Toula on Carney on the Plains of Abraham
Mark Carney’s Plains of Abraham speech has been all over the local news and comment (and editorial cartoons). It takes Toula Drimonis to zero in on the accusations of rewriting history: “We should be wary of inflammatory reactions by those locked in perpetual victimhood, stoking outrage because it feeds their political agenda.”
Update: Carney put the cat among several kinds of pigeon. Now the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake is writing to remind him that it wasn’t just the French and English who have sustained the existence of Canada.
Blork 12:34 on 2026-01-29 Permalink
Yeah, I saw one guy on FB issue a long counter-argument, some of which made sense, but then he claimed that French is BANNED in the rest of Canada. Oh FFS. Scroll on. No point in engaging with that kind of stupid.
Chris 13:05 on 2026-01-29 Permalink
“those locked in perpetual victimhood”… pretty much describes the entire woke movement of the last decade or so. Interesting to see some favourable to the movement in general now seeing its folly it in this case.
EmilyG 15:22 on 2026-01-29 Permalink
This news story, as far as I can see, isn’t anything to do with the “woke movement” (whatever that even means), so I don’t know why you’d even mention that.
Ian 19:07 on 2026-01-29 Permalink
To a hammer,. everything looks like a nail
qatzelok 21:12 on 2026-01-29 Permalink
I agree with Chris. “Inflammatory reactions by those locked in perpetual victimhood” describes some of the most successful propaganda of the last century… and the current one.
Ian 19:50 on 2026-01-30 Permalink
Well you are the expert on victimhood here. Tell me, should we blame propaganda’s insidious spread on smoke trees, cars, Westmount Rhodesians, or the existance of suburbanites?