Sunday, April 13, 2025

Today's News: de-bunking the Carney smear campaign

Graeme MacKay/The Hamilton Spectator

As the Conservatives get more desperate, the attempts to smear Carney get more heated. The latest is something about offshore tax havens. 
While the smears are stupid, they need to be de-bunked. To the rescue comes this great article:
A Letter from a Maritimer
Dear Canada: We're at the Peak of the Election "Smear Campaign"
This post resets the narrative on Mark Carney by calmly unpacking the lies, distortions, and innuendoes being weaponized to undermine him.
Canadians are the target of a massive disinformation campaign that we witnessed in real-time during the past US elections, during Brexit, during the elections in France and in Germany.
And at the centre of its crosshairs right now stands a man who represents perhaps the most credible threat to the rise of Canada’s populism: Mark Carney.
You’ve seen the memes. You’ve read the comments. “Liar.” “Globalist.” “Elitist.” Words tossed around with the same aggression that has been used against democratic politicians and leaders everywhere, making them targets of hate and harassment. This is psychological warfare.
Right now this disinformation and smear campaign against Mark Carney is in full swing. Before we all start screaming let’s remind ourselves what honour, steadiness, and public service look like.
...The smear campaign aims not to question Carney’s policies, but to destroy his character. To whisper that he is not “one of us.” That he is part of some secretive, Davos-borne cabal. The language of nationalist paranoia is being mainstreamed in Canada and it is targeted at Carney precisely because he is effective.
...Mark Carney is, by any honest measure, the most seasoned and accomplished leader Canada has today. No one else brings his combination of global economic experience, steady crisis management, moral clarity, and proven public service. To attempt to discredit him with innuendo, manufactured mistrust, or weaponized perfectionism is not just dishonest, it’s absurd!
Maritimer then analyzes all of the smears against Carney that we have heard in this campaign, from his PhD thesis to his Brookfield position. They conclude:
We owe it to ourselves, and to future generations, to evaluate each candidate not through the distorted lens of disinformation, but by their record, their competence, and their commitment to Canada’s future.
Let us meet this moment with level heads.
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The "scandals" are just falling off Carney because the Conservatives don't have any credibility anymore for their attacks -- there have just been too many, too trivial, too scattershot, too mean-spirited, too inaccurate: Finally, I don't think we're going to be hearing much more boasting about crowd sizes -- the CBC did an investigation that showed that while the Liberals were doubling their actual attendance, the Conservatives were reporting 10 times the real numbers of people attending. Oopsie!
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