Carney’s Coronation: Did the Liberal Party Guarantee His Predetermined Victory by Disqualifying Dhalla?

The Liberal Party of Canada has just obliterated what little credibility it had left. By disqualifying Dr. Ruby Dhalla from the leadership race—based on allegations they themselves leaked—they have confirmed what many already suspected: the race was never real, and democracy within the party is a farce. This is not just a sad day for democracy; it’s a slap in the face to every Liberal voter who believed they had a choice. The party has exposed itself as a closed-door establishment where decisions are made in secrecy, and where an internal committee, stacked in favour of Mark Carney, was tasked with ensuring his coronation.

Dr. Dhalla’s statement is damning, not just for what it alleges but for the firsthand accounts of corruption it details. The Liberal Party deliberately obstructed her campaign, denied access to critical membership lists, and handed control of the party’s data operations to a company founded by a key figure in Carney’s team. This is not speculation—this is documented fact. Dhalla’s team signed up over 100,000 new members, shaking up the race, and the party responded with a preemptive strike: disqualification based on trumped-up charges, conveniently sent to the press before Dhalla herself was even informed. She learned of her disqualification live on CBC. If that doesn’t reek of political backstabbing, nothing does.

To make matters worse, Carney’s camp was the only one that objected to Dhalla speaking with a translator at the debate. A leadership candidate was effectively silenced before she could even challenge the anointed successor. If there was ever any doubt that this race was rigged, it’s now been erased. The Liberal Party is dead as we know it. This is no longer a party of ideas, progress, or democracy—it is a hollow shell designed to serve the elite, shut out outsiders, and crush any real challenge to the status quo.

And for what? To install a former banker with no electoral experience, who offers nothing but technocratic platitudes wrapped in the same failed policies? Dhalla, was bringing forward bold ideas—exiting the Paris Accord, expanding LNG terminals, lifting the foreign buyers ban, and tackling crime with real reforms. Her platform was a direct challenge to the bureaucratic stagnation that has defined the Trudeau years. The problem wasn’t what she was saying—it was that it wasn’t coming out of Mark Carney’s mouth.

This may be a short-term victory for Carney and his backers, but in the long run, it’s the death knell of the Liberal Party. Millions of people have rallied behind Dhalla, and her disqualification is already a massive scandal trending across social media. The party may have sealed Carney’s leadership, but in doing so, they have ensured a crushing defeat in the next general election. Canadians are watching, and they see the corruption for what it is. The Liberal establishment has crossed a line that cannot be undone, and voters will remember.

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