The Green Party and the Bank of Canada

 

Click on the link above to watch Part 4 of my video series on the Canadian Banking System. Please also read accompanying text below.

ELIZABETH MAY AND THE BANK OF CANADA

As more of us are becoming aware of the crucial role played by the international banking system in the Greek crisis, what about Canada?  How much do our politicians know about international banking?  More specifically, how much do they know about our own Bank of Canada?  Do they know the history of how Pierre Trudeau decided under the urging of the international bankers to change the rules that had allowed our government to borrow money from the Bank of Canada at little or no interest to one of compound interest from the private banks?  That the compound interest of the private banks is what has caused our debt, both public and private? That most of our national debt piling up now is composed of interest being paid on the compound interest of private banks?  Just like Greece?  But that the rules that caused this in Canada can be reversed?

Well, let’s ask the politicians. I know one who has worried about this bank robbery…let’s call it what it was and is…massive bank robbery…for a long time, and that’s Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party.  She understands that Canada is going down the same road Greece is on unless we get our Bank of Canada back, working for the people instead of the international bankers.  Elizabeth May is a serious and brilliant politician and I don’t blame her for maybe having a drink too many at the silly, frivolous gathering she was in at the time (Press Gallery dinner May 9, 2015).  It was probably easy to do, considering.  I go with the American female politician (I can’t remember her name) who said she reserved the right to occasionally act as inappropriately as any male politician when under stress.   Nobody’s perfect, but in my opinion Elizabeth May is the most perfect politician Canada has.  The vast majority of our politicians, along with the majority of our media, are mostly too dense or too cowardly to even think about how the international banks are screwing with the people of Canada, much less report on it.

I don’t think any Liberals running for office will want to discuss the Bank of Canada with us because it was Justin Trudeau’s father who threw us to the international banking wolves in the first place.  The NDP?  They are doing some good things but I don’t think they will risk any votes over this vital issue.  The Conservatives? Stephen Harper?  He’s too busy waiting for the Rapture.  He certainly expects his vengeful god to reward him for fleecing Canadians out of their environmental safeguards along with their civil rights.  Well, then let’s ask Elizabeth May.  Especially as there is a lawsuit before the courts now asking that the government overturn the banking rules that have stopped the government from reverting back to borrowing from the Bank of Canada.  Next time.

HOW PIERRE TRUDEAU TURNED US INTO DEBT SLAVES

Click on the link above to watch Part 3 of my video series on the Canadian Banking System. Please also read accompanying text below.

Trudeaumania was just gearing up when I immigrated to Canada in late 1966. I, too, was impressed with Trudeau. He was intelligent, articulate, with liberal ideas. And as Prime Minister, Trudeau repatriated the Canadian  Constitution and told the morals’ police to stay out of people’s bedrooms. But then…but then. As Anthony’s famous speech in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar reminds us… “the evil that men do live after them while the good is often interred with their bones. So let it be with Caesar.”

But somehow this worked backward for Trudeau. Many Canadians still think  highly of Pierre Trudeau, but in 1974 he did one terrible thing that changed the lives, for present and future, of all Canadians, for the worse. Trudeau gave the leading operations of the Bank of Canada over to the private banks operating in Canada.

The Bank of Canada was first established by Prime Minister Richard Bennet in 1935 as a private central bank, but was then nationalized by William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1938. By nationalizing the bank, Mackenzie King meant for it to belong to the people so the Canadian government could borrow funds with little or no interest for capital expenditures. The mandate of the newly nationalized Bank of Canada was to act as the banker to the government and to manage the public debt. As Mackenzie King famously said: “Once a nation parts with the control of their currency and credit, it matters not who makes that nation’s laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.”

So the Bank of Canada was nationalized in 1938 and the government could now borrow money with little or no interest. And it worked. The Canadian government built freeways, public transportation systems, subway line, airports, the St. Lawrence Seaway and funded a national health care system and the Canada Pension Plan. But then Trudeau, under the influence of the international financial group called Basel’s
Committee’s Recommendations (The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision) made the decision to halt the borrowing of money from the Bank of Canada, and instead, chose to borrow from the private banks who instead of lending to the government at no interest, or low interest, introduced higher interest rates along with compound interest.

All banks know very well the magic of compound interest. And Pierre Trudeau must have known that the mounting compounded national debt would lead to Canadians eventually owing a dollar fifty for every dollar of their disposable incomes. After all, he studied economics at the London School of Economics. Surely the professors there knew about compound interest.

So Pierre Trudeau, instead of feeling blessed that Canada, unlike the US, had a nationalized central bank, signed our bank away to the private banks. Couldn’t Trudeau, such an educated man, surmise that citizens in a few years would be struggling to make car payments and meet rent and mortgages and student loans and to buy healthy food while last year’s profits for the big five (that’s Royal Bank, TD Bank, Scotiabank, Bank of Montreal and CIBC amounted to $31.7 billion?) If he did, he didn’t care. But it doesn’t have to be this way. It really doesn’t. Our Bank of
Canada is still there. Next time.