Technocracy or Plutocracy in Canada? Through | 1being

Technocracy or Plutocracy in Canada?

Through you honourable Greg Fergus,

Recently PM Trudeau has effectively appointed his successor of Mark Carney, Much as his father Pierre Trudeau effectively appointed John Turner his successor, after his own resignation. What is relatively different is that Mark is the most technocratic-plutocratic candidate to date, with no political experience, but with much business, economic and international experience.

Notably the most successful such technocratic appointee in recent history has been Vladimir Vladimirovych Putin, who likewise had no experience running in politics, but had experience as director of the secret service or FSB. At least for the people of Russia it was a good choice, with substantial improvement in quality of life on many metrics. That said, I doubt Mark Carney would seize and hold on to power like Putin.

The most notable Plutocratic appointee is Elon Musk, who seems to be the third wheel of the most plutocratic US administration to date, with Trump being a billionaire himself, and VP JD Vance being backed by notable billionaire Peter Thiel. Of course many billionaires were assembled for the inauguration including Bezos and Zuckerberg.

Mark Carney having only 5-10 million of net worth may not seem like much, but it is enough to be isolated from the day to day problems of regular Canadians. Justin had net worth of 96 million, and Chrystia 40 million, with Pierre Poilievre pulling in at 25 million. None of them can understand what it means to have difficulty affording a place to live or food on their plate. None of them have to work multiple jobs to try to make ends meet. And none of them can comprehend that people could want land to provide for their needs, since money and jobs can't for an increasing plurality of Canadians.

Trump while sitting at his white house desk announced 25% tariffs against Canada will go into effect on February 1st. A month and a half before parliament is back in session and can respond. Premier Doug Ford is planning on counter tariffs, which will raise the price of bananas, oranges, and other subtropical and tropical food from Florida, punishing Ontarians more than anyone else. Danielle Smith wishes to negotiate and use diplomacy to avoid tariffs, which seems a more sensible approach. Counter-tariffs would only hurt Canadians, and put more money in Ottawa's wasteful pockets.

Mark Carney's plans for improving things in Canada are largely a mystery, but from what he has said, it seems he comes from an economic background much like Pierre that believes in infinite natural resources, as if they could be printed like currency. Carney is intent on "Net Zero", while Pierre on increasing oil production, the vast Alberta tar sands, if magically converted into usable crude at affordable prices, can extend global oil gluttony an additional 4-5 years, so that global oil production will start to rapidly decline in the mid to late 2030's instead of the early 2030s.

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If Mark Carney and Pierre were aware of geophysical limits and took them seriously, they would be able to make sane policies, that could actually help people. Carney's promotion of Net Zero as something we have to "do" indicates he is perhaps blissfully unaware that Net Zero is something that happens to us as we run out of fossil fuel reserves, and that a leader's job at this time is to help the country navigate the terrain of inevitable energy descent. While Mark likes to take the credit for saving Canada during the 2008 bank defaults, that has more to do with Canada's no reserve banking system, where it's very difficult for a bank to go bankrupt, and housing policies which make it almost impossible for housing prices to go down due to rampant hoarding by plutocrats.

Recent economic downturn in Canada while certainly have some to do with financial decisions, but correlate quite well with decline in surplus energy to power unsustainable urban lifestyles. Without a rural transition, things can only get worse, no matter how much superficial monetary policy is changed. Canadians need Real wealth, meaning Land, and that can only happen if there is a recognition of the human right to land, and land protection acts to force hoarders to sell, so regular Canadians can own homes where they can grow their own food and firewood, like the Chinese, Indians, Russians, Burkina Fasos and Ukrainians.

The Real wealth disparity has only been getting worse in Canada and the west, and that's why everything is in decline. Ag_access_rural_employ.png

If Mark Carney is actually willing to help Canadians with their Real problems, would be happy to have him on my long form podcast with international scientists and experts familiar with resource constraints of sustainable transition and what is possible, as well as what is reasonable to accomplish given our time and resource constraints. We are having one in February. Here is our most recent one that featured Nobel Prize winner Mathis Wackernagel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aE-Kj58arY

Until Canadian politicians become brave enough to tackle the Real problem, Canada's prospects look grim indeed. If anyone knows why Canadian politicians are afraid of addressing or even admitting there are real problems or solutions, please do inform us. Without real solutions, we may be looking at massive depopulation in the coming decade and a half, and possible dissolution of the government, for refusing to address the real issues. Ultimately the people who survive the ineptitude will be able to make their own real solutions in the aftermath, so humanity at least will survive, even if only a small remnant.

Will Carney be brave enough to step up to the challenge? If his precursor John Turner is anything to go by, he may only have 79 days in office, possibly less. So he will have to put forward legislation that can garner bipartisan support and help Canadians within the first few days of parliament re-opening.

While the situation in Canada may seem dire, each of us bear the responsibility for its future, through how we nourish our hearts, and spread that love to those around us. No matter what happens, even if our politicians insist to continue driving off a cliff while not letting anyone have the means to land, we have to rally our hearts, and put our faith in God to provide a way out of the maelstrom. For we can not defeat the callous cruelty of our society through bickering, but only through forgiveness, love and kindness for each other, and saying that yes, humans do deserve land to live on, so they can provide for themselves.

As the Confederation has said: 2022/0814: "we assure you that—whatever your position in society, reinforced as it is by the sense that you can do little to affect the outcome of trends and forces and politics and governments greater than yourself—each has a critical role to play. You would not be here if you had no part to play. And that role is, first and foremost, that which transpires not on the outer plane of your actions, but within the sanctum of your heart. Wherever you may find your body—in this city, in your bedroom, at the workplace—fourth density is born, shall we say, in your chest where your true power resides to create change in this world, which is to say, to change yourself by allowing, by trusting, by taking time to set aside your preconceived notions and your plans about what should be done and what needs to be done, and by listening. And as you change your heart—or shall we say, heal your heart—and allow the layers and the burdens that you have carried for so long to fall away, light shines through you, not by virtue of a particular feat or some particular talent, but because you are discovering who you really are. You are discovering that you are the One; you are that which made this; you are that which chose to forget what you really are that you might play the game of returning to that which you never left. And in this return and in this allowing, light shines through your mind/body/spirit complex. Not the light of your personality per se, which is its own light, but the light of the Creator."

May you be blessed,