🇨🇦 Carney trims the Commons by promoting a Tory to the retirement palace

Mark Carney appoints Conservative MP Richard Martel to the Senate, and Ottawa calls it a quirky historical footnote. No, it is patronage with a designer label. As reported, more than 300 Canadians have served in both chambers since Confederation, but only a tiny handful were lifted straight from the opposition benches by a PM from another party. Translation: even by Ottawa swamp standards, this stunt is rare.

The effect is obvious. Conservatives lose one Commons vote, a byelection opens, and Carney gets another shot at padding Liberal power while pretending the Senate is some non-partisan temple of sober thought. This is the same fraud used for years: stack the unelected chamber, call appointees independent, and quietly rig the parliamentary math. Pierre Poilievre offering polite congratulations just makes the whole spectacle look even softer. Canadians are told democracy is sacred, then the managerial class swaps elected MPs into the red-carpet nursing home when it suits regime stability. Sovereignty by backroom appointment, as usual.

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