Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney. I call him Sam Slick
Thomas Chandler Haliburton's Sam Slick (1835) was a fast-talking Yankee clockmaker who sold Nova Scotians things they didn't need through "soft sawder and human natur." A charming, slick outsider peddling optimism and moving on.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Slick
Carney: 13 years at Goldman Sachs, then the Bank of Canada, then the Bank of England, then Brookfield Asset Management, then the UN's climate envoy, then Prime Minister.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 Sam Slick: Canada is getting a sovereign wealth fund. What are they and how might this one work?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-sovereign-wealth-fund-explainer-9.7179217
Sovereign wealth funds are state-owned investment accounts, usually started with a country's extra money
Extra money, meh! Huge economy (9th globally, with under 42M population) yet "austerity budgets." Underfunded social programs, infrastructure, services; overpriced goods. Capitalist utopia.
...
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
... Mark Carney launched GFANZ to unite global finance around net-zero; when the big banks quietly quit, he walked away too. Now he's rebranded as Canada's nationalist bulwark against Trump - e.g. his Davos conference bravado. 🤨
Sam Slick always had a new clock to sell.
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 capitalist drain 💸 - Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 2
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/mark-carney-defence-strategy-9.7255274
💰️ Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism #billionaires #inequality #IndustrialComplexes : military, prison, poverty ...
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability ✊️
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 Can democratic socialism chart a new path for Canada?
https://breachmedia.ca/can-democratic-socialism-chart-a-new-path-for-canada/
Matthew Green, Judy Rebick, and Martin Lukacs join Desmond Cole to discuss the future of the NDP
💰️ Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism #billionaires #inequality #IndustrialComplexes : military, prison, poverty ...
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability ✊️
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 #SamSlick aka Mark Carney - While We Watch the U.S., Canada’s Democracy Is Quietly Eroding
https://cfe.torontomu.ca/blog/2026/06/while-we-watch-us-canadas-democracy-quietly-eroding
https://www.v-dem.net/documents/75/V-Dem_Institute_Democracy_Report_2026_lowres.pdf
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 #SamSlick aka Mark Carney Took Speech Ideas f. Billionaire-Founded "Build Canada"
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/115722034024313189
Pro-AI/fossil fuel group says it’s great to see its ideas get taken up by government 🤨
Carney Under the Sway of Broligarchs
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/06/24/Carney-Under-Sway-Broligarchs/
Build Canada’s advocates: wealthy; pro-tech; piling up wins in Ottawa
Feds push 3 projects in Canada's North declared developments of national interest
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mpo-greys-bay-mackenzie-highway-nuclear-waste-9.7247003
... Build Canada Act #capitalism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Canadian_Economy_Act#Part_II:_Building_Canada_Act
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 #SamSlick aka Mark Carney Is Selling Off Canada’s Publicly Owned Tech Gem. Why?
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/06/25/Carney-Selling-Canada-Publicly-Owned-Tech-Gem/
Leading the charge is Build Canada and a broligarchy of AI boosters. Second in a series.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broligarchy
Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism #billionaires #inequality #IndustrialComplexes
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability ✊️
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 Mark Carney #SamSlick - Canada’s massive military buildup: Part 1
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/canadas-massive-military-buildup-part-1-9.7255261
* since elected he’s poured billions of dollars into defence
* plans to triple Canada’s defence expenditures in the next 10 years
* proposing to grow Canada’s defence industry revenues by 240%
Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf
Wealth <--> protects <-> power
#capitalism #billionaires #inequality #IndustrialComplexes military...
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 #SamSlick aka Mark Carney eliminating watchdog overseeing companies operating abroad
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-eliminating-canadian-ombudperson-for-responsible-enterprise-9.7232539
Critics said the office created under Trudeau lacked teeth << so, just abandon the effort? 🤨
* eliminating watchdog position responsible for investigating allegations of human rights violations committed by Canadian companies operating abroad >> e.g. Israeli genocide of Palestinians
💰️ Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/116704428152871254
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 #SamSlick i.e. Mark Carney: Government is ‘shredding’ environmental rules & ‘misleading’ Canadians -- former advisors
https://thenarwhal.ca/carney-canada-net-zero-committee
Federal gov
shut out its own climate science/policy advisors
gutted 🇨🇦’s environ. protections in favor of oil/gas
Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism #IndustrialComplexes
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability ✊️
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 #SamSlick - Prime Minister Mark Carney's government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-30-changes-pesticide-use-pest-control-products-act-9.7240832
Bill C-30 gives cabinet power to greenlight use for economic or food security reasons
* capitalist playbook: profits over people, planet
💰️ Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf
Wealth <-> protects <-> power
#capitalism #IndustrialComplexes
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability ✊️
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = climate change
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 #SamSlick: Mark Carney gov. passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-30-changes-pesticide-use-pest-control-products-act-9.7240832
Bill C-30 gives cabinet power to greenlight use for economic or food security reasons 🤔
Democratic backslide empowering corporations: profits over people/environment
Food security: reign in food retail profiteering
💰️ Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf
Wealth <-> protects <-> power
#capitalism #IndustrialComplexes
v.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 Mark Carney #SamSlick - Bill C-30: Privatizing airports & letting oil companies profit off Iran war
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/bill-c-30-privatizing-airports-and-letting-oil-companies-profit-off-the-iran-war
Capitalist gov't at work
* airport privatization
* lack of an excess profits tax on oil & gas companies during the Iran war
* ongoing program of federal public sector cuts
Capitalism 💰️️- The cancer consuming society & the planet 🌎️️
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/116704428152871254
Wealth <-> protects <-> power
#capitalism #IndustrialComplexes
v.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 Mark Carney aka #SamSlick hard at work: Ottawa Is Plotting New Ways To Contain Worker Power
https://www.readthemaple.com/ottawa-is-plotting-new-ways-to-contain-worker-power
"“Building Canada Strong for All – Powered by Canada’s Workers 🤔
Consultation on Labour Code changes an attempt to reduce labor disruption at behest of employers.
