I’m actually losing my mind about this trillionaire news and about the people defending it. Sick, sick world. EW

John Stuart Mill nailed Canada’s problem. A free country cannot survive when one side controls the schools, media, bureaucracy, courts, and cultural institutions, then treats every serious objection as misinformation, hate, or extremism. If your argument cannot survive open debate, it is not wisdom. It is weakness wearing a government badge. Canada’s problem is not that Canadians disagree. Healthy countries disagree. The problem is that too many people in power no longer think they should have to answer the other side. They confuse slogans with thought and moral posing with truth. Mill understood what our political class has forgotten: you do not even understand your own position until you can state the opposing case honestly and refute it fairly. Canada needs more of that again. Less censorship. Less sneering. Less expert class arrogance. More courage. More debate. More freedom.

He may have a PhD in economics, Richard but he governs like an ideologue first and an economist second. A serious Canadian leader would understand geography, trade, energy, defence, and hard power. Canada is tied to the United States by continent, economy, supply chains, security, and reality. Europe can talk about a “new world order” all it wants. Canada does not get to float above the map because Mark Carney prefers Davos poetry over North American facts. A PhD is supposed to sharpen judgment. In his case, ideology keeps overruling it.