Carney surrenders domestic law to the Trump regime yet again
We are not a sovereign country if our laws are dictated by a foreign empire.
In the year since Mark Carney and his Liberals won a minority government—and the slightly smaller period of time since they illegitimately stole a majority through the craven practice of floor-crossing—the Prime Minister has governed contrary to his “elbows up” campaigning, repeatedly adjusting Canadian laws in order to appease the Trump regime in the United States.
While the Trudeau government brought in the Digital Services Tax, ensuring that companies which earn revenue in Canada have to pay corporate income tax on that revenue, Carney removed it at Trump’s whim. Indeed, the official government press release from June 2025 explicitly tells the Canadian public that the Digital Services Tax was being removed in order to hopefully solicit lower tariffs from Trump.
Did that happen? Of course not. Just a few months later in September, Carney would remove retaliatory tariffs on the United States, conceding defeat to Trump and accepting that the tariffs would remain, while public commentators in the peanut gallery crowed that trying to stand up for Canada was pointless. Did Carney then proceed to restore the Digital Services Tax that he gave up on the condition of lower tariffs? Again, of course not! We gave that up for nothing, and got nothing in exchange.
And now, when the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) attempts to impose an equal playing field for Canadian broadcasters and international streamers, Carney steps in again to compromise Canadian interests on behalf of the Yankee Empire.
Currently, Canadian television broadcasters have to contribute 30-45% of revenues towards the production of shows and films with Canadian crews and cast, known as “CanCon”. Streamers, on the other hand, only have to contribute 5% of their revenue, an order of magnitude less. To partially equalize this, the CRTC recently stated they would use their regulatory authority to lower broadcasters down to 25%, and raise streamers up to 15%.
But after U.S. corporate lobby groups and Yankee political officials condemned the idea that their streaming companies would have to return their individual success back into Canadian cultural institutions—like all broadcasters and streamers here already have to do, and like many countries around the world require of broadcasters and streamers operating in their respective territory—Prime Minister Carney moved swiftly.
He has directed the CRTC to cease this proposal, claiming the well-established practice of CanCon which supports our local artists will “fall on Canadian consumers through higher prices”, a recklessly neoliberal perspective towards cultural works. Carney’s capitalist background restricts his vision, only allowing him to picture artistic expression through the exploitable lens of “content” that can be packaged and sold.
Can I assume that Mark Carney and the Canadians who elected him are proud that Ambassador Pete Hoekstra praised this decision? Is it fair to assume they’re also proud that Trump and Hoekstra have revived their 51st State annexationist talk, and that Canada is rewarding it with even more capitulation on our domestic laws? Are these things that make you feel good about being Canadian?
And your elbows, Canada, where are your elbows? You boasted to the world of your extremely robust and prominent elbows, which would remain upward as long as the Yankees threatened to conquer your nation and make you the 51st State! Yet the only elbows I see on your arms are weak and floppy, atrophied from lack of use. Canadians may not wish to hear this, but the truth is that from the global perspective, Canadians are willing supplicants bowing at the feet of our Yankee masters and begging for table scraps like an animal.
We have willingly sacrificed our authority to write laws in Canada in order to appease a fascist empire to the south. Any time Parliament passes a bill that Trump or his advisors do not like, they get Hoekstra to whine about it at a public event, and then Carney comes to heel like a well-trained dog and follows the U.S. Ambassador’s commands.
And worst of all? The debate over this capitulation will be waved away by news of Carney’s next capitulation. Our country will be sold away bit by bit, piece by piece, until Carney has accomplished his recently-stated goal of helping Trump “make America great again” at the expense of everything Canadians value and hold dear.
Get ready to keep losing, Canada. This is what we voted for.