Protecting 's elites ...
Capitalism: Cancer consuming society, planet
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/116704428152871254
Wealth <-> protects <-> power
#capitalism #IndustrialComplexes
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 #SamSlick - Mark Carney Adviser Says AI Data Centres ‘Provide Markets’ for Gas
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/06/11/Mark-Carney-Adviser-AI-Data-Centres
Boosting energy production: one of top "public policy benefits to Canada" of data centres, says internal government document.
Profits (elites) over people, planet.
💰️ Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/116704428152871254
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism #billionaires #inequality #IndustrialComplexes
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Power to the people! ✊️
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 Mark Carney #SamSlick -- Fed gov't prioritizing Canada’s pharma company profits
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/the-federal-government-is-prioritizing-canadas-pharma-company-profits
* health minister's speech to pharmaceutical industry’s most imp't association
* bodes poorly for public health
* > 2/3drugs fed gov't wants approved more rapidly are at best, minor therapeutic advances over existing products
* main beneficiaries: companies making them, not the patients taking them - another point the health minister didn't mention
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
Companies invariably incentivize greed / profit - not the public / common good - regardless of front-facing statements and policies.
Capitalism is the cancer destroying societies / planet Earth.
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #whiteNationalism #theocracy #tyranny
🇨🇦 #Trumpism
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism #billionaires #IndustrialComplexes : military, prison, poverty ...
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇺🇲 U.S. military machine destroying our planet
https://therealnews.com/abby-martin-the-us-military-machine-is-destroying-our-planet
“It’s time for you guys to wake up, because we don’t want our planet destroyed [by] your out-of-control government and military empire.” << 100x this
🇺🇲 🇬🇧 #Christofascism #whiteNationalism #theocracy #tyranny
🇨🇦 #Trumpism
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism #billionaires #IndustrialComplexes : military, prison, poverty ...
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 #SamSlick (Mark Carney) - Canada’s most expensive election promise was climate inaction
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/canadas-most-expensive-election-promise-was-climate-inaction
Extreme weather events caused $8.5B damages in 🇨🇦 in 2024
https://www.ibc.ca/news-insights/news/2024-shatters-record-for-costliest-year-for-severe-weather-related-losses-in-canadian-history-at-8-5-billion
We're on track for $100B per year in damages by 2050; $1 trillion by 2100
m/w Sam Slick promotes fossil fuels industry
#capitalism #billionaires #IndustrialComplexes : military, prison, poverty ...
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = climate change
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 #SamSlick, er: Mark Carney - New “sovereign wealth fund” Canada Strong Fund not what it seems
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/canadas-new-sovereign-wealth-fund-is-not-exactly-what-it-seems
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/116485426041730443
confusing announcement; worrying signals about how it will be used
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism #billionaires #inequality #IndustrialComplexes
v.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Asset management
| • Asset recycling << convert public good into private asset
| | • Canada Infrastructure Bank
| | • Canada Strong Fund
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 Mark Carney #SamSlick - On windfalls and ["sovereign"] wealth funds 🤨
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/on-windfalls-and-wealth-funds/
tldr good for wealthy elite, corporations - not so, average Canadians
🇨🇦 #SamSlick Claims Fossil Fuel Expansion Is ‘Canada Strong.’ U.S. Investors Get the Profits
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/115750438649688909
🇨🇦 Prime Minister Mark Carney. I call him Sam Slick
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/116485390273041023
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Capitalism + fossil fuels = climate change
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
... In Abu Dhabi recently, Carney met with UAE business executives, including the leadership of sovereign wealth funds, focusing on critical minerals, energy, ports, and AI. Canada welcomed the UAE's decision to invest $70 billion (CAD, ~US$50B) in Canada.
A sovereign wealth fund uses government surplus reserves to invest in financial assets like stocks and bonds but is independently managed. Textbook examples are Norway's Government Pension Fund Global (now $2T+) and the Gulf states.
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
... Sam Slick: 🇨🇦 sovereign fund funded by *borrowed* money 🤨
Last fall's federal budget forecast a $78B deficit in 2025–26 and a $65B deficit for 2026–27.
When asked directly where the $25 billion comes from, Finance Minister Champagne did not answer directly but said the government's rel. strong fiscal standing internationally would allow it to borrow at favorable rates. 🤨
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism #billionaires #inequality
v.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️
🇨🇦 Mark Carney aka #SamSlick - Inside Carney’s Pipeline Deal with Alberta & BC
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/07/03/Inside-Carney-Pipeline-Deal-Alberta-BC
Taxpayers on the hook for billions to bring oil through BC’s Lower Mainland
Profits to corporations, private wealth / equity over people, planet.
Capitalism: Malignant by Design
https://blog.Persagen.org/capitalism_cancer.pdf
Wealth <--> protects <--> power
#capitalism #inequality #IndustrialComplexes
vs.
#DemocraticSocialism #equality #sustainability
Capitalism + fossil fuels lobby = anthropogenic climate change
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