia and China on Israel
The WHO is hijacked by China and Europe is not doing anything
Etc etc
The BBC started with some great points ⬇️
But, the real reason that Trump is attacking friends is because the “friends” have been abusing the USA and have become lazy and complacent
Trump wants a strong Europe, but not a bureaucratic, anti free speech Europe that is stagnating their own economies and is oblivious to the radicalization of international organizations by authoritarian regimes
The middle powers can align either with the USA and be friends or align with China and be dealt with as “not a friend” 🤷♂️
The stakes are too high
Trump will go down as one of the most transformational international leaders. In a very good way 😍
Carney seems to go for China
Canada will pay a very heavy price
The Monroe doctrine won’t allow it
@AnthonyBatuka@business Carni is a joke and he thinks that he can take on the US he will make Canada into another shithole country as per Trumps definition. He is all bluster and no action.
A Muslim immigrant like you Mehdi, annoyed on behalf of other Muslim immigrants, can’t stand that someone with Elon Musk’s caliber is calling out the Islamic scam you’re peddling to the West.
Not because he’s African born, not because he votes, but because he’s the one immigrant whose success exposes every failure of your supremacist game.
Difference is: he built civilization-level tech, your crowd mostly burns it down.
You don’t actually care about immigrants; you care about importing supremacy.
And don’t act like calling non-Muslims apes and pigs was a gaffe; you spat that at Westerners, right from the book, and still haven’t washed it off your tongue.
Then you took every freedom: speech, women’s freedoms, merit, democracy, that your culture never birthed and turned them into weapons against the West. Against Jews. Against billionaires. Against anyone winning.
Meanwhile? No outrage for honor killings in Iran, no tears for raped Saudi girls, no spotlight on the women locked in Doha’s basement apartments, bought and sold by the same tyrants who sign your check.
How many segments on slavery right under their stadium lights? How many questions about Qatar’s terror wallet or Al Jazeera’s Brotherhood marching orders?
You spit at democracy yet cash their blood money.
All you do is shame the only functioning system you’ve ever succeeded in.
You’re not a journalist. You’re a funded agitator.
Instead of being a bastion of high quality impartial news, the BBC has been exposed as an organisation promoting anti semitism, distorting facts, censoring truth and shamefully promoting Hamas propaganda.
@moparmaidenbc@DrCaseyBabb@netanyahu What bullshit Israel and USA are not signatories to the ICC and there it has no jurisdiction. Canada is a puppet as is Carney who behaves like a lapdog and is leading Canada down a
road of destruction
I visited the Dizengoff Square memorial in Tel Aviv, a site of remembrance and resilience.
The attack on October 7th wasn't an attack on soldiers alone, women, children, the elderly, nobody was spared by the scum of Hamas.
I suspect every single Israeli, was either related or knew someone mercilessly attacked by the savages.
And the cowardly @Keir_Starmer bottled it and chose to "recognise Palestine" rather than stand with Israel.
He doesn't speak for Brits, the majority stand with Israel against the islamists surrounding their nation, as the UK is suffering the same fate.
@MarkJCarney Why would you go to Sharm el Sheik you are such an insignificant leader and embarrassment to all Canadian Jews. You Starmer and Macron did everything possible to obstruct the deal. Shame on you
@Waldo_the_doggo @LindaFrum@AHousefather Not your country you stole it from from the Indigenous people and think it is justified by apologizing for being on un seeded territory. So you fuck off