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Nice Piece On King Carney
15/10/25
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Oct. 13, 2025
As some Canadians organize "No Kings" rallies in solidarity with their American friends, perhaps it is time to organize something at home, where King Carney continues his domestic and global blitz of authoritarian policy imposition, never missing an opportunity to avoid consultation and accountability.
Since assuming office based on people's fears of a PP-led authoritarian regime, King Carney has adopted the conservative platform and gone further, rushing through legislation that failed to consult Indigenous peoples, slashing up to 85% of funding to a government agency (Women and Gender Equality) without consulting 52% of the population, stealing hundreds of billions that could provide housing, health care, education and daycare for an already bloated war budget, and now attending an "occupation that slows the pace of genocide" summit where the people most affected, Palestinians, are not represented or consulted.
King Carney attends because, some media pundits say, Canada has a role to play in making the peace. Yet this disappears our complicity since day one until now of supplying arms to the aggressor, of providing diplomatic cover to an apartheid regime whose leaders have international war crimes arrests warrants out for them, and consistently dehumanizing Palestinians being genocided.
As King Trump completes his "occupation that slows the pace of genocide" victory lap ("we agree with your goals, just tone down the methods") in a house full of war criminals (from which two brave Knesset members were ejected for demanding a Palestinian state), King Carney's scent for imperial exploitation (The Gaza Riviera, where genocided peoples will work be forced to work slave labour jobs at casinos, brothels, and sweat shops) leads him to a nefarious gathering today (the next one of which will be helmed by King Starmer) where he will remain tight-lipped in the presence of his fellow political and moral contemptibles.
King Carney won't even speak up for the rights of his own child when King Trump slams nonbinary children to his face at the White House. Canada's AI-bot prime minister won't speak up for or represent us either.
So a No Kings Rally aimed at the self-appointed Canadian King makes a lot of sense. As does resistance to his brutal agenda. It's not just coming on the horizon, it is already here. That's no reason to give up and say there is nothing we can do. There is plenty we can do. Flight attendants who defied the king showed us that. Indigenous people who will be as always the front lines of resistance consistently show us that. Palestinian solidarity advocates have shown us that. Flotillas taking on one of the most brutal of the world's militaries have shown us that. [See https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10237773444896283&set=a.10201306106115605 ]
As June Jordan tells us, "We are the ones we've been waiting for." And we are. Each of us can bring our own special talent to the resistance. And many are already (and have long been) involved. Take heart from our friends, our fellow resisters, and those who despite facing this authoritarianism all their lives continue to speak up, act out, and dream about and work on creating new futures.
Each day a new dawn, each day a new possibility.
[Top photo: Prime Minister Mark Carney participates in an announcement at a community centre in Ottawa, on Friday, Oct. 10. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
