On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a speech that sounded less like a national address and more like a road-to-Damascus moment — where the self-appointed saviour of Canada suddenly “sees the light.”

Only this time, it wasn’t divine truth that hit him like a blinding beam.
It was a stack of polling data.

🐴 From High Horse to Soundbites

Saint Paul was knocked off his horse and transformed by truth.
Mark Carney? He was riding high through the Trudeau years, comfortably enforcing anti-growth, anti-development policy — and now he’s quoting Pierre Poilievre like he wrote the Book of Common Sense himself.

“Canada is a country that used to build big things, but in recent decades it’s become too difficult to build.” — Mark Carney

He’s not wrong.
But he’s about 5 years late to the revelation.

📖 Chapter and Verse: The Poilievre Playbook

Let’s be clear: Carney is quoting Pierre.
Every point he made — interprovincial trade, tradespeople, cutting red tape, nation-building — has been Conservative policy from the start.

• ✅ Tear down trade barriers? Poilievre said it first.

• ✅ Respect for tradespeople? Poilievre’s core platform.

• ✅ Build pipelines and infrastructure? Again, that’s been the rallying cry of the right.

So why now?

Because Carney doesn’t want to lose the room.
He’s borrowing the message — but keeping the wrecking ball in motion.

🧱 Still Standing: The Anti-Growth Agenda

Carney talks like a builder.
But he still governs like a bureaucrat with a bulldozer.

• ❌ The West Coast tanker ban stays

• ❌ The carbon tax stays

• ❌ Bill C-69 (No More Pipelines)? Still law

• ❌ Federal permitting gridlock? Unchanged

You don’t get to preach revival while keeping the same tools that choked our economy.

💡 This Isn’t Conviction — It’s Political Conversion

And Canadians know the difference.

One is rooted in truth.
The other is rooted in focus group-tested survival strategy.

Let’s not forget: Carney enabled this stagnation.
Now he wants credit for recognizing the fallout?

“I’ll believe it when I see it.”
Because talk is cheap.
Especially in an election year.

🇨🇦 What Canada Really Needs

Not recycled rhetoric.
Not Liberal-lite speeches with Conservative lyrics.

We need:

• Real leadership

• Policy grounded in principle

• A government that builds — because it believes in Canadians, not because it’s polling poorly

✊ Final Word:

Pierre Poilievre didn’t just win the argument — he reshaped the national agenda.
And now even the Liberals are quoting him.

That tells you everything.

It’s time to reclaim our future, build again, and put Canada back on the map as a nation that does — not just talks